Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1153722-20171031194910/@comment-18014300-20171101034644

The Wikia Editor wrote: Ah, thank you for the explanation. I was not aware that Aymar had elaborated on his current stance on the matter.

As for the Encyclopedia and Essential Guide, I agree that the errors within them should be ignored. However, I believe that information which does not directly contradict anything that has currently been established should be retained.

Case in point, the Essential Guide, from what I've heard, describes Darius and Wei Yu as belonging to the Persian and Chinese Brotherhoods respectively. We already knew this could not really be the case, since the name of their group was established much later.

The easiest compromise is to just say that they both belonged to pre-Bayek Assassin-esque groups that were retroactively regarded by later Assassins as their predecessors.

Yes, this is exactly what I think. To be honest, as much as we may be annoyed with the lack of professionalism both reference books, I can say especially with The Essential Guide that technically it doesn't really contradict much or anything. The names of the Persian, Babylonian, Levantine, and Egyptian Brotherhoods may be the one of the few things, but I think that the contradiction isn't a stark one. It is entirely valid to interpret them as retroactive names especially since we know that "Levantine Brotherhood" certainly is one already, and therefore there is no real contradiction. We know that even though Iltani, Wei Yu, and Darius were not truly Assassins, later Assassins posthumously see them as such.