Guy of Talmeir
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Guy of Talmier
Guy is a shadow, a person who has no real place within the world of Midgard and as a result is unknown to anyone who comes across him in public and if they do recognize him, he makes sure they never do again. Guy is a member of a highly secretive order known only to Asga as the 'Hashshashin' or in common tongue 'The Assassins' or in local Ankaarim language ' al-da'wa al-jadīda ' litally translated into; the new doctrine. Guy was taken at birth and inducted into the Order and trained into a highly skilled killer and thus had never had a normal life placing his personality into ambition, arrogance and influenced hatred for religious opression and politics. Guy is vastly unknown not just to other people but to himself and his journey with the rest of the heroes should proove very educational for all.
The Hashshashin
A Ankaarim based Assassin Order
Legends abound as to the tactics used to induct members into what became both a religious and a political organization. One such legend is that future assassins were subjected to rites similar to those of other mystery cults, in which the subject was made to believe that he was in imminent danger of death. The twist was that they were drugged to simulate "dying", to later awaken in a garden flowing with wine and served a sumptuous feast by virgins. The supplicant was then convinced he was in Heaven and that the cult's leader, Al'da'jadim, was a representative of the divinity and all his orders should be followed, even unto death. This legend derives from Marco Polo, who visited Alamut after it fell to the Mongols in the thirteenth century.
Other parts of the cult's indoctrination claim that the future assassins were brought to Talmier at a young age and, while they matured, inhabited the aforementioned paradisaic gardens and were kept drugged with hashish; as in the previous version, Al'da'jadim, the leader of the Order occupied this garden as a divine emissary. At a certain point (when their initiation could be said to have begun), the drug was withdrawn from them and they were removed from the gardens and flung into a dungeon. There they were informed that if they wished to return to the paradise they had so recently enjoyed, it would be at Al'da'jadim's discretion. Therefore, they must follow his directions exactly up to and including murder and self-sacrifice.
The group transformed the act of murder into a system directed largely against Ankaarim rulers, political leaders and religious members. They were meticulous in killing the targeted individual, seeking to do so without any additional casualties and innocent loss of life, although they were careful to cultivate their terrifying reputation by slaying their victims in public, often in religion places. Typically, they approached using a disguise. Their weapon of choice being a dagger, they rejected poison, bows and other weapons that allowed the attacker to escape. For unarmed combat, the Hashshashin practiced a fighting style called Janna which incorporates striking techniques, grappling and low kicks. However, under no circumstances did they commit suicide, preferring to be killed by their captors.
There are also, possibly apocryphal, stories that they used their well-known deadliness for political goals without necessarily killing. For example, a victim, usually high-placed, might one morning find a Hashshashin dagger lying on their pillow upon awakening. This was a plain hint to the targeted individual that he was safe nowhere, that maybe even his inner group of servants had been infiltrated by the cult, and that whatever course of action had brought him into conflict with them would have to be stopped if he wanted to live.
The order were notorious for killing politcal and religious inderviduals to suit the orders motives and often just the threat of death would turn the tables and motivate those targeted to do as thy were told.
