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<div>{{Era|Templars|Abstergo}}<br />
{{Quote|May the Father of Understanding guide us.|A Templar blessing.|Assassin's Creed II}}<br />
The '''Father of Understanding''' was an entity to whom the [[Templars]] pledged allegiance, and asked for guidance.<br />
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In the [[Third Crusade]], the Templars would usually sign his name before theirs in letters they wrote.<ref name="AC">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref> During the [[Renaissance]], Templars would often ask him for guidance as a greeting, or at the end of a meeting. During [[Revolution War|Revolutionary America]] Templars would speak his name when inducting someone into the Templar order.<br />
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The use of the blessing continued into the early 21st Century, and [[Abstergo Industries]] CEO [[Alan Rikkin]] once e-mailed [[Warren Vidic]], and placed the blessing at the end of his message.<ref name="AC"/><br />
==Trivia==<br />
*Given the atheist beliefs of the Templars, it's likely that the Father of Understanding they refer to is [[Cain]], the one who originally founded the Templar Order, and whose mark is the Templar Cross.<br />
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==References==<br />
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