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Everyone thinks a medieval assassin lived a cool life silent, rich, skilful, feared. The truth? Most barely survived long enough to get a second contract. This long-form story drops you into the shadows of the Middle Ages, where killing wasn’t glamorous it was messy, under-paid, uncertain, and terrifyingly brief. You’ll experience sleepless stakeouts in freezing alleys, blades that failed, poisons that backfired, no real medical care, constant paranoia, informants who sold you out, and the crushing reality that one mistake meant torture, or death without trial. No guild insurance, no legacy, no legends just hunger, danger, and a life expectancy measured in close calls. It didn’t suck because the job was dark… it sucked because the world was darker.


A Note on Historical Spirit:
Each story here is told to honor the grit and reality of people long forgotten by noble chronicles. This narrative focuses on the real daily mechanics of survival in a brutal era where crime meant cruelty, stealth meant suffering, and myth was only written by those who never lived it. These stories are created to immerse, fascinate, and transport you to feel history rather than idealize it.



Thank you for watching, and for keeping the honest, unfiltered shadows of history alive.



Sources & Further Reading:
For those who want to explore the darker side of medieval society and clandestine life:

Hanawalt, Barbara. The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986)
Kaeuper, Richard W. Medieval Chivalry (2015) — for contrast with noble myth-making
Jones, Dan. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (2021)
Key medieval crime and punishment archives from historical legal manuscripts.


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