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‎The Knights Templar

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‎The Knights Templar

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‎Introduction

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 Each Knight Templar has undergone extensive weapons training, as well as studied the procedures and the secrets required to fulfil their duties. This includes the secret Vatican code, Latin and Church Latin (a way to encode concepts using scripture, whereby you can pass information without a third party picking up on it).
-A team of Templars is led by someone of the cloth, without exception. Very rarely these have [[Shepard]] abilities. The [[Armory]] supplies them with weapons and equipment, though the Templars themselves are expected to requisition any other necessities themselves through the [[Armory]].
+A team of Templars is led by someone of the cloth, without exception. Very rarely these have [[Shepherd]] abilities. The [[Armoury]] supplies them with weapons and equipment, though the Templars themselves are expected to requisition any other necessities themselves through the [[Armoury]].
 If a scene is found to be contaminated with the supernatural, a clean-up request is made to [[Section 19]], a secret part of the Vatican's Swiss Guard, specialised in cleaning up any traces of supernatural crime-scenes. When a team of Templars leaves on a Mission they are required to update their location. A detail of [[Section 19]] is always on their heels, to clean up any scene once the team makes the call.  They are intricately entwined with the Templars, without them the Templars mission would be much harder.

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 A team of Templars is led by someone of the cloth, without exception. Very rarely these have [[Shepard]] abilities. The [[Armory]] supplies them with weapons and equipment, though the Templars themselves are expected to requisition any other necessities themselves through the [[Armory]].
-If a scene is found to be contaminated with the supernatural, a clean-up request is made to [[Section 16]], a secret part of the Vatican's Swiss Guard, specialised in cleaning up any traces of supernatural crime-scenes. When a team of Templars leaves on a Mission they are required to update their location. A detail of [[Section 16]] is always on their heels, to clean up any scene once the team makes the call.  They are intricately entwined with the Templars, without them the Templars mission would be much harder.
+If a scene is found to be contaminated with the supernatural, a clean-up request is made to [[Section 19]], a secret part of the Vatican's Swiss Guard, specialised in cleaning up any traces of supernatural crime-scenes. When a team of Templars leaves on a Mission they are required to update their location. A detail of [[Section 19]] is always on their heels, to clean up any scene once the team makes the call.  They are intricately entwined with the Templars, without them the Templars mission would be much harder.
 =Goal=

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 The Knights Templar are recruited from people who have had a traumatic experience (getting born with the sight is quite traumatic too, and this happens often), causing them to be sensitive to the "real world", called [[The Sight]]. This causes them to see through the disguises many creatures of the night wear around us in open society.  Many of those creatures are [[Benevolentia]]. An agreement between God and Satan, allowing them the chance to keep an eye on the others actions and influence events covertly, neither of them wants people to see the truth, for the aforementioned reasons.  As long as the [[Benevolentia]] don't work overtly (no direct killing, showing of supernatural gifts, etc,...), they are allowed to exist and cannot be attacked or harassed by the Templars.  There are many who skirt the rules and quite a few who prefer to go after their own agenda, not to mention many people that use supernatural means to further their own goals, and those are fair game for the Knight Templars.
-Then there are Magic users that influence the world around them overtly, their mere existence a ticking time-bomb, because such power usually begets abuse...  As soon as they cross the line: [[Witches]] that take control of or harm a human, [[Wizards]] merely by using magic (the danger of [[Procursus]]), [[Diabolists]] are harder to find, but just having a [[Demon]] is usually reason enough to be tried and executed...  Sometimes they get a second chance, especially these days, as finding people with the skills and abilities to go up against the Supernatural and Unholy is rare enough.  But summary execution, if they are a danger to the team or the populace, is a sword that's ever above them. This is why every team has at least one person of the Cloth with them (Nuns, Priests, Monks, ...), usually because they themselves have sinned, or somehow become [[Excommunicatis]]. Strangely enough they all have [[the Sight]] when they come to be Knights Templar, a secret none are willing to share.
+Then there are Magic users that influence the world around them overtly, their mere existence a ticking time-bomb, because such power usually begets abuse...  As soon as they cross the line: [[Witch|Witches]] that take control of or harm a human, [[Wizard|Wizards]] merely by using magic (the danger of [[Procursus]]), [[Diabolist|Diabolists]] are harder to find, but just having a [[Demon]] is usually reason enough to be tried and executed...  Sometimes they get a second chance, especially these days, as finding people with the skills and abilities to go up against the Supernatural and Unholy is rare enough.  But summary execution, if they are a danger to the team or the populace, is a sword that's ever above them. This is why every team has at least one person of the Cloth with them (Nuns, Priests, Monks, ...), usually because they themselves have sinned, or somehow become [[Excommunicatis]]. Strangely enough they all have [[the Sight]] when they come to be Knights Templar, a secret none are willing to share.
 =History=

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 Officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favoured charity throughout Christendom and grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were among the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades.[5] Non-combatant members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating financial techniques that were an early form of banking, and building fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.
-The Templars' existence was tied closely to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the Order faded. Rumours about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created mistrust and King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, took advantage of the situation. In 1307, many of the Order's members in France were arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burned at the stake. Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the "Templar" name alive into the modern day.  -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar|Wikipedia]
+The Templars' existence was tied closely to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the Order faded. Rumours about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created mistrust and King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, took advantage of the situation. In 1307, many of the Order's members in France were arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burned at the stake. Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the "Templar" name alive into the modern day.  -- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar]
 Of course this is not how it ended, having his hands full with the excesses of the [[Inquisition]], Pope Clement V took drastic measures when Philip IV seemed about to take matters into his own hands. Jaques de Molay took it upon himself to by martyred for the cause. As many know, the amount of assets and personnel seized were hardly a tenth of their total wealth, a large part went to other orders, but the best and brightest got a new goal. After the Papal Bull of March 22, 1312, the order officially ceased to exist. At the same time a clandestine order was set up to combat the rising threat of unholy and unnatural creatures that were threatening the people of Europe. Up to that point the [[Inquisition]] had been officially tasked with that, but they were found abusing and misusing their power more often than not, and actually creating more fear.