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The '''Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order''', also known as '''The Nine'''<ref name="ACT">''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]'' – {{Cite|8 June 2021}}</ref>, is the council of the Order consisting of nine of the best and brightest members of the [[Modern times|modern day]] [[Templars|Templar Order]] and collectively with the [[Council of Elders]], [[Guardians (Templars)|Guardians]] and the [[Generals of the Cross|General of the Cross]]
The '''Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order''', also known as '''The Nine''',<ref name="ACT Vol1">''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]'' – ''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars – Volume 1: Black Cross|Volume 1: Black Cross]]''</ref> is a council consisting of nine of the best and brightest members of the [[Modern times|modern day]] [[Templars|Templar Order]]. Alongside the [[Council of Elders]], the [[Guardians (Templars)|Guardians]] and the [[Generals of the Cross|General of the Cross]], it forms the central governing body of the entire Templar Order, holding authority over the [[Templar Rite|Outer Temple]]. Its members typically hold key positions in [[Abstergo Industries]], the Templars' front company, heading different branches of the organization.<ref name="ACEG">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]'' – Chapter 5</ref>
are the central governance of the entire Templar Order over the [[Templar Rite|Outer Temple]], alongside holding the highest positions within [[Abstergo Industries]] and the [[Black Crosses]] as their enforcer in the Outer Temple.<ref name="ACEG">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide]]'' – Chapter 5</ref>


==Structure==
==Structure==
===Authority===
===Authority===
The decisions made by the council of the Inner Sanctum are reviewed by the three [[Guardians (Templars)|Guardians]] that either approve or refuse further action by the he [[Generals of the Cross|General of the Cross]], being the highest-ranking individual within the hierarchy of the [[Modern times|modern day]] [[Templars|Templar Order]].<ref name="ACU Helix Database 10">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo|Helix Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo]]</ref> With only Guardians knowing the identity of the General.<ref name="ACEG"/>
The Inner Sanctum is one of the highest-ranking authorities in the hierarchy of the Templar Order, being answerable only to the Guardians, who review all decisions made by the Inner Sanctum and subsequently pass them on to the General of the Cross for approval.<ref name="ACU Helix Database 10">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo|Helix Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo]]</ref> The General is the supreme head of the Order and their identity is kept secret from the members of the Inner Sanctum.<ref name="ACEG" />
 
At some point before the 19th century, the Inner Sanctum created the position of [[Black Cross]] for the purposes of combating corruption within the Order and locating [[Piece of Eden|Pieces of Eden]]. The Black Cross is answerable only to the Inner Sanctum, essentially acting as its enforcer, and holds the authority to execute any Templar who betrayed the Order's principles, even [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Masters]].<ref name="ACT Vol1" />


==The Ritual Garbs==
==The Ritual Garbs==
During [[Simon Hathaway]]'s initiation into the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, he noted that the ritual garb had been made by hand and not machines, ranging from the [[sheep]] being hand-sheared and the wool carded, spun and dyed by human labor. This showed the Templar's ritual garbs were much like those worn by Templars across the centuries, which Simon, as a historian, valued and admired due to the Templars putting in effort towards genuine authenticity.<ref name="ACH ch1" />
During [[Simon Hathaway]]'s initiation into the Inner Sanctum, he noted that the ritual garb had been made by hand and not machines, ranging from the [[sheep]] being hand-sheared and the wool carded, spun and dyed by human labor. This showed the Templars' ritual garbs were much like those worn by their forebearers over the centuries, which Simon, as a historian, valued and admired due to the Templars putting in effort towards genuine authenticity.<ref name="ACH ch1" />


==History==
==History==
Under the Inner Sanctum's leadership during the [[Age of Enlightenment]], the Templars became supportive of the {{Wiki|classical liberalism}} that emerged, in which intellectuals such as [[Isaac Newton]], [[Baruch Spinoza]], [[John Locke]], and [[Francis Bacon]] represented a new emerging society of science and technology.<ref name="Encyclopedia Ch2">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]'' – Chapter 2</ref>
In the late 18th century, [[François-Thomas Germain]] successfully petitioned the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|American]], [[Roman Rite of the Templar Order|Roman]], and [[Spanish Rite of the Templar Order|Spanish Rites]] for support in overthrowing Grand Master [[François de la Serre]] of the [[Parisian Rite of the Templar Order|Parisian Rite]].<ref name="ACUN">[[Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Unity'' novel]]</ref> He recruited followers for his coup<ref name="Le Roi Est Mort">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Le Roi Est Mort]]</ref><ref name="Rise of the Assassin">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Rise of the Assassin]]</ref> and began purging all Templars opposing him, including [[Chrétien Lafrenière]] and François' daughter [[Élise de la Serre|Élise]].<ref name="ACUN" /> The reformed Rite brought about [[Jacques de Molay]]'s reforms proposed in his ''[[Codex Pater Intellectus]]'', such as abolishing the [[monarchy]] to create a [[Capitalism|capitalist]] society,<ref name="The Temple">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[The Temple]]</ref> and had critical support from the Outer Temple.<ref name="ACEG" /> This gradually redirected the entire Templar Order to adopt this policy,<ref name="ACUN" /> under the leadership of the Inner Sanctum.<ref name="ACEG" />


