Assassins Creed Archives

Knights Templar – A Secret History: Graeme Davis interview

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Tony McMahon

Category: Templar Mystery Tags: 1307, america, Assassins Creed, dragons, dungeons, Emile, fact, fantasy, fiction, Fouchet, games, gaming, Graeme Davis, history, knights, mystery, myth, Osprey, secret, Templar, today, trial, truth, Warhammer

The Knights Templar – guilty or innocent?

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Tony McMahon

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So – were the Knights Templar guilty or innocent? Since their downfall, opinions on the guilt of the Knights Templar have been bitterly divided. Right down to our own time, experts have quarrelled over whether the charges against the Order…

Category: Templar History Tags: Agrippa, Assassins Creed, buried, Cornelius, Dupuy, guilt, Heinrich, history, innocent, Ivanhoe, Knightfall, knights, Llull, Ramon, Scott, Templar, today, truth, witchcraft

Knights Templar medieval video games

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Tony McMahon

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The Knights Templar have been a huge influence on medieval video games sometimes as the good guys but very often as the villains

Category: Templar History Tags: Adelle, Assassins Creed, Broken Sword, clown, computer, console, games, George Stobbart, Infernal Crusade, knights templar, Mac, Medieval, PC, Shadow, Templar, templars, The First Templar, video, video game, Xbox

Medieval stories – from book to TV and video game!

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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The medieval era has provided constant compelling content for the book, movie, TV and video game industry as Tony McMahon discovers

Category: Templar History Tags: Alamut, Andrzej Sapkowski, Assassins Creed, book, Film, Henry Cavill, knight, movie, Netflix, Nintendo, Polish, Templar, The Hexer, The Witcher, video game, Vladimir Bartol

Who is Jacques de Molay in Assassins Creed?

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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Jacques de Molay is a character in Assassins Creed but he existed in real life so Tony McMahon sets out to compare the video game and reality

Category: Templar History Tags: Aita, Assassins, Assassins Creed, bloodline, Codex, Desmond Miles, game, Grail, grand master, illuminati, jacques de molay, Juno, knights, paris, Sage, Templar, templars, Temple, video

Stalin – friend or foe of the Knights Templar?

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has been depicted as both a friend and an enemy of the Knights Templar so what is the truth? Tony McMahon investigates.

Category: Templar History Tags: 1930s, 30s, Abstergo, arrested, Assassins, Assassins Creed, Eden, Explosion, Figatner, illegal, KGB, Kultura, liquidated, Moscow, Narodnik, NKVD, purge, russia, Soviet, Soviet Union, spy, Staff, Stalin, Templar, traitor, Tunguska