User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 10/11 -- Desmond's Ancestry Revealed/@comment-95.144.142.59-20111103191749

yeah the animus "prints desmonds face onto ezio and altair so they look like him. Ezios mother is from the line of assassins descended fron adam and eve. ezios father is descened from altair so it all comes together in Ezio who is desmonds ancestor