The Assassins Brotherhood, also known as the Assassin Order and originally as the Hidden Ones is a secret global peacekeeping organization dedicated to protecting humanity from abuses of power, coercive rule, and injustice. As the etymology of the term assassin, their traditional methods have revolved around stealth operations, selective violence, and the assassination of those deemed to be perpetrators of oppression under the belief that this minimizes collateral damage in accordance with their absolute prohibition against harming innocent lives throughout the entirety of recorded human history against the Templar Order. Abstergo Industries and the modern Templar Order use their massive media influence to rewrite history, framing the Assassin Brotherhood as a global terrorist network to justify their own authoritarian control which claimed 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by Assassin extremists in 2001, as the Templar agents tried and failed to stop the Assassin hijackers following the event, as was used as a geopolitical catalyst to launch a "Global War on Terror" against both real-world extremist groups and the Brotherhood. In 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established with Abstergo backing to interrogate and hold captured Assassins alongside political prisoners. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Abstergo exploited the chaos of the war to expand corporate surveillance in Ukraine, while local Russian Assassin cells fight to protect regional autonomy from Templar-backed political factions. As the Gaza War raged on after 7 October 2023, the Templars use the deep-rooted geopolitical instability to test advanced crowd-control technologies, while the Brotherhood works underground to prevent either side from deploying ancient Pieces of Eden. Throughout these recent conflicts, Abstergo systematically labels any rebellious or anti-establishment actions by the Assassins as acts of regional terrorism to keep the public safe from harm or the threat of violence.
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Ubisoft has confirmed they intend to expand on the modern-day storyline and the global conflict between the Assassin and Templar Orders. The future Assassin's Creed game titles will continue to explore diverse historical settings, with gameplay remaining centered around the Assassin-Templar conflict within those eras. The core AC games primarily use the Animus to explore historical settings. While there is a modern-day overarching narrative, the bulk of the gameplay takes place in the past. While many fans have expressed interest in a Cold War setting such as the Stasi, the Kremlin, East Berlin, Cuba as well as the Duvalier era in Haiti, the Vietnam War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Gulf War of 1991 as a similar content to Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, which Incorporates a heavy gun use, modern military elements, and vehicles in the style of GTA along with Call of Duty would drastically depart from the series' emphasis on stealth, parkour, and melee combat in historical urban and natural environments around the globe including the former Soviet Union. The first modern AC game will feature street gangs and drug dealers as primary antagonists, the specific "school bully" and "global criminal underworld" narrative is outside the scope of current plans of Rockstar's Bully, and finally the first modern AC future game titles have reintroduced health bars and minimaps, so these specific UI elements are common.
