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Desmond Miles: Who Do You Think You Are? Alonso Carlo is tasked with assassinating Juan Ponce de Leon before this New World traveller finds a Piece of Eden at the Fountain of Youth. 1763AD all as Pope Alexander VI. Ezio begins a 23-year campaign of revenge against the Templars which sees the assassinations of Uberto Alberti, Vieri de’Pazzi, Lorenzo de’Medici, Marcello Savonarola and the defeat, but not death, of Pope Alexander VI. Haytham Kenway, head of the Templars, wipes out the Colonial chapter of the Assassin’s Order bar one survivor, Achilles Davenport, who disbanded the Order. Years later he slips out of retirement and mentors young assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, Haytham’s son and destroyer of the Templars during the American Civil War. 1948AD 1501 - 1504AD William Miles is born into the Assassin’s Order, and sires one son, Desmond, in 1987. William trains Fleeing to Rome after his home of Monteriggioni Desmond in the ways of the assassin. is destroyed, Ezio teams up with malcontent Niccoli Macchiavelli to begin a new brotherhood 2003AD of assassins, toppling the Borgia and the Papacy, bringing the Templar’s influence to a halt. Desmond Miles leaves the Order, hoping to see the rest of the world beyond this secluded and lonely 1503AD way of life. The first assassin to set foot on the New World, 2012AD John de la Tour, begins an Assassin Brotherhood there. Captured by the Templars, Desmond is forced to relive the memories of his ancestry via the 1507AD Animus, so they can realise their many thousands of years’ hunting for the Pieces of Eden. With help, The Templars return to Constantinople in an Desmond escapes and jacks into the Animus to attempt to find the five Seals of Altaïr, which Ezio help the Assassin’s Order, and unwittingly save the puts a stop to and recovers them for himself. world from impending doom. 1521AD Assassin’s Creed Special Edition 2013 Gary Durston 27 • GameOn Magazine