Settings for Assassin idea and Swift idea

When I was thinking about where I'd set the Assassin idea, two things came to mind; the Hashashin of Persia (Iran), and the Ninja of Japan. Both of these groups were at their peak during the 14th century, so I figured that if I wanted to do this story, I would set it at around those times in an around Persia or Japan, so I created a few moodboards featuring aspects of those settings that I'd most like to explore;

Assassins historically operated from fortresses in which their lord or 'master' would dwell, and Falcons tend to stick to areas with lots of cliffs and an abundance of prey, such as mountainous regions, so I gathered visual information about these two topics to help me get an idea of how the story would look.


For the story of the Falcon being mistaken for a Swift (or vice versa) I looked at world maps showing the migratory patterns of each bird and compared the two with each other;

I decided it would be best to set the film in the Late Summer along one of the Falcon's migratory routes, as that meant I could make it about a journey shared by *potentially* all the characters involved.

The second idea is probably the loosest in terms of setting as there are a myriad of countries I could afford to set it in, so I decided to not go too in depth with the research on that subject.