User blog comment:Hawkam/Why People hate desmond ?/@comment-1153722-20130509085600/@comment-3046679-20130509133004

He didn't need to become a mentor. Just have him live and bring him back as an aged NPC at a later date, maybe a master assassin in his 40s then.

Anything would have been better than another one of multitude shitty 'Welp, it's another 2012 game ending where we kill off a protagonist of long-standing series just because'.