Assassin's Creed Unity is meant to be a story about fixing errors. With the backdrop of the first French Revolution, that idea is only partially true. While the revolution does conclude and France comes back together, the story surrounding the main character, Arno Dorian, is more about deconstruction. In that sense, Assassin's Creed Unity contradicts itself narratively.
From a literal sense, Unity worked as a title to symbolize the first game where players could come together as assassins in co-op and complete missions as a team. But for Arno, there was no team for him to rely on by the end of the game. Unlike Ezio Auditore, who almost always had family and allies to lean on, Arno struggled to maintain any form of a support structure. His first loss came with the assassination of his father by the Templar Shay Patrick Cormac. From then on, he led a life of nobility until the revolution, when he learned of his Assassin lineage.
Though Arno defied countless orders from the Brotherhood of Paris, he led with his heart and always did what was right. But this would eventually put him at odds with his master, Pierre Bellec, who betrayed the Assassins due to his belief that the Assassins and Templars could never attain peace. Arno would eventually be forced to kill his old master, losing yet another father figure.
Eventually, the constant disobeying forced the Brotherhood to expel Arno, leaving him without a father, a mentor and a life. As the French Revolution continued to ravage Paris, Arno was even further from the unification the title claimed. The only positive in his life was his childhood sweetheart Elise, someone he loved but was at odds with due to her belief in the Templar Order.
But even with their differences, the two found each other and, for most of the game, their relationship remained the one thing the two could hold onto. Sadly, even that would crumble before Arno when the two took on the Templar Grand Master of Paris, Germain. In the conflict, Elise attempted to stop Germain but fell to his blade before Arno could aid her. Elise's death would be the last loss Arno encountered and eventually drove him out of Paris.
For all of Assassin's Creed Unity, Arno did what he felt was right and protected who he could. Rather than maintain or unify his relationships, he experiences their dismantling time and again. The weight of this loss would be too much for him to bear, and for years he remained a vagabond in the French countryside, wallowing in alcohol and depression. While Arno's story continued after his game and eventually returned to the Brotherhood, his story in Assassin's Creed Unity failed to live up to its title.
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