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** Ezio, graybeard or not, is one of the deadliest fighters who've ever lived, has ''even more'' weapons than he did in Brotherhood, and has absolutely zero compunction about clobbering loud and whiny women. Harping on him, especially after ''he just saved your life'', is just plain stupid.

*** TruthInTelevision. A good example of this would be ChristopherLee; he is noted as being an incredibly skilled swordsman, with lightning-fast arms and an agile upper body, but he's old and his legwork isn't anywhere near as good as his upper-bodywork. That's why in the ''StarWars'' prequels, a lot of shots involving Dooku fighting were from the waist up. Altaïr is the exact same way.

* Does anyone else found Sofia's interaction with Ezio and reaction to everything that happens to her a bit unrealistic? [[http://ladyve.deviantart.com/art/A-Minor-Change-for-Ezio-and-Sofia-291562046 This]] deviantart post shows what I mean better then I can describe. I mean, she doesn't even seem all that shocked or traumatized about her bookstore being destroyed and herself almost getting killed by her sort-of boyfriend's enemies!

*** Another possibility is that she was originally a Templar and honestly switched to the Assassins, then later on Warren Vidic convinced her to join ''his'' side, without the knowledge or approval of the other Templars...in effect making her a triple agent. The official guidebook actually supports this view, and given Abstergo's rather callous attitude toward Vidic in later games, like they discovered something unpleasant about him, it's certainly plausible.

** The Assassins have worked with otherwise unsavory sorts before. In the second game they were aligned with the Medicis, who shadow-ruled Florence, they worked with Caterina Sforza, who was a surprisingly brutal ruler, and worked with a Barbarigo Doge in Venice who was utterly inept and corrupt. The Assassins working with the Ottomans to oppose the Templars is entirely in character for them.

*** This is especially true for the modern day Assassins if you look at the ExpandedUniverse materials and all of Subject 16's messages. Seriously, their members and allies includes [[SarcasmMode charming]] individuals such as VladimirLenin, MaoZedong, [[TheVietnamWar Ho Chi Minh]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] AlGore. When the Assassins say that 'Everything is permitted', [[CombatPragmatist they really mean it]]. They are interested in preserving the free will of mankind in the long run by fighting against the Templars, but they are perfectly willing to [[NecessaryEvil work with non-aligned organizations that violate the 'Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent' tenet on a daily basis]].

* Does anyone else found Sofia's interaction with Ezio and reaction to everything that happens to her a bit unrealistic? [[http://ladyve.deviantart.com/art/A-Minor-Change-for-Ezio-and-Sofia-291562046 This]] deviantart post shows what I mean better then I can describe. I mean, she doesn't even seem all that shocked or traumatized about her bookstore being destroyed and herselve almost getting killed by her sort-of boyfriend's enemies!

* So, the Assassins apparently do not realise that Desmond is reliving Ezio's escapades in the East. So why are there building descriptions apparently written in Shaun's trademark snarky style? Did he prepare those for every single landmark Desmond might run into in any city any of his ancestors may have visited?

* Why are the Assassins in Constantinople seemingly not at odds with the Ottoman regime? A militaristic, expansionistic empire seems like something they would oppose.

**** Desmond, reliving Ezio's memory of the event, is distracted by an image of Altaïr. This doesn't mean, historically, that Ezio was, or that Ezio ever even saw the image (he makes no mention of it to anybody). Remember, the Animus does allow the subject to relive the memories a little bit differently than they actually happened, this just results in loss of synch. Since Desmond's plot revolves around his trouble synching one ancestor apart from another, it makes perfect sense that Desmond's memory of Ezio would be distracted by Altaïr.

** The Eagle Sense lets you see the ghostly forms of people you're tracking. Could've been an offshoot of that.

** The hook blade is actually an entirely separate blade that attaches to the normal hidden blade design. As for the poison blade, I always assumed it was the same as the hook blade. Not actually a modification of the hidden blade, but a separate blade entirely (more like a long metal syringe needle really) that was retrofitted onto the normal hidden blade. The reason I assumed this was because I couldn't figure out how Ezio could use the hidden blade but ''not'' the poison blade in a fight if the poison blade was just a tube running down the length of the hidden blade. But a long hollow needle that extends slightly to the side of the hidden blade? That I could understand. As for how the poison darts are fired, it's probably some sort of spring mechanism. In fact (and I admit this is WMG-ing it a bit) it's possible the poison blade ''always'' fired out these little darts (how else would you have a precise ammo counter for the poison blade) but in ACII the mechanism wasn't powerful enough to shoot long distances. Then in Brotherhood Leonardo dreams up a more powerful launch device that can shoot darts further. Sort of like going from a close-range stun gun to a long-range taser.

** Or maybe it was changed? [[WordOfGod Darby McDevitt]] said Ezio is not a descendant of Altaïr before ''AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' was completed.

** Alternatively he did indeed Paint this all over time and with his own blood. His Eagle sense would allow him to complete drawings that were already cleaned up. Heck, he could work one line at a time every hour for every drawing and the cleaning crew wouldn't have wondered any more than "his nose must bleed a lot". Also he didn't even need then to wait for anyone to mop up the blood, he could do it himself, progressively completing the drawing that is already no longer there. Only another person with eagle sense would ever know

** He was in Milan until 1513, then he went to the Vatican to work with fellow [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja Turtles]] Raphael and Michelangelo. By ''Embers'', he's dead (since 1519).

*** This is especially true for the modern day Assassins if you look at the ExpandedUniverse materials and all of Subject 16's messages. Seriously, their members and allies includes [[SarcasmMode charming]] individuals such as VladimirLenin, MaoZedong, Ho Chi Minh, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] AlGore. When the Assassins say that 'Everything is permitted', [[CombatPragmatist they really mean it]]. They are interested in preserving the free will of mankind in the long run by fighting against the Templars, but they are perfectly willing to [[NecessaryEvil work with non-aligned organizations that violate the 'Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent' tenet on a daily basis]].

* Admittedly I rushed through the game (I didn't skip any cutscenes or anything storyline relevant though, since that's a big part of the reason why I wanted to play it) but...well, the game is called 'Revelations' and many people on this page are talking about how much the game reveals, but...am I the only one who feels like practically nothing of value was revealed? What were the story revelations from this game that were earth shattering? I mean, we go over the latter half of Altair's life, but very briefly with very few details, and I don't think we learned all that much about him. We see the latter half of Ezio's life, but I don't feel like the things he went through in this game were all that mind blowing until the very end, and even then I'm not sure it was all that important. We basically learn nothing about things going on in the modern day other than the truth about Lucy, which was pretty heavily hinted at previously anyway. We get to sort of meet Subject 16, but he doesn't have that much new information to give us. In the climax, [[spoiler: we see the first disaster, which was cool but already very clearly discussed in previous installments.]] When compared to AC2 (which had both a very strong Ezio plot that revealed a healthy amount, coupled with those Truth puzzles that basically singlehandedly revealed most of the ancient conspiracy at play), or even AC Brotherhood (pretty strong Ezio plot, solid contributions to the conspiracy plot, and even some interesting modern things with Desmond), what exactly was the plot contribution from Revelations? Maybe what was significant to others is lost on me because I tripped on some spoilers before playing the game and already knew a handful of things, but I'm just not seeing the vital story contribution here.

** For an ordinary person, seeing your hero fighting again the guards is one thing, watching him finish them off in a gory execution is an entirely different matter.