User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 19-03-'14 – Two Assassin's Creeds for 2014?: Unity and Comet/@comment-78.144.75.88-20140323224820/@comment-1379990-20140324005621

I would like to add that there is a clear difference between the hoods of the Assassins in Masyaf in 'Revelations' compared to the hoods in the first game. You can see that they have a sharp tip, but with Altaïr the beak is actually sown on his hood and the difference between his hood and that of the other Assassins is certainly a lot more obvious compared to the first game. Also the Assassin recruits in 'Brotherhood' sometimes have a sharp tip, but no eagle's beak like Ezio does. So I still speculate if it doesn't have anything to do with Desmond's death.