User blog:Smoke3723/AC3 Theories
News of Assassin's Creed 3 is now all over the Wiki, and people are putting forward their current theories about what's going to happen. So here's my 2 cents.
Currently everyone is speculating that Altair will return, or perhaps a descendant of Ezio. I think our ancestor will be a forefather of Altair, from before the Crusades.
The latest previews imply it will be set in Constantinople/Istanbul. Well, before it was Constantinople it was Byzantium, the capital of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines pursued a policy of keeping their enemies at each other's throats, and so their name has become synonymous with complicated polital conspiracies.
An interesting side note: as Byzantium was getting its butt kicked in its wars with Persia, it pleaded with the Western Roman Empire for military support. This was what kicked off The Crusades in Western Europe.