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The Templar Order Series Shahkulu And Manuel Palaiologos (Assassin's Creed Revelations)

Shahkulu was a Turkmen renegade who became an orphan after an Ottoman attack on his tribe. Homeless, Shahkulu joined the Byzantine Rite of the Templar Order and dedicated his life to his new cause. By 1511, he had become the leader of the Shahkulu rebellion – a widespread pro-Shia and pro-Safavid Qizilbash uprising in Anatolia, directed against the Ottoman Empire. Manuel was born circa 1455, two years after the Fall of Constantinople, as an heir to the Byzantine throne and son to one of the two Despots of Morea. He lived with his family in Glarentza, but in 1460 the Ottomans invaded, leading them to flee to Corfu. The family later fled to Rome, where Manuel's father, Thomas Palaiologos, converted to Catholicism and was recognised as the Byzantine Emperor. During their time in Rome, Manuel and his brother Andreas fostered hopes of refounding the Byzantine Empire. Through Andreas, Manuel became acquainted with Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, Grand Master of the Italian Templars, and Cem, the exiled brother of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II. The brothers became members of the Templar Order, and with Rodrigo's support, they schemed to conquer Constantinople and restore the Byzantine Empire. While his brother sought to reclaim the Byzantine throne militarily, Manuel preferred more subtle means. Manuel moved to Constantinople at some point after 1485, where he offered his rights to the Byzantine throne to Sultan Bayezid II in exchange for a substantial pension. Andreas, who remained in Rome, saw this as a betrayal. Manuel converted to Islam and became the very model of an Ottoman citizen. By the 1490s, when Rodrigo Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, he lost interest in the Palaiologoi's ambitions for Constantinople, and the two brothers had to continue their plans without his support. Andreas, who had been dependent on the Pope's generosity for survival, died in poverty in Rome in 502, leaving Manuel the only male claimant to the Byzantine throne. In 1509, an earthquake struck Constantinople, and Sultan Bayezid moved his court to Edirne. Seeing an opportunity, Manuel began raising an army of Byzantine Templars in Constantinople, who in the Sultan's absence operated increasingly openly, and began to attack the Assassins in Constantinople, stirring them from decades of relative peace. A secret war erupted between the Byzantines and Ottomans throughout the empire. Operating from the underground city of Derinkuyu in Cappadocia, Manuel kept his involvement a secret while the Ottoman Sultan remained unaware of the Byzantines' presence, as he fought with his son Selim over the succession of the Ottoman throne. Prince Ahmet, Bayezid's eldest son and favored heir, developed an interest in the Templars' ideology and quickly joined their ranks, working his way up through the hierarchy. Younger and more charismatic than Manuel, Ahmet silently took the leadership of the Byzantine Templars from him.