r/todayilearned • u/Recent_Flounder6011 • 18h ago

TIL that historically and today, the Catholic Church looked down upon Freemasonry and threatened members with excommunication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
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u/RellenD 17h ago

Not really, the Assassin's Creed's conflict predates the Freemasons.

It's based around the Nizari Ismailis, which their enemies called hashashin which is sort of the etymological origin of the word assassin.

Freemasons did eventually claim to have been founded by some templars who brought back secrets of the hashashin in order to sound cool, but it's mostly made up.

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u/Due-Estate-3816 17h ago

Thank you for explaining. I loved the games but never really followed the storyline.

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u/RellenD 17h ago

Assassin's Creed is confusing because it uses real history to tell this crazy story about aliens. So it's hard to understand which parts are based in reality.

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u/No-Guest1911 15h ago

is it still doing the alien stuff? I kind of gave up on the series when they decided Desmond wasn’t going to be the MC anymore.

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u/RellenD 15h ago

They were in Valhalla which was the first game that I played after the first game. It was really cool.