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Desmond, Rebecca, Shaun, and Lucy, on the run from Abstergo's security forces, make their way to the modern day Monterrigioni, now an archaeological site. By doing so, they hope that proximity to the long-time home of his ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, will help Desmond synchronize better with the memories. However, it carries a corresponding risk to his sanity, as he is increasingly having trouble distinguishing between his reality and Ezio's. He reenters the Animus in the hopes of discovering where Ezio left his Apple of Eden.

Back in Renaissance Italy, Ezio returns to Monterrigioni, bearing the Apple and victorious in his conflict with Rodrigo Borgia, but confused over the meaning of the cryptic message he found beneath the Vatican. He is given little time to relax, as the villa suddenly comes under siege by an army under the command of Cesare Borgia, Rodrigo's son. Cesare has come to reclaim the Apple. In the ensuing battle, Ezio is wounded and his best friend Mario is killed by Cesare. Ezio heads for Rome to avenge Mario's death, but passes out from his wounds.

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Desmond, Rebecca, Shaun, and Lucy, on the run from Abstergo's security forces, make their way to the modern day Monteriggioni, now an archaeological site. By doing so, they hope that proximity to the long-time home of his ancestor, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, will help Desmond synchronize better with the memories. However, it carries a corresponding risk to his sanity, as he is increasingly having trouble distinguishing between his reality and Ezio's. He reenters the Animus in the hopes of discovering where Ezio left his Apple of Eden.

Back in Renaissance Italy, Ezio returns to Monteriggioni, bearing the Apple and victorious in his conflict with Rodrigo Borgia, but confused over the meaning of the cryptic message he found beneath the Vatican. He is given little time to relax, as the villa suddenly comes under siege by an army under the command of Cesare Borgia, Rodrigo's son. Cesare has come to reclaim the Apple. In the ensuing battle, Ezio is wounded and his best friend Mario is killed by Cesare. Ezio heads for Rome to avenge Mario's death, but passes out from his wounds.

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Desmond and his team of modern Assassins have arrived at the Grand Temple in search of the First Civilization's promised mechanism to save the world from the impending solar flare on December 21, 2012. Upon entering, Desmond discovers a power source that when plugged in activates the Temple, including a strange glowing wall. When he approaches the wall, Desmond hears Juno's voice telling him that he must find the key. With that, he is hurled back into the Animus to relive the memories of another ancestor.

The Animus takes Desmond back to 1754, in London England, in the person of an upper class British gentleman named Haytham Kenway. Haytham is at a theater, ostensibly to attend the Beggar's Opera, but in reality to assassinate someone. He sneaks backstage and flawlessly carries out the execution, retrieving an inscribed amulet from the body and making his way out of the theater in the ensuing chaos. Haytham takes the amulet to his fellows, who identify it as American in origin. They believe that a Precursor site may be in the region and that the amulet has something to do with it. Haytham takes ship for America.

On board the ''Providence'', Haytham hears whispers of potential mutiny. He tracks down the suspects but can find no solid information except that someone is dumping painted barrels overboard. He deduces that this is a trail meant to mark their course for a pursuer just before the ship is ambushed by another vessel. Below decks, it is revealed that there is no mutiny, only a lone man using it as a red herring to lure Haytham into a trap. Haytham defeats his attacker and the ''Providence'' sails into a storm to lose its pursuer, which founders.

Arriving in 1755 Boston, Haytham encounters a young and aspiring Charles Lee, who helps him recruit a number of personages to his cause: William Johnson, a financier and explorer; Thomas Hickey, an unscrupulous rogue; John Pitcairn, a military commander; and Benjamin Church, a surgeon. Together they hatch a plot to locate the Precursor site, which is in the lands of the Mohawk tribe.

Their plan involves rescuing a number of Natives from slavery at the hands of a rogue British general, counting on their gratitude to establish friendly relations. In doing so, Haytham meets a young woman named Kaniehtí:io, who grudgingly befriends him in return for his aid. She needs him to kill Edward Braddock, a ruthless and murderous British general whom Haytham has had an association with in the past.

