Plus Ultra is real. Let me explain how we got here.
Though they were founded to protect Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land, the Templars had become corrupted by their power, abandoned their mission, and began to worship Baphomet. But there was a small group that split off from the rest, a remnant that had not bent the knee. Reformed as the Order of Christ, they sought to create a kingdom of their own that their legacy might not perish from the earth. Portugal, Port of the Grail, became their base to rebuild the wonders of the ancient world that were lost under the waves of the great cataclysm.