Connor - the Third Assassin

"I realize now that it will take time, that the road ahead is long and shrouded in darkness. It is a road that will not always take me where I wish to go – and I doubt I will live to see it end. But I will travel down it nonetheless."

―Ratonhnhaké:ton.

Ratonhnhaké:ton (1756 - unknown), often known by the adopted name of Connor, was a Native American Assassin of theKanien'kehá:ka during the time of the American Revolutionary War. He was an ancestor of Desmond Miles.

Ratonhnhaké:ton was born to the Templar Haytham Kenway andKaniehtí:io, a Native American woman of the Kanien'kehá:ka village in Kanatahséton. In 1760, while he was still a young child, he was assaulted by members of the Templar Order seeking the spiritsanctuary his people guarded, and then watched as his village burned down and his mother died. Growing up concerned by the outside world's impact on his people, Ratonhnhaké:ton joined the Assassin Order to prevent the Templars from returning.

Finding the Templars had all but destroyed the Colonial Assassins, Ratonhnhaké:ton convinced Achilles Davenport to train him. Renamed Connor, he revitalized the Order by recruiting craftsmen to renovate the Davenport Homestead and the Assassin ship, theAquila. Robert Faulkner subsequently trained him to captain the ship, while Connor recruited six more Assassins into the Order.

In hunting the Templars, Connor aided the Sons of Liberty and protected George Washington – becoming a secret but important figure in the American Revolution – but grew disillusioned as he realized their struggle would not guarantee the same freedoms for his people. Connor was also torn by wanting to reconcile with his father, despite Achilles' warnings as to the futility of uniting the Assassin and Templar philosophies.