Board Thread:Series general discussion/@comment-5415330-20170420110400/@comment-2112031-20170420122314

While it's true that Spain was divided during the events of the movie, the same argument could be made for Italy. During Ezio's lifetime, Italy was divided into city-states, and unification did not occur until 1861. And yet, the Assassins operating in Florence, Monteriggioni, Forli and Venice are all identified as belonging to one united Italian Brotherhood. As such, the Assassins operating throughout Spain are similarly identified as all belonging to one united Spanish Brotherhood, despite whatever differences there might have been between factions.

I don't really think that Prince Ahmed's abduction was meant to be any kind of direct reference to something that actually happened, it was just a way for Muhammad XII to hand over the Apple to the Templars in exchange for Ahmed.

Torquemada doesn't explicitly identify himself as a Templar up until he monologues to himself while holding the Apple. Ramirez identifies himself and his cohorts as Templars while giving his speech to the village in the first memory, but Torquemada never does such a thing.

At the moment, we're assuming that the movie's events occurred on January 1-2. It's only way to have the movie's events happen in 1492 and still make sense. There's a brief throwaway line during Callum's second regression (the auto-da-fé), to send him to "the sixth", but we've no way of knowing whether or not that was a script error from an earlier draft or just a mistake.