Desmond Miles is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the frame story uniting the first five installments in the Assassin's Creed series of video games. He is a descendant of a long line of other Assassins, including Adam, Aquilus, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Edward Kenway, Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton. He represents a form of transcendence symbolically from the necessity of the human body.