Adéwalé
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- Edward: "Shall we set sail for- You're leaving?"
- Adéwalé: "Aye, Edward. For I've another calling elsewhere. [...] When your heart and your head are ready, visit the Assassins. I think you'll understand then..."
- —Edward Kenway and Adéwalé, discussing the latter's life change, 1720.[src]
Adéwalé (1692 – unknown) was a former slave-turned pirate from Trinidad, and later a member of the Assassin Order.
During the early 18th century, he served as Edward Kenway's quartermaster aboard the Jackdaw, before eventually assuming the captaincy of his own vessel, the Victoire and later the Experto Crede, in 1735.[1]
He is also an ancestor to Milton Jones.[2]
History
Early years and meeting Edward Kenway
Born into slavery on Trinidad, Adéwalé recognized the inequality, discrimination and oppression visited down upon those who worked the sugar plantations. When he was able, he broke free of his captivity, killing his guard in the process, and fled. Eventually, after many years on the run, Adéwalé was captured by the Spanish and locked aboard a Spanish galleon destined for Spain.
He found himself chained alongside the pirate Edward Kenway, who was also destined for Spain. Together, the two broke free of their bonds and, after incapacitating a number of guards, proceeded to procure themselves a ship – in the process freeing a number of likewise captured pirates.
Adéwalé chose a relatively small brig named El Dorado to make their escape, which was made all the more difficult by a sudden, powerful storm that struck the Spanish Treasure Fleet. Ultimately, they managed to escape, while the remaining eleven ships in the fleet sank to the bottom of the sea.
Introduction to piracy
- Edward: "It's true, most of these men wouldn't accept you as a captain. So what fair role would complement such unfairness?"
- Adéwalé: "I'll be your quartermaster. Nothing less."
- —Edward Kenway and Adéwalé assume their roles aboard Jackdaw, 1715.[src]
With a ship in their possession, which Edward renamed the Jackdaw, the two pirates decided to head to Nassau, a local town that played host to a large number of pirates. Upon their arrival, Adéwalé met with the pirates Benjamin Hornigold, Edward Thatch and James Kidd, before returning to the ship in order to organize the crew his captain was out recruiting.
During his time on the Jackdaw, Adéwalé served Edward diligently; ensuring the ship was in a seaworthy condition, keeping the crew organized and, wherever possible, pointing out locations and ships of interest to the captain.
Joining the Assassins
In 1716, not long after the capture of Julien du Casse's manor on Great Inagua, Adéwalé had his first encounter with the Assassins. In them, he saw a people who fought for something greater than themselves, and he came to believe it to be a calling that suited him well.
In 1720, after five years as the Jackdaw's quartermaster, Adéwalé decided to pursue a new path, and chose to join the Assassin Order. Adéwalé met with Edward – who had recently escaped imprisonment in Port Royal – in Kingston to hand back control of the Jackdaw and push his former captain onto a new path. From there, Adéwalé traveled to Tulum, headquarters of the Assassins, to assist them in repulsing Templar attacks.
Not long after his arrival, he was once again joined by Edward, who had elected to at least accept the possibility that he could better himself as a member of the Assassins. Together the two pirates fought alongside Ah Tabai and his Assassins to stave off the latest Templar attack.
Two years later, Adéwalé traveled with Ah Tabai to the Observatory, where Edward had journeyed to in order eliminate the Templar Grand Master, Laureano de Torres y Ayala. Upon their arrival, they found Laureano dead, and Edward standing before the Observatory's armillary sphere, with the Crystal Skull that powered the device in hand. Upon returning the skull to its resting place, Adéwalé handed Edward a letter from England.
Sometime later, Adéwalé, Ah Tabai, Anne Bonny, and Edward Kenway met once again on Great Inagua. There, Adéwalé informed Edward that one of his previous targets, Woodes Rogers, had survived the attempted assassination and returned to England. Before his departure, Edward decided to allow the Assassins full access to the manor on the island, as a compensation for the fact that the location of the Assassin camp on Tulum was known to the Templars.
