Auditore

Courtesans also provide a gameplay mechanic in the two games, main character Ezio Auditore can hire small groups of courtesans that can be used to escort the assassin without being noticed, and to distract hostile guards.

In Brotherhood, a group of Italian Assassins sent from Rome to Constantinople by Ezio Auditore da Firenze infiltrated Piri Reis' shop to steal some of his maps detailing the New World, in order to match the Templars ' expansion into the new lands.