Talk:Bartholomew Swordfury/@comment-25856474-20151020014457/@comment-3112181-20151023230522

Hate to burst your bubbles, but I've seen the "HIstory Channel" in America, and it's pure rubbish (and not just because nowadays it's almost entirely programmes concerned with chopping down trees, and men going to garage sales).

The Templars do not exist today; any "society" that claims to be "Templar" is kidding themselves. The Templars as we know them, much like the Hashashins that the gentleman above me described, were a group only active during the times of the Crusades (that is, roughly from the 1100s to the 1300s). Furthermore, their primary purpose as a Christian society operating under the Catholic Church was to protect the hordes of pilgrims in the Holy Lands during such turbulent times; they barely had time to go around plotting world domination and squaring off with hooded Arabs with wrist blades. At the urging of King Philip IV of France, who instigated the notorious "Friday the 13th" massacre against the Templars in the early 14th Century, I believe it was Pope Clement V who officially disbanded the Templars that year. (Thus, any group existing afterwards claiming to be "the Templars" are doing so against the authority of the Catholic Church, the body which created them and which they supposedly serve).

Look, I love the Assassin's Creed series as much as the next guy, but let's not get the wrong ideas. These two very real groups have been so exaggerated and blown out of proportion that now they've become something very unreal. The Templars weren't around after the 14th Century, there were no "Templar pirates", and they certainly don't exist today. Utter rubbish. Just people trying to find another fringe order to gawk over. Do yourself a favor: look up the Rosicrucians. Much more interesting and much more real.

It's a video game. It's not fair to rape history this way. :c