User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-03-'12 — Leaked AC3 info!/@comment-190.74.93.104-20120304151620/@comment-3979092-20120304230949

as of now there is no official launch where connor branched with desmond. he can be other lineage aside from ezio and altair. But connor met the assassins as far as i read the leaked news