User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 27-08-'15 – First look at Michael Fassbender in the Assassin's Creed film/@comment-5019018-20150827154228/@comment-733050-20150827165019

The modern day helps the audience suspend their disbelief, with the notion that the history books have been manipulated by the Templars. Otherwise it just raises the question of what happened to these warring secret societies and makes the Pieces of Eden feel like a turn into the ludicrous without the context of history the secular counterpart to mythology.