Have assassins guilds ever existed in the real world?
Have assassins guilds ever existed in the real world?
Blake Moore
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Leo Bennett
Hassan I Sabbah haschaschins in Middle East
Thugees in India
Benjamin Bailey
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Well, the Assassins, as a start...
Benjamin Harris
Fuck off to /v/ with your video game nonsense.
Wyatt Gonzalez
If you need me to fucking kebabify it for you, the Nizari Hashashin, but given that it's actually where the word "assassin" comes from it would be a good place to fucking start, but okay yeah off to /v/ I go I suppose.
Connor Carter
I don't know about guilds, but Sengoku-era ninjas were organized in clans and could be hired out as mercenaries. They were usually spies and saboteurs though, I'm not sure how big actual assassination was with them.
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>A distinction is to be made between the ninja from these areas, and commoners or samurai hired as spies or mercenaries. Unlike their counterparts, the Iga and Kōga clans produced professional ninja, specifically trained for their roles. These professional ninja were actively hired by daimyos between 1485 and 1581, until Oda Nobunaga invaded Iga province and wiped out the organized clans.
Were Assassins ever hired to work for non-Nizaris?
Samuel Sullivan
They were sort of proto-islamic terrorists.
Anthony Cruz
Not really a guild though, more like a terrorist organization
Gavin Butler
The 72 virgins thing actually originates with them.
Levi Perez
There do exist hitman agencies/groups
I dunno about these though:
a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
an association of people for mutual aid or the pursuit of a common goal.
Henry Evans
Afaik the ninja assassin stuff is pretty much a complete pop culture fabrication
William Russell
what's the difference?
Robert Fisher
That's kind of a weird association. Considering the assassins worked with the Crusader States often, and that they didn't kill random civilians, just their assassination targets.
William White
>a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable powe
Hanseatic league, Venetian league and so on
Ryan Reyes
Assassin guilds kill for money, these guys did it for political and religious purposes
Terrorism doesn't need to include random acts of violence, assassination counts as well
Noah Rodriguez
Terrorism is using fear to get what they wanted. Unless the assassins were using fear to spread the influence of their ideology then they weren't terrorists.
Chase Edwards
well, if we're considering OP's posting of the morag tong, neither are they. They're a state sanctioned religious order that takes part in a customary method of warfare.
Historically, no. Most assassins have been religiously or politically motivated, and if they have a support structure, it's part of their religious or political base.
Christopher Taylor
Well presumably people are afraid of getting assassinated and leave the crazy bastards well alone.
It worked with Saladin IIRC
Luke Jenkins
the black hand
Colton Peterson
Why would you need a whole guild of them?
Wouldn't any group of organized killers just end up being mercenaries?
Camden Turner
weren't thuggees a religious death cult rather than contract killers?
Jackson Perez
Dark Brotherhood
Nathan Turner
>assassins guild
It's called a security agency or secret police.
Austin Anderson
Amusing.
Jason Bennett
Lawful and official organizations like the Morag Tong? Fuck no.
Rent-a-hitman organizations? Sure, every fifth crime syndicate did it.
Juan Nguyen
>Why would you need a whole guild of them?
In the game context, because they are literally a lawful organization with heavy religious undertone (and the setting is a theocracy) and their behaviour is very heavily regulated.