Steve Tibble discusses the Assassins and Templars, two of history's most legendary groups.

One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction showing how they survived only by perfecting “the promise of death,” either in the form of a Templar charge or an Assassin’s dagger. Their fanaticism changed the medieval world ― and in video games and countless conspiracy theories, they have become endlessly conjoined in myth and memory.

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