Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-26998063-20151204175356/@comment-18750685-20151215192556

The Hashasins were Hashish (hence the name) addicts ordered to murder by a false prophet, not Ubisoft's beak-hooded marketing campaign.

The Dark Brotherhood are agents of death in service to Sithis, an unfathomably powerful deity that devours the souls of the dead. It's called Fundamentalism.

But aye -- much of fantasy was based on Tolkien. Much in the way north-western architecture bases itself on its Victorian ancestor. TES and LotR are two vastly different universes that can be compared, as with anything.