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| {{Quote|Beware the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.|William Miles.|The Lost Archive}}
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| {{Character Infobox
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| |name = William Miles
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| |image = William_Miles.png
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| |birth = 1948
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| |period = [[Modern times]]
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| |faction = [[Assassins]]
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| |appear = [[Assassin's Creed (French comic)|''Assassin's Creed'' (French comic)]]<br />''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''<br />''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''
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| |voice = Nick Jameson (''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'')<br />[[John de Lancie]] (''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'', ''Assassin's Creed III'')}}
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| '''William "Bill" Miles''' (born 1948) is a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]], who acted as a contact for Assassin teams spread throughout the world.
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| Based in the Assassin headquarters, he regularly kept the teams informed about the situations of others. He had [[Desmond Miles' mother|a wife]] and one son, [[Desmond Miles|Desmond]].
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| Initially working from a remote compound known as "[[the Farm]]," William's dedication to the Assassin Order allowed him to slip into the role of an unofficial [[Assassin leader|leader]], and he oversaw the activities of Assassin cells spread around throughout the world.
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| In late 2012, William joined the Assassin team consisting of Desmond, [[Shaun Hastings]], and [[Rebecca Crane]]. The team had managed to obtain an [[Apples of Eden|Apple of Eden]], and they eventually relocated together to the [[Grand Temple]] left behind by members of the [[First Civilization]].
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| ==Biography==
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| ===Early life===
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| {{Quote|One day you'll understand. All this unease will be worth something, I promise.|William during Desmond's training.|Assassin's Creed: Revelations}}
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| William was born in 1948, into the Brotherhood of Assassins, and he eventually chose to devote his life to the Assassin cause.<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref> By 1987, William lived with his wife in an Assassin compound called "the Farm", located in the {{Wiki|Black Hills}} of {{Wiki|South Dakota}}, [[United States]], outside {{Wiki|Rapid City}}. He lived in the compound with approximately thirty other members, and it was there that William's son Desmond was born and raised.<ref name="Revelations">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>
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| William was responsible for the training of the young recruits, most notably his own son, and [[Lucy Stillman]].<ref name="Revelations"/> When Lucy reached the age of 17, he made the decision to raise her outside the Order. This was to ensure that she would be able to infiltrate [[Abstergo Industries]] with ease, and all of her ties to the Assassin Order were cut as a result. However, unbeknownst to William, this plan later backfired, as Lucy slowly began to distrust him, and eventually defected to the [[Templars]] due to her belief that she had been abandoned by the Assassins.<ref name="The Lost Archive">''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' - ''[[The Lost Archive]]</ref>
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| William raised his son strictly, and would always insist on the importance of being careful, as well as in being ready for an attack from their enemies at any time.<ref name="Revelations"/>
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| ===Researching Daniel Cross===
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| In 1998, William was contacted by [[Paul Bellamy]], the Assassin in charge of an Assassin compound located outside [[Philadelphia]]. Paul asked William to look for information about an individual named [[Daniel Cross]], who was brought into the compound by [[Hannah Mueller]], under the assumption that Daniel was an Assassin.
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| William found information about Daniel's ancestry, which led to the [[Russian Assassins|Russian Assassin]] [[Nikolai Orelov]], who was closely tied to the [[Tunguska event]]. William relayed this information to Paul, and Daniel was accepted into the Assassin Brotherhood.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #2</ref> At some point, he met Cross face to face and believed his sincerity.
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| In November 2000, Daniel was personally introduced to the [[Mentor (2000)|Mentor]], and assassinated him upon an impulse secretly implanted into his brain by Abstergo Industries during his youth. The Templar sleeper agent also revealed the locations of all Assassin camps he had visited during his search for the Mentor, through being injected with various chemicals.<ref name="The Fall #3">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]'' - Issue #3</ref> This resulted in the Templars initiating "[[The Great Purge]]" to destroy these camps, though as William was warned pre-emptively, the Farm was left practically unscathed.<ref name="Revelations"/>
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| ===Overseeing the Order===
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| With the loss of the Mentor and nearly all the Assassin compounds fallen to the Templars,<ref name="The Fall #3"/> the Assassins went into hiding, operating from remote and secluded compounds and cells.<ref name="AC">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref> Eventually, control of the Order slipped into William's hands, and William began to oversee the Order's activities.<ref name="Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>
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| However, in 2003, Desmond ran away from the Farm, fed up with his parents' paranoia about the Templars, and believing them to be nothing more than conspiracy freaks. Despite efforts to find Desmond, William and the Assassins were unsuccessful in retrieving him.
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| William continued to loyally serve the Order nonetheless, keeping in contact with the Assassin cells via the [[Hephaestus Email Network]], the Assassins' private [[Emails|e-mail]] network.<ref name="Revelations"/>
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| In 2012, Lucy Stillman was working undercover in Abstergo Industries as the assistant of [[Warren Vidic]],<ref name="AC"/> a member of the [[Inner Sanctum of the Templar Order]].<ref name="Revelations"/> After the death of her teammate [[Clay Kaczmarek]], who had been used in Abstergo's [[Animus Project]] as "Subject 16", Abstergo's [[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition]] division managed to track down Desmond and capture him, also using him in the Animus Project as "Subject 17".<ref name="Revelations"/><ref name="AC"/>
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| Around this time, William and the other Assassins deserted the Farm, some time before a team sent by Abstergo arrived there.<ref name="AC"/>
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| ===Retrieving Desmond===
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| Lucy eventually broke Desmond out of Abstergo's facility in [[Italy]], and the two of them joined Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane to continue Desmond's Animus sessions, though this time pursuing the Assassins' interests.<ref>[[Assassin's Creed II]]</ref> William kept in contact with Lucy's cell, occasionally hearing of Desmond's progress.<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
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| Eventually, by reliving the memories of [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], Desmond was able to attain the location of [[Ezio's Apple of Eden|his ancestor's Apple of Eden]], hidden for centuries in the [[Colosseum Vault]]. There, the team entered the Vault and Desmond retrieved the Apple; however, his body was influenced by [[Juno]], a member of the First Civilization, who made him stab Lucy with his [[Hidden Blade]],<ref name="Brotherhood"/> killing her.<ref name="Revelations"/>
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| William dispatched some Assassins to retrieve the team from the Vault, and placed Desmond inside the Animus due to his conscious state worsening from the event, as well as from his prolonged exposure to the [[Bleeding Effect]].<ref name="Brotherhood"/>
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| Desmond continued to relive Ezio's memories, and eventually found a restored memory sequence from 1506. From there, he received an e-mail from William which stated that the memory sequence he had found would lead the Assassins to some highly valuable information.
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| At the end of these memories, [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and Ezio Auditore found [[Pythagorean Vault|another Vault]] in [[Rome]], located beneath the [[Temple of Pythagoras]]. When Ezio's DNA activated a [[Vault pedestal|pedestal]], the room projected a set of coordinates: 43 39 19 N 75 27 42 W, which led to {{Wiki|Turin (town), New York|Turin}} in the [[United States|American]] state of New York;<ref name="Da Vinci Disappearance">''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' - ''[[The Da Vinci Disappearance]]''</ref> the location of the Grand Temple left behind by the First Civilization.<ref name="Revelations"/>
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| Once the sequence was completed, William instructed [[Harlan T. Cunningham]] to sedate Desmond,<ref name="Initiates">''[[Assassin's Creed Initiates]]''</ref> though it was too late; Desmond had entered a coma,<ref name="Da Vinci Disappearance"/> and had fallen into the Animus' [[Black Room]].<ref name="Revelations"/> Despite this, William was confident that his son would recover, and so he and Harlan left in order to investigate the coordinates.<ref name="Da Vinci Disappearance"/>
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| ===Relocating to New York===
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| {{Dialogue|William|Desmond, can you hear me? Son?|Desmond|I know what we need to do.|William and Desmond, upon the latter's awakening.|Assassin's Creed: Revelations}}
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| While Desmond was still in the Animus, William transported Rebecca and Desmond to New York, while Shaun stayed behind to attend Lucy's funeral. During this time, William examined the Apple of Eden, though he surmised that he didn't have the genes to properly wield it as Desmond presumably could.
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| Upon arrival, William helped Rebecca stabilize Desmond, as well as monitor his vitals. While watching over Desmond, William asked Rebecca and Shaun about him, such as what his relationship had been with Lucy. He also mentioned that Desmond's DNA had a high concentration of First Civilization DNA, allowing him to wield the Apple of Eden, as well as discussing the team's next move with the pair, and how to safely transport Desmond in his comatose state.
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| [[File:Miles van 2.png|thumb|left|250px|William beside Desmond, as the latter regains his consciousness.]]
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| When his son finally woke from his coma, William was the first to greet him, with Desmond seeming surprised to see him, but recognizing him immediately. Desmond, after seeing the Apple nearby, told his team that he knew what to do next, and William proceeded to open the doors of the van they were in.
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| ===Grand Temple===
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| Upon entering the Grand Temple, William ordered his son back into the Animus when Desmond suffered from the Bleeding Effect again. After completing [[Haytham Kenway]]'s memories, Desmond exited the machine, to which William demanded that Desmond enter it again, in order to find the key to the Temple's gate faster.
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| Finally having enough, Desmond yelled at his father for pushing his own son too far, and accused him of being no better than the Templars, to which William punched his son in the face. William revealed that the driving force of his whole career as an Assassin was to make a better place for his son, and that the impending countdown didn't afford Desmond the luxury of time to relax. However, he did acknowledge that he had been a lousy father to Desmond, but the two avoided each other for some time.
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| Later, Desmond conversed with his father, who apologized for snapping at him, and the two set their differences aside, with Desmond asking about his father's activity upon leaving the Farm.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
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| Meanwhile, Abstergo had been tracking William for some time, as they wanted to use him as bait. Vidic planned to capture him hoping that Desmond would exchange the Apple for his father's safety, or attempt to rescue him.<ref name="Revelations"/><ref name="Initiates" />
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| ===Captured===
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| [[File:AC3_Captive_William.png|thumb|250px|William held captive in Vidic's office.]]
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| When Shaun located the third power source in Cairo, William volunteered to go there, as they were running out of time, and he wanted Desmond to find the key. On his way there, he e-mailed his son to relax, as he had been "fighting these bastards before [Desmond] was even born".
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| Seeing the opportunity, Vidic sent his [[Master Templar]], [[Juhani Otso Berg]] to capture William in the Cairo museum.<ref name="Initiates" /> They brought him to the same building where Desmond was incarcerated a few months ago. Vidic then sent the team a video message which bargained for a trade between William and the Apple of Eden in Desmond's possession. In response, Desmond decided to comply, but chose instead to begin a raid on Abstergo's Roman headquarters before reaching William and Vidic.
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| On his arrival, Desmond used the Apple to influence the guards into killing Vidic and then themselves, before leaving the Templar facility with his father.<ref name="AC3"/>
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| ===Opening the gate===
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| On finally discovering the [[Grand Temple Key]]'s location and retrieving it from the grave of [[Achilles Davenport]]'s son, Connor Davenport, Desmond unlocked the final barrier that separated the group from the Grand Temple's inner chambers.
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| Inside, the group found a pedestal, to which Juno explained that it would shield the planet from the solar flares with Desmond's touch. However, Minerva suddenly appeared in order to discourage Desmond, commenting that touching the pedestal would also unleash the still-living Juno to conquer the Earth for herself.
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| However, on deciding that Juno could be combated, as opposed to letting billions of lives be needlessly wasted, Desmond made his choice and went to touch the pedestal. William made a final attempt to dissuade him, but Desmond remained unmoved and simply told his allies to run far from the Temple. Following William, Shaun and Rebecca's departure, Desmond touched the pedestal, giving his life to save the planet.<ref name="AC3"/>
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| ==Characteristics and personality==
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| {{Quote|Focus, Desmond, focus! Strength, speed, agility, no excuses!|William training his son.|Assassin's Creed: Revelations}}
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| [[File:William miles Encyclopedia.png|thumb|Concept art of William.]]
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| William was truly devoted to the Assassin Order, sacrificing the social relationships he had with those around him (including his own family) for its sake. While William's wife was able to deal with his emotional distance, his son could not, which became one of the reasons why Desmond decided to run away from his parents. To this effect, William would admit to Desmond years later that he did a terrible job at raising him.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
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| William was also a highly proud man, going so far as to punch Desmond when his son compared him to the Templars. Despite this, he had no value for his own life when his death may have been necessary to safeguard the Assassins, scolding Desmond on one such occasion for rescuing him from the Templars.
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| Following Desmond awakening from his comatose state, William seemed to remain focused more on the world's plight than his son. However, this is not to say that he didn't care, as during Desmond's period of inactivity, Shaun revealed in a following e-mail that William never left Desmond's side, even sleeping in the same room as him, next to the Animus. Following his rescue from Abstergo, his feelings toward his son were made clearer, as he admitted to Desmond that though he found it hard to express himself, he did love his son.<ref name="AC3"/>
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| His somewhat cold personality also occasionally disturbed other members of the Order, including Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane; portrayed after William showed little remorse over Lucy Stillman's death.<ref name="Revelations"/> However, this may have been because he was aware of Lucy's betrayal, whereas Rebecca and Shaun were not.<ref name="The Lost Archive"/>
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| Nonetheless, the driven personality and intelligence that William used to serve the Order earned him the loyalty of the Assassins,<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> allowing him to become their ''de facto'' leader in the absence of an official Mentor.<ref name="Revelations"/>
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| ==References==
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| {{Reflist}}
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| {{ACB}}
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| {{ACR}}
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| {{AC3}}
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| {{ACTF}}
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| {{Initiates}}
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Miles, William}}
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