The Real Assassin's Creed: Deadliest Special Forces Of The Dark Ages | Ancient Black Ops | Chronicle

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in the medieval world their symbol is the dagger experts in disguises masters of stealth they attack out of nowhere they make themselves appear as ghosts they would come stabbed disappear terror is their greatest weapon psychological warfare um it's about the impact what you have this is the story of how a small community faces the most feared warlords of its time. They were a small marginalized and persecuted sect. They would become a legend. The first

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murderers. 100 miles north of Jerusalem is the port of Ty in the 12th century. It is a stronghold of the crusaders.

Its ruler Conrad of Monera is about to become the most powerful man in the Holy Land. The crusader king that night Conrad returns home. After dinner he goes down a particularly narrow street there are two men sitting one on each side he believes they are monks, trusted MERS members of his house, but Conrad is about to become a victim of the most feared Black Ops force of his time, legendary

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s, the origins of the Assassins lie hundreds of miles from the Holy Land in 11th century Persia. country we now know as Iran the Islamic world is torn by the

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struggle between Sunni and Shia Muslims there is a division over who follows the truest Islamic tradition the Sunnis believe they are the rightful preservers of that tradition they are the party of the community their Rival Shiites support a different tradition that takes its authority from the Prophet Muhammad.

Descendants of Ali, the prophet's son-in-law and cousin, say that the imams, the religious political leaders of their faith, must descend from him. Even today, this rivalry Within Islam fuels a bitter religious conflict in a remote area of ​​northern Persia is the mountain fortress of Alamont it is here where a particular Shiite community, the Ismailis, takes refuge there was a small marginalized and persecuted sect of Islam at a time when that it was extremely unhealthy to be any of those things, their base was known as the Eagle's Nest. Alamt itself is a natural fortress, it is not like a crusader castle built with a huge amount of science, but it is located on the top of a natural raid that measures almost 300 feet.

Like a steep cliff and at the bottom there are very deep gorges, it is very, very difficult to approach the leader of this small remote community, Hassan is saah, a charismatic man who demands total devotion from his followers. One wonders if he had a rather magnetic attitude or perhaps. He has a hypnotic personality as well to attract these people to him even though he is actually asking them to undergo a very, very harsh regimen. In fact, Hassan's Ismailis face overwhelming odds that their Sunni enemies have a vast army of 300,000 men that he will have to defeat. what we now call asymmetric warfare is not in a position to fight back he does not have large armies at his disposal to survive asan has to find something he can do even with limited manpower he finally finds a radical solution he will decapitate his Sunni enemies By

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ating their leader , they will not be able to defeat him in battle, so they will attack on a much narrower front.

They are going to eliminate the man himself at the top of the Persian hierarchy. Naam al-mul is a champion of Sunni Orthodoxy is basically a one-man government and he has dedicated himself to eradicating heresy right at the center of the Persian state. Hassan's Isis is one of his main targets; He has described them as the sedition cat who

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ly believes they should be kicked out, so if Hassan picks him out and eliminates him, he will really be hitting the man who is the real cheerleader of his group. Assan begins training an elite squad to carry out the mission his group has chosen.

The most devout followers of the fiden, the first fiding were almost certainly from that particular area of ​​Iran, so these are tough mountaineers. Hassan begins by teaching them how to fight in hand-to-hand combat, his actual personal skills being, in many ways, much higher than those found in armies. today the commandos will not be as well trained in individual hand to hand combat because they have technology, people today depend on technology, then they had no technology, it was just them, they were the weapon, the key question is how to deliver the blow . eliminate their target, they could have killed people using poison, but the victim could take an antidote and survive, they could have killed people using arrows or projectile weapons, but there is always the risk of losing vital organs, eventually the weapon of choice It's the dagger. hitting up close you can ensure a kill a dagger gives you a higher chance of achieving your goal, but using daggers in combat requires immense skill throughout the story there are only three different types of weapons available in a dagger you have a stab you have a Cut and you have a cut and stab now the first one we have is something like a stiletto.

