We work in the dark, to serve the light. We are Assassins.

The Assassins, also known as the Assassin Order, Assassin Brotherhood and Hashshashin, were an organized order of assassins who fought a continuous secret war with the Templars for over two-thousand years. Whereas the Templars strove for the power to save humanity from itself by controlling free will, the Assassin Order struggled to ensure the survival of free will, as it is what allows for the progression of new ideas and the growth of individuality. The Assassins, if not the order itself, had existed since at least 456 BC, throughout the Roman Era, the Third Crusade, the Renaissance, and into the 21st Century.

Over the centuries, the Order of Assassins killed hundreds, if not thousands of individuals who they saw to be corrupt in their ways and a danger to humanity. Their intense rivalry with the Templars also ensured that many underlings who served their Templar masters often shared the same fate.

Below is a chronological list of the victims of other known Assassins:

* King Xerxes the Great, by Darius in 456 BC
* Alexander the Great, by Iltani in 323 BC
* Qin Shi Huang, by Wei Yu in 210 BC
* Cleopatra, by Amunet in 31 BC
* Caligula, by Leonius in 41 AD
* Genghis Khan, by Qulan Gal in 1227 AD
* Tomas Torquemada, in 1498 AD
* Niccolò di Pitigliano, by Francesco Vecellio in 1510 AD
* Francisco Pizzaro, in 1541 AD
* Mary I of England, in 1558 AD
* Ivan Ivanovich, in 1581 AD
* John Wilkes Booth, in 1865 AD
* Alexander II, in 1881 AD
* Grigori Rasputin, in 1916 AD
* Adolf Hitler, in 1945 AD
* Joseph Stalin, in 1953 AD
* François Duvalier, in 1971 AD