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Russian Rite of the Templar Order

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{{Era|CR|TF|Templars}}
{{Conjecture}}
{{Faction Infobox
|image =
|founder =
|leader = [[Grand Master]]
|headquarters =
|locations = [[Russia]]
|related = [[Templars]] Grand Duchy of Moscow {{Wiki|Rurik dynasty}} Russian Empire [[House of Romanov]] [[Soviet Union]] [[Abstergo Industries]] Russian Federation
|religion =
|hidea = yes}}
The '''Russian Rite of the Templar Order''' were a group of like-minded individuals who swore allegiance to the [[Templars|Templar]] ideals and operated throughout [[Russia]] during the [[Russian Revolution]] period of the early 20th century.

==History==
===Tsardom of Russia===
In the 16th century, the Templars were affiliated with [[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia|Ivan Ivanovich]], the son and heir apparent of Tsar [[Ivan IV of Russia|Ivan the Terrible]]. This affiliation resulting in Ivan's death at the hands of the [[Russian Assassins]] in 1581.<ref name="Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref>

===Modern times===
====Russian Revolution====
During the late 19th century, the Templars started gaining strong influence over the [[Russia|Russian Empire]] and the ruling {{Wiki|House of Romanov}}. Both [[Alexander II of Russia|Tsar Alexander II]] and [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]] became strong allies of the Templar Order, and supported their goals. As a result, the Russian Assassins and its left-wing terrorist offspring, the [[Narodnaya Volya]], targeted the Romanovs, eventually managing to kill Tsar Alexander II in 1881. The Assassin [[Nikolai Orelov]] made an attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander III, in which he was unsuccessful due to the Tsar's surprising strength, stamina and his possession of a Staff of Eden, and the event eventually turned into the [[Borki train disaster]].<ref name="The Fall">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>

Tsar Alexander III died in 1894 of kidney failure. His son [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], who was not an ally to the Templars, gained control over the Empire, and the Templar agent [[Grigori Rasputin]] infiltrated Nicholas' close circle by "miraculously" healing his son. After being close enough, Rasputin replaced the Staff of Eden with a replica,<ref name="The Fall"/> taking the real artifact to a Templar research station in Tunguska.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

[[File:Tungaska Explod v.png|thumb|250px|The Tunguska explosion]]

In 1908, Orelov obtained the station's location and, together with a group of other Assassins, was sent to destroy the artifact. While the Assassins killed the Templars inside and secured the station, their ally Nikola Tesla sent a bolt of electricity from the USA, causing the station to explode and the Staff to be scattered into pieces; known commonly as the [[Tunguska explosion]].<ref name="The Fall"/> Rasputin somehow managed to obtain one of those pieces and used it to hypnotize and control the Imperial family.<ref name="The Fall"/> Rasputin himself was later killed by the Assassins, and the Templars lost control over Russia.<ref name="AC2"/>

The Russian Imperial family was overthrown during the [[Russian Revolution]], and power shifted to [[Vladimir Lenin]], an ally of the Assassins and leader of the newly formed [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Modern Times">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Modern Times</ref>

====Controlling the Soviet Union====
After Lenin's death in 1924, [[Joseph Stalin]], his subordinate, who was secretly controlled by the Templars, took over control of the Soviet Union.<ref name="Modern Times"/> Under his rule, the Soviet Union became a totalitarian, corrupt and decrepit state,<ref name="Glyphs"/> presenting the capitalistic economies of the Western powers – a system created by the Templars – in a more positive light.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' - [[Rifts]]</ref>

After the Templars infiltrated the {{Wiki|Politburo}}, Soviet party functionary and Templar [[Yuri Petrovich Figatner]] was assigned to head a special government commission in 1928 to investigate the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] and purge it of "counter-revolutionaries", turning the Academy into a Stalinist organization.<ref name="ACI ASC">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – Modern Times: "Assassin Science Cities"</ref> Many Assassins, who were allowed to make use of the Academy's facilities under Lenin's regime, and scientists loyal to the Assassin cause were subsequently killed or forced into hiding.<ref name="ACI FH">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – Modern Times: "Fading Hope"</ref>

