User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 08-02-'13 — Next game will be all new, plus DLC promotional material/@comment-66.189.28.181-20130210162407/@comment-257535-20130211103602

It's been ~300 years since Ezio 'liberated Europe'... plenty enough time for the Templars to recover from the inconveniences he brought about...