User blog comment:The Forgotten Fragment/Templar or Assassin?/@comment-4999424-20130312194223/@comment-5019018-20130312204250

Almost every Templar in I, Revelations, and III believed in the Templars' goals.

And not all Templars were bad at fighting; Cesare and Rodrigo could hold off Ezio for a brief period, Al Mualim was able to hold back Altaïr, and Hayham could easily have killed Connor on their first meeting.