The Auditore history and what the executions produced in Ezio — not just the motivation but the specific shape of the person, the edges that comfort did not make and loss did. Born into wealth is the context that made the loss visible: if he had been poor, if the family had been less substantial, the fall would have been different. The forging is the specific process of having had something and then having it taken, which is different from never having had it.