Talk:Assassin/@comment-31313778-20170701072837/@comment-104.220.23.20-20170726053928

Hitsuji, no he wasn't. He was an islamic missionary that journeyed around the middle east, essentially getting kicked out or running from people he pissed off for having arguments about religion. He founded a group of soldiers called Hashashin that we now refer to as Assassins. It's actually not that exciting when you read about it. He "conquered" a fort, his most notable deed, by slowly winning over the hearts and minds of the people living in the fort over a period of 2 years. Once he was popular enough he went to the owner of the fort and either gave him a good offer for the fort or tricked him into a bad deal that sounded good when proposed. His people went around taking over other forts, but the way they went about it was less stealthy and more like bandits raiding the place for control. Fate took a lot of liberties making him into a badass for someone history seems to depict as mostly an annoying religious dick that eventually figured out how to be political once he decided he wanted a place of his own to call home where he called the shots without butting heads with others.