Haytham does as asked, and after Braddock falls, Ziio takes him to the Precursor site, which we recognize as the Grand Temple. However, his amulet alone is not enough to open the door, and in his despair he turns to her welcoming embrace. Afterwards, he returns to his fellows and determines to establish a new branch of the Order in the Colonies, and to welcome Charles Lee into that Order... the Templar Order. It turns out that Haytham was a Templar all along.

Many years later, Kaniehtí:io has borne and raised a son. Named Ratohnhaké:ton, he is welcomed into the Mohawk tribe despite his half-British ancestry, but the encroaching colonial expansion threatens his village. In the forest one day, he encounters Charles Lee, who leads an expedition to burn out his people. Ratohnhaké:ton swears vengeance on Lee on the spot, and chases him back to his village to find it in flames and his mother dying.

Years later, the teenage Ratohnhaké:ton is restless, anxious to fight against the Colonists despite his elder's warning that his people must remain neutral. She hands him a Precursor artifact that grants him a vision -- Juno, who tells him to seek out the Assassins in order to protect his land; else the Templars will find and destroy everything she has sought to protect.

He travels east and finds an old man by the name of Achilles Davenport, the last of the Assassins after a Templar purge years before. It takes some convincing, but Achilles finally agrees to train him. Achilles tells him of his father, now Grand Master of the Templar Order in the Colonies, and charges him with defeating Haytham and his fellows. It is Achilles who bestows the name Connor on the young boy, reasoning that he can pass for a Spaniard or Italian (both of whom are better than a Native or a Negro).

In Boston, Connor bears witness to (and fails to prevent) the Boston Massacre, and falls in with Samuel Adams and his Patriots. The fires of war are stirring. On his return, Connor also learns of another asset that the Assassins hold in reserve, a ship named the Aquila -- the same ship that pursued Haytham Kenway on the Atlantic crossing some fifteen years prior. Connor helps refit the Aquila and learns to captain her.

Now grown into his full Assassin rank, Connor is thrust headlong into the American Revolution. His quest, to seek out and kill the Templars, meshes with the Patriots' quest to free their land, but the alliance is not an easy one. Connor first attempts to stop the plans of William Johnson to buy his people's land, which embroils him in the Boston Tea Party. Johnson remains undaunted, however, and Connor is forced to find him and assassinate him at his estate in the Frontier.

Next is John Pitcairn, who is trying to quell the nascent rebellion before it can fully start. Connor rides with Paul Revere to warn the Patriots of the British march on Lexingon, and holds the line in the battle of Concord. He then helps hold off the British shelling of Bunker Hill so that he can get a clear path to kill Pitcairn.

Two Templars have fallen, but Connor has learned of a plot to assassinate George Washington himself, in an attempt to get Charles Lee promoted to commander of the Patriot army. Thomas Hickey is the man chosen to do the deed, but in the attempt to corner him, Connor himself is implicated in the conspiracy and imprisoned. Connor tries to break out of the prison and kill Hickey, but is confronted by Lee, who recognizes him as the boy whose village he attacked years ago and promises to have him executed in the plot to kill Washington. Connor escapes hanging with the aid of his Assassin recruits and kills Hickey in the nick of time.

Connor is now faced with the challenge of protecting George Washington's interests. His army's supplies have gone missing during the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and while tracking down the culprit, he comes face to face with his father. Haytham spares Connor's life and offers to team up with him to track down and kill Benjamin Church, who has broken with the Templars to pursue his own interests. Connor and Haytham each attempts to recruit the other to their cause while they hunt Church; the hunt itself is more successful than their uneasy alliance.

