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公元1340年,埃及圣殿骑士从当时统治埃及的[[巴赫里王朝]]皇室处窃取了阿赛特节杖,并将这件神器秘密转移到了他们位于[[卡纳克]]的藏身处。<ref name="AC4H" />1341年6月7日,苏丹[[阿尔-纳西尔·穆罕默德]]被圣殿骑士特工[[莱拉]]所杀。不久之后,节杖被刺客[[努马·阿尔卡姆辛]]取回。在莱拉被捕之后,她受了伤,和努马被关在了同一间牢房里。 <ref name="AC5ELC">''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]''</ref>
 
公元1340年,埃及圣殿骑士从当时统治埃及的[[巴赫里王朝]]皇室处窃取了阿赛特节杖,并将这件神器秘密转移到了他们位于[[卡纳克]]的藏身处。<ref name="AC4H" />1341年6月7日,苏丹[[阿尔-纳西尔·穆罕默德]]被圣殿骑士特工[[莱拉]]所杀。不久之后,节杖被刺客[[努马·阿尔卡姆辛]]取回。在莱拉被捕之后,她受了伤,和努马被关在了同一间牢房里。 <ref name="AC5ELC">''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]''</ref>
   
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两人从监狱里逃了出去,但之后圣殿骑士将努马骗进了陷阱里,努马因此被莱拉所杀。莱拉后来从努马的徒弟[[阿里·阿尔格雷布]]那里取回了原来装有阿赛特节杖的安卡状的盒子,在想要转交给埃及的埃米尔的时候才发现盒子里面空无一物。莱拉发现,节杖被藏在了埃德富神庙附近的一口井里,但在试图取回节杖的时候跌入井中,并因此失去了记忆,忘记了自己身为一名圣殿骑士的事实。<ref name="AC6L">''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]''</ref>
The two escaped, though after the Templars lured Numa into a trap, the Assassin was killed by Leila. Retrieving the Ankh-shaped box containing the Scepter from the Assassin's apprentice, [[Ali Al-Ghrabe]], Leila discovered it to be empty upon wanting to give the artifact to the Emirs of Egypt. The Templar agent discovered the Scepter to be hidden in a well near Edfu Temple, but fell while trying to retrieve it, and became amnesiac, having no recollection of her allegiance to the Templars.<ref name="AC6L">''[[Assassin's Creed 6: Leila]]''</ref>
 
   
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数年之后,1348年,一个名为“[[十字兄弟会]]”的圣殿骑士团体去往欧洲各地,为人们提供抵抗{{Wiki|黑死病}}的办法;而他们同时还暗中寻找着先行者神器——[[永生十字架]](安卡,the Ankh)。两年之后,十字兄弟会以及刺客[[卢卡斯·楚尔堡]]一同消失了,再也没有出现过。<ref name="DYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>
Several years later, in 1348, a Templar group called the [[Brothers of the Cross]] travelled through Europe offering protection from the [[Black Death]]; secretly, they were looking for the Ankh, a Precursor artifact. Two years later, the Brothers of the Cross vanished, alongside the Assassin [[Lukas Zurburg]].<ref name="DYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>
 
   
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十四世纪末,苏格兰的圣殿骑士在{{Wiki|Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney|亨利·辛克莱尔}}和[[詹姆斯·冈恩]]的带领下,开始了一场对新世界的探索。探索队伍于1398年6月2日在北美洲登陆。<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>
At the end of the 14th century, the Knights Templar in Scotland started an expedition to the New World, led by Henry Sinclair and [[James Gunn]]. The expedition landed in North America on 2 June 1398.<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>
 
   
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四年之后,圣殿骑士为[[朱棣]]登基继位提供了帮助。圣殿骑士通过自身对于朝廷的影响,成功地让朱棣对中国东部的刺客发动了[[1402年中国刺客大清洗|清洗活动]],导致数千万的百姓死于非命,刺客领袖[[方孝孺]]也因此去世。1424年,从清洗之中幸存下来的刺客[[李彤]]杀死了朱棣。<ref name="DYL" />
Four years later, the Templars played a role in the ascension of the [[Yongle Emperor]]. Using their influence in the Imperial court, they managed to have Yongle initiate a purge of the Assassins in Eastern China, resulting in the deaths of thousands of citizens, including the Assassin leader [[Fang Xiaoru]]. In 1424, the Yongle Emperor was killed by a survivor of the purge, the Assassin [[Li Tong]].<ref name="DYL" />
 
   
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圣殿骑士还参与了英法百年战争。在发现法国的[[让娜·达尔克]]拥有伊甸宝剑之后,圣殿骑士抓住了她,并为了夺得伊甸宝剑而对她处以火刑。<ref name="AC2" />
The Templars also maintained a presence during the Hundred Years' War. After discovering that the French warrior [[Jeanne d'Arc]] was in possession of a Sword of Eden, they orchestrated her capture and burning at the stake in order to obtain the artifact.<ref name="AC2" />
 
   
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在十五世纪中叶,圣殿骑士陷入了一场与[[奥斯曼帝国]]展开的争斗之中。{{Wiki|瓦拉几亚}}大公,圣殿骑士[[“穿刺者”弗拉德三世·德拉库尔斯蒂|“穿刺者”弗拉德]]是这场冲突的中心人物。在1476年12月,弗拉德被奥斯曼刺客领袖[[伊沙克·帕夏]]击败,随后被奥斯曼人杀害。<ref name="ACRV" />
During the middle of the 15th century, the Templars were engaged in a struggle with the [[Ottoman Empire]], with the Templar [[Vlad Tepes|Vlad the Impaler]], the Prince of [[Wallachia]], taking a center role in the conflict. In December 1476, Vlad was defeated by the Ottoman Assassin leader [[Ishak Pasha]], and he was later killed by the Ottomans.<ref name="ACRV" />
 
   
 
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{{Quote|我成为教皇是因为教团给了我'''机会'''。是教团给了我'''权力'''。你觉得我会相信那本信口开河的书里哪怕他妈的一个字吗?圣经里充斥着谎言与迷信,就和过去的一万年里'''其它'''每一本人所创作的宗教文书如出一辙。|1499年,身为教皇亚历山大六世的罗德里格·博吉亚这样说道。|刺客信条II}}
{{Quote|I became Pope because it gave me ACCESS. It gave me POWER. Do you think I believe a single god-damned word of that ridiculous book? It's all lies and superstition. Just like every OTHER religious tract written over the past ten thousand years.|Rodrigo Borgia on his position as Pope Alexander VI, 1499.|Assassin's Creed II}}
 
In 1476, the cardinal [[Rodrigo Borgia]] became Grand Master of the Italian Templars.<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref> However, under his leadership, the Templars lost sight of their true purpose of peace, instead meaning to take control of Italy out of a lust for power and greed; the Templars would later come to refer to this era as the "Dark Age of the Order".<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> With Rodrigo's supervision, the Templars orchestrated several conspiracies to dismantle the power of the Italian city-states,<ref name="AC2" /> the first of which was the successful [[Assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza|assassination]] of Duke [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]] of [[Milan]] on 26 December 1476,<ref name="ACL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''</ref> followed by the execution of the Assassin [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]] and his sons [[Federico Auditore da Firenze|Federico]] and [[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze|Petruccio]] in [[Florence]] three days later.<ref name="AC2" />
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公元1476年,红衣主教[[罗德里格·博吉亚]]成为了意大利圣殿骑士的最高大师。<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref> However, under his leadership, the Templars lost sight of their true purpose of peace, instead meaning to take control of Italy out of a lust for power and greed; the Templars would later come to refer to this era as the "Dark Age of the Order".<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> With Rodrigo's supervision, the Templars orchestrated several conspiracies to dismantle the power of the Italian city-states,<ref name="AC2" /> the first of which was the successful [[Assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza|assassination]] of Duke [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]] of [[Milan]] on 26 December 1476,<ref name="ACL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''</ref> followed by the execution of the Assassin [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]] and his sons [[Federico Auditore da Firenze|Federico]] and [[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze|Petruccio]] in [[Florence]] three days later.<ref name="AC2" />
   
 
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“即便你们胜券在握……我们仍然会东山再起。你知道这是为什么吗?因为圣殿骑士教团脱胎于现实。我们不需要教条。不需要一意孤行的老家伙的指导。我们所需要的只是世界维持原貌。而就是为什么圣殿骑士永远不灭。”
―海瑟姆·肯威对刺客拉通哈给顿谈及圣殿骑士,1781年。[来源]
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圣殿骑士组织(Templar Order),也被称作圣殿骑士团(Order of the Knights Templar),是一个通过力量与控制,致力于保证新世界秩序诞生的秘密组织。在十二世纪到十四世纪早期,圣殿骑士主要以骑士军事组织的形式存在。到了二十世纪中叶,圣殿骑士组织则继阿布斯泰戈工业成立,演化为了一个企业巨头。

在人类历史上,圣殿骑士通过暗中操纵个人与事件,推进他们的计划向目标前进。这些操纵行为在古罗马时期、十字军东征时期、文艺复兴时期与现代尤为突出。他们的所作所为与行动理念时常和他们的死敌刺客的理念相互冲突。

由于双方理念上的差异,圣殿骑士参与到了持续了数个世纪的对抗刺客的隐秘战争之中。而他们敌人的理念则认为人类应当拥有选择的权利,拥有彻底的自由,即便这意味着要接受人类自身时常出现的种种瑕疵与缺点。

历史

古代世界

史前时代

“看呐:该隐之印!”
―克莱·卡茨马雷克在戴斯蒙德·迈尔斯的一次字形解谜时说道,2012年。[来源]

圣殿骑士组织的起源仍旧是个谜;据信圣殿骑士自从人类诞生之初,或是至少在人类宣告自己从第一文明的奴役下独立之时起就已存在。[8]

在公元前75000年前的多峇巨灾之后,亚当夏娃之子该隐谋杀了他的弟弟亚伯,夺走了亚伯手上的伊甸苹果。根据推测,该隐可能是一名圣殿骑士,或者他对于圣殿骑士组织的成立起了很大的推动作用。该隐之印也成为了日后圣殿骑士组织的标志,而最早的那些圣殿骑士自称为“该隐之子”。 [8]

早期历史

“圣殿骑士团正式成立于1129年。但我们猜测,他们早在十二世纪之前就已经借助各种各样的称号存在了。”
阿布斯泰戈档案的一份复印件,2012年。[来源]
ACO Order of the Ancients

上古维序者

圣殿骑士团目前已知的最早的一部分前身成员可以追溯到古埃及。法老斯门卡瑞创立了上古维序者——一个后来成为圣殿骑士团的组织。[1]

至少一个世纪之后,特洛伊战争之中,希腊势力的领导人阿伽门农建立了秩序神教。神教有着和日后圣殿骑士团相似的目标,同样通过命令与秩序追求和平,希望获取第一文明的知识,与此同时还不断追捕继承了先行者血统的那些人。[9]

