May Carroll
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May Carroll (1764 – 1788) was an English Templar member of a high ranking Templar family of the British rite.
In 1774, while the Carrolls were visiting the De la Serres to voice the worrying of the foreign rites concerning the reformist faction of the French rite, May taunted Elise because as a ten year-old she had been told of her Templar destiny while the six year-old Elise wasn't.
In 1788, Elise came to London asking for the Carrolls help in order to investigate on the assassination attempt on her mother a decade before. Oblivious to the fact that it was the Carrolls who had hired Bernard Ruddock in order to kill Julie who was a moderate reformist but had the ears of her husband, Elise accepted their bargain, they will search for Ruddock while she will tried to obtain the letters of Haytham Kenway from his sister, Jennifer Scott.
Elise obtained the letters and, after reading them, decided that the Assassins and Templars needed to work together. She found Ruddock by herself, allowing him to flee because she thought that the Carrolls were trying to silence him. Soon afterwards, Mr. Carroll obtained a pack of decoy letters, which he passed onto May, who swiftly burned them. Mr. Carroll said that even though Grand Master Kenway was a great Templar, his ideas about the Assassins were blasphemy. Upon hearing Elise defending Kenway's view, he said that she was too dangerous to be left alive and the Carrolls, along with their men, readied themselves to kill her. Elise was first given a chance to duel May, but she stabbed her through the back of the neck before she even had the chance to draw her sword, using the Carrolls shock to flee, but also attracting on herself the hatred of the Carrolls and by extension, the mistrust of the British rite. Various individuals would be hired to assassinate Elise, her mentor and fellow Templar Freddie Weatherall, and even her serving girl Helene over the years.