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Thanks for taking this to the forums as for some reason I was feeling a little too weary to do that. o.O

Anyways, I'm actually more neutral in regards to Rites articles whereas I'm opposed for Guild articles.

Sources do name modern-day cells as "Brotherhoods", most notably the Osaka (aka Japanese) and Russian Brotherhoods as Wikia Editor already pointed out. So, anytime that a cell is mentioned, I think it's safe to have an article on them with the "Brotherhood" name. Since the name is conjecture, it does not matter if we are wrong on the name which we would be using for the sake of consistency. What matters is if the branch exists, and the Osaka and Russian examples suggest that cells are still considered continuations of the old branches established with the guilds system even though they're smaller.

I have to admit, if not for those examples, I'd feel a bit less comfortable about it because cells are highly mobile. That would be my first counter-argument against myself. Cells are highly mobile as we see with Desmond's team. Sure, they operated in Italy for the Ezio Trilogy, but we can't say they were the "Italian Brotherhood" right? They were on the move. They went from Italy to New York. They were also multi-national. Shaun is British, Desmond was American. It does not seem like their cell was anchored to any one regional branch. The mobility of a cell to me initially made it hard for me to say they are equivalent to the other regional guilds. However, (as a counter-counter-argument) we do see clearly with the Japanese and Russian Brotherhoods and mentions of the Korean cells that cells for the most part do stay local. It wouldn't make sense for the Assassins not to have certain cells specializing in certain countries, and Desmond's cell was probably a special case.

My second counter-argument against myself would be the size of cells. Cells seem to be no larger than squads. They seem simply too small to constitute entire branches even if they're supposed to be the successors to the former guilds. I always felt skeptical that just because a cell of a few people operated in Whistler, Canada there was an entire Canadian Brotherhood. Now, my counter to this point would be that it's entirely possible that a "Brotherhood" can be composed of multiple cells, but only needs the existence of one cell for it officially to be designated a "branch". After all, even the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins in Connor's time, when the guild system was still operational, really only had Connor and like 6 other people at first. My second counter to this point is intertwined with the first counter, which is that the Great Purge greatly reduced the number of Assassins and cells, but officially each Brotherhoood, as long as there is still a single, surviving cell of that Brotherhood, is still in place. If a Brotherhood has been decimated by a purge, it's loss of virtually all its members and reduction to a single team doesn't invalidate that the branch exists I guess. After all, aside from the Colonial example, Shao Jun was still a member of the Chinese Brotherhood even when she and Wang Yangming were the last two surviving members of that branch.