00:04you interrupted playtime welcome to mojo plays and today we're investigating how powerful the
00:11templars in assassin's creed actually are we'll be looking at both their political influence and
00:17their physical capability spoilers ahead you've been warned and he has chosen his path accordingly
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00:39shay cormac assassin's creed rogue enjoy me for some practice soon i've got other business first
00:45shay cormac holds a unique position in the assassin's creed universe as the protagonist of
00:51rogue while not very powerful politically his impact on the templar order is noteworthy initially
00:58an assassin shay's disillusionment with their methods after a mission went wrong leads him to
01:03join the templar order shay's knowledge of assassin tactics makes him especially dangerous to the
01:09brotherhood and throughout rogue shay eliminates key assassin figures and nearly wipes out the
01:15colonial brotherhood those of you who've played unity know that shay took out arno's father too
01:20setting arno on the path of becoming an assassin charles lee assassin's creed 3 charles lee sir
01:27pleasure to make your acquaintance i've been asked to introduce you to the city help you settle it oh
01:31no need sir i've arranged for your bags to be delivered to the end in assassin's creed 3 charles
01:36lee is established early on as an especially dangerous templar he's remorselessly ambitious and
01:42will do anything to further the templar cause what makes lee especially powerful is his influence in the
01:49revolution as he tries to drive the new nation into templar control he shows considerable influence
01:55over key figures and he's as brutal as he's crafty throughout the game he's shown a willingness
02:00to sacrifice anyone as long as it benefits the templar order together with haytham they manipulated
02:06both sides of the war and also manipulated connor into believing otherwise i will kill you connor
02:13this i swear robert disabla assassin's creed i want us through this gate before sunrise the sooner
02:22we possess it the sooner we can turn our attention to those jackals at masyaf robert disabla is from
02:28a development standpoint our first templar order grandmaster back in assassin's creed 1 he led the
02:34templars during the third crusade and was lieutenant in king richard i crusader army so he had a lot of
02:41influence in the holy land in his violent pursuit of the apple of eden he had manipulated altair and
02:48by the time we find out it's already too late he reveals he'd been working together with al mu'ulim
02:54the reigning big cheese of the assassin brotherhood at the time turns out altair can't trust anyone
03:00reginald birch assassin's creed 3 evening haytham reginald i can't tell you how happy i was to hear they'd
03:09mounted this revival gay's best work by far have you seen it before one of the most quickly forgotten
03:16templars in all of assassin's creed is reginald birch he's an extremely wealthy grand master of
03:23the british right of the templar order residing in london as it turns out it was birch who was
03:28responsible for recruiting haytham kenway into the order even though reginald had worked for edward
03:34kenway as you may or may not know reginald birch was behind edward's death and was largely responsible
03:40for the ruination of the kenway family he's the mastermind behind the templar schemes during the
03:45american revolution and he had such an impact later british templars like crawford stark got
03:50repeatedly compared to him haytham kenway assassin's creed 3 haytham
03:58you should have come to me we would have found another way
04:05yes but then you would have known
04:09for what it's worth i'm sorry haytham kenway is kind of a tragic figure we don't realize it off the
04:17bat
04:18let alone the fact that he's a templar when we first play as him he's very charismatic and skilled
04:23in the assassin arts however we learn that he's actually the grand master of the colonial templars
04:29and he'd inadvertently cause the downfall of his own family from having been manipulated to do so
04:35most of the events in ac3 and rogue take place partially thanks to him shay may have been the one
04:41holding the blade but it was haytham's direction that destroyed the colonial brotherhood after haytham
04:46took over he explosively grew the colonial templar order
04:55never forget what has happened here
04:59i won't
05:02crawford stark assassin's creed syndicate they have chosen a grand master so ruthless so thorough
05:09one might think reginal birch himself had returned his name is crawford stark and he intends to rule
05:17the world a few hundred years later in london the new grand master of the british templar right in ac
05:23syndicate is the total embodiment of industrial age templar power he controls london's blooming
05:29production industries making him incredibly wealthy and allowing a good degree of political sway
05:35he commands a wide network of political allies and by extension even the gangs of the city if not for
05:41the fry twins stark would have had his hands on the shroud of eden and he even had his eye
05:46on other
05:46pieces of eden too in terms of business stark was the richest templar of them all
06:00cesare borgia assassin's creed brotherhood how did you find it mario altitore let me hear
06:11cesare borgia is one of the most charismatic antagonists across the series his power stems from
06:17a combination of his ruthless ambition political cunning and direct military command unlike other
06:23templars cesare is driven by direct personal feelings and he attempts to forge an empire for
06:28his family with himself at its center while he holds a powerful position it's mostly thanks to his
06:34father's position as pope which cesare exploits for wealth and territory however cesare is a very
06:41skilled and brutal military leader expanding the borgia family through conquest as is the case
06:47with most templars cesare would defy even his own father just to give himself more control instead
06:58kill him kill the assassin tear the martito bastardo to pieces francois tomas germain assassin's creed unity
07:09thank god they've been holding me for months please get me out of here germain was a silversmith
07:16sage and grand master of the french templar order during the french revolution only shortly after
07:22joining the order he had decided to reform the order as he believed it had grown corrupt while it's been
07:28done before no one played both sides as effectively as francois tomas germain interestingly enough while
07:35he was incredibly powerful his reign had some positive effects on france he had both personally
07:41orchestrated the revolution and also ended it all in an effort to take a very late revenge on the royal
07:47family for having purged the templars long ago loriana de torres a aliada assassin's creed 4 black flag
07:55you were expected one week ago apologies governor my ship was set upon by pirates we were scuttled
08:03i arrived only yesterday in black flag the game doesn't actually put so much attention on torres's power and
08:09influence in the assassin templar conflict however not only was he both a spanish military officer
08:15and governor of cuba and florida but he was also secretly a member of the spanish templar order as
08:22well as grand master of the west indies order hilariously enough edward kenway ended up utterly
08:28decimating the west indies templars by accident while he did it with intention later he stumbled upon them
08:33by pure chance but with that said the west indies brotherhood stood no chance for as long as torres
08:40lived as governor he ruled the caribbean with ruthless efficiency and he was the heart of the
08:45templar economy at the time rogers can hold these british hounds at bay for a time but this will be
08:52your
08:52fate if you fail to cooperate rodrigo borgia assassin's creed 2 now is there anything else
09:07powerful as the previous templars were none of them were as powerful as rodrigo borgia also known
09:14as pope alexander the sixth while originally hailing from spain rodrigo would end up as the grand master
09:20of the roman templar order he vastly trumps his peers in reach and power due to his unique position as
09:27the
09:27pope with that amount of religious and spiritual influence he used the catholic church to become a
09:33templar of unparalleled reach during his reign he'd use his power to manipulate historical events all
09:39across europe with the end goal of uniting the entire world under templar control it's safe to say
09:45rodrigo was the most influential templar of them all you can't you can't it's my destiny mine
09:57i am the prophet assassin's creed likes to make powerful historical figures into templars
10:03but who do you think had the most impact tell us your own picks down below in the comments
10:15python's creed like and having a ton of other people
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