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• Bribery (merge Heralds and Town criers?)
• Smuggling?

“He has such a mixed heritage and upbringing and exposure to so many different ideas, so he’s quite unique in the world,” May said. “It makes him more thoughtful. He’s more considerate of different perspectives. He spends a lot more time observing and thinking than he does making snap judgments and proclamations.”

Unlike previous Assassin Altaïr, who was motivated by his desire to restore his honor, and Ezio, who was motivated by revenge, Connor is motivated by a desire to “just do good in the world,” May said.

“He sees a lot of wrong in the world … and he finds that there’s no one else out there willing to do anything about it,” May said. “It definitely makes him a bit of an idealist and in some sense, it makes him a little bit naive, that he thinks that one person can make a difference, but he clings to that belief and remains very firm in his convictions, so I think it makes him endearing in a way that previous assassins haven’t been.”

Kenway family

The Kenway family were a British family during the 18th century, whose members individually swore allegiance to the Assassins and Templars.

History

The earliest known member of the Kenway family was the pirate Edward Kenway, born to an English father and Welsh mother. He married Caroline Scott and had a daughter named Jenny. After joining the Assassins and ending his life in the Caribbean, Edward remarried to Tessa Stephenson-Oakley, and they had a son named Haytham in London.

In 1735, Edward was murdered by men secretly working for Reginald Birch, who also kidnapped Jenny and sold her into slavery. Birch took in Haytham under his wing and trained him to become a Templar. In 1757, Haytham rescued Jenny from Damascus and learned the truth, and they killed Birch. Despite this, Haytham remained loyal to the Order.

Two years beforehand, while searching for the Grand Temple in North America, Haytham conceived a child with the Kanien'kehá:ka woman Kaniehtí:io. Their son Ratonhnhaké:ton became the Colonial Assassin Connor, who eventually killed his father when it became clear their ideologies were irreconcilable.

Connor eventually had children, whose bloodline continued to Desmond Miles.

And that's it for now, until we learn about Connor's kids or if Haytham had a French child or something. :S

Tactics

Edward, Haytham and Connor were masters of hand-to-hand combat and dual-wielding, and trained in freerunning and swimming. They were also adept at being inconspicuous while blending and eavesdropping, making more of an effort to socialize while doing the former.

As he was trained by Templars rather than Assassins, Haytham lacked skills his father and his son shared, like the ability to balance on tree branches or hunting and fighting wild animals. He also never commanded his own ship.

Ships

Ships are large watercraft used for transport or war. Medieval Assassins hired ships to sail across the Mediterranean Sea, but by the Golden Age of Piracy, they were sailing their own ships for naval combat. The Aquila was launched from France in 1749 as the flagship of the Assassin Navy. The Assassin Gavin manned a ship, the Altair II, in 2012.

Medieval ships

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  A Crusader ship in Acre harbor
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  Renaissance merchant vessel/ferry
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  16th century trading ship
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  16th century warship
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  Ottoman variant
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  Ottoman ferry

Byzantine and Ottoman ships used Greek Fire.

Colonial ships

Types

In order of smallest to largest:

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  Gunboats were small, inexpensive and easy to assemble ships armed with one or two large cannons. They would grouped together to fire in numbers.
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  Schooners were small light craft built for speed, armed with several cannons. They were the preferred ships for privateers during the American Revolution.
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  Brigs were larger than a schooner and equipped with a bow ram and 24 cannons. Brigs and schooners had two sailing masts.
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  Frigates were long, relatively light warships loaded with 24-46 cannons. Due to their size and speed, they were often used for reconnaisance, or to escort merchant ships.
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  Man-of-war was a catch-all term for the largest and most powerful warships, many of which were Ships of the Line, designed with multiple gun decks bearing 16-50 cannons and all avaliable types of ammunition. Men-of-War and frigates had three sailing masts.

Unnamed classes:

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  The Jackdaw, a pirate ship captained by Edward Kenway, resembled a cross between a brig and a frigate, while armed like a Man-of-War.
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  The Aquila, Connor's ship, continued the jack-of-all-trades design approach, combining speed with heavy offensive capabilities.
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  The Providence was an unusually large and heavily armed 18th century merchant vessel.
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  Three-masted ship with one gun deck.

Ammunition

Ships were equipped with numerous forms of cannon fire:

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  Round shot is the term for a normal cannonball.
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  Chain-shots consisted of two linked cannonballs designed to disable a ship's sails, allowing her to be boarded.
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  Swivel guns were designed to fire beyond the normal range of a cannon. A single shot could blow up a ship after barrage had exposed its gunpowder supply, or detonate naval mines.
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  Grapeshot were group of small balls or slugs fired through the gun muzzle from a bag. Small ships would fire grapeshot due to their small number of guns, but were also susceptible to it.
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  Heated shots were designed to set a ship on fire. Men-of-War and frigates were armed with these.
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  Mortars were commonly used in forts, but could also be installed on ships like the Man-of-War the Aquila faced during the Battle of the Chesapeake.
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  Fire barrels filled with gunpowder could be dumped from a ship to explode on impact when the enemy sailed into it. Schooners could use their speed to lay a trap with fire barrels.

Modern ships

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  The Altair II, a 21st century Assassin surveillance ship.

Trivia

• In Assassin's Creed III, Lance O'Donnell can craft naval convoys with spruce lumber, Oak bark and bear grease, while Ellen can sow sails with Linsey-woolsey.

Calculations

The First Civilization's mathematical studies made them proficient in the studies of alternate timelines.

• The Apple of Eden showed Ratonhnhaké:ton that if his mother Kaniehtí:io had never died, then he would not have been around to confiscate it from George Washington and prevent him from being corrupted by its power.
• Juno showed Desmond Miles what would happen if Lucy Stillman had lived: Abstergo would have arrived to claim Ezio's Apple of Eden, and then failed to prevent the cataclysm after placing it in the Eye-Abstergo satellite.
• She later showed Desmond that if he did not release her from the Grand Temple, then the cataclysm would have destroyed humanity, and he would have led the survivors in a restart of civilization. Long after his death, history would have repeated itself, as Desmond would have been worshipped as a god, and his teachings used to justify mass murder.

Connor's routes

Saint Augustine

• Henderson in Distress
• Paving the Way
• Dread of Night

Louisbourg

• Troubled Waters
• Raiding the Prospector
• One of a Kind

The Bahamas

• Blistering Dawn
• A Call for Help
• Search for the Somerset
• The Ghost War, Act 1
• The Ghost War, Act 2

Virgin Islands

• The Sea Wolves
• A Midnight Engagement
• The Giant and the Storm