圣殿骑士组织拜占庭分册

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圣殿骑士组织拜占庭分册（Byzantine Rite of the Templar Order）^[1]，通常简称为拜占庭分册，是圣殿骑士组织内一个自治派系。他们曾经统治拜占庭帝国，直到1453年，奥斯曼帝国攻陷了首都君士坦丁堡，皇帝君士坦丁十一世战死，历时一千余年的拜占庭帝国就此灭亡。圣殿骑士组织打着拜占庭的旗号重新出现在城市中，并以武力推翻奥斯曼帝国及重新建立拜占庭帝国。

历史

形成

尚不明确拜占庭分册形成的确切时间，也不清楚其与拜占庭帝国的关系。末代皇帝君士坦丁十一世曾下令在领土内抓捕并处决刺客，但不知他前任皇帝是否也这样做过。^[2]

拜占庭帝国陷落后

16世纪早期，拜占庭分册成为了当时最重要的圣殿分册，因组织的罗马分册已被意大利刺客兄弟会击垮。拜占庭圣殿骑士在卡帕多细亚的地下城德林库尤建立了他们总部；他们最终目的是铲除奥斯曼蒂托，夺回前首都君士坦丁堡。然而有一段时间，他们保持了相对的安分。^[2]

寻找马斯亚夫钥匙

1509年君士坦丁堡地震后，圣殿骑士在拜占庭的旗帜下重新出现在城市中。因苏丹巴耶济德二世在地震后就离开了这座城，拜占庭圣殿骑士们很容易就能融入城市中，并在位于德林库尤的老巢开始他们接管奥斯曼帝国的计划。^[2] 他们最初由曼努埃尔·帕里奥洛格斯领导，但拜占庭很快注意到了巴耶济德的儿子以及帝国太子艾哈迈德。艾哈迈德加入了圣殿骑士组织，并因他的年轻与个人魅力使自己成为了领袖，而曼努埃尔则成了二把手。^[1]

拜占庭圣殿骑士们从西班牙异端审判庭手中得到意大利探险家兼刺客尼科洛·波罗的日记《秘密圣战》后，^[3] 他们得知了马斯亚夫的阿泰尔图书馆的存在，并且需要钥匙将其开启。艾哈迈德任命曼努埃尔·帕里奥洛格斯负责马斯亚夫远征，并在君士坦丁堡内寻找钥匙的踪迹，而艾哈迈德自己则继续他的计划确保圣殿骑士在帝国中的权力。^[2]

到1511年，圣殿骑士已经从托普卡匹宫地下获得了一枚钥匙，并占据了马斯亚夫。在没有得到其他钥匙之前，圣殿骑士只好对图书馆大门进行挖掘，企图挖出一条路，但没有成功。1511年冬，埃齐奥·奥迪托雷·达·佛罗伦萨来到马斯亚夫，也想进入图书馆。但他被莱安德罗斯率领的拜占庭圣殿骑士伏击，并被制服、俘虏。接着圣殿骑士将他带到马斯亚夫的瞭望塔，即将将他吊死。但在最后一刻他击倒了莱安德罗斯，在他准备套上绳索时反击并跳到了下方的脚手架。埃齐奥的踪迹便消失在风雪中，于是莱安德罗斯决定转移，坐着马车离开。埃齐奥追了上去，抓住了莱安德罗斯马车的绳子，最后也登上了一辆马车。^[2]

莱安德罗斯在阿特拉斯村附近撞毁了埃齐奥的马车，派其他圣殿骑士去干掉埃齐奥，同时自己进入了村子。然而受伤的埃齐奥还是穿过卫兵，艰难来到村中心，到达莱安德罗斯避难的地方。莱安德罗斯派出更多士兵，但他最后还是在塔顶被埃齐奥杀死，《秘密圣战》也被夺走。^[2]

君士坦丁堡的斗争

而在君士坦丁堡也存在着圣殿骑士，他们与奥斯曼刺客们进行着激烈的战斗，占领了城中多个刺客据点并寻找着能找到马斯亚夫钥匙的秘密地点。这些圣殿骑士们发现有两把钥匙分别位于地下水宫殿和公牛广场，但埃齐奥在圣殿骑士之前就拿到了这些钥匙。^[2]

艾哈迈德亲自设计让人在托普卡帕宫绑架侄子王孙苏莱曼，以便能让艾哈迈德“营救”他然后获得奥斯曼公民对于他登上王位相较于弟弟塞利姆的支持。然而优素福·塔齐姆和土耳其刺客们偶然知道了圣殿骑士的计划，并伪装成意大利吟游诗人，找到并杀死了隐藏在人群中的圣殿骑士，阻止了这一计划。不过此时艾哈迈德的圣殿骑士身份仍然是秘密，他指责禁卫军队长塔里克·巴列蒂阻止袭击不力。^[2]