在公元前五世纪,秩序神教向阿契美尼德王朝的第四代皇帝大流士一世提供了帮助,推翻了帝国的篡位者,登上了波斯帝国的王座。秩序神教还为大流士一世的儿子及继承人薛西斯一世提供协助,镇压了埃及巴比伦地区的起义,并征服了希腊的大片土地。[8] 薛西斯一世于公元前465年被早期刺客大流士所刺杀,是历史记载当中第一个被袖剑所刺杀的人。[10]

伯罗奔尼撒战争

晚期活动

弗拉维乌斯·梅特鲁斯:“我很荣幸能留在这位大人物身边。我的内心激动不已,他的光辉令人心生敬仰。”
尤利乌斯·凯撒:“他是不朽的。那就是你产生这种想法的原因。”
弗拉维乌斯·梅特鲁斯:“他所拥有的一切也是不朽的。”
—公元前48年,弗拉维乌斯·梅特鲁斯与尤利乌斯·凯撒谈论亚历山大与他的手下时如是说道。[来源]

在公元前四世纪,上古维序者将一把伊甸权杖交给了亚历山大大帝。亚历山大使用这把权杖使自己成为了史上最为成功的征服者之一。[8] 此外,他还使用了伊甸三叉戟的力量。[11]凭借着所获得的先行者的知识,亚历山大发现了位于赫拉特的先行者神殿,并在神殿上方建造了赫拉特城堡[12]

然而,他的征服行动使得他成为了刺客兄弟会前身组织的一个目标。巴比伦人伊尔塔尼开始追踪亚历山大,并最终在公元前323年杀死了他。[10] 在亚历山大大帝死后,他和伊甸碎片一起被埋葬在了亚历山大[1]而伊甸三叉戟的三个戟尖则被分别交给了他手下的将军们。[11]

在公元前三世纪,另外一个圣殿骑士的前身组织协助了嬴政。嬴政最终统一了中国,并成为了中国古代第一个大一统王朝——秦朝的皇帝。[8]秦始皇的统治很快变得暴虐无度,而他也因此被中国的早期刺客魏羽所刺杀。[10]

古埃及陷落

“你儿子的死去使得整个组织都臣服于我。甚至连凯撒也不例外。罗马为我所有。上古维序者让我拥有了一个千子帝国,每一个都比前一个要更为强大。”
―公元前47年,弗拉维乌斯·梅特鲁斯这样对巴耶克说道。[来源]

到了公元前49年,上古维序者已经通过背后操纵法老托勒密十三世,驱逐其姐姐及共治法老克娄巴特拉,有效地控制了埃及。为了进一步实现统治埃及及周边地区的野心,上古维序者将目光转向了西瓦绿洲先行者神殿所埋藏的秘密。为此,他们绑架了西瓦的守护者巴耶克以及后者的儿子卡慕。拥有伊甸苹果的上古维序者命令巴耶克打开密室的门。巴耶克却对该做什么这方面毫不知情。在随后的战斗之中,巴耶克失手杀死了自己的儿子。[1]

上古维序者的成员随后遭到了巴耶克及妻子——克娄巴特拉的部下艾雅两人的追踪与猎杀。在公元前48年,巴耶克杀死梅度纳曼之后,上古维序者失去了他们所拥有的那枚伊甸苹果。随着组织成员的不断减少,上古维序者的领袖——罗马殖民地总督弗拉维乌斯·梅特鲁斯着手开始巩固他们对罗马共和国独裁领袖尤利乌斯·凯撒的影响。[1]

巴耶克和艾雅之后协助克娄巴特拉从后者弟弟那里夺回了权力,并帮她和凯撒进行了会面,将罗马争取为埃及的盟友。借此机会,上古维序者将一部分注意力转移到了克娄巴特拉身上,将她培养为上古维序者控制埃及的新的傀儡,并帮助确保凯撒与埃及女王之间盟友关系的安全与稳定。艾雅和巴耶克也打开了进入亚拉山大大帝陵墓的入口,弗拉维乌斯趁机取得了亚历山大的伊甸权杖。弗拉维乌斯还杀死了想要阻止他取得伊甸权杖的阿波罗多洛斯,后者是克娄巴特拉的贴身侍从。[1]

上古维序者重新获得了伊甸权杖与伊甸苹果,又通过凯撒将克娄巴特拉纳入自己的控制之下。弗拉维乌斯和卢修斯·塞普提米乌斯打开了西瓦密室的大门。弗拉维乌斯随后还用伊甸苹果侵蚀了他的领地昔兰尼加的平民百姓的心智,但最后被再次夺得苹果的巴耶克所刺杀。塞普提米乌斯则和凯撒一起回到了罗马,将伊甸权杖交给了上古维序者的其他成员。[1]

在罗马帝国境内的行动

路菲欧:“在你那懦弱的妻子从背后刺杀凯撒之前,他早已建立起一个强大的组织。”
巴耶克:“我们的力量将会在阴影中燃烧下去。”
路菲欧:“而正是我们创造了这些阴影。”
—公元前38年,盖乌斯·尤里乌斯·路菲欧临死前对巴耶克如此说道。[来源]
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艾雅刺死尤利乌斯·凯撒

到公元前44年,尤利乌斯·凯撒已经成为上古维序者的领袖[1]在罗马共和国内散布上古维序者的势力影响。[13]在卢修斯·塞普提米乌斯的影响下,凯撒有意自立为罗马共和国终生独裁官。然而,与巴耶克一同建立了名为“无形者”这一兄弟会组织的艾雅与马库斯·尤尼乌斯·布鲁图斯盖乌斯·卡西乌斯·隆基努斯等四十名罗马议员密谋刺杀凯撒。公元前44年3月15日,艾雅刺杀了塞普提米乌斯,而无形者的成员们随后在庞培剧场里杀死了凯撒。[1]

上古维序者的控制权随后转移到了凯撒养子及继承者奥古斯都手里。公元前38年,随着上古维序者逐渐失去对克娄巴特拉的控制,他们让盖乌斯·尤里乌斯·路菲欧西奈半岛上建立他们的势力影响,以此达成再次控制埃及的目的。路菲欧和他手下的将军们很快就被巴耶克所带领的无形者所刺杀。[1]

公元前32年,罗马共和国的最后一战在屋大维和马库斯·安东尼乌斯与克娄巴特拉双方势力之间爆发。公元前30年,由于手下的部队几乎全军覆没,安东尼乌斯只能选择自杀。为了结束埃及人民所遭受的劫难,艾雅说服克娄巴特拉服毒自杀。埃及随后成为了罗马共和国的省份之一,并且被上古维序者所控制。[14]

在屋大维将罗马共和国转变为罗马帝国之后,上古维序者的势力不断衰弱。他们曾协助了罗马皇帝卡利古拉,对后者产生了很深刻的影响。为了挫败上古维序者的计划,无形者在公元41年刺杀了卡利古拉。[10]

中世纪

亚瑟王治下的英格兰

“遭到妻子、挚友与儿子背叛的亚瑟王死于理想幻灭的绝望之中。【……】【他那】理想主义的观念并不是圣殿骑士团最好的方法。”
―2016年,艾伦·里金评价亚瑟王道。[来源]

在公元六世纪前后,圣殿骑士组织的前身曾在处于中世纪的英格兰活跃过。其中较为著名的一段时间是他们曾在某个时候由传说中的亚瑟王所领导。以亚瑟王为首的圆桌骑士据推测曾拥有圣杯[15]

亚瑟在某个时候拔出了石中剑,获得了这把伊甸宝剑。这把伊甸宝剑后来被称作“王者之剑”(Excalibur)而广为人知。[10]最终,亚瑟遭到了妻子、挚友与儿子的背叛,死在了理想幻灭的绝望之中。[15]

斯堪的纳维亚冲突

形成军事组织

“在我们漫长的历史里有史以来第一次,我们的组织终于昭然天下,但我们最为真实、崇高的目标仍旧是不为人知的秘密。”
―2012年,阿布斯泰戈文件之一的复印件里这样记录道。[来源]
Hugh de Payns

最高大师于格·德·帕扬

公元1118年,法国修士圣伯尔纳铎意识到,圣殿骑士的组织需要拉拢教廷,使教廷成为他们的盟友。他派出他最信任的九个人前往圣城耶路撒冷寻找所罗门圣殿。在那九个人回来之后,圣伯尔纳铎和最高大师于格·德·帕扬一起重建了圣殿骑士组织,并创立了拉丁守则。“圣殿骑士团”这一日后广为人知的名号在公元1129年的特鲁瓦会议上得到了正式的认可与确认。圣殿骑士组织有史以来第一次公开露面,但其真正的目的与意图仍旧是一个秘密。[6]

在第一次十字军东征之中,十字军部队成功地挺进了圣地耶路撒冷。圣殿骑士以及医院骑士团就在这些部队里,协助十字军巩固了自己的阵地,直到萨拉丁顺利地统一绝大部分伊斯兰世界国家。[8]之后,在第三次十字军东征之中,圣殿骑士再次挺进耶路撒冷。在阿卡围城战里,最高大师杰勒德·德·罗德福特被萨拉丁抓获,并遭到了斩首处决,圣殿骑士团大团长一职也因此直到1191年有人继任为止都处于空缺状态。[8]高级圣殿骑士,领主巴西利斯克,到1190年为止,暂且以圣殿骑士团事实上的领导人这一身份代行职务。[16]

第三次十字军东征期间的斗争

“刺客,你并不了解你参与的事情。我放过你,是为了让你可以回到你们大师那里,替我传递一项信息。圣地已经因为他而丢失了。他该趁着还有机会的时候逃跑的。拼死顽抗只会让你们全军覆没。”
―11191年,罗伯特·德·塞布尔对阿泰尔·伊本-拉阿哈德说道。[来源]

公元1191年,罗伯特·德·塞布尔接任最高大师,成为了圣殿骑士团大团长。在他的领导下,来自十字军与撒拉逊双方的八位贵族都秘密地加入了圣殿骑士团。最高大师和这八个人随后与阿尔莫林合作,一起寻找其中一枚伊甸苹果。他们后来发现,这枚苹果位于所罗门圣殿遗迹地下的古代密室里。[17]

Siege of Masyaf Templars

身在马斯亚夫的德·萨布莱与圣殿骑士

为了自己独占这枚苹果,阿尔莫林背叛了圣殿骑士,派阿泰尔·伊本-拉阿哈德、马利克卡达尔·阿-赛义夫三人去取回苹果。与此同时,德·塞布尔也渴望得到这枚苹果,而阿泰尔试图刺杀因此闯入密室的德·塞布尔。阿泰尔失败了,但马利克还是在逃跑的时候把苹果带回了位于马斯亚夫的刺客总部。圣殿骑士随后追赶而来,包围了马斯亚夫。抵达马斯亚夫城堡的圣殿骑士随后被阿泰尔启动的陷阱——倒下的树干所击中,被打败了。[17]