Connor returns to Washington's side, doubting his ability to kill his father, but ready to begin the hunt for Charles Lee in earnest. What he finds instead is a threat to his people's existence coming from an unexpected source: George Washington himself. It seems that Washington seeks to drive out the Native tribes who are allied with the British, and Haytham has been concealing this information in a attempt to manipulate Connor. He breaks with his father and hunts down Washington's messengers, but must also stop his own people, goaded by Lee, from provoking a conflict. In the process he is forced to kill his childhood friend, Kanen'tó:kon. He returns with news of Lee's betrayal and has to help fend off a Loyalist attack on Monmouth, but Washington refuses to have Lee executed. Connor leaves in disgust.

Resolved now to hunt Charles Lee on his own, Connor enlists the help of General Lafayette, and stages a naval assault on the fort where Lee is hiding. Stunned by a cannon blast, Connor unexpectedly confronts his own father, who is now determined to kill him in order to protect Lee. In the ensuing fight, Connor defeats Haytham, but Haytham doesn't have the amulet anymore.

Only one Templar remains. Connor finally tracks down Lee in the docks of New York, but in the ensuing chase, Connor receives a crippling injury. He manages to shoot Lee, however, who flees, with Connor staggering in pursuit. The two mortal enemies at last confront each other at a tavern in the Frontier. They share a drink, then Connor knifes Lee, finishing him, and takes the amulet.

Still in great pain, Connor returns to his tribe's village to find it abandoned, with only the Piece of Eden left behind. He receives another vision from Juno, congratulating him on his success and instructing him to bury the amulet where none will find it. He chooses a grave on the Davenport estate -- the grave of his namesake, Achilles' son Connor, who died the same year that Ratohnhaké:ton was born. This ends Connor's story.

Meanwhile, outside the Animus, Desmond and company have been using their idle time to track down the locations of three power sources that they need to fully activate the Grand Temple. The first is in a New York office building. Desmond breaks in, only to unexpectedly confront a Templar agent named Daniel Cross. Cross was turned long ago and used to decimate the modern Assassin order; he was also experimented on in the prototype Animus, which damaged his mind thanks to the Bleeding Effect. Desmond stuns Cross and flees.

The second power source turns up in a stadium in Brazil. Abstergo has learned of the Assassin's interest in them and is seeking to recover all it can, but this one is still reachable. Desmond travels there and evades Abstergo security, only to once again confront Cross. He retrieves the second power source and escapes, but Cross remains alive.

William, Desmond's father, attempts to retrieve the third power source from Egypt while Desmond uses the Animus, but is captured and taken to Abstergo's headquarters in Italy where Desmond himself was held not long ago. Vidic, Desmond's former captor, offers to exchange William for the Apple of Eden that Desmond holds, which is the key to their world domination schemes. Desmond openly invades Abstergo, hoping to fight his way to his father. He confronts Cross yet again, but before Cross can kill Desmond, the Bleeding Effect finally drives him mad and he flees in confusion. Desmond kills him, then finally faces Warren Vidic. Rather than hand over the Apple, Desmond uses its power to compel Vidic's security guards to kill first him, then themselves. He walks out of the building with his father and the final power cell, leaving a trail of dead Templars in his wake.

Having learned the hiding place of the key from Connor's memories, all the pieces are now in place to activate the Grand Temple. Through exploring it, Desmond has learned much of the First Civilization and their attempts to save the world seventy five thousand years ago. All along, Juno has been a presence, urging him along but also showing her disdain and even naked hatred of humanity. When the key is used and Desmond faces the final mechanism, the truth is revealed. Juno betrayed Minerva and Tinia, hiding her consciousness in the Grand Temple, intending to manipulate the future not to save the world for humanity's freedom, but to use its salvation as a means of dominating humanity, recreating the First Civilization with herself as its overlord.

Minerva states that it is too late to save the world otherwise; the Assassins and Templars have squandered their chance, but if they allow the destruction to take place, Desmond and his fellows may hope to preside over a new civilization where they can undo the mistakes of the past. However, they do this in the knowledge that humanity will eventually fall to fighting and corruption yet again. Desmond chooses Juno's vision, and sacrifices his life so that the planet will be spared. Juno, however, has been unleashed.

