The Quest for the Chalice was a mission assigned to the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in 1190 wherein he conducted a search for the Chalice, originally rumored to have been a relic of mysterious powers capable of uniting the factions in the Third Crusade and housed inside the elusive Temple of Sand. The revelation of the true nature of the Chalice as a woman named Adha evolved it into a rescue mission, and ultimately to a failed attempt by Altaïr to desert the Assassins with Adha for a peaceful life far from the chaos.