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===Founding=== | ===Founding=== | ||
In the the [[United States|Thirteen Colonies]], [[James Wardrop]] main role in the Order was to secure land and wealth, slowly and surely to build up the foundation for the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|Colonial Rite]]<ref name="Wardrop">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Database: James Wardrop]]</ref> After [[Lawrence Washington]] returned as Master Templar,<ref name="LW">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[War Letters|: "Lawrence of America"]]</ref> Wardrop began to build a trade network that ran from the American colonies to the [[Caribbean|West Indies]].<ref name="Wardrop"/> By 1746, Washington had recruited [[Christopher Gist]] while discussing one or a series of companies to double as a communications network and Gist was tasked to expand the network by recruiting [[William Johnson]] into the Order. Johnson, who had been appointed Colonel of the Warriors of the [[Iroquois|Six Nations]], used his relations with the [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] to help the Templars build an infrastructure in the colonies.<ref name="LW2">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[War Letters|: "Front Company"]]</ref> A year later, Lawrence began working with his father-in-law and other prominent businessmen, and created the {{Wiki|Ohio Company}}, opening trade to the interior of the American continent.<ref name="LW-D">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Database: Lawrence Washington]]</ref> Around this period, he hired [[Samuel Smith]] as the treasurer of one his businesses, and the Colonial Templars by extension.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Database: Samuel Smith]]</ref> | In the the [[United States|Thirteen Colonies]], [[James Wardrop]] main role in the Order was to secure land and wealth, slowly and surely to build up the foundation for the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|Colonial Rite]]<ref name="Wardrop">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Database: James Wardrop]]</ref> After [[Lawrence Washington]] returned as Master Templar,<ref name="LW">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[War Letters|: "Lawrence of America"]]</ref> Wardrop began to build a trade network that ran from the American colonies to the [[Caribbean|West Indies]].<ref name="Wardrop"/> By 1746, Washington had recruited [[Christopher Gist]] while discussing one or a series of companies to double as a communications network and Gist was tasked to expand the network by recruiting [[William Johnson]] into the Order. Johnson, who had been appointed Colonel of the Warriors of the [[Iroquois|Six Nations]], used his relations with the [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] to help the Templars build an infrastructure in the colonies.<ref name="LW2">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[War Letters|: "Front Company"]]</ref> A year later, Lawrence began working with his father-in-law and other prominent businessmen, and created the {{Wiki|Ohio Company}}, opening trade to the interior of the American continent.<ref name="LW-D">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Database: Lawrence Washington]]</ref> Around this period, he hired [[Samuel Smith]] as the treasurer of one his businesses, and the Colonial Templars by extension.<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – [[Database: Samuel Smith]]</ref> | ||
In 1750, Lawrence received another letter from Birch, who transferred his agent, [[George Monro]], to the colonies in order to assist him duo the former's lack of progress in discovering Precursor artifacts and sites, as well as the founding of a new [[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – War Letters: "Monro"</ref> | In 1750, Lawrence received another letter from Birch, who transferred his agent, [[George Monro]], to the colonies in order to assist him duo the former's lack of progress in discovering Precursor artifacts and sites, as well as the founding of a new [[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'' – War Letters: "Monro"</ref> | ||
===Authority=== | ===Authority=== | ||
{{Main|Grand Master of the Templar Order}} | {{Main|Grand Master of the Templar Order}} | ||
Revision as of 20:01, 8 October 2024
- Manuel: "I should have been Constantine's successor. I had so many plans."
- Ezio: "Your dream dies with you, Manuel. Your empire is gone."
- Manuel: "Ah, but I am not the only one with this vision, Assassin. The dream of our Order is universal. Ottoman, Byzantine... these are only labels. Costumes and facades. Beneath these trappings, all Templars are part of the same family."
- —Manuel Palaiologos talking to Ezio Auditore about the universality of Templars, 1512.[src]-[m]
A Templar Rite, otherwise known as a Rite of the Templar Order and collectively known as the Outer Temple of the Templar Order, is a regional, usually country-specific branch of the Templars and collectively a separate governing structure from the Inner Sanctum. As the Order spread across the globe, Rites were established in virtually every country. All Rites are led by a single Grand Master or, in the absence of one, a Master Templar.[1]
The regional administration of a Rite mirrors that of its counterpart in the Assassin Order, with Rite leaders being the supreme authority of the branch and overseeing all of the Rite's activities from a main headquarters, while their subodrinates typically operate in an assigned district or administritative division. These subodrinates are directly answerable to the Rite's leader and oversee the Templar facilities in their assigned district to ensure the Order can efficiently maintain control over the local population. Over the centuries, these facilities have varied from towers, dens taken from the Assassins, gang headquarters, and even public and military offices.