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Desmond and his team of modern Assassins have arrived at the Grand Temple in search of the First Civilization's promised mechanism to save the world from the impending solar flare on December 21, 2012.  Upon entering, Desmond discovers a power source that when plugged in activates the Temple, including a strange glowing wall.  When he approaches the wall, Desmond hears Juno's voice telling him that he must find the key.  With that, he is hurled back into the Animus to relive the memories of another ancestor.

The Animus takes Desmond back to 1754 London, in the person of a British gentleman named Haytham Kenway.  Haytham is at a theater, ostensibly to attend the Beggar's Opera, but in reality to assassinate someone.  He sneaks backstage and flawlessly carries out the execution, retrieving an inscribed amulet from the body and making his way out of the theater in the ensuing chaos.  Haytham takes the amulet to his fellows, who identify it as American in origin.  They believe that a Precursor site may be in the region and that the amulet has something to do with it.  Haytham takes ship for America.

On board the ''Providence'', Haytham is approached by the captain, who is concerned about a possible mutiny.  He tracks down the suspects but can find no solid information except that someone is dumping painted barrels overboard.  He deduces that this is a trail meant to mark their course for a pursuer just before the ship is ambushed by another vessel.  Below decks, it is revealed that there is no mutiny, only a lone man using it as a red herring to lure Haytham into a trap.  Haytham defeats his attacker and the ''Providence'' sails into a storm to lose its pursuer, which founders.

Arriving in 1755 Boston, Haytham meets a young and aspiring Charles Lee, who is not yet a member of his circle but helps him recruit a number of personages to his expedition: William Johnson, a financier and explorer; Thomas Hickey, a mercenary; John Pitcairn, a military commander; and Benjamin Church, a surgeon. Together they hatch a plot to locate the Precursor site, which is hidden somewhere in the lands of the Mohawk tribe.

Their plan involves rescuing a number of Natives from captivity at the hands of a slave trader named Silas, counting on their gratitude to establish friendly relations. In doing so, Haytham meets a young woman named Kaniehtí:io, who grudgingly befriends him in return for his aid.  She needs him to kill Edward Braddock, a ruthless and murderous British general with whom Haytham has had an association in the past.

Haytham does as asked, and after Braddock falls, Ziio takes him to the Precursor site, which we recognize as the Grand Temple.  However, his amulet alone is not enough to open the door, and in his despair he finds comfort in her welcoming embrace.  Afterwards, he returns to his fellows and determines to establish a new branch of the Order in the Colonies, and to induct Charles Lee into that Order... the Templar Order.  It turns out that Haytham was a Templar all along.

Many years later, Kaniehtí:io has borne and raised a son.  Named Ratohnhaké:ton, he is welcomed into the Mohawk tribe despite his half-British ancestry, but the encroaching colonial expansion threatens his village.  In the forest one day, he encounters Charles Lee, who leads an expedition to burn out his people.  Ratohnhaké:ton swears vengeance on Lee on the spot, and chases him back to his village to find it in flames and his mother dying.

Years later, the teenage Ratohnhaké:ton is restless, anxious to fight against the Colonists despite his elder's warning that his people must remain neutral.  She hands him a Precursor artifact that grants him a vision -- Juno, who tells him to seek out the Assassins in order to fight against the Templars; else they will find and destroy his tribe and everything he has sought to protect.

He travels east and finds an old man by the name of Achilles Davenport, the last of the Assassins after a Templar purge years before.  It takes some convincing, but Achilles finally agrees to train him.  Achilles tells him of his father, now Grand Master of the Templar Order in the Colonies, and charges him with defeating Haytham and his fellows.  It is Achilles who bestows the name Connor on the young boy, reasoning that he can pass for a Spaniard or Italian (both of whom are better than a Native or a Negro).

In Boston, Connor bears witness to (and fails to prevent) the Boston Massacre, and falls in with Samuel Adams and his Patriots.  The fires of revolution are stirring.  On his return, Connor learns of another asset that the Assassins hold in reserve, a ship named the Aquila -- the same one that pursued Haytham Kenway on the Atlantic crossing some fifteen years prior.  Connor helps refit the Aquila and learns to captain her.

