User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-06-'12 — E3 hub/@comment-4504019-20120612092612/@comment-1153722-20120612093338

Connor is supposed to be human. All Assassins bear resemblance to an eagle (while the French comic compares Templars to vultures), and Connor bearing resemblance to a wolf as well doesn't mean the eagle references are gone. The wolf references are from his native background, while the eagle references are from the Assassins, I'd say.