- I'm a bartender, for Christ's sake! What do you want me to do, teach you how to mix a Martini?
- ―Desmond to Vidic and Lucy.
Desmond Miles (born 1987) is the main protagonist of the main installments in the Assassin's Creed series and the descendant of a long line of ancestors who swore their allegiance to the Assassin Order. He is initially forced to use a machine, called the Animus, created by Abstergo Industries – the modern front of the Knights Templar – to relive the memories of his ancestor, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Crusader era, in their quest to locate the "Apple", a Piece of Eden.
Eventually escaping with the aid of modern day Assassins, Desmond once again uses an Animus (now improved to the Animus 2.0) to explore the memories of his second ancestor,
Ezio Auditore, so as to learn the ways of the Assassins in a much faster way than normal.
