User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-5174994-20141207022035/@comment-183.87.173.28-20141208181237

Altair is an Assassin which makes him a sort of mystic/scholar dude. Being an Assassiyun got him an education that he would never have got anywhere else. Connor goes from a classless society to being pretty rich I would say. After he meets Achilles, he gets property, becomes a landowner and has his own bay and private frigate, I mean that kind of setup is the retirement home of the upper 1%.

Arno by the way is not Middle Class. I think he's a nobleman. I'd say, an upper Third Estate dude rather than Elise (who is obviously 2nd Estate). He's not independently wealthy of course. You can argue that the Templar Grand Master is Middle Class.

One thing I liked about Ezio, is that compared to Bruce Wayne, he's not a rich guy who beats up the poor. He has this unstated empathy and solidarity with the lower classes. That sequence in Florence after his father dies, the Auditore are second class citizens and the only people who come to help him are prostitutes and the family servant girl. He has to escape Florence by moving through slum distrcit and his targets are the wealthy and the corrupt. And Leonardo himself is working class as well, he was an orphan boy with no family and name, so Ezio is above him a little bit in terms of class(Machiavelli is an equal).

That solidarity is there with Connor and Edward too. But it isn't there at all with Arno which is surprising for a Revolutionary Game. He's incredibly elitist and most of the game's bad guys are poor and lower middle class. E dward and all the pirates are working class - poor soldiers and peasants(as they are called by their enemies) who turn to crime. For Adewale, being a pirate was the only justice available to him at the time.

An Assassin from a real poor background would be amazing.