Templars Cipher

Encryption uses 25 symbols to represent the letters of the alphabet (The letter J is missing and replaced by a I). The symbols used by the templar alphabet are pieces of the Maltese Cross.

Example: ASSASSIN is written

Some sources have the letters L and K swapped.

Templar decryption requires converting each symbol to their corresponding letter.

Example: is decrypted TEMPLE

Some sources have the letters L and K swapped.

The ciphered message is made from symbols with angles, triangles, with at most one dot per symbol.

The message has at most 25 distinct characters.

Any reference to the Knights Templars or Solomon's Militia (with a reputation of killers/assassins) is a clue.

The Pig-Pen Cipher is similar

The letter J did not exist when encryption was invented, it was a graphic variant of the letter I, and the J only appeared around the 16th century.

The cipher was created by the Templars, the name given to members of the Order of the Temple, a religious and military group from the Middle Ages.

12th century