User blog comment:LancelotLoire/Assassin Creed 4 Idea/@comment-4207028-20121117221206/@comment-4661864-20121118183308

For William Wallace and Edward Longshanks that's a bit of a trick of sorts. In the first Assassin Creed games there were templars within the crusaders and within the Muslims of the area. Just like how in AC: Revelations, The Templars were both from the Byzantines and the Ottomons IE: Manuel Palaiologos and Ahmet. Cesere Borgia in Brotherhood was portrayed as a syphilis ridden megalomaniac trying to become king of Italy. They could easily place it in that Wallace was working for the "Greater Order" of the Templar by attempting to lead Scotlands forces into defeat so that Edward could seal control. A tactic I wouldn't put past the Templars trying. Or even that Edward was trying to clean certain non Templar elements out of England by having his troops get defeated.

And for the splitting them apart and not combining them.. It kinda feels wrong in a way to combine them to me. An assassin sticking to a certain region of sorts if that makes any sense. British Isles, France, Iberian Peninsula, HRE, Italy, Ottoman Empire, Prussio/Poland (depending on time frame). They were supposed to have seperate guilds and have somewhat stuck to it excepting Ezio's trip to Constantinople. Mind you I haven't played AC3 yet.

Fun Fact: Templar Order wasn't technically obliterated in 1314. Quiet a few members were absorbed into the Knights Hospitaller along with the Hospitallers gaining control of most Templar holdings, and the Templar in Portugal changed the name from Knights Templar to Knights of Christ.