Assassin's Creed: 10 Times The Templars Were Right

Though Assassin's Creed has occasionally shown Assassins and Templars being aware of one another, very few games have tried to have one member from each faction grow up and remain as close as Arno and Elise were in Assassin's Creed Unity.

Growing up as a Templar, Elise's world view came from understanding what was expected of woman of her time; subsequently going against most of these norms. A free spirit and exceptionally steadfast in her own beliefs, Elise's stubbornness was what separated her most from Arno, and kept her in line with the Order.

Elise would soon become embroiled in a bitter series of in-fights with Francois-Thomas Germain over the role of the Templar Order and its beliefs over the French Revolution. Germain believed that the Order had become corrupted by its continued association with the aristocracy and needed to be purged and restarted from the ground up.

Elise, on the other hand, followed a much more Haytham Kenway-inspired view on the Templar Order, believing that the conflict between themselves and the Assassins was pretty futile by the time Assassin's Creed Unity kicked off and worth bringing to an end.

It might have been a belief that proved to be instrumental in bringing about her death, but it was certainly proven right over the course of the game.