Tests taken from Desmond Miles’ body at the times after his passing have empowered Abstergo Industries to keep on exploring his hereditary recollections utilizing the Animus’ recently discovered distributed computing capacities. The anonymous player character is enlisted by Abstergo Entertainment to filter through the recollections of Edward Kenway, an eighteenth-century privateer, the father of Haytham Kenway and the granddad of Ratonhnkek?:ton. Apparently, this is to accumulate material for an Animus-fueled intuitive component film, however in all actuality, Abstergo?the Templars of the present time?are scanning for a First Civilization structure known as the Observatory, and are utilizing the recollections of Edward Kenway to discover it.