The King of Assassins rules the Council of Assassins in the Kingdom of Assassins

The King of Assassins rules the Council of Assassins in the Kingdom of Assassins.

What is it like?

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You know 40k's administratum? It's like that, but with more murder and bureaucracy.
>pic related

>Assassins, pragmatic and detached, understand the need for a central body of governance
>They also understand that nearly any death would be suspicious, so killing anyone for political reasons is pretty pointless
>Government is efficient, well run, and well respected.

Honestly it would be super bureaucracy. Political killings would be obvious as fuck so those wouldn't happen, and everything relating to assassination, violence and murder would be highly regulated due to tradition, paranoia, and history.

You know how the Great Houses and the Morag Tong work in morrowind? I'd imagine it'd be a lot like that. Murder is legal, so long as you get writ for it filled out beforehand.

dark elves in literally every setting

>In order to assassinate someone, you must first get a writ signed by a member of the Council of Assassins
>You aren't notified when a writ on your life filled out, but if you submit a request to the council they will have to tell you if any such writs exists and who holds them (but they will not tell you who commissioned or signed the writ).
>Council members, however, are always aware of when there is a writ on their life, and when that happens they send assassins to assassinate their would-be assassin. This makes political killings quite rare.

A guild of Torturers. At some point simply killing people doesn't give enough of a message. They must disappear, knowingly, and the public must know of their crimes, and what is being done with them.

now I'm suddenly imagining a group of assassin's that have to go to what is essentially their version of the DMV just to kill someone

>"I'm sorry sir, you have to fill out the aqua form for poisoning, this is the blue form"

>A society of assassins, subtly, subterfuge and, above all, assassination, is as common as breathing, thus it is absolutely impossible to successfully perform any underhanded acts here
>But because the entire society is built, run and lives by slinking in the shadows, they never expect anything outside of assassination and subtle works.
>So when one of the local lords is killed, no one can wrap their head around how the assassin did it, oblivious to the fact that it was not an assassin, but a barbarian one of the rival lords hired, who simply bum-rushed the lord and split him sternum to stomach with a large broad axe, in plain day, in public even. Somehow all of this went right over the populace's heads, and now they believe a master assassin of the highest order is skulking about

I imagine "preferred method" just goes on a field on the form.

now REASON for killing should go on a distinctive form or series of forms.

romance goes on the RED form
retribution goes on a GREEN form
political advancement gets a PURPLE form
business competition gets a YELLOW form

>"I'm sorry sir, but you need at least 3 methods of assassination before you can qualify for your class C assassination permit. No, using your bare hands does not count."

An assassination attempt is like a handshake. Everyone does it all the time!

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I imagine it like Ankh-Morpork from Discord. There is so much chaos and petty crime that it is impossible to police it all, and therefore the only real criminals are those who commit crimes without a permit.

Hey, guys, what's going on in this thread?

>What's the BROWN form for?
>Shits and giggles.

How does one become the King of Assasins?

How does one stay the King of Assasins?

Brown form is best form

By assassinating the king.
There's a fairly high turnover.

>No one knows who the King of Assassins really is.
>It is known that the king is one of the members of the Council of Assassins, but none of the other council members are sure which one he is.
>However, by tradition whoever kills the King of Assassins becomes the new king; and so council members are constantly signing assassination writs on other members who they think might be the king.
>The last actual King of Assassins was successfully murdered nearly a century ago, but nobody realized it at the time. To this day, the council is still ignorant to the fact that none of them are actually the king.

>become the King
no idea

>stay the King
you ever read Discworld?
how does Sam Vimes stay head of the city watch.

I wonder what the Tax value is for the various reason forms

or the tax penalty for using the wrong form to kill someone

One becomes king of assassins by assassinating the current king of assassins.
Staying the king of assassins involves simply staying alive long enough to be king.

>or the tax penalty for using the wrong form to kill someone
Bet it's a killer.

I imagine the tax value is based on the various reasons.

Killing someone just because you can (black form) has an incredibly high tax rate. However, killing someone because they betrayed the kingdom of assassins (white form) is virtually tax-exempt.

Tax penalty would probably involve doing a job for someone else but they take all the credit for the kill. The bigger the penalty, the more important the target. If successful, the bigger the payout for the other person. This would involve assassins being very careful about which form they use. Very, very careful.

>nah dude, those were old traditions, the only reason we're called assassins nowaday is because we still munch that stuff

nothing ever gets done, as the king and the council are constantly in a state of being assassinated, recovering from attempted assassinations, or off assassinating someone themselves.

perhaps their secretaries are legally protected from assassination, it allows for them to govern.

the minister of economic assassination
the minister of judicial assassination
vizier of statutory assassination

This is great

Bureaucratic.

>or the tax penalty for using the wrong form to kill someone

This guy would get all kinds of tax penalties.

First mission made it look like a murder suicide.
Often uses mundane objects like rolled up newspapers, pens and towels.

real fucking polite.

People very courteous and volunteer apologies in advance.

I guess it would be something like Terry Pratchett mage guild.
Everyday is a new king, because previous is assasinated, and everyone ok with this.
PCs working in the police of this kingdom, In murder department. THey have special magical alternative dimension for all the files they must keep. Everyday is boring paperwork and tedious clue collection only to sent reports and clues to parallel dimension archive and forget about it.

Lame. The Forgotten are one trick ponies.

This is pretty dumb. Why would you incite your best assasins to constantly kill each other? How would anything get done if the king has to be on watch 24/7 because there's almost constantly several plots to kill him?

Make them a Hashishin-inspired theocracy, except they didn't get bitchslapped by the Mongols and grew to be a relevant state.

Nobody knows who the Old Man in the Mountain analogue is. All that's left of the original assassins are now top members of the clergy. The palace is not!Alamut refurbished for peaceful times. There are newer agents being trained as assassins, but they now are just mercenaries as there is no longer a need for public assassination and they're not given the drugs the original ones had

Also, you can either set up a rivalry with the not!Templars like it's popular to do, or make them allies (which is what actually happened funnily enough). You can even cram in not!Mongols as the antagonists later into the campaign

To develop them beyond a simple gimmick you can grab inspiration from the historical assasins again and make it so their original claim to power were very efficient irrigation techniques, and mix them a bit with Mafia stereotypes making it so only the people from their original domains can be chosen to be assassins.

You could also pull a 1984 and make it ambiguous if the Old Man in the Mountain actually exists, but that contradicts the point of them being zealots who were essentially brainwashed into blind subservience. Maybe he died of natural causes and the Council is desperately pretending he's still alive

Surprisingly civil if you van believe it, after literal centuries of backstabbing and shadow games every member except the newest has gotten tired of bringing work into politics and willingly disarms before entering just to keep things interesting. Any bad blood that comes up during the kings court is either settled bare handed and non lethality in court or just solved the old fashioned way outside

>The King of Assassins rules the Council of Assassins in the Kingdom of Assassins.
Retarded.

HOW has this not been posted yet?

>The King of Assassins rules the Council of Assassins in the Kingdom of Assassins.

Sounds like an edgier version of the Space Wolves.

>You could also pull a 1984 and make it ambiguous if the Old Man in the Mountain actually exists, but that contradicts the point of them being zealots who were essentially brainwashed into blind subservience.
Or that could be just how charismatic he is/was.