User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 10/11 -- Desmond's Ancestry Revealed/@comment-4241697-20111012203740

i think it is great because otherwise anyother assassin could've been named desmond and the prophecy might have thought to be meant for them. this way, desmond is the only one where the stories converge so the prophecy must be for him, not a different desmond