User blog comment:SLyfoX999/Reformation of Assassin Order and spin-off game idea/@comment-1153722-20140808072724

A bold idea, but Ubisoft really stresses the tagline "History is our playground." I think there'd be too much bureaucracy involved to include people currently living as well. Plus I can already imagine the AC fanbase going absolutely nuts about who is right or wrong in the war.

I remember when some of the emails in AC1 made up fictional plot elements about how the world was in 2012. And then they got retconned when they turned out to be untrue for the real world.