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[[File:ACTemplars Black Cross confronts Gift.jpg|thumb|175px|Albert Bolden confronting Gift]]
[[File:ACTemplars Black Cross confronts Gift.jpg|thumb|175px|Albert Bolden confronting Gift]]
In February 1927, Albert was sent to [[London]] to assassinate the corrupted [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] of the [[British Rite of the Templar Order]] [[Thaddeus Gift]]. Albert killed him and took his [[Templar ring]]. A month later, the Black Cross was sent to [[China]] and eliminate the [[Russia]]n Templar turncoat [[Yuri Dolinsky]]. In April, in [[Shanghai]], while Albert was playing with his group in a club, he saw [[Darius Gift]], Thaddeus' son, who was tasked to deliver a package to the [[Chinese Rite of the Templar Order|Shanghai Rite]]. A bar girl named [[Roo]] stole the package and later Gift was aboarded by two Frenchmen. The Black Cross rescued Darius and discovered that the two men were from the French police. Bolden promised to Gift to recover his package.<ref name="Templars"/>
In February 1927, Albert was sent to [[London]] to assassinate the corrupted [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] of the [[British Rite of the Templar Order]] [[Thaddeus Gift]]. Albert killed him and took his [[Templar ring]]. In April, Albert arrived in [[Shanghai]], to investigate on the [[Chinese Rite of the Templar Order|local Templar Rite]]. During his mission, the General and Templar ally [[Chiang Kai-shek]] ordered the [[Shanghai massacre of 1927|massacre]] of the Chinese communist against the order of the Rite. The Black Cross had to save the actress [[Ruan Lingyu]] and [[Darius Gift]], Thaddeus' son, from [[Flowery Flag]], an henchman of [[Green Gang]], a criminal syndicate ally with Chiang. Wounded during the fight, Bolden was shot by Darius who seek revenge for his father's death. Albert fell of a ledge seemling died in the street.<ref name="Templars"/><ref name="Templars"/>
 
Albert investigated on the local Templar Rite, eavesdropping one of their reunion. He later intervied the [[Master Templar]] [[Joffre]] who revealed that the two French police men were communists who were connecting to the Hop Wo Society, an amusement palace. Albert infiltrated the place but he fell in an ambush of the [[Green Gang]]. The Black Cross decided to let be captured by [[Du Yuesheng]] men to collect informations. Poisoning the [[Fiery Crow]], he used the chaos to flee the gang. Later, Bolden saw [[Soong Ching-ling]], the widow of the Grand Master [[Sun Yat-sen]]. She was the one who ordered the thief of Darius' package, the templar ring with the severed Thaddeus' finger, to impeach [[Chiang Kai-shek]] to become the new Grand Master of the Shanghai Rite but Roo, who was in fact the actress Ruan Lingyu, took the item in the box.<ref name="Templars"/>
 
[[File:Albert falling to his 'death'.JPG|left|thumb|250px|The last Black Cross "death"]]
Continuing his investigation, Albert discovered that Du sent [[Flowery Flag]] to kill Ruan and Darius. Bolden rescued the two targets and fought the hitman. Flowery Flag shot Bolden in the shoulder but Ruan stabbed the henchman. The Black Cross used his [[Templar pin]] to hang Flowery Flag. After the fight, Darius shot multiple times on the Bolden to avenge his father's death. Wounded, Albert fell of a ledge seemling died in the street.<ref name="Templars"/>


Albert survived from his fall and was sent to an hospital to be treated. Bolden decided to not reported his survive to the Order and disappeared. A year later, the British Templar and [[Instruments of the First Will]] [[Rufus Grosvenor]] met Albert in a opium den. He tried to blackmail the former Black Cross, threatening to reveal to the Order that he is alive if he didn't gave him the Koh-i-Noor. Bolden refused and left [[China]] to recover the Koh-i-Noor before reconnected with his family.<ref name="Uprising"/>
Albert survived from his fall and was sent to an hospital to be treated. Bolden decided to not reported his survive to the Order and disappeared. A year later, the British Templar and [[Instruments of the First Will]] [[Rufus Grosvenor]] met Albert in a opium den. He tried to blackmail the former Black Cross, threatening to reveal to the Order that he is alive if he didn't gave him the Koh-i-Noor. Bolden refused and left [[China]] to recover the Koh-i-Noor before reconnected with his family.<ref name="Uprising"/>


