User blog comment:Powerhouse411/Assassins or Templars/@comment-4080028-20141023162723/@comment-24070327-20141023202041

Fools. The Illuminati were ALREADY involved on this conflict. Before their complete destruction that is.

The Iluminati were founded by an assassin named Adam Weishaupt in an attempt to orchestrate a gruesome death for Charles Theodore. Theodore was a Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, the Duke of Bavaria, and the Grand Master of the Templars at the time. If he had suffered an untimely death, a great blow would have been dealt to the Templars.

Fortunately, Theodore managed to outmaneuver Weishaupt with the aid of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1785, the Illuminati were officially disbanded and all of its members - regardless of whether or not they were assassins themselves - were either executed or driven out of Bavaria by the threat of execution.

Not long after the defeat of the Assassin Illuminati, a Templar Illuminati was founded. The Templar Illuminati existed as somewhat of a scapegoat. Its purpose was to receive the blame for events caused by the Templars in order to obscure our involvings in a number of events. This Templar Illuminati is the Illuminati that most people think of when the organization is brought up.

Though it's true that we could have named the scapegoat organization any number of things, we decided to go with Illuminati as sort of a "Fuck you," to the assassins whom had been plotting to murder one of our greatest leaders.