As a modern organization whose history can be traced back to ancient times, the Assassin's League is a world secret organization, which is responsible for protecting human's right to free choice. Their ideas often need courage to prove that freedom is the only way to ensure human's own progress, which is a necessary step for all-round progress, so the birth of new ideas and innovations is necessary for them. Of course, freedom is never an uninvited master. Longing for freedom often pays the same price and risk, but also pays all the price of freedom in the struggle.
Assassin order
Mission does not expect perfection from human beings, because it is often only from mistakes that we can grow, and it is basically impossible to get the knowledge we want without paying. Therefore, the ideology of assassins determines that they go straight to the opposite of the Knights Templar in the long and intertwined history and fight against the powerful mirror organization, which believes that the best way to save mankind is to save them from the sublimation of free will.
Usually, the Templars gain key roles and high-level supporters by sneaking into the upper society, while assassins pursue their covert actions by getting to know influential allies and members (editor's note: not getting, but getting to know allies and inviting them to join, which is different from the Templars). These people, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Katrina sforza and Kyle Poirot, are one of them. Some figures with historical influence are also active members of this cult, such as Malcus, junius, Brutu and Gaius Gaius Cassius Longinus Longinus (who assassinated Caesar), the battleship Dante AliGneki Cheri (who wrote The Divine Comedy) and Nicola Machiavelli (an Italian political philosopher who wrote The Prince).
Although they often act in the dark and their names appear in the ears of ordinary people again and again, compared with growing and becoming a powerful force, they think this kind of behavior is an insulting assassin and will continue to keep themselves away from people's realization and make the world forget their existence.
With the changes of the times, the order of assassins has changed more or less, but what remains unchanged is that assassins are still avoiding the pursuit of templars in the dark and completing their missions.
The history of the League of Assassins
Historically, the League of Assassins was a rebel organization dedicated to overthrowing tyranny and protecting human freedom. When there are humans on the earth, assassins may exist. They have been secretly fighting their old enemy, the Templars. Their concealment and adaptability enable them to survive in a long time and space, and their techniques and tactics have evolved over time, thus ensuring that they still have the ability to protect their sense of freedom.
Early assassin
As far as we can trace back, the origin of this fraternity may be traced back to a very distant time, from the Mediterranean to China. In 465 BC, the Persian assassin Darius assassinated King Zexas I of Achaemenid, and Zexas was also the first person recorded to be killed by the assassin cult's iconic weapon sleeve knife. A century and a half later, League of Assassins came out again. It was Alexander the Great who was killed this time. Babylonian spy Iltani committed suicide by taking poison. In 2 10 BC, Qin Shihuang, the first emperor who unified China, was stabbed to death by Yu Wei, an assassin from China.
In ancient times, there were relatively few descriptions of the activities of the Brotherhood, but there were many wonderful ones, the most famous of which was the assassination of gaius Julius Caesar. Malcus Junius Brutu, an assassin and accomplice, is famous in the world of assassins for killing Caesar, and his actions are also recorded in romulus's scrolls, which subconsciously promoted the development of the Brotherhood of Assassins in ancient Rome.
According to the scroll, Caesar's imperialist policies and unreasonable neglect of parliamentarians made him an enemy of the Brotherhood. In 44 BC, Brutu and 39 others surrounded and killed Caesar in the parliament in the name of protecting Roman freedom, while Leonius, another member of the Roman Brotherhood, assassinated the emperor Ka Rygula in 4 1 A.D..
The rise and fall of Mesyaf
Assassins first appeared as an organization during the Third Crusade in the Middle Ages. At this time, the Brotherhood was led by Elmuwalin. The outstanding performance and notoriety of the Brotherhood gradually entered the eastern Mediterranean, and their base was Mesyaf, which became the cornerstone of the assassin organization, where assassins were cultivated, trained and educated.
By the end of 12, assassins had gradually established a complex intelligence network in the eastern Mediterranean and surrounding cities, including Jerusalem and Damascus. 1 19 1 year, Mesyaf was besieged by Templar knights led by RobertdeSablé, and the assassins showed their strength to resist this attack.