Now grown into his full Assassin rank, Connor is thrust headlong into the nascent American Revolution.  His quest, to seek out and kill the Templars, meshes with the Patriots' quest to free their land, but the alliance is not an easy one.  Connor first attempts to stop the plans of William Johnson to buy his people's land, which embroils him in the Boston Tea Party.  Johnson remains undaunted, however, and Connor is forced to find him and assassinate him at his estate in the Frontier.

Next is John Pitcairn, who is trying to quell the rebellion before it can fully start.  Connor rides with Paul Revere to warn the Patriots of the British march on Lexingon, and holds the line in the battle of Concord.  He then helps stop the British shelling of Bunker Hill so that he can get a clear path to kill Pitcairn.

Two Templars have fallen, but Connor has learned of a plot to assassinate George Washington himself, in an attempt to get Charles Lee promoted to commander of the Patriot army.  Thomas Hickey is the man chosen to do the deed, but in cornering him, Connor himself is implicated in the conspiracy and imprisoned.  Connor tries to break out of his cell and kill Hickey, but is confronted by Lee, who recognizes him as the boy whose village he attacked years ago and promises to have him framed and executed in the plot to kill Washington.  Connor escapes hanging with the aid of his Assassin recruits and kills Hickey in the nick of time.

Connor is now faced with the challenge of defending George Washington against further plots.  The Patriot Army's supplies have gone missing during the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and while tracking down the thief, he comes face to face with his father.  Haytham spares Connor's life and offers to team up with him to find and kill Benjamin Church, who has betrayed the Templars to pursue his own interests.  Connor and Haytham each attempt to recruit the other to their cause while they hunt Church; the hunt itself is more successful than their uneasy alliance.

Connor returns to Washington's side, doubting his ability to kill his father, but ready to begin the hunt for Charles Lee in earnest.  What he finds instead is a threat to his people's existence coming from an unexpected source: George Washington himself.  It seems that Washington seeks to drive out the Native tribes who are allied with the British, and Haytham has been concealing this information in a attempt to manipulate Connor.  He breaks with his father and hunts down Washington's messengers, but must also stop his own people, goaded by Lee, from provoking a conflict.  In the process he is forced to kill his childhood friend, Kanen'tó:kon.  He returns with news of Lee's betrayal and has to help fend off a Loyalist attack on Monmouth, but Washington refuses to have Lee executed.  Connor leaves in disgust.

Resolved now to find Charles Lee on his own, Connor enlists the help of General Lafayette, and stages a naval assault on the fort where Lee is hiding.  Stunned by a cannon blast, Connor unexpectedly confronts his own father, who is now determined to kill him in order to protect Lee.  In the ensuing fight, Connor defeats Haytham, but Haytham doesn't have the amulet anymore and Lee is still at large.

Connor finally tracks down Lee in the docks of New York, but in the ensuing chase, Connor receives a crippling injury.  He manages to shoot Lee, however, who flees, with Connor staggering in pursuit.  The two mortal enemies at last confront each other at a tavern in the Frontier. They share a drink, then Connor knifes Lee, finishing him, and takes the amulet.

Still in great pain, Connor returns to his tribe's village to find it abandoned, with only the Piece of Eden left behind.  He receives another vision from Juno, congratulating him on his success and instructing him to bury the amulet where none will find it.  He chooses a grave on the Davenport estate -- the grave of his namesake, Achilles' son Connor, who died the same year that Ratohnhaké:ton was born.  This ends Connor's story.

Meanwhile, outside the Animus, Desmond and company have been using their idle time to track down the locations of three power sources that they need to fully activate the Grand Temple.  The first is in a New York office building.  Desmond breaks in and is unexpectedly confronted by a Templar agent named Daniel Cross.  Cross was turned long ago and used to purge the modern Assassin order; he was also experimented on in the prototype Animus, which damaged his mind thanks to the Bleeding Effect.  Desmond stuns Cross and flees.

