User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-24760042-20140805212225/@comment-413232-20140805214139

I don't think so, because in Arno Dorian article it's says that Arno was adopted by the Grand Master of the french Templar, as Shay is Irish, I don't see him becoming the Grand Master in France.

My theory is that the two games share the same piece of Eden as the focus of their stories.