Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order

The Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, also known as The NineAssassin's Creed: Templars – , is the council of the Order consisting of nine of the best and brightest members of the modern day Templar Order and collectively with the Council of Elders, Guardians and the General of the Cross
are the central governance of the entire Templar Order over the Outer Temple, alongside holding the highest positions within Abstergo Industries and the Black Crosses as their enforcer in the Outer Temple.Assassin's Creed: The Essential Guide – Chapter 5
==Structure==
===Authority===
The decisions made by the council of the Inner Sanctum are reviewed by the three Guardians that either approve or refuse further action by the he General of the Cross, being the highest-ranking individual within the hierarchy of the modern day Templar Order.Assassin's Creed: Unity – Helix Database: 10. Reconnaissance Memo With only Guardians knowing the identity of the General.
==The Ritual Garbs==
During Simon Hathaway's initiation into the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order, he noted that the ritual garb had been made by hand and not machines, ranging from the sheep being hand-sheared and the wool carded, spun and dyed by human labor. This showed the Templar's ritual garbs were much like those worn by Templars across the centuries, which Simon, as a historian, valued and admired due to the Templars putting in effort towards genuine authenticity.
==History==
Under their leadership of the Outer Temple during the Age of Enlightenment, the Templars had became supportive of the that emerged, in which intellectuals such as Isaac Newton, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, and Francis Bacon represented a new emerging society of science and technology.Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia – Chapter 2 When François-Thomas Germain successfully petitioned the American, Italian, and Spanish Rites for supportAssassin's Creed: Unity (novel) recruited followersAssassin's Creed: Unity – Le Roi Est MortAssassin's Creed: Unity – Rise of the Assassin for his coup and and began purging all French Templars opposing him, including Chrétien Lafrenière and François' daughter Élise. The reformed Rite brought about de Molay's proposed based Jacques de Molay's Codex Pater Intellectus.Assassin's Creed: Unity – The Temple for abolishing the monarchy to create a capitalist society and had critical support from the Outer Temple, while the Carroll family of the British Rite got the other Rites eventually began sanctioning the de la Serre faction over their views on collaborating with the Assassins to end their war that same views were expressed by Elise during their conflicts in London. This gradually redirected the entire Templar Order to adopt this policy under the leadership of the Inner Sanctum. 
==Known members==
===Current members===
ACUp Agneta Reider.png|Agneta ReiderAssassin's Creed: Heresy – Chapter 1Chief Executive Officer, Abstergo Financial Group
ACR Laetitia England 2.png|Laetitia EnglandAssassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.17\Ins_InnerSanctum"Head of Operations, Abstergo
AC1-David Kilkerman Render.png|David KilkermanResearch, Animus Project
Mitsuko Nakamura.png|Dr. Mitsuko NakamuraResearch, Director of Lineage Research and Acquisition
ACRG Otso Berg.png|Juhani Otso BergAssassin's Creed: Uprising – Issue #2Operations, Director of Abstergo Medical
Simon Hathaway.png|Pr. Simon HathawayHistorical Research Division, Abstergo
ACTF-Stearns.png|Alfred StearnsRetired Head of Operations, Abstergo
Wiki noimage.jpg|Vacantsince December 2016
Wiki noimage.jpg|Vacantsince 2018
===Former members===
ACS Alvaro Gramatica.png|Dr. Álvaro GramáticaResearch, Future Technology Divisiondied 2018
ACM Templar Rikkin.jpg|Alan RikkinAbstergo Industries Chief Executive Officerdied 2016
ACS Isabelle Ardant.png|Isabelle ArdantOperations, Historical Research Divisiondied 2015
ACi-Daniel-Cross-V.png|Daniel CrossOperations, Abstergodied 2012
Warren Vidic.png|Warren VidicResearch, Animus Projectdied 2012
Wiki noimage.jpg|Otto SchmidtOperations, Lineage Research and Acquisitiondied 2012
==Behind the scenes==
While the Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order has only been used in modern day context, the number nine occurs multiple times throughout Templar history: the number of men that Bernard de Clairvaux sent to Solomon's Temple,Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: "File.0.02\Hst_Beginning" the number of Levantine Templars that Mentor Al Mualim tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to kill in his Hunt for the Nine,Assassin's Creed – Knowledge (Masun) and the number of agents that Jacques de Molay sent out to the world during the persecution of the Templars.Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Abstergo Files: File.0.06\Hst_VoxInExcelso It is unknown if these other groups constituted as previous iterations of the Inner Sanctum.
==Gallery==
ACR Inner Sanctum Access.png|Juhani Otso Berg accessing the Inner Sanctum office
ACR Laetitia England.png|Laetitia England meeting with Berg
ACR Vidic Laetitia Inner Sanctum.png|Warren Vidic and Laetitia meeting with Berg
Our inner circle.jpg|A list of the Inner Sanctum members in 2011
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Revelations 
*Assassin's Creed III 
*Assassin's Creed: Heresy
*Assassin's Creed: Templars
*Assassin's Creed: Uprising
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - The Fate of Atlantis
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood of Venice 
*Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot 
==References==
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