User blog comment:Abelzorus Prime/They Can Hear Us!/@comment-1888015-20150516155854/@comment-1888015-20150520201837

As far as the story is concered, Ubisoft can easily do a turnaround by claiming that current records showed Feudal Japan as having been the first known time the Assassins set foot in Japan, but then discover that there was in fact evidence of an Assassin presence in Japan prior to that, but that at some point there was a great purge that wiped the Assassins out of recorded history, perhaps reinforced by an ancestor's memories, and you know the schtick.

After all, Altair did disperse the Levantine Brotherhood, but that doesn't essentially mean that all the Assassins went west to the European cities.

It just seems a little silly for the series to focus on the Middle Ages as being the earliest known presence of Assassins, for the sole reason that the first game is set there. (Edit: As part of common knowledge, as Sima is quick to remind me of the Sanctuary Assassins. :P) Taking a dive back into history might actually be something to revive the series, because I'd rather not have the series going forward and forward in time based solely on Ubisoft having a rough idea of an end to the series, simply framed by the motivation of putting a "now we're caught up" cap on the franchise.