This is set only about 50 years or so after the fall of the Roman Empire to the Ottoman Turks (1453). I wonder if that will have any relevance to the story.

I hope this double post won't be any issue since this topic has been dead for a week or so.

Anyway, this might be slightly off topic, but what would you guys like to see as the setting for a future AC game? I think Babylon ca. 323 BC would make a great setting because Alexander the Great had conquered all the way from Greece to the outer reaches of India before his army mutinied and refused to go further. Upon his return to Babylon, he was even planning an expedition westward to take Italy, Sicily, North Africa, and who knows where else (some even believe he was searching for Atlantis in an attempt to, you guessed it, conquer it). Alexander is arguably the greatest general and conqueror in history (how could he not be a Templar?), he was known to have put down several plots against him by even his own generals (members of the Assassin Order?), and his death is shrouded in mystery (although in the AC universe, he was poisoned by an Assassin).

Thoughts? Rebuttals? Better ideas?

Meeting up with such an iconic historical legend as Alexander the Great would be amazing. He was most certainly one of the best, if not the best, leader a military force has ever had. And he was extremely young to boot. Didn't he end up dying at around 30? I thought I read somewhere that he died from stress/exhaustion from his long road of conquering everything short of the moon. Maybe it was just a theory. But it would be perfect for an Assassin (or better yet, a Zealot) to have killed him. The Zealots were kind of the historic prelude to the Assassins and date back to the first century at least. Though Zealots tried to make their killings as public as possible to send a message so it would be hard for the writers to keep history as it is and have Alexander's death be mysterious. Though the Assassins also liked to make their killings public and Ubisoft has had no qualms about openly writing that Robert de Sable or William of Montferrat were killed by Assassins. Hell, William should not have even been in AC1, it should have been Conrad, the then king of Jerusalem. Almost king anyway. So who knows. I think you have a great point in wanting it to be set at that location and time period. I really want them to go back in time for AC3. I like the more ancient time settings. Maybe they could go back to 1118 and do something with the very creation of the Templars. Also, I wonder if they will ever explain how the Templars managed to survive Pope Urban II and his total and utter destruction of the Order. And I also wonder who they will make the current (Desmond's time) Master of the Order. Will it be Obama? Nah, the Templars definitely seem a bit more right wing to me lol.

I feel the same way about him. He definitely had a Piece of Eden.

Or the genes of a god...

I just realized that I made a mistake. Pope Urban II did not destroy the Order. He was the one who preached the first crusade I think. Pope Clement V is the corrupt pope that destroyed the Order.