User blog:DanChan123/Assassin’s Creed in the Far East (mid-1800s)

This blog is strictly within copyright zone, belonging to User DanChan123. This may as well be sent to AC Fanon once it is done. 'I would LOVE for this to be historically accurate, so if you think something is wrong or amiss, tell me in comments. ’ I also need to come up with some names for this game. Bu==AC in the Far East 1800s (Why?)== One thing many AC fans suggest is an Eastern setting. Ubisoft never even set an assassin's foot there for gamers to see, yet. Ubisoft previously stated a game in Japan would suck. This also can relate to us thinking their will never be an AC game in East Asia. Why?

Well to make it sound good, why don't we add some Western influence to this Eastern setting. Picture East Asia, mid-1800s:

• Qing Dynasty China in state of turmoil. Chinese Warlords fight asian turf wars against each other in the name of the Empire, and the Emperor is still staring at the wonders brought over by Western Templars, who are secretly aiding the East. People cannot decide whether to allow Western influence or not. The Assassins of course, don't, because this will only mean China being conquered by the highly Templar-influenced West, and will make it easier for more Templars to arrive, thus making things tough for the Assassins. However many Templar warlords have caused enough trouble. Some warlords dislike the Western influence and aid the Assassin's. Some have started massacres and rebellions against the Emperor or the West. Some support the Templars. This has caused China to go into turmoil. After a key event, the Assassin's must flee to Western China, as far as Tibet.
• South of China is already in the state of much Western influence; being weaker than the Templar jackpot, China. Their are Dutch, Spanish, Portugeuse, and so many perfect places for Western Templars to be.
• Japan also contains great trade routes and opportunities for the West, and great opportunities for Templars. No, their won't be ninjas or samurais as the central focus, but more of a naval setting, like ACIV: Black Flag's little islands.
• Indonesian Archipelago is basically serves the same as "South of China", but contains a perfect land for pirates, but also the ever gold-eyed Spanish. At this age their are alot of pirates in the Far East, definitely more than the West. This is because pirates like to seize booty from the apparently growing rush of "dirty, rich Western barbarians". Their even China's version of A. Bonny those female buccaneers, notorious Ching Shih. Don't forget Singapore is almost like Nassau at the time.

Also, please note that this story does not come with a modern times story (genetic memory).

The bad side to my idea and story, would be that if Ubisoft would juggle this idea (let's pretend some guy who works with Ubisoft invented this idea), they will know that It will be hard to make. The bad side would be the difficulty to create such a large expanse, and furthermore detailing with city's. It could take more than a year or two. 

Anyway, this was only made for fun and I doubt this or something LIKE this will become an actual AC game.

The Story (Its a long one)

(1846) Oh don't sigh Ubisoft, because this story doesn't start with kung fu. Instead, it starts with a Chinese Assassin named Li Chen Wei, but has a Dutch name which he uses more often, Bartel Noltes, given to him after he gained Dutch citizenship. Bartel is secretly undercover as a opium trader on his way to Rangoon, Burma (Now Yangon, Myanmar), which was in British control at the time. His mission is to kill an English Templar in possession of a Piece of Eden known as the Ring of Eden, a Piece once used to open "secret doors", but if misused it will mentally poison the abuser and kill him after a while, and also disinegrate too. Originally found by a English explorer in Egypt, it made its way into the hands of English Templars (There was a second Ring of Eden which caused the "cat scanner's curse incident"). The Templar's mission is to bring the Piece to British Canton China, and deliver it to an Eastern Templar whose actions are unknown. Bartel has captained an well-armed merchant schooner, and is on a pursuit. The moving tutorial starts in Sittwe, Burma, where Bartel must chase the Templar, in which he gets into a fight with the Templar's men. He fights a brawl in a bar, and must pretend to be an opium and rice merchant to hide his identity after. The player then controls Bartel through a naval tutorial before fast traveling to Rangoon. In Rangoon many fights take place, and Bartel must infiltrate a British guarded port center office in order to learn of the Templar's next destination. He learns that the Templar has taken a mainland shortcut with help from his order, and Bartel can only take the long ocean route. However He must first go to Singapore as a request of assistance from the Assassin's.

At Singapore, Bartel must head to a secret meeting house, however he makes a mistake and accidently reveals his Assassin identity. At night during the meeting, a British security force attacks the meeting before learning of their plans. Bartel must flee with several other Assassin apprentices (the apprentices had better chances of escape because they couldn't enter the meeting and only act as guards)

The next morning, Bartel confronts the Master Assassins. The Masters have not determined his punishment and fate yet, but are currently working on the decision. Because of Bartel, the Templars know their moves in the Far East. Bartel is asked to continue his mission to Macau, but he will be accompanied by Malaysian Assassin Sayid Tuah, including a crew of assassin apprentices aboard an American-made brig ship called The Cormorant, with a black flag. They are told to meet notorious Chinese assassin/pirate Shap Ng-Tsai (Tsai) in Hainan. However, they get into a brawl with other pirates, and are then broken apart by British guards. Tsai rescues Bartel and Siyad, and take them to him docked ship cabin. Tsai lists that the Templar Order has given him trouble lately, due to their breakthrough at the Singapore meeting. He also announces the deaths of many assassins in parts of China, Indonesian Archipelago, and Japan lately. Tsai then grants you the honor of captain of one of his finest junks, a ship with the body of a medium British warship but repainted and redecorated in traditional Chinese colors, with added "junk sails", The Phoenix, which also flies a black flag.

