They did exist at the same time in the Middle East during the 12th and 13th centuries.ĭISCOVER MORE: Is Knight Templar bravery a myth? And there was a fanatical sect called the Assassins. There was a Knights Templar order of militarised monks. It’s a fun story and encompasses elements of Greek mythology, Scientology, gnosticism, philosophy and so on. And this is battle between Templars and Assassins has been raging for thousands of years.
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The recovering race of humans comprised those who wanted to restore some kind of order – Templars – and those who valued free will more – Assassins.ĭesmond, therefore, is being manipulated by the Templars to bring the world back to a more disciplined path while the Assassins try and stop him giving away the location of Pieces of Eden that would allow this to happen. This coincided with a cosmic calamity to befall the earth reducing humanity to a few thousand. Human beings were mind controlled slaves at the outset but then bred with the Isu over time and this eroded the ability of the First Civilisation to control their creations who eventually rebelled. The First Civilisation was run by god-like creatures of superior intelligence called the Precursors or Isu, who had created the human race and were initially worshipped by their creations. The Pieces of Eden are part of a device used by the First Civilisation on our planet to control early humans. The Templars are using Desmond to get hold of “Pieces of Eden” that are in different locations, of course. The machine is owned by Abstergo Industries, a Templar run enterprise. But while there, he is kidnapped by the Templars – sworn enemies of the Assassins – and forced into a machine called the Animus which sends him back in time. He gets away from his Assassin family in South Dakota to become a bartender in New York city. To crunch down the storyline and probably not do it complete justice – Desmond Miles is a young American brought up by a family who come from a long line of Assassins. Well, to start with we better re-cap on Assassin’s Creed.
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