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User blog comment:Suriken88/Ezio's speculated death in Embers/@comment-173.63.110.125-20120130023715/@comment-98.24.11.250-20120202025728
In those time, there were any number of poisons they had already learned about. Royalty and other nobles loved using poisons to takeout competition or just family members they did not like that much.