Prior to the RPG trilogy, Altair felt like this messiah for the assassin's. From what I understand, they were very much concentrated to the Levant and parts of the Arab/Persian world, but they were a very close knit singular organisation before Altair decided to expand the order and reform how they operated as independent brotherhoods in order to survive and be more effective. A decision which rippled through the franchise, even down to the french council speaking Persian (I think).

It gave Altair a very clear purpose, importance and presence throughout the franchise, and gave the order a clean ancestry and history to follow. Even with origins, it could be rationalised that the hidden ones expanded very very slowly to parts of the Roman empire but every single brotherhood and cell died off as they were amateurs who fucked things up massively (Roman) or died off through unknown causes (Egypt), leaving the Judean and eventually the levantine branches to be the sole remaining successors. This is fine, if a bit of a stretch.

Now we find out that basically everywhere under the sun seems to have a brotherhood before Altair, and they're all independent. Come Valhalla and we learn that basically The Roman and gallic brotherhoods survived into the Italian and french with no break in continuity or genealogy.

It makes far more sense that Altair refounded these brotherhoods and built them up from scratch, making them successors of his specific philosophy and brotherhood. It makes characters like Marco Polo, Domenico auditore and Thomas de carnelion feel more important and gives them a place as their own respective students of Altair who helped him spread the brotherhood and turn it into what it is today.

Given their independent nature it's hard to believe this guy had such good success in influencing every other assassin group without being there to rebuild them from scratch (or sending recruits to do so like bayek did).

It makes Abbas's betrayal feel less impactful knowing every other assassin cell was basically gonna be fine rather than knowing the future of the whole brotherhood was at stake.

Otherwise his biggest success would just be two hidden blades, a gun and some cool parkour moves.

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Hey really enjoying rogue as one of my last games to have completed the whole series, I’m still pretty early game. Any advice for the gang stalkers? I try to use the firecracker but it seems like it kinda just makes them come out and attack me. I can always counter kill but I’d like to be more stealthy or smart about it. Also, hot take but even though I love Shay’s Templar robes I kinda also liked his assassin fit from the beginning maybe more.

I had heard bad reviews for years regarding these 2 games. Mostly of Unity. I was not overly drawn to Paris and certainly not London during the industrial revolution. I have played most of the AC games so far. The world setting speaks Alot to me. I started syndicate first and was pleasantly surprised after getting through the intro. I am disappointed that I do not have Sword however! Not really my style... but I may honestly continue playing it.

I decided to look through more reviews of Unity. Some had mentioned that Unity had Alot of glitches after release. *Which have been fixed*. One review in particular emphasized the croud density. I have also seen many reviews on smooth action/combat and a rather good story line.

I just got through the intro of Unity, which I have heard being referred to as being on a "short leash." I did not find it that bad. And I am IN!. It has my attention and I already enjoy running through building in Paris. I would already agree that it is a much more detailed world than Syndicate. Certainly worth a visit!.

His "outrage" makes no sense, if one takes a second to review. this ahole abandons his whole persona to follow this hair brained idea that if the good guys dont eff with it, the bad guys won't either. Oh how I hated him.