Altaïr understands the sentiment. Stability, safety, a better future for all. These are things anyone would want, things he does want in this world and his own. In that, he can understand the deeds of the Templars, if not approve of them.

He lets out a long breath and is quiet for a moment before answering. "Yes and no. The brotherhood I told you of, and our creed — I was born into both. Some would call that indoctrination, and they wouldn't be wrong."

It's something he's only begun to puzzle out, here in a place where it shouldn't matter, being the only Assassin here. And yet it does matter, to him.

"Yet I had to question that creed to understand it, and it is my choice to live it," he continues. "Truthfully? I don't believe anyone does not live with their choices. Some only tell themselves otherwise."