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Desmond Miles: Who Do You Think You Are?

Desmond Miles:
Who Do You Think
You Are?

W

hat follows are the three great ironies
of the Assassin Order: (1) Here we seek
to promote peace, but murder is our
means. (2) Here we seek to open the minds of men,
but require obedience to a master and set of rules.
(3) Here we seek to reveal the danger of blind faith,
yet we are practitioners ourselves.
These are the words of Altaïr, the 12th Century
assassin we mere gamers know as the first of the
Assassin’s Creed gaming lore. But the Assassin’s
Order stretches far earlier in time before him, and
far further into the future into the present day.
Born from copulation between survivors of the
First Civilisation and humans, the bloodline of the
Assassin’s Order manifests itself through the gift
of Eagle Vision, the extrasensory gift that enables
those of this bloodline to become truly efficient
and silent killers.
Members of the Assassin’s Order are tasked with
disposing of oppressors and dictators, those
who threaten the free will of mankind. Created
as a necessary reaction to the existence of the
oppressive Templars, history is full of examples of
their work. Let’s trace Desmond Miles’s bloodline
through the ages and see just how much they have
influenced, and even saved, the world.

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