Board Thread:Assassin's Creed general discussion/@comment-26314858-20150714112803/@comment-5088097-20171107152101

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).