Shao Jun

Shao Jun was a Master Assassin who served as Mentor of the Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins during the mid-16th century. She is an ancestor to the 21st century American Assassin Lin and the Japanese Assassin Kō Risa. A former concubine of the Zhengde Emperor, Shao Jun was rescued by the Assassins after the emperor's death in 1521 and devoted her life to the Brotherhood as a result. When the emperor's cousin took power as the Jiajing Emperor, he was manipulated by his Templar-aligned court eunuchs known as the Eight Tigers into conducting a purge of all those who opposed his rule. This purge...