User blog comment:Vallraffs/Thoughts on AC3 outfits./@comment-121.127.205.190-20120922070749/@comment-1153722-20120922223016

Who said the Templars mercilessly oppress people? The Templars are authoritarians, yes, but they strive for a benevolent dictatorship, not a brutal one... The Assassins are just as brutal, but don't appear as such since they are the protagonist faction. Both want peace and what's best for humanity, they simply have different ideals and a different approach to it. Neither is more 'evil' or brutal than the other.

Look at Ezio in Assassin's Creed: Revelations. He caused the deaths of several innocent civilians just to get inside Constantinople's arsenal, killed Tarik Barleti because he merely thought Tarik was a Templar, caused the asphyxation of numerous civilians inside Derinkuyu just to draw Manuel Palaiologos out, and caused the death of Yusuf and likely some other Assassins just to protect one woman he cared about. The Assassins in Assassin's Creed: The Chain were willing to torture Innokenti Orelov to make Nikolai come with them, just to make him tell them about his vision at Tunguska and to continue serving the Brotherhood. This led to a fight in which Nikolai's legs were both shot and he was severely abused by the Assassins... Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed III: Liberation apparently will emphasize this even more. Think I will just put "Neither Assassins or Templars are good or evil" at the end of any post I make from now on, maybe then the message will get through to everyone.