Heroes of History: The Peacekeepers

[EDITORIAL NOTE: I made a mistake in the video and said the Seljuk Turks were Shia, when they were actually Sunni. I apologize for the error.]
Heroes in History returns with Peacekeeper. A lot of people asked me to talk about her, and I think a large part of that is because no one is quite sure who she's based on. There were no female knight orders in the Medieval age. There were no battle nuns or Sisters of Battle. They didn't even really have an order of assassins. Assassinations DID occur, but none were built around nightly orders. So who were they?
After carefully considering the evidence, and knowing the source material, I conclude that the Peacekeepers are likely based on (emphasis on BASED) the Hashashins of Persia...the same order that the Assassins of Assassins Creed are based on. It's a loose connection, but I hope you'll see why I say what I do. I hope you enjoy the video!
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[@redlightu]

The Peacekeepers being recruited from the devoted and desperate would explain Mercy's (the main Peacekeeper in the Campaign) soft-spoken and indoctrinated attitude. In the mission you play as her, she mutters "Doubt is Death" and "Service is Life" throughout, reflecting her loyalty to Apollyon. Well, until she defected to the Iron Legion at least, maybe she had second thoughts.

[@RavenKnightYT]

Perhaps not loyalty to Apollyon necessarily, but maybe to her creed, but it does make sense.

[@YT-algorithm-is-strange]

I made the iron blood legion hahaha

[@logeyperogi1805]

Well, Mercy likely knew she was doing atrocious and pretty hard to forgive acts, and she wasn’t in denial about it either probably, hearing those lines has me thinking that she was probably the first knight to join the Warden in reforming the Iron Legion to bring down Apollyon, she was also probably the one to convince Holden to join them as well, and Stone the Conquerer was more friendly and thus loyal to the Warden than he was Apollyon, so it makes sense that he would also join the reformed Iron Legion Apollyon had some strong allies in those four, but because Warden couldn’t lie to himself any longer, he abandoned Apollyon, inspiring Mercy to do the same, Stone likely followed Warden regardless of the path he chose, and Holden was likely convinced by Mercy to join them

[@carloszapata847]

I think they are partially based on Nuns. Hence the hood and the genderlock as women.

[@gnb_2476]

Great video on the Peacekeeper. But a note about the Assassins. The Assassins, or Nizari Ismailis, were actually a Shi'ite sect and Hassan-i Sabbah was a Shia. The Seljuks were Sunnis.

[@robertfisher8359]

"They were an islamic order founded well before the crusades." Maybe a minor point, but I wouldn't say they that is true. I had to double check (as I thought they were founded close to Saladin's reign of the caliphate/sultanate in Egypt. Per wikipedia, there's only 6 years difference between the Hashashin and the First Crusade. Setting that aside, the Peacekeeper is my favorite class in all of For Honor, both for aesthetics, combat techniques, and basic concept. A knightly order based around enforcing peace and/or bringing wars to a swift conclusion is something that - as soon as I saw the Peacekeeper - made me think "why haven't we seen this in fantasy settings before?" If it has been done, I'm completely blanking on it. Thanks for this video, and keep them coming.

[@btchiaintkidding7837]

only character that i can think of is Ciaran from dark souls 1, she dual wields 2 dagger/shortswords and is essentiallly a peacekeeper(royal assassin)

[@fakekurusu]

i think Conqueror would be a great choice, i'm interested to hear what you have to say about flail combat. Great vid as always!

[@warlockiii1846]

There is a story about one Grandmaster of the Hashashin Order, al-Sabbah himself. He had a secret garden deep down in the mountain of Alamut. If someone new wanted to join the order, he would be set on drugs and put into this beautiful garden, thinking he arrived in paradise. Of course the grandmaster hired some hot chicks to be there as well to fulfill all of the novice's dreams. After a certain amount of time (basically when the effects of the drugs started to fade away) the novice would get pulled out of the "paradise" and his masters would tell him that not only had he beaten death itself but in fact WAS in paradise Allah promised him. I don't know if it's true or not but I read this in a book about secret organizations.

[@trevthekidd]

So they just stick you in a beautiful place where you can CLAP CHEEKS for joining? Where do I sign up?

[@TheStagKnight]

Should do videos that give us the most realistic armors these heros would wear

[@aaronvirdee5813]

Great video series. U mentioned Persia. When Assassin's Creed was originally being developed, it was actually going to be "Prince of Persia: Assassins". Also in the Prince of Persia film (with Jake Gylenhall) there a group of assassins.

[@corvus7068]

I absolutely adore peacekeeper, probably my favourite character within For Honor, I plan on getting her to reputation 70 sometime, so far I have 27 and I was going at a fairly slow pace due to her condition at the time, but now she's somewhat better I'll be speeding up for sure! but anyway thank you for this video I found it greatly interesting and I appreciate the research you did to make it, quite an old video but I would like to leave you my appreciation nonetheless.

