Summary: Baybar

At the end of the novel, Baybars was forced to sign a treaty, since he had suddenly had lost his massive advantage. Ever since his close officer, Omar, had been killed in an attempted Templar assassination of Baybars, he had become depressed. Will himself lead the treaty party from Acre to Baybars, and presented the treaty to him in Chapter 47. Young had Baybars sign the treaty on May 22, 1272. The main problem with the treaty in the novel, besides having Will leading the charge, was when the treaty took place. Because after Safed, Baybars moved on to Acre in 1267, but the town was heavily fortified, so he agreed to a truce (End of the Crusades: Mongols, Mamluks, and Muslims). The treaty did not just happen a year before Antioch, which was …show more content…
In Chapter 5, the London Templars remind King Henry III of England that the British royal family has debts to the Templar, so they forced Henry to pawn off his crown jewels to the Templars in Paris until he could pay back those debts. “Pawn the crown jewels to us, my lord. We will hold them until the debts can be repaid” (Young 63). They sent the crown jewels to the Templar vault in Paris, which Will help protected. But there is no evidence of the Templars forcing Henry to move the crown jewels. Henry decided to move his crown jewels to the Knight’s Templar vault in Paris in 1260 to safely store them (When England’s Crown Jewels were moved to England). The most likely reason Young had the Templars take the crown jewels forcefully was to set up Henry’s son, Prince Edward II, a major antagonist. Later in the story, Edward wanted the crown jewels back before his inauguration, so he started to plot to sabotage and blackmail the Templar’s throughout the book, making him the second largest antagonist, behind Baybars. So Young used Henry’s storing of his crown jewels with the Templars, and changed the event to make it seem forceful to advance the character of Edward