User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-13471981-20140807132641/@comment-27202257-20140808174604

I was worried the above post was going to be all about how the TEMPLARS ARE REALLY RIGHT!!!, Anon, but I'm happy I was wrong and I appreciate your balanced reading. I think it's spot on to say that the Assassins and Templars, ideologically speaking, want the same thing. It's the methods that cause trouble, and both Orders have critical flaws that leave them looking hypocritical. Parts of the Templar Order are quick to kill those who don't like their specific vision of peace, and Nikolai Orelov's story shows how parts of the Assassin Order only respect freedom when it coincides with their aims.

(P.S. For the Assassins, I wouldn't necessarily use Abbas and Al Mualim as examples, since they were out for their own gain, but Altair using the Apple to control a mob in Bloodlines is a very good one.)