Connor Kenway, a young half-Native American finds his village burned to the ground and himself as the sole survivor of this incident. Soon after, he discovers that he is destined to become an Assassin, in the footsteps of his ancestors, to fight the Templars and devote his cause to a war greater and far more ancient than the one already brewing on the North American continent...

In Assassin's Creed III, players are taken to the American War of Independence, a bloody conflict layered on an even bloodier conflict between the Assassins and Templars, who now vie for supremacy over uncharted lands, to seize artifacts of unmeasurable power.