The key point about the Stiletto is its very strong thin blade for high penetrating power, so a stab with a stiletto goes straight through, so go in and stab with a hidden weapon you walk towards it you take out a stab and you walk towards it the next type is a slashing blade from here they will just pull out and slash as you can see in one motion it would be very difficult to even see it happen the third main design would be to be a slashing and stabbing weapon now this is a modern version so from here it has sharp blade curves it would also have a back blade so you can slash back if you miss very strong guard here this guard allows you to stab very hard so you have different options on how to move and how to combo it ismael's next step is familiar to the Forces Today's Specials Gathering local intelligence on your target is a major operation that will require inside knowledge An Ismaili spy infiltrates the Sunni leader's headquarters keeping an eye on Naam Al - Mul's every move How he conducts his life What is the best chance we can have? where is in that armor this information is sent to the base with a detailed profile of his target Hassan identifies what he believes to be a weakness in al-mul's security that weakness is his religion this is the only way he will truly know will come so close to him and calls a man to represent a Sufi mystic, a holy man, an atheist, someone whom one would normally never suspect of wrongdoing, a Sufi would be seen as A man of peace, anyone who has an air of of holiness, you are almost guaranteed a warm reception from a powerful leader of the secular state, as for example, you should not miss the opportunity to be blessed by such an individual, having discovered how to do it. approach him Hassan's next problem is how to kill him the trick is to use distraction the person must be distracted by an event so that you trip or drop something and at this moment you explode it The chosen assassin rehearses the technique after months of training is ready Hassan's trained assassin infiltrates the Sunni base no one suspects a holy man in the quarters of nisam al-mul there is no sense of threat everything is routine at this time of night n he is probably in a very good mood it is over his day job, this is the perfect time for me, it's much harder to get close during the normal work day, so no doubt, in his own mind, he's thinking about the pleasures of the night among his women, in the shadows , the murderer ismi awaits. at the moment of attacking, al-mul is about to be carried to his harim on his stretcher, but then he sees the sufi holy man approaching and is quite prepared to let this guy in and give him a blessing on the way, stabs the man and stabs. nisam Alm and kills him the distraction has worked killing the leader of the sunnis is a massive triumph for the ismis of Hassan he was a great man there is no way around it and therefore defeating him was a real message if we can catch him we can catch him anyone , so you face the Ismailis of Alamut at your own risk for years to come.

Hassan presses the advantage of him. He launches a series of terrorist attacks that would be familiar to us today. There are around 25 murders in this initial period. They really do anything. a small gold patch or a purple patch where they have a series of hits. They were prepared to do anything to win. The way the Assassins killed was absolutely incredible. They made themselves appear like ghosts. They would come stabbed. They disappeared. They changed their way of operating every time. Only once one thing remained the same and that was that they killed with a dagger, their murder of Alul triggers the collapse of their Sunni empire.

They have shown that their small force can take on a far superior enemy and win. They were one of the first. groups that deliberately used small groups of highly trained men in asymmetric warfare, the success of Hassan's Elite Assassins becomes a topic of conversation on the streets, they are celebrated throughout the Middle East in a popular poem that says that with a lone warrior on foot, a king although he may have 100,000 soldiers they would soon be afraid the Ismailis discover that like today's suicide bombers their strategy has a side effect they create an atmosphere of fear with terrorism the fundamental thing you must remember is that it is a psychological war, it's not really about how many people you kill, um, it's about the impact you have, it's even scarier because Hassan's men are not afraid to die, the Sunnis face a big problem with the Ismailis because the Men who are sent on these missions happily embrace death and that obviously makes them really scary.

Today's echoes are very familiar, but there is a key difference. The fiden method is much more precise. It has no collateral damage. It does not attack innocence. Specifically hits the target cleanly and discriminately. The ismi strike force is. Their Sunni enemies tried to discredit them so successfully that they spread stories about a secret group of brainwashed assassins living in the mountains. They were painted as deviants, drug users, crazy fanatics and in the same way that modern terrorist groups often achieve the same thing. treatment that um you know, they are fanatics um psychopaths the myth becomes more and more exotic both Western Muslims and Christians retell the story of young murderers manipulated by an evil leader this talks about potions uh Promises of pleasure Gardens forever some of ideas begin to blur a little that perhaps they must be induced by drugs to have this level of devotion, in particular the Sunnis label them as hashish or hashish users, the name has stuck, this became the word that we use today for a political assassin and thus a legend is born.

