Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-18014300-20200504004330/@comment-1153722-20200504162012

I'm a little later to the party so what I'd like to contribute has already been said earlier, but right now I can't think of any reason to oppose this. The only argument in opposition is that the Essential Guide no longer refers to Darius and Iltani as Assassins, as was mentioned before. Provided we make it clear in the articles that these Assassins living before the foundation of the Hidden Ones were not actual Assassins but retroactively treated as such, as per older media, I don't think this proposition should conflict with that.

Regarding the terminology "Persian Brotherhood" and "Babylonian Brotherhood" for Darius' and Iltani's groups, considering the Essential Guide has been 'updated' with the second version to not make mention of this and these terms arise from the now 'outdated' first version, this I am unsure about if we should use on the wiki. I am inclined to say no and keep it as it is currently (with mention of Darius and co.'s activities on the Persian Brotherhood page while maintaining the separate article with conjectural title), with maybe a mention in a Trivia section of the terminology having been previously used in the first Essential Guide.

Another point of discussion I'd like to throw in there is this line from the Codex in AC2: "Even if you kill all of its adherents, destroy all of its writings – these are a reprieve at best. Some one, some day, will rediscover it. Reinvent it. I believe that even we, the Assassins, have simply re-discovered an Order that predates the Old Man himself..." We've known since AC2 that there were Assassins across the Old World over a millennium before AC1, so this always made it sound like at some point prior to the late 11th century the Assassins somehow vanished from at least the Middle East before their philosophy was rediscovered and the group refounded with the name Assassins. Now that we have Assassins active well into the 10th century in Scandinavia, this seems unlikely.

Reading Zero-ELEC's comment that Children of Cain should just be called Templars makes me curious whether people think if merging Assassins with Hidden Ones and Templars with Order of the Ancients might be ideas worth pursuing, or that we should keep them separate.