Nehal suggests that Basim may learn more through the Order of the Ancients, recurring Assassin's Creed antagonists who eventually rebrand into the Templar Order. He pursues and assassinates its members, and is eventually drawn toward an ancient, hidden temple, secreted beneath the floors of the mo...
the series was instead allowed to be a new IP that focused on a secret order of assassins in a centuries-long conflict with the Knights Templar.
sponsored what became a series of Avignon popes, and confiscated the wealth of the Church’s Knights Templar banking order (as well as that of the Jews and Lombards in France). During the ensuing two centuries secular kings became even larger clients for bankers, borrowing to fight...
Even in their own day the Templars were of vastly more interest to writers of fiction than the Hospitallers and Teutonic Order. The Templars’ rivals long outlived them, but left nothing close to the same impression in the popular imagination. Only the Templars can really be said to have pa...