User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Contradicting and confusing terms in the Encyclopedia/@comment-1888015-20111202140651/@comment-1153722-20111202140906

There has never been a thing such as a Grand Master, it's retconned...

And the Encyclopedia literally says that there wasn't just one leader of the Order until the 20th century. Not "after Altaïr's time" or anything. Plus, the Assassins were a wide-spread organization, as I mentioned in the blog; the Chinese Assassins were totally different from the Assassins in Europe and the Middle East, they couldn't have been led by the same person. Not even during the High Middle Ages.