User blog comment:Peter Griffen Boy/Templars and Assassins./@comment-2104904-20100604111653

Assassins in Altair's day rarely ended up killing people...... They would do all their investigations in private and if they decided that that person was in the wrong then that person would wake up with a note weighted down with a poison cake the first time. The second time they'd wake up with an eagle feather wedged between their ring and ring finger (just to prove they can do alsorts and not wake you up). The third warning was a note pinned down by a dagger and then the fourth time they'd have to visit would involve you not waking up...... They'd be too scared of hiring ex-Templars as the risks of them killing an Assassin or giving/making duff merchandise, resulting in fatality, would be too high..... Naplouse (Nablus) was a man who never got a warning..... He was hated by the Order of Assassin for kidnapping an Assassin and doing his 'experiments' on them resulting in the Assassin's death...... It used to be quite well documented, I believe he skinned him alive to see if hair grew out of the other side of his flesh, or something really zany like that...... Assassins were also like a police force in those days and protected civilians from foreign invaders...... I read a story about 3 Templars raping a young girl in Acre, shortly afterwards the girl killed herself. Thinking they'd got away with it they walked back to the house they'd 'commandeered', several hours later they woke up in executioners stocks guarded by two Assassins, it was documented that the Grandmaster and two Templars came to negotiate their release, when negotiations failed they attempted to charge the Assassins which was when about six more appeared from the shadows and appeared stood on rooftops stopping the Templars in their track so they had no choice but to watch....... Anyway, the father of the girl came to tell the Assassins what had happened to his daughter, they told him about the ones in stocks and handed him a sword and let him take their lives...... I have hundreds of stories like that written down that have been passed through my family......