User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 02-06-'12 — Assassin's Creed III: Liberation revealed!/@comment-1889286-20120602200319/@comment-1153722-20120603135444

Maria Thorpe, Maria Auditore and Sofia Sartor are Desmond's ancestors too, yet they don't look like Desmond's either, what you said doesn't make sense. And if you look at Altaïr, Ezio and Desmond you will see that they all look unique now. I guess that Ubisoft realized that having all the protagonists look the same would be very unrealistic and nonsensical in a real world aspect.