User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 10-05'12 — World Gameplay Premiere/@comment-1471082-20120510214859/@comment-1153722-20120511153110

I love it how there is such a ruckus about the British being "the bad guys" rather than "your enemy," and that nobody complained when ALL Byzantines were portrayed as Templars. Bit hypocritical. The British were unfair towards the colonists in the New World, but that doesn't make them "the bad guys." The Templars aren't "bad guys" either, they just have different views from the Assassins.

The American Revolution was one of the greatest examples of Enlightenment thinking, and resulting in the foundation of a democratic nation. These ideals were obviously supported by the Assassins. While the Assassins strive for democracy, the Templars believe that the people must be guided and thus strive for an authoritarian government. That doesn't mean that all democrats are Assassins and all authoritarians are Templars, though. It's not all that black and white.