I have no idea why I was thinking about his. One too many hours of "Assassins' Creed" combined with one too many commercials for "Wanted" maybe. Oh also Eddie had a whole bit on the Hashshasin in the new show...
Either way the point of an Assassin is the targeted (and stealthy) killing of a prominent political figure whose ideals threaten a certain way of life. Often these assisinations are politically or religiously motived, as the doctrines of one form of government or religion don't mesh with the doctrines of the other. The basic tenant (as mentioned in the trailer for "Wanted") is "kill one to save one thousand". Good examples of people this would have proved useful for, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden; someone like that who could you get to them before they really garned enough support to kill the amount of people that they did, would be a prime example (unfortunately for history the Assasins must have had way too much Hashish those days).
Well anyways if you could somehow combine this with say time travel or somesuch sort of thing; I got to thinking (because you know how you're just say blogging to Steggy about King Tut's Tomb one minute and then posturing about time-travelling extrajudical assassination the next) wouldn't it be kind of cool if somehow one could go back in time and somehow prevent (through assassination if necessary) the loss of important historical artifacts and documents?
I guess I thought this because I've been big time into King Tut since I was like 5 and his stuff went round on tour (c. 1978). and I was watching the National Geographic movie spotlighted today on MySpace Video. And well at some point they mentioned how they didn't really know much about him because the important historical documents regarding his life had been lost or destroyed. And it then got me thinking about how many times visiting museums and whatnot that I've heard that. "Well we would know more about this except the record was destroyed"... that sort of thing.
I think the Catholic Church is especially guilty of this, but in King Tut's case I belive it was a succeeding Pharoah or Client King, as Tut's Family was more or less trying to introduce a new god (Amun... go educate yourself if you like I don't feel like explaining it at the moment) . And well it was pretty controversial at the time from what I gather and it wouldn't shock me as later when either trying to convert to Greek/Roman rule and to those sets of dieties his historical information was wiped to cover up the existance of that religious movement (you know kind of how we turned Samhain into Halloween/All Saints Day or Yule into Christmas or Ostara into Easter).
Anyway pointless little over-active imagination moment of the day.
Oh and P.S. (though this is mostly for Lee/Turf) Do you ever just walk by a church with a really big steeple or something and have a random urge to climb it to get Viewpoint credits? Yeah I play way too much of this game...