Edward Thatch

2013-03-04T22:41:00Z

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'''Edward Teach''' (c. 1680 – 1718), more commonly known by the alias '''Blackbeard''', was an infamous pirate captain who sailed the West Indies and the American Colonies during the early 18th century, on the ship ''Queen Anne's Revenge''.
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Aveline de Grandpré

2012-12-16T18:02:23Z

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{{Quote|I seek liberty and freedom, not for myself, but for those whom such fundamental rights are denied. I am their shield, their sword, their only hope. The roads I travel are dark, but they bring me closer to the light.|Aveline de Grandpré.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
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|birth = 1747<br>[[New Orleans]], {{Wiki|Louisiana (New France)|French Louisiana}}
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|period = {{Wiki|Louisiana Rebellion of 1768|Louisiana Rebellion}}
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'''Aveline de Grandpré''' (1747 - unknown)<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref> was an [[Assassins|Assassin]] of [[France|French]] and {{Wiki|Africa}}n heritage, who lived in the area of [[New Orleans]] towards the end of the [[French and Indian War]]. She was mentored by an Assassin named [[Agaté]], with whom she had a conflicting relationship.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Aveline was born to a wealthy French merchant, [[Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]], and an African {{Wiki|Plaçage|placée}} bride by the name of [[Jeanne]]. Due to this, she occupied a position of wealth and respect within the city.

In 1759, when Aveline was but a child, her mother, Jeanne, mysteriously vanished after she had let go of her mother's hand in pursuit of a loose chicken. After failing to catch the animal despite chasing it for quite a distance, Aveline realized that she had stumbled across a slave auction. Shortly after observing the slave trader, Aveline used the alleyways to evade the sight of the slavers surrounding the stage and seek out her mother, only to reach out and touch the wrong woman, who had been carrying the same parasol and an identical dress to her mother's.

This mistake roused the attention of the city guards, and despite her cries for her mother, Aveline was pushed to the ground by the slavers, who had mistaken her for a slave child. Shortly afterwards, an escaped slave by the name of Agaté freed her from their possession, and recruited her into the [[Assassins|Assassin Order]], becoming her [[Mentor]].

Aveline was raised with care and privilege, even after her father had remarried with [[Madeleine de L'Isle]]. As she grew, she became an opponent of slavery, with her father's love, wealth and status protecting her from repercussions.

===Investigating the slave trade===
In 1765, Aveline discovered that the [[Templars|Templar]] [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]] was working with Louisiana's French governor, [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]], in slave trading enterprises. Accompanying this, both were under the influence of an individual by name of the "Company Man", Louisiana's head Templar. Soon after, Aveline assassinated the governor, though she found no trace of the Company Man or de Ferrer.

===Eve of Saint John===
The following year, Aveline searched through the [[Louisiana Bayou]] for a man impersonating [[François Mackandal]], who she later learned to be named [[Baptiste]]. After more investigation, Aveline uncovered Baptiste's plot to poison the nobles of New Orleans, take control of the Bayou and force her mentor, Agaté, out of hiding.

With this in mind, Aveline killed his followers and assassinated the false Mackandal, subsequently learning of his allegiance to de Ferrer, but also that Baptiste knew both her mother, Jeanne, and Agaté. Upon returning to her mentor, however, she did not mention what she had discovered to him, as she did not fully trust Agaté, given that he had kept this information hidden from her.

===Louisiana Rebellion===
During the Louisiana Rebellion in 1768, Aveline discovered vagrants and slaves disappearing. She forced the Templar governor, Antonio de Ulloa, to travel to New Orleans, where she soon ambushed him. Upon interrogating him, Aveline learned that slaves were taken from New Orleans were being transferred south, to Mexico.

Against Agaté's orders, however, Aveline chose not to kill de Ulloa, allowing him to flee the city. This merciful act continued to harm her already damaged relationship with her Mentor.

===Chichen Itza===
From there, Aveline traveled to Chichen Itza, once again disobeying Agaté's explicit wishes, to unravel the mysteries of the slave trafficking operation. While there, she explored a cenote containing ancient ruins from the [[First Civilization]], and unearthed a fragment of a [[Prophecy Disk]], a First Civilization artifact.

After obtaining the artifact, Aveline was met by de Ferrer, who she managed to kill before escaping through the mines he had entered through. At the end of the of tunnels, she found her mother, Jeanne. However, this reunion was short-lived, as Jeanne, realizing that Aveline was an Assassin, refused to disclose any information to her. Afterwards, Aveline returned to New Orleans and continued her search for the Company Man, believed to be called Vázquez.

She prevented soldiers under his command from seizing control of the Bayou, before making her way back to Mexico to locate the second half of the Prophecy Disk. Whilst there, she acquired the missing fragment and made peace with her mother.

