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Gotta admit I didn't think of Templar meddling in the fatal civil war of the Palaiologoi, but that would lead to some very interesting places indeed. IIRC Andronikos III died from malaria, which I don't think the quinine-less medieval Europeans had any effective treatment for, so I don't think...

Maybe greater success in and around Smyrna in the late 14th-early 15th centuries. However if Timur comes knocking, a combined Hospitaller-Templar defense seems only slightly less doomed than the historical Hospitaller-only garrison of 200 did before his might. To have the Templars represent a...

The Templar Order was one of the three most famous military orders of medieval Christendom alongside the Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights, and also the only one of the three to not have survived into modernity (even if only as defanged, pale shadows of their former selves - certainly as far as...