In 1937, Bolden found his family killed by Grosvenor and the diamond was stolen. Albert hunted down the Templar and arrived in [[Spain]] in the middle of the [[Spanish Civil War]]. On the road, he found the hanged body of the [[British Brotherhood of Assassins|British Assassin]] [[Norbert Clarke]]. Later, he saw Grosvenor, who posed as Clarke, trying to unleash the power of the artifact with the help of the [[Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins|Spanish Assassin]] [[Ignacio Cardona]], who had a high rate of [[Isu]] DNA. Cardona fell unconscious and Bolden tried to kill Grosvenor but the Templar ordered to the other Assassins to shoot Albert. The former Black Cross was wounded but succeeded to flee, taking Cardona with him.<ref name="Uprising"/>
[[File:Spanish photo.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Cardona and Bolden during the Spanish Civil War]]
 
In 1937, Bolden found his family killed by Grosvenor and the diamond was stolen. Albert hunted down the Templar and arrived in [[Spain]] in the middle of the [[Spanish Civil War]]. During his quest, he allied with the [[Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins|Spanish Assassin]] [[Ignacio Cardona]] to take down Grosvenor, who had manipulated Cardona's cell to use the Koh-i-Noor. Bolden and Cardona confronted Grosvenor in a church of a village destroyed by the war. Using the power of the artfact, Cardona made the church collapsed and created an illusion of the diamond explosing while in fact it stayed under the ruins of the church. After Grosvenor's escape, Cardona asked if Bolden will join the Assassins. The former Black Cross refused but said that he will not work for the Templars if they continued to ally with [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]. Bolden also promised to stay in Spain to protect the Koh-i-Noor and to help Cardona to fight the Nationalist Army.<ref name="Uprising"/><ref name="Uprising"/>
[[File:Spanish photo.jpg|thumb|200px|Cardona and Bolden during the Spanish Civil War]]
When the Assassin woke up, Bolden explained all the story and Cardona decided to help Albert. With republicans troops, the two arrived in a village where Grosvenor and the Assassins took refuge. They were forced to fight Cardona allied, as [[Glaucia Acosta]], who was tottaly indoctrinate by Grosvenor. Arriving in the village's church, Bolden and Cardona confronted the Templar. Grosvenor ordered Cardona to use the Koh-i-Noor to save his friends. The Assassin obbeyed but used the power of the artifact against the Templar. The church collapsed and Cardona made an illusion of the diamond explosing while in fact it stayed under the ruins of the church. Grosvenor and Acosta flew from the village. Cardona asked if Bolden will join the Assassins. The former Black Cross refused but he said that he will not work for the Templar if they continued to ally with [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] and [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]. Bolden also promised to stay in Spain to protect the Koh-i-Noor and to help Cardona to fight the Nationalist Army.<ref name="Uprising"/>


==Members==
==Members==

Revision as of 17:07, 7 February 2019

The Bolden family was an American family who was famous for being the last lineage of Black Cross, inquisitors tracking corruption in the Templar Order. The family was responsible for the protection of the Koh-i-Noor.

History

Journey in Libya

Solomon Bolden

The eldest known member of the Bolden family was Solomon Bolden, an Afro-American member of the American Rite of the Templar Order at the dawn of the 19th century. He was also married but didn't have children with his wife. When the Black Cross Tavis Olier was presumed dead during his search of the Koh-i-Noor, a piece of Eden who was in possession of the Ottoman sultan Selim III, Solomon took his mantle as Black Cross and investigated in Libya to save Olier imprisoned in Tripoli.[1]

In 1805, posing as a slaver, Solomon met the Flemish spy Jan van der Graff, who also search the diamond for the French Emperor Napoleon I. After surviving of a pirates attack sent by Selim, the two men decided to work together, Solomon will protect Graff during the travel while the Flemish spy will help the Black Cross to infiltrate the dungeon where was Olier. In Tripoli, they met in a tavern the contacts of Graff, Edmund and Ahkbar. Edmund revealed that a tunnel passed under the palace before been killed by soldiers in the street. Bolden and Graff entered in the tunnel, but several men waiting for them, of which Ahkbar, who was a sultan's agent. During the fight, Ahkbar stabbed Solomon in the back. In his last breath, the Black Cross tasked Graff to find Olier. Graff was captured and sent in the dungeon.[1]