During [[World War II]], the Templars influenced Stalin into taking a leading role in the war and, alongside [[Adolf Hitler]], bring on the turmoil and fear necessary for [[Abstergo Industries]] to take control over the working population.<ref name="ACB"/> The Templars planned to take advantage of the peace that would succeed the war and establish their ultimate goal of a [[New World Order]].<ref name="Glyphs"/>

====Dissolution of the Soviet Union====
After World War II ended, the Russian Academy of Sciences was able to reorganize and rid itself of Templar influence.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' - Modern Times: "Post-War Science"</ref>

On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin was eventually killed by the Assassins, ending his thirty-one year rule.<ref name="Modern Times"/>

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the head of state of the Soviet Union, [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], wanted to reform the country through his policy of "{{Wiki|perestroika}}". [[Abstergo Industries]], the primary public front of the modern-day Templar Order, realized that Gorbachev did not share their interests, so they had the British Prime Minister, [[Margaret Thatcher]], contact [[Boris Yeltsin]], after which Yeltsin began to stand up to communism and gain popularity. In December 1991, the Templars called a secret meeting in Belavezhskaya Forest, and later that month, Gorbachev was unseated and Yeltsin became the head of the newly-formed Russian Federation.<ref name="ACB"/>

In September 1999, Abstergo secretly orchestrated {{Wiki|Chechens|Chechen}} terrorists {{Wiki|Russian apartment bombings|bombing apartment buildings}} in the Russian cities of {{Wiki|Buynaksk}}, [[Moscow]], and {{Wiki|Volgodonsk}} in order to boost the popularity of presidential candidate [[Vladimir Putin]], Yeltsin's friend and political pupil, who continued capitalizing Russia.<ref name="ACB"/>

====The Prophet's Codex====
[[File:ACTC-Daniel Bolshoi.png|thumb|250px|Cross watching the Bolshoi Theatre]]
In 19 October 2002, [[Daniel Cross]] infiltrated the [[library of Ivan the Terrible]] by attending a play but quietly made his way through it and found the hidden door, which lead to the library hidden beneath the {{Wiki|Bolshoi Theatre}} in Moscow. He had posed as a replacement for the Assassin guarding it, and following this, he opened the [[Prophet's Codex]], written by [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] and read [[Minerva]]'s speech to [[Warren Vidic]] via his earpiece, noticing the name "[[Desmond Miles|Desmond]]". Afterwards, Daniel took the box holding the codex with him and killed the sentry, before calling in the clean-up team and leaving the library.<ref name="TC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref><ref name="S4">''[[Assassin's Creed: Subject Four]]''</ref>

==Members==
*[[Dolinsky]]
*[[Yuri Dolinsky]]
*[[Yuri Petrovich Figatner]]
*[[Grigori Rasputin]]
*[[Yakov Yurovsky]]

===Allies and puppets===
'''[[Renaissance]]'''
*[[Ivan IV of Russia]]
*[[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia]]

'''[[Russian Revolution]] and 20th Century'''
*[[Alexander II of Russia]]
*[[Alexander III of Russia]]
*[[Joseph Stalin]]
*[[Leon Trotsky]]
*[[Yakov Sverdlov]]
*[[Boris Yeltsin]]

'''21st Century'''
*[[Daniel Cross]] {{C|[[Colonial Rite of the Templar Order|American Rite]]}}
*[[Vladimir Putin]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Templars nav}}
{{ACC}}
[[Category:Templar Rites]]

Russian Rite of the Templar Order

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{{Era|CR|TF|Templars}}
{{Conjecture}}
{{Faction Infobox
|image =
|founder =
|leader = [[Grand Master]]
|headquarters =
|locations = [[Russia]]
|related = [[Templars]] Grand Duchy of Moscow Russian Empire [[House of Romanov]] [[Soviet Union]] [[Abstergo Industries]] Russian Federation
|religion =
|hidea = yes}}
The '''Russian Rite of the Templar Order''' were a group of like-minded individuals who swore allegiance to the [[Templars|Templar]] ideals and operated throughout [[Russia]] during the [[Russian Revolution]] period of the early 20th century.

