A portion of a VG247 interview with Ubisoft Mission director Philippe Bergeron...

VG: What’s Connor’s overall goal?

PB: Basically what guides him is justice. He believes in the right thing to do. The continuation of his culture, and of his village, is his main goal. He sees these Europeans encroach on the lands and threaten his way or his people’s way of living, and he wants to protect that at all costs. That’s what guides the whole thing.

VG: So, after a series of events he goes out into the world to…?

PB: To keep his village safe.