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Many warriors throughout history have been romanticized by people of later eras. However, with the League of Assassins, they are viewed more as ruthless murderers, but are some of the most highly trained men and women on earth, believing that they kill only for the greater good of all. The origins of this ideology lay within the historical Islamic realm established by Ra's al-Ghul: the Nizari Ismaili State. This is the history of the League of Assassins: their origins and rise to power. Almost simultaneously with Islam's meteoric rise to superpower status in the 7th century, internal division permanently divided the religion into two parties. At the heart of Islam lies the memory of a civil war between the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad. His cousin and son-in-law, the Caliph Ali was murdered, along with Ali's grandchildren. Islam was split permanently; the two sides, Sunni and Shia, remain to this day bitterly divided. Ali's supporters, the Shiites, don't believe in letting