In the year 1524 the former Assassin Ezio Auditore retired to a villa in the countryside of Tuscany with his wife Sofia and children Marcello and Flavia While Ezio wrote in his study Sofia asked him to watch Flavia while she and Marcello visit his sister Claudia Shortly after he left his study to tend their vineyards while Flavia played nearby the villa In the midst of his harvest he saw a stranger cloaked in black talking to Flavia Fearing the worst Ezio hurriedly intercepted the stranger though Flavia told him that she was no danger as Ezio saw her necklace with the Assassin insignia