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The Cult of Kosmos are one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside the Order of the Ancients) of the Assassin's Creed franchise, serving as the main antagonists of Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
It is an ancient secretive cult that worships a deity known as Kosmos that was one of several antecedents to the Templar Order alongside the Order of the Ancients.
Unlike the Greek world, the Cult of Kosmos were monotheistic and held a strong reverence for Kosmos, whom they believed to be a Supreme Being. They had also believed in an afterlife and believed that their works will reward them with a blissful afterlife for serving the Cult of Kosmos. Some cult members also revered members who descended from the bloodline of the Isu as demigods.
The Cult of Kosmos sought to create a unified Greek Nation, one where unnecessary violence and human vices would be absent and the people could move towards a more rational and developing society. This new extremely rational and semi-democratic Greece would've been led by a Philosopher-king.
In order to accomplish their goal of creating a unified Greece, they turned to creating a controlled war but soon became engulfed by greed over the massive amounts of profit and political power it granted them. They then sought to delay their final goal, all the while plotting to extending their war as much as possible. These cultists even enabled Deimos, a mentally unstable and borderline superhuman descendant of the Isu, to become their violent leader and ignored the orders of the Ghost of Kosmos.
Biography[]
The Cult of Kosmos was founded at some point after the meeting of Hermes Trismegistus and Pythagoras which had led to the Cult of Hermes. Disaffected with the Cult of Hermes ways, a number of followers splintered from the group and formed their own collective, the Cult of Kosmos, led by the Ghost of Kosmos. In the 5th century BCE, the Cult notably supported King Xerxes I of Persia during his conquests, seeing him as a means to unite all Greece as one under his rule. As such, they were working with the Order of the Ancients to install Xerxes as the ruler of Greece.
In 480 BCE when Leonidas I of Sparta consulted the Pythia about going to war against the Persians, the whole cult confronted the Spartan King warning him not to oppose their plans. Nevertheless, Leonidas chose to disregard their threats and fight against the invaders an act of defiance which cost him his life. Following Leonidas's defiance, the Cult grew determined to wipe out his bloodline due to its potential for interference. In 446 BCE, through their manipulation of the Pythia, the Cult spread word that the youngest grandchild of Leonidas, Alexios, would bring ruin to Sparta and as a result the infant was sentenced to execution concurrently. Alexios's sister, Kassandra, tried to save her brother only to push him and the execution did not go the plan. However, both children survived while Kassandra went into exile her mother, Myrrine took Alexios to the Sanctuary of Asklepios in Argolis to seek medical aid, but the priests at the sanctuary told Myrrine that Alexios did not survive his wounds. This however, was a lie and instead, the cultist know as Chrysis took Alexios as her own and renamed him Deimos so the Cult could use him as a weapon.
Peloponnesian War[]
Several decades later, the Cult had orchestrated the Peloponnesian War in one of their efforts to achieve control of the entire Greek world amidst the conflict between Athens and Sparta. In order to further promote war, many Sages and other Cultists infiltrated the Delian and the Peloponnesian Leagues to sow further discord and prepare their respective areas for war. At some point, the Cult learnt that Kassandra had survived and was operating as a misthios on Kephallonia. They had planned to eliminate her, until Elpenor of the Eyes of Kosmos branch convinced the others that she could instead be hired to assassinate her stepfather Nikolaos, thereby preventing an immediate Spartan victory over Athens. However, by doing so, Elpenor ultimately exposed the existence of the Cult as a whole to Kassandra, who immediately sought to hinder their plans and eliminate them entirely.
In 431 BCE, the Cult held their first meeting after decades in the Sanctuary of Kosmos beneath the Sanctuary of Delphi, where they were intending to discuss several matters regarding the war. Kassandra infiltrated the Cult using Elpenor's robes and mask, and in the process discovered several letters from various parts of the Greek world, eventually learning of their plans. She soon encountered Deimos, the Cult's enforcer and its de-facto leader, who had discovered Elpenor's demise and brought his head as proof to find out the traitor. As he tested all the Cultists using the artifact to find the supposed traitor, he called the disguised Kassandra and realized her identity when she touched the artifact. Confused and surprised, Deimos sent her away and called the next Cultist, Epiktetos to test him. Due to the emotional turmoil he experienced, Deimos misunderstood Epiktetos as the traitor and brutally executed him, while Kassandra went away.
