The New World
Assassin’s Creed Full Story
Despite Desmond’s confident outburst, it’s soon clear that he does not know exactly how to the save the world. He does have a clue of where to start though. He leads his father, Rebecca, and Shaun to an underground temple that he believes holds the secret to saving the human race from the solar flare. A door bars the Assassins’ path, and Desmond hops back into the Animus to find the key. Initially, he awakens as Haytham Kenway, who takes the key from Britain to North America. In his quest to discover the purpose of the key, Haytham becomes smitten with a Native American woman. The two start a relationship and eventually conceive a child. Before Desmond’s consciousness turns to following the growing child, it shows one more of Haytham’s memories. Desmond watches, horrified, as Haytham swears Charles Lee into the Templar order, revealing that Desmond has both Assassin and Templar ancestors. Pushing past the shock, Desmond then follows the memories of Haytham’s son, Ratonhnhaké:ton.
Ratonhnhaké:ton loses his mother at a young age, seemingly killed by Charles Lee. He grows up vowing revenge. After Juno gives him a vision of the symbol of the Assassins and a picture of the key in his father’s possession, Ratonhnhaké:ton travels in search of both. He finds Achilles Davenport, the last remaining Assassin in the British colonies, and begs the old man to be his teacher. Initially against training Ratonhnhaké:ton, the old man eventually relents to Ratonhnhaké:ton’s pestering and trains the boy in the art of assassination. Achilles also shows Ratonhnhaké:ton the pictures of the men who make up the Templar Order in the colonies. Upon seeing Charles Lee, Ratonhnhaké:ton vows to kill the entire Order. He doesn’t even flinch when he sees that Haytham is currently the head of the Templars, and Achilles tells him that becoming an Assassin means that Ratonhnhaké:ton will have to kill his father too. To make it easier for others to interact with Ratonhnhaké:ton, Achilles gives his new ward the name Connor.
Connor would grow into a Master Assassin, who systematically killed the Templars in the colonies with brutal efficiency. He also took the time to strengthen the Brotherhood, recruiting men and women from many walks of life that he would train as Assassins. He also renewed his Brotherhood’s connection to the Brotherhood that operated out of the French colonies, by working with Aveline de Grandpré, a Master Assassin of African and French descent that, like Connor, would come to lead her own Brotherhood to new heights.
Although he was loath to admit it, Connor would come to realize that the Templars were not wholly evil. He disagreed with their methods but saw that they did wish for the best when it came to the people, both British and native. So when he met his father, the two struck up an uneasy alliance. However, neither would sway from the convictions of their respective orders, and the two would part ways. Achilles reminded Connor that he was sworn to kill every Templar, even his father, so when Connor went hunting for Charles Lee and found Haytham instead, the duo engaged in mortal combat. The battle ended with Connor’s blade in Haytham’s throat, and Haytham’s gives his son his first, and final, words of fatherly praise.
Although the key is no longer on Haytham’s person, Connor does find a journal that reveals Haytham did indeed love his son. The journal also reveals that Haytham’s father, Connor’s grandfather, was a pirate named Edward Kenway, who would go on to become an Assassin. Haytham had already become a Templar before he learned the truth, and refused to follow in his father’s footsteps after discovering his heritage. Talk about your family history!
Connor goes on to kill Charles Lee, completing his quest to annihilate the entire Templar presence in the British colonies. He returns to find Achilles dead and takes up the mantle of leading the colony’s new Brotherhood. He buries the key in a grave. Desmond and his allies retrieve the key in the present day, enter the deepest part of the temple, and encounter the spirits of both Minerva and Juno.
The former wishes for the Assassins to leave, but Juno demands that Desmond place his hands upon a pedestal. If the Assassins do nothing, the world will burn and Desmond will lead any of the humans that manage to survive. However, his memory would eventually be misconstrued into a Christ figure, leading to human history repeating all over again. If Desmond places his hands on the pedestal, he will die, but his life energy will allow Juno to fully awaken and deflect the sun’s harmful energy. Humanity will continue, and Juno will rule over them with an iron fist. Desmond opts for the latter solution, telling his companions to escape the temple and make sure they stop Juno.
