Editing Desmond Miles (section)

==Ancestry == 

:'''Shaun''': "''What is he... is he the chosen one, is that it? Little Jimmy Special or some bollocks like that?''"
:'''William''': "''I'm afraid not. But what he has is rare. His genes contain high concentrations of First Civilization DNA. Only about one in ten million are so lucky.''"
: —Shaun and William about Desmond's importance to the Order.

Desmond Miles came about from many different lines of Assassins through both sides of his family. As a result, Desmond had a higher concentration of First Civilization genes in his DNA than most other humans, which allowed him to properly wield the Pieces of Eden, which the First Civilization had initially created so that only their race could use them.

Desmond's most distant known ancestor was Lucius, a Gallo-Roman Assassin. His son and fellow Assassin, Aquilus, was next in line in Desmond's ancestry, alongside Aquilus' wife Valeria. Lucius and Aquilus were also members of the ''Liberalis Circulum'', an Assassin organization, and were closely related to the Ankh, a First Civilization artifact that was wielded by Isis.

During the height of the Hunnic Empire in the 5th century, Desmond had an ancestor believed to be a Sage living in Europe. This was discovered by Abstergo Entertainment when they were researching Desmond's genetic material.

During the High Middle Ages, Umar Ibn-La'Ahad and his wife Maud would become Desmond's ancestors, and were both members of the Levantine Assassins under the leadership of Al Mualim. They had one son, Altaïr, who became one of the most legendary Mentors of the Assassin Brotherhood. Following them, Altaïr and his wife Maria Thorpe conceived two children, Darim and Sef, the latter being Desmond's next ancestor. Next, Sef married and had two daughters, who moved to Alexandria after his death at the hands of Swami. The family line would pass on and eventually become Desmond's maternal line.

Desmond's bloodline also extended to Renaissance Italy, where his ancestor Domenico Auditore founded the House of Auditore in Monteriggioni with his son, Renato. Two generations later, Desmond's ancestor Giovanni Auditore da Firenze was born, a leading figure in the Italian Brotherhood. Giovanni and his wife Maria gave birth to his next ancestor, Ezio, who like Altaïr, would become one of the Brotherhood's most renowned Mentors. Late in his life, Ezio married an Ottoman-born Venetian woman named Sofia Sartor, who became Desmond's ancestor after conceiving one of their children, a daughter named Flavia.

Desmond's ancestors during the 18th century included Edward Kenway, a British pirate and Assassin. Edward and his second wife Tessa fathered a son, Haytham, who became the first Grand Master of the Colonial Templars. Subsequently, Haytham's relationship with a Kanien'kehá:ka tribeswoman named Kaniehtí:io resulted in a son named Ratonhnhaké:ton, who was raised among his mother's tribe. Ratonhnhaké:ton would later become heavily involved in the Assassin-Templar conflict during the American Revolutionary War, fighting for the Assassin Order. Ratonhnhaké:ton would later marry a native woman from a nearby tribe and had a son and two daughters; his youngest child was named Io:nhiòte.

The Auditore and Kenway families eventually intertwined, becoming Desmond's paternal line that passed from William to his son. Other known matrilineal ancestors hailed from a variety of places and eras, including the Ashikaga Shogunate in feudal Japan; 1800's France, in the midst of the Revolution and later during the Napoleonic Wars; 19th century New England and the American Midwest; Taiwan during the Sino-French War; and as recently as the Civil Rights and Peace movements on the American Pacific Coast in the 1960s. All of these were detailed in an internal email sent between high-ranking members of the Abstergo Entertainment development team.