User blog comment:Jesper Loore/The Masons/@comment-76.16.123.70-20120401065200

If you do some research, you will find that there is a group known as the Knights Templar that are affiliated with the Free Masons today. However, there is no proof that these Templars and the Templars from the Crusades are the same group. These current Templars also fully deny such a link. However, there is a theory that Freemasonry is the direct descendent of the Templars after members fled to countries where suppression wasn't enforced. If Ubisoft wanted to play with this theory, they may very well make the Free Masons members of the Knights Templar. But seeing how George Washington (who was an open Free Mason) and Connor (the main Assassin character in AC3) are supposed to have a mutual relationship within the game, I think that the writers of the game will give Mason support to the Assassins.