Nolan North On Desmond From AC

Nolan North, the voice actor behind Desmond in Assassin's Creed, found out about the character's death on social media

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00:00I need to do this now. So go. Go!

00:03That technically was Desmond's death scene, and I didn't know it.

00:08I found out on Twitter, are you upset Desmond's dead?

00:11And I'm thinking, what?

00:12Because there's no, ah, there's nothing that you'd expect from a main character's death.

00:18Although the good people at Ubisoft have told me that he's not technically dead.

00:22I think the original idea was eight or nine games with Desmond,

00:26but as so often goes in the entertainment industry, different developers,

00:30different creative directors come in, and they have their own way of continuing the story.

00:35You know, it's done very, very well.

00:37I was very sad to step away from the role of Desmond,

00:41because Assassin's Creed is one of my favorite stories that I've ever been part of, I think.