- Except that it's pretty much established in the first game that Desmond looks exactly like Altaïr because the Animus is letting Desmond impose his face over Altaïr's in order to make him more comfortable in the Animus...which pretty much means we actually have no idea what Altaïr "actually" looks like.
- And Desmond and Ezio don't look exactly the same because Desmond is far more used to using the Animus, and the Animus 2.0 is superior to version 1.0. This allows Desmond to not have to impose so much of his face over Ezio's. Which is why two look simply similar, rather than exactly the same...but we still technically don't know what Ezio "exactly" looks like.
- Word of God reveals that Desmond, Altaïr, and Ezio are in fact almost identical. There's even an authorized doll released by Ubisoft of Altaïr that proves that at the very least, he and Desmond are identical.
- So I'm not the only one who thinks this: the physical resemblance is uncanny. Maybe after Altaïr spared her life she dedicated it to finding out more about the assassins and realized they weren't so bad after all.
- According to Assassin's Creed II it seems that she's the mother of Altaïr's child, so she's related to Desmond. Not so bad indeed.
- Desmond was born in an Assassin compound, where the majority of Assassins are descendants of Assassins. It's possible that Lucy is also the descendant of an Assassin, perhaps the female Templar.
- Jossed, well and truly. Unless you are implying that Lucy is a descendant of Altaïr, it's not possible because the 'female Templar' is actually Maria Thorpe, Altaïr's wife and the mother of his two sons, Darim and Sef.
Furthermore, they give up on finding any relics involving Jesus. This will backfire badly as the "Holy Grail" will obviously be the... Holy Grail of all these artifacts. Desmond is going to find it and save the day at the end of the series.
Evidence of the time travel presents itself in the final scene of the animus. The "piece of Eden" shows a map that distinctly outlines all the modern-day countries. The Precursors would have no way of knowing that. The fact that the Creediverse is an alternate continuity to our present day comes when Dr. Vidic says "Some of the artifacts are on land masses that no longer exist." ~ All the land masses I saw sure seemed to be there today.
- The world is in fairly the same shape as it was then, with some exceptions, mainly around islands and coastlands. Alternatively, it's a projection of the world as it was in the 12th Century. Islands can disappear in that time.
- It's stated in the game that he is, multiple times. He says he's not an assassin "any more", why else would the assassins try to save him?
- Does this mean that the last installment of the game might have you play as Desmond?
- In the second game, Desmond really has no assassin training whatsoever. However, reliving Ezio's life via the Animus allows him to acquire years of training in just a matter of days.
- Desmond repeatedly says he "was" an Assassin, but isn't anymore. Perhaps he is a trained Assassin, but just wasn't trained in the more physical aspects of it that involve dicing people up, Altaïr and Ezio style. Maybe he was training to be an analyst-type, versus a field Assassin. Or, considering how often it's mentioned that present-day Assassins are pretty weak, at least in relation to the financially and resource-rich Templars, the Assassin group Desmond came from may be some splinter cell of super paranoid, cult-like Assassins; they know that they're fighting Templars, but they weren't aware of just how powerful a force they were fighting. Which is why Desmond is totally ignorant about how far back the battle between Templars and Assassins goes and doesn't have the physical training to handle them. Being in the Animus and reliving his ancestors memories simply opened his eyes to the truth.
- The events of Assassin's Creed: Revelations puts this all to rest, Confirmed but Desmond lost the skills from training after he ran from lack of practice.
- The second game pretty much confirms that she's an Assassin.
- Although it's possible she's not of an Assassin bloodline, as is the case with Shaun people can join the Assassins without being a descendant.
- Not all Assassins go around murdering people a la Altaïr, Ezio, and Desmond. While she has some basic skills, her real usefulness to the order is in the use and operation of the Animus.
- E-mails and dialogue in Brotherhood state that both Rebecca and Lucy were "chosen" to be part of the Assassin order. The only one in their team that was born into the order was Desmond.
- Confirmed but Subverted in Revelations: Lucy was chosen to be an Assassin but later betrayed the Assassins and joined Abstergo.
- Possibly Jossed by Assassin's Creed II - Lucy is the only person that helps Desmond escape. However, it was pretty easy for them to escape such a secure facility...
- New WMG: they didn't succeed, but they killed most of the security personnel.
- Jossed: According to the Lost Archive DLC: It was planned out by Vidic and Lucy
- New WMG: they didn't succeed, but they killed most of the security personnel.
- Lucy mentions that she hacked the cameras, but could have done it with help from the new guard.
- This would fit here if it wasn't blatantly stated in the emails.
- Protip: Those emails were written and sent by the Templars. If the Assassins are deceiving the Templars, the Templars would naturally be convinced that the Assassins are extinct.
- Pretty much confirmed in the second game. The Assassins are still around, but aren't nearly as powerful as they used to be.
- Alternatively, Altaïr can swim, but he didn't at any point during those missions. Just as he didn't kill civilians, if you.
- Seems like an extension of the idea that you're desynchronized with every hit you take, implying that Altaïr was never hit even once.
- Confirmed, he swam (in a cutscene and we don't see him actually swimming but he jumps into the sea from a ship) in the DS/iOS game. The event was referenced in AC2's codec pages.