Hassan's Special Forces are known as the drug-crazed killers. Personally I don't think they had used drugs. Imagine the focus you need. You must confirm that the objective. The thing about drugs is that they have an effect: it suppresses, depresses or brightens what it does is take away your concentration, but defeating naam al-mul is just the beginning in the future, they will need to use all their fighting skills to defend their community not only against their Muslim enemies but also against a new threat from Christian crusaders some 50 years later. In the mountains of northern Syria, Ismaili assassins establish a new base in Masf, taking over a network of castles to protect their growing community that will soon number some 60,000 members, but here in the Holy Land they find themselves in the middle of an even bigger war.

Dangerous Power Struggle There is a religious war being waged between Sunni Muslims and Western Crusaders. What is at stake is control of the city of Jerusalem and its holy places of worship. The grandmaster of assassins in the Holy Land is Rashid Alin Sinan, a charismatic leader who has. a personality not very different from Hassan is Sabah, the first great Grandmaster, again hypnotic, also very attractive, very intelligent, very intellectual, but also a paranormal feeling towards him, he is supernatural, he is more than this world, there is a enormous devotion and obedience towards him if he tells you so. of his followers go and take out someone to kill them, then they will surely obey his orders trapped between the Sunni Muslims and the Christian crusaders.

San decides to target the man he sees as his greatest threat, the leader of the Sunnis. Saladin the Great is the greatest warrior of his time, having won a series of victories against the Crusaders. He wants to unite those closest to him. Egypt, Syria, northern Iraq under his rule. He is also a fanatical champion of the Sunnis. He is incredibly orthodox. As a Sunni, we know what he carried. carry out crucifixions of heterodox or heretical thinkers Saladin is a mortal threat to the Ismaili assassins is now number one on their hit list in classic assassin style begin gathering information for their mission Syria's bustling cities are an ideal source of intelligence the first What they would do is they would start sending out missionaries to recruit locals and build a network and then this network would bring in information and and um uh and intelligence and what was going on there, they recruit agents that would probably give them local knowledge, there's a constant flow and mix ofmerchants and we know that Ismi penetration into the merchant class was very strong, so San has a base intelligence available.

His real skill is that he harnesses that so well that we hear stories of him using things like carrier pigeons to communicate, but I think the most important thing is that in his own mind he maps out the various pressure points and power plays that are going on in Syria to target a warlord of Saladin's stature. San has to find a way to deal with his close protection team, these leaders in a way A very, very hostile and dangerous world will have had its best bodyguards in the business. The best bodyguards because your life depended on selecting the right guys.

San's Network needs to provide detailed information about Saladin's security. It would be really important to find out how his bodyguards work. they moved what they did what they were trained how reactive they were but you would also learn when to exploit the bodyguards because it's the same today no one can be 100% alert all the time that's where the intelligence network is key, you would discover everything that you can over them armed. With this information, the Assassins can start training, they need to learn how to face the bodyguards, they need to know how to use this swordsman, for a very simple reason, if you want to beat your opponent, it's not just what you do, you need to understand it.

If they are to draw their sword, how can they defeat it? The knife can even be used to take out an armed sentry, so while he goes with the SC on him, you prevent him from retreating and stab him. They practice how to eliminate a solo. Centry, the first thing you should do is grab his head, pull him in and then finish with another step, next, how to approach two bodyguards, the gun is hidden and you walk forward in a calm, composed and respectful manner, you take out , you stab, two shots, one more shot. Finally, after weeks of training, the Assassins have one last problem to solve: how to infiltrate Saladin's Camp.

