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Lieutenants of the Templar Order

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Lieutenant is a rank that is Second-in-Command to the Grand Master of the Templar Order, alongside Master Templars as Templar leaders of Templar Rites.

Authority

Rite Management

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Their Grand Master have the authority of their Rite, that Rite is named after a specific geographic region. A Lieutenant would participate in their meetings with other Rites to discuss the politics of their nation, domestic and global, and conditions of the Order itself. Ensuring their brother Templars that whatever direction their Rite would take, it would benefit the Order, therefor maintained their international relations.

In terms of internal policies, the Lieutenant was also part of Rite meetings to plan the direction of their own nation, were they would discuss their plans with their subordinates. and then Advisors. With the rest being Commanders, Preceptors, Knights, Warriors, Clerics, and finally, the Disciples.

Corruption

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

History

Age of Enlightenment

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

In the 1760s, under the leadership of the Grand Master of the Parisian Rite François de la Serre, François-Thomas Germain was his Lieutenant. As Lieutenant, Germain started getting visions of Great towers of gold, cities shining white as silver, these lead him to discover the vault of Jacques de Molay in the Temple in Paris and found the Codex Pater Intellectus.

Afterwards, Germain came to view the Templar Order as corrupted by wealth and power of the nobility, church and state. first attempted to convince Grand Master de la Serre of <ref name="Temple">

Notable Lieutenants

• 
  François-Thomas Germain
  Parisian Rite(c.1760s - c.1770s)
• 
  Julie de la Serre
  Parisian Rite(c.1770s – 1778)
• 
  Jean Burnel
  Parisian Rite(1789)

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Unity (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)

Behind the Scenes

The term Second-in-Command and Lieutenant is used interchangeably in the Assassin's Creed: Unity novel.