Post by Shonengetsu Chronos on Oct 8, 2014 13:35:09 GMT
Name
Fyron
Appearance
Fyron is kept in strictly all armor. Due to the lighting in the image above, it makes his black and white armor seem brighter.
History
Initiation
Officially endorsed by the Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favored 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. Fyron was accepted into the order in 1307, as recommended by the King Philip IV of France. Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. Portugal was the only European country where Templars were not persecuted and arrested (due to the King's will). The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends.
Rise
After the First Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099, many Christian pilgrims traveled to visit what they referred to as the Holy Places. However, though the city of Jerusalem was under relatively secure control, the rest of the Outremer was not. Bandits abounded, and pilgrims were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa into the Holy Land.
Around 1119, two veterans of the First Crusade, the French knight Hugues de Payens and his relative Godfrey de Saint-Omer, proposed the creation of a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin II of Jerusalem agreed to their request, and gave them space for a headquarters on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount had a mystique, because it was above what was believed to be the ruins of the Temple of Solomon.
The Templar Order, though its members were sworn to individual poverty, was given control of wealth beyond direct donations. A nobleman who was interested in participating in the Crusades might place all his assets under Templar management while he was away. Accumulating wealth in this manner throughout Christendom and the Outremer, the Order in 1150 began generating letters of credit for pilgrims journeying to the Holy Land: pilgrims deposited their valuables with a local Templar preceptory before embarking, received a document indicating the value of their deposit, then used that document upon arrival in the Holy Land to retrieve their funds. This innovative arrangement was an early form of banking, and may have been the first formal system to support the use of cheques; it improved the safety of pilgrims by making them less attractive targets for thieves, and also contributed to the Templar coffers.
Decline
In the mid-12th century, the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Muslim world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin, and dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions, politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several unsuccessful campaigns, including the pivotal Battle of the Horns of Hattin, Jerusalem was captured by Saladin's forces in 1187. The Crusaders retook the city in 1229, without Templar aid, but held it only briefly. In 1244, the Khwarezmi Turks recaptured Jerusalem, and the city did not return to Western control until 1917 when the British captured it from the Ottoman Turks.
The Templars were forced to relocate their headquarters to other cities in the north, such as the seaport of Acre, which they held for the next century. But they lost that, too, in 1291, followed by their last mainland strongholds, Tortosa (in what is now Syria), and Atlit. Their headquarters then moved to Limassol on the island of Cyprus, and they also attempted to maintain a garrison on tiny Arwad Island, just off the coast from Tortosa. In 1300, there was some attempt to engage in coordinated military efforts with the Mongols via a new invasion force at Arwad. In 1302 or 1303, however, the Templars lost the island to the Egyptian Mamluks in the Siege of Arwad. With the island gone, the Crusaders lost their last foothold in the Holy Land.
The Templars were indicating an interest in founding their own monastic state, just as the Teutonic Knights had done in Prussia and the Knights Hospitaller were doing with Rhodes.
Fyron's Involvement
In 1305, the new Pope Clement V, based in France, sent letters to both the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the Hospitaller Grand Master Fulk de Villaret to discuss the possibility of merging the two Orders. Neither was amenable to the idea, but Pope Clement persisted, and in 1306 he invited both Grand Masters to France to discuss the matter. De Molay arrived first in early 1307, but de Villaret was delayed for several months. While waiting, De Molay and Clement discussed charges that had been made two years prior by an ousted Templar. It was generally agreed that the charges were false. Upon waiting for the possible outcome of such decisions, King Philip IV of France sent a written request for assistance in the investigation.
Fyron, Pope Clement V, Fulk de Villaret, De Molay, and King Philip IV gather to discuss the outcome of the Templar Knights in Paris. Fyron and Fulk de Villaret come to an agreement, and decide that the Templar Knights will try to overthrow the parliament. The others of the meeting fall into discovery of this secret alliance, arresting the men, and the Templar Knights as a whole. Pope Clement called for papal hearings to determine the Templars' guilt or innocence, and once freed of the Inquisitors' torture, many Templars recanted their confessions. Some had sufficient legal experience to defend themselves in the trials, but in 1310 Philip blocked this attempt, using the previously forced confessions to have dozens of Templars burned at the stake in Paris.
Fyron's Return
Fyron returned upon the awakening of Grand Master Dyavol. Dyavol had finished fighting through the demons which had tried to keep him locked away for so many years. Upon exiting, Dyavol gave speeches to the Templar Knights that were locked within their cages. From the numbers of knights reaching 20,000. Fyron agreed with everything Dyavol had to say, and so Dyavol considered Fyron a special case, and allowed him holy access to secret powers. The two made their ways through the flames of hell. With the new recruitment, and the new start of a holy alliance, Dyavol included Fyron in his plans for the Unholy Extirpation, which will result in the slaughter of everything unholy. Both re-born men of death, but still able to supply full strength, that beyond which humans can control, Fyron learned to gather himself and his new found powers, leaving with only the outcome of the world at hand. The Templar Knights live on.
Title/Rank
Aristocratic Knight Templar
Weapon
The Knights Templar Silver Sword by Marto of Toledo Spain has a tempered steel blade with Silver etchings on the upper third with the Knights Templar cross in black. The very elaborate hilt is in Silver plated cast metal ; 24K Gold accents, with many figures in relief and some Bronze plated inlaids , depicting templar symbols. The disk shaped pommel frames a 24K Gold plated Templar cross, badge of the Order.
