She's kinda afraid of being
stabbed by an assassin, you see — a very valid fear, granted how many stabbings that have apparently occured in Italy in the early 1500s.
Not exact matches
There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned
by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an
assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted
stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed
by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.
They recruited and trained a group of secret
assassins called sicarii — which means «dagger - men» because of the deadly, curved dagger they carried hidden in their cloaks — and killed Roman politicians and soldiers
by slitting their throat, or
stabbing through the back to pierce the heart.
When he went to Fatima to give thanks for surviving the attempt on his life
by an
assassin, he was met
by cheering crowds, but also
by a
stabbing from a Lefevbrist priest.
Ned Stark — declared a traitor and decapitated Catelyn Stark — throat slit at her brother's wedding Robb Stark — murdered after watching his pregnant wife get murdered Jon Snow —
stabbed to death
by his subordinates Sansa Stark — twice married against her choice; raped in front of childhood friend Brandon Stark — pushed out of a tower window and paralyzed Arya Stark — blind and at the mercy of
assassins in a foreign country Rickon Stark — ¯ \ (ツ) / ¯
The line was almost the same as that uttered
by Brutus in Act 4 of Julius Caesar - after he has turned on his friend and become one of the
assassins who
stabbed him.
Players saddened that their stealth -
stabbing romp through fifteenth - century Italy had to end will be cheered
by the upcoming downloadable content for
Assassin's Creed II — Battle of Forli ($ 4, January 2010) and Bonfire of the Vanities ($ 5, February 2010)-- which fills in the sequence gap in the century - spanning storyline.