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Swimming (real world write-up)
Swimming is a game mechanic introduced in Assassin's Creed II, allowing Ezio Auditore da Firenze to navigate through water, or to use it as a hiding spot.
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad is unable to swim in Assassin's Creed. In the instruction manual of Assassin's Creed II, Lucy Stillman attributes this to a bug in the Animus.
Ezio's swimming moves consists of breaststrokes, but he uses the front crawl for fast swimming. He is able to dive and hold his breath for several seconds. The mechanics went unchanged for the three subsequent console games, including for the Assassin's Creed III playable characters Connor and Haytham Kenway. Civilians, guards and other nonplayable characters will instantly drown in water, while apprentices will disappear but not be killed.
In the portable game Assassin's Creed III: Liberation, swimming is expanded for missions where Aveline de Grandpré explores the flooded caverns beneath Chichen Itza. The camera follows her underwater, and she can hold her breath for under a minute.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's main playable character is Haytham's father Edward Kenway, a pirate who can dive to the seabed to find treasure. His ship, the Jackdaw, is equipped with a diving bell allowing him to dive for extended periods of time by placing his head in it whenever he needs to take a breath. The game also introduces underwater combatants in sharks. The developers invented "freeswimming", where Edward can push himself from objects to boost his speed, or take advantage of a current while maneuvering himself to dodge obstacles.[1]
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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.
Minerva's calculations made the First Civilization proficient in the studies of alternate timelines. From the Nexus, she, Jupiter and Juno manipulate individuals in the future to prevent a solar flare from devastating the planet.
Examples
- Minerva constructed the Eye to alter existence itself to prevent a second solar flare.[2]
- Ratonhnhaké:ton communed with Juno via a Crystal Ball, who instructed him to join the Assassins, or the Templars would breach the sanctuary of Kanatahséton.[2]
- The Apple of Eden showed Ratonhnhaké:ton that if he never became an Assassin, then he would not have been around to confiscate the Apple from George Washington, and prevent him from being corrupted by its power.[3]
- Juno showed Desmond what would happen if he did not kill Lucy Stillman: 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.[2]
- 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.[2]
Trivia
- Darby McDevitt confirmed "Calculations" were the in-house term for parallel universes in the series, and added Clay Kaczmarek went insane because he saw too many possible futures, in addition to the Bleeding Effect.[4]
References
British Assassins
The British Brotherhood originated from the members of the Italian Assassins who came to London in 1503 to kill Margaret of York. They gained the trust of King Henry VII and earned a seat in the Star Chamber.
In 1754, the Assassin Miko, who possessed a key for the Grand Temple, was murdered in the Theatre Royal by the Templar Haytham Kenway. Kenway promptly left for Boston on the Providence, but was followed by Louis Mills, who left a trail for the Colonial Assassins on the Aquila. However, Kenway discovered Mills' allegiance and killed him, before sailing the Providence into a storm to shake off the Aquila.
Again, that's it until AC4, or if Ubisoft makes a Robin Hood game. :D
To do
- Grand Temple
- Frontier
- Almanac pages
- Trinkets
- Monarchy
- Loyalists
- Moors
- Spanish Army
- Bribery (merge Heralds and Town criers?)
- Smuggling?
- Religion ("Alientraveller is promptly hit by an arrow for even suggesting it")
“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.”[1]