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Shay Cormac

2014-09-14T20:11:07Z

41.225.217.102:

{{Era|ACRG|Assassins|Templars}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Quote|History may brand me traitor, rebel, or renegade. But in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me. What matters, is that I followed my own creed.|Shay Cormac, describing his transition from Assassin to Templar and the stigma it carried.|Assassin's Creed: Rogue}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACRG Shay Unhooded.png
|birth = c. 1731<ref name="GI Shay">[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/08/06/get-to-know-shay-from-assassins-creed-rogue.aspx GameInformer: Get to know Shay from ''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'']</ref> [[New York City]], [[New York]], [[British Empire|British America]]<ref name="Rogue narrative">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/news/news_detail.aspx?c=tcm:152-166643-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32 ''Assassin’s Creed Rogue'' DevBlog – Narrative]</ref>
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Templars]] Crew of the ''[[Morrigan]]''
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''
|voice = }}
'''Shay Patrick Cormac''' (c. 1731 – unknown) was a member of the [[Templars|Templar Order]], operating around the [[Atlantic Ocean]] during the [[Seven Years' War]].

Formerly a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]], Shay devoted his Templar career to hunting down his former associates. Aboard his [[Ships|ship]], the ''[[Morrigan]]'', Shay's travels brought him to [[New York City|New York]] and the {{Wiki|Appalachian Mountains}}, among other locations.<ref>[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/08/05/september-cover-reveal-assassins-creed-rogue-unity.aspx GameInformer: ''September Cover Revealed – Assassin's Creed Rogue And Unity'']</ref>

==Biography==
Born to Irish immigrants, Shay was taken in by the Assassins after the passing of his father.<ref name="Rogue narrative"/> After a mission went tragically wrong, Shay decided to abandon the Assassins, who in turn tried to kill him, presumably in an effort to prevent their Order from becoming compromised. Feeling betrayed by his comrades, and nursed back to health by the Templars, Shay joined them and decided to hunt down his former brethren.<ref>[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-GB/games/assassins-creed-rogue.aspx Ubisoft: ''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'']</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
Shay was originally a brash young man. He did not take his role as an Assassin seriously, instead being frivolous; not because he did not believe in the cause, but because he was young and unwise. However, after a traumatic event, Shay became a somber, dedicated character. He rethought his whole philosophy and his allegiance to the Assassins, realizing that the Templars' goals and methods were more in line with his own beliefs; this fervor caused him to pursue his former brothers-in-arms for something he believed was the better path.<ref name="GI Shay"/>

===Equipment and skills===
Shay appeared to be a skilled captain, adept at navigating the ''Morrigan'' through the icy waters of the North Atlantic, and like other Assassins before him, he was a capable [[Freerunning|freerunner]]. Shay was also shown to be a skilled swordsman, [[dual-wielding]] weapons with great efficiency.

Among his arsenal of weapons, Shay counted his [[Hidden Blade]], a long sword paired with a [[Short blades|dagger]], two flintlock pistols, rope darts, a grenade launcher and an [[Firearms|air rifle]] – the latter pair being prototypes funded by the Templar Order. The air rifle was capable of firing different types of darts such as firecracker, sleep, and berserk to distract or kill enemies. To protect himself from smoke bombs and various gases, Shay usually had a [[gas mask]] equipped to negate their effects.<ref name="GI Shay"/>