作为回应,阿尔莫林派阿泰尔执行“猎杀九人”的任务。在七月到九月的三个月时间里,阿泰尔前往大马士革阿卡耶路撒冷等地刺杀他的目标。意识到自己安全受到威胁的最高大师派玛丽亚·索普伪装成自己,出席其中一个刺杀目标马吉德·阿丁的葬礼。而德·塞布尔本人则在这个时候为了集结十字军与撒拉逊人一起对抗刺客而前往阿尔苏夫。在中了陷阱之后,阿泰尔在德·塞布尔同英王理查一世争论之时找到了他。理查一世同意让两人为证明彼此的言论而进行决斗。德·塞布尔最后败在了阿泰尔手下,告诉阿泰尔阿尔莫林背叛了刺客。阿泰尔之后刺杀了他的导师阿尔莫林。[17]

第三次十字军东征后的行动

“我们所谓的国王和他的圣殿骑士顾问在伦敦见面呢。我们要去看望他们一下吗?”
―1215年,刺客罗伯特·菲茨沃尔特这样对他的支持者说道。[来源]

除了参与十字军东征之外,圣殿骑士还通过别的方式取得权力地位。英王理查一世的弟弟及继承者约翰,就是一个处在圣殿骑士顾问影响之下的傀儡。刺客罗伯特·菲茨沃尔特举兵反抗约翰,并获得了英国各个男爵的支持。第一次男爵战争于1215年正式爆发。[18]

公元1241年,圣殿骑士团参与了列格尼卡战役,对抗蒙古帝国的军队。蒙古人成功地抓获了一名圣殿骑士,但这个圣殿骑士成功地劝蒙古可汗蒙哥加入了圣殿骑士的组织。蒙哥随后建立了圣殿骑士组织蒙古分册。蒙哥拥有伊甸三叉戟的三个戟尖之一,[19]为了给被刺客所杀的成吉思汗报仇,派自己的兄弟旭烈兀汗前去对刺客复仇,并且将祖父留下的伊甸宝剑交给旭烈兀汗,让他用伊甸宝剑彻底毁灭黎凡特刺客兄弟会。[18]

EgyptAssassin

一个被刺客杀死的圣殿骑士

公元1250年,在一名埃及刺客阿赛特节杖带给起兵反叛的马穆鲁克人时,埃及的圣殿骑士发现了夺取这件神器的机会。然而,他们夺取神器的企图最后失败了。[20]

到了公元1259年8月,蒙哥已经对钓鱼城发动了一次攻势,并杀死了一名宋军的指挥官——他同时也是一名刺客。这个刺客的女儿,张芷随后加入了刺客兄弟会。她潜入了元军大营,并刺杀了可汗及圣殿骑士的领袖。T[19]

到了十三世纪六十年代,弗拉基米尔大公,圣殿骑士盟友,亚历山大·涅夫斯基,通过与蒙古帝国的一部分——金帐汗国结盟,保护了俄罗斯免遭蒙古的征服。然而,他与圣殿骑士之间的联系导致他成为了蒙古刺客的目标,他最后在1263年被内尔古翼所杀。[18]

圣殿骑士团的覆灭

“教皇克雷芒,听我说!不出一年,你就会因自己的罪行在全能的上帝面前得到报应。而你,法王菲利普,因你对圣殿犯下的大恶,给予你再恶毒的惩罚也不过分。我诅咒你!连同到继承你血脉的第十三代后人为止!你会受到诅咒的惩罚!”
―1314年,雅克·德·莫莱诅咒教皇克雷芒五世与法王腓力四世道。[来源]

公元1307年,身为腓力四世内阁成员之一的法国刺客导师纪尧姆·德·诺加雷,动用自己对法国皇室的影响,使得腓力四世与教皇克雷芒五世转而反对圣殿骑士团。圣殿骑士团的成员被冠以异端之名,腓力四世更是下令逮捕骑士团的全体成员。当年10月13日,艾斯奎由·德·弗洛瑞克带领一群刺客伪装成商人,对圣殿骑士位于巴黎圣殿发动了进攻。意识到圣殿骑士团已经大难临头的最高大师雅克·德·莫莱命令他的顾问把他们手上的认知之父圣典伊甸宝剑藏到密室里去。[7]

Tragedy of Jacques de Molay 12

被捕的雅克·德·莫莱

发现两件重要物品被刺客大师托马·德·卡尔内隆窃取的顾问随即开始追赶这名刺客并想要将两件物品夺回。然而,再将两件东西藏在密室里之后,德·莫莱被刺客抓获,顾问也被德·卡尔内隆所杀。最高大师被关押了起来,接受了审判,最后在1314年3月18日与杰佛瑞·德·沙尔尼一起被处以火刑。[7]

在他死前最后一段时间里,德·莫莱意识到,圣殿骑士的组织不能够长久地以公众组织的形式存在下去。他挑选了九个他最信任的人,将他们派往世界各地,交付他们来自古人的知识,让他们在公众的视线之外将圣殿骑士的事业继续下去。[6]

回归地下

“按历史来讲,圣殿骑士两百多年前就在法国被解散了。那么只有一种可能,他们实际上根本没有解散。只不过实际上是转入地下,继续他们恶毒的工作罢了。”
―1477年,马里奥·奥迪托雷对于圣殿骑士这样说道。[来源]

公元1321年,圣殿骑士为了取回阿泰尔·伊本-拉阿哈德的手札,杀死了意大利刺客当中的著名成员但丁·阿利吉耶里,同时也将他们仍旧存在这一事实告知了刺客。这些圣殿骑士雇佣了一群海盗,跟踪后来以多梅尼科·奥迪托雷这个名字出名的刺客前往奥特朗托港口,去取得那本手札。但多梅尼科早已拆散了手札,并将手札各页都藏了起来。到了公元1324年,圣殿骑士已经杀死了多梅尼科·奥迪托雷的父亲、马可·波罗以及其他意大利兄弟会的重要成员。 [10]

AC5EC Numa and Templars 2

在卡纳克与努马战斗的圣殿骑士

公元1340年,埃及圣殿骑士从当时统治埃及的巴赫里王朝皇室处窃取了阿赛特节杖,并将这件神器秘密转移到了他们位于卡纳克的藏身处。[20]1341年6月7日,苏丹阿尔-纳西尔·穆罕默德被圣殿骑士特工莱拉所杀。不久之后,节杖被刺客努马·阿尔卡姆辛取回。在莱拉被捕之后,她受了伤,和努马被关在了同一间牢房里。 [21]

两人从监狱里逃了出去,但之后圣殿骑士将努马骗进了陷阱里,努马因此被莱拉所杀。莱拉后来从努马的徒弟阿里·阿尔格雷布那里取回了原来装有阿赛特节杖的安卡状的盒子,在想要转交给埃及的埃米尔的时候才发现盒子里面空无一物。莱拉发现,节杖被藏在了埃德富神庙附近的一口井里,但在试图取回节杖的时候跌入井中,并因此失去了记忆,忘记了自己身为一名圣殿骑士的事实。[22]

数年之后,1348年,一个名为“十字兄弟会”的圣殿骑士团体去往欧洲各地,为人们提供抵抗黑死病的办法;而他们同时还暗中寻找着先行者神器——永生十字架(安卡,the Ankh)。两年之后,十字兄弟会以及刺客卢卡斯·楚尔堡一同消失了,再也没有出现过。[23]

十四世纪末,苏格兰的圣殿骑士在亨利·辛克莱尔詹姆斯·冈恩的带领下,开始了一场对新世界的探索。探索队伍于1398年6月2日在北美洲登陆。[24]

四年之后,圣殿骑士为朱棣登基继位提供了帮助。圣殿骑士通过自身对于朝廷的影响,成功地让朱棣对中国东部的刺客发动了清洗活动,导致数千万的百姓死于非命,刺客领袖方孝孺也因此去世。1424年,从清洗之中幸存下来的刺客李彤杀死了朱棣。[23]

圣殿骑士还参与了英法百年战争。在发现法国的让娜·达尔克拥有伊甸宝剑之后,圣殿骑士抓住了她,并为了夺得伊甸宝剑而对她处以火刑。[10]

在十五世纪中叶,圣殿骑士陷入了一场与奥斯曼帝国展开的争斗之中。瓦拉几亚大公,圣殿骑士“穿刺者”弗拉德是这场冲突的中心人物。在1476年12月,弗拉德被奥斯曼刺客领袖伊沙克·帕夏击败,随后被奥斯曼人杀害。[6]

文艺复兴

意大利圣殿骑士崛起

“我成为教皇是因为教团给了我机会。是教团给了我权力。你觉得我会相信那本信口开河的书里哪怕他妈的一个字吗?圣经里充斥着谎言与迷信,就和过去的一万年里其它每一本人所创作的宗教文书如出一辙。”
―1499年,身为教皇亚历山大六世的罗德里格·博吉亚这样说道。[来源]

公元1476年,红衣主教罗德里格·博吉亚成为了意大利圣殿骑士的最高大师。[25] However, under his leadership, the Templars lost sight of their true purpose of peace, instead meaning to take control of Italy out of a lust for power and greed; the Templars would later come to refer to this era as the "Dark Age of the Order".[8] With Rodrigo's supervision, the Templars orchestrated several conspiracies to dismantle the power of the Italian city-states,[10] the first of which was the successful assassination of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan on 26 December 1476,[5] followed by the execution of the Assassin Giovanni Auditore da Firenze and his sons Federico and Petruccio in Florence three days later.[10]

BoF 9

与罗德里戈会面的威尼斯圣殿骑士

However, their attempt to kill Lorenzo de' Medici, the leader of Florence, on 26 April 1478 was thwarted by Giovanni's surviving son Ezio, who had taken up his father's Assassin mantle. Rodrigo shifted his attention to Venice instead, where the local Templars conspired to murder the reigning Doge, Giovanni Mocenigo. On 14 September 1485, Mocenigo's advisor, Carlo Grimaldi, poisoned the Doge, despite Ezio's attempt to thwart their plan. The Templars installed Marco Barbarigo as the next Doge, until his demise at Ezio's hands in February of 1486.[10]

In the meantime, in June of 1482, the Templar Cem, brother of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire, was unable to properly use the powers of the Apple of Eden he stole after his father Sultan Mehmet II's death. As he knew the Templars in the west were more knowledgeable on the artifacts, he hid it in the Templar Archive on Cyprus for the western Templars to find.[26]

Rodrigo sent his subordinates to retrieve the artifact from Cyprus on 11 July 1486, acting on information from the pages of Altaïr's Codex. They brought the artifact to Cyprus in 1488, where it was stolen by Ezio and the Italian Assassins.[10] Having lost the Apple, Rodrigo focused on becoming a Papal candidate and bought the votes of his colleagues, desiring the power of the Church for himself.[27] In 1491, Rodrigo unsuccessfully attempted to thwart Christopher Columbus' voyage to the West Indies, wishing to keep North America a Templar secret.[28]

西班牙宗教审判

“Thanks to the Apple of Eden, the known world will be ushered into a new age. One of peace, in which all the warring populations of mankind shall bow in perfect obedience to our one Templar rule.”
―Tomás de Torquemada upon acquiring the Apple of Eden, 1492.[来源]
The Inquisitions Army