===Tracking Vázquez===
Aveline's father fell sick in 1776, but she continued her quest to uncover the identity of the Company Man. At the request of Madeleine, her stepmother, Aveline helped a slave named George escape north. While doing so, she was able to assist her allies in the Bayou supply resources to American patriots fighting in the [[American Revolutionary War|revolution]] in the north, eventually learning of Vázquez's location. Aveline then made her way back to New Orleans, and attended a soirée, where she found Vázquez.

Charming him and luring him to a quiet corner, Aveline assassinated him. However, to Aveline's surprise, Vazquez was not the Company Man. That same night, her father passed away.

===Meeting Connor===
In the winter of 1777, Aveline traveled to New York to locate a Templar named Officer Davidson, who was working for the Company Man. Upon arriving there, she encountered the Native [[United States|American]] Assassin, [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]], also known by his adopted name of Connor.

With his aid, she tracked down Officer Davidson, who, much to her shock, was George, the slave she had helped flee north. From him, Aveline finally uncovered the true identity of the Company Man: Madeleine de L'Isle, her stepmother.

===Return to New Orleans===
Aveline returned to New Orleans and confronted Madeleine, who didn't deny her accusations and admitted that she had known all along that Aveline was an Assassin. Aveline refused her order to stay and ran outside, only to fight her guards. After a brief skirmish, Madeleine told Aveline that she'd be sacrificing herself for nothing.

Following this, Madeleine insisted that she genuinely loved her and that Aveline had been kept alive so far in order to eliminate the unethical elements of her Templar circle, an obvious ploy to persuade Aveline to join the Templar Order. After this, Aveline made her way to the Bayou and told Agaté of her situation.

However, her Mentor could not accept his failure to protect his student, and, believing that Aveline had aligned herself with the Templars, attacked her. Even so, Aveline defeated him and chose to spare his life, but Agaté, unable to live with the humiliation of his failure, dove from the very top of his treehouse to his death.

===Reconciliation===
Aveline made her way back to New Orleans and gave Agaté's necklace to Madeleine, as proof of his death. She then inducted Aveline into the Templar Order and took the two halves of the Prophecy Disk from her. However, upon the artifact failing to work as Madeleine had expected it to, she grew frustrated, allowing Aveline to strike, as her induction was merely a ruse to destroy the Templars from within.

Aveline assassinated all of the Templars present, leaving Madeleine for last. As she lay wounded, Madeleine asked Aveline why she would betray her as she had. Aveline coldly retorted that she had two parents whom she truly loved, and that Madeleine was not one of them. She then blamed Madeleine for killing her father with her "care" and her tonic, secretly {{Wiki|Digitalis#Toxicity|foxglove}}, for enslaving her mother, and for her intention of making Aveline a slave to the Templar cause.

To this, Madeleine insisted that it was for the greater good of humanity, as work had always been the "divine purpose" for which they had been created. In response, Aveline defiantly claimed that she would never be forced to serve another and assassinated Madeleine afterwards. Following this, she recovered the Prophecy Disk from Madeleine's body and used the necklace her mother had entrusted her with to activate it, which projected a hologram of beings from the First Civilization, who spoke about [[Eve]] briefly in a conversation before it ended.

==Legacy==
Aveline's life was later used as a tool of propaganda by Abstergo Industries, which twisted and mounted her memories in order to show the Templars in a benevolent light, as opposed to a misguided Assassins' Brotherhood. However, [[Erudito]], a hacking collective and opposition to Abstergo, managed to crack the code used by the Templars.

Erudito then used the [[Animus]] technology to show the truth to some viewers, amongst other examples, revealing "unsweetened" memories of Aveline about the cruelty of de Ferrer against the slaves of the Chichen Itza camp or the additional memories of the assassination of Madeleine, after what had been shown by Abstergo as the rallying of Aveline to the Templars.

==Equipment and skills==
Aveline was a skilled [[Freerunning|free-runner]], who was able to navigate with ease through the urban cityscape and natural landscape, such as the Louisiana Bayou.

Her fighting style included [[dual-wielding]] various weapons, including a [[whip]], [[firearms]], [[Swords and maces|swords]], [[Short blades|knives]], a [[blowpipe]], a [[Machete|sugar-cane machete]] and [[Hidden Blade]]s.

Aside from her weapons, Aveline possessed three disguises that she could make use of, being the Lady, Assassin and Slave personas. Her Assassin outfit aided in combat and navigation, though it made her notorious; her Servant outfit allowed her to blend into the poorer masses of New Orleans and remain undetected; and finally, her Lady outfit made Aveline highly noticeable, but it allowed her to use charm and bribery to achieve her goals.

Also, along with her Lady outfit came a parasol designed by her friend and ally, [[Gérald Blanc]], that had the ability to shoot small poison darts from its tip, similar to her blowpipe.

Accompanying this, Aveline possessed the sixth sense casually referred to as [[Eagle Vision]], allowing her to identify enemies, allies, [[hiding spots]] and targets of immediate importance.