==Trivia==
*Shay's name is the anglicized form of the Gaelic ''Séaghdha'', which means "hawk". His middle name comes from the Latin ''Patricius'', meaning "nobleman". His family name is a conjoined term; ''mac'' is Gaelic for "son of", while ''cor'' has been interpreted as either "charioteer" or "raven".
*Shay's attire – the style worn by Templars of the time – bore similarities to the [[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag outfits#Templar armor|Templar armor]] obtained by [[Edward Kenway]] during the latter's time in the [[Caribbean|West Indies]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/505889581082767360 Twitter: Assassin's Creed]</ref>
*Shay was the fifth known Templar to perform the Leap of Faith, the others being [[Francesco de' Pazzi]], [[Vali cel Tradat]], [[Haytham Kenway]] and [[Daniel Cross]].
*Shay is the second playable Templar in the ''Assassin's Creed'' series' single player, with the first being Haytham Kenway. He is also the second Templar known to have used [[Eagle Vision]], the first also being Haytham.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Shay Assassin front.jpg|Frontal concept art of Shay Cormac in his Assassin outfit
Shay Assassin back.jpg|Rear concept art of Shay Cormac in his Assassin outfit
Shay Templar front.jpg|Frontal concept art of Shay Cormac in his Templar outfit
Shay Templar back.jpg|Rear concept art of Shay Cormac in his Templar outfit
ACRG Shay Cormac render.png|A render of hooded Shay
Game informer cover Rogue.jpg|Promotional art of Shay in the North Atlantic
Assassins Creed Rogue TemplarVSAssassinCaptain.jpg|Shay fighting an Assassin captain
Assassins Creed Rogue Screenshot NY.jpg|Shay climbing the walls of New York
AC Rogue - Northwest Passage.jpg|Shay overlooking a shipwreck in the North Atlantic
AC Rogue - Screenshot 01.jpg|Shay overlooking the harbor of New York
AC Rogue - Screenshot 02.jpg|Shay killing an Assassin
ACR Gloriously Rough.jpg|Shay utilizing the Air Rifle
ACRogue Bomb Struggle.jpg|Shay dueling an Assassin using grenades
Adewale vs Shay.jpg|Shay fighting Adéwalé
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:Americans]]
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Shay Cormac

2014-09-14T20:10:44Z

41.225.217.102: /* Trivia */

{{Era|ACRG|Assassins|Templars}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Quote|History may brand me traitor, rebel, or renegade. But in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me. What matters, is that I followed my own creed.|Shay Cormac, describing his transition from Assassin to Templar and the stigma it carried.|Assassin's Creed: Rogue}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACRG Shay Unhooded.png
|birth = c. 1731<ref name="GI Shay">[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2014/08/06/get-to-know-shay-from-assassins-creed-rogue.aspx GameInformer: Get to know Shay from ''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'']</ref> [[New York City]], [[New York]], [[British Empire|British America]]<ref name="Rogue narrative">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/news/news_detail.aspx?c=tcm:152-166643-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32 ''Assassin’s Creed Rogue'' DevBlog – Narrative]</ref>
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Templars]] Crew of the ''[[Morrigan]]''
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''
|voice = }}
'''Shay Patrick Cormac''' (c. 1731 – unknown) was a member of the [[Templars|Templar Order]], operating around the [[Atlantic Ocean]] during the [[Seven Years' War]].

Formerly a member of the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]], Shay devoted his Templar career to hunting down his former associates. Aboard his [[Ships|ship]], the ''[[Morrigan]]'', Shay's travels brought him to [[New York City|New York]] and the {{Wiki|Appalachian Mountains}}, among other locations.<ref>[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/08/05/september-cover-reveal-assassins-creed-rogue-unity.aspx GameInformer: ''September Cover Revealed – Assassin's Creed Rogue And Unity'']</ref>

==Biography==
Born to Irish immigrants, Shay was taken in by the Assassins after the passing of his father.<ref name="Rogue narrative"/> After a mission went tragically wrong, Shay decided to abandon the Assassins, who in turn tried to kill him, presumably in an effort to prevent their Order from becoming compromised. Feeling betrayed by his comrades, and nursed back to health by the Templars, Shay joined them and decided to hunt down his former brethren.<ref>[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-GB/games/assassins-creed-rogue.aspx Ubisoft: ''Assassin's Creed: Rogue'']</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
Shay was originally a brash young man. He did not take his role as an Assassin seriously, instead being frivolous; not because he did not believe in the cause, but because he was young and unwise. However, after a traumatic event, Shay became a somber, dedicated character. He rethought his whole philosophy and his allegiance to the Assassins, realizing that the Templars' goals and methods were more in line with his own beliefs; this fervor caused him to pursue his former brothers-in-arms for something he believed was the better path.<ref name="GI Shay"/>