The second power source turns up in a stadium in Brazil.  Abstergo has learned of the Assassins' interest in them and is seeking to recover all it can, but this one is still reachable.  Desmond travels there and evades Abstergo security, only to once again confront Cross.  He retrieves the second power source and escapes, but Cross remains alive.

With time running out, William, Desmond's father, attempts to retrieve the third power source from Egypt, but is captured and taken to Abstergo's headquarters in Italy where Desmond himself was held not long ago. Vidic, Desmond's former captor, offers to exchange William for the Apple of Eden that Desmond holds, which is the key to their world domination schemes.  Desmond openly invades Abstergo, hoping to fight his way to his father.  He confronts Cross yet again, but before Cross can kill Desmond, the Bleeding Effect finally drives him mad and he flees in confusion.  Desmond kills him, then finally faces Warren Vidic.  Rather than hand over the Apple, Desmond uses its power to compel Vidic's security guards to kill first him, then themselves.  He walks out of the building with his father and the final power cell, leaving a trail of dead Templars in his wake.

Having learned the hiding place of the key from Connor's memories, all the pieces are now in place to activate the Grand Temple.  Through exploring it, Desmond has learned much of the First Civilization and their efforts to save the world seventy five thousand years ago.  All along, Juno has been a presence, urging him along but also showing her disdain and even naked hatred of humanity.  When the key is used and Desmond faces the final mechanism, the truth is revealed.  Juno betrayed Minerva and Tinia, hiding her consciousness in the Grand Temple, intending to manipulate the future not to save the world for humanity's freedom, but to use its salvation as a means of dominating humanity, recreating the First Civilization with herself as its overlord.

Minerva states that it is too late to save the world otherwise; the Assassins and Templars have squandered their chance, but if they allow the destruction to take place, Desmond and his fellows may hope to preside over a new civilization where they can undo the mistakes of the past.  However, they do this in the knowledge that humanity will eventually fall to fighting and corruption yet again.  Desmond chooses Juno's vision, and sacrifices his life so that the planet will be spared.  Juno, however, has been unleashed.

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Desmond and his team of modern Assassins have arrived at the Grand Temple in search of the First Civilization's promised mechanism to save the world from the impending solar flare on December 21, 2012.  Upon entering, Desmond discovers a power source that when plugged in activates the Temple, including a strange glowing wall.  When he approaches the wall, Desmond hears Juno's voice telling him that he must find the key.  With that, he is hurled back into the Animus to relive the memories of another ancestor.

The Animus takes Desmond back to 1754, in London England, in the person of an upper class British gentleman named Haytham Kenway.  Haytham is at a theater, ostensibly to attend the Beggar's Opera, but in reality to assassinate someone.  He sneaks backstage and flawlessly carries out the execution, retrieving an inscribed amulet from the body and making his way out of the theater in the ensuing chaos.  Haytham takes the amulet to his fellows, who identify it as American in origin.  They believe that a Precursor site may be in the region and that the amulet has something to do with it.  Haytham takes ship for America.

On board the ''Providence'', Haytham hears whispers of potential mutiny.  He tracks down the suspects but can find no solid information except that someone is dumping painted barrels overboard.  He deduces that this is a trail meant to mark their course for a pursuer just before the ship is ambushed by another vessel.  Below decks, it is revealed that there is no mutiny, only a lone man using it as a red herring to lure Haytham into a trap.  Haytham defeats his attacker and the ''Providence'' sails into a storm to lose its pursuer, which founders.

Their plan involves rescuing a number of Natives from slavery at the hands of a rogue British general, counting on their gratitude to establish friendly relations. In doing so, Haytham meets a young woman named Kaniehtí:io, who grudgingly befriends him in return for his aid.  She needs him to kill Edward Braddock, a ruthless and murderous British general whom Haytham has had an association with in the past.

