Ezio and Altair are not related

[Justice4L]

If you skip to the 3:30 mark they talk to a writer from Ubisoft on Assassins Creed. It turns out that Altair and Ezio are actually not related. Ezio is from a completely different bloodline to Altair. This means that they can do as many Assassin Creed games as they want without people saying "How could Ezio's ancestors end up in Japan etc. and then suddenly end up in America." All of Desmonds ancestors will be from different bloodlines.

Did any of you know of this fact and what do you think of it?

 

[Aiden_the-Joker1]

Yeah I knew this for quite a while also apparently the american accent Altair has in the first game was intentional but I have never heard the reason why.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Yeah I knew this for quite a while also apparently the american accent Altair has in the first game was intentional but I have never heard the reason why.

Abstergo has a better translator unit thing for their Animus than the Assassins so they can turn speech full-American. It's also the reason for Ezio sometimes speaking Italian.

 

[wooty]

I sort of guessed that, I always just assumed that the relation was all down to the assassin "clan". Which makes perfect sense seeing as nowhere in the games did it even mention Altair was blood related to Ezio.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

*sigh* And there they go, screwing up the Assassin's Creed story even more. Seriously, the Animus actually made some sense when it was just reading your "genetic memory" or whatever. Now its just silly.

 

[Justice4L]

Yeah I knew this for quite a while also apparently the american accent Altair has in the first game was intentional but I have never heard the reason why.

Abstergo has a better translator unit thing for their Animus than the Assassins so they can turn speech full-American. It's also the reason for Ezio sometimes speaking Italian.

I think that was an excuse by Ubisoft to cover up the fact that Altair was not voiced particularly well.

 

[Wuggy]

Yeah I knew this for quite a while also apparently the american accent Altair has in the first game was intentional but I have never heard the reason why.

Abstergo has a better translator unit thing for their Animus than the Assassins so they can turn speech full-American. It's also the reason for Ezio sometimes speaking Italian.

I think that was an excuse by Ubisoft to cover up the fact that Altair was not voiced particularly well.

Maybe, but it works within the context of the game.

No, I didn't know that. Assassin's Creed series has a really conveluted plot, and the fact that I didn't play the first game, just 2 and Brohood, makes it even worse for me.

 

[ultrachicken]

Yeah I knew this for quite a while also apparently the american accent Altair has in the first game was intentional but I have never heard the reason why.

It has to do with Desmond projecting himself onto the person he becomes in the animus, I believe.

 

[LordFisheh]

*sigh* And there they go, screwing up the Assassin's Creed story even more. Seriously, the Animus actually made some sense when it was just reading your "genetic memory" or whatever. Now its just silly.

Not really, both of them are ancestors of Desmond so he'd still have their DNA. They just aren't related to each other; they're two separate families who ended up intermingling on the way to Desmond.

 

[Buizel91]

Huh...i thought they were in some way =\ Because of that part in AC2 when you play as Altair for a bit

Spoiler: You know, when

Altair makes love to that women, Maria (who i cannot remember being in the first one)

Ahh well...now that part will just screw with me even more.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Yeah I knew this for quite a while also apparently the american accent Altair has in the first game was intentional but I have never heard the reason why.

Abstergo has a better translator unit thing for their Animus than the Assassins so they can turn speech full-American. It's also the reason for Ezio sometimes speaking Italian.

I think that was an excuse by Ubisoft to cover up the fact that Altair was not voiced particularly well.

Then more power to them for noticing that and being sure to throw in those bits of Italian in AC2/Brotherhood.

*sigh* And there they go, screwing up the Assassin's Creed story even more. Seriously, the Animus actually made some sense when it was just reading your "genetic memory" or whatever. Now its just silly.

Yeah, unless Desmond's entire family has been inbred for a couple of centuries they weren't going to be directly related.

 

[WolfThomas]

I always just assumed this. I mean it's mean it's been what 35-40 generations since the crusades? If you go back just 5 generations 32 different people contributed to your genes. That number exponentially grows as with each generation. It really means you can have anyone contribute to Desmond.

Also the concept of Desmond being the convergence of mutliple Assasin bloodlines is powerfully awesome. It allows for any sort of sequel.

 

[Justice4L]

I always just assumed this. I mean it's mean it's been what 35-40 generations since the crusades? If you go back just 5 generations 32 different people contributed to your genes. That number exponentially grows as with each generation. It really means you can have anyone contribute to Desmond.

Also the concept of Desmond being the convergence of mutliple Assasin bloodlines is powerfully awesome. It allows for any sort of sequel.

I think Ubisoft may have just thought of this. I doubt that they planned this from the beginning, because if they had they wold have:

a) Told us from the beginning, there was no reason to keep it secret.

b) Made Altair and Ezio look different. They are just starting to do that now in Revelations. Both Ezio's and Altair's face model have changed quite significantly and they look nothing alike, while they did in previous games.

The problem is that this gives them the opportunity to make dozens of sequels which means the game may get old fast. I hope it does not turn into Call of Duty and start releasing sequels with no real changes or improvements and making the storyline the only reason to play it.

 

[WolfThomas]

I think Ubisoft may have just thought of this. I doubt that they planned this from the beginning, because if they had they wold have:

a) Told us from the beginning, there was no reason to keep it secret.

b) Made Altair and Ezio look different. They are just starting to do that now in Revelations. Both Ezio's and Altair's face model have changed quite significantly and they look nothing alike, while they did in previous games.

The problem is that this gives them the opportunity to make dozens of sequels which means the game may get old fast. I hope it does not turn into Call of Duty and start releasing sequels with no real changes or improvements and making the storyline the only reason to play it.

They probably are just making it up as they go along, but they could make some excuse about them lookly similar as Desmond was projecting himself on to the characters. Originally all three were very similar looking.

 

[Justice4L]

I think Ubisoft may have just thought of this. I doubt that they planned this from the beginning, because if they had they wold have:

a) Told us from the beginning, there was no reason to keep it secret.

b) Made Altair and Ezio look different. They are just starting to do that now in Revelations. Both Ezio's and Altair's face model have changed quite significantly and they look nothing alike, while they did in previous games.

The problem is that this gives them the opportunity to make dozens of sequels which means the game may get old fast. I hope it does not turn into Call of Duty and start releasing sequels with no real changes or improvements and making the storyline the only reason to play it.

They probably are just making it up as they go along, but they could make some excuse about them lookly similar as Desmond was projecting himself on to the characters. Originally all three were very similar looking.

Some people believe Desmond does project himself onto the characters because Of AC2. There was a scene where Mario said "Itsa me, Mario!" Some people thought that Desmond thought of this and we heard it through Ezio. I think that is just a reference myself, but maybe not.

 

[MrGalactus]

What so they all just happen to be assassins that cross genetic paths by some massive coincidence or what?

 

[Woodsey]

*sigh* And there they go, screwing up the Assassin's Creed story even more. Seriously, the Animus actually made some sense when it was just reading your "genetic memory" or whatever. Now its just silly.

They can both be related to Desmond still.

OT: This evidently wasn't the plan originally, but they've explained it to the point where it doesn't bother me overtly.

 

[Hamish Durie]

now my flow charts mean nothing

 

[runnernda]

What so they all just happen to be assassins that cross genetic paths by some massive coincidence or what?

Birds of a feather...

OT: I didn't even know this was a topic of discussion. I mean, in all the time that's passed since the Crusades and the Renaissance or whatever, Desmond has a LOT of ancestors. Just because he's distantly related to two assassins in no way means that those two assassins are related. I mean, hell, I might be related to two assassins.