History Characters / AssassinsCreedTheTemplars

* CanadaEh: Her profile in ''Syndicate'' reveals that she's from Barrie, Ontario. Shaun uses this factoid as proof of how evil she must be.

* InternalAffairs: The Black Cross, whose job is to make sure their Rite's Grand Master stays in line with the Templar Oath, and kill them if they don't.

* * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Stalin was a Templar. If you needed a hint that the Templars are unquestionably the bad guys, there you go.

** Downplayed. For the most part, he is only mentioned in e-mails within the games and online [[AllThereInTheManual manuals]]. At the end of the first game, a group of Abstergo executives is seen speaking to Vidic from the conference room; the one speaking to him is presumed by [[TheWikiRule the Wiki]] to be Rikkin.

* WouldHurtAChild: To the Templars, not even the lives and dignity of innocent children are spared from being expendable resources in the name of "order" and "progress", as shown by their despicable endorsing and ''enforcement'' of child-slavery in the lethally-dangerous (even to adults) factories of Victorian London in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate''.

-->'''Altair:''' [The Templars] recognize there is no such thing as an absolute truth – or if there is – we are hopelessly under-equipped to recognize it. And so in its place, they seek to create their own explanation. It is the guiding principle of their so-named "New World Order" (which is the OneWorldOrder trope); to reshape existence in their own image. It is not about artifacts. Not about men. These are merely tools. It's about concepts. Clever of them. For how does one wage war against a concept? It is the perfect weapon. It lacks a physical form yet can alter the world around us in numerous, often violent ways. You cannot kill a creed. Even if you kill all of its adherents, destroy all of its writings – these are a reprieve at best. Some one, some day, will rediscover it. Reinvent it.

* WouldHurtAChild: To the Templars, not even the lives and dignity of innocent children are spared from being expendable resources in the name of "order" and "progress", as shown by their despicable endorsing and ''enforcement'' of child-slavery in the lethally-dangerous (even to adults) factories of Victorian London in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate''

-->'''Altair:''' [The Templars] recognize there is no such thing as an absolute truth – or if there is – we are hopelessly under-equipped to recognize it. And so in its place, they seek to create their own explanation. It is the guiding principle of their so-named "New World Order", (which is the OneWorldOrder trope); to reshape existence in their own image. It is not about artifacts. Not about men. These are merely tools. It's about concepts. Clever of them. For how does one wage war against a concept? It is the perfect weapon. It lacks a physical form yet can alter the world around us in numerous, often violent ways. You cannot kill a creed. Even if you kill all of its adherents, destroy all of its writings – these are a reprieve at best. Some one, some day, will rediscover it. Reinvent it.

** [[spoiler:Reginald Birch]] and [[spoiler:Edward Braddock]], two members of the British Templars who have done some extremely unpleasant things at home and abroad. The former was responsible for the death of [[spoiler:Edward Kenway]], sold Jennifer Scott into Ottoman sex slavery and corrupted the young Haytham Kenway into becoming a loyal Templar in the American colonies. The latter oversaw the annihilation of Native Americans and French soldiers during the Seven Yeats War even those who offered a truce to him and his men.

* BirdVsSerpent: the Templars, whose predecessor organization, the Order of the Ancients, was referred to and represented collectively as a snake, fight against the Assassins/Hidden Ones, represented by the eagle.

* AncientConspiracy: They are not only related to a prior cult that worshipped {{Cain}} and borrowed its symbol as their official insignia but the organization's original incarnation was created by an Ancient Egyptian pharoah to secure LostTechnology from an Isu vault but quickly evolved over millennia to have members from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and further afield in the rest of the world.

* HistoricalGenderFlip: Possibly. The AC version of Smenkhkare is explicitly identified as a male but since so little is known about this Pharoah it may or may not be a change in sex for the character.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: As his character page makes it very clear, he had a rather brief reign as Pharoah of Egypt but he was the man responsible for starting the Templar Order.

* {{Bishonen}}: After he was in the Assassin Order for a while.

* DarkChick: Due to her MeanBoss tendencies.

* ShipTease: With Dr. Sung, the Templar doctor assigned to keep him sane. It's [[ShipSinking sunk]] now that he's dead...

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Phil Proctor (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages:'''Alexander Kotov (Russian)[[/note]]

* KillEmAll: The Templars usually treat the Assassins as annoyances. Juhani seems determined to wipe them off the face of the Earth.

* HotScientist: She's certainly not bad looking.

* LightIsNotGood: Contrasting the Assassin's LightIsGood, the Templars not only originally wore white with a red cross, but many were also devoutly religious. However even the religious members like Rodrigo Borgia, used it as a crutch to gain supreme power. Others like Cesare Borgio, may look like the KnightInShiningArmor, but he's far from it indeed.

%% Doesn't explain what the reaction is. * Berserk Button: Do ''not'' mention his daughter ever. Even if it's as a potential peace offering, just don't.

* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mention his daughter ever. Even if it's as a potential peace offering, just don't.