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Abstergo Industries is one of the largest multinational corporations in the world. However, as you are already well aware, our company is much more than an ordinary enterprise. In truth, Abstergo is the public face of the modern-day Order of Knights Templar - the true Knights Templar.

The origins of our company are rooted in tradition. Although Abstergo became more openly active at the end of the 20th century, in 1910 the founders designed the Plan, which led to the creation of Abstergo in 1937. But the company, like the Templars of old, operated in the shadows of humanity until it was deemed necessary for us to have a public front.

While Abstergo functions as any other corporation, a small group of employees has been inducted into the Order. These men and women continue our age-old search for knowledge and understanding, in secret. Indeed, using state of the art scientific methods and equipment from Abstergo's near limitless resources allows us to pursue our greatest and noblest ambition: the betterment of humanity.

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Officially, the Order of the Knights Templar was created in 1129, but we have endured, under various appellations, since well before the 12th century. We were there when Cleopatra claimed her birthright, when Alexander the Great forged his empire, and when Xerxes sent his armies to crush the Greeks.

Over the centuries, many illustrious individuals have led our Order, but our most remarkable leaders have always been men of science, such as Sylvester II. Unfortunately, many men were often mistreated and, in Europe at least, branded heretics because of the knowledge they possessed.

When Bernard de Clairvaux came along, he understood our Order needed the Church as an ally. One of our most respected figures in the whole of Christendom, he sent nine trusted men to the Holy Land to search the Temple of Solomon. Upon their return, nine years later, Bernard reinvented our Order.

When Grand Master Hugues de Payens, Bernard created the Latin Rule, gained the support of the Church, and ensured that the Order would be recognized and confirmed during the Council of Troyes of 1129. For the first time in our long history, our Order was made public, but its truest and noblest agenda remained secret.

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Following the Council of Troyes, our Order flourished. For almost two hundred years, we played a critical role across Europe and the Holy Land. During this Golden Age, Templars were everywhere and our influence paved the way to a better future for mankind.

While the common man continued to believe our sole purpose was the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land, our Order had in truth become so powerful that we now had the means to influence kings and popes. Unbeknown to all but a selected few, the war we waged in the Holy Land was in truth neither political nor spiritual. It was a war of secrets, fought against our direst enemies, the Assassins.

Unfortunately, our Golden Age ended almost as abruptly as it had begun.

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Throughout the centuries, several people and factions have opposed us, but one group in particular has been a constant thorn in our side: the Assassin Brotherhood.

Some say we were once brothers. Some even believe that we once shared the same ideals, the same dreams, the same hopes for humanity. That may be true, but if we once had a common purpose with the Assassins, it was long ago. For as long as history can recall, the Assassins have waged a secret war against our Order.

Like the Order of the Knights Templar, the Assassins became public during the Middle Ages. Also like us, the Brotherhood has existed, under one form or another, since perhaps the dawn of humanity and their operations span the entire globe.

Assassins work in small, isolated cells. Nevertheless, throughout the ages, one man, called the Mentor, has led the Brotherhood, but very few Assassins were aware of his existence. In 2000, one of our operatives infiltrated their ranks and killed the Mentor. The Great Purge that followed ensured the destruction of many Assassin cells, and the Brotherhood is now weaker than ever. However, the Great Purge has not eliminated all of them and the Assassins remain dangerous opponents.

They are well-trained, fearless murderers who would go to any length to oppose us. A single, isolated cell still has the means to disrupt our plans. Never forget that the Assassins are devious, sneaky and without scruples.

Never underestimate them.

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See also

• E-mails
• Glyphs
• Rifts

Ezio Auditore's songs were composed while he infiltrated Topkapı Palace as a minstrel to prevent an attempt on Prince Suleiman's life.

On singing

"I'm dressed up like a jester"

"I act the fool and mime"

"All the actions of those I curse"

"And run down all the time"

"I am a tackless minstrel"

"I sing off-key for coins"

"If you spot me in the street"

"Please kick me in the loins"

"No one understands my plight"

"The life of musician"

"Singing for impatient men"

"A terminal condition"

"I can't believe I stand here

"And sing my time away"

"But you who sit and smile at me"

"Sincerely have no taste"

"The things I do to save the world"

"Surprise me time to time"

"Like learning how to play the lute"

"And making these words rhyme"

"A minstrel's song I heard them say"

"Brings maidens by the store"

"But luck deserts me when I play"

"They hasten to the door"

"I sing in Italiano"

"You understand no word"

"But my Greek is non-existent"

"And my Turkish is absurd"

"I will sing in praise of children"

"I will croon in praise of dames"

"I will chant in praise of mighty men"

"When I recall their names"

Life and loves

"While traveling through Forlì"

"I took her at her leisure"

"She said 'It's strictly business'"

"Such business was my pleasure"

"Proud Romagna's iron lady"

"A rose of tempered steel"

"Could raise the ardor of a corpse"

"And teach a stone to feel"

"Oh the beauties of Firenze will melt a heart"

"You'll see"

"Beware the girls of Roma"

"Lest fire you wish to pee"

"Kostantiniyye I beg you"

"Let Byzantium endure"

"Constantine's corpse would turn"

"Had not Istanbul the cure"

"To judge a lady's character"

"Not well her company"

"If you should wish to seem a sage"

"Come spent the night with me"

The Borgias

"Young Cesare I heard him say"

"Could not be killed by man"

"So I tossed him through the air"

"To see where he might land"

"Cesare, Cesare,"

"A man of great depravity"

"He thought himself immortal"

"’till he had a date with gravity"

"Before Rodrigo was the Pope"

"He was a man of vices"

"And once he gained the Holy See"

"He raised his vices' prices"

"Fair Lucrezia

"Could not sate her appetite for lovers"

"But I suspect she would be fine"

"With two or three more brothers"

Other enemies

"Vieri oh Vieri

"Yes he of Pazzi fame"

"Was just as mad as his old man"

"And ended just the same"

"Venezia's grim Doge"

"A fierce and evil man"

"Was just a trifle red of face"

"When I upset his plan"

"There was once a man called Duccio"

"A rat with lecherous taste"

"Whenever he would show himself"

"My fist would find his face"