Assassin's Creed RPGs RUINED Templar Lore Forever #assassinscreed

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The Assassin's Creed RPGs Changed Templar Lore Forever

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Welcome back guys and today we are going to discuss how the Assassin's Creed RPGs Have Changed Templar Lore Forever.

The Templar Order and the Brotherhood of Assassins have been locked in a shadow war for the entirety of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series. Spanning generations, the games track an ongoing battle for the Pieces of Eden through sprawling, life-like recreations of locales like Ancient Greece, the West Indies, and Victorian London. Since the first Assassin's Creed game released in 2007, the series' overarching plot has been focused on this struggle, but recent entries have shifted the balance by relegating the threat of the Templars to more of a side note and changing their role.

The war between the Templars and Assassins is largely a philosophical one questioning whether humanity should have free will or be subject to control. The Templar Order believes that humans need to be managed in order to protect their best interests, and for the first few games this was a major focus. The Assassin's Creed lore shifted in more recent entries to explore the history of the ancient ISU and embrace its more speculative elements. The ISU have always been pivotal to understanding the lore of the two organizations, but in recent entries their relevancy has overshadowed that of the Templars and the Assassins.


Historically, the Knights Templar were a religious military order that functioned very visibly at the dawn of the 12th century. Their relevancy to the Crusades often overshadows their financial influence, as many of their members were actually involved in protecting pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land through a banking system. This system allowed travelers to store goods at their points of departure, and then claim the monetary equivalency of those valuables at their destinations.

The quiet ways in which these institutions functioned remains a significant part of the Knights Templar legacy. The Assassin's Creed games expand upon the origins of the real Templars to capture their military and political prowess during the time period. Many of the early Templar factions offered help alongside subjugation, such as the case with the mysterious Brothers of the Cross. Assassin's Creed Origins serves to tell the story of its formation, which predates the actual Knights Templar by nearly 2,000 years. Instead of the Templars and the Assassins, Origins introduced their respective predecessors: the Order of the Ancients and the Hidden Ones.

Up until Assassin's Creed Origins, the franchise was more focused on insular stories of the Templar and Assassin conflict, as it played out in the past and the current timeline. In Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla, the focus shifted to the ISU and their legacy - introducing a variety of new mechanics and characters that capitalized on this mythos. The issue with such a speculative shift is that the Templars no longer feel like such a dire threat.

The First Civilization and the artifacts it possessed are at the forefront of Assassin's Creed Odyssey's story. Not only does the game predate the Templars and Assassins, it isn't all that focused on their differing philosophies. Instead, players are introduced to a different but still similar organization to fight against, and far more mythological encounters with beings like the Minotaur and Sphinx. With its focus on myth over the more grounded occultism of the traditional Templars, the game derives less from history and more from its own lore.

This can be disappointing only in that the Templar Order was the first villain that fans encountered and grew accustomed to fighting. Those interested in the more science-fictional elements of the series will be happy to rediscover the relevancy of the ISU through Odyssey. As the technically oldest game in the series, with its setting being far enough down the timeline to feel completely disconnected from Ezio and his struggle against the Templars, the game can't help but introduce different villains. It's just that they aren't yet the Templars, and while they are guided by the same principles, their mission and members can feel estranged from the original Templar goals.


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