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User blog comment:AssassinRome/Assassins in Japan?/@comment-4043223-20120804120015/@comment-3202167-20120805013949
The artwork does have a Assassin sign right on the chest.
They actually were planning of getting rid of the hood and robes in ACIII, for a soldier uniform, but they saw the robes as a uniform
It looks too...armored.