User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/05 -- ACWiki's Fan Section and AC3 first trailer/@comment-3338401-20120306162956/@comment-4829046-20120307092910

This war probably has a small thing to do with the templars like in AC 1, not that the war itself is a war to see whether AC or Templar is better. Maybe templars appear at the end of the story like in the first game where Altair learnt about the templars only in the mid part of the story.