The Order!

Jblue8298 wrote:

Neglecterino wrote:

philiweiss wrote:

philiweiss wrote:
Who or what exactly is The Order? If I remember the story so far correctly it was mentioned that they are the enemy of the Stonecutters. But why? Who are they and what did they do? I had hoped for some solution at the end of the storyline but they were never mentioned again... Any ideas?

Anyone?

I don't think The Order is canon. I cannot find reference to them.

I couldn't find any reference to a Stonecutters adversary in the episode. I believe this was added for TSTO. As far as I can figure, it could be an reference to the Order of the Illuminati, as opposed to the Freemasons.

From wikipedia:
"The Illuminati movement was founded on May 1, 1776 in Ingolstadt, Upper Bavaria as the Order of the Illuminati ... The Order was made up of freethinkers as an offshoot of the Enlightenment and seems to have been modelled on the Freemasons ... and many Illuminati chapters drew membership from existing Masonic lodges."

I'm not an expert on this stuff, but it seems that maybe the Order of the Illuminati were somewhat rivals to the Freemasons, which is where the TSTO Order could have originated.

Also, for the animation after tapping the Order:

http://media.giphy.com/media/44xbSETipsXVm/giphy.gif