They are likely to enter disguised as soldiers. They were very, very good at doing this. I mean, they were able to get people to the most reliable positions because Mixed up didn't look like a footprint they didn't look like a stranger 200 M north of the Land of Assassins Saladin is on campaign he has no reason to fear a personal attack he's resting in his tent The day chosen for the strike is The assassins make their move, but the bodyguards prove too strong for San. It's a setback, not a complete disaster. He at least has shown his enemy that he is coming for him.

He gives him the advantage in the psychological battle with Saladin. Signature number one, the great Sunni champion. He starts wearing bulletproof vests 24 hours a day. Saladin knows that the Assassins never give up in the mountains. San waits for the right moment and his next step is to insert a Sleeper Cell. At the moment they are quite prepared to wait, they are quite prepared to put in Sleepers as we could call them, they are quite willing to wait a large amount of time until it is politically necessary 2 years later Saladin is again on campaign in northern Syria.

He does not know that the Assassins have secretly inserted an agent within his own personal guard, only Saladin's armor saves him. The great warlord can no longer tolerate this threat, he decides to attack the Assassins. Saladin besieges the castle of San in MF. He is determined to eradicate the Assassins once and for all. He cuts and surrounds San now he's in real trouble, even killing. Saladin may not save the Ismailis he needs to make the Sunni leader take his army away from him. San has to come up with a completely different plan. San has realized something at this stage, what he can see is that it will be more effective for him to attack alone. a little with this Sultan San is going to apply psychological pressure Legend has it that San himself sneaks into Saladin's camp and leaves him a note with the Assassin's calling card a dagger what you wanted to do ideally was intimidate them the message is very clearly you know that we can, we can catch you, we can catch you whenever we want.

The note says that death has no fear for the fiden. I will defeat you from within your own ranks. The note is really chilling because it is telling Saladin that you can threaten us with death. he can threaten us with extermination, he is threatening us, threatening us with the very thing we really embrace, he is threatening us with something that does not scare us at all. San's scare tactic works. Saladino agrees to start negotiations. San has made an enormous psychological effort. He dents Saladin here now he prepares his final trick he informs an emissary with a strong message for Saladin we are not leaving we are indestructible you will have to deal with us so the man makes it clear that this is a message for Saladin alone, the emissary heads to Saladin's camp, insisting that he must speak with the sultan in private.

The negotiator says this is just for your ears, not anyone else, and Sladin dispatches everyone else except his two most trusted bodyguards. The emissary pushes him away again and says no, this is just for you, why are you allowing these two men to stay? zad replies: I trust these men as my sons. Whatever you can tell me, you can tell them that they will not abandon the Emissary and then play San's trump card. He turns to the bodyguard and he says: if I order you now to take this man down, will you do it for Saladin?

It is a devastating moment. It is revealed that his most trusted bodyguards are assassins. They are sleeper agents that have been implanted in his organization for years and right now. If they order him to be killed now, that doesn't happen, the negotiators are just making it clear that we can kill you. You trust these people more than anyone in your entire entourage and they are actually the assassins, and if these guys can be the Assassins than others could be the assassins the psychological warfare that Saladin raises The siege and the assassins of San are safe again but their triumph is short-lived they still face another major force in the Middle East the Christian crusaders for the next 15 years the holy land is a bloody Muslim battlefield and the crusader warriors fight for control of Palestine and the Holy City of Jerusalem eventually falls to Saladin and his Sunni

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100 miles to the north the Crusaders still hold the port of Tire It is here that a new threat is emerging for the Assassins ruler of Ty is an ambitious and less crusader than Ruth, Baron Conrad of Monera, he is part of a crusader dynasty, he is there for life and he is there to expand his lands, it is a real problem, Conrad had every chance of becoming for Christians what Salahadin had become for Christians.

Muslims, he is clearly a powerful figure, a dynamic figure, someone to be reckoned with and Conrad has already made enemies of the Assassins. There is a story that a murder ship arrives in Ty's harbor and Conrad has his goods confiscated and the crew taken away. The prisoner and Sinan say you should give me these things back and free the people and twice Conrad says no, saying no to Senan is potentially quite dangerous. I think it means your card is marked. San is so worried about Conrad's growing strength that he decides to infiltrate his His entire plan is to send another sleeper cell to the intelligence agencies today, when they are selecting operators, look for people they call the gray man, someone who doesn't stand out. in the crowd if you have someone who is 2m tall and built to match.

