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The Old Guard 2 [2025]

[nixscriptum]

[leoholzer]

The Old Guard 2 (2025)

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[backtoaugust-ts]

I have realized that the perfect form of media must have a delicate balance between absolutely heart wrenching pure emotional devastation and the most ridiculous nonsense you have ever seen in your whole life

[karkkidoesartsandcrafts]

Since The Old Guard 2 is coming out soon and I've been on a medieval history brainrot for a while now, I've naturally been thinking about a historical version of Joe and Nicky. Specifically them from the time of their first deaths in 1099 during the First Crusade. Maybe I'll do historical versions of the other Old Guard members as well. While I was figuring out what they would have looked like, I had some thoughts about their historical specifics. So here's my headcanons based on history:

Military orders (like Knights Templar) were only established as a result of the First Crusade to secure pilgrims to the Crusader kingdoms and wage holy wars, which hadn't really been a thing before the First Crusade. This means that the practicing priests among the crusaders were not part of the military, they were there doing priest stuff, not swinging swords. So my headcanon is that Nicólo is originally from a landlord family and was trained as a knight, but he didn't want the heterosexual feudal lifestyle so he joined the church. And when the First Crusade was called, he left the church and joined the crusade as a knight.

Genoa did participate in the Crusade but with a navy, not with an army, so I wouldn't make sense that Nicólo would have fought under Genoan banner, especially if he died in the Siege of Jerusalem as it's implied. So my headcanon is that he joined the army of Tancred, one of the two Norman led Southern Italian armies which were part of the Crusade. Maybe he was in Rome as a priest to study theology or something when the crusade was called.

Fatimid Caliphate (who held Jerusalem before the First Crusade) were ruling from Egypt. Amazigh from Maghreb were significant part of their cavalry. Originally their cavalry consisted of Kutama tribe from Algeria, but they separated from the caliphate around mid 11th century, so I've decided that Yusuf would be from Libya and I headcanon him as part of the Mazata tribe.

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