Editing Mage: The Ascension (section)

====Knights Templar====
Yes, the real deal. Once part of the Order of Reason they were betrayed and went into hiding. Are a very secretive group and communicate mostly through the Internet in messages that can only be deciphered by someone with extensive knowledge of scripture and the Templars themselves. Gather in lodges, some of whom are charity-minded nuns while others are monks/soldiers of Christ. 

Very few mages, but they're one of the only societies in the series where mages (or really supernaturals of any sort) work side by side with ordinary humans as equals. One of the most unambiguously good groups in the setting, partially due to focusing on protecting normal people from monsters rather than hunting heretics these days, and partially because most of them (not many, ''most'') have the normally impossibly rare ability of True Faith, which is essentially God's personal seal of approval. 

A few went off to join the Celestial Choir and take the fight back to the [[New_World_Order|corrupted elements of the Order of Reason/Technocratic Union]], but most remained behind, not particularly caring about the Ascension War focusing on fighting monsters and continuing their responsibility to guide human progress as defined by the pre technocracy order of reason. After all, in their minds, God is the final auditor of Reality. Why fight over it when you could be saving lives and souls?