带领宗教审判所人员的托尔克马达

By 1491, the Spanish Inquisition, led by a Master Templar, Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada, had begun persecuting and executing members of the Assassin Brotherhood.[29] This caused the Spanish Assassins Raphael Sanchez and Luis de Santángel to employ the aid of the Italian Assassin Ezio Auditore to eliminate the Templar-influenced Inquisitors and disrupt Torquemada's connection to Rodrigo Borgia.[28]

Torquemada discovered that both an Apple of Eden and a Staff of Eden were located in Spain. While Torquemada endeavoured to obtain the Apple, he assigned the Inquisitor Gustavo Ramirez with obtaining the Staff of Eden. Ramirez sought the three pieces that the artifact was broken into, but the Templars' efforts were hindered by the Assassins, including Aguilar de Nerha, Maria, and Ezio Auditore.[30]

In 1492, Torquemada discerned that the Emir of Granada, Muhammad XII, was in possession of the Apple of Eden. To obtain the artifact, he orchestrated the kidnapping of the Emir's son Prince Ahmed. In the process, they also captured the Assassins Aguilar de Nerha, Maria, and their Mentor Benedicto, the latter of whom they executed in the name of the Inquisition.[29]

ACM Apple of Eden Torquemada

手持伊甸苹果的托尔克马达

Torquemada set up a meeting with the Emir in Granada to exchange the Prince for the artifact. The meeting was disrupted by Aguilar and Maria. Maria and Torquamada's henchman Ojeda were killed, and Aguilar wrestled control of the artifact from Torquemada. The Grand Inquisitor failed to reacquire the artifact.[29]

Some time later, Torquemada was confronted by Ezio Auditore inside his palace. The Grand Inquisitor, feigning ignorance of the Templars, managed to escape from the Assassin, who did not pursue him.[28] In 1498, the Assassins finally killed Torquemada.[10]

博吉亚家族倒台

Cesare Borgia:“Forget the Pope, you answer only to me. Roma is the pillar that holds our entire enterprise aloft. She cannot waver. Which means neither can you.”
Octavian de Valois:“What of il Vaticano (The Vatican)?”
Cesare Borgia:“That tired old men's club? Play along for now, but soon we will have no need of them.”
—Cesare Borgia to his generals, 1501.[来源]
IBAL 9

使用伊甸权杖的教皇亚历山大六世

Rodrigo Borgia became Pope Alexander VI on 11 August 1492, gaining access to the Papal Staff, a Staff of Eden, and the vault beneath the Vatican. On 28 December 1499, Rodrigo was confronted and defeated by Ezio at the entrance of the Vatican Vault, and after being spared,[10] instead wished to focus on maintaining the power the Templars wished to establish than conquering new ground.[31]

Despite Rodrigo's wish not take revenge on the Italian Assassins for their attack on Rome, his son Cesare Borgia laid siege to their headquarters of Monteriggioni on 2 December 1500, killing their leader Mario Auditore and taking the Apple of Eden. Cesare swiftly became the de facto leader of the Italian Templars, and their influence spread throughout most of Europe, reaching as far as the courts of King Louis XII of France, King Manuel I of Portugal, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Henry VII of England. While Cesare dedicated his efforts to conquering other regions of Italy as Captain General of the Papal Armies, he placed their headquarters in Rome in charge of his generals Juan Borgia, Octavian de Valois and Micheletto Corella.[31]

Roads lead to 2

带领着圣殿骑士随从的切萨雷·博吉亚

The Assassins, led by Niccolò Machiavelli and Ezio, destroyed the Borgia's influence throughout the country, including the war machines their ally Leonardo da Vinci was forced to create for Cesare. In August 1503, Juan Borgia and Octavian de Valois were killed by Ezio, and Corella's attempt on the life of Pietro Rossi, the lover of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was thwarted. Rodrigo, seeing his son as a threat, attempted to poison him, but was killed by Cesare instead. Without the power of the Church, Cesare's influence severely diminished, and he was captured on orders of Pope Julius II in December 1503.[31]

He escaped from imprisonment in the Castel Sant'Angelo soon afterwards, but was captured again and imprisoned in the Castillo de la Mota near Valencia, Spain. With help from Micheletto Corella, he escaped in 1506. After an attack by Ezio, Machiavelli and Leonardo decimated their forces near Valencia, Cesare betrayed and killed Micheletto. The Grand Master left for Navarre, seeking the support of his brother-in-law King John III.[32] While leading the Navarrese troops at the Siege of Viana in March of 1507 for John, Cesare was killed by Ezio Auditore, officially leaving the Italian Templars leaderless.[31]

拜占庭圣殿骑士归来

“I am tired of all these pointless blood feuds that pit father against son, brother against brother. To achieve true peace, mankind must think and move as one body, with one master mind. The secrets in the Grand Temple will give us just that. And Altaïr will lead us there.”
―Prince Ahmet about his Templar goals, 1512.[来源]

In 1509, an earthquake struck Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire. In the wake of its destruction and the absence of Sultan Bayezid II, who was fighting with his son Selim over his succession, the Templars made their return to the city under the banner of the Byzantine Empire. Initially led by Manuel Palaiologos, their cause managed to gain various sympathizers who were disillusioned with the Ottomans. The Sultan's own son, Prince Ahmet,[6] whose uncle Cem was a Templar,[26] was among those tired by the division among men, and his sense of leadership and charisma allowed him to slip to the position of Grand Master of the Byzantine Templars.[8]

TAG 1

塔里克·巴列蒂进行交易的沙阿库卢与曼努埃尔

Circa 1511, the Templars found the journal of Niccolò Polo, The Secret Crusade, and discovered the existence of the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. While he would attend to matters in the empire, Ahmet placed Manuel in charge of an expedition to find the keys, five Memory Seals, needed to unlock the library in Masyaf, where Ahmet believed was the knowledge leading to the Grand Temple.[6]

Ahmet's confidante Hasan Pasha managed to find one underneath Topkapı Palace,[26] though their attempts to obtain the Memory Seals from the Yerebatan Cistern and Forum of the Ox were thwarted by Ezio Auditore, who had journeyed to the empire with the same goal of unlocking the library. In the process, Ezio thwarted the Templars' attempt to abduct Prince Suleiman, who would then be "rescued" by Ahmet, and killed Manuel Palaiologos and his right-hand Shahkulu at the Byzantine Templar headquarters in the underground city of Derinkuyu.[6]

Escape 1

艾哈迈德在德林库尤威胁埃齐奥

After Ahmet ordered his Templars to abduct Ezio's romantic interest Sofia Sartor, during which the Ottoman Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim was killed, Ahmet offered to exchange Sofia for the five Masyaf keys, which Ezio had gathered. He obtained the keys from Ezio, and left Constantinople for Masyaf, with Ezio and Sofia in pursuit.[6]

Ezio and Ahmet fell off a cliff during their altercation, only to be saved by Ezio's parachute, and the prince was confronted by his brother Selim, returning from his victory over their father. To prevent his brother from laying claim to the Ottoman throne, Selim threw him off a nearby cliff, and the Templar leader plunged to his death, effectively dismantling the Templar presence in the empire.[6]

英国都铎王朝时期的行动

“Margaret of York has died a "peaceful" death. Outside the Brotherhood, King Henry alone knows of our involvement. We will let him believe our services were bought with royal coin, but, in truth, we have dealt a major blow to the Templar scheme in England.”
―An Assassin surrounding their attempts against Yorkist Templars, 1503.[来源]

Since the late 15th century, the Templars aimed to wrestle control over England from King Henry VII, by attempting to reinstate the House of York as the royal family. In 1487, they instigated a rebellion to install their puppet Lambert Simnel as the new king, though King Henry stopped their attempt. In 1490, the Templars started a second attempt through a rebellion in the name of Perkin Warbeck, though he was captured in 1497 and hanged in 1499.[33]

Their co-conspirator, Margaret of York, was killed in 1503 by the Assassins as part of their alliance with King Henry. The Templars caused public unrest in retaliation. Eventually, the rebellion was stopped by the Assassins, and the Templars that were part of King Henry's secret Star Chamber were also eliminated.[33]

By the mid-1550s, the Templars managed to regain control over England through King Henry VII's granddaughter, Queen Mary I. Their victory was short-lived, as Mary was killed by the Assassins in 1558, and succeeded by their ally Queen Elizabeth I, who led England into a golden age using an Apple of Eden.[10]

西班牙美洲征服

“Brother. I have succeeded in my task. Captain Pizarro will give us everything we have asked. I pray by the time you read these words you will have succeeded in yours and Manco will be dead.”
―One of Pizarro's conspirators writing to Tuti Cusi, 1536.[来源]

Since at least 1503, after the discovery of the Americas by European explorers, the Templars sought to spread their influence to the New World. The Assassins, in return, sought to equally represent themselves there.[33] By the early 1500s, both groups had managed to establish presences in the New World through both old and newly recruited members.[23]

DeLeónStruck

庞塞·德·莱昂被毒箭击中

By 1510, the Templars were manipulating the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León to work towards the Order's plans. To this end, in 1521, Ponce de León sought to discover the Fountain of Youth, a Piece of Eden. As the conquistador was close to discovering its location in Florida, he was stopped by Miguel Ramón Carlo de Lugo, a member of the local Assassin Brotherhood, and fired upon with poison arrows. Ponce de León later succumbed to his injuries.[23]

The Templars similarly influenced the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, who subdued the Incan Empire.[10] In 1536, Pizarro started a conspiracy to assassinate Manco Inca Yupanqui, Emperor of the Neo Incan Empire. However, before Pizarro's Incan ally Tuti Cusi could enact the plan, the conspiracy was unravelled and disrupted by the Incan chasqui Quila and the Assassin Gonzalo Pardo.[34] In 1541, Pizarro himself was killed by the Assassins.[10]

八虎之治

“China is just a piece of the prize. We will rule the world, and the box you so kindly presented us, will be yet another tool to achieve a time of peace.”
―Zhang Yong to Shao Jun during their final confrontation, 1532.[来源]

During the early 16th century, Zhang Yong, a member of the Eight Tigers, a group of powerful Chinese eunuchs in the court of the Zhengde Emperor, was recruited into the Templar Order. In 1510, the Eight Tigers' leader Liu Jin was accused of conspiring against the emperor, and Zhang Yong succeeded him following his execution. After the Emperor died heirless on 20 April 1521, the country was momentarily left in a state of chaos. During the search for a successor, the Eight Tigers used their influence to install their puppet Jiajing, Zhengde's nephew. In 1524, the Tigers used their new influence to initiate the Great Rites Controversy, a purge which led to the extermination of their enemies including the Assassins. They installed Yan Song as the public face of their administration, while they maintained their control and hunted for Precursor artifacts.[35]

ACCC Zhang Yong box

手持着先行者之盒,站在王阳明尸体旁的张永

In 1526, the Assassins' leader Wang Yangming and his former student Shao Jun returned to China following their Brotherhood's decimation. After Jun allowed herself to be captured by the Tigers, they came to acquire the Precursor box from her. Over the course of the next few years, the Assassins hunted down the Eight Tigers, though Zhang Yong and Qiu Ju eventually counter-acted their enemies' attacks, resulting in the death of Wang Yangming and the near-capture of Shao Jun.[35]

