West Indies Rite of the Templar Order

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Edward: "So it's you lot them Templars have been chasing, then?"

Mary: "Until you came along and mucked things up, it was us chasing them. We had them running scared. But they have the upper hand now."

—Edward Kenway and Mary Read discuss the Caribbean Templars, 1716.

The Caribbean Templars were a loose collection of like-minded individuals who swore fealty to the Templar ideals, and operated in the area during the early 18th century.

While not strictly speaking a Rite of the Templar Order, the Caribbean Templars were nonetheless an organized and effective force, led by Laureano de Torres y Ayala, the two-time governor of Havana, Cuba.

History

In 1715 the Order inducted Woodes Rogers, Julien du Casse and Edward Kenway - operating under the guise of Duncan Walpole, an Assassin turncoat - into their ranks and, using the information unwittingly sold to them by Edward, began to strike hard at their Assassin counterparts, led by Ah Tabai.

Shortly after his induction, Du Casse was killed by Kenway, who had previously been exposed as a fraud and was believed dead following the loss of the Spanish Treasure Fleet. As well as this, Edward killed Templar agents Kenneth Abraham, Lucia Márquez, Hilary Flint and Jing Lang, who had been sent by Torres to kill the leaders of the Assassin bureaus across the West Indies. Despite these setbacks however, the Templars continued to grow in power.

Making full use of both the Spanish and Royal Navy, the Templars would strike the Assassins based in Tulum, and elsewhere, whenever they could. Eventually the Assassins, working in partnership with an expiate Edward, who would go on to become a member of their Order, managed to turn the tides. After Laureano de Torres was killed in 1722, and Rogers forced to return to Great Britain, in great debt and weakened in the eyes of his King George I of Great Britain, the group, who had lost most of its members, lost power in the Caribbean.

Members

• Laureano de Torres y Ayala
• Woodes Rogers
• Julien du Casse
• Benjamin Hornigold
• John Cockram
• Josiah Burgess
• Hilary Flint
• Jing Lang
• Kenneth Abraham

• Lucia Márquez
• Alejandro Ortega de Márquez
• Alphonse de Marigot
• Charlie Oliver
• Cuali
• Felicia Moreno
• Renardo Aguilar
• Sylvia Seabrooke
• Vargas

Allies

• Duncan Walpole
• El Tiburón
• Laurens Prins

Reference

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag