Black Cross

Black Cross was a title bestowed upon the members of a branch within the Templar Order tasked with keeping the Grand Masters of the various Rites in line with the Templar Code and ideals.

Secret inquisitors only answering to the Inner Sanctum's orders, the agents were authorized to use any means necessary, even deadly force, to take down corrupted members of the Order. A Black Cross' secondary mission was to track Pieces of Eden for the Inner Sanctum.

Deadly enforcers acting as an independent morality police force of one man, very few individuals wore the title of Black Cross across the centuries though the Bolden family line counted many among their number.

By 2013, there were no longer any known Black Crosses, with Albert Bolden, presumed dead in 1927, being the last. However, Juhani Otso Berg believed that due to the troubled times the Order was experiencing during his era, it would probably be useful to revive the feared branch and a Black Cross was once again active by 2017.^[1]^[2]

Known Black Crosses

References

Templars

Order of the Ancients

Notable members	Smenkhkare • Amorges • Flavius Metellus • Julius Caesar • Augustus • Arthur Pendragon • Yang Guozhong • An Lushan • Charlemagne • Qabiha • Isaac • Alfred the Great • Fulke

Notable allies and puppets	Darius I • Xerxes I • Alexander the Great • Qin Shi Huang • Ptolemy XIII • Cleopatra • Caligula • Emperor Xuanzong • Al-Mutawakkil • Basil I

Branches	Byzantine Empire • China (Golden Turtles • Yeluohe) • Egypt • England (Wardens of War • Wardens of Relics • Wardens of Faith • Wardens of Law • Wardens of Wealth) • Francia • Greece • Norway • Persia (Order of Hunters • Order of the Storm • Order of Dominion) • Roman Empire

Ranks	Magus \| Ra's Al-Af'a • Tha'abeen \| Grand Maegester • Maegester • Palatinus • Preost • Zealot

Affiliated groups	Achaemenid Empire • Cult of Kosmos (Peloponnesian League • Delian League • Followers of Ares) • Ptolemaic Kingdom • Roman Empire (Gabiniani) • Abbasid Caliphate (Turkic Army) • Martyrs of Agaunum • Snake-Eaters • Anglo-Saxons (House of Wessex) • Franks (Carolingian Empire) • Vikings (Wolf Clan) • Descendants of the Round Table

Other	Assassin-Templar War • Deities (Father of Understanding • Mother of Wisdom • Sacred Voice) • New World Order • Insignia • Order of the Ancients medallion

Templar Order

Notable Templars	Hugues de Payens • Robert de Sablé • Jacques de Molay • Rodrigo Borgia • Tomás de Torquemada • Cesare Borgia • Ahmet • Manuel Palaiologos • Zhang Yong • Nuno Caro • Kimura Yukari • Laureano de Torres y Ayala • Woodes Rogers • Reginald Birch • Haytham Kenway • Charles Lee • Shay Cormac • Madeleine de L'Isle • Élise de la Serre • François-Thomas Germain • William Sleeman • Crawford Starrick • Konstanze von Visler • Albert Bolden • Warren Vidic • Alan Rikkin • Daniel Cross • Juhani Otso Berg

Notable allies and puppets	Richard I of England • Al Mualim • Pope Sixtus IV • Lucrezia Borgia • Sirus Favero • Jiajing Emperor • Ashikaga Yoshiaki • Akechi Mitsuhide • James Cook • Tsar Nicholas II • Adolf Hitler • Joseph Stalin • Margaret Thatcher • George W. Bush

Rites	Algeria • Austria • Byzantine Empire • Canada • Caribbean • China • Egypt • France • Germany • Greece • Italy • Japan • Levant • Libya • Louisiana • Mexico • Mongol Empire • Portugal • Russia • Spain • Sweden • Tunisia • United Kingdom (Lann Fala) • United States

Ranks	Black Cross • General of the Cross • Grand Master • Guardian • Master Templar • Templar leader • Inner Sanctum • Council of Elders

Paramilitary groups	Delta Team • Omega Team • Sigma Team (Abyss Walkers) • Taurus Team • Team Epsilon

Affiliated groups	Crusaders (Knights Hospitalier • Knights Teutonic) • Papal States • House of Borgia (Cento Occhi • Crows • Followers of Romulus) • Spanish Inquisition • Byzantines • Great Ming (Eight Tigers) • Ashikaga shogunate (Shimazu clan • Shinbakufu • Seta River Killers • Sanzoku Ippa) • Colonial empires (Portuguese • Spanish • British • French) • East India Company • Extremists (Cult of Baphomet • Cult of the Supreme Being • Jacobins) • Starrick Industries (Blighters) • Russian Empire (House of Romanov) • Nazi Germany (Wehrmacht) • United States (FBI • CIA • NASA) • Abstergo Industries (Abstergo Entertainment)

Other	Assassin-Templar War • Children of Cain • Eagle Vision • Father of Understanding • New World Order • Initiation • Templar insignia • Templar pin • Templar ring

Assassin's Creed: Templars

Black Cross • Great Wall • Cross of War

Characters

Assassins	Ahkbar \| Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Templars	Juhani Otso Berg • Violet da Costa • Caitlin Gift • Freddy \| Albert Bolden • Coxworth • Ferris • Stirling Fessenden • Darius Gift • Thaddeus Gift • Joffre • Sun Yat-sen • Soong Ching-ling • Tatsumi \| Solomon Bolden • Tavis Olier • Jan van der Graff

Others	André Bolden \| Chiang Kai-shek • Danvers • Yuri Dolinsky • Du Yuesheng • Fiery Crow • Flowery Flag • Henri Melville • Ruan Lingyu • Tsai • Whitwell • Melissa Whitwell • Xu • Zhang Damin \| Selim III • Edmund