By 1532, Zhang Yong was the only surviving Tiger and, in a final act of defiance against Shao Jun, planned to let the Mongol army of the Altan Khan through the gates of the Great Wall into China. The Assassin thwarted his plan, and killed the Templar on top of the Great Wall, decimating the Templars' hold over China.[35]

扩张到日本

“These converts are our foothold in this country.”
―The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano about the Templars' influence in Japan.[来源]

After suffering multiple defeats at the hands of the Assassins during the first half of the 16th century, the Templars searched for new areas to expand their influence. Circa 1549, the Jesuit Francis Xavier turned his attention to Japan, seeing an opportunity to spread both Christianity and the Templar ideology. Landing in Japan in the middle of the Warring States era, the Templars struggled to gain a strong footing in the country, resolving instead to utilize the few native sympathizers they could find. After hearing of the Templars' presence in Japan, the Assassins quickly followed suit, finding allies among the ninja clans.[18]

ACM Chiyome 2

望月千代女与她麾下的女忍

One of the Japanese Templars, the warlord Uesugi Kenshin, fought various battles with his rival Takeda Shingen, the owner of a Sword of Eden. Their rivalry ended when Shingen was assassinated in 1573 by the Tokugawa and the Assassins, and Kenshin himself was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō in 1578. The Italian Templar and Jesuit Alessandro Valignano meanwhile maintained a presence in the country, continuing to gain converts and Templar recruits. He forced Francisco Cabral to resign his post as Superior of the Jesuit Mission when the latter found out about Valignano's Templar activities.[18]

By the 1590s, the Templars had managed to recruit the kunoichi Mochizuki Chiyome, Shingen's spymaster, gaining a vast information network that helped spread their philosophy throughout Japan. However, she was also killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō, shortly before his own death in 1596 at the hand of Fūma Kotarō.[18]

帝国主义时代

塞勒姆女巫审判案

Parris:“Reverend? What harm do you wish to inflict? The people here will not condone–”
Stoughton:“The people? The people? Why, an excellent notion, Master Parris. Why endanger Templar blood when we have so many here that would see killing him as God's work?”
―Samuel Parris and William Stoughton surrounding their pursuit of Thomas Stoddard, 1692.[来源]

By 1692, word had reached Templars in the American colonies that some girls in the Puritan town of Salem were exhibiting strange behaviour. Upon investigation, the Templars believed their afflictions to be caused by a Piece of Eden. In order to control the town's Puritan citizens, Templars William Stoughton and Samuel Parris started the Salem witch trials in order to find clues leading to the artifact's location.[36]

The Templars imprisoned the young girls and boys they believed might lead them to the Piece of Eden, though eventually they faced opposition from a local member of the Assassin Brotherhood, Jennifer Querry, and the British Assassin Thomas Stoddard. To stop their interference, the Templars rallied the townspeople against the Assassins, claiming them to be the servants of the Devil.[36]

After allowing them to escape, the Templars witnessed that the girl Dorothy Osborne had some connection to the Isu Consus and recaptured the group. Stoughton intended to kill Stoddard and Querry in Salem, which led Osborne to kill herself to stop the altercation. Parris subsequently shot Stoughton to stop him from causing more bloodshed in the town, believing their actions to be against the ideals of the Order.[36]

寻找观测所

“For two decades now I have endeavored to locate this Observatory... a place rumoured to contain a tool of incredible utillity and power. [...] With this device, there would be no secrets among men. No lies. No trickery. Only justice. Pure justice.”
―Laureano de Torres y Ayala to his fellow Templars, 1715.[来源]

During the later part of the 17th century, the Templar Counsel had entrusted Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Templar Order in the West Indies, with finding the Observatory, an ancient First Civilization complex with the power of monitoring the life of any individual. By 1673, Torres had managed to determine that the complex was linked to "Sages" – humans born with the genetic code and memories of Aita, the Observatory's architect. That year, Torres encountered a Sage known as Thom Kavanagh among Peter Beckford's employees, though the man was abducted by the Assassin leader Bahlam and kept out of the Templars' reach.[37]

A Man They Call The Sage 5

圣殿骑士与被抓住的圣者

By 1715, word had reached Torres that another Sage had been sighted in the West Indies. To further his goals, he began recruiting new members for the West Indies Rite, including pirate hunter Woodes Rogers, smuggler Julien du Casse, and Duncan Walpole, a British Assassin who intended to switch sides. Unbeknownst to Torres, the pirate Edward Kenway had killed Walpole and impersonated him at the new member's induction into the Order. Soon after, the captured Sage Bartholomew Roberts arrived in Havana, and the Templars kept him out of Assassin hands. Kenway's treachery was soon revealed after he was caught trying to break Roberts out of imprisonment, though the Sage had already escaped by his own means.[37]

The Templars continued to locate the Sage while meanwhile opposing the various Assassin bureaus spread throughout the West Indies. Many of the members of the Rite, including du Casse, were killed by Kenway, who had begun a reluctant alliance with the Assassins. Torres meanwhile managed to locate Roberts in the employ of the slaver Laurens Prins, though Roberts again fled before he could be find by the Templars or Kenway.[37]

Ever a Splinter 8

在Animus回廊里见证的最高大师托勒斯之死

After another failed attempt to capture Roberts on the African island of Príncipe, the Order's numbers were culled more by Kenway. Eventually, the Templars deduced Roberts had returned to Príncipe, which Rogers divulged to Kenway when the latter attempted to kill him. To set the Templars back, Kenway killed the Sage and destroyed his body, preventing access to the Observatory. Nonetheless, Torres managed to access the Precursor site with the use of brute force, triggering the site's defense mechanisms. In the ensuing chaos, the Grand Master was killed by Kenway, putting a temporary end to their search for Sages.[37]

北美行动

“It could contain certain knowledge. Perhaps a weapon. Or something as yet unknown, unfathomable in its construction and purpose. It could be any of these things. Or none of them. [...] But of one thing I am certain: whatever waits behind those doors shall prove a great boon to us all.”
―Grand Master Reginald Birch of the British Rite talking about the Grand Temple, 1754.[来源]
A Deadly Performance 13

在总部里的英国圣殿骑士

By the 1730s, Grand Master Reginald Birch of the British Templars, the assistant of Edward Kenway, chose to preoccupy himself with finding First Civilization artifacts from across the world.[24] In so doing, he orchestrated Kenway's murder to retrieve his journal, from which he learned of the Grand Temple, located in the New World. He also took Kenway's son Haytham under his wing to teach him in the Templar ways.[38]

Birch employed Master Templar Lawrence Washington with operations in the New World, and started reaching out to Rites across the world for aid in procuring leads and artifacts. To the same extent, he sent John Harrison across the globe. The Templars' search failed to find any Precursor sites in the Orient and Lisbon, though they recruited William Johnson of the East India Company, the Spanish scientist Antonio de Ulloa and the Louisianan noblewoman Madeleine de L'Isle in the process, the latter of which was soon tasked with finding Precursor artifacts in Chichen Itza in Yucatán.[24]

In November 1751, Washington stole the Precursor box and manuscript from François Mackandal, Mentor of the Haitian Assassins. The Templars in North America soon faced opposition from the Colonial Assassins, as Shay Cormac assassinated Washington, Samuel Smith and James Wardrop to retrieve the artifacts.[24] Around the same time, Haytham Kenway retrieved the Grand Temple's key and was sent to Boston by Birch, where he established the Colonial Rite of the Templar Order. After Haytham killed his old rival Templar Edward Braddock in 1755, he was led to the Grand Temple by his ally Kaniehtí:io, but after realizing the key could not open its door, believed that it was not the Grand Temple's location.[39]

Non Nobis Domine 17

重伤导师阿基里斯·达文波特的海瑟姆·肯威

The next year, Shay Cormac allied himself with the Templars to stop the Assassins from triggering more earthquakes like the ones caused by the Port-au-Prince and Lisbon Temples, resulting in a conflict heavily intertwined with the Seven Years' War.[24] In October 1757, Haytham and his sister Jennifer, whom Birch had sold into slavery, killed the British Grand Master in retaliation for their father's murder.[38]

In the colonies, Shay initiated a hunt for his former Brothers alongside Haytham, resulting in the deaths of the most prominent members of the Assassins in the colonies. Their quest culminated in a confrontation at a Precursor site in the Arctic, where the Mentor Achilles Davenport had travelled in hopes of obtaining a Piece of Eden. Achilles was left crippled by Haytham,[24] and by 1763, the Colonial Assassins were decimated.[39]

Reconciliation 1

艾芙琳加入圣殿骑士的“仪式”

Meanwhile, the Templars under Madeleine de L'Isle had set up a working colony in Chichen Itza, and ensured the installation of their puppet Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie as Governor of Louisiana. The Mentor Agaté, Mackandal's former pupil, employed Madeleine's stepdaughter and Assassin Aveline de Grandpré with his assassination in 1765, and the next year with the murder of Baptiste, Agaté's former Brother and a Templar ally. In 1769 Aveline disrupted the Chichen Itza colony's operations by killing Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer, and visited the colony again in 1772, recovering two havels of a Prophecy Disk ahead of the Templars. In 1777, Madeleine was forced to reveal her Templar identity to her stepdaughter, who then pretended to join the Templars in order only to kill her during the feigned initiation.[40]

美国革命

Ratonhnhaké:ton:“Freedom IS peace.”
Haytham Kenway:“Oh, no. It's an invitation to chaos. Only look at this little revolution your friends have started. I have stood before the Continental Congress and listened to them stamp and shout. All in the name of liberty. But it is just noise.”
―Ratonhnhaké:ton and his father Haytham Kenway, 1778.[来源]
ACIII-TriptoBoston 12

引发波士顿大屠杀的查尔斯·李

At the onset of the American Revolution, the Colonial Rite of Templars saw an opportunity to create a Templar nation independent of the British Empire in the Thirteen Colonies. During the culmination of several fights between Boston natives and British soldiers on 5 March 1770, Haytham Kenway orchestrated a violent provocation by having his right-hand Charles Lee fire a shot, resulting in the Boston Massacre. This was the first time the Colonial Templars again faced opposition from the Colonial Assassin Brotherhood, when the exiled Mentor Achilles Davenport's protegé Ratonhnhaké:ton, the son of Haytham and Kaniehtí:io, unsuccessfully attempted to stop the Templars' scheme.[39]

On 16 December 1773, the Colonial Templars' financial operations were disrupted when Ratonhnhaké:ton and members of the Sons of Liberty movement dumped William Johnson's tea from the East India Company into the Boston harbor. Johnson was subsequently killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in 1774 when trying to buy land from the Iroquois Confederacy. As the revolution began to formally erupt, the Templars sought to install Lee as the Commander of the Continental Army; however, Lawrence Washington's brother George was instead chosen at the Second Continental Congress. When the first battles of the American Revolutionary War were fought, the Templars were again struck a major blow when John Pitcairn, a British marine officer, was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.[39]

