User blog comment:Coollew/The Illuminati, Do you think they should have been the Assassins real enemy?/@comment-1888015-20120421193403

If the Illuminati were as greedy and power-hungry as you state, having them as the Assassin Order's sworn enemy just sounds too much like "Good guy, bad guy" for a game's plot.

Ubisoft are already trying to steer away from that with the Templar and Assassin debate, and having the Illuminati as the big evil guys instead of the Templars, who want peace but have a different approach, it would only lessen the impact.