Fyron
Appearance
Fyron is kept in strictly all armor. Due to the lighting in the image above, it makes his black and white armor seem brighter.
History
Initiation
Officially endorsed by the Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favored 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. Fyron was accepted into the order in 1307, as recommended by the King Philip IV of France. Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. Portugal was the only European country where Templars were not persecuted and arrested (due to the King's will). The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends.
Rise
After the First Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099, many Christian pilgrims traveled to visit what they referred to as the Holy Places. However, though the city of Jerusalem was under relatively secure control, the rest of the Outremer was not. Bandits abounded, and pilgrims were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa into the Holy Land.
Around 1119, two veterans of the First Crusade, the French knight Hugues de Payens and his relative Godfrey de Saint-Omer, proposed the creation of a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin II of Jerusalem agreed to their request, and gave them space for a headquarters on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount had a mystique, because it was above what was believed to be the ruins of the Temple of Solomon.
The Templar Order, though its members were sworn to individual poverty, was given control of wealth beyond direct donations. A nobleman who was interested in participating in the Crusades might place all his assets under Templar management while he was away. Accumulating wealth in this manner throughout Christendom and the Outremer, the Order in 1150 began generating letters of credit for pilgrims journeying to the Holy Land: pilgrims deposited their valuables with a local Templar preceptory before embarking, received a document indicating the value of their deposit, then used that document upon arrival in the Holy Land to retrieve their funds. This innovative arrangement was an early form of banking, and may have been the first formal system to support the use of cheques; it improved the safety of pilgrims by making them less attractive targets for thieves, and also contributed to the Templar coffers.
Decline
In the mid-12th century, the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Muslim world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin, and dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions, politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several unsuccessful campaigns, including the pivotal Battle of the Horns of Hattin, Jerusalem was captured by Saladin's forces in 1187. The Crusaders retook the city in 1229, without Templar aid, but held it only briefly. In 1244, the Khwarezmi Turks recaptured Jerusalem, and the city did not return to Western control until 1917 when the British captured it from the Ottoman Turks.
The Templars were forced to relocate their headquarters to other cities in the north, such as the seaport of Acre, which they held for the next century. But they lost that, too, in 1291, followed by their last mainland strongholds, Tortosa (in what is now Syria), and Atlit. Their headquarters then moved to Limassol on the island of Cyprus, and they also attempted to maintain a garrison on tiny Arwad Island, just off the coast from Tortosa. In 1300, there was some attempt to engage in coordinated military efforts with the Mongols via a new invasion force at Arwad. In 1302 or 1303, however, the Templars lost the island to the Egyptian Mamluks in the Siege of Arwad. With the island gone, the Crusaders lost their last foothold in the Holy Land.
The Templars were indicating an interest in founding their own monastic state, just as the Teutonic Knights had done in Prussia and the Knights Hospitaller were doing with Rhodes.
Fyron's Involvement
In 1305, the new Pope Clement V, based in France, sent letters to both the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay and the Hospitaller Grand Master Fulk de Villaret to discuss the possibility of merging the two Orders. Neither was amenable to the idea, but Pope Clement persisted, and in 1306 he invited both Grand Masters to France to discuss the matter. De Molay arrived first in early 1307, but de Villaret was delayed for several months. While waiting, De Molay and Clement discussed charges that had been made two years prior by an ousted Templar. It was generally agreed that the charges were false. Upon waiting for the possible outcome of such decisions, King Philip IV of France sent a written request for assistance in the investigation.
Fyron, Pope Clement V, Fulk de Villaret, De Molay, and King Philip IV gather to discuss the outcome of the Templar Knights in Paris. Fyron and Fulk de Villaret come to an agreement, and decide that the Templar Knights will try to overthrow the parliament. The others of the meeting fall into discovery of this secret alliance, arresting the men, and the Templar Knights as a whole. Pope Clement called for papal hearings to determine the Templars' guilt or innocence, and once freed of the Inquisitors' torture, many Templars recanted their confessions. Some had sufficient legal experience to defend themselves in the trials, but in 1310 Philip blocked this attempt, using the previously forced confessions to have dozens of Templars burned at the stake in Paris.
Fyron's Return
Fyron returned upon the awakening of Grand Master Dyavol. Dyavol had finished fighting through the demons which had tried to keep him locked away for so many years. Upon exiting, Dyavol gave speeches to the Templar Knights that were locked within their cages. From the numbers of knights reaching 20,000. Fyron agreed with everything Dyavol had to say, and so Dyavol considered Fyron a special case, and allowed him holy access to secret powers. The two made their ways through the flames of hell. With the new recruitment, and the new start of a holy alliance, Dyavol included Fyron in his plans for the Unholy Extirpation, which will result in the slaughter of everything unholy. Both re-born men of death, but still able to supply full strength, that beyond which humans can control, Fyron learned to gather himself and his new found powers, leaving with only the outcome of the world at hand. The Templar Knights live on.
Title/Rank
Aristocratic Knight Templar
Weapon
The Knights Templar Silver Sword by Marto of Toledo Spain has a tempered steel blade with Silver etchings on the upper third with the Knights Templar cross in black. The very elaborate hilt is in Silver plated cast metal ; 24K Gold accents, with many figures in relief and some Bronze plated inlaids , depicting templar symbols. The disk shaped pommel frames a 24K Gold plated Templar cross, badge of the Order.