[That's a question that gives Altaïr pause, and not because he doesn't want to answer it. Are the Templars more one than the other? Were they ever? The presence of the woman he'd fought, Robert's steward and decoy, suggests that they have their own ideas about what's acceptable even in day to day affairs, but she'd worn the cross like the rest of them.]

They're both, I think. They do their duties and fight for what they claim their God wants. But that's not all they are. Control is what matters, more than who they call master.