Templars

On Friday 13, 1307, the Knights Templar were crushed under charges of apostasy, idolatry, heresy, sorcery, infernal pacts, and worse. Of those few who escaped pyres and nooses, a handful of these once loyal warriors of Christ found themselves gathered together as the Fallen offered them escape - and the power to avenge the injustices committed against them. All they needed, was to embrace the charges levied against them, and take up the very weapons of the Fallen, cast out from Heaven by the word of God himself.

Nine of the knights accepted and, flush with unholy authority, struck down their former comrades in arms. Their secret thus preserved, the Nine went into hiding, pursuing Justice and sowing Holy War wherever they saw fit.

In the centuries since, the Templars have persisted ever since, passing their authority from one generation to the next and answering only to the most senior of their number.

The Nine make a habit of blending seamlessly into their host societies, using their martial prowess and their unholy powers to serve the greater good as they see it - claiming always that their own fall is a necessary and worthy price to pay for the betterment of all mortal kind.

Wielding the weapons of Fallen angels and gifted with authority over Fate itself (at the expense of their own), the Templars are a force even the once vaunted Queens of Faerie would rather not find themselves at odds with.