Board Thread:Assassin's Creed general discussion/@comment-26314858-20150714112803/@comment-5088097-20171109175006

The Wikia Editor wrote:

SupremeAssassin wrote:

Callum Konstantin wrote:

SupremeAssassin wrote:
Only the Egyptians worshipped their kings and queens as deities, the Romans did not do this, though if I recall, the Chinese were also quite literal in their interpretation of deities and proclaimed kingship through divine right aka the Mandate of Heaven. This blows my original interpretation of the phrase out of the water, though not entirely. The Order of the Ancients are precursers to the Knights Templar, while the Hidden Ones are precursers to the Assassins, or rather Hashishin (Assassin - in Arabic). The Father of Understanding can both be literal and symbolic in reference to Julius Casesar and to God (By King Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade). 

Maybe the Templars discovered the real Father of Understanding to be worshipped by the Isus themselves....and thus adopted to worshipping him as well. 

Perhaps, but given the direction that Ubisoft has gone in, this means that the conception of Templars and Assassins are only as old as Ptolemy Egypt, and not as old as say, Adam and Eve. Of course, William says that Assassins and Templars have been at war for thousands of years (44 BC to 2012 AD, that's a big chunk of time, but not as long as you'd think, it's only 2056 years) but admits it could be even longer if you believed the origins of their stories, which he did. 

Technically speaking, both the Assassins and Templars existed in various forms prior to 47 BCE. They still trace their origins back to the time of Adam and Eve in c. 75,000 BCE, it's just that their current forms have existed for a much shorter time.

Oraganizationally, the Assassinis have only existed as far back as Ptolemy Egypt, in technically, the year 44 BC. Now, in likeness or in principle, it's possible they date back even further.