==History==
===Tsardom of Russia===
In the 16th century, the Templars were affiliated with [[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia|Ivan Ivanovich]], the son and heir apparent of Tsar [[Ivan IV of Russia|Ivan the Terrible]]. This affiliation resulting in Ivan's death at the hands of the [[Russian Assassins]] in 1581.<ref name="Glyphs">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Glyphs]]</ref>

===Modern times===
====Russian Revolution====
During the late 19th century, the Templars started gaining strong influence over the [[Russia|Russian Empire]] and the ruling {{Wiki|House of Romanov}}. Both [[Alexander II of Russia|Tsar Alexander II]] and [[Alexander III of Russia|Tsar Alexander III]] became strong allies of the Templar Order, and supported their goals. As a result, the Russian Assassins and its left-wing terrorist offspring, the [[Narodnaya Volya]], targeted the Romanovs, eventually managing to kill Tsar Alexander II in 1881. The Assassin [[Nikolai Orelov]] made an attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander III, in which he was unsuccessful due to the Tsar's surprising strength, stamina and his possession of a Staff of Eden, and the event eventually turned into the [[Borki train disaster]].<ref name="The Fall">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>

Tsar Alexander III died in 1894 of kidney failure. His son [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], who was not an ally to the Templars, gained control over the Empire, and the Templar agent [[Grigori Rasputin]] infiltrated Nicholas' close circle by "miraculously" healing his son. After being close enough, Rasputin replaced the Staff of Eden with a replica,<ref name="The Fall"/> taking the real artifact to a Templar research station in Tunguska.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

[[File:Tungaska Explod v.png|thumb|250px|The Tunguska explosion]]

In 1908, Orelov obtained the station's location and, together with a group of other Assassins, was sent to destroy the artifact. While the Assassins killed the Templars inside and secured the station, their ally Nikola Tesla sent a bolt of electricity from the USA, causing the station to explode and the Staff to be scattered into pieces; known commonly as the [[Tunguska explosion]].<ref name="The Fall"/> Rasputin somehow managed to obtain one of those pieces and used it to hypnotize and control the Imperial family.<ref name="The Fall"/> Rasputin himself was later killed by the Assassins, and the Templars lost control over Russia.<ref name="AC2"/>

The Russian Imperial family was overthrown during the [[Russian Revolution]], and power shifted to [[Vladimir Lenin]], an ally of the Assassins and leader of the newly formed [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Modern Times">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Modern Times</ref>

====Controlling the Soviet Union====
After Lenin's death in 1924, [[Joseph Stalin]], his subordinate, who was secretly controlled by the Templars, took over control of the Soviet Union.<ref name="Modern Times"/> Under his rule, the Soviet Union became a totalitarian, corrupt and decrepit state,<ref name="Glyphs"/> presenting the capitalistic economies of the Western powers – a system created by the Templars – in a more positive light.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' - [[Rifts]]</ref>

After the Templars infiltrated the {{Wiki|Politburo}}, Soviet party functionary and Templar [[Yuri Petrovich Figatner]] was assigned to head a special government commission in 1928 to investigate the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] and purge it of "counter-revolutionaries", turning the Academy into a Stalinist organization.<ref name="ACI ASC">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – Modern Times: "Assassin Science Cities"</ref> Many Assassins, who were allowed to make use of the Academy's facilities under Lenin's regime, and scientists loyal to the Assassin cause were subsequently killed or forced into hiding.<ref name="ACI FH">''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – Modern Times: "Fading Hope"</ref>

During [[World War II]], the Templars influenced Stalin into taking a leading role in the war and, alongside [[Adolf Hitler]], bring on the turmoil and fear necessary for [[Abstergo Industries]] to take control over the working population.<ref name="ACB"/> The Templars planned to take advantage of the peace that would succeed the war and establish their ultimate goal of a [[New World Order]].<ref name="Glyphs"/>

