I am not going to get involved in the lore of Assassins Creed to much during this blog. This blog is more focused around Ezio and how this may be the first and only game series, that i know of, where you see your character actually grow evolve and change into who he becomes at the end of revelations.
First as you can see above in AC2 you see Ezio's birth, which to me is a first in gaming history to actually see your characters birth. Then to continue on the first time you see Ezio, as the character you play, is when he is a teen.
The first time you get to play as Ezio you see that he is a arrogant kid, who thinks he is untouchable. Sleeping with woman at will picking fights with other people. As you do meaningless tasks, as plain Ezio, you are just getting a sense for who he is and also how he has room to grow as a character. When he witnessed the most tragic even in his life, the hanging of his father and two brothers, he realizes that he must protect his sister and mother from this unknown enemy. So he dawns the assassins suit his father wore, not knowing how it may effect his future, just taking that brave step into the role of a hero we all know him as.
Now as Ezio has become an assassin in an order he doesn't know or understand. He is now guided by his uncle a man he seems to barely know but fully trusts. Ezio uses his uncle hometown of Monteriggoni as his safe haven from the Borgia and the Pazzi. Not sure what he faces next he heads out to go right after the heart of the conspiracy against his family, Rodrigo Borgia, when that plan fails he realizes that he must systematically remove them to cripple the Borgia's power.
Now Ezio has embraced being an assassin. He starts on his quest of anger and vengeance, to seek retribution against the murder of his family. You see glimmer of this anger when he cant keep his composure, and breaks his silence, or his stealth, to just make a kill. As you progress you realize, just as much as he does, that you need to be more tactful with your approach. You need to be more cunning, and swift to stay alive. Ezio also starts to realize that this is no longer about his father and brothers its about all of Italy. Rodrigo is eliminating all of his enemies in his way to becoming the pope. Ezio pushes his personal motives to the side in order to help save the population of Italy from Rodrigo. As his quest continues he acquires more and more help from random strangers, to him, but he soon finds out that they too are indeed assassins part of his same order that he thought he was alone in.
He finds out that Rodrigo is after something called the piece of eden. Not knowing what it was he struggles to beat Rodrigo to it. Towards the end of the game, it shifts to Rome where the final stage is set. Ezio lost Rodrigo won, for now, Rodrigo is the pope and Ezio is going to do something that i personally find a amazing moment in this entire video game series, your going to assassinate the Pope. Knowing what he must do he faces nearly impossible odds to achieve this. After the battle with Rodrigo, Ezio faces a unknown entity calling herself Minerva, she is from a civilization known as the ones who came before. Confused Ezio tries to understand, feeling lost as he struggles with the act that this, at the time, meaningless moment cost him the lives of his family.
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