[@richardtodd4009]

There was one order in particular that comes to mind called “The Order of the Hatchet”, brave village women who boldly defended against a raid from a group of moors. I believe they were dubbed as knights as a reward for their stalwartness, bravery, and of course, their utilization of what was available to them. On a side note, what I also found interesting is that their order’s name is based on an axe, a symbol of feminine power, though particularly in the form of a labrys. Now while one could say it’s not too strange because of their limited arsenal, but remember that they most likely than not would have access to scythes, hammers, and other weaponizable everyday tools.

[@michaelgrimm6]

Forgot to mention to the devote of the Emperor " A good solider obeys without question, A good officer commands without doubt."

[@kasikasivendjinn5345]

I reckon Peacekeeper is more of a nod to the Assassin’s Creed rather than the real Hashashin, as there’s one of their hoody dripping cousins in everywhere with different ideals not limited to Islam, Italy, Turkey, Ancient Greek, The Caribbean, it’s not too far fetched one appears in the Jesus loving Roman Empire of the knights

[@michaelgrimm6]

2nd video I watched and I love your knowledge of history aswell as the way you present it.

[@danieldimartino1492]

I love this format and the space marine connection😂

[@evilman3048]

Am literally excited to watch this video right now!!

[@CharliMorganMusic]

Hashashin. The word for assassin comes from this group. Very metal.

[@DynomitePunch]

while i find the entire idea that their based on the assassins of assassin's creed and therefore based on the Fidai, i think it's also plausible to say their heavily inspire by real medieval era assassins who would often wear cloaks, which where normal fro the time, and have daggers and short swords hidden within them, the act of fighting with a dagger and sword is also heavily present in medieval europe, being made most famous by the use of rapier and dagger in the 1500's to 1600's, as this combat technique, while refined at that point was based heavily on earlier uses of sword and short blade combat, which examples of can be found all over the world, another such famous variant being miyamoto musashi, who, contrary to popular depiction, often used dirty and underhanded techniques, such as hiding and surprise attacking, or arriving late and disrespectful specifically to put the enemy in an aggrevated state, but good video i'm liking your channel and series a lot

[@mudshrooze]

These are so good!!

[@carloszapata847]

I think that the Peacekeeper is supposed to be a nun. She is a woman, she wears a hood, she takes oath of silence like clergy people often take, etc. The "devoted" part in the description does also fit for a nun.

[@mothman6380]

I just want one of this kick ass daggers from the Middle East for peacekeeper the ones that look holy

[@Monstahh943]

I love how this guy always talks facts

[@Dr.Pootsy]

Great video thx!

[@jacobfenton5476]

Can you do bezerker?

[@inarichannelEN]

The old man of the mountain would be proud and would let you bare thy neck for the execution at the same time

[@choosinkien268]

Can u do conqueror

[@GeistDrachen]

I think orochi would be an easy character as far Heroes in History. He's the classic samurai, fully armored, katana in hand, etc.

[@mal1362]

He's the pop culture samurai give him nubushis weapon then you'll have the classic samurai tho id say kensei with nobushis weapon is the classic samurai

[@GeistDrachen]

Aramusha is the more pop culture samurai. The classic Ronin type at least.

[@RavenKnightYT]

I'm carefully considering how I'll approach Orochi and Kensei as individuals.

[@jon_cormac1173]

Yes and no, since the Orochi is a pop-culture samurai, and they have “Shinobi” related tools.

[@millard681]

Hitokiri?

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

10:38 is that a reference to 40k?!

[@michealmoore3207]

What is the cg clip in the beginning?

[@kryo4491]

For Honor: Marching Fire trailer

[@hunter-bros8543]

Hunter-S: love the vid! Though I'm wondering why, even as a joke, you said you probably upset GGs fans? I don't think Gaijin ever once called Shinobi assassins. Lol no hate love the vid and content Like and Subscribe

[@danielcooke3732]

U talking about Hashassin?

[@danielcooke3732]

Shinobi? They don't exist

[@ether6521]

This is actually super interesting

[@joshvonbosch]

10:38 CI- CI- CIAPHAS CAIN …

[@adamfaraj6997]

Salahaddin he was Kurdish

[@dekaw9138]

Nothing is true , everything is permitted

[@t55v55]

For the record the word assassin came from the Arabic word hashashin as definition of the ppl who do assassination but what you didnt know is that the hood thing was true there was a brotherhood called hashashin doing assassination but why they called them selfs like this well they didnt the ppl who was in that brotherhood and left for any reason they said they used weed (hash/ hashesh) in there meeting as some kind of Hypnotism so they can manipulate there though about paradise and convince them to do these Suicide missions so they have been known as hashashin in public for doing these as ritual

[@blitzisfun]

Ahhh, so Assassins Creed IS real. Time to pull a leap of faith off the School

[@existingthroughitall3749]

*sobs in rep 13 pk*

[@adrian_alves]

This video is a perfect reason why we should’ve gotten Islamic Warriors instead of Chinese

[@juanpablocota9083]

Waeden video

[@CHOMP-2005]

0:24 ezio 😐

[@tristanlambert658]

Pk might have posed as prostitutes you say? 🥵🤤🥴