Color me confused, but why do people care about this?
I always operated under the idea that the game canon trumps any and all contradictions. In all cases. For example, there's a scene in AC:R where a guy gets controlled be a Piece of Eden. In the game, he just slits his own throat. In the book, his mouth opens up wide enough to shove his own arm down his throat and scramble his internal organs. I would give the canon answer to the former.
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TheRock ~ Slow dramatic zoom-pan. Doesn't phase the hooded man.