User blog comment:SupremeAssassin/Assassin's Creed 3: Connor Is A Master Assassin/@comment-5151072-20120603022921/@comment-5151072-20120603025734

No, Connor probably is pretty young when his village is destroyed. Even if he is in his early 20s by 1770, that's still 5 years before the American Revolution, and that conflict itself took 6 years. So we're looking at a story that primarily occurs over the course of 11 years - that we know of.

Compare this to ACII. Ezio was 17 when he started on the path towards being an Assassin. He was inducted when he was 28, and only finished his revenge in 1499, when he was 40. That's a story arc of 23 years - over twice of what ACIII might be.

Anyway, we're experiencing Connor's story mostly as one of a career. Ezio's was a life story.