Haytham does as asked, and after Braddock falls, Ziio takes him to the Precursor site, which we recognize as the Grand Temple.  However, his amulet alone is not enough to open the door, and in his despair he turns to her welcoming embrace.  Afterwards, he returns to his fellows and determines to establish a new branch of the Order in the Colonies, and to welcome Charles Lee into that Order... the Templar Order.  It turns out that Haytham was a Templar all along.

Many years later, Kaniehtí:io has borne and raised a son.  Named Ratohnhaké:ton, he is welcomed into the Mohawk tribe despite his half-British ancestry, but the encroaching colonial expansion threatens his village.  In the forest one day, he encounters Charles Lee, who leads an expedition to burn out his people.  Ratohnhaké:ton swears vengeance on Lee on the spot, and chases him back to his village to find it in flames and his mother dying.

Years later, the teenage Ratohnhaké:ton is restless, anxious to fight against the Colonists despite his elder's warning that his people must remain neutral.  She hands him a Precursor artifact that grants him a vision -- Juno, who tells him to seek out the Assassins in order to protect his land; else the Templars will find and destroy everything she has sought to protect.

He travels east and finds an old man by the name of Achilles Davenport, the last of the Assassins after a Templar purge years before.  It takes some convincing, but Achilles finally agrees to train him.  Achilles tells him of his father, now Grand Master of the Templar Order in the Colonies, and charges him with defeating Haytham and his fellows.  It is Achilles who bestows the name Connor on the young boy, reasoning that he can pass for a Spaniard or Italian (both of whom are better than a Native or a Negro).

In Boston, Connor bears witness to (and fails to prevent) the Boston Massacre, and falls in with Samuel Adams and his Patriots.  The fires of war are stirring.  On his return, Connor also learns of another asset that the Assassins hold in reserve, a ship named the Aquila -- the same ship that pursued Haytham Kenway on the Atlantic crossing some fifteen years prior.  Connor helps refit the Aquila and learns to captain her.

Now grown into his full Assassin rank, Connor is thrust headlong into the American Revolution.  His quest, to seek out and kill the Templars, meshes with the Patriots' quest to free their land, but the alliance is not an easy one.  Connor first attempts to stop the plans of William Johnson to buy his people's land, which embroils him in the Boston Tea Party.  Johnson remains undaunted, however, and Connor is forced to find him and assassinate him at his estate in the Frontier.

Next is John Pitcairn, who is trying to quell the nascent rebellion before it can fully start.  Connor rides with Paul Revere to warn the Patriots of the British march on Lexingon, and holds the line in the battle of Concord.  He then helps hold off the British shelling of Bunker Hill so that he can get a clear path to kill Pitcairn.

Two Templars have fallen, but Connor has learned of a plot to assassinate George Washington himself, in an attempt to get Charles Lee promoted to commander of the Patriot army.  Thomas Hickey is the man chosen to do the deed, but in the attempt to corner him, Connor himself is implicated in the conspiracy and imprisoned.  Connor tries to break out of the prison and kill Hickey, but is confronted by Lee, who recognizes him as the boy whose village he attacked years ago and promises to have him executed in the plot to kill Washington.  Connor escapes hanging with the aid of his Assassin recruits and kills Hickey in the nick of time.

Connor is now faced with the challenge of protecting George Washington's interests.  His army's supplies have gone missing during the brutal winter at Valley Forge, and while tracking down the culprit, he comes face to face with his father.  Haytham spares Connor's life and offers to team up with him to track down and kill Benjamin Church, who has broken with the Templars to pursue his own interests.  Connor and Haytham each attempts to recruit the other to their cause while they hunt Church; the hunt itself is more successful than their uneasy alliance.

