User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-189.121.182.21-20130303220434/@comment-4636255-20130304000132

Edward is not gonna go around killing innocents. Ubi wants an Assassin's creed not a GTA. Besides, Edward's actions can't directly affect the Order's American branch's destruction in 1763 (except the fact that he is responsible for Haytham's existence, lol), because Edward was an English Assassin.