Under their leadership of the Outer Temple during the [[Age of Enlightenment]], the Templars had became supportive of the {{Wiki|classical liberalism}} that emerged, in which intellectuals such as [[Isaac Newton]], [[Baruch Spinoza]], [[John Locke]], and [[Francis Bacon]] represented a new emerging society of science and technology.<ref name="EncyclopediaCh2">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]'' – Chapter 2</ref> When [[François-Thomas Germain]] successfully petitioned the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|American]], Italian, and [[Spanish Rite of the Templar Order|Spanish Rites]] for support<ref name="ACUN">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)]]''</ref> recruited followers<ref name="Le Roi Est Mort">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Le Roi Est Mort]]</ref><ref name="Rise of the Assassin">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[Rise of the Assassin]]</ref> for his coup and and began purging all French Templars opposing him, including [[Chrétien Lafrenière]] and François' daughter [[Élise de la Serre|Élise]].<ref name="ACUN"/> The reformed Rite brought about de Molay's proposed based [[Jacques de Molay]]'s ''[[Codex Pater Intellectus]]''.<ref name="Temple">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – [[The Temple]]</ref> for abolishing the [[monarchy]] to create a [[Capitalism|capitalist]] society<ref name="Temple"/> and had critical support from the Outer Temple,<ref name="ACEG" /> while the [[Carroll family]] of the British Rite got the other Rites eventually began sanctioning the de la Serre faction over their views on collaborating with the Assassins to end their [[Assassin-Templar War|war]] that same views were expressed by Elise during their conflicts in London. This gradually redirected the entire Templar Order to adopt this policy<ref name="ACUN"/> under the leadership of the Inner Sanctum.<ref name="ACEG"/>  
By the early 19th century, the Inner Sanctum had created the position of Black Cross to act as their secret enforcer and keep the various Rites' Grand Masters in line.<ref name="ACT Vol2">''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]'' – ''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars – Volume 2: Cross of War|Volume 2: Cross of War]]''</ref> Following the latest Black Cross, [[Albert Bolden]]'s, disappearance and presumed death in 1927,<ref name="ACT Vol1" /> the position remained vacant for nearly a century, until the [[Master Templar]] and Inner Sanctum member [[Juhani Otso Berg]] took up the mantle in 2016.<ref name="ACT Vol2" /> This marked the first time a member of the Inner Sanctum became the Black Cross, though because of his investigation of a [[Instruments of the First Will|fifth column]] that had infiltrated the Order, Berg chose to keep his double role secret. He went so far as to have [[André Bolden]] pose as the Black Cross during an Inner Sanctum meeting in March 2017, in order to draw suspicion away from himself.<ref name="ACUp 2">''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 2|Issue #02]]</ref>


==Known members==
==Known members==
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Mitsuko Nakamura.png|Dr. [[Mitsuko Nakamura]]<ref name="ACR"/><br>Research, Director of [[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition|Lineage Research and Acquisition]]
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ACRG Otso Berg.png|[[Juhani Otso Berg]]<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]'' – [[Assassin's Creed: Uprising 2|Issue #2]]</ref><br>Operations, Director of [[Abstergo Medical]]
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==Behind the scenes==
==Behind the scenes==
While the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order has only been used in modern day context, the number nine occurs multiple times throughout Templar history: the number of men that [[Bernard de Clairvaux]] sent to [[Solomon]]'s [[Solomon's Temple|Temple]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]: "File.0.02\Hst_Beginning"</ref> the number of [[Levantine Rite of the Templar Order|Levantine Templars]] that [[Mentor]] [[Al Mualim]] tasked [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] to kill in his [[Hunt for the Nine]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' – [[Knowledge (Masun)]]</ref> and the number of agents that [[Jacques de Molay]] sent out to the world during the [[persecution of the Templars]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' – Abstergo Files: File.0.06\Hst_VoxInExcelso</ref> It is unknown if these other groups constituted as previous iterations of the Inner Sanctum.
While the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order has only been used in modern day context, the number nine occurs multiple times throughout Templar history: the number of men that [[Bernard de Clairvaux]] sent to [[Solomon]]'s [[Solomon's Temple|Temple]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [[Abstergo Files]]: "File.0.02\Hst_Beginning"</ref> the number of [[Levantine Rite of the Templar Order|Levantine Templars]] that [[Al Mualim]] tasked [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] to kill in his [[Hunt for the Nine]],<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' – [[Knowledge (Masun)]]</ref> and the number of agents that [[Jacques de Molay]] sent out to the world during the [[persecution of the Templars]].<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – Abstergo Files: File.0.06\Hst_VoxInExcelso</ref> It is unknown if these other groups constituted as previous iterations of the Inner Sanctum.


