Board Thread:Assassin's Creed general discussion/@comment-24760042-20150610144015/@comment-80.33.217.33-20170822153700

Crookandcharlatan wrote: 80.33.217.33 wrote: THere is ony one order and one grandmaster. He is called The Regent today because he was not elected but was handed the office by the previou one who happened to be his father. It was done quickly on the death bed of the father during dangerous times during the war when it was not safe to be seen to belong to anything hidden. He is called Fernando de Sousa Fontes and he is the only one who has the official documentation and seal ciphers which can only be passed through to the heir appointed or elected and two of the so called Holders of the Office (Lugar Tenientes) to ensure that the knowledge is not lost. The subject is vast but if anyone wants to know more or dialogue with me in this respect, I will do my best to ensure that many aspects of the modern Order are understood better than they are today. All others who pretend to be heading an Order of Templars, are patently fault and in the main, charlatans and fraudsters seeking to sell trinkets and titles. Very sad.

Michael Mifsud Canilla 1. Don't spread misinformation.

2. Treating the Templar Order like a real-life entity makes you come across as silly. If you want to write a story about this Regent, you are free to do so on the fanon wiki, however.

I worked with the Regent, Fernando de Sousa Fontes, for over twenty years and travelled extensively all over the world meeting key members of the Order and attending investitures. I was primarily responsible for work on the English speaking countries and even created a Secretariet for the purpose. At most of these functions, high civic dignitries of the region attended and during a world council at La Toja in La Coruña, Galicia, we were allowed to organise our investiture at the Cathedral  of Santiago de Compostela with full Mass, Organ music and assistance from the local Church dignitaries. I read the majority of the file information through the previous couple of centuries and I had no doubt whatsoevr that this Order was not only genuine, but protected by the Cistercian Order which had a complete listing and description of all Grandmasters and Regents from the time of Jacque de Molay. The Regent has a collar and signature which ties in with the hidden knowledge and which only he and his closest understand. It demonstrates the continuity of the line of Grand Masters. The rest available in the world today is so plastic and false that it is must be driven by people who want to be called Templars at any cost. Some of these Orders only last a few years and others make so much money out of the sale of amulets and  internal medalry that they can carry on with their circus acts for long enough to establish some sort of public recognition among friends.

Whilst saying this, I have to admit that my level of discipline including a very meticulous study of all aspirants the membership, fell foul of many an infiltrator put in by bad Priors and who undermined just about anyone including the Regent to break the structure down. Most were ex Masons and military figures intent on bringing their extra mural ambitions and authority into the Templar line of command. Many succeeded in destroying years of work and isolating the Regent whose main difficulty was his inability to establish a reliable Grand Council with strong control over all the Priories of the world. Many of these Priories also sought to outshine others and constantly crowded the Regent´s table with one demand after another and always seeking to arrive at the final award called Grand Cross. One such Prior even questioned the use of the Red Sash earned unmistakably by sheer effort on the part of those who wore it claiming that it outshined him. Such alas, was the level of the modern entrants who could not understand the concept of Military Chivalry and whose sole reason for entering was to display privilege, Many of these were very ineffectual leaders and came form a very barren platform that should have excluded them from such unearned  pretensions. The Order is shaken by genuine fighters for meaning throughout the generations and Regents can do little if surrounded by low quality advisors. I would love to know which so called Order or make believe Grand Master presumes to be the head of the genuine outfit, having seen the likes of one called Garland who led thousands astray and did it as he said to me "for money of course"  He was a member of our Order proposed by me and a retired cultural advisor to the Spanish Government and broke away to form his own Order within weeks of being appointed by the Regent as Prior of Spain. His own peculiar outfit which included most of the South American Priories, collapsed within a few years leaving its members unaware that they were a schismatic group and who later sought to return to the fold. Today many international Priories are over a thousand members in number and the future appears to be very promising.