ACIII-Laststand 18

死在了儿子手上的海瑟姆

After discovering Ratonhnhaké:ton was his son, Haytham Kenway chose to join forces with him in 1778 to find and kill the Templar turncoat Benjamin Church,[39] to Lee's dissatisfaction.[38] Their alliance ended when Haytham revealed that Washington was behind the Ratonhnhaké:ton's village in 1760, as his son believed that he had known the information for far longer. Haytham then returned to his residence at the Templars' headquarters in Fort George, New York, which was in 1781 besieged by Ratonhnhaké:ton with aid from the French Navy.[39] Seeking to protect Lee, Haytham entrusted him with the Grand Temple's key and stayed behind and fend off his son's attack. Despite his hopes of reconciliation,[38] Haytham was killed in the ensuing battle with his son, and Lee became the next Grand Master.[39]

While speaking at Haytham's funeral, the procession was disrupted by Ratonhnhaké:ton, seeking a confrontation with Lee. Lee had the Assassin captured, and after the Grand Master left, Ratonhnhaké:ton eliminated out his captors. Afraid the Assassin might take his life, Lee attempted to flee the country, but Ratonhnhaké:ton tracked him down to the Boston harbor. After their confrontation left them both heavily wounded, Lee fled to a tavern in Monmouth, where he shared one final moment with Ratonhnhaké:ton and perished at his hand,[39] leaving Shay Cormac as the last member of the Colonial Rite.[24]

法国革命

“For centuries we've focused our attentions on the trappings of power: the titles of nobility, the offices of Church and State. [...] When our brother Templars see the old institutions crumble, they will adapt. They will retreat to the shadows and we will, at last, be the Secret Masters we were meant to be.”
―François-Thomas Germain about the Templar Order, 1794.[来源]

By the late 18th century, the Templars in Paris, under the leadership of François de la Serre, had built up a steady relationship with King Louis XVI and the Assassins under the leadership of the comte de Mirabeau. A member of the order, the Sage François-Thomas Germain, began suffering from strange visions of the time of the First Civilization, and later found the Codex Pater Intellectus in Jacques de Molay's vault. Feeling a connection to de Molay through their Sage genetics, Germain was inspired to reshape the Templar Order in his vision, by removing the power of the aristocracy and the church and distributing it to the middle class, but was cast out by de la Serre for his radical ideas circa 1778.[7]

High Society 12

奄奄一息的弗朗索瓦·德·拉塞尔与躲在暗处的袭击者

Germain secretly managed to gain the support of other members of the Order, and orchestrated the Grand Master's assassination at the Palace of Versailles on 5 May 1789. Now effectively the new Grand Master, Germain continued to face opposition from the conservative Templars Chrétien Lafrenière and the former Grand Master's daughter, Élise de la Serre.[7]

Germain was imprisoned within his own workshop by Lafrenière, where he was rescued by the unwitting Assassin Arno Dorian, seeking revenge for the murder of his adoptive father, the old Grand Master. Germain convinced Arno that Lafrenière was the perpetrator, and Lafrenière's subsequent death destroyed much of the opposition.[7]

Per Germain's plan, the French population began to rise up, fueled by inflation of grain prices by Marie Lévesque. Eventually, the Templar Louis-Michel le Peletier cast the final vote that condemned King Louis to death at the National Convention. On 21 January 1793, the Grand Master attended the King's execution by guillotine at the Place de la Révolution, and later entrusted control of the new French Republic to the Templar Maximilien de Robespierre, a leading figure in the radical Jacobin Club. Robespierre proceeded to enforce Templar rule through the Reign of Terror, resulting in the execution by guillotine or imprisonment of thousands of citizens.[7]

ACU The Temple 3

使用神殿里伊甸宝剑的最高大师日耳曼

At the Festival of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794, held by Robespierre, Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre managed to turn public opinion against Robespierre, and Germain abandoned him. After escaping from the National Guard on 27 July, Robespierre fled to his Jacobin supporters, but was forced to give the location of the Templar headquarters at the Temple.[7]

Arno and Élise infiltrated the Temple, where they confronted Germain in Jacques de Molay's vault. Managing a final stand utilizing de Molay's Sword of Eden, Germain killed Élise, but in turn lost his life at the hands of Arno, leaving the French Templars leaderless. Nonetheless, Germain was convinced that his Templar brothers would embrace his vision for the Order.[7]

近现代

寻找光之山

“The man is a fool. Our adversaries will assuredly arrive soon and take his head, and the Koh-i-Noor. We cannot allow that to happen.”
―Tavis Olier to Jan van der Graff about Sultan Selim III, 1808.[来源]

At some point around the early 19th century, the Black Cross Tavis Olier was sent to investigate and retrieve the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a powerful Piece of Eden, from Sultan Selim III in Tripoli. He was captured and imprisoned, after which the next Black Cross Solomon Bolden was sent to Tripoli in 1805 to save Olier and acquire the artifact.[41]

ACT Akhbar Koh-i-Noor

面对雄鹰的范·德·格拉夫

En route to Tripoli, Bolden became acquinted and allied himself with Jan van der Graff, secretly an agent of Emperor Napoleon. Van der Graff agreed to help Bolden enter the palace, but the two were caught and the Black Cross were executed. Van der Graff shared a cell with Olier, who trained the former for three years in the ways of the Black Cross and the Templar Order.[41]

In 1808, Olier sacrificed himself to allow Van der Graff's escape. Van der Graff witnessed how Selim's assistant Ahkbar, secretly an Assassin, poisoned the Sultan and stole the artifact. Van der Graff killed the Assassin, and when more members of the Brotherhood showed up, pretended to hand over the artifact. In reality, he escaped with the artifact, intending to keep it safe as the new Black Cross.[41]

统治下加拿大

“Our historic assembly will be held on Saint John's Day— a date the Oppressors value so much! How ironic.”
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, about Duvernay's soirée, 1834.[来源]

During the early 19th century, British Templars operated as the Château Clique, a group of wealthy families in Lower Canada, which held control over the administration of Quebec. In response, the Assassins, fighting for French Canadian independence from the Templars' oppression, financed the journalist Ludger Duvernay in 1832 to write several articles accusing the administration of serving the Clique.[23]

The Templars had Duvernay arrested, and hired vagrants and laborers to mob the jail in protest of the journalist's writings. The Assassins managed to turn the populace against the Templars, likely with the usage of an Apple of Eden. The Brotherhood secured Duvernay's release, and in 1834, he founded the Société Aide-toi et le ciel t'aidera.[23] On 24 June of that year, Duvernay held a soirée for the society to stand up against the "Oppressors", which the Templars attempted to disrupt.[33]

征服印度

“You're one of a kind. Benevolent, they say. All castes and creeds under one roof. You haven't even the temper to order the death of one lowly thief. It takes more nerve than that to bring the world to order.”
―General Francis Cotton to Maharaja Ranjit Singh, 1839.[来源]

By 1839, the British Templars had turned their attention towards India, hoping to gain control of the region through Great Britain's conquests. In 1839, the Sikh Empire remained the last bastion of resistance to the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent. Seeing an opportunity to take control of India under the banner of the British banner, the Templars focused on removing Maharaja Ranjit Singh from power,[8] and taking the Koh-i-Noor, a powerful Piece of Eden, from his possession.[42]

ACBM Singh Cotton

在茶里下毒后面对辛格的科顿

On 27 June 1839, William Hay Macnaghten and his companion, General Francis Cotton, a Templar, attended a feast at the Maharaja's summer palace, secretly intending to poison him in order to weaken the Sikh Empire's power. During their meeting with the Maharaja that evening, Cotton poisoned his tea, which would later kill him, but faced opposition from the Assassin Arbaaz Mir. In the following conflict, Princess Pyara Kaur activated the Koh-i-Noor and temporarily transformed into the Precursor Durga. After Cotton shot at her, Durga unleased a burst of energy, killing Cotton and the palace guards.[42]

Two years later, Cotton's successor, administrator William Sleeman, a Master Templar, and his right hand Alexander Burnes kidnapped the Mentor Hamid and stole the Koh-i-Noor. Sleeman took the artifact and a Precursor box into the Precursor temple in Amritsar, where the artifacts showed him a map leading to another temple in Herat. Sleeman and Burnes journeyed there, but were instead distracted by Arbaaz Mir, who had followed the Templars to Afghanistan.[12]

ACCI Quest Begins (3)

得到光之山的斯利曼与伯恩斯

Though the Assassin was captured, he later escaped, but opted to let Burnes live after deating him in a duel and retaking the artifacts. Sleeman had journeyed back to Amritsar to kidnap Mir's lover Pyara Kaur to exchange her for the artifact, holding her ransom inside the summer palace. The Assassin confronted Sleeman and handed over the artifacts, though the princess stabbed swiftly stabbed Sleeman, allowing Mir to retake the Koh-i-Noor, leaving the Templars with only the Precursor box.[12]

Several years later, the Templar plan to weaken the Sikh Empire was a success, and control of the region ultimately fell to the Templars, under the British banner, after the empire's downfall in 1849.[42]

美国南北战争

During the 1860s, at the start of the American Civil War, the American Rite of the Templar Order was under the control of Grand Master William M. Tweed. Tweed was the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine, through which he directly influenced the Confederate States of America. In order to regain a stronger position over the Assassins since their eradication during the American Revolution, the Templars hoped to create chaos in the political climate to reclaim power.[11]

To this end, Tweed orchestrated the New York City draft riots with the aid of Templars controlling the police and the army. Templar agent Cudgel Cormac managed to influence the New York gangs to instigate chaos and mayhem. The Grand Master knew the rioters would eventually turn against the black citizens of the city, which conflicted with his own opposition to race segregation, but was deemed a necessary evil to realize their goals.[11]

After Tweed received intel the Assassins intended to locate a Dagger of Eden, one of the prongs of the Trident of Eden, the Grand Master sent Cormac to intercept them and acquire the artifact. Cormac was unable to succeed in his mission and was stopped by the Assassin Varius and his ally Eliza, Tweed's maid.[11]

The Assassins handed the Dagger of Eden to General Ulysses S. Grant to turn the civil war in the favor of the Union against the Confederacy.[11] The Templars later ordered John Wilkes Booth to kill President Abraham Lincoln of the Union in April 1865. Booth himself was killed by the Assassins the same month.[10]

After Grant's 1868 election as President of the United States, the Templar Order infiltrated his administration. The Templars helped Grant master the powers of the Dagger, by granting him access to a Precursor box and pages of the Voynich manuscript.[43]

工业革命

“This tea was brought to me from India by a ship, then, up from the harbor to a factory, where it was packaged and ferried by carriage to my door, unpacked in the larder and brought upstairs to me. All by men and women who work for me. Who are indebted to me, Crawford Starrick, for their jobs, their time, the very lives they lead. They will work in my factories and so too shall their children.”
―Crawford Starrick talking about his influence in London, 1868.[来源]
ACS Overdose 10

与手下进行交谈的斯塔瑞克

Since the death of Edward Kenway in 1735, the British Templars dominated over London, the capital of the British Empire. As a result, the Templars' influence over the Empire was unmatched by the Assassins, and the Templars took a leading role in steering the Industrial Revolution. By the mid 1860s, the British Templars had fallen under the leadership of Grand Master Crawford Starrick, a London businessmen with influence over every aspect of London society, and was at the head of a criminal gang known as the Blighters.[44]

