User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-112.79.36.124-20141229114200/@comment-4829046-20141229120150

Already discussed this topic to death. It would make no sense for all Ninjas to be Assassins or for all Samurai to be Templars. That is purely Western world context. In actual Japanese history, Ninja and Samurai weren't an 'organization'. Samurai was more like those that followed the bushido and retained a sense of honour and Ninja were mercenaries that carried out espionage and basically anything considered 'dishonorable'. That alone makes it inaccurate to apply either Assassin or Templar to them.

Sure they could pull the thing from previous games where ALL courtesans, Thieves and Mercenaries were allied to the Assassins, but that never made sense anyway after Brotherhood. Mercenaries are called mercenaries for a reason.

If they attempt a proper representation, Assassins would be made up of a mixture of Ninja and Samurai and same would apply to Templars. They would simply have a different banner(and armour design) and allegiance.

I would like to see Rogue Ninja and Ronin as different NPCs that could either severely hinder or conveniently aid you and never be on your side while regular Ninja and Samurai acted more neutral depending on your attitude.