Assasins. Part1

   Hello guys, in this post i want to tell you about conection between Assasin's and templers.


part1.

So, there you go--there was an assassins guild just like in the original Assassin's Creed, but what of their sworn enemies, the Knights Templar? Well, history tells us the Knights, like the assassins, came to prominence during the Crusades, but their origin starts some time before that.

The Knights were originally a charity set up to escort pilgrims to the Holy Land. Like all charities, word spread of their good deeds and they gained a tax break from the Pope of the time. This was the turning point which allowed a disorganised charity to rapidly grow into an elite military order and it was only natural that, at the time of the Third Crusade, they should throw themselves wholeheartedly into the fighting.

Altair's journeys across the Holy Land in Assassin's Creed, where he sees the distinct white coat and red-crossed surcoat of the Knights Templar nearly everywhere, would have been quite historically accurate. Templars had roles such as guards, bureaucrats, and doctors, and gave threats to the local populace to keep them in line.

However, while Assassin’s Creed sees the Templars expand after the Crusades, the real Templars fell from grace and, due to a mixture of politics, money, and greed, many were captured, tortured to confess to numerous false crimes, and then burned at the stake. The order disbanded, and while conspiracy theorists would have it that the Templars are still active today in a fashion similar to their devious workings in the Assassin's Creed games, history can neither confirm nor deny this part of the Templar story.