There were a few Flashbacks featuring the Hashshashin in The Illuminatus! Trilogy.In Foucault's Pendulum, the Templars learned from the Hashshashin during the Crusades to discover the secret of harnessing the power of telluric currents.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: when exploring Kuze's background as a JSDF soldier in World War IV, the Hashashin are directly referenced as a derisive comparison to the soldiers in Kuze's unit, who had gotten a lot of bad press for almost effortlessly defeating a Korean insurgent group that had been weakened by a terrible winter and lack of food and was completely outmatched by the all-cyborg JSDF unit.In episode 14 of Kiddy Grade ("Steel/Heart"), Tweedledee infects La Muse and Donnerschlag with a virus called "hashish," which, she mentions, is the name of a drug used in ancient times to give one the willpower to kill even a member of their own family.Their downfall came when one of their strikes reached the Mongols, who razed Alamut during their conquest of Persia. There is no historical evidence whatsoever of hashish being used for anything but medicinal purposes (again, not unheard of at the time in those lands), and the connotation of the Assassins being drug addicts was given to them by their enemies and by polemicists who were seeking to discredit the Assassins and the Nizari.
if they died as martyrs), which resulted in their fanatical devotion.
The other, according to The Travels of Marco Polo, is that Hashshashin recruits were drugged with hashish (in the specific plant sense, not just any grass), led to a paradisical garden full of lush greenery and beautiful women (supposedly a glimpse of the Islamic paradise), and then told that only the "Old Man of the Mountain" had the means to let them return (i.e. First is contempt from other Islamic branches, hinting at Nizarites being literally so poor that they are forced to eat grass. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The name "Hashshashin" literally means "grass eaters", which at different points in history was attributed to two things. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps.
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