User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-24760042-20141206175535/@comment-183.87.173.28-20141210020802

The Sage worked wonderfully in BLACK FLAG, where it was really scary and made a well known historical figure even more menacing and mysterious then he already is.

The thing is, I think as a concept that it's hard to repeat and apply in different periods to the same effect. Also, this is my personal feeling, I don't think Sages should be either Assassins or Templars, and making de Molay or the bad guy in UNITY sages was a mistake for me, since it took away from the originality. I suppose we can next expect an Assassin Sage to balance things out or a Playable Sage.