Egyptian Rite of the Templar Order

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|leader = [[Grand Master]]
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|locations = [[Egypt]]
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The '''Egyptian Rite of the Templar Order''', known as the '''Order of the Ancients''' during the Ptolemaic dynasty,<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''</ref> is the branch of the [[Templars|Templar Order]] which has operated throughout [[Egypt]] since at least the Ptolemaic dynasty.

==History==
===Ptolemaic dynasty===
In 49 BCE, the Templars aided Queen [[Cleopatra]], which allowed her to become the sole ruler of Egypt.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' - [[Abstergo Files]]</ref> However, on 12 August 30 BCE, the [[Egyptian Brotherhood of Assassins|Egyptian Assassin]] [[Amunet]] infiltrated Cleopatra's palace, and killed her with a venomous [[Snakes|asp]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>

===Islamic Era===
====Acquiring the Scepter of Aset====
[[File:EgyptAssassin.png|thumb|250px|A Templar Knight killed by the Egyptian Assassin]]
In 1250, after the [[Mamluks]] rose up against the reigning [[Ayyubid dynasty]], the Templars, knowing that the Mamluks had formed an alliance with the Assassins, attempted to retrieve a [[Pieces of Eden|Piece of Eden]] called the [[Scepter of Aset]] when the artifact was being brought to the rebelling Mamluks by an [[Egyptian Assassin (1250)|Egyptian Assassin]]. However, despite being injured, the Assassin managed to kill the Templar knights and brought the Scepter of Aset to the Mamluks to aid them in their efforts against the Ayyubids, effectively laying the foundation for the [[Bahri dynasty]].<ref name="Hawk">''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]''</ref>

In 1340, the Templars, with the aid of a local named [[Hasdin Al-Bellal]] and the rich [[Merchants|merchant]] [[Bachir Al-Djallil]], managed to steal the Scepter, leaving only the fragment of a dagger's handle behind, and smuggled the artifact to their hideout in [[Karnak]].<ref name="Hawk" />

====Assassination of the Sultan====
[[File:Leila&Templar.png|thumb|left|250px|Leila contacted by a Templar]]
In 1341, the Templars contacted [[Leila]], a servant of sultan [[Al-Nasir Muhammad]], and offered her a chance to avenge the humiliations she had suffered throughout the years - without hesitation, Leila accepted the deal to kill the Sultan. One night, while still active as a servant, Leila was summoned by Al-Nasir. When she was asked to accompany him, Leila seduced the Sultan and killed him by slitting his throat, in the name of the "Templars' fight against oppression". She then made an attempt to flee, but was captured while making her escape from the Palace.<ref name="El Cakr">''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]''</ref>

[[File:AC5EC-Numa Templars.jpg|thumb|250px|Templars fighting Numa in Karnak]]

Later on, the Templars were tracked down to Karnak by the Assassin [[Numa Al'Khamsin]], better known as "El Cakr", and his disciple, [[Ali Al-Ghraib]]. Arriving at night near the {{Wiki|Temple of Amun}}, the two walked across a village, when Ali noticed a man wearing a dagger with the Templar cross on it. After telling this to his master, Ali started a fire as a distraction, so that Numa was able to look for the Scepter of Aset unnoticed.<ref name="El Cakr" />

However, the distraction was not effective and Numa became surrounded by Templars. While the Assassin engaged in battle with his enemies, Ali stole the Scepter from the Templars. Numa and his apprentice then fled from Karnak, taking the artifact with them.<ref name="El Cakr" />

====Killing El Cakr====
Two days later, El Cakr arrived at the Sultan’s palace in [[Cairo]]. Although the Sultan’s Emirs expected Numa to hand over the artifact, the Assassin did not trust the Emirs and told them the artifact would remain in Assassin hands until a dignified successor to the throne would be presented. Interpreting Numa’s words as an insult, the Emirs locked him up in the same prison cell as Leila.<ref name="El Cakr" />

After convincing Numa that she was not a true believer of the Templar cause and had merely used them in order to kill the sultan, the two escaped and headed for a safe house that Leila had arranged in the city in order to lay low after the murder of the Sultan. There, she seduced Numa into a sexual encounter.<ref name="Leila">''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]''</ref>

While Numa was in prison, the Templars managed to capture Ali at the Temple of [[Edfu]] and tortured him, breaking his wrist. Eventually he cracked, agreeing to help them eliminate his master in exchange for his life.<ref name="Leila" />

After Numa arrived at Edfu Temple and noticed Ali's bandaged wrist, the Templars surrounded him and Ali. Leila then came forward, her identity still unknown to Al'Khamsin. She explained that the Scepter was no longer the only priority of the Order and that Numa was such a nuisance that his death was now a new priority. Lowering her hood, she told El Cakr that she felt no hate towards him but had to follow orders before she began dueling with him. Perfectly trained, Leila revealed that everything she had told Numa about her commitment to the Templars was a lie before putting a dagger into his heart, instantly killing Numa before the eyes of his distraught apprentice. However, keeping her promise to spare Ali, Leila let the shaken Assassin apprentice go.<ref name="Leila" />

====Losing the Scepter====
When Leila went to the Sultan's Emirs in Cairo to deliver them the artifact, she discovered that the ankh-shaped box was empty. Quickly rushing in pursuit of Ali, Leila happened to spot the Scepter's luster at the bottom of a well near Edfu Temple, which was where Ali had thrown the scepter. However, Leila fell while climbing up with the object. Suffering a head injury, Leila remained lifeless in the pit during three days before being rescued and tended by passing Bedouins.<ref name="Leila" />

Having become amnesiac, Leila had forgotten her allegiance to the Templars and the very existence of the Scepter, which she unknowingly left in the well. She then left with the Bedouins, but died nine months later from internal bleeding while giving birth to the child she had conceived with El Cakr during their night in the safe house.<ref name="Leila" />

===Renaissance===
Sometime in 1505, [[Odai Dunqas]], a cousin of the first {{Wiki|Amara Dunqas|Sultan}} of the {{Wiki|Sennar (sultanate)|Sennar Sultanate}}, relocated to [[Alexandria]] and encountered the Templar philosophy, of which he embraced, and called himself "The Guardian of the Truth". Soon after, he joined the Templars in the hopes of making his ambitions a reality.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>

In 1511, during an excavation of the destroyed library of Alexandria, the {{Wiki|Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate}}'s soldiers discovered two [[Memory Seals]] in a chest from 331 BC. After [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]] sent some [[Ottoman Brotherhood of Assassins|Assassins]] from [[Constantinople]] to Alexandria to retrieve the seals, Templar soldiers launched an offensive to recover the Memory Seals.<ref name="Mediterranean Defense">''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' - [[Mediterranean Defense]]</ref>

Despite successfully ambushing the Assassins and stealing the seals, the Templars subsequently lost them again when the Assassins organized a search party and recovered them.<ref name="Mediterranean Defense" />

==Members==
'''Ptolemaic Era'''
*[[The Crocodile]]
*[[The Lizard]]
*[[Medunamun]]

'''Islamic Era'''
*[[Leila]]

===Allies and puppets===
'''Ptolemaic Era'''
*[[Cleopatra]]
*[[Ptolemy XIII]]

'''Islamic Era'''
*[[Hasdin Al-Bellal]]
*[[Bachir Al-Djallil]]
*[[Odai Dunqas]] {{c|[[Byzantine Rite of the Templar Order|Byzantine Rite]]}}

==References==
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