Jan van der Graff as the new Black Cross

In his cell, Graff met Olier, who trained him to become a Templar. In July 1808, they discovered that the Libyan Assassins tried to recover the Koh-i-Noor from Selim. The two Templars escaped from their cell but Olier sacrificed himself to give the opportunity to Graff to continue the mission. Becoming the new Black Cross, Graff entered in the sultan's apartment and discovered that Selim was poisoned by Ahkbar, who was also an Assassins but wanted to keep the diamond for himself. Graff fought the Assassin who created doubles of himself with the artifact. The Black Cross saw through them and killed Ahkbar. After discovering the treason of Ahkbar, the Assassins decided to spare Graff's life after he declared that he didn't want to continue to be a Templar and left with the box containing the artifact. In fact Graff was lying and had removing the Koh-i-Noor of the box before the arriving of the Assassins.[1]

Later, Graff went in America to tell to Solomon's wife the fate of her husband. The two had a relation and a child who continued the Bolden lineage.[1]

The last Black Cross

In 1893, Albert Bolden, Graff's great-grandson, born in Baltimore. Before joining the Templars and becoming a Black Cross, Albert was a soldier part of the Harlem Hellfighters who fought in the trenches of World War I. Before going on the front, he sired a daugter with his wife. After the war, Albert became the new Black Cross. Posing as the leading trumpeter in the jazz group Albie Bolden and the Harlem Hotsteppers, he travelled around the world to kill corrupted Templars, eliminate Assassin cells and find pieces of Eden.[1] To protect the Koh-i-Noor, Albert secreted the diamond in a Swiss bank.[2]

Albert Bolden confronting Gift

In February 1927, Albert was sent to London to assassinate the corrupted Grand Master of the British Rite of the Templar Order Thaddeus Gift. Albert killed him and took his Templar ring. In April, Albert arrived in Shanghai, to investigate on the local Templar Rite. During his mission, the General and Templar ally Chiang Kai-shek ordered the massacre of the Chinese communist against the order of the Rite. The Black Cross had to save the actress Ruan Lingyu and Darius Gift, Thaddeus' son, from Flowery Flag, an henchman of Green Gang, a criminal syndicate ally with Chiang. Wounded during the fight, Bolden was shot by Darius who seek revenge for his father's death. Albert fell of a ledge seemling died in the street.[1][1]

Albert survived from his fall and was sent to an hospital to be treated. Bolden decided to not reported his survive to the Order and disappeared. A year later, the British Templar and Instruments of the First Will Rufus Grosvenor met Albert in a opium den. He tried to blackmail the former Black Cross, threatening to reveal to the Order that he is alive if he didn't gave him the Koh-i-Noor. Bolden refused and left China to recover the Koh-i-Noor before reconnected with his family.[2]

File:Spanish photo.jpg
Cardona and Bolden during the Spanish Civil War

In 1937, Bolden found his family killed by Grosvenor and the diamond was stolen. Albert hunted down the Templar and arrived in Spain in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. During his quest, he allied with the Spanish Assassin Ignacio Cardona to take down Grosvenor, who had manipulated Cardona's cell to use the Koh-i-Noor. Bolden and Cardona confronted Grosvenor in a church of a village destroyed by the war. Using the power of the artfact, Cardona made the church collapsed and created an illusion of the diamond explosing while in fact it stayed under the ruins of the church. After Grosvenor's escape, Cardona asked if Bolden will join the Assassins. The former Black Cross refused but said that he will not work for the Templars if they continued to ally with Hitler and Stalin. Bolden also promised to stay in Spain to protect the Koh-i-Noor and to help Cardona to fight the Nationalist Army.[2][2]

Members

Family tree

Solomon Bolden
 
Unknown woman
 
Jan van der Graff
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Two generations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown woman
 
Albert Bolden
 
Unknown woman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown daughter
 
André Bolden
 
Unknown woman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unknown daughter

Appearance

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