Hailing from eastern Anatolia, Damat Ali Pasha was a well respected Sublime Porte official and servant to Sultan Bayezid II.
But, in his later years, as the Sultan's ambitions for world conquest dwindled, Damat's loyalty all but evaporated, and he came to feel that the Templar philosophy was the only worldview capable of bringing about order and glory in a world where chaos and mediocrity seemed the norm.