Since at least the 17th century, following the creation of the Inner Sanctum and the Council of Elders, the entire collective of Rites became the Outer Temple and were not given access to the complete plans of the Templar Order going forward.[1] With the creation of the Black Cross, their service in the Outer Temple shifted to combating corruption and searching for Pieces of Eden while securing the Inner Sanctum's plans and maintaining the Order's integrity[2] by enforcing the Templar principles within the various Rites' governing structures.[1]
Structure
Founding
In the the Thirteen Colonies, James Wardrop main role in the Order was to secure land and wealth, slowly and surely to build up the foundation for the Colonial Rite[3] After Lawrence Washington returned as Master Templar,[4] Wardrop began to build a trade network that ran from the American colonies to the West Indies.[3] By 1746, Washington had recruited Christopher Gist while discussing one or a series of companies to double as a communications network and Gist was tasked to expand the network by recruiting William Johnson into the Order. Johnson, who had been appointed Colonel of the Warriors of the Six Nations, used his relations with the Kanien'kehá:ka to help the Templars build an infrastructure in the colonies.[5] A year later, Lawrence began working with his father-in-law and other prominent businessmen, and created the Ohio Company, opening trade to the interior of the American continent.[6] Around this period, he hired Samuel Smith as the treasurer of one his businesses, and the Colonial Templars by extension.[7] In 1750, Lawrence received another letter from Birch, who transferred his agent, George Monro, to the colonies in order to assist him duo the former's lack of progress in discovering Precursor artifacts and sites, as well as the founding of a new Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins.[8]
Authority
- Main article: Grand Master of the Templar Order
- Main article: Master Templar
A Grand Master controls a specific geographic region and their Rite is named after it.[1] Under their leadership was the ability to appoint a Lieutenant as their second-in-command.[9][10] Despite holding the highest attainable rank within their Rite, a Grand Master is not all-powerful and is dependent on the support of their fellow Templars and other Rites around the world. Nevertheless, their duties are essential to the proper functioning of the Templar Order as a whole, so Grand Masters may elect to have bodyguards to protect them at all times, as were the cases with Frederick Weatherall for the de la Serre family,[11] and El Tiburón for Laureano de Torres y Ayala.[12] With the Grand Master themselves being the ruling authority for their own Rite's plans, all members required their superior's approval to enact any changes.[13][14][15]
Rite Council
- Guard: "Floyrac, the Council's message was absolute. You're not welcome here."
- Floyrac: "I must speak with the Grand Master."
- —Floyrac and a guard discussing the Council of the Parisian Rite.[src]-[m]
During the end of the Golden Age of the Templar Order,[1][16][17] was the only known Council of a Rite, this Council of the Parisian Rite under the leadership of Grand Master and Sage, Jacques de Molay, were one of his Advisors served. Had in a previous session about Esquieu de Floyrac made an decision to not welcome him in their headquarters, in the Temple in Paris.[18]
Regional
The Templars leadership of a Rite, commonly held important powerful and influential positions over their region, in general being highly educated individuals that were mistrusted for their knowledge or ideals.[1]
Local
During the Renaissance, in the city of Rome, the Roman Rite had established Borgia towers that were fortified and lead by Borgia captains. These areas were taken by the Borgia family for their desirability of the areas and for themselves,[19] lead by twelve captains in total and in the districts of Centro District with Iacopo de Grassi, Pietro da Siena, Valentino da Siena, Belardino da Verona and Domenico da Padova as the five captains of the district. [20] With captain Iacopo de Grassi being the first assassinated by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze after his arrival in 1500.[19]
In the Ottoman Empire, the Byzantine Rite fought over districts in Constantinople and since 1506 had been growing in numbers from being a small faction.[21]
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Known Rites
- Algerian Rite[22]
- American Rite (formerly known as the Colonial Rite)[23]
- Austrian Rite[24]
- British Rite[23]
- Canadian Rite[25]
- Chinese Rite (also known as the Shanghai Rite)[26][27]
- Egyptian Rite[28]
- German Rite[29]
- Greek Rite[22]
- Japanese Rite[30]
- Levantine Rite (also known as the Knights Templar)[31]
- Libyian Rite[22]
- Mexican Rite[32]
- Mongolian Rite[33]
- Parisian Rite[34]
- Portuguese Rite[22]
- Roman Rite[35]
- Russian Rite[36]
- Spanish Rite[37]
- Swedish Rite[38]
- Tunisian Rite[22]
- West Indies Rite (also known as the Caribbean Rite)[39]
Former Rites
Trivia
- Although the Templars' predecessors, the Order of the Ancients, also maintained multiple regional branches, it is unknown if these branches were called Rites or if another term was used.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide - Chapter 5
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Database: James Wardrop
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – : "Lawrence of America"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – : "Front Company"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Database: Lawrence Washington
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Database: Samuel Smith
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – War Letters: "Monro"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel) – 5 October 1789
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – A Cautious Alliance
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III – The Braddock Expedition (memory)
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Mister Walpole, I Presume?
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia - Chapter 2
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files:File.0.02\Hst_Beginning
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Tragedy of Jacques de Molay
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – New Man in Town
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – A Warm Welcome (Revelations)
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Mediterranean Defense
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Assassin's Creed III
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars
- ↑ Assassin's Creed – The Hawk Trilogy
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Memories
- ↑ Assassin's Creed
- ↑ Assassin's Creed comic
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Fall
- ↑ Assassin's Creed film
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods
- ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
