A Most Ridiculous Conundrum[]
So several gates in Brotherhood are apparently placed at the wrong spots... Perhaps most hilariously, the Porta Flaminia, which is an older name for the Porta del Popolo is placed quite far from the Piazza del Popolo. However, the Piazza del Popolo (the square at the north of the city where Ezio has the showdown with Cesare right before the Orsini brothers come in to arrest him) is still present in the game, and since it is present, obviously its gate also has to be present... So we have this weird scenario where the Porta Flaminia, which is the Porta del Popolo, is treated as a different gate far from the Piazza del Popolo. But what makes this truly weird is that Shaun Hastings in his database entry correctly describes the Porta Flaminia as the same gate as the Porta del Popolo that directly leads to the Piazza del Popolo when in fact this is not the case in the game itself. Instead, the Porta del Popolo is incorrectly named the Porta Aurelia. How can they make such a mistake? o____o They literally have it correct in the database entry, but have it wrong in the game, to the point where I don't know what to treat as canon.
It could be that canonically, Shaun Hasting's research on the gates are wrong, so his entries are wrong, when the Porta Flaminia is actually not the same gate as the Porta del Popolo. It could be that canonically, Shaun Hasting's research on the gates are correct, but he mislabeled the Porta del Popolo as the Porta Aurelia and a random gate in the countryside as Porta Flaminia instead. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 06:21, February 15, 2017 (UTC)
I just noticed that this is the case with all the gates in the game. None of them have their correct names. This should actually make for an easier way of explaining it. I have a solution in my head now: to assume that the gates were mislabeled in the Animus, that the proper gate names correspond to their real names, thereby siding with Shaun's Database entries, and explain in the Trivia the confusion, and that the article assumes that canonically the database entries are the correct ones for the sake of convenience. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 09:02, February 15, 2017 (UTC)