[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I'm responding to your post but I hope it's clear that I'm not being hostile to you for your thoughts, I'm just using them as a jumping off point for this post.
I see a pretty decent amount of people who look at this design and go "oh like assassin's creed." To a point I understand why, because it's a popular game series, but did they just stop teaching about the crusades at some point so they don't know what the Knights Templar was? Are these people only learning bits and pieces about it from a fictionalized depiction in a video game? Have they never seen the Saxon album cover? The last question was a joke but seriously, the Knights Templar was a real faction of Christians during the crusades and this design is just a blending of elements from the original Azrael's costume and their actual attire of the white tunics with the large red cross. Even in the comics the Order of St. Dumas was always said to be a group which started from the Knights Templar so there is an established reason why the bearer of the Azrael mantle would look like this.

I get why most people have a preference for the red and gold costume since it's the original and a pretty cool look on its own but I like that the suit of sorrows has a more historically inspired fit to the character.

To be honest, most of my Knights Templar knowledge comes from what's been self taught and featured in other things like video games and movies. I can't recall there ever being a moment in school/college where I learned about the Knights Templar beyond a name. Even my Medieval Art History class barely touched upon them. It also doesn't help that the Crusades is one of the least interesting periods of history to me because all it does is make me hate Christianity more than I already do.

I'm more of an ancient civilzation guy. Like if you ask me something in regard to the mythology of Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Norway, or India, I'm going to be more familiar with your question than I would in regard to the Crusades. Additionally, I can tell you a whole lot about the likes of Alexander the Great, Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Rameses the Great, Genghis Khan, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Vlad Tepes Dracul, but if you ask me something about Richard The Lionheart, I'm not going to be able to tell you much beyond the basics.

With that said, I do know that figure looks more like a Knight's Templar design, but it was the drapped hood and flaming sword that made me think it was an AC figure.