Calvar Draveir said:
It's not that no-one noticed a killing a whole bunch of people, it's that no-one knew who that dude was affiliated with, and if they did,
They did, every time the Assasin was seen people directly called him "Assasino" whether it be any ol' guard to the guy who reads the news to the people.
Calvar Draveir said:
both the Templars and Assassins have dedicated their entire lives to destroying evidence of such stuff. and the reason that it is so complete is that by Modern Times, Abstergo controls literally all the more important and powerful organizations in the entire world.
Except the Assasin's don't seem to have the man power to do so, Templars sure they're more believeable, but again with the amount of hysteria that can be generated from just killing someone whose about to tell it does you no good to kill off every link because if you kill someone someone's going to notice
Calvar Draveir said:
Ezio didn't ever fight huge armies by himself.
Except he does, in the first trailer for Revelations.
Calvar Draveir said:
He usually fought about 10-15 guards. And a fight that big causes cvillians to run away, they don't give a crap about staying to find out who they're fighting. Assassins work within the people to gain contacts and keep them quiet about their work.
The "people" aren't one unified army, they're lots and lots of different people with competing interests and the Templars are already recruiting in comparison like crazy, so it makes no sense why they wouldn't just write a whole book about them.
Calvar Draveir said:
And when you were referring to the assassins being from Syria, that's the real life story. In the game, Assassins and Templars have existed long before that. They are not assassins in the literal form, they don't kill for money. They kill whoever they think is going to opress free will, and they work to uplift the people.
Yes I know. The problem though is that they're not secretive at all. If they were the game would be the most boring thing ever since real life professional assasin's don't go around guns blazing, they stalk their target, learn about his daily routine, learn about his medical records etc. until finally they're able to administer some overdose of cold medication or something, you know something that would never make people think someone killed them? That's how that one former-Russian spy got killed except they used the wrong material and everyone knew Russia killed them.
Calvar Draveir said:
The reason I said that they can do this in any form is because they don't say "WE ARE ASSASSINS" whenever they show up. To any onlookers, they are hooded men and women striking swiftly and dissapearing. Such modes of dress were common then, and are common now. How are people going to instantly know that they're part of an ideal? They could be crazy people, for all they know.
Because they are well versed in their ways? I mean the guards seem to know him after all and in a cutscene for AC:B one guard says "They're nowhere but everywhere at the same time" and if they are within the people chances are someone knows who they are and many groups like those cultists in the Da Vinci dissapperance do as well.
Calvar Draveir said:
You seem to think it's ridiculous because you trust that historians somewhere would find correspondences mentioning them and bring them to light.
If what the Assasin's do is true, then there'd be tons of work done at least fictionally talking about how they run around the roof tops of Rome in front of all the civilians and go around killing people. Surely since they don't know about this guy then they'd write something down about how impressive that was? Or how he killed a bunch of people?
Calvar Draveir said:
What if all the historians are closely monitored by a worldwide organization with near unlimited resources?
Except in the Subject 16 puzzles it's shown Abstergio had no control over the Communists so this means it's possible to live outside of it, and again I bring up the Anti-Mason party as well, if you kill someone about the speak out against you it's just going to raise interest rather than deflect it.
Not to mention if they have those kind of resources then they should have no trouble tracking down Desmond in a heartbeat, otherwise historians could just hide in the country side and get a printer, and print their messages across the whole world, or hell just use the internet.
Calvar Draveir said:
You ARE overthinking it, but you're overthinking in the wrong direction. For every reason that it's unlikely, there is another that it is.
I know I am overthinking it, but I never did it in the wrong direction. I admit so at the end of my post anyway.
Calvar Draveir said:
It doesn't really matter, but I'm just saying, History is not definate. It passes through so much, so many people could have altered it.
At the time it happened, but if you were to say have evidence that Caesar conquered China people are going to want to know before they write it down as official history.
Calvar Draveir said:
And the Assassins and Templars don't ever actually declare themselves, and use a lot of proxies like mercenaries and the Church.
Except they do as people seem to always say "Assasino".
Done well, one counter attack would end up with 10 people dead. It got to the point where I would just walk around the city and kill random guard outposts, without even stopping to hide.