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|I move unseen and strike when they least expect it. I am Aveline de Grandpré. I am an Assassin.|Aveline.|Assassin's Creed III: Liberation}}
As she grew, Aveline developed into a strong-willed young woman, who began to notice the contrasts within society; such as freedom and enslavement, or wealth and poverty. She was torn between the different values that she had inherited from her parents, and as such, she formed her own, which included a vehement stance against slavery.

As a consequence of her being pulled in either direction by the Assassins and Templars, she questioned whether fighting as an Assassin was the right thing to do or not. While in New York, she asked her fellow Assassin, Connor, if he ever questioned their ideals; he responded without taking side with either faction, but rather explained that he trusted in his own abilities to distinguish right from wrong.

==Trivia==
*Aveline is the first female protagonist in the [[Assassin's Creed (series)|''Assassin's Creed'' series]], and one of two playable characters to wear a hat instead of the symbolic white hood of the Assassins (the other being [[Haytham Kenway]]), though it retained a beak-shaped tip.
**However, Aveline's Assassin disguise could be equipped with an Assassin hood, which could be purchased from [[tailors]].
*"Aveline" is a name of French and Latin origin,<ref>[http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Aveline.html ParentsConnect: ''Meaning of Aveline'']</ref> presumably originating from the Germanic name "Avelina."<ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/aveline Behind the Name: ''Aveline'']</ref> In Latin, "Aveline" derives from the Latin ''"avis"'' or "bird".
*"Grandpré" is a French surname meaning "grand meadow."<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=grandpre Ancestry.com: ''Grandpre Family History'']</ref>
*Aveline possessed a scar on her upper lip, identical to that of [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], and [[Desmond Miles]], despite not having any known biological connections to them. In addition, she is the only known protagonist with no apparent connection to Desmond that could use Eagle Vision.
*While concept art depicted Aveline as having green eyes, they appeared to be dark brown in ''Assassin's Creed III: Liberation''.
*Unknown until the conclusion of the game, Aveline possessed an amulet identical to [[Grand Temple Key|the key]] that the Assassin, Connor, retrieved from [[Charles Lee]] and buried in the grave of his Mentor's [[Connor Davenport|son]] in 1783. It is unknown as to its location following the events of ''Liberation''.
*It is implied that Aveline was a close descendant of Eve; after her stepmother, Madeleine de L'Isle, failed to activate a device left behind by the First Civilization. However, Aveline herself was successful in generating a hologram of the First Civilization's representatives through using her mother's necklace, who spoke of Eve in their conversation before the hologram ended.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="180" position="center" spacing="small" captionalign="center">
Aveline pre-order concept.jpg|Early concept art of Aveline.
Aveline_AC_LiberationA.jpg|Concept art of Aveline.
AC3L-Aristocrat_Concept.jpg|Concept art of Aveline's Lady outfit.
Game AC3L Aveline.jpg|Aveline on a rooftop.
AC3L-Aristocrat_Guise.jpg|Aveline in her Lady guise.
AC3L-Servant_Guise.jpg|Aveline in her Servant guise.
AC3L_Bribing.jpg|Aveline, bribing a guard using her Lady outfit.
AC3L SC Aveline Diving.png|Aveline swimming underwater.
Aveline in-game fight.jpg|An image of Aveline fighting Spanish soldiers.
Aveline in-game screen.jpg|An image of Aveline in her Lady attire.
AC3L-Aristocrat_Dancing.jpg|Aveline distracting a target with her Lady attire.
AC3L-Aveline_&_Connor.jpg|Aveline and Connor.
ACL SC SP 15 SD Bayou Alligator.jpg|Aveline wrestling an alligator.
AC3L_Aristocrat_Aveline.png|A render of Aveline's Lady outfit.
AC3L_Aveline_Servant_Render.png|A render of Aveline's Servant guise.
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Samuel Adams

2012-11-12T19:48:26Z

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{{Character Infobox
|name = Samuel Adams
|image = ACIII-Samuel Adams V.png
|birth = 27 September 1722<br>[[Boston]], {{Wiki|Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay}}
|death = 2 October 1803<br>{{Wiki|Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge}}, {{Wiki|Massachusetts}}, [[United States|U.S.]]
|faction = [[Sons of Liberty]]<br>[[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''
|voice = [[Mark Lindsay Chapman]]
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'''Samuel Adams''' (1722 - 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the [[United States]].

As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel was a leader of the movement that became the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]]. He was also one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism, which shaped the political culture of the United States.

During the American Revolutionary War, Samuel became an associate of the [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]]. Amongst other things, Samuel taught Connor how to reduce his notoriety, and introduced him to the Mason tunnels underneath [[Boston]].

==Gallery==
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Samuel Adams in game.jpg|Samuel Adams in-game.
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*''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''
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