====Dissolution of the Soviet Union====
After World War II ended, the Russian Academy of Sciences was able to reorganize and rid itself of Templar influence.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' - Modern Times: "Post-War Science"</ref>

On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin was eventually killed by the Assassins, ending his thirty-one year rule.<ref name="Modern Times"/>

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the head of state of the Soviet Union, [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], wanted to reform the country through his policy of "{{Wiki|perestroika}}". [[Abstergo Industries]], the primary public front of the modern-day Templar Order, realized that Gorbachev did not share their interests, so they had the British Prime Minister, [[Margaret Thatcher]], contact [[Boris Yeltsin]], after which Yeltsin began to stand up to communism and gain popularity. In December 1991, the Templars called a secret meeting in Belavezhskaya Forest, and later that month, Gorbachev was unseated and Yeltsin became the head of the newly-formed Russian Federation.<ref name="ACB"/>

In September 1999, Abstergo secretly orchestrated {{Wiki|Chechens|Chechen}} terrorists {{Wiki|Russian apartment bombings|bombing apartment buildings}} in the Russian cities of {{Wiki|Buynaksk}}, [[Moscow]], and {{Wiki|Volgodonsk}} in order to boost the popularity of presidential candidate [[Vladimir Putin]], Yeltsin's friend and political pupil, who continued capitalizing Russia.<ref name="ACB"/>

====The Prophet's Codex====
[[File:ACTC-Daniel Bolshoi.png|thumb|250px|Cross watching the Bolshoi Theatre]]
In 19 October 2002, [[Daniel Cross]] infiltrated the [[library of Ivan the Terrible]] by attending a play but quietly made his way through it and found the hidden door, which lead to the library hidden beneath the {{Wiki|Bolshoi Theatre}} in Moscow. He had posed as a replacement for the Assassin guarding it, and following this, he opened the [[Prophet's Codex]], written by [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] and read [[Minerva]]'s speech to [[Warren Vidic]] via his earpiece, noticing the name "[[Desmond Miles|Desmond]]". Afterwards, Daniel took the box holding the codex with him and killed the sentry, before calling in the clean-up team and leaving the library.<ref name="TC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref><ref name="S4">''[[Assassin's Creed: Subject Four]]''</ref>

==Members==
*[[Dolinsky]]
*[[Yuri Dolinsky]]
*[[Yuri Petrovich Figatner]]
*[[Grigori Rasputin]]
*[[Yakov Yurovsky]]

===Allies and puppets===
'''[[Renaissance]]'''
*[[Ivan IV of Russia]]
*[[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia]]

'''[[Russian Revolution]] and 20th Century'''
*[[Alexander II of Russia]]
*[[Alexander III of Russia]]
*[[Joseph Stalin]]
*[[Leon Trotsky]]
*[[Yakov Sverdlov]]
*[[Boris Yeltsin]]

'''21st Century'''
*[[Daniel Cross]] {{C|[[Colonial Rite of the Templar Order|American Rite]]}}
*[[Vladimir Putin]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Templars nav}}
{{ACC}}
[[Category:Templar Rites]]

Canadian Brotherhood of Assassins

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{{Era|PL|DYL|ACI|Assassins}}
{{Conjecture}}
{{Faction infobox
|name = Canadian Brotherhood of Assassins
|image =
|founder =[[John de la Tour]]
|headquarters = [[Montreal]] 
[[Whistler]]
|locations = [[Canada]]
|related = [[Assassins]] [[France|Kingdom of France]] 
{{Wiki|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society}}
|religion =
|formed =
|reorganized =
|notable = [[Ludger Duvernay]] [[Janice]] [[Susan Drayton]]}}

The '''Canadian Brotherhood of Assassins''' were the branch of [[Assassins]] located in [[Canada]].

