'So here's what you need to know… My name is Jack Stone. I was once an assassin, part of the brotherhood, we fight the Templars; Abstergo Industries. The two sides have fought for centuries, but every day, the assassins dwindle in number, and Abstergo gains the upper hand.
'When I was sixteen, my Templar boyfriend, Alix Starr, killed my parents, and my three sisters, but left me alive. I'll never forget that night. It was around that time I began questioning what it is we're fighting for. Oh sure, they say it's the greater good. But, is it really? Every day we lose more assassins, everyday another body count; and for what, the greater good? At this point, I think we're just fighting for the sake of fighting. When I was younger, I used to believe what we stood for, what we're supposed to stand for. But then I realized it's all just an ideal; a story they tell us so we'll keep fighting their mindless war. The greater good, the assassins, the Templars, fuck em all.
'That's why I got out. When I was eighteen, I left the assassins and became a ghost. Now and then the Templars find me, or I run into another assassin. I do what I can, I take out as many Templars as they send after me, but I'll never rejoin the assassins. I may have been born an assassin, raised, an assassin, but that's not the life I wanted.
'I keep hearing rumors about this one guy they caught; Desmond Miles. The Templars think he's the key to something they've been looking for. I keep getting calls for help, encrypted emails from other assassins. They want me to rejoin the fight. Whatever this Desmond kid's DNA memory might contain, I get the feeling, we might be better off slitting his throat ourselves. If the Templars want him this badly, I can't help but wonder if he's the final weight in the scales that'll tip the balance in their favor…'
- Jack Stone's Diary, 21