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The King is... merely a symbol. A symbol can inspire fear, and fear can inspire control - but men inevitably lose their fear of symbols. As you can see. This was the truth de Molay died for: the Divine Right of Kings is nothing but the reflection of sunlight upon gold. When the Crown and Church are ground to dust, we who control the gold will decide the future. (Jacques de Molay, you are avenged.)
~ François-Thomas Germain to Arno Dorian.
Bravo. You've slain the villain. That is how you've cast this little morality play in your mind, isn't it? I'm not really here. I'm not really there, either. At the moment, I'm bleeding out on the floor of the Temple. But it seems the Father of Understanding has seen fit to give us this time to talk. {...} Think on this: the march of progress is slow, but it is inevitable as a glacier. All you have accomplished is to delay the inevitable. One death cannot stop the tide. Perhaps it will not be my hand that shepherds mankind back to its proper place - but it will be someone's. Think on this when you remember her.
~ Germain's last words to Arno Dorian.

François-Thomas Germain was a Sage, the Grand Master of the Parisian Rite of the Templar Order and the main antagonist of the 2014 Ubisoft videogame Assassin's Creed: Unity, set in the French Revolution.

He was responsible for the assassination of his predecessor in the Templar's Grand Master ranks, Francois de la Serre, which led to his promotion to Grand Master and, unintentionally, caused the protagonist Arno Dorian to join the Assassins and led to de la Serre's daughter, Elise de la Serre, to get revenge on the Sage.

His plan is to recreate the Templar Order in his own way, so that they can become the secret masters they were destined to be. Motivated to do this by Templar Sage Jacques de Molay and his legacy, Germain had managed to execute King Louis XVI of France and start the French Revolution. He was killed by Arno Dorian while battling him and Elise with his weapon, the Sword of Eden.

He was voiced by Julian Casey, who also voiced Buck Hughes in Far Cry 3.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Born with the memory of the First Civilization in his mind, Germain determined to shape the destiny of thehuman race in his own way. But due to conflicting ideals, he was cast out of the Templar Order by its Grand Master, François de la Serre. Germain deemed the Order corrupt and having forgotten its original purpose, and schemed with other Templars who formed a splinter group with him.

Murder of François de la Serre[]

Though further involvement of Germain is unknown, he was the mastermind behind the murder of de la Serre, as well as the maker of the weapon used for the murder.

Death of Chrétien Lafrenière[]

After Arno dealt with de la Serre's direct killers, Charles Gabriel Sivert and Le Roi des Thunes, he was led by the blade used to kill de la Serre to its maker, François-Thomas Germain. Upon Germain's first encounter with Arno, he craftly downplayed the fact that he once was a Templar himself, and pretended to be a simple silversmith who unintentionally discovered Chrétien Lafrenière's terrible secrets while working for him. Germain catered to Arno's desperate desire for revenge, and falsely accused Lafrenière of having him make the poisoned pin blade, as well as plotting something ominous in Halles.

Arno infiltrated Lafrenière's meeting with his followers in a graveyard in Halles, just in time to witness his zealous lecture against the Jacobin Club and the Assassins. Blinded by his rage and misled by Germain's false information, Arno decided against reporting what he had learned to the Assassins' Concil, and chose to take action immediately instead. But after assassinating Lafrenière, Arno found that despite the Templar's disagreements with de la Serre on the truce with Mirabeau, Lafrenière was the man who sent the letter warning de la Serre about the traitor within the ranks of the Templars.

Since Lafrenière was loyal to de la Serre, which was further hinted by Mirabeau's statement, he might not have been the man behind the murder. The attack planned by Lafrenière on a certain location, which was not among the Assassin safehouses, became the new lead of Arno's investigation.

By the time Arno had discovered Germain's deception from Élise de la Serre, Germain had already abandoned his residence, knowing that his bluff would not hold for long.

Execution of the King[]

In 21 January 1793, Germain was present at the Place de la Concorde, where the former King of France, Louis XVI was about to be executed. The Templar Grand Master then confronted Arno once again, proclaiming the rebirth of the Templar Order. Germain claimed to Arno that the reason for de la Serre's murder was to rid the Templar Order of corruption and bigotry. Germain also stated that de la Serre's murder was only the first phase of the Order's 'rebirth', and that the Order is truly reborn with the death of the former King Louis XVI.

Germain revealed his plans as Louis XVI was placed at the guillotine. By ridding France's upper class and aristocracy of power, it would be much easier for the Templars to gain control over France, by granting the power to the people instead. Once the former King was beheaded, Germain then made his escape, leaving Arno to deal with his subordinates.

Final Battle[]

After the downfall of Maximilien de Robespierre, knowledge of Germain's garrison, the Temple, was exposed to Arno and Élise de la Serre, who both infiltrated the Temple on their own and attempted to assassinate Germain. It was during this endeavor that Germain was tracked by Arno to the Temple's rooftop. As the Assassin attempted to kill Germain, he soon discovered that the Templar wielded an ancient and advanced weapon, a Sword of Eden, making him a very difficult opponent.

Upon their final confrontation, Arno requested that Élise distract Germain, which she successfully did, allowing him to land three strikes. Prompted to use the Sword's power, Germain blasted Arno away with the artifact's power, pinning the Assassin under a large chunk of debris.

