Edward Kenway (memory)

Edward Kenway was a virtual representation of one of Edward Kenway's genetic memories, relived by a research analyst at Abstergo Entertainment through the Animus.

Description

After an attack on his ship, Edward found himself stranded on a deserted island with a stranger. He soon found a way to make money by stealing the stranger's identity, and he escaped with the merchant Stede Bonnet.

Dialogue

The ship on which Edward worked was attacked.

• Crew: She's on us!
• Edward: Can you see her?
• Crew: Man the cannons!
• Crew: Our helmsman's dead! Someone take the wheel! Kenway! Take the bloody wheel!

Kenway took the wheel and attacked the enemy ships.

• Crew: Unload all the shot we have! Fire on those bastards!

Edward sank the enemy ships.

• Crew: The magazine! It's going up!
• Captain: Douse the flames!Get in there, you mongrel!

Edward and a mysterious attacked were blown overboard by an explosion.

• Caroline: Is it dangerous? Edward?
• Edward: Hm?
• Caroline: Privateering. Is it dangerous?
• Edward: Wouldn't pay so nice if it weren't.
• Caroline: Why not sail with the King's Navy? Earn a proper wage. Sail under gentlemen.
• Edward: Sod the Navy's gentlemen. For every shilling I'd earn, the Captain'd get six hundred. That's no way to earn a fortune.
• Caroline: We don't need a fortune.
• Edward: It's not about need, Caroline. I want food that don't make me sick. I want walls that hold back the wind. I want a decent life.
• Caroline: H-how long would you be gone with these privateers?
• Edward: A year, I reckon. Two at the most.
• Caroline: All right. No more than two... promise me...

Edward woke up in the water and swam towards a beach, where another man followed him.

• Edward: Was it good for you as well?
• Duncan: Havana... I must get to Havana.
• Edward: Well, I'll just build us another ship, will I?
• Duncan: I can pay you. Isn't that the sound you pirates like best? One hundred escudos.
• Edward: Keep talking.
• Duncan: Will you or won't you!
• Edward: You don't have that gold on you now, do you?
• Duncan: Bloody fucking pirates!
• Edward: I am on to you, sneaksby!

Duncan ran off into the jungle, and Edward gave chase.

• Edward: Come on mate! We're off to a bad start! It's a hundred leagues or more to Havana! Will you walk that distance?

Edward climbed a viewpoint and looked for the Assassin.

• Edward: Posh git. Where's he running to?
• Duncan: Follow and I'll kill you.
• Edward: We could work together on this!
• Duncan: Keep your distance!

Duncan shot Edward, after which Edward killed him and read a letter from his pouch.

• Letter: (Mr. Duncan Wallpole). I accept your most generous offer, and await your arrival with eagerness. If you truly possess the informatipon we desire, we have the means to reward you handsomely. Though I will not know your face by sight, I believe I can recognize the costume made infamous by your secret order. Therefore, come to Havana in haste... And trust that you shall be welcomed as a Brother. (Your most humble servant, Governor Laureano Torres y Ayala).

Edward then donned Duncan's robes.

• Edward: Mr. Walpole... let's collect your reward.

Edward heard shots and went to investigate.

• Edward: That schooner will do me just fine.
• Soldier: The Commodore's gone ahead to Kingston. We're to commandeer this lubber's ship and follow.
• Stede: Sorry, Kingston? No, no... our destination is Havana. I'm just a merchant-
• Soldier: Quiet, you bleedin' pirate! You'll hang for the mess you made out there.
• Stede: Sir, I had nothing to do with this attack. My crew and I had merely anchored to water and resupply!

Edward killed the British soldiers and rescued Stede Bonnet.

• Stede: I'll pay you! Anything you like! By God's Grace, sir, you saved me. A profusion of thanks!
• Edward: Is that yours?
• Stede: It's my vessel, yes. But, ah... here lies its poor captain. And I have no art for sailing.
• Edward: I can pilot her myself. No mind.
• Stede: You don't mean to abscond with my ship, do you?
• Edward: I'm Duncan. What's your name, friend?
• Stede: Stede. Stede Bonnet.
• Edward: Well Mister Bonnet, let this stay 'twixt us... but I am on a secret errand for His Majesty the King, God save him, and I must get to Havana with speed.
• Stede: Ah... that is a relief, Sir. Havana is also my destination. Our ways lie together!
• Edward: Natural allies then.
• Stede: Oh, you put me at ease, sir. To think I took you for a pirate when you first appeared.
• Edward: Did you?
• Stede: Yes! You have an... uncommon way of handling yourself. Quick and easy, if I may say. Gave me quite a fright! But all things considered, I think it's turned out to be a rather fortuitous day, hasn't it?

Edward started swimming towards the ship.

• Stede: Lacking a rowboat, I'm afraid we'll have to swim to my ship.
• Edward: Hardly the worst thing to happen.
• Stede: Oh... Oh, this is difficult. I should have taken the coat off!

Edward took the wheel of the ship.

• Stede: Welcome aboard, Duncan. She's a modest schooner but well-suited to my purpose. Trafficking cargo from my plantation and such.
• Edward: She'll do fine. There's a strong wind now. Let's strike to full, shall we?
• Stede: Ah, there's a tug of wind at my hair! I find a bracing comfort in the feel and smell of the ocean. The raw stink of... of possibility!
• Edward: That's a top way of seeing it, mate.
• Stede: We've really opened it up now, haven't we!

Edward sailed out of the bay.

• Stede: You're a natural sailor, Duncan.
• Edward: I did a decent trick at the helm some time ago. Two years before the mast as a privateer.
• Stede: Dash my buttons! Your life seems a grand one if I may say. So full of adventure! How marvelous.
• Edward: I have seen my share of strangeness, aye.

Outcome

Edward took Duncan Walpole's identity, rescued Stede Bonnet and sailed for Havana.

References

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag