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I can't forget in ac 2 when Mario Auditore said "Its a me Mario"

Wish they kept my boy Desmond alive. Wanted him to become a badass modern-day master assassin

The whole thing with Desmond was they were setting him up to be this insanely powerful assassin with the combined skills of all his ancestors. That means Connor, Haytham, and Edward Kenway, it means Ezio, and it means Altair. All of their combat skills transferred to Desmond through the Animus’ bleeding effect would’ve made him the most lethal assassin to have ever existed.

Can you imagine being a descendant of Altair, Ezio AND Edward at the same time ??

Imagine if WE could see our ancestors memories. That’d be cool

Props to Ezio for making a college student fall in love with him while in his 50's

Ubisoft: *makes and origin game Also Ubisoft: *Makes a game earlier than the origin game

"In a world without gold we would've been heroes" -Edward Thatch

From Altair to Desmond, they are miles apart.

It hasn't been the same since they killed Desmond. He was the link between everything.

The single most crazy moment in the entire series is ezio speaking directly to Desmond when Desmond hasn’t even been thought of yet

Honestly it kinda killed it for me when they killed off Desmond. I was always excited to see where the game would take him and getting to play him more and more was really fun. Idk maybe everyone else hated it but I thought it was cool.

European kid at school:"My mother is from France and my father is from Great Britain,So I'm 1/2 british, isn't it epic?!" *Desmond Miles: Hold my beer.*

Desmond fathered a child at 16??? welp he's definitely related to Ezio ; )

Ezio Auditore was a fictional rolemodel for all 90's kids, including me.

Altair is still my favourite. He is the most skilled assasin IMO, has a tragic backstory and the meaning of his name is so cool (The Bird, Son of Nobody).

Am I the only one that thought ezio and Altair were related?

The real question is how did Altair live to 92 in the 13th century

Anyone get really bad nostalgia because there is so many questions left, like about the sage in ac4 and who you played as in abstergo industries and about the precursor race, and at the end of ac syndacite u see the templars take the shroud to try to bring Juno to life, and they keep switching up the modern person you play as and dont fully explain what is happening

The feeling when you just find out Desmond has a son.

The most stressful part of a Assassin's Creed. GETTING ALTAÏR'S ARMOR

"Life is not a fairy tale and there are no happy endings!" -Achilles (AC3)

U can see after all this descendants Desmond still has some character traits as the auditores and kenway, you feel he never gives up or abandons like a kenway and he is mature and wise like a auditore

*"He unknowingly fathered a son. How that's possible, I don't know."* Um, you've heard of one night stands, right? How is that so hard to comprehend?

How do you screw up the pronunciation of Silas yet nail Ratonhnhake:ton XD

"The English side of his lineage" Edward Kenway was *Welsh*

Another thing you learn while playing AC Valhalla is that Eivor recovers the crystal ball and leaves it with Connor’s tribe. That explains why the elder of the tribe has the ball, and is so keen on staying neutral.

So, this video came out after the release of Odyssey, and I don't know if Desmond being descended from any of Bayek, Aya, Alexios, or Kassandra has been confirmed or denied... or if it's even relevant. Even if he was descended from any of them, the events of those games happened so long ago it would probably be difficult to tell where they fit into any modern-day Assassin's family trees (my guess is most assassins and templars are descended from at least one of them due to the exponential generational growth over the course of ~2-3 thousand years). Now that that's out of the way... However, Arno and the Frye twins are more recent. I would say it's unlikely that the Fryes are closely related to Desmond (unless it's closely related to his mother) because I would doubt Connor or his descendants would've gone back to England during the Victorian Era. And then there's Arno. Now, I don't have anything to back this up, and maybe someone else can inform me if this has been confirmed or denied. But my theory is that Arno is a descendant of Ezio. The Arno River is the one that flows through Florence after all. And we can't ignore the close ties the French royalty had with the Medici. It's not too far-fetched that the Medici and the Auditorres would be family friends for generations and that some of them stuck together even when they left Florence. Let's return to the idea of the exponential generational growth thing. There's about 1,500 years between the events of AC2 and Origins. If you assume that every generation is separated by 25-50 years (meaning 30 to 60 generations in those 1,500 years), then Ezio has between 1 billion to 1 quintillion (2 parents for every generation you go back, i.e. 2 to the power of 30 or 60) ancestors that were alive during the time in which Origins took place. When you think of it this way, it's possible for the every major character in every Assassin's Creed game that takes place after AC2 to be descended from all three of Bayek, Aya, and Alexios/Kassandra. You can actually assume this about your own family tree as well. Highly recommend Real Life Lore's video Why You're Related to Everybody Else.

Correction: Haytham didn't kill Adewale, that was Shay himself and Haytham knew that Connor was his son from the moment he saw him in the prison

so Desmond is related to altair through his mother and he's related to the kenways and auditores through his father?

All the 8th graders in 2012 saying Conner prevented the death of George Washington

This was a really good video to run through a massive amount of the ac lore.

even at age of 13 Connor looks like a full grown up...

I honestly thought that every assassin was part of the same blood line. This was very informative.

Actually only the Templars were looking for the apple in the first game, the assassins blindly followed their mentor not knowing he was seeking knowledge and power, they were betrayed. Then altair took it upon himself to hide the knowledge in a vault. The Ezio started running in circles finding knowledge just to hide it.

Thank you! I played most of the assassin's creed games but this helped me see how everything ties together with the new Valhalla game. Your videos are very helpful

Man This Video Explained everything but you forgot to mention that Haytham Later killed Birch because He discovered that Birch was responsible for Edward's death And Haytham knew that his father was an assassin but he continued as a Templar believing that He is fighting for the right cause

May the father of understanding guide us Roadhouse

Being a descendant of 3 great assassins Assassination Skills go Brrrrrr

Unpopular opinion: I liked Desmond. He was a good character, charming and likeable. Not in AC3, he was an asshole there. I would've loved to have a game based on him after AC3 or at least a major portion of the game, being a master assassin after having all the abilities of Altair, Ezio and Connor.

Altair: (Speaking to his son of what to do with the apple) Say to them that I threw it into the sea *Lots of years later* Connor: *Throws an Apple of Eden into the sea* Edit: How the fudge did I get this many likes? Thanks anyway

Ezio also had a son, Marcello Auditore

I love Ezio's series. I loved how we saw his journey till the end and I love the game features. I wish some of those features cud be in the newer ones. I think Ezio was a true bad ass! After watching 'embers' I felt a bit more at ease knowing what happened after revelations.

The series lost its way story wise after they killed off Desmond.

Requiescat in Pace Desmond Miles. Requiescat in Pace Ezio Auditore. The greatest assassins to live.

Ahhh the good old days when Ubi didn't create a character just to throw them away 30 seconds later...

Every talent of ur ancestors are truly in u. I easily learned what my ancestors used to do

Thank you very much for this explanation, for your efforts in searching, for your video and for your time. I like very much all series. I finished all 2 times even Origins and Odyssey and 4 times Black Flag. Thanks.

I learned a lot about the Industrial Revolution and more about history just by playing the best video game franchise of all time, Assassin's Creed. 🦅

"ibn La'Ahad" means "son of nobody". I get it in case of Altair- he was an orphan. But given Arabic naming customs his offsprings could not be named "ibn La'Ahad". They would have been called "ibn Altair" and "bint Altair".

This was so freaking good! It explains so much stuff. Thanks Sydney

Assassins Creed is just a mixture of Story and His-story.... But together they make this game a Gem in the gaming world......

Ok, but you missed one thing: Ezio and Sofia had daughter named Flavia and SON named Marcello. Besides you should say something about Ezio's siblings, Claudia for example. She's an assassin too. Claudia is a leader of order in Rome, what makes her very important person. If you talk about assassins from Desmond's family, than say something about ALL of them.

Ziio didnt leave haytham because he havent killed braddock , he just injured him and he died of his wounds 4 days later. Still she left him after learning things he did and what person he was

Impressive how you put the hole thing together, great synthesis and narrative

Super explanation! Thank you! 🥇

BRING ME CHARLES LEE!

You could include (spoiler alert) , , , , , , , , Elijah, Desmond Mile illegitimate son. Also, Elijah is a sage

When I was little I thought that Altair and Ezio made Desmond together...

Sydney: “ at some point Desmond unknowingly fathers a son named Elijah. How that’s possible I don’t know”. Me: “so you don’t know about the birds and the bees?”

Damn....and I thought the Joestar family was big

I genuinely think they should bring back Desmond, with resurrection lol

It was a great work that demands a lot of time. Thanks

And of a "failed" Prince of Persia, a brand new far way epic and interesting was born

Alamut is where "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" comes from.

I found the revelation Altair flashbacks weird because Desmond looks like he’s 50 at about 27

Wow. I have been playing these games for most of my life and it took this video to make me realize Desmond was Born in the same place as me. Sweet.

So interesting, thank you so much!

I'm just here going through nostalgia and reminiscing on the good old days before AC became a cash cow with no plot.

You know who can still show up in future Assassin’s Creed games? Desmond’s mum. Despite hearing her voice in The Lost Archive, we never saw her. Bill had a different voice in Brotherhood too I’m still curious about the rest of Connor’s life. Who was the woman he hooked up with, how did he die? Revelations showed us the end of Altaïr. A short film called Embers showed us the end of Ezio. No end to Connor? I got Assassin’s Creed 2, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, Assassin’s Creed 3, Assassin’s Creed Liberation, Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed Rogue, Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on PlayStation 4. I wouldn’t mind getting the original on PS4 too.

I loved the Desmond story, but in Revalations they totally messed up face which made me get detached as it didn’t feel like the Desmond I knew. And in ac3 they did it again. Should have kept his look from 1-acb. Same with Shaun.

I'm so glad that was easy to follow and not complicated at all.

Here before they change "Desmons Miles"

So...if Desmond unknowingly had a son...is that a foreshadowing of a next Assassin's Creed game featuring Elijah?

Desmond was a badass modern-day Assassin and worthy of a game all of his own to kind of wrap the modern-day arc.

Very, very, very well done video!!!! AC lore is SO epic!!!

Altair, Ezio, and Desmond. Those were the days of Assassin's Creed. Now we have an eagle bearing misthios :/

Can’t count how many time I squinted at the sound of “Connor Kenway.” His name is Connor, never took on Kenway. Plenty of reasons why he would never call himself a Kenway. He’s a strong Mohawken Colonial Assassin.

Assassin's Creed Revelations Is The Best I like Egyptian blue ,Masyaf oufits, And Algerian Sliver I can't forget these days 9 years become fast Lol

Imagine the man who wrote The Devine Comedy (mainly the Dante's inferno part) being an actual assssin that's one of my favorite story's. Epic!

Ezio is always gonna be a favourite of mine

You forgot eduard had an older daughter that he didn't know about until the end of the game.

Wow, Holy molly, It's all comes together, thx for the information !!!!!!!

Great video tide the family tree together Desmond had it in his blood on both sides of his family

"The next year, Rodrigo's son SE-ZAR"

I just started replaying this series from the beginning and it’s so nostalgic to revisit 🌠😌

I just wanna say your pronunciation is just on point! Bravo!

Fun fact the apple of Eden that connors tribe where safe guarding is the same apple that eivor gifts to the Iroquois (connors descendants) in the Vinland arc of AC Valhalla back in the 800s it’s the same vault too

after my years of research, this is the ONE thing i struggled with

I was looking into Callum Lynch's character just the other day and now looking at Desmond's family tree, it's weird to think that Connor and Arno settled down at one point.

Altair is the greatest assassin ever, total badass.

Great I came here for Desmond family tree. Not summary with spoilers for every game.

Thanks Syndey and Leaderboard for doing one of my favorite video game series

*Connor arrives at wakanda Connor: Bring mi Charles Lee!!! Black Panther: Bring this men a Charles Lee.

Every assassin or character after Desmond's death, starting with Rogue I believe, are just independent figures in the brotherhood's history. Arno, the Frye twins, Bayek, Deimos, and Alexandra currently have no relations to Desmond at all. Unless they re-write something or put another game out, Desmond's family tree of assassins are done with. Not dead necessarily, but not notable historical players to the brotherhood. I believe either AC Black Flag or Rogue is the last game in which you deal with Desmond's family in any way, again unless Ubisoft changes something.

My lineage is so straightforward! I'm canadian and 3 generations in after coming to Canada. 75% Scottish, 24% Irish, and 1% Spanish. I wish I could see the memories of my heritage. Especially since my last name is gealic for son of the king!

I half-expected to see you mention Ezio's Death from the short film.

You forgot about Ezio's son Marcello, Edwards parents the sheep farmers, Haytham's sister Jenny, Connors wife and children and Elijah Desmond's sons story from the novels and comics. But you did mention some others such as Umar Ibn-La'Ahad and Domenico Auditore.

Edward becomes a master assassin gets killed by 2 intruders