User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 10/19 -- ACR new info/@comment-78.151.156.176-20111028110646/@comment-3276576-20111030184052

Romani are the new Courtesans. Thieves can be seen in some of the trailers standing on rooftops, with a new looks though. This indicates that Mercenaries will be back as well. Hope that they are upgraded though, the factions were quite useless in Brotherhood once you had a proper Assassin guild.