User blog comment:Abelzorus Prime/The Dark Assassin/@comment-90.218.118.81-20140713210507/@comment-1153722-20140713221432

Not being on the side of either the Assassins or Templars, I do find some faults in your reasoning. First I am not really sure what you mean by a 'corrupt Templar'.

What I think you mean is a 'bad Templar', and there have been plenty, more than the Assassins. Right now you're only slightly calling certain Templars bad based on their actions, not on their reasoning, personalities or ideas. Al Mualim was a very good example of only being in it for himself, and so were the Renaissance Templars; and the Templar Order admits that as well, refering to the Borgia rule as the "Dark Age of the Order". The Borgia, and their subjects, abandoned the Order's ideals of peace through control, instead resting upon ideals of power and greed. Cesare Borgia was very clearly only in it for himself, but his own father was no different, only taking a back seat during the last three years of his life. Templars such as Malfatto are nothing other than evil.

The Templars in the Ottoman Empire weren't all that evil, seemingly resting on their ideas of peace again. But then their noble hearts seem to be thrown out the window again when Ahmet acts evil for no apparent reason, opting to have Sofia executed by hanging even though Ezio had already given him the Masyaf Keys as part of their deal.

The same can be said for the Templars in the Thirteen Colonies, who act all noble upon Haytham's first arrival, but after we start playing as Connor they all become huge dicks. Charles Lee's (hypocritical) hatred towards the Native Americans, Haytham's sudden hardass attitude to the point he's willing to strangle his own son. Also the Forsaken novel reveals some nasty details about Reginald Birch, who deported Haytham's sister Jenny to Egypt to become a slave in the Ottoman palace. Again, for no valid reason.

Not that I want to say that the Assassins aren't evil, as The Fall and The Chain do their best of showing us that, and Ezio did plenty of evil things albeit out of his own good intentions. But when you count how many 'bad' Templars we've seen compared to how many 'bad' Assassins there have been (not considering that they both kill people for their own gain), the Templars definitely come out as winners. Which really isn't necessary, especially not when Ubisoft keeps repeating that they want people to understand that neither faction is good or bad.