By 1868, the British Templars had learned of an artifact hidden in London, a Shroud of Eden. While Starrick retained his control over the city, he and Lucy Thorne endeavoured to find the artifact's location. Around the same time, two young twin Assassins, Jacob and Evie Frye, journeyed to the city to retake it from Templar control, with the aid of local Assassin Jayadeep Mir and a network of connections through the city.[44]

Over the course of several months, Starrick saw his network of lieutenants eliminated, as the Assassins eliminated Rupert Ferris, David Brewster, John Elliotson, Malcolm Millner, Pearl Attaway, Philip Twopenny, James Brudenell and Maxwell Roth. The Templars' attempt on the life of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who opposed their interests, was also thwarted, while the Blighters also lost their territory to the Assassins' gang, the Rooks. Their search for the Piece of Eden was also severely hindered after Evie eliminated Thorne and was able to secure a First Civilization key.[44]

Starrick is back in the fight M4

身披伊甸裹尸布的斯塔瑞克

With his power severely dwindled, Starrick made a last endeavour to oppose the Assassins, by planning to kill Queen Victoria and other high profile guests at a party at Buckingham Palace. Having discovered the artifact was located in a vault beneath the palace, Starrick stole the key from Evie and obtained the artifact while the Assassins were busy taking down the Grand Master's agents at the party.[44]

Ultimately, though, the Shroud was unable to prevent Starrick's death at the hands of the Assassins during their subsequent confrontation, and Templar control over the British Empire temporarily ceased.[44]

俄国剧变

“Russia has made some very powerful friends. She will be a new Eden on Earth.”
―Tsar Alexander III of Russia on his alliance with the Templars, 1888.[来源]

By the late 19th century, the Templars managed to hold sway over Russia through their influence over Tsar Alexander II, until his death on 13 March 1881 during a bomb attack by the Narodnaya Volya, a front for the Russian Assassins. His son and successor, Alexander III, became a willing ally of the Templars and was entrusted with a Staff of Eden, which became the Imperial Scepter.[45]

ACTF Templars Tunguska

尼古拉在通古斯杀死了圣殿骑士研究员

On 29 October 1888, Tsar Alexander III was confronted by the Assassin Nikolai Orelov while travelling by train to Saint Petersburg, and Alexander was stabbed in the kidney during their fight, which resulted in the Borki train disaster. Alexander died of kidney failure in 1894, and was succeeded by his son Nicholas II.[45] In order to continue holding influence over the Russian Imperial court, the Templar agent Grigori Rasputin grew close to the Imperial family, and retrieved the Imperial Scepter,[10] taking it to a Templar research facility in Tunguska.[45]

On 30 June 1908, the Assassins raided the facility, and their ally Nikola Tesla unleashed a burst of electricity to the facility, destroying the artifact and resulting in a huge explosion. Rasputin retrieved a splinter of the artifact, which he utilized to continue holding sway among the Romanov family,[45] until he was killed by the Assassins in 1916. The Assassins eventually managed to help the rise of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution.[8]

第一次世界大战

“We may have struck a blow against the enemy, but London is still riddled with German agents. Currently, there's a new group, unlike anything I've seen before. Theirs is a fanatical, almost religious, fervor.”
Winston Churchill to Lydia Frye about the Master Spy's network, 1916.[来源]
Swap

与刺客在一起的埃里希·阿尔贝特

In 1914, the First World War broke out, pitting the Allied Powers and Central Powers against one another. Throughout the war, the Templars' presence was strong within the ranks of the German Empire, using their forces as a means to further their plans.[44] Throughout the war, the Templars and Assassins continued opposing each other's plans. To that extent, on 29 December 1914, during the Christmas truce, the German Templar general Erich Albert was assassinated by an Assassin operating as a medic in the British Army.[33]

In 1916, a group of Templars started operating a spy network in London, England. The network, led by the Master Spy, a Sage secretly serving the interests of Juno as her Instrument, spread its influence through the Tower Bridge area. On orders of Winston Churchill, the Assassin Lydia Frye killed the members of the network and the Master Spy.[44]

俄国革命

Templar #1:“Sverdlov already had the Tsar and his wife killed. The kids are next, if they don't talk.”
Templar #2:“The Tsar is dead? I need to see that.”
―Two Templars discussing their involvement in the shooting of the Romanov family, 1918.[来源]

Near the end of the First World War, the Bolsheviks' communist movement in Russia led to the Russian Revolution in February and October 1917. While the Templars opposed communism, the Assassins supported the working class in installing a populist government and pressured Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate.[8]

ACCR DotT (9)

尤罗夫斯基在叶卡捷琳堡的伊帕契耶夫别墅外将先行者之盒交给教团其他成员

In 1918, the Russian Templars discovered that the royal family was in possession of a Precursor box, and on 17 July they infiltrated their Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. A Templar team led by Yakov Yurovsky massacred the entire royal family, except the Tsarevich's daughter Anastasia Nikolaevna, who escaped with the artifact and the help of Nikolai Orelov.[46]

The Templars were contacted by Leon Trotsky, a friend of Nikolai's who intended to hand Anastasia over to the Templars for the sake of the Revolution. Amidst the Kazan Operation, Trotsky betrayed Nikolai when he arrived seeking aid. Though the Templars managed to capture Nikolai, he was saved by Anastasia who had acquired the consciousness of Shao Jun through interaction with the Precursor box.[46]

Ten years later, with Russia now transformed into the communist Soviet Union, the Templars had managed to work their way into the government led by Joseph Stalin by infiltrating the Politburo. The Templar Yuri Petrovich Figatner started a counter-revolutionary commission to root out the Assassin presence in the Soviet Union, a plot which would ensure the Templars held the upper hand over the Assassins in Russia until 1953, when Stalin was killed by the Assassins.[25]

中国内战

“If [the Nine] want to come here and see all the squabbling nation-states we have to deal with, the warlords in the countryside, the communists and gangsters in the back alleys... let them see how bloody easy it is to keep order in this cesspool, I say!”
―Coxworth about the state of Shanghai and China, 1925.[来源]

In the early 20th century, the Chinese Templars were led by Grand Master Sun Yat-sen, the Provinsial President of the Republic of China. Under his leadership, he managed to maintain good relations with the communists, preserving the peace between them and the nationalists in Shanghai. In 1925, Sun was killed by the Assassin Brotherhood and Stirling Fessenden became the new Grand Master. However, the Shanghai Rite was looking to induct Sun's successor Chiang Kai-shek into the Order and grant him the position of Grand Master.[47]

As Chiang was more opposed to communism than Sun, tensions between Chiang's Nationalist Party and the Communist Party rose in Shanghai. Around the same time, Grand Master Thaddeus Gift of the British Rite was killed by the Black Cross Albert Bolden for corruption. To make up for his father's mistakes, Darius Gift was sent to Shanghai to deliver a box which contained, unbeknownst to him, the severed finger of his father wearing a Templar ring.[47]

ACT Chiang and Fessenden

与蒋介石见面的费信惇

After eliminating the traitor Yuri Dolinsky, who planned to use the Templar train Great Wall against the Templars,[48] the Black Cross rescued Darius Gift after he lost the box and was harassed by corrupt policemen. While Gift endeavoured to receive the box, the Black Cross sought to discover who betrayed Gift's location. Gift retrieved the box from Ruan Lingyu, and the Black Cross became entangled in a conflict with underworld boss Du Yuesheng and his Green Gang.[47]

The Black Cross discovered that Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the Templars, having no interest to accept their invitation and instead allying himself with Du Yuesheng against the communists. After Gift discovered it was the Black Cross who killed his father, Gift shot his fellow Templar, believing his subsequent fall from a rooftop to have killed him.[47]

西班牙内战

“Few people can survive direct contact with the Koh-i-Noor. Fewer still can control it. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say [Grosvenor] plans to control you in order to control the gem.”
―Albert Bolden to Ignacio Cardona, 1937.[来源]

Around 1936, the Templar Rufus Grosvenor, a former disciple of the Master Spy and secretly an Instrument of Juno, stole the Koh-i-Noor from the Black Cross Albert Bolden. As his former master did research into bloodlines with high concentrations of Precursor DNA, Grosvenor decided to locate the Assassin Ignacio Cardona, who was involved in the Spanish Civil War, and have him unlock the artifact's secrets. Meanwhile, Bolden followed Grosvenor to Spain, hoping to keep the artifact safe.[49]

ACU Koh-i-Noor powers

鲁弗斯·格罗夫纳让伊格纳西奥使用光之山

A master manipulator, Grosvenor persuaded the Assassin Norbert Clarke, a British Assassin sent to aid the Spanish Brotherhood, into taking his own life and the Templar stole his identity, working his way into Cardona's Assassin cell in Barcelona. After internal fighting broke out between the Republicans and communists and the Assassins were unsure of who to join, Grosvenor convinced Cardona to use the Koh-i-Noor to calm them; however, the Assassin dropped swiftly dropped the artifact. Bolden, watching the affair, attacked Grosvenor and escaped with an unconscious Cardona.[49]

Convincing Cardona of Grosvenor's identity and intentions, the Assassin joined Bolden to take the artifact from Grosvenor. However, Grosvenor had persuaded the other Assassins to his cause, leading to an eventual confrontation in a run-down church in the countryside. Grosvenor granted a defeated Cardona another opportunity to unlock the artifact's power, and the Assassin created bulls from its energy to destroy the church, causing the rogue Assassin to flee and leaving the artifact buried. After Bolden and Cardona continued fighting in the civil war, Bolden served as the protector of the site.[49]

第二次世界大战

“H. has [the Apple of Eden], so I assume the war will begin as soon as he can take over. We'll let him have his fun (Lord knows, that kind of purge will be good for Europe) and then end it with a bang, as planned. Out of the chaos of war a new order will emerge!”
―Henry Ford in a letter to Thomas Edison, 1930s.[来源]

During the 1930s, Henry Ford, one of the Order's leaders, shipped one of the Templars' Apples of Eden to Germany to pass it onto Adolf Hitler, who would go on to become the leader of Nazi Germany. Having already laid the groundworks for the Second World War, several of the Order's most influential businessmen founded Abstergo Industries as its public front in 1937. Their intention for the company was to act as a global conglomerate secretly dominating the capitalist market in the wake of the war, and to dismantle communist governments.[31]

In 1939, Hitler used his Apple of Eden to ignite the Second World War. Alongside Hitler, the war's other most prominent leaders – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin – were all secretly manipulated by the Templars into creating a worldwide state of chaos and disorder to allow the Order to take control.[10] At the start of the war, Obbergruppenführer Gero Kramer, a high-ranking Templar, started a secret project called Die Glocke, using the German nuclear project to disguise his true intentions, employing the aid of the Nazis' Apple of Eden and Nikola Tesla, whose death they staged.[50]

