Withdraw an assassin from a city

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I was playing around with the Mediterranean Defense in Assassin's Creed: Revelations and ended up assigning one of my den masters to an assassin-controlled city.

I didn't actually want to go through with that, but I couldn't find a way to cancel the assignment. Even pressing "Back" just popped up a vague confirmation that turned out to mean "you will assign the assassin to this city if you choose to proceed".

So now I'm short an assassin and have a den without a leader. Is there a way for me to get that assassin back from the city I assigned him to?

Best Answer

(Assuming you have others who aren't out on missions,) you can swap in another assassin for that one. This is square on the PS3, not sure about 360/PC but it should show in the controls at the bottom. You can do the same with empty slots for any assassins past the first, but I have yet to find any way to remove your last assassin from a city.

Note that stationing your den leaders elsewhere doesn't actually appear to affect your den lock status.