Informants were members of the Assassins' Order who offered aid to Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and other Assassins in investigations of assassination targets. However, before they would share their knowledge with the visiting Assassin, they required the completion of a small task. Informants could be found within Acre, Jerusalem, and Damascus by synchronizing at view points. They were novices, and could only investigate the target leaving the kill for a higher ranking Assassin.