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The Eight Tigers were a powerful group of eunuch administrators that controlled the Chinese Templars and the Chinese imperial court during the reign of the Ming dynasty Zhengde Emperor.[1]

Originaly led by Liu Jin, who wasn't a Templar himself, the group leadership was taken over by Zhong Yang in 1510, when the latter betrayed Liu by denouncing a plot against the Emperor, leading to his execution.

After Zhengde was succeeded by the puppet Jiajing Emperor, the Templars manipulated him into initiating a purge of the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood.[2] After the Assassin survivor Shao Jun returned to China to rebuild her Brotherhood, she began exacting revenge on the Tigers, tracking them one after the other.[1]

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