It stands out, it's going to attract attention, it's very likely that the people Ismeli selected for this type of mission were people you wouldn't look twice at, in fact, it was very important that they were the type of people you wouldn't look at twice. twice in San he transforms his men into people Conrad will trust they adopt the identity of Christian monks recently converted to the faith after centuries of persecution the Assassins know how to live undercover in enemy territory if necessary, even denying their Shiite faith according to the TAA teia's principle allows the follower of the faith to deny their faith to ensure their own survival or to gain an advantage over the unbeliever, but the Assassins must play their role carefully so as not to raise suspicions that they would need to know the rituals of the day. -Daily life within that community would need to adapt perfectly to day-to-day routines.

It is a high risk operation. One slip and the San men could find themselves in a torture chamber. They eventually gain Conrad's trust by relying on the usual killer tricks of being charming, trustworthy and capable and everything in between, you can work your way into positions of trust and security, that's exactly what they accomplished over the next 6 months, they keep an eye out. vigilant over Conrad at this stage of his orders. They should spy on him, not kill him, but then his plans change. News reaches you that Conrad has been chosen the next Crusader King, he will make him the most powerful Christian leader in the region.

It is disastrous news for the Assassins. San has to act fast that week. He sends his own messenger from him to Ty, it's time to activate his sleeper. Conrad must die in secret. The two assassins begin training for the mission. Their weapon is the tried and trusted dagger, but they know they only have one chance if you're going to kill an opponent. you want to make sure that he is dead, you have to confirm the death, so one day if you shoot him, you will shoot him in the head to make absolutely sure that he is dead with the dagger.

What they are going to do is go. to make sure they target more than one area, only when they have perfected their moves will the assassins go in for the kill. Conrad, the future king of Jerusalem, Jalem is waiting to go out to dinner, while it is quite common for medieval

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rs to always blame women. uh, there was a suggestion that his wife was taking too long in the bathroom and that's why she left him alone. Conrad goes outside to D with a friend. Things are coming to a head. We know that Sinan has to get a result than Conrad. must die because the coronation is approaching soon, so The Sleeper Cell decides to take their chance at this point, while Conrad is at his friend's house, the Assassins take their positions ready to catch him upon his return, the last moments would be key to verify.

Surely you have absolutely everything and that it is working correctly, so, for example, in your tunic you would be checking that you can take it out and cut it immediately. They knew exactly what they were going to do and that was what they had prepared for their entire lives. It was that moment later that night. Conrad begins to return from dinner. I think we can imagine a man who is not actually looking for the immediate threats posed to him. He is going down a particularly narrow street. There are two men sitting, one on each side. and when he sees these two figures on the side of the road, figures that we hear he is apparently reasonably familiar with, I think he would surely have let his guard down and then they hit Conrad de Moner is dead, the murder of Conrad de Murat represents the most high-profile assassination carried out by the group in the Crusader era, so it really had a powerful impact.

It is a story that would have spread throughout Europe and also throughout the Near East. It wasn't long before rumors began to spread that one of the assassins were captured and claimed they were working for Conrad's rivals. Some point the finger at the crusader warlord Richard the Lion. Others say that he was Saladin, this was a very convenient guy to kill and there were many people who benefited from it, but exactly who instigated it. who wanted it, who supported it, we don't know, what we do know is that the Assassins would not have killed them if they felt it was against their interests.

San doesn't tell anyone the true story, he only enhances the myth of the Assassins. The murder of Conrado de Monera will be his greatest triumph in a year. San has died. The exploits of the Assassins in Persia and the Holy Land ensure the survival of the Ismaili faith. This is a community and an idea that survives for almost two centuries against overwhelming odds after many years. Setbacks The Ismailis continue to prosper around the world. This is the legacy of the Assassins who resisted their most powerful enemies for so long.