User blog comment:D. Cello/Animus Hardware code decyphered/@comment-3285453-20110613144922

This is so cool! There's just one thing that's bothering me about the Black Hills/ The Farm theory: In the first Assassins Creed, after the Assassins try and fail to rescue Desmond, Vidic mentioned that Abstergo had cleared the "Desert Communes". Then when he left Desmond asked Lucy "He mentioned the desert, do you suppose-?" and she tells him the Assassins (and his parents) were already gone and maybe alive.

Last time I checked, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore is a rocky and dense forest area. Hardly a desert. I don't know that just struck me as odd. Could just be a continuity issue on Ubisoft's part, but that's just my one grievance with Desmond's childhood home being in the Black Hills. Food for thought.