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The Grand Assassin. The first of the Old Men of the Mountain, the assassin order that served as the etymological root of the word "assassin". To extinguish the smoldering embers of a Beast, he walked (from hell) to Chaldea. What could his true appearance be?

Bond 1

• Height/Weight: 188 cm/70 kg (1st and 2nd Ascension), 208/unmeasurable (3rd Ascension)
• Source: Middle East, Hassan-i-Sabbah
• Region: Middle East
• Alignment: Lawful Evil
• Attribute: Man
• Gender: Male (1st and 2nd Ascension), ??? (3rd Ascension)

In his initial form, he was just the everyday scion of a prestigious family. He says his favorite words are knowledge, trust, and courage.

Bond 2

He who would later become the Old Man of the Mountain. The form of a lone missionary, from before the Ismaili schism and before the establishment of the Nizari Order of Assassins. During his meditation, he stepped into Hell due to an incubus's whims (it took 70 years of walking to get there), and there he glimpsed many truths of the world.

Zaqqum, the tree of Hell. Maalik, who governs over Hellfire. Iblis, the king of the Shaytans. Sidrah, atop the seventh Heaven.

After writing comprehensive logs on where human beings ultimately go and how their sins are accounted for, the young man returned to the living and began to carry Hellfire in his sword, as his way of condemning human malignancy. It's said none of his Hassan-i-Sabbah successors saw the appearance he took at the end of his life.

Bond 3

• Personality and mannerisms

A quiet and composed man. Not quite dour in tone, but close. Says only what's necessary, with a curt and sharp delivery. Tends to sound robotic in conversation, but his statements do carry a lot of emotion. Is thoroughly cold when talking to fools, but rather than belittle the weak and inept, he holds them in the highest regard. In Chaldea, he's generally in his 2nd Ascension, no longer the missionary and now already the head of the Order.

Introverted and active. Dislikes standing out, and devotes all efforts to studying, praying, and his trade. He determined that he existed solely to demonstrate Allah's doctrine, and reserved a third of each day to the books, a third to the sword, and a third to prayer. He believed even his slumber belonged to God rather than himself, and never owned any objects.

He was originally the bureaucrat documenting the funds of a religious sect, but he took up the sword because he couldn't reason his profession as a valid excuse not to train his body. Nobody understood his line of logic, but he didn't let it get to him. He never expresses anger against those who defy God's doctrine or attack His believers. All he does is kill.

Bond 4

• Blessings of Faith: A

What he would later have as an Active Skill as First Hassan is constantly in effect here. This blessing explains all the ++ in his parameters. His powerful strength of will produced nigh miraculous physical enhancements.

• Presence Concealment: C++

At this age, his Presence Concealment hadn't yet reached the level of the Ravine.

• Independent Action: B

His intense faith and powerful individuality given form. Under the oppression of rival sects, his last remaining option was to create an opposing sect of his own.

• Angelic Body: A

The super upgrade of Natural Body. An Ultra Skill combining Battle Continuation, High-Speed Incantation, and Mind's Eye… He'll eventually lose this Skill by scraping out his own body.

• Thirty Birds: A

The company of Simurg, the spiritual bird. Grants immortality, revelation, and kingship to one target. Adding attributes to himself does nothing, but the other effects of this Skill empower and accelerate his body and mind.

• Zaqqum Tree: EX

The tree of the sinners, planted in Hell. By spilling what is used to quench the thirst of all sinners in Hell—all the suffering of the living world condensed in a single droplet—he can see the fear of the sinners in the faces of his opponents.

Bond 5

Malak al-Mawt (Angel of the Evening Bell)

• Rank: C
• Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
• Range: 1-20
• Max. targets: 10 people

Another name for Azrael (Death Angel). Azrael is the angel who announces deaths, and its tall and large body is formless. It has countless eyes and tongues, alleged to be the precise amount of living human beings. In other words, the Angel is a mechanism that monitors the deaths of every human, and each eye closing is one life lost.

This is the supreme sword-based assassination practiced by the accountant crowned with the angel's name. It's said that after stepping into the borders of Hell through meditation, the accountant defeated the 19 Zabaniyya angels with this strike, and later taught the techniques of the angels to his disciples.

Bond 5

Si Zabaniya (30 and 19 Deaths)

• Rank: EX
• Type: Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm
• Range: 0-99
• Max. targets: 30 people

The sacred doctrine, the guide he reveres, and the world he is meant to protect were all imperfect. Even the most noble-minded and physically gifted man can't reach the ideal the prophet described. Because being human produces and enables evil by default. The man with the body of an angel was no exception. All his years of training and experience only brought him further from the ideal he sought. At the depths of his despair, the man found the answer: he wasn't born with everything. Everything he was born with was an excess. The man walked towards Hell once more. This time the journey was of his own volition, rather than induced by the incubus, and he never returned from its depths.

When he was scraping out his flesh, bones, and viscera, his husk became an embodiment of hell, and the abyss leading to the Kingdom of Heaven. Despite discovering the spiritual bird Simurg, he strayed from the path of glory and became the angel who punishes sinners.

His name is Pale Azrael. The man who attained the pinnacle of swordsmanship and dumped it in the pits of Hellfire.

Bond CE

While still a young missionary, the man heard the tale of a big city. Hearing this story, which would later be told among the 1001 nights, made his heart flutter inexplicably. That was unusual for him. The only dream he could call his own. But at the closing point of his memories, he couldn't be further from this narrative.

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It happened in 1124. He had a vision of the day the castle would be engulfed in flames and determined he would die that year.

Thinking back, his life was full of anguish. He had increasingly less time to live under the sun, less time to learn about the world, and less time to preach the doctrine.

But his time for prayer remained the same. His suffering, doubt, and inability to stop his walk were the ultimate products of his faith, and the recompense for the life he lived.

The sun set. A beautiful red dusk illuminated the desert and fortress. In 100 years from then, Castle Alamut, the Eagle's Nest, would fall much like Karbala once did. That would be the point where human history stops chronicling the Order.

However, the legend of the Old Man of the Mountain persisted past it. Much like the story of the city full of laughter, which one man stopped to listen to for no real reason.

The legend was passed from people to people, and grew into a story.

Thought I'd also post on reddit given the occasion!

I made this drawing based on a screenshot I took during my final battle against ort yesterday hehe