You are tasked to engage in what looks like a pirate raid to seize British supplies in Canton, however the raid is only a distraction so that you can assassinate the Templar, who turns out to also be a commodore to protect British East India trade ships, a man named Jack Hocomb. Bartel (You) is tasked to destroy a British fort with The Phoenix with the aid of several other ships. (In this process, you take up a new kind of naval combat, commanding other ships to aid you) Siyad and his apprentices will assassinate Hocomb. However, Tsai, while fighting, gains a hostage, who tells him that Hocomb knew the plans after the Singapore meeting. In an attempt to save Siyad, Siyad and the apprentices are killed, and in an escape process, Tsai and you Bartel both arrested, and Bartel is stripped of Dutch citizenship, thus he changes his name back to Chen Wei, or just Wei.

Days later, Bartel (Now Wei) and Tsai are on a prison ship, in which they escape, freeing all prisoners and taking over the ship. Tsai decides to return to Hong Kong and resume life as a pirate and captain of his now captain-less fleet in hiding, not an assassin though. Wei is called into a meeting in Shanghai, in which he is demoted by a Master Assassin. He recieves word that the Master Assassins have gone into exile and based in Tibet where Templar influence is little. 

Wei decides to retire, but promises the Brotherhood's secrecy. He returns to his birthtown of Luoyang in the Henan Province.

(1848) Wei has taken up the rice trade, and owns a store which buys local rice and ships it to Macau. His apprentice is a "sneaky brat", named Xiu Jung (Jung), a 17-year-old Chinese boy with a taste of adventure. Jung was raised by English speaking nuns, thus speaking a little English. He learns more English from Wei so he can travel to British Macau to open a company and earn a living, then go out and travel. But soon Jung gets in trouble with some Qing guards, and is thrown on a chase in which Wei saves him. Luckily, the guards are drunk and they are discharged later. But while going on the chase, Wei discovers that Jung has "special senses" (like those of Desmond's lineage). Wei decides to share his Assassin tradition's with Jung, who learns everything. Jung, within several months, is able to understand Wei. Soon, he has judgements against the Qing Empire. 

Months later, it is almost winter, and a local Qing-affiliated warlord has arrived in the area. Armed with a weapon of Western invention, a gatling gun, the Manchu warlord, Fu Quan, has massacred a close village for not forfeiting their goods to the Qing. Wei makes preparations and tells Jung to leave town and live in his mother's farm in which Jung reluctantly agrees. Wei travels to Shaolin to ask assistance from the soldier monks, who agree to help rescue the captured civilians. On the day of Fu Quan's raid, a riot breaks out at the city square and the warlord's troops scatter. Wei recieves word of the warlord's return. Jung is angry at Wei for not letting him participate. Wei tells Jung that he observed his skills and tells him he is too precious to die. Wei decides to train Jung in the next attack. On the day of the next attack, the men of the village have evacuated the village, and all the women and children are in refuge at Shaolin. The warlord takes all the city's goods to his base in a nearby village.

The next night, Wei and the men must infiltrate the base hoping to end the terrorism of Fu Quan. Wei takes up his assassin's blade and poison pins, and the men are armed with pitchforks and blades. Wei makes Jung the signal-man, which is an important position, but cancels him from the fight, much to Jung's dismay. To the signal, the men successfully captures several firearms. Wei still doesn't allow Jung to be part of the next attack. Jung ignores his will, and armed with a sickle, knocks out one of the warlord's soldier's, and takes his uniform. Jung infiltrate's the fort as Wei attacks. Jung's senses (eagle sense) allow him to watch the mens' attacks in slow-mo, allow him to fight them with a huge advantage. However, the villagers don't have a signal and are thus almost surrounded. To fix this, Jung observes the warlord's soldiers using Fu Quan's Western weapon, the gatling gun. Jung then kills the soldiers and takes it, using it himself to mow down charging soldiers. Using a cannon, he destroys the back gate, allowing the villagers to enter the fort. Wei marches into the fort chambers, and armed with two swords, cuts down the charging soldiers. However, before he can kill Fu Quan, soldiers armed with muskets arrive, blasting into the charging villagers killing several. Wei is disarmed and his assassin's blade is unclipped and skids of. Just as things are about to get worse, Jung blasts a cannonball through the walls, crushing the musket-soldiers. He engages in battle with Wei and the villagers. After the villagers take ahold of the fort, Wei gets angry with Jung for not listening to orders, and also snatches the gatling gun away and throws it into a near fire in anger. Jung reminds him that without him the villagers may never had won. 

A wounded villager, supported by a soldier monk, cuts into Wei and Jung's argument, telling them bad news, that a fleeing Fu Quan and a leftover several dozens of remaining troops are heading for the Luohe River, connected to the larger Yellow River, in between a farming sector where Jung's mother lives. Wei tries to prevent Jung from going, however Jung is worried for his mother, and thus takes a horse and rides toward the farming sector. At the sector, Jung finds several of Fu Quan's soldiers trying to tie dead bodies of several farming women on a tree as a sign of last resort fear. Jung fights and kills the soldiers in a rage, leaving  a final rebellious soldier one that spits blood on Jung's face as he tells him all of those in the farming sector are dead. In a rage, Jung tosses the soldier into some rocks. He runs to his mother's farmhouse, where he finds his mother and younger siblings dead. He is enraged, and curses Fu Quan. As he comes out, Wei and several villagers, on horseback, have come to meet Quan. When Wei tells Jung to take a break, he announces to Wei that he will take vengeance no matter what Wei would say. Wei and the villagers decide to help him, and Jung reluctantly agrees, only under the condition that Jung will kill Fu Quan. Wei decides to teach him the ways of the Assassin. 

(1849) It is early in the year of 1849, and Jung finds news that Fu Quan is now in Jinan, a large Northern Chinese city along the Yellow River. The Zhonghe Festival (a Chinese festival to gain luck for a good harvest) is coming, and news of a special public gathering, with Fu Quan and other Qing nobles leading has come too. Wei reminds that Jung's training is far from over, but Jung believes that they may not have