Charged with continuing its glorious work, Gilles revels in the Templars history, and all his thoughts are in its service. There is no doubt in his mind that the order will see its efforts come to fruition under his reign.

That his knights are now mostly in hiding, for two hundred years more a loose-knit group of fanatics than a chivalric order, does not deter him in the least. He who shrinks from a hard task will not realize his dreams.