Ismaelis and the Death of Hassan

As the empire struggled to somehow repress the ismalis, the killings went on. Officials would talk endlessly about a pattern, analyzing every ismali move. Some called them hasha shin, from the arabic word hashish, because they acted as if they were drugged. European crusaders to the holy land heard stories about these devilish hasha shin and passed them on. The assassins had never tried to escape their killing. They were caught, tortured and executed to a man. But new ones kept on coming; nothing seemed to deter them from completing their task.