This Old Cove

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

Description

Edward and Kidd went on an exploration of the cove they conquered.

Dialogue

Kidd and Edward met on Great Inagua.

• Edward: Mmm. Ah... Kidd.
• Kidd: Wake up, Kenway.
• Edward: Is Thatch about?
• Kidd: He left this morning with the galleon. Has faith we'll discover a good use for this old cove ourselves.
• Edward: Aye. We'll make something of it in time. We could keep a fleet here, if we liked. And with a bit of fixing up, it'd be a decent place to call home. Might even convince my wife to come one day.
• Kidd: You're married, are ya?
• Edward: In God's eyes I am. She left me some time ago.
• Kidd: Even so, keep that fact hid away. Most of these pirates don't respect a man with higher commitments than rum and plunder.
• 'Edward: Pon my honour. Let me know if you find anything.

A little later, Edward met up with Kidd.

• Kidd: Edward! Over here! I found something. You must see this! Come on, man!

They arrived at an old Mayan ruin.

• Kidd: Odd looking things, aren't they? Old and weathered.
• Edward: Is this what they call Mayan? Or is it Aztec?
• Kidd: Are you good with riddles, Edward? Puzzles and ponderings and the like?
• Edward: No worse than the next man. Why?
• Kidd: I think you've a natural gift for it. The way you think and work. The way you understand the world.
• Edward: Well I don't know about that. You're talking in riddles now, and I don't understand a word.
• Kidd: Clamber on top of this thing here, will you? Help me solve something. Concentrate and focus all your senses. Look past shadow and sound, deep into matter, until you see and hear a kind of shimmering.
• Edward: A shimmering.
• Kidd: You understand?
• Edward: I think so. I've seen its like before. Glowing like moonlight on the ocean. Ah! Right. I know this feeling. I have since I was a lad. It's like using every sense at once, isn't it? To see sounds and hear shapes. Quite a combination.
• Kidd: Every man and woman on this Earth has in them a kind of intuition hidden deep away.

Edward dug up a Mayan stone.

• Kidd: You are a gifted man, Edward.
• Edward: Has a strange look. Is it worth something?
• Kidd: Nothing you can spend. But if you find all of 'em, it'll lead to something grand.
• Edward: How many?
• Kidd: A few dozen, I think. This way. I've something else to show you. I found something else just here. I think you'll take to this secret much faster.
• Edward: Now this has the makings of a mystery.
• Kidd: It's good, innit? Only wait 'til you see hwat lies at the end! Here we are. What do you think?
• Edward: I think monsieur Du Casse was a man of many secrets.
• Kidd: Aye, and look here: a solid staircase leading God knows where. What do you suppose lies at the top?
• Edward: From what I knew of Du Casse, wouldn't be surprised to find eclectic instruments of torture and villainy. And iron maiden, or a collection of thumbscrews.
• Kidd: Or a pear of anguish!

They reached the mansion and Edward noticed a skeleton behind a gate.

• Edward: Not a nice way to kick off. But that is some damn fine gear.
• Kidd: Try the key you took from Du Casse.
• Edward: That's one. Only four left.
• Kidd: Aye. It might be that these four Templars have them. See the names here? They've been sent to kill these four targets.
• Edward: Hang me. That's the map I sold to Governor Torres in Havana. He said it marked the locations of "Assassin" encampments.
• Kidd: You think maybe you owe them a bit of a warning then? If you have any kind of heart beating in that chest?
• Edward: S'pose I could. If it leads me to the other four keys.
• Kidd: A bad excuse is better than none at all.

Edward met with Kidd again near the docks.

• Edward: Leaving already?
• Kidd: I think this cove suits you best, Edward. Better than that costume does.
• Edward: Oh, come on now... we're pirates, Kidd. We take as we please and become who we like. Self-made men!
• Kidd: But that look ain't you. It's not who you are.
• Edward: Who am I then?
• Kidd: Hard to tell some days. All I know is, you like dangerous prizes.
• Edward: Like the Observatory? I think you know more about that than you let on in Nassau.
• Kidd: You noticed that, did ya? Meet me at twenty degrees, three minutes latitude, just off the coast of Yucatan. I'll have something to show you there in a few weeks time.

Outcome

Edward claimed the cove for himself, and learned of both the Mayan stones and the Templar keys.

Reference

• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag