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The Miles family are members of the Assassin Brotherhood from the starting of at least the mid-20th century. The family is known for their strong paternal and maternal genetic lines of Assassins that include Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Edward Kenway, and Ratonhnhaké:ton.

History[edit | edit source]

Family background[edit | edit source]

By the 20th century, the Miles family was related to the Assassin Brotherhood, a group dedicated to protect humanity's free will against the Templar Order, their sworn enemy. The Mileses were the issue of two illustrious Assassin lineages, the House of Auditore, which fought the House of Borgia during the Italian Renaissance; and the Kenway family, which had a great involvement in the Assassin-Templar War from the Golden Age of Piracy through the American Revolution.[1]

William Miles was born in 1948. Like his ancestors, he joined the Assassin Brotherhood. In 1977, William received from Nathalie Chapman the blueprints of the Animus, a machine that could read the genetic memory of individuals.[2] This machine was designed by the Dr. Warren Vidic, a member of the Templar Order working for the Templar's front-company Abstergo Industries.[3] William went in Moscow and handed over the blueprints to the Russian Assassin Medeya Voronina.[4]

By 1987, William was in relation with another member of the Brotherhood who was a descendant of the 13th century Levantine Mentor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Together they had a son, Desmond.[1] The Mileses lived in The Farm, an Assassin compound isolated in the Black Hills of South Dakota, outside of Rapid City.[5] William trained his son to become an Assassin but Desmond was refractory to the hard ways of his father training.[6]

After the Mentor was assassinated by the Templar sleeper agent Daniel Cross in 2000, the Brotherhood was nearly wiped out,[7] and William became the de facto Mentor of the Assassins. [citation needed]

In 2003, on his 16th birthday, Desmond decided to flee the Farm and abandoned his life as an Assassin.[8] Going to New York City, he became the bartender of the Bad Weather.[9] Desmond minimized public records on his activities to escape from his parents.[3] Every day, William tried to find his son, searching for his name or variation of it.[10] When the Farm was raided by Templar forces,[3] William and his wife escaped and decided to split up to ensure their survival.[10]

Around 2005, Desmond met a woman and unknowingly conceived a son with her, Elijah. Elijah was in fact a Sage, a reincarnation of Aita, a member of the old Isu civilization.[11]

Second Disaster[edit | edit source]

Between 2005 and 2011, William sent in Rome two of his apprentices, Lucy Stillman and Clay Kaczmarek, to infiltrate the Abstergo Industries laboratory in hopes of uncovering details on the Animus Project led by Vidic. Stillman became Vidic's assistant,[12] while Kaczmarek became the Subject 16, forced to relive the memories of his ancestors until his death by suicide following Bleeding Effect-induced mental instability brought about by prolonged Animus sessions.[3]

On 1 September 2012, Desmond was abducted by Abstergo to become the Subject 17 after the death of Kaczmarek. Desmond was put in an Animus to relive the memories of his ancestor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to recover a map of the Pieces of Eden for the Templars. In the laboratory, Desmond met Stillman who revealed her Assassin allegiance.[3] Together, they escaped the laboratory and joined the Assassins Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings in their hideout in Rome. Desmond accepted to work with the Assassins, developing his skills with the Bleeding Effect while experiencing the training years of his ancestor Ezio Auditore in the Animus. Through Ezio, Desmond was contacted by the Isu Minerva,[13] who warned him about a new Disaster was approaching that could destroy the Earth.[14]

As the Templars attacked their hideout, the Assassin went to Monteriggioni to hide. Together they decided to recover an Apple of Eden to help them to stop the Disaster. While relived Ezio's memories in Rome, Desmond located the Apple in the Colosseum Vault. The team informed William Miles of their discovery. Touching the Apple, Desmond was contacted by the Isu Juno who forced him to kill Stillman as she was a Templar agent. Arriving in the vault, William decided to put his son in the Animus as he was in a comatose state.[15] In a memory of Ezio, the team discovered the coordinates of the Grand Temple near Turin, New York, which could help them to stop the disaster.[16]

William besides Desmond

William led the team to the Grand Temple while his son relived the memories of Altaïr and Ezio to escape his coma.[17] During the travel, William never left his son, even sleeping in the same room.[18] Completing Ezio's memories and unlocking a Synch Nexus, Desmond entered in contact with the Isu Jupiter who told him about the Great Catastrophe and the Grand Temple. After that Desmond woke up from his coma as the team arrived before the Grand Temple in October 2012.[17]

Entering in the Grand Temple with the Apple, the Miles, Crane and Hastings discovered a great chamber with a closed door. Desmond interacted with the Temple, reliving the memories of his ancestor Haytham Kenway, the Grand Master of the Colonial Templars who possessed the Grand Temple Key. Tension grew between William and his son, as Desmond felt inordinate pressure to singlehandedly prevent the Disaster, leading to William punching his son after being compared to the Templars. Crane and Hastings reminded them they needed to put aside their problems to save the world.[10]

Desmond using the Apple of Eden to save his father

While Desmond relived the memories of Haytham's son, Ratonhnhaké:ton, to locate the Key, the team tracked power sources to access to the door. Together they went to New York City[19] and São Paulo, Brazil[20] to collect two power sources while being continually confronted by Daniel Cross. Returning in the Grand Temple, the team located another power source in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. William went there and stole the power source, but was captured[10] by the Templar task force Sigma Team, led by the Master Templar Juhani Otso Berg.[21] Desmond, Crane and Hastings received a message from Warren Vidic asking them to bring the Apple in exchange for William's life.[10] Desmond infiltrated the Animus Project laboratory, killing the security guards and Cross. Entering in the room where his father was kept hostage, Desmond used the power of the Apple to force the guards to kill Vidic before killing themselves. Liberating his father, the father and son finally settled their quarrel and left the laboratory with the power source.[22]

Through Ratonhnhaké:ton's memories,[23] Desmond located the Key in the tomb of Connor Davenport in the Davenport Homestead. The team recovered the key and opened the door the 21 December 2012. Behind the door, they found the Eye with Juno's consciousness asking Desmond to activate it to save the world. At this moment, Minerva arrived through Calculations to warn Desmond to not activate the Eye as it will kill him and liberate Juno who wanted to enslave humanity. Juno showed a vision to Desmond, telling him that if he let the Second Disaster happen, he would rebuild the human civilization, but would be considered a god after his passing, his legacy corrupted and used for subjugation. Desmond decided to activate the Eye, believing in the Assassins to stop Juno. Bidding farewell to his father and his friends and insisting that they leave immediately, Desmond activated the Eye, protecting the Earth from the Second Disaster and killing himself.[10]

Genealogy[edit | edit source]

 
 
 
William Miles
 
 
 
Desmond Miles' mother
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Desmond Miles
 
 
 
Elijah's mother
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elijah

Appearances[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Noob's personal files: "AE files: CONFIDENTIAL - Subject - RE: Potential time periods?"
  2. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone – Issue #02
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Assassin's Creed – Modern day
  4. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Database: A Brash American
  5. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Doubts
  6. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Training
  7. ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Fall – Issue #03
  8. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Escape
  9. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Metropolis
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Assassin's Creed III – Modern day
  11. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Syndicate – Database: Reconstructed Data 010
  12. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – The Lost Archive – The Mole
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – In Bocca al Lupo
  14. ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Modern day
  15. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Modern day
  16. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance – The Temple of Pythagoras
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Modern day
  18. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Desmond Miles' email: "Subject line: Your father"
  19. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Modern Tower
  20. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – The Stadium: MMA Night
  21. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Numbskull's personal files: "Otso Berg's Profile: Cairo Debrief"
  22. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Return to Abstergo
  23. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – Chasing Lee
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