User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 19-07-'13 — Assassin's Creed: Brahman announced/@comment-2.29.234.2-20130821120729/@comment-4829046-20130822181021

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"By the 18th century, the title of Grand Master had been slightly altered, becoming a rank that the leaders of the orders had depending on their region. In Europe, the Grand Master of the order was Reginald Birch, an Englishman that worked as a businessman as a cover. He was responsible for the growth of Templar influence in the British colonies, sending over Haytham Kenway to lead them. Haytham, upon his arrival in the Colonies, gathered his co-conspirators, which had been recruited and located by Birch, and became the Grand Master of Colonial America."