The Pazzi targets falling one by one — Ezio learning the patterns of the men he is hunting, the specific vulnerabilities that the assassin's approach exploits. Rewriting fate in shadow is the Creed's operational philosophy applied to the personal: the fate the Pazzi designed for the Auditore family — execution, disgrace, the erasure of a name — is being rewritten by the actions taken in the spaces the Pazzi cannot see.