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The origins of the Officio Assassinorum are traced to the times of the [[Great Crusade]] where a pact was made on Mount Vengeance by the six ''Directors Primus'' of the Assassin Clades, headed by the Master of Assassins. All seven individuals were masked and their identities kept secret from one another and thus they were unaware that their leader was none other than [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador the Sigilite]]. From the six Directors Primus, the founding Clades were formed from [[Sire Vindicare]], [[Sire Eversor]], [[Sire Culexus]], [[Sire Vanus]], [[Siresess Siress Venenum]] and [[Siresess Callidus]] who all met in secret at the [[Shrouds]]. For decades, they hunted the enemies of the Emperor by way of stealth and subterfuge in order to show these foes that there was no place for them to hide. Such was the secrecy of this agency that its existence and actions were only marginally known to the [[Emperor]] as they intended to maintain his noble purity. As the deployment of an Imperial Assassin was a delicate matter, usually only a single agent was sent into the field or, at maximum, three, but always from the same primary Clade.{{Fn|3}} During its earliest days the Officio Assassinorum fell under the purview of the [[Ephori]] order of the [[Custodian Guard]].{{Fn|23}}