His eyes usually shaded as he spoke in the most profoundly wide generalizations.
A girl would do this and a boy would do that, and a man has duties.
Time is something else.
Gods are not mocked, you say?
Well, this is no joking thing.
Game of Thronesis littered with assassinations.
The hunting party scattered, which suggests it was no accident.
It allowed Henry I to ascend to the throne.
Some legends say the Nizari Ismaili were behind Eustaces death.
We first met the Faceless man when Arya saved him from burning to death in season 2.
In return for his freedom, Jaqen Hghar owed a girl three lives.
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George R.R.
Martins fantasy novel series is very loosely based on historical figures.
The central action finds Martin plucking the roses of Britains thorniest royal houses.
Some see the Crusades as an early outbreak of Western racist imperialism.
The group sometimes fought against the Crusaders and sometimes killed for them.
Yes, were going there.
They theorize that the Bavarian Illuminati was a revised version of the Hashishin system.
Nizari Ismailis were Shiite Muslims that lived in Persia and Syria during the Middle Ages.
The Sunni Seljuq dynasty dismissed the Shia Nizaris as hash eaters or hashshashins.
The assassins seized their mountain fort Alamut, in what is now north-western Iran.
The Ishmaelian sect of Islam was founded by Hassan ibn Sabbah, the old man of the mountains.
The cult terrorized the Moslem world until Genghis Khans Mongols brought law and order to the area.
Wait, dope and dancing girls?
He came to the conclusion that assassination was preferable to war in political maneuvering.
They began as slaves in the mines of Valyria.
The first Faceless Man was no one.
The Faceless Men founded the Free City of Braavos.
Braavos is also home to men of many talents.
Arya Starks dancing master hailed from Braavos.
To be a dancing master is a special thing, but to be a Faceless Man has greater rewards.
The Many-Faced God taught the first Faceless Man how to shed his face and how to give the gift.
The man taught others in exchange for their service.
Many served, many more gifts were given.
Soon, all the masters and overseers were gone and the Faceless Men fled.
Iconography includes images of the Weeping Woman of Lys; the Lion of Night and the Black Goat.
The thing they all have in common is death.
The Red God takes what is his, lovely girl.
And only death may pay for life.
You saved me and the two I was with.
You stole three deaths from the Red God.
We have to give them back.
Speak three names, and a man will do the rest.
Three lives I will give you.
No more, no less.
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The Faceless Men are religious killers for hire.
They dont come cheap.
The hired assassins of Westeros are known for their anonymity.
Faceless Men try their best to make it look like their marks died of natural causes.
The Ismaelis usual weapon was a dagger dipped in poison.
The historical assassins were the first Murder Incorporated.
where plants were found on grave mounds.
Sabbah wasnt peddling standard grade hash.
All Hail the Hypnotoad.
Herbal intoxicants were used in India.
Murder was both a way of life and a religious duty for the Thuggee.
Kali demands blood sacrifice given ritualistically through steel.
For the record, Kali is the Hindu goddess of rebirth and time, as well.
The Faceless Men have a reputation for biding their time.
This means that the Thuggees in the Beatles movieHelpwere breaking their own code.
They were known as the Stranglers and their weapon of choice was the garrote.
Thugs were respected by the criminal community.
The Mongols destroyed the assassins Alamut headquarters in 1256.
The Syrian branch survived into the 14th century.
Now she stands proudly, if discretely, with her family in the north as a Stark.
A version of this article was originally published on June 6, 2018.
