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That's a very loaded question Cris, I am tempted to say that yes, Templars are the bad guys. Why? Well, simply because Ubisoft has written them to be the bad guys. Of course, after AC3, many fans questioned the Templar methods, and many no doubt initially perceived Haytham to be an Assassin, he was so noble and self-sacrificing after all, only to find out that the man was a Templar. I think the answer to your question would depend on perspective, more so than anything qualitative but then again, I also digress. The Assassins fight to safeguard the freedom of humanity, and in doing so, often restore social order. The Templars want to instigate order, but their methods to incite such order often become the cause of ideological and theological, systematic destruction. What I've often found is that the Templars do more harm than good, in their vain quest to rule above all as a single body, they tend to incite chaos. Why? Whenever you take away a social freedom from a populace, the people will revolt and often times even rebel. Such rebellions are the making of chaos, and yeah, we all remember what Haytham said regarding freedom, that it's an invitation to chaos, and he's not wrong, but he also doesn't fully understand what such freedoms even are. The Assassins don't condone lawlessness, if they did, they wouldn't have tenets, to begin with, but rather, the Assassins condone social freedom. They promote humanism, existentialism really. So, yes, I would say that the Templars are bad because they entrap on fundamental freedoms.