For the Cult's role in corrupting her younger brother and having pulled the Greek world into war, Kassandra began hunting down the Cult's members. Despite their attempts to remain in secret, whispers and rumors about them spread all over the Greek world. Herodotos had heard about them, and some even knew how the Cult forced Lagos to work for them by holding his family hostage.
After Kassandra eliminated the entire Cult, she eventually learned the identity of the acting Ghost of Kosmos, who was none other than Aspasia, Perikles' consort. She then went to the Sanctuary of Delphi to destroy the pyramidal artifact, where she found Aspasia and confonted her.
Despite Aspasia being the leader of the Cult, she lost a great deal of her influence due to Deimos, who violently rose to power.
It is unknown if Kosmos was actually an Isu or had any connection with the Father of Understanding, a deity revered by the Templar Order. Some Cultists of the Worshippers branch believed that Kosmos was suffering and hungry for blood.
The Cult had worked closely with the Order of the Ancients, though the Order doubted their worth eventually after most of its members died. The Order had apparently wanted Kassandra dead and cited it as one of their various favors provided to them.
Byzantine Templars
16th Century Ottoman Empire: Prince Ahmet | Manuel Palaiologos | Shahkulu | Leandros | Cyril of Rhodes | Damat Ali Pasha | Georgios Kostas | Lysistrata | Mirela Djuric | Odai Dunqas | Vali cel Tradat | Anacletos | Fabiola Cavazza | Cem | Dulcamara | Eveline Guerra | Kadir | Samila Khadim | Andreas Palaiologos | Hasan Pasha | Oksana Razin | Seraffo | Scevola Spina
Chinese Templars
Ming Dynasty: Zhang Yong | Qiu Ju | Wei Bin | Yu Dayong | Ma Yongcheng | Gao Feng
Republican era: Sun Yat-sen | Soong Ching-ling | Stirling Fessenden | Tatsumi | Joffre | Coxworth
Japanese Templars
Sengoku period: Francis Xavier | Alessandro Valignano | Uesugi Kenshin | Mochizuki Chiyome
Caribbean Templars
Golden Age of Piracy: Laureano de Torres y Ayala | Woodes Rogers | Benjamin Hornigold | Josiah Burgess | John Cockram | Julien du Casse | Kenneth Abraham | Jing Lang | Hilary Flint | Lucia Márquez | Christopher Condent | Francis Hume | Mancomb Seepgood | John Barnes | Alejandro Ortega de Márquez | Alphonse de MarigotCharlie Oliver | Cuali | Felicia Moreno | Renardo Aguilar | Sylvia Seabrooke | Vargas
Portuguese Templars
16th Century: Francisco
18th Century: Manuel Pinto da Fonseca | Duarte Jorge Correia Pinto | Lourenço de Noronha
Louisiana Templars
18th Century New Orleans: Madeleine de L'Isle | Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer | George Davidson | Diego Vázquez | Antonio de Ulloa
Colonial Templars/American Templars
American Revolution: Haytham Kenway | Charles Lee | Nicholas Biddle | Benjamin Church | Shay Cormac | Thomas Hickey | John Pitcairn | William Johnson | Man O' War captain | Jack Weeks | Christopher Gist | George Monro | Edmund Judge | Coyote Man | Matthew Davenport | George Dorrance | Johann de Kalb | Eleanor Mallow | Gillian McCarthy | Federico Perez | Johann Rall | Gerhard von Stantten | Jonathan Trumbull | Victor Wolcott
Early 19th Century: Solomon Bolden | Jan van der Graff
American Civil War: William M. Tweed | A. Oakey Hall | Charles W. Sandford | Cudgel Cormac | Peter B. Sweeny | Richard B. Connolly
Late 19th Century: Alice
20th & 21st Century: Albert Bolden | Nelson W. Aldrich | Henry Pomeroy Davison | Thomas Edison | Harvey Firestone | Henry Ford | John Pierpont Morgan | Charles Norton | Ransom Eli Olds | Benjamin Strong, Jr. | Frank A. Vanderlip | Paul Warburg | Harry Dexter White | Buzz Aldrin | John von Neumann | William King Harvey | Lyndon B. Johnson | John Roberts
British Templars
Hundred Years' War: John, Duke of Bedford
Renaissance: Margaret of York | Perkin Warbeck
Golden Age of Piracy: Samuel Parris | William Stoughton | Benjamin Pritchard | Aubrey Hague | Henry Spencer | Emmett Scott | Wilson
Georgian and Colonial Era: Reginald Birch | Edward Braddock | Lawrence Washington | Samuel Smith | Emmet Scott | James Wardrop | Mrs. Carroll | May Carroll | Peter Carroll | Matthew Hage | Frederick Weatherall | Crimson Rose
Victorian Era: Crawford Starrick | Lucy Thorne | James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan | Philip Twopenny | John Cotton | Pearl Attaway | Malcolm Millner | John Elliotson | David Brewster | Rupert Ferris | Brinley Ellsworth | Reynolds | Cavanagh | Marchant | Robert Waugh | William Sleeman | Alexander Burnes | Walter Lavelle
Interwar Britain: Thaddeus Gift | Darius Gift | Ferris
21st Century: Graham Westerly
Parisian Templars
Hundred Years' War: Georges de la Trémoille | Jean d'Estivet | John II of Alençon | John II of Luxembourg | Philip III of Burgundy | Pierre Cauchon
Late-Renaissance: Alexandre de Hautecourt | François Ascair | La Morguy | Pierre de Lancre | Ermeline
French Revolution:
Radical faction: Francois-Thomas Germain | Charles Gabriel Sivert | Le Roi des Thunes | Frédéric Rouille | Marie Lévesque | Louis-Michel le Peletier | Aloys la Touche | Flavigny | Marcourt | Maximilien de Robespierre | Jean Gilbert | Denis Molinier | Duchesneau | Arpinon | Payen
Moderate faction: François de la Serre | Élise de la Serre | Chrétien Lafrenière | Comte de Choisy | Jean Burnel | Jean-Jacques Calvert | Le Fanu | Marquis de Kilmister | Magdelaine Lévesque | Marquis de Pimôdan | Julie de la Serre | Marquis de Simonon
Austrian Templars
19th Century: Julius Jacob von Haynau | Hennighan | Konstanze von Visler | Karl Mayr
Templar's Allies and Puppets Xerxes I of Persia | Ptolemy XIII | Cleopatra | Al Mualim | Abbas Sofian | Richard I of England | Sixtus IV | Dante Moro | Paganino | Jiajing Emperor | Isabella I of Castile | Duncan Walpole | Laurens Prins | Vance Travers | El Tiburón | Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie | James Cook | Kanen'tó:kon | Jacques Roux | Maxwell Roth | Leon Trotsky
Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper | John Billingsworth | Olwyn Owers
Mythological Creatures Gorgon |Minotaur | Hecatoncheires | Sphinx | Cyclops | Cerberus | Living Mommies | Headless Horseman | Spring Heeled Jack Miscellaneous Gamilat | Isidora | Gennadios | Diovicos & Viridovix | Burgred of Mercia | Rued | Eadwyn | Patrick O'Hara | Enzio Capelli | Ivarr the Boneless | Ricsige of Northumbria | John Raymond | Modron | Charles the Fat | Ercole Massimo | Madame Lee | Peter Chamberlaine | Bartholomew Roberts | Pierre, Marquis de Fayet | Silas Thatcher | Philippe Rose | Fiend of Fleet Street