With Assassin's Creed Shadows Ubisoft "didn't want to hold the player's hand too much with icons," so you have to hire scouts to mark the world map for you

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“We wanted to craft an open world where information was key and would become a form of reward.

This made sense in the context of playing a shinobi and fighting for information.