Only one carriage with Charles Dickens was left intact which points towards a failed assassination attempt. In Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, seeing Charles Babbage, the ‘Father of Computers’ assist the Assassins would be quite interesting. The story could also feature Dr. Livingstone.
This Explorer slash Missionary travelled to Africa and what if he found a piece of Eden out there and maybe delivered it to the Templars in London. This could be an interesting story triggering the plotline for the Frye Twins.
In other news, E3 lived up to its expectations and people witnessed a dramatic and beautiful video filled with rich English accents. Combined with the game’s title, the trailer suggests that our hero will be training and leading a band of assassins known as Rooks. There wasn’t any gameplay featuring the second protagonist Evie.
Stay tuned for more updates on Assassin’s Creed Syndicate!
I have to mention something. Although I am well aware that writers, whether they are writing for games or TV/Movies, tend to take creative license with historical facts. Your statement; “Freemasons, which is the group that Templars eventually evolved into.” Is actually a fantasy, not fact. If we look at this fallacy closely it’s easy to unravel. The Templar Knights, were a mainly French monastic order of ‘warrior monks’, who banded together in the early crusades and were supported and reported directly to the Bishop of Rome. At this time the Pope we know him today, was a temporal monarch as well as a spiritual one and raised armies and levied taxes, etc.
Without going through the entire history, just the dates bare out the facts.
The Templar were rich and powerful by the turn of the 14th century, yes that’s the 1300’s people. The King of France was heavily in debt and coveted the Templar wealth and property. So as standard practice in those days, to legally eliminate your rivals, you accuse them of heresy. Phillip of France had the Templar in France arrested and imprisoned and tortured.
By 1314, the Templar order had been disbanded and all assets transferred to another monastic order, the Hospitiers. Philip of France got squat out of the deal…
Fast forward to 1717, yes we’re talking over 400 years later. The Freemasons emerge from a dying labor guild. By any historians age figures the average life span during this period was about 40 years old. So that is 10-18 generations later. Seriously can anyone tell me anything about someone in their family tree from 400 years ago? Very few indeed.
How can there have possibly be a direct link between these two groups? Impossible. The US is only 239 years old and we can’t even get our own history right and it’s only been a few generations. And that is with literacy rates far above those of the 14th -18th century.
Simple common sense and a bit of knowledge of human behavior would make this easy to dispel, but many still cling to this fantasy. The Templar Knights would never have joined a manual labor guild… just common sense again. This fallacy started by an oration (speech) that the Chevalier Ramey (Scottish ex-pat in France) gave to Freemasons around 1829, that the Freemasons didn’t come from a lowly labor guild but were descended from a Monastic order of Knights from the crusades. Purely made up to self aggrandize, not based on any known facts.
It actually makes much more sense that those Templar that escaped the French round up, settled in what is today Switzerland. Check that history at that time and you will see why.
If it does not make sense, it cannot be true.