I was born near an Assassin's tomb
The hunt for the assassins' seals was very funny to me since the contrast was gigantic between the fancy lairs where ACII's assassins are buried and the actual Assassin's tomb not far from where I was born.
I live in Tunisia, where some centuries ago a war was raging between the Sunnites (most spread muslim variation) and a minority group from the Chiites (the kind of islam's school that is well spread in Iran).
This minority group was known as being the Nizarites who were Chiites being disguised as Sophists (I'm not really sure about the spelling, but whatever). Sophists are a kind of groovy muslims where all they do is chanting to the glory of their god and prophet, etc. They were pretty much left alone but the other groups.
And since Chiites were to Sunnites as what Jews were to Nazis, this little group was hiding its real identity, and they were Ismaelian Chiites that pledged their faith to Hassan Sabbah, aka the badass Assassin's chief.
And the guy who was responsible for this group in the Tunisian region was named El Mooldee Gaza. He was an assassin buried as a Sophist leader but discovered later as being one of the few Nizarites (assassins) living in Kef (the town where I was born, and where he's buried) whose family fled the destruction of Cairo, Egypt by the Fatemide's enemies.
I doubt that he ever killed someone in his life, he actually used to help people and gather information to be sent to Persia where their HQ was and I doubt he could do any of the crazy stuff in the game since he was probably fat. He had to have enormous munchies from all the weed (hashish) he was smoking.
So, I think that modern's day assassin's arsenal would be a Jellabab, Chiite's version of the Coran and a bong.
Now since my country is rioting its ass off, It's a bit hard for me to travel from Tunis, where I am, to Kef where the tomb is. But I'll try to get some pics as soon as possible.
That's so cool! I hope things quiet down over there. Has anything really escalated?
That is seriously awesome. (Not the riots, the Assassin tomb.)
I hope things calm down soon. But if you remember more history, let us know!
That's so cool! I hope things quiet down over there. Has anything really escalated?
Things started to settle down then went crazy three days ago.
The problem is that a lot of people who were close to the dictator are still in power.
A lot of poverty also helped the unrest.
We had a curfew from 6 pm to 8 am from December to February, then when we kicked out Ben Ali things calmed down in the north but the south (over 70 per cent of people living with lower than 2 dollars a day) remained in trouble.
Three days ago thousands of tribes of the south went up north to protest about their living conditions and violence escalated again. Material losses are estimated to be around 12 billion dollars (it may seem a little to a developed country but that's actually more than 20 per cent of our GDP). A lot of infrastructure and administration offices were destroyed. People were burning basically any building that had a flag.
We had 30 000 people that illegally went to Italy and France (and it's so serious that France and Italy are revising the Schengen convention).
With Kadhafi going crazy in Lybia, hundreds of thousands of Lybian citizens fled to Tunisia and he came after them. We don't have any military power and Kadhafi is raiding two Tunisian cities with missiles and that made the south even more furious.
The capital city has an only avenue that is basically the economic lung of the country and it got destroyed by the riots.
What is even scarier than that is that there's fundementalist muslims who are promising heaven to poor people. There's two fundementalist parties that are very very popular right now. Last friday there were a gigantic prayer for the soul of Bin Laden in the capital and if that's not scary enough it evolved to an infidel hunt.
They threw acid liquid at uncovered girls' faces, they burned down bars, they tried to get into a christian school but fortunately the police managed to push them away.
Our road to democracy has a bitter taste of bolchevic déjà vu.
That is seriously awesome. (Not the riots, the Assassin tomb.)I hope things calm down soon. But if you remember more history, let us know!
My mother knows more about this stuff but I remember that there were an annual celebration for the assassin.
The tomb is very very tiny and modestly decorated. I'll gather more information about how they ended up there.