User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-3338401-20150303225439/@comment-3046679-20150306134124

That would fit into an Altair-esque character, if it was done right. If they abandon the bullshit "young man first discovering the secret brotherhood" and have you play a character that's already an established assassin, he'll already have the opportunity to live by the Creed and have a stoic personality, without having everyone and their dog Pongo murdered around him to make him into a stoic.

Again, similar to how Shay was handled - he's in the Brotherhood, you know the basics by the first two obligatory tutorial missions, you then go ahead with the story and explore the world. No need for six sequences of tutorials and only six more of crappy open gameplay. Yes, AC3, looking at you here.