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[Empty]

It's all fluff anyway. Mitchrondia is passed down trough females. Not males. There's fat chance any of your personal genes surviving to the third generation if you're male.

[olemars]

I got the impression Ezio sleeps around a lot. It's even the goal in the AC2 tutorial to get him laid.

Also in AC:Brotherhood

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

his sister is a brothel Madam.

And there's the bit in AC2

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where Desmond has a flashback to when Alta'ir gets it on with the female templar(?) from the first game, and when Alta'ir bugs out the "memory" stays behind with the girl. That hints that the genetic memory is passed on at conception. Which would mean that Ezio gets a child after AC:Revelations.

Then again Minerva

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pretty much says they designed Desmond and his genetic memories, so who knows how it's all meant to work.

[/nerd]

[Levi]

The concept is that memories are directly related to your genes, and memories are subconsciously inherited by offspring, supposedly explaining instinct. The animus taps into those memories. Ezio has to eventually get somebody pregnant, just as Altair presumably did.

I keep my memories in my brain.  This brings new meaning to thinking with your, Ehem...

[Kay12]

I got the impression Ezio sleeps around a lot. It's even the goal in the AC2 tutorial to get him laid.

Also in AC:Brotherhood

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

his sister is a brothel Madam.

And there's the bit in AC2

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

where Desmond has a flashback to when Alta'ir gets it on with the female templar(?) from the first game, and when Alta'ir bugs out the "memory" stays behind with the girl. That hints that the genetic memory is passed on at conception. Which would mean that Ezio gets a child after AC:Revelations.

Then again Minerva

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

pretty much says they designed Desmond and his genetic memories, so who knows how it's all meant to work.

[/nerd]

Can't be that. Desmond would stop seeing Ezio's memories at the very moment his more direct ancestor is conceived. He can't "remember" stuff after that (as it wasn't present in Ezio's son's DNA) and this has already been hinted at in AC II.

This just in

AC 3 is not whats next. Its going to be Assassins Creed Revelations. And Ezio is really fucking old at this point. Its also in Ottomon Constantinople, before it was changed to Istanbul.

He's in his 50's. That's not "really fucking old". It's more like Solid Snakish badass.

[Vertigon]

...now I really want him to have an eyepatch, bandana, and rough voice.

[dogstile]

50 in those times is really fucking old.

[Johnfalcon99977]

People lived till around 40 in those times to my belief. So in retrospect, he is really, really old.

[Empty]

...now I really want him to have an eyepatch, bandana, and rough voice.

Snake? SNAAAKEE?!?! SNAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

[Kay12]

People lived till around 40 in those times to my belief. So in retrospect, he is really, really old.

Yeah, because of more frequent problems with famine, pestilence and war. Well-off people have always had pretty long lives, if they were lucky enough to avoid getting murdered or catching a disease. According to Wikipedia, people in Classical Rome had over 50 years life expectancy already - 1500 years later in a well-off state of Venice I wouldn't doubt seeing people around or over 50 or 60. So no, Ezio isn't especially old.

EDIT: Also, forgot to mention, low life expectancy (40) doesn't mean that you should start waiting for the Grim Reaper when you turn 40. Back then (and still today in poorer countries) the main reason for low life expectancy is children dying of diseases and other hazards. BTW, wasn't Ezio almost a stillbirth?

[ductape]

People lived till around 40 in those times to my belief. So in retrospect, he is really, really old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

you might notice that this is still true today. When we say the average life expectancy is 40, that means average as in the average person who could not afford medical care and/or lived in shitty conditions with poor sanitary systems and close in with people where disease could spread.

Theres no reason to think that people who lived clean lives, ate healthy food and exercised could not probably live LONGER and healthier lives than the average westerner does now considering the crap they sell us in packages called food.

The theory thathumans as a species have longer lives today than the past is based on data collected in dense urban settlements, and the theory is known to not accurately paint the picture of human life in the past for all cultures.

[Digital Hellhound]

Ezio and friends have fancy

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those-who-came-before blood anyhow, so that probably helps.

((I don't think that's really a spoiler anymore tbh. Oh well.))

[Virtz]

What I find stranger than Ezio's age is Leonardo's looks. He's supposed to live till 1519 and look like a really old man by 1510, but last we've seen him he didn't look anything like his self-portraits, I think. Are we to believe that in 5 years he visually ages by like 20-30 years? Or are they just going to go "Oh, Leonardo was such a kidder and drew himself 30 years older!"?

[dogstile]

Pollution. Back then rome was filled with it, clearly.

[Kay12]

What I find stranger than Ezio's age is Leonardo's looks. He's supposed to live till 1519 and look like a really old man by 1510, but last we've seen him he didn't look anything like his self-portraits, I think. Are we to believe that in 5 years he visually ages by like 20-30 years? Or are they just going to go "Oh, Leonardo was such a kidder and drew himself 30 years older!"?

Kinda strange to me too, but I doubt that's a mistake they could make unintentionally, seeing how well-known the popular Leonardo image is. But I guess such "rapid aging" wasn't unheard of back then. It could be caused by cosmetics (lead, woo!), disease or... aging? And growing a master beard isn't impossible during that time.

Pollution. Back then rome was filled with it, clearly.

If it wasn't a video game, but some sort of virtual history tour, I would've been surprised at the utter lack of filth on the streets. On the other hand, since restoring Rome is a big part of the plot, I guess they could've made the amount of actual filth on the streets decrease as the filth of the Borgia gets purged...

[olemars]

Looks like they based the model of Leonardo on these two portraits, but with less beard:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan_portrait_of_Leonardo_da_Vinci

Passage of time and aging is a bit dubious in AC2 and AC:B in any case. Ezio's sister looks the same in both games, yet in the first she starts out as 17 and in Brotherhood she's closer to 40.