Connor returns to Washington's side, doubting his ability to kill his father, but ready to begin the hunt for Charles Lee in earnest.  What he finds instead is a threat to his people's existence coming from an unexpected source: George Washington himself.  It seems that Washington seeks to drive out the Native tribes who are allied with the British, and Haytham has been concealing this information in a attempt to manipulate Connor.  He breaks with his father and hunts down Washington's messengers, but must also stop his own people, goaded by Lee, from provoking a conflict.  In the process he is forced to kill his childhood friend, Kanen'tó:kon.  He returns with news of Lee's betrayal and has to help fend off a Loyalist attack on Monmouth, but Washington refuses to have Lee executed.  Connor leaves in disgust.

Resolved now to hunt Charles Lee on his own, Connor enlists the help of General Lafayette, and stages a naval assault on the fort where Lee is hiding.  Stunned by a cannon blast, Connor unexpectedly confronts his own father, who is now determined to kill him in order to protect Lee.  In the ensuing fight, Connor defeats Haytham, but Haytham doesn't have the amulet anymore.

Only one Templar remains.  Connor finally tracks down Lee in the docks of New York, but in the ensuing chase, Connor receives a crippling injury.  He manages to shoot Lee, however, who flees, with Connor staggering in pursuit.  The two mortal enemies at last confront each other at a tavern in the Frontier. They share a drink, then Connor knifes Lee, finishing him, and takes the amulet.

Still in great pain, Connor returns to his tribe's village to find it abandoned, with only the Piece of Eden left behind.  He receives another vision from Juno, congratulating him on his success and instructing him to bury the amulet where none will find it.  He chooses a grave on the Davenport estate -- the grave of his namesake, Achilles' son Connor, who died the same year that Ratohnhaké:ton was born.  This ends Connor's story.

Meanwhile, outside the Animus, Desmond and company have been using their idle time to track down the locations of three power sources that they need to fully activate the Grand Temple.  The first is in a New York office building.  Desmond breaks in, only to unexpectedly confront a Templar agent named Daniel Cross.  Cross was turned long ago and used to decimate the modern Assassin order; he was also experimented on in the prototype Animus, which damaged his mind thanks to the Bleeding Effect.  Desmond stuns Cross and flees.

The second power source turns up in a stadium in Brazil.  Abstergo has learned of the Assassin's interest in them and is seeking to recover all it can, but this one is still reachable.  Desmond travels there and evades Abstergo security, only to once again confront Cross.  He retrieves the second power source and escapes, but Cross remains alive.

William, Desmond's father, attempts to retrieve the third power source from Egypt while Desmond uses the Animus, but is captured and taken to Abstergo's headquarters in Italy where Desmond himself was held not long ago. Vidic, Desmond's former captor, offers to exchange William for the Apple of Eden that Desmond holds, which is the key to their world domination schemes.  Desmond openly invades Abstergo, hoping to fight his way to his father.  He confronts Cross yet again, but before Cross can kill Desmond, the Bleeding Effect finally drives him mad and he flees in confusion.  Desmond kills him, then finally faces Warren Vidic.  Rather than hand over the Apple, Desmond uses its power to compel Vidic's security guards to kill first him, then themselves.  He walks out of the building with his father and the final power cell, leaving a trail of dead Templars in his wake.

Having learned the hiding place of the key from Connor's memories, all the pieces are now in place to activate the Grand Temple.  Through exploring it, Desmond has learned much of the First Civilization and their attempts to save the world seventy five thousand years ago.  All along, Juno has been a presence, urging him along but also showing her disdain and even naked hatred of humanity.  When the key is used and Desmond faces the final mechanism, the truth is revealed.  Juno betrayed Minerva and Tinia, hiding her consciousness in the Grand Temple, intending to manipulate the future not to save the world for humanity's freedom, but to use its salvation as a means of dominating humanity, recreating the First Civilization with herself as its overlord.

Minerva states that it is too late to save the world otherwise; the Assassins and Templars have squandered their chance, but if they allow the destruction to take place, Desmond and his fellows may hope to preside over a new civilization where they can undo the mistakes of the past.  However, they do this in the knowledge that humanity will eventually fall to fighting and corruption yet again.  Desmond chooses Juno's vision, and sacrifices his life so that the planet will be spared.  Juno, however, has been unleashed.

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