User blog comment:Abelzorus Prime/The Dark Assassin/@comment-90.218.118.81-20140713210507/@comment-90.218.118.81-20140714095148
Yet Edward's Journal, is the Black Flag Novel... like Haytham's before it; I guess I just always thought Edward's journal was read by Haytham... apparently Edward kept 2 then... oh well.
My point is simple. You are all defending the Assassins, and saying how evil the Templars are. That is not the case. BOTH use morally "bad" methods to reach their target. Therefore BOTH are bad. It is mentioned throughout the games. You then say... its bad because of this reasoning... So I say, we can't know the reasoning to some of their choices, so I offer an equally plausible reasoning; THEY ALL believe, whether ASSASSIN, OR TEMPLAR that their reasoning is just. Both are morally "Bad". it is as simple as that.
Call it what you want Molotov... you made the distinction of family members, as if that makes any difference. My ridiculous question was to point out your ridiculous claim that the Templars are worse because of the distinction of targeting family members. But lets not forget Ezio's rage when Yusef died shall we? (Note, Also, yes Ezio was in training... just not combat training).
Both are BAD. You are both claiming the same... yet in your reasoning the Templars are worse. BOTH kill innocents. Both lie, cheat... and all the other stuff I have said many times now.. it doesn't matter the ifs, buts and intricate details... BOTH do it. But importantly, BOTH want some type of control. I believe the Templar ideals are right... simply because they are more likely to create peace should they come to pass; what the Assassins want is not possible.
However, back to the Orginal topic (which I notice I never answered). A "dark" assassin protagonist is not possible. We would have to be looking at it with a protagonist who is against those ideals to see the opposite as "bad". AKA, a Templar, or a follower of Juno. Remember how we saw Haytham. and then once we knew he was a Templar, people questioned how "good" he actually was. Imagine a Haytham character was the protag (for a full game) and Connor the antagonist... Connor would suddenly become (even) more obviously Naïve and annoying. Which is possible to happen, Derby has talked about whether a Templar is a possible protag and so long as the main issue is the Assassin's "Creed", they meet what the product is.