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"The human body has its heart. The Earth has its core. All things have a center, whence comes their deepest strength. The Templar Order, too, has its Inner Sanctum. Nine there must be, three times three."
―Alan Rikkin during Simon Hathaway's induction, 2016.[src]

The Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, also known as The Nine[1], is the council of the Order consisting of nine of the best and brightest members of the modern day Templar Order and collectively with the Council of Elders, Guardians and the General of the Cross are the central governance of the entire Templar Order over the Outer Temple, alongside holding the highest positions within Abstergo Industries and the Black Crosses as their enforcer in the Outer Temple.[2]

Structure

Authority

The decisions made by the council of the Inner Sanctum are reviewed by the three Guardians that either approve or refuse further action by the he General of the Cross, being the highest-ranking individual within the hierarchy of the modern day Templar Order.[3] With only Guardians knowing the identity of the General.[2]

The Ritual Garbs

During Simon Hathaway's initiation into the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, he noted that the ritual garb had been made by hand and not machines, ranging from the sheep being hand-sheared and the wool carded, spun and dyed by human labor. This showed the Templar's ritual garbs were much like those worn by Templars across the centuries, which Simon, as a historian, valued and admired due to the Templars putting in effort towards genuine authenticity.[4]

History

Under their leadership of the Outer Temple during the Age of Enlightenment, the Templars had became supportive of the classical liberalism that emerged, in which intellectuals such as Isaac Newton, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, and Francis Bacon represented a new emerging society of science and technology.[5] When François-Thomas Germain, Grand Master de la Serre's former lieutenant,[6] became exiled for espousing ideals from de Molay's controversial work deemed heresy,[2][6][7] and advocated for abolishing the monarchy to create a capitalist society after having discovered Jacques de Molay's Codex Pater Intellectus.[8] Germain successfully petitioned the American, Italian, and Spanish Rites for support and[9] recruited followers.[10][11] initiated a coup and began purging all French Templars opposing him, Chrétien Lafrenière and François' daughter Élise[9] that reformed the Rite to bring about de Molay's proposed changes for society,[8] and with critical support from the Outer Temple,[2] gradually redirected the entire Templar Order to adopt this mindset[9] under the leadership of the Inner Sanctum.[2] The other Rites eventually began sanctioning the de la Serre faction for having been exposed by the Carroll family of the British Rite in their conflicts with Elise for the letters of Haytham Kenway over their views on collaborating with the Assassins to end their war, a view the Carroll`s claimed would have had Haytham executed for treason. These same views were expressed Elise during their conflicts in London.[9]

Known members

Current members

Former members

Behind the scenes

While the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order has only been used in modern day context, the number nine occurs multiple times throughout Templar history: the number of men that Bernard de Clairvaux sent to Solomon's Temple,[14] the number of Levantine Templars that Mentor Al Mualim tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to kill in his Hunt for the Nine,[15] and the number of agents that Jacques de Molay sent out to the world during the persecution of the Templars.[16] It is unknown if these other groups constituted as previous iterations of the Inner Sanctum.

Gallery

  • Juhani Otso Berg accessing the Inner Sanctum office
    Juhani Otso Berg accessing the Inner Sanctum office
  • Laetitia England meeting with Berg
    Laetitia England meeting with Berg
  • Warren Vidic and Laetitia meeting with Berg
    Warren Vidic and Laetitia meeting with Berg
  • A list of the Inner Sanctum members in 2011
    A list of the Inner Sanctum members in 2011

Appearances

References

  1. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Templars – [citation needed]
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide – Chapter 5
  3. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Helix Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Assassin's Creed: Heresy – Chapter 1
  5. ↑ Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia – Chapter 2
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Assassin's Creed: Unity – A Cautious Alliance
  7. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Hoarders
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Temple
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)
  10. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Le Roi Est Mort
  11. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Rise of the Assassin
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.17\Ins_InnerSanctum"
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Uprising – Issue #2
  14. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.02\Hst_Beginning"
  15. ↑ Assassin's Creed – Knowledge (Masun)
  16. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: File.0.06\Hst_VoxInExcelso

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