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she said "just killed another career, it's a mild day"

Yeah, and fucking Machiavelli was somehow one of the main Assassins. The lore honestly makes no sense.

They even imply that "The Prince" was actually about Ezio instead of Cesare Borgia (who's the comical bad guy in Brotherhood).

It does seem like being a Templar doesn't make you pure evil though, like Keynes and Stalin were likely of the group that wanted to use the alien tech to bring about world peace. That's apparently a big internal power struggle in the game. Between the Templars that want to use the power to end war and advance humanity (Copernicus I think is shown to be explicitly this) and the ones that use it exclusively for personal gain (Borgias).

The Assassins aren't necessarily the good guys, they're only really good when they're fighting Templars that are using the pieces of Eden for world domination purposes.

Lenin was affiliated with the Assassins, so really I think it's just real "If evil dictator Stalin hadn't forcibly taken over from Lenin then the USSR might have been a much better country and less of the International Community would have hated them for being a totalitarian fascist communist state" energy, which is obviously nonsense, Lenin was despised in his day by the international bourgeoisie and I can't imagine he would have taken a substantially different economic course than Stalin in response to rising fascism in Germany

I enjoy the games and the lore is fairly intriguing, I admit that I'm a sucker for alternative history that treats it in broad, imaginative sweeps (as opposed to more specific events like "What if Pearl Harbour never happened" or "What if Napoleon was never born") but how big, even somewhat controversial characters are depicted inside the games is pretty much consistently bad because, well, it's liberals writing their characters for the most part. Marx is a famous example of how their rough edges get sandpapered off. My knowledge of the early American figures like Ben Franklin and Washington is pretty spotty because I just don't give a shit about early American history but I have to imagine that they don't constantly talk about their flaws in Assassin's Creed 3. Or if they do it's in a very safe way so that liberals can just go "Well, there's nuance here..." and not have to disown them or anything

Assassin's creed is like the Marvel of video game, Lazy gameplay, formulaic, the world building is basically putting random historical characters as Easter eggs