Marlowe harboured an ambition to restore the organisation's power and, in a dream passed down through 400 years, sought to exploit the secret of the Atlantis of the Sands.an aspiration long frustrated by Nate's theft of Sir Francis Drake's ring in Cartagena In its post-Elizabethan form, it should not be regarded as an explicitly political organisation think of it more as a secret cult with clandestine motivations, in the style of the Illuminati. It has operated in secret throughout history, manipulating individuals and world events through the use of deception, drugs and "magic". This spy network is the basis of Marlowe's order, with Walsingham, John Dee and even Elizabeth herself among its founding members. There is a famous portrait that shows the monarch wearing a dress where, if you look closely, you can see that it is covered with symbols of eyes and ears a far from subtle warning to those who might conspire against the Crown's interest.
Among his many innovations, he is believed to have recruited agents to operate in numerous foreign courts to gather intelligence and distribute misinformation. Sir Francis Walsingham, Principle Secretary to Queen Elizabeth, was a pioneer of modern espionage techniques it was he who created the spy network of remarkable reach and sophistication. Marlowe is the head of a secret society that dates back to Elizabethan England. This event is the origin of Uncharted 3's subtitle. On reaching a temple in Yemen, though, the explorer was deeply alarmed by the warnings he found there abandoning his search, he lied to Elizabeth on his return to England. They hoped that he might at least return with plunder and, if legends were true, a source of great power. Drake's Deception, however, implies that Sir Francis Drake was charged by Elizabeth and her advisors to make a stop in Arabia to find Iram of the Pillars, a lost city. Some believe that the discrepancy occurred because Drake actually attempted to find and navigate the Northwest Passage, the Arctic Ocean sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific.
Official documents were falsified, and the surviving sailors compelled on pain of death to stay their tongues, to prevent sensitive informtion from falling into the hands of the rival Spanish. Records of his voyage were declared classified by Elizabeth on his return to England.
Drake claimed that it required months to sail through the East Indies during his famous circumnavigation, when it should have needed no more than a few weeks.