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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*''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Templars]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Uprising]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] - [[The Fate of Atlantis]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]] – [[The Fate of Atlantis]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice]]'' {{imo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice]]'' {{imo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot]]'' {{Mo}}


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"The human body has its heart. The Earth has its core. All things have a center, whence comes their deepest strength. The Templar Order, too, has its Inner Sanctum. Nine there must be, three times three."
―Alan Rikkin during Simon Hathaway's induction, 2016.[src]

The Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, also known as The Nine,[1] is a council consisting of nine of the best and brightest members of the modern day Templar Order. Alongside the Council of Elders, the Guardians and the General of the Cross, it forms the central governing body of the entire Templar Order, holding authority over the Outer Temple. Its members typically hold key positions in Abstergo Industries, the Templars' front company, heading different branches of the organization.[2]

Structure

Authority

The Inner Sanctum is one of the highest-ranking authorities in the hierarchy of the Templar Order, being answerable only to the Guardians, who review all decisions made by the Inner Sanctum and subsequently pass them on to the General of the Cross for approval.[3] The General is the supreme head of the Order and their identity is kept secret from the members of the Inner Sanctum.[2]

At some point before the 19th century, the Inner Sanctum created the position of Black Cross for the purposes of combating corruption within the Order and locating Pieces of Eden. The Black Cross is answerable only to the Inner Sanctum, essentially acting as its enforcer, and holds the authority to execute any Templar who betrayed the Order's principles, even Grand Masters.[1]

The Ritual Garbs

During Simon Hathaway's initiation into the Inner Sanctum, he noted that the ritual garb had been made by hand and not machines, ranging from the sheep being hand-sheared and the wool carded, spun and dyed by human labor. This showed the Templars' ritual garbs were much like those worn by their forebearers over the centuries, which Simon, as a historian, valued and admired due to the Templars putting in effort towards genuine authenticity.[4]

History

Under the Inner Sanctum's leadership during the Age of Enlightenment, the Templars became supportive of the classical liberalism that emerged, in which intellectuals such as Isaac Newton, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, and Francis Bacon represented a new emerging society of science and technology.[5]

In the late 18th century, François-Thomas Germain successfully petitioned the American, Roman, and Spanish Rites for support in overthrowing Grand Master François de la Serre of the Parisian Rite.[6] He recruited followers for his coup[7][8] and began purging all Templars opposing him, including Chrétien Lafrenière and François' daughter Élise.[6] The reformed Rite brought about Jacques de Molay's reforms proposed in his Codex Pater Intellectus, such as abolishing the monarchy to create a capitalist society,[9] and had critical support from the Outer Temple.[2] This gradually redirected the entire Templar Order to adopt this policy,[6] under the leadership of the Inner Sanctum.[2]

By the early 19th century, the Inner Sanctum had created the position of Black Cross to act as their secret enforcer and keep the various Rites' Grand Masters in line.[10] Following the latest Black Cross, Albert Bolden's, disappearance and presumed death in 1927,[1] the position remained vacant for nearly a century, until the Master Templar and Inner Sanctum member Juhani Otso Berg took up the mantle in 2016.[10] This marked the first time a member of the Inner Sanctum became the Black Cross, though because of his investigation of a fifth column that had infiltrated the Order, Berg chose to keep his double role secret. He went so far as to have André Bolden pose as the Black Cross during an Inner Sanctum meeting in March 2017, in order to draw suspicion away from himself.[11]

Known members

Current members

Former members

Behind the scenes

While the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order has only been used in modern day context, the number nine occurs multiple times throughout Templar history: the number of men that Bernard de Clairvaux sent to Solomon's Temple,[13] the number of Levantine Templars that Al Mualim tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to kill in his Hunt for the Nine,[14] and the number of agents that Jacques de Molay sent out to the world during the persecution of the Templars.[15] It is unknown if these other groups constituted as previous iterations of the Inner Sanctum.

Gallery

  • Juhani Otso Berg accessing the Inner Sanctum office
    Juhani Otso Berg accessing the Inner Sanctum office
  • Laetitia England meeting with Berg
    Laetitia England meeting with Berg
  • Warren Vidic and Laetitia meeting with Berg
    Warren Vidic and Laetitia meeting with Berg
  • A list of the Inner Sanctum members in 2011
    A list of the Inner Sanctum members in 2011

Appearances

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: Templars – Volume 1: Black Cross
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide – Chapter 5
  3. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Helix Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Assassin's Creed: Heresy – Chapter 1
  5. ↑ Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia – Chapter 2
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Assassin's Creed: Unity novel
  7. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Le Roi Est Mort
  8. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Rise of the Assassin
  9. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Temple
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Assassin's Creed: Templars – Volume 2: Cross of War
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Issue #02
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.17\Ins_InnerSanctum"
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.02\Hst_Beginning"
  14. ↑ Assassin's Creed – Knowledge (Masun)
  15. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: File.0.06\Hst_VoxInExcelso

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