Although politics has considerable use value, the Brotherhood still chooses to keep a distance from it, and they choose to assassinate those who are considered to be a threat to people's freedom. In order to protect peace, their actions should be completely loyal to the orders of the Knights and live a life of understanding Muslims and Christians.
As the Brotherhood successfully defeated the Templar RobertdeSablé, a conspiracy surfaced. They found that their leader, Elmuwalin, was actually a Templar. He used Mesyaf's assassin to make his power grow rapidly and wanted to monopolize the apple by killing others. His betrayal dealt a severe blow to the Brotherhood, and the remaining assassins faced the dilemma of getting rid of their mentor, and no one believed them.
In the end, besides Almuwalin, his mantle was inherited by his apprentice Artell, and he also brought more introspection and innovation to the Brotherhood.
Artur's Innovation and Mongolia Threat
Shortly after Elmuwalin's death, the assassins briefly extended their influence to Cyprus, forcing his troops to retreat in order to get rid of the new leader of the Knights Templar, ArmandBouchart.
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At the end of Atle's life, the Brotherhood mobilized against the Mongolian army led by Genghis Khan. In 1227, a Mongolian assassin Qu Langard successfully shot Genghis Khan from the horse's back (Editor's Note: Assassin's Creed's novel version said that Genghis Khan was shot on the horse's back, and then Genghis Khan fell from the horse's back and died), and his behavior caused revenge from the Mongolian side. 1256, Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, led an army to attack the Brotherhood, destroying most of its strongholds in the eastern Mediterranean.
Italian cultural renaissance
Since the15th century, the center of assassin's activities has shifted from the Mediterranean to Italy. At that time, the Renaissance was unfolding in Florence, which provided a very suitable environment for assassins and templars to resume their activities. At this time, the leader of the Templar was Rodrigo Borgia. Of course, he has another familiar identity, Pope Alexander VI, who wants to gain control of the Italian city-state. Assassins began to fight against the Templars from Monterey Ghioni, the stronghold of the Templars, until 1500, when Caesar Bogart, the son of Alexander VI, destroyed the assassin's stronghold and forced them to regroup in Rome.
The assassins were driven away, but that doesn't mean they were defeated. Like the assassins of Mestaf, Roman assassins also adapted to the new environment and formulated new strategies. They set up new hiding places in Tibet and started new operations. In Rome, assassins' tactics began to evolve, and they tended to win the support of the people and liberate Rome. Because of this, the League of Assassins gained strength from the city, developed business, sought innovation and recruited new members in Rome.
With the death of Caesar Bogart in 1507, the assassins regained control of Rome from the Knights Templar.16th century, the new Brotherhood was revived, which not only improved its members and resources, but also changed their subsequent strategies.
Twentieth century and beyond
With the liberation of Rome, the assassin's thought changed with the social reform, so by the end of the twentieth century, the Brotherhood began to pay more attention to social and political activities rather than pure violence.
However, this change is too thin to be completely controlled. In Russia, the local brotherhood directly helped NarodnayaVolya's activities. Of course, he also has another name: the will of the people. The organization began its activities in the19th century with the intention of overthrowing the Russian czar regime. Their members were branded as terrorists who violently opposed the royal family. They also successfully assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 188 1 and tried to attack his successor Alexander III in 1888.
The Brotherhood is also closely related to the historical trend of Europe in the 20th century, especially the Bolshevik Revolution in 19 17 and Hitler's assassination at the end of World War II.
After World War II, assassins began to be an exciting example. As a transition from imperialism to globalization, the Brotherhood made changes here, and the war between the Templars and assassins also rose to an open conflict. Now their weapons have changed from swords to bullets and newspapers.
The violent social changes that followed the Brotherhood could not save it from the revenge of the Templars. In 2000 1 1 month, an undercover Templar, DanielCross, sneaked into the headquarters of the Brotherhood and killed the top leader of the Brotherhood. At the same time, Cross even informed the Templar of the location of the training camp used by assassins to train apprentices.
From 2000 165438+ 10, it marked the beginning of the end of the assassin's brotherhood. In the next 12 years, the Templars continued to hunt down assassins scattered all over the country, and their future became unpredictable. Their resources and choices are also greatly reduced, but no matter how the times change and how miserable the situation is, they are still the most powerful enemies of the Templars.