On 27 February 1943, the Assassin Eddie Gorm infiltrated the Nazi heavy water facility in Vemork, where Die Glocke was secretly located. Eventually confronted by Kramer, the Templar overpowered the Assassin easily and placed him inside the Animus, intending for him to relive the lives of his ancestors to find more Pieces of Eden, ensuring Kramer would take a leading role in creating their New World Order. The experiment failed, and Kramer fled during the ensuing chaos that was caused by an Allied attack on the facility.[50]

By July 1943, the Templars had reached an alliance with Pash in order to collaborate on assassinating Hitler, who had become too powerful and erratic for the Templars to manipulate and control. Nonetheless, Kramer was assassinated on 15 July at the hands of Gorm and Julia Dusk on Pash's orders, who claimed the Apple of Eden for himself. The Templar scientist John von Neumann subsequently worked with Pash on the USS Eldridge on the Project Rainbow, an attempt to use Die Glocke and the Apple of Eden to go back in time and kill Hitler before his rise to power. Gorm killed Tesla on board the ship, setting the project back. It was ultimately a failure, and the Templars moved von Neumann to the Manhanttan Project to improve the Allies' position over the Axis.[50]

In July 1944, at the height of the war, economic agents of the Templars met at the Bretton Woods conference to launch the next phase of the Plan, and the World Bank was subsequently established.[31] On 30 April 1945, as Hitler left the Führerbunker, he was killed by the Assassins. Two months later, Abstergo sanctioned the Manhattan Project's tests of the atomic bomb, and on 6 and 9 August of that year two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.[10] Amidst the resulting chaos of the war, the Templars were able to guide the world's economic rebuilding towards the goals of their New World Order.[31]

重塑世界

“Democracy must die to ensure the stability of the world. Capitalism will end it. [...] The capitalists will do whatever we tell them to. We print the dollars they worship after all.”
―An unknown Templar regarding their plans to dismantle democracy.[来源]

Following the war, one of the Templars' first acts was orchestrating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, who had risen up against the British rule in India using an Apple of Eden, in 1948.[10] Several months later, Harry Dexter White was killed by his fellow Templars, after he decided to betray them and tried to reveal their capitalist plans to the Soviet Union.[31]

The Chinese Civil War continued after the end of World War II, and the Templars inevitably decided to exert their influence over Chiang Kai-shek's communist rival Mao Zedong, who became the new leader of China.[31] Meanwhile, the Templars' grip on the Soviet Union had weakened, culminating in the fatal poisoning of Joseph Stalin at the hands of the Assassins in 1953.[25]

That same year Abstergo planned the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran to prevent the nationalization of the country's oil industry. In June 1954 the Templars again killed one of their own members, Alan Turing, for disobeying their order to not build a robot to prevent mass unemployment and lower birth rates, and they also overthrew the communist President of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz.[31]

AC2 Moon landing negative

真正登月照片的底片

The following decade, President John F. Kennedy of the United States was killed by the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald to prevent the Americans' joint venture to the Moon with the Soviet Union. This paved the way for NASA, one of Abstergo's puppet companies, to organize the Apollo 11 spaceflight and retrieve an Apple of Eden from the Moon's surface.[10]

Five years following the coup d'état in Chile was saw the death of communist President Salvador Allende in 1973,[31] Abstergo scientist Warren Vidic created the first version of Animus, a device capable of reading the genetic memory of its user.[37] The Animus Project, aimed at discovering information about Pieces of Eden and the Assassins through genetic memory, was formally started in 1980.[25] As part of this project, Abstergo kidnapped a young boy – later named Daniel Cross – in 1983 to use him as its fourth subject,[45] and Vidic experimented on the boy's mind using a Piece of Eden replica[31] to implant an impulse to kill the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood. He was subsequently released into the world as an unwitting sleeper agent sent to infiltrate the Assassins.[45]

In 1991, Abstergo took a leading role in the overthrow of President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union after realizing he did not have Abstergo's interests at heart. The Templars orchestrated the downfall of the Soviet Union and installed their puppet Boris Yeltsin as the first President of Russia. Nine years later, they helped Vladimir Putin gain power and become his successor.[31]

现当代

大清洗

“We have turned over a rock and sent the insects scurrying, but we will stamp on them before they can hide again. I am confident that we will soon witness the fall of the Order of Assassins, and we may fullfill our ambitions unimpeded.”
―Dr. Warren Vidic in an email to Alan Rikkin, 2000.[来源]
GreatPurgeOverview

监视着大清洗过程的圣殿骑士

By 2000, Daniel Cross had become an official member of the Assassin Brotherhood, believing it to be his goal to find their Mentor after experiencing a vision in 1998. After travelling the world to gain support from the other Assassins in his quest, the Mentor met Daniel at his office in Dubai on 6 November 2000. Acting on the impulse in his brain, Daniel killed the Mentor when the latter handed him a ceremonial hidden blade.[45]

The Assassins were left in a state of chaos,[45] which allowed to the Templars to gain the upper hand in the American Presidential election the next day and install their puppet George W. Bush.[31] On 21 November, Daniel returned to Abstergo's Philadelphia facility and gave them the locations of the Assassin safehouses he visited, after which the Templars initiated the Great Purge – a woldwide operation that resulted in the near-annihiliation of the Assassin Brotherhood.[45]

The Templars spent the next several years routing out the remaining Assassin cells and safehouses. In 2002, Daniel recovered the Prophet's Codex, a book written by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, from a hidden library beneath Moscow, and first learned of the Assassin's descendant "Desmond".[51]

阿尼穆斯项目

“We've found a perfect candidate named Desmond Miles. His ancestral tree fits the data gathered from Subject 16's memory of Ezio Auditore. But it is quite likely that he won't cede essential details freely. Desmond is the key to the location of the Pieces of Eden. Our scientists have been running tests. If we were to place just one within a satellite and angle it toward the Earth... well, utopia would be within our grasp.”
―Dr. Warren Vidic about the Animus Project's intent, 2012.[来源]
Keeping an eye on humanity

关于轨道上阿布斯泰戈之眼的构想图

Meanwhile, Vidic continued the Animus Project, uncovering new information about the Pieces of Eden for their Eye-Abstergo, a satellite powered by a Piece of Eden meant to enforce their New World Order, set for launch in 2012.[31] In 2005, the Assassins sent Lucy Stillman to infiltrate Abstergo as a new employee and gain insight into the Animus Project,[17] though she was eventually turned by the Templars.[52]

The Assassin Clay Kaczmarek allowed himself to be captured for the Animus Project on the orders of their leader William Miles in 2011, and through reviewing his genetic memories, Vidic discovered a lead on Ezio Auditore da Firenze's Apple of Eden. Clay killed himself in 2012, after Lucy's new allegiance prevented her from allowing him to escape,[52] the Templars sought out and kidnapped Desmond Miles as the new subject for their project.[25] Eventually, the Templars allowed Desmond to escape to the Assassins with Lucy, to encourage his willingness at finding Ezio's Apple of Eden.[52] However, when they recovered the artifact from the Colosseum Vault, the Precursor Juno forced Desmond to kill Lucy[31] to prevent the Templars from obtaining the artifact and finding the Assassins.[39]

AC3 Abstergo Suicide Squad

在阿布斯泰戈大楼里使用伊甸苹果的戴斯蒙德

Meanwhile, the Assassins engaged in several altercations with Templar teams led by Daniel Cross and their new agent Juhani Otso Berg.[25] Desmond's Assassin team had taken shelter inside the Grand Temple, and began looking for power sources to activate the ancient temple.[39]

Their search ultimately resulted in William Miles' capture by Berg's Sigma Team.[25] During the exchange at the Abstergo Campus in Rome to trade William for the Apple, his son Desmond killed Daniel Cross and instead used the artifact to kill Vidic and the guards. The Eye-Abstergo project was postponed indefinitely in light of Vidic's death.[39]

凤凰计划

“Using Animus technology, Precursor history will be open to us for the first time ever. Ancient languages will be unlocked and ancient technology will be ours for the taking. Imagine what will be possible if we master the technology underpins the Pieces of Eden. Such discoveries would surpass one-hundredfold the splitting of the atom.”
―Narration of Abstergo Industries' internal Phoenix Project video, 2014.[来源]

On 21 December 2012, Desmond Miles sacrificed himself in the Grand Temple in order to save the world from destruction by an incoming solar flare.[39] Several hours after his death, Abstergo agents recovered his body from the temple;[25] utilizing the DNA from his genetic memories, his genetic sample became the basis for Abstergo Entertainment's Sample 17 Project, aimed at exploring Desmond's rich ancestry. By 2013, Abstergo had released the Animus as a consumer product as the Animus glass,[37] and in India as the Brahman V.R., which would automatically upload a user's genetic memory to the Abstergo Cloud.[42]

ACBM Guardians Mumbai

身在孟买的阿布斯泰戈干员

In November 2013, the Sample 17 Project was sabotaged by one of their employees, the Sage John Standish, who was ultimately killed by Abstergo guards following an altercation between Standish and another employee.[37] Simulatenously, Juhani Otso Berg was dispatched to India to find Jot Soora, presumably the descendant of Arbaaz Mir after following a lead from the Brahman project, hoping to secure the Koh-i-Noor diamond. However, the Assassin's true descendant Monima Das, Jot's fiancée, was killed during the Abstergo agents' pursuit of Jot Soora and his Assassin captors, and Arbaaz's memories were wiped from the Abstergo Cloud.[42]

The recovery of John Standish's body greatly helped Abstergo's Phoenix Project, aiming to sequence a full First Civilization triple-helix genome with the ultimate goal of unlocking the secrets of the Pieces of Eden.[37] Abstergo agents and Assassin cells continued their renewed search for the ancient artifacts, resulting in the Assassins' failed attempt to secure the Precursor box from an Abstergo facility in Rotterdam, Juhani Otso Berg's fruitless search for the Ankh in Germany, and his excavation of the remains of the Observatory in Jamaica. In October, the Assassins on the Altair II under Assassin leader Gavin Banks destroyed the Abstergo facility holding John Standish's body in Paris,[24] and Abstergo started looking for the remains of a new Sage.[7]

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  34. Assassin's CreedVolume 2: Setting Sun
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
  36. 36.0 36.1 36.2 Assassin's CreedVolume 1: Trial by Fire
  37. 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 37.5 37.6 37.7 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
  38. 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
  39. 39.00 39.01 39.02 39.03 39.04 39.05 39.06 39.07 39.08 39.09 39.10 39.11 Assassin's Creed III
  40. Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
  41. 41.0 41.1 41.2 Assassin's Creed: TemplarsVolume 2: Cross of War
  42. 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 Assassin's Creed: Brahman
  43. Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 44.5 44.6 Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
  45. 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 45.5 45.6 45.7 45.8 Assassin's Creed: The Fall
  46. 46.0 46.1 Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
  47. 47.0 47.1 47.2 47.3 Assassin's Creed: TemplarsVolume 1: Black Cross
  48. Assassin's Creed: Great Wall
  49. 49.0 49.1 49.2 Assassin's Creed: UprisingVolume 2
  50. 50.0 50.1 50.2 Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies
  51. Assassin's Creed: The Chain
  52. 52.0 52.1 52.2 Assassin's Creed: RevelationsThe Lost Archive