Later years
Thirteen years later, in 1735, Adéwalé was the captain of the Victoire. He was tasked with eliminating a French Templar armada and taking a parcel meant for Bastienne Josephe from the Templar Admiral. After accomplishing his mission he was forced to flee through a storm to escape French reinforcements. During the escape he was thrown overboard. Adéwalé found himself shipwrecked on the island of Saint-Domingue near Port-au-Prince without a crew and just his Hidden Blades and blowpipe. It was here that he found himself confronted once again with the realities of the slave trade.
Upon waking up Adéwalé hears a female slave in distress being chased by an overseer. Upon catching up with the overseer Adéwalé kills him. The woman Adéwalé saved told him how he could find Bastienne. Upon finding Bastienne he is eventually recruited into the plight of the Maroons.
The first thing Adéwalé had to do for the Maroons was to liberate their hideout from the overseers. Once all the overseers were dead Adéwalé spoke with the Maroon leader Augustin Dieufort, Adéwalé was offered new equipment and upgrades in exchange for liberating slaves to fight for the Maroon cause or to build their community. Upon recruiting enough warriors to crew a ship Adéwalé was tasked with liberating the Experto Crede a brigatine from the French.
Adéwalé was tasked by Bastienne to infiltrate the Gouverneur de Fayet's mansion to find out what distracted him & why the strict enforcement of the Code Noir. Adéwalé discovers that gouverneur has hired a scientist named Louis Godin to discover the secret of the science of navigation. Bastienne tasks Adéwalé with investigating Godin's expedition. Adéwalé's investigation into the expedition didn't achieve the result Bastienne was hoping for but she helped anyway to help the Maroon and fulfill her promise to Augustin, she supplied a forged manifest of literate slaves needed for the expedition which Adéwalé swapped for the real one. Once the expedition was on the way Adéwalé was forced to defend it from pirates.
The French were in a panic over all the liberated slaves freed by Adéwalé. Adéwalé considered strict curfews, harsher & more frequent punishments to be a small price for Maroon independence. The next time Adéwalé liberated a slave ship it was attacked by the last remaining escort ship under orders of the gouverneur. Adéwalé went aboard the severely damaged slave ship to to rescue as many slaves as he could, eventually it sank with Adéwalé still below deck. Adéwalé made his way through the sinking ship and swam to the shore where the Maroon buried their dead and Adéwalé vowed to kill Gouverneur de Fayet because his Creed demanded it & it would give that generation of warriors hope.
In 1737 Adéwalé says it is time to kill Gouverneur de Fayet. He finds the gouverneur on the grounds of his mansion torturing slaves to find the location of the Maroon Hideout and Adéwalé. When Adéwalé was discovered the gouverneur fled through town, Adéwalé eventually caught up with the gouverneur and killed him with the branding iron he tortured slaves with.
With Gouverneur de Fayet dead Adéwalé was forced to leave since it was no longer safe for him nor for the Maroons for Adéwalé to remain. Before leaving he said goodbye to Bastienne and finally gave her the package. He decided he must devote his energy to those who struggle for freedom using his conviction in his Creed to defend them along with anyone who helped him.
Trivia
- Adéwalé is a variant of the Yoruba name Adebowale, suggested to mean "crown has come home." [3]
- Adéwalé is the second playable character to not be related to Desmond Miles in any way, with the first being Aveline de Grandpré.
Gallery
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Concept art of Adéwalé -
Adéwalé and Edward in shackles -
Adéwalé introducing himself to Edward -
Adéwalé and Edward aboard the Jackdaw -
Edward introducing Adéwalé to Hornigold and Thatch -
Adéwalé and other pirates in Nassau -
Edward and Adéwalé interrogating Laureano de Torres y Ayala
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