My dear Lady Zilmar, I believe you are confusing Templar Orders with Knightly Orders. The Order of the Hour that Emerald is referring to is the military arm of the Akatosh Chantry; they are temple knights, not a true knightly order such as the Knights of the Dragon of Daggerfall. A temple and its military order are one and the same. If you join one, you join both. Of course, often locating an actual guildhall of a military temple can be difficult. I'd like to say that only 3 or 4 different ones have been found, and perhaps not all are even included in the game.
Temple knights offer the same services and quests as their respective temple. The only difference is the name. In fact,I'd like to say that if you join the Templars, your actual affiliation listed on your character sheet is that of the Temple. An easy demonstration is in Sentinel City, where a Knights of Iron can be found, who I believe serve Stendarr.
Knightly orders, yes, are completely separate entities