==History==
===American Revolution===
During the [[American Revolutionary War]], the Canadian Assassins were supported by [[Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Assassins]] sent by [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] against the [[Continental Army]], to prevent them from taking over [[Quebec]].<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – ''[[Contracts (Colonial Assassins)|Contracts]]''</ref>

Later on, the Assassins began an investigation into the [[Templars|Templar]] influence in Quebec and [[Montreal]], during which they found out that Montreal's harbor had fallen into Templar hands. The Assassins then made sure that the designers of the Templar plans were dealt with.<ref name="AC3"/>

===Post-American Revolution===
====Resistance against the Château Clique====
In 1832, the journalist and secret Assassin [[Ludger Duvernay]] posted several articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the [[Château Clique]], the leaders of the [[Templars]] at the time. The Assassins financed him, hoping to expose the government's connections to the Templars.<ref name="ACDYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>

[[File:AssassinsFreeDuvernay.png|thumb|250px|Duvernay freed by the Assassins]]

A few weeks later, Duvernay was arrested and imprisoned on charges of spreading false information, and the Clique even rallied the public against him. However, the Assassins quickly freed Duvernay from jail. After his release, Duvernay founded the {{Wiki|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society}}, hoping to spiritually unify Quebec and gain independence from Canada.<ref name="ACDYL"/>

On 24 June 1834, Duvernay hosted a soirée for his secret society, the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, to rally against their enemies. However, a Templar agent infiltrated the party posing as a violist, and killed one of Duvernay's allies, only to be knocked out by [[Larose]], one of Duvernay's associates.<ref name="DATA-DUMP S00.S02">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' - ''[[DATA-DUMP S00.S02]]''</ref>

===Modern times===
By 2012, an Assassin cell led by [[Janice]] operated in [[Whistler]]. Sometime that year, Janice rescued activist [[Susan Drayton]] from police custody after she had been arrested for breaking into a water supply plant in Prince George and stealing a sample of [[New Fluoride]]. Janice convinced Susan to join the Assassins, telling her that she believed the Assassins should have a strong connection to nature.<ref name="Surveillance: Tree-Hugger">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]'' – Surveillance: "Tree-Hugger"</ref>

Later, Susan attempted to steal a ship, the ''[[Altaïr II]]'', in order to chase [[Japan]]ese whalers, but was stopped by [[Assassin leader]] [[Gavin Banks]], who intended to make the ship a mobile HQ for the Assassins, despite not knowing how to pilot a ship. Susan and Gavin came to an agreement to work together, with Susan as the captain of the ship.<ref name="Surveillance: Tree-Hugger"/>

On 12 September 2012, Janice called Gavin and requested more Assassins to assist her, since she had only two others in her cell. However, after Gavin promised Janice he would do what he could, a team of [[Templars|Templar]] agents led by [[Daniel Cross]] attacked the Assassins' hideout.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – The Desmond Files: "Gunfight"</ref>

Despite this, at least one of the Assassins survived and made contact with [[Adriano Maestranzi]], the Assassin leader of the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Italian Assassins|cell]]. In his correspondence with [[William Miles]], which Adriano disguised with business terms, the survivor "left Whistler because he didn't want to be 'buried' in work there, like his colleagues."<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – The Desmond Files: "Survivor"</ref>

Adriano e-mailed William again three days later, saying that the survivor's description of the man who led the Templar attack in Whistler fit that of "the guy who deceived a certain '[[Mentor (2000)|CEO]]' of [theirs], some 12 years ago", and that Adriano hoped to learn more during his meeting with the survivor the next day.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Initiates'' – The Desmond Files: "Witness"</ref>

==Members==
*[[Susan Drayton]]
*[[Ludger Duvernay]]
*[[Janice]]
{{-}}
===Allies===
'''[[American Revolution]]'''
*[[Clipper Wilkinson]] {{C|[[Colonial Assassins|Colonial branch]]}}
*[[Deborah Carter]] {{C|Colonial branch}}
*[[Duncan Little]] {{C|Colonial branch}}
*[[Jacob Zenger]] {{C|Colonial branch}}
*[[Jamie Colley]] {{C|Colonial branch}}
*[[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] {{C|Colonial branch}}
*[[Stephane Chapheau]] {{C|Colonial branch}}

'''19th Century'''
*[[Larose]]
*[[Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Assassins nav}}
{{ACPL}}
{{ACDYL}}
[[Category:Assassin branches]]