![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That for some reason yet unfathomable to me, I had been chosen to hear them." ―Niccolò about his meetings with Altaïr. "Increasingly I had come to realize that I was being told these stories for a purpose. In 1256, Niccolò and Maffeo sailed south to Acre, and proceeded onward to Masyaf some time later, arriving there around the January of 1257. Eventually, their friendship resulted in Darim inviting the brothers to the Assassins' headquarters in Masyaf. In 1255, Niccolò and Maffeo met Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, a high-ranking member of the Levantine Assassins, and quickly befriended him. Despite this, the brothers quickly returned to Constantinople after Marco's birth, leaving Marco to grow up with his mother. They traveled between Constantinople and Florence over the following years, and Niccolò's son, Marco, was born in Venice in 1254. They established a trading post in the city, from where they began their commerce. Born and bred to be explorers, they left Venice for Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire in the 1250s, hoping to easily obtain money from the Latin occupation of the city. Niccolò and his brother Maffeo were both born in Venice, circa 1230. I miss my family: my wife and my son, Marco." ―Niccolò about missing his family while on his journeys. ![]()
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