TAG 1 — Manuel and Shahkulu making the deal with Tarik

过了一段时间，曼努埃尔来到君士坦丁堡从塔里克和他的禁卫军那里为自己在卡帕多细亚的军队购买枪支。在土库曼叛徒、圣殿沙阿库卢的陪同下，曼努埃尔检查了军械库的武器，并在返回卡帕多细亚之前完成了交易。不久后，埃齐奥·奥迪托雷在苏莱曼的命令下刺杀了塔里克，然而他们对于塔里克是圣殿一伙的判断是错误的，塔里克一直在暗中监视卡帕多细亚的圣殿骑士，以挫败他们。他的死很快就被认为是艾哈迈德策划的，而这损害了他的公众形象。^[2]

1511年，刺客和圣殿骑士争夺布尔萨的控制权。圣殿骑士绑架了速度巴耶济德二世的三儿子科尔库特，而他后来被埃齐奥·奥迪托雷从君士坦丁堡派出的刺客所救。圣殿骑士开始失去对布尔萨的控制，而刺客开始接管。^[4]

卡帕多细亚的崩溃

In March 1512, Manuel and Shahkulu returned to Derinkuyu in Cappadocia, where they continued building up the Byzantine army's strength while capturing and executing numerous Ottomans.^[2]

Unbeknownst to the Manuel, Ezio Auditore had trailed him to there, and one of their captured Ottoman spies, a woman named Dilara, had managed to escape. Shahkulu, a sadist, was reveling in his public executions when Ezio air assassinated him from above, though much to the Assassin's surprise, Shahkulu's armor protected him from the strike. Ultimately, Ezio killed Shahkulu after a duel and simultaneously stopped the torture and execution of the Ottoman spies in the city.^[2]

Last Palaiologi 2 — Manuel and a Byzantine spotting Ezio

The Templars panicked when Ezio Auditore blew up the ammunition and armaments hidden inside the city, and Manuel Palaiologos tried to calm the city's citizens. Upon spotting Ezio, Manuel fled and sent the Templars to kill Ezio. The Templar soldiers proved no match for Ezio, and the Assassin confronted Manuel after the latter ran to a dead end on a jetty. Manuel was easily slain and gave up his Masyaf Key to Ezio, cynical that he would survive long enough to enter the library. At that very moment, Ahmet arrived on the scene by boat, revealing his Templar allegiance and threatening to capture Ezio's love interest Sofia Sartor if Ezio did not surrender the Masyaf Keys.^[2]

拜占庭人的倒台

Ahmet returned to Constantinople not too long afterwards and sent a battalion of Templars to capture Sofia from her book shop. The book shop was guarded by Yusuf Tazim and other Assassins, though the Templars emerged victorious, killing Yusuf in the process. Upon discovering Yusuf's lifeless body, Ezio rallied the Assassins against Ahmet and the Templars, who had fortified themselves at the Harbor of Theodosius. When Ezio reached Ahmet, he furiously demanded for the whereabouts of Sofia, to which the latter reminded him that harming him would cost him the chance to save her. As Ezio let him go, Ahmet lectured that since they both dreamed of world peace, with only their methods differing, it was unreasonable for them to ever have been enemies in the first place. He then asserted his belief that even when people acquire the truth, they are reluctant to acknowledge it. This failed to sway Ezio from his convictions in liberty and diversity, and so without further ado, Ahmet moved on to his real point: an ultimatum demanding that Ezio bring the Masyaf keys to the Galata Tower, lest he have Sofia executed.^[2]

On the wall of the Galata Tower, Ahmet and a group of Templars waited for Ezio, who indeed arrived with the keys in exchange for Sofia. However, Ahmet instead had Azize^[5] dressed in Sofia's clothing with a bag hidden over her head held by the Byzantine soldier, while the real Sofia was being hanged on a nearby plaza. With this success, Ahmet made his leave out of the city with the Masyaf Keys, and started his journey to Masyaf to open the library.^[2]

Before he had even left the outskirts of Constantinople, Ahmet and his Templar entourage were tailed by Ezio and Sofia, the latter who had been rescued by Ezio, and a chase on horse carts ensued. The Assassin took out the other Templar horse carts, only to be knocked off his own carriage by Ahmet, but he managed to keep himself anchored to the cart with a rope. While Ahmet continued his way forward, with Sofia—now as the driver of Ezio's carriage—in rapid pursuit, Ezio deployed his parachute so as to safely tow behind his cart. After a long chase through the mountains, Ahmet obliterated Sofia's cart. Ezio landed on a nearby hill and from there jumped onto Ahmet's cart, causing the two to fall off a cliff side together.^[2]

The two continued to fight one another during their free fall, until at last when they neared too close to the ground, Ezio deployed another parachute to effect a safe landing, with Ahmet managing to hold on safely to him. They both landed safely, but showed signs of heavy fatigue. At that moment, Selim arrived with his army from battle with his father, and strolled up to Ahmet. At his brother's approach, Ahmet fearfully demanded for the presence of the Sultan, insisting that the Janissaries were to obey only his command, not Selim's. It was then that Selim, revealing that he in fact was now the Sultan, started choking Ahmet before throwing him off a precipice to ensure that there would be no conflicts for succession. With Ahmet's death, the Byzantine Templars were ultimately dissolved.^[2]