https://assassinscreedwiki.accesstheanimus.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=68.35.42.225Assassin's Creed Wiki - User contributions [en-gb]2026-06-09T18:25:11ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.42.3https://assassinscreedwiki.accesstheanimus.com/index.php?title=Edward_Thatch&diff=208886Edward Thatch2013-10-21T23:32:27Z<p>68.35.42.225: /* Trivia */</p>
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{{Quote|Caution's nothing without charisma. If a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade. But appear to be the devil... and all men will submit.|Edward Thatch to Edward Kenway.|Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag}}<br />
{{Character Infobox<br />
|image = AC4 Edward Thatch.png<br />
|birth = c. 1680<br />[[United Kingdom|Kingdom of England]]<br />
|death = 22 November 1718<br />{{Wiki|Ocracoke, North Carolina|Ocracoke}}, {{Wiki|Province of Carolina}}<br />
|hidep = yes<br />
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''<br />
|voice = [[Mark Bonnar]]}}<br />
'''Edward Thatch'''<ref name="Thatch">[https://twitter.com/DarbyMcDevitt/status/316277443885412354 ''Darby McDevitt comments on Blackbeard's true name'']</ref> (c. 1680 – 1718), also known as '''Edward Teach''', or by the alias '''Blackbeard''', was an infamous [[United Kingdom|English]] [[Piracy|pirate]] captain who sailed the [[Caribbean|West Indies]] and the American Colonies during the early 18th century, aboard the ship ''[[Queen Anne's Revenge]]''.<br />
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Thatch was also a contemporary and associate of [[Edward Kenway]]. Following his retirement, Kenway took an Irish bloodhound as a pet, which he named Thatch.<ref name="ACF">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forsaken]]''</ref><br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*Lead Writer [[Darby McDevitt]] stated on his Twitter feed that the developers would be using the name Edward Thatch over the more commonly accepted Edward Teach, when referring to Blackbeard in ''Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag''.<ref name="Thatch"/><br />
**The [[Database/Locations (AC3):Dead Chest Island|database entry]] for [[Dead Chest Island]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' uses the name "Edward Teach".<br />
**Blackbeard appears in the Epic Rap Battle of History, Al Capone vs. Blackbeard.<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180"><br />
Blackflag011-1-.jpg|Blackbeard alongside Edward Kenway<br />
AC4BF-Nassau pirates.jpg|Thatch, Kenway and [[Benjamin Hornigold]] on a [[Nassau]] beach<br />
AC4-CaribbeanSea FuriousBlackbeard.jpg|Thatch threatening [[Stede Bonnet]]<br />
AC4-CaribbeanSea DefendBlackbeard.jpg|Thatch and Kenway defending a burning ship<br />
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