>>10224854>>10224855>>10224841The assassins throughout the series are opposed to the Templars, and use pilpul and underhanded tactics
>nothing is true, everything is permittedto justify their own power-seeking mission. They're essentially masons, pic rel, who seek to supplant the institutional power of the Templars by stealing all their shit and killing them and using the tech/magic/knowledge etc to further masonic, worldly goals. The Templars, by contrast, are portrayed as being erudite, "godly" rulers who focus on bloodlines and objective morality.
Kind of redpilled if you go in with the notion that the character you're playing is a useful idiot in a long-running plot to ruin everything.