Faced with the choice of helping Arno free himself or preventing Germain's escape, Élise initially went to aid Arno, but soon changed her mind, engaging in a duel with the Templar Grand Master. In the exchange of blows, Élise managed to damage the Sword of Eden enough for it to backfire, with the resulting explosion injuring Germain and killing Élise. Just prior to the blast, Arno succeeding in breaking free, but arrived too late to stop the event from happening.

Mournfully, Arno looked over to the body of his dead love, before turning to assassinate Germain with his Hidden Blade. Arno witnessed Germain speaking directly into his mind, elaborating on the memory of the First Civilization, and explaining its driving factor in his motivation to purge the Templar Order.

Years after the confrontation, Arno entered the temple once more, accompanied by Napoleon Bonaparte. There, they discovered Germain's corpse which had long since decayed. They then buried his skeletal corpse in the Parisian catacombs.

Personality and Characteristics[]

As a reincarnation of Aita, a member of the First Civilization, Germain displayed contempt towards humanity, believing that it should revert back to being the subjugated race they had been millennia before. His beliefs were also influenced by the ideologies of Jacques de Molay, who was also a Sage.

Germain was extremely ruthless, willing to go to great lengths to see his ambitions fulfilled, and humanity returned to the role of slaves. This was seen through the turmoil of the French Revolution, where his machinations caused millions of civilians across France to starve, and thousands more to die under the Reign of Terror. He also expressed little remorse for the deaths of his Templar followers, even forsaking them if they were ever to outlive their usefulness, as seen with Robespierre. Germain believed these sacrifices to be for the greater good.

He cared little for his own well-being, calmly embracing death in his conversation with Arno. This was due to his confidence that someone else would carry on his ideals in the future, and the knowledge that as a Sage, he would be reborn again.

Equipment, Powers and Skills[]

  • Manipulation Skills: Germain was a master of manipulation, able to recruit certain individuals by exploiting their dissatisfaction with the corruption in France, such as Aloys la Touche and Frédéric Rouille. Likewise, Germain was able to take advantage of Arno's desire for redemption for de la Serre's death to eliminate Lafrenière.
  • Craftsmanship: As a silversmith, Germain was a skilled craftsman, and was able to manufacture silver pins used to signify the allegiance of his followers. These pins could be used for offensive purposes, and laced with poisons if needed.
  • Swordsmanship: Germain could use the sword as a melee weapon as well, being able to hold his own in a sword fight against Élise, an expert at swordswomanship. This highlight's his skills in swordsmanship.
  • Sage DNA: Being a Sage, Germain was capable of using First Civilization artifacts without suffering from any detrimental effects, unlike human beings. This was seen when the Master Assassin Arno Dorian, despite having the Sword of Eden, couldn't access the Sword of Eden's powers and only use it as a deadly melee weapon instead.
    • Precognitive Visions: As a Sage and reincarnation of Aita, he would regularly relive memories of Aita in a form of precognitive visions. He was also able to relive Jacques de Molay's memories, a Sage himself, thus therefore was able to locate the Sword of Eden and the Codex Pater Intellectus.
  • Sword of Eden: He was able to wield the Sword of Eden, the ame one which once belonged to Jacques de Molay and access all of its super-enhanced abilities.
    • Translocation: While possessing the Sword of Eden, once Arno defeats him in combat, he has been seen to immediately translocate from the top of the Knights Templar's Temple to the vault in the Catacombs beneath the Knight's Templar's Temple in an instant flash of electricity.
    • Energy Blasts: He can direct the Sword at an opponent and fire an energy blast which can maybe outright kill any man or woman.
    • Lightning Strikes: Once locating Arno's hiding Spot, he would release an energy blast into the air above himself, causing a lightning strike over Arno.
    • Echolocation: He was even able to use an echolocation ability similar to the infamous Eagle Vision, which allowed him to detect Arno's present hiding spot within his vicinity.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • According to Bishop, Germain was the second known Sage who became a Templar Grand Master, following Jacques de Molay, as Abstergo Industries suggested.
  • Germain was in the carriage which Arno mistook for François de la Serre's, when he attempted to deliver the message from Chrétien Lafrenière to de la Serre.

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M[[ngol conquests: Möngke Khan | Asutai | Bayan

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Bahri dynasty: Leila

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Spanish Templars
Granada War: Tomás de Torquemada | Ojeda | Ramirez

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 Marigot Charlie 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

Russian Templars
19th & 20th Century: Grigori Rasputin | Dolinsky | Yuri Dolinsky | Yakov Yurovsky | Yuri Petrovich Figatner

German Templars
18th Century: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
World War I: Erich Albert
World War II: Gero Kramer

21st Century Templars (Abstergo Industries, mainly)
Alan Rikkin | Warren Vidic | Daniel Cross | Juhani Otso Berg | Laetitia England | Simon Hathaway | Álvaro Gramática | Isabelle Ardant | Violet da Costa | Melanie Lemay | Dominika Wilk


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


Others
Blume Corporation

Assassin Brotherhood & Their Allies
Colonial Assassins | Achilles Davenport | Hope Jensen | Adéwalé | Kesegowaase | Liam O'Brien | Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye | Le Chasseur | Basim Ibn Ishaq | Pierre Bellec

Bellatores Dei
Isidore Mercator | Ebels | Engelwin | Euphrasia | Gozllin


Girolamo Savonarola's forces
Girolamo Savonarola | Painter | Guard Captain | Nobleman | Priest | Merchant | Doctor | Farmer | Condottiero | Preacher

The Tyranny of King Washington
George Washington | Isreal Putnam | Benedict Arnold

Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper | John Billingsworth | Olwyn Owers

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