his life was changed to make him one this pre-assassin or pre-assassin stuff segment is nice and concise and to the point so it doesn't eat too much of your time without getting to the bulk of the game but it also establishes some characters it establishes the story establishes ezio and it also gives you a feeling that something bad is about to happen and then the bad thing does happen and ezio's lifestyle is thrust completely upside down inside the space of only a few minutes of playing the game ezio's father and brothers are arrested and the guards are looking for him too he rushes to visit his father who tells him to go back to the house and use his gift eagle vision to find the secret room inside which he finds robes and weapons including a letter he must deliver to uberto alberti to present at giovanni's trial unbeknownst to all this old family friend alberti is in on the conspiracy and ezio's father and brothers are hanged leading ezio down a path of revenge first against uberto alberti himself being trained to survive by paula and armed with his father's hidden blade which was repaired by leonardo da vinci a character and historical figure that we all know of portrayed over the course of two and brotherhood as ezio's closest and oldest friend after violently and mercilessly killing uberto for his betrayal ezio takes his mother and sister and flees florence heading to his uncle mario at monteregioni where he learns about the assassins and his father's role as one and is trained further by mario aldetore after one very on the nose easter egg introduction don't you recognize me it's a me mario at first ezio struggles to understand his assassin bloodline and its importance believing that it seems more fantastical than reality initially planning to escape italy with the remnants of his family mario convinces ezio to stay and take the fight to the templars in which we see his quest for revenge turn to a quest to uncover how far this templar plot actually goes and what they want he learns many strong lessons from many mentor characters along the way many of whom ezio did not realize were assassins until just before he himself was formally inducted into the brotherhood ezio discovers the templar conspiracy goes way beyond his father and brother's death and his journey goes even further beyond his understanding we see this story take place over the best part of NUMBER_TOKEN years from the end of NUMBER_TOKEN to the end of NUMBER_TOKEN. along the way ezio develops from a young man to a mature man and from a mature man to an assassin fighting for something greater than mere revenge in the end almost giving back into his urge to kill the mysterious spaniard rodrigo borgia who is now the pope but after a struggle and a further education into rodrigo's goals decided to spare his life believing that killing him would not bring ezio's family back and thus ending his life after defeating him and disproving rodrigo's beliefs and taking his prize so to speak would bring nothing then ezio comes face to face or at least as face to face as possible with
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