Anna Lawson

Anna Lawson is an American Master Assassin and member of Desmond Miles' splinter faction of the Brotherhood. Anna, like Desmond, is descended from a formidable Assassin bloodline, notably the Russian Master Assassin Nikolai Orelov and his son Innokenti, the latter of whom trained her personally in the Assassin's skills when she was young. Anna acts as Desmond's second in command, considering her extensive training and experience, and shares a close relationship with Desmond that goes beyond platonic.

Powers
Eagle Vision: As she is the descendant of many Master Assassins and even the First Civilization, Anna possesses Eagle Vision, a form of supernatural senses. She even learned from her Grandfather how to track people with the Sight.

Telepathic Immunity: Due to her First Civilization DNA, Anna is likely immune to the mind control properties of the Apple of Eden.

Superior Strength: Anna also possesses above human level strength, briefly overpowering Sorkin, An Abstergo operative who was both ex-military and trained by Juhani Otso Berg in Sigma, successfully forcing the physically larger and imposing man to the ground as well as overpowering multiple members of Sigma team with brute force alone, dispite them wearing heavy armor.

Superior Mobility: Anna's reflexes, agility, and speed are also more potent, being able to easily counter and defeat hordes of opponents. She was able to kill many Abstergo soldiers before they could even see her coming to them, as she moves with such great speed and agility.

Superior Stamina: She can even fight large forces of men without showing any signs of fatigue.

Superior Durability: Anna also possesses incredible endurance, easily tanking blows from Sorkin and Violet Da Costa, both trained operatives of Sigma team, as well as survive being dropped off of a five story building and simply brushing it off and walking away.

Abilities
Peak Human Conditioning: Trained from childhood by her family, Anna is extremely physically fit, with athletic aptitude belying her small frame.


 * Honed senses: Trained extensively from childhood, Anna is able to pick up danger before anyone else in her vicinity does, showing noticeably sharp hearing and sight. Her acute skills of perception offer aid in otherwise detrimental situations. Anna's reflexes and agility allow her to defeat multiple foes at once, even striking before armed opponents can fire at her in point-blank range.
 * Master Acrobat: Through her training from her family, Anna is a remarkable free-runner, parkour master & mountaineering expert.

High-Level Intelligence/Master Tactician: Trained from childhood alongside her siblings by her parents and Grandfather, Anna is a very intelligent woman. Anna is an extremely capable strategist, spending years avoiding the Assassins and Templars notice even after Abstergo murdered her family. Anna plans many contingencies, always ready to move at a minute's notice and usually booby trapping her safehouses. After joining the Assassins, Anna often assists Desmond in planning, showing her confidence and his trust in her tactical and logistical skills.


 * Master Spy: Anna is well adept in blending in her surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded places. She can blend in with dense crowds and mimic their activities. She is also extremely skilled in espionage, stealth, infiltration, disguise, thievery, and eavesdropping.
 * Skilled Engineer: Anna is a capable engineer, able to craft makeshift explosive devices to booby trap her safehouses as well as pack munitions for the Assassins after joining them.
 * Expert driver/Pilot: She is also capable of driving multiple vehicles, such as cars and motorcycles. Desmond has also taught her how to fly an airplane.
 * Computer specialist/Expert Computer Hacker: Anna is a excellent hacker, effectively hiding her movements from both the Templars and Assassins so well that Desmond was forced to resort to classic methods of investigation to find her.
 * Master escape artist: Trained by her family, Anna is capable of easily escaping most bindings, and was able to find her way out of an Abstergo cell within five minutes.
 * Meditation: Desmond has taught Anna meditation, using it to evolve her eagle vision into the more advanced eagle sense. Employing this skill, she can also resist advanced brainwashing techniques for an extended period of time.
 * Multilingual: Aside from her native English and Russian, Anna is fluent in Arabic, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Mandarin.

Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: Trained from a young age by both her grandfather, Whose father was a Master Assassin who trained him in the Brotherhood's techniques, and her father, who was a former U.S Marine and Force Recon special forces operative, Anna is an extremely skilled fighter. When first meeting Desmond, Anna was able to fight him to a near stand-still with him only barely gaining the upperhand before he convinced her to stand down. Desmond himself has said Anna is likely the most skilled non-Animus trained Assassin in the modern Brotherhood.


 * Master Swordswoman: Anna is an extremely skilled swordswoman, trained by her grandfather Innokenti Orelov from childhood and regularly spars with Desmond.
 * Master Markswoman: Ann is incredibly skilled with firearms, trained by both her grandfather and father, the latter of whom was a former Marine and special forces operative.
 * Expert Archer: Trained in survival skills from childhood, Anna is a skilled archer, having used the skill to hunt for food when left in the Appalacian wood for several months by her grandfather.
 * Master Staff/Stick-fighter: Anna is a skilled staff and baton fighter, efficiently using a tonfa during her fight again Sigma team, as well as recurringly sparing with Desmond using bo-staffs and sticks.
 * Expert Spearwoman: Anna is also very skilled in spear hunting, and can apparently use it in combat effectively by her own admission.
 * Master Knife-wielder/Thrower: Anna is skilled with knives, trained by her father and grandfather. When first meeting Desmond, Anna fought him with a Ka-Bar knife, later throwing it with excellent accuracy at a Sigma team member, impaling it through his armor.

Indomitable will/High tolerance for pain/Master survivor: Trained by her Grandfather, Innokenti, Who had been taught by his father Nikolai Orelov, Anna is both incredibly tolerant to pain, as well as a skilled survivalist, being left in the Appalacian mountains to fend for herself for months by her grandfather when she was 15.