===Equipment and skills===
Shay appeared to be a skilled captain, adept at navigating the ''Morrigan'' through the icy waters of the North Atlantic, and like other Assassins before him, he was a capable [[Freerunning|freerunner]]. Shay was also shown to be a skilled swordsman, [[dual-wielding]] weapons with great efficiency.

Among his arsenal of weapons, Shay counted his [[Hidden Blade]], a long sword paired with a [[Short blades|dagger]], two flintlock pistols, rope darts, a grenade launcher and an [[Firearms|air rifle]] – the latter pair being prototypes funded by the Templar Order. The air rifle was capable of firing different types of darts such as firecracker, sleep, and berserk to distract or kill enemies. To protect himself from smoke bombs and various gases, Shay usually had a [[gas mask]] equipped to negate their effects.<ref name="GI Shay"/>

==Trivia==
*Shay's name is the anglicized form of the Gaelic ''Séaghdha'', which means "hawk". His middle name comes from the Latin ''Patricius'', meaning "nobleman". His family name is a conjoined term; ''mac'' is Gaelic for "son of", while ''cor'' has been interpreted as either "charioteer" or "raven".
*Shay's attire – the style worn by Templars of the time – bore similarities to the [[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag outfits#Templar armor|Templar armor]] obtained by [[Edward Kenway]] during the latter's time in the [[Caribbean|West Indies]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/505889581082767360 Twitter: Assassin's Creed]</ref>
*Shay was the fifth known Templar to perform the Leap of Faith, the others being [[Francesco de' Pazzi]], [[Vali cel Tradat]], [[Haytham Kenway]] and [[Daniel Cross]].
*Shay is the second playable Templar in the ''Assassin's Creed'' series' single player, with the first being Haytham Kenway. He is also the second Templar known to have used [[Eagle Vision]], the first also being Haytham. Muhahahahahah

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
Shay Assassin front.jpg|Frontal concept art of Shay Cormac in his Assassin outfit
Shay Assassin back.jpg|Rear concept art of Shay Cormac in his Assassin outfit
Shay Templar front.jpg|Frontal concept art of Shay Cormac in his Templar outfit
Shay Templar back.jpg|Rear concept art of Shay Cormac in his Templar outfit
ACRG Shay Cormac render.png|A render of hooded Shay
Game informer cover Rogue.jpg|Promotional art of Shay in the North Atlantic
Assassins Creed Rogue TemplarVSAssassinCaptain.jpg|Shay fighting an Assassin captain
Assassins Creed Rogue Screenshot NY.jpg|Shay climbing the walls of New York
AC Rogue - Northwest Passage.jpg|Shay overlooking a shipwreck in the North Atlantic
AC Rogue - Screenshot 01.jpg|Shay overlooking the harbor of New York
AC Rogue - Screenshot 02.jpg|Shay killing an Assassin
ACR Gloriously Rough.jpg|Shay utilizing the Air Rifle
ACRogue Bomb Struggle.jpg|Shay dueling an Assassin using grenades
Adewale vs Shay.jpg|Shay fighting Adéwalé
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[es:Shay Cormac]]
[[it:Shay Cormac]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cormac, Shay}}
[[Category:1731 births]]
[[Category:Individuals]]
[[Category:Irishmen]]
[[Category:Americans]]
[[Category:Hunters]]
[[Category:Captains]]
[[Category:Marksmen]]
[[Category:Assassins]]
[[Category:Master Assassins]]
[[Category:Assassin turncoats]]
[[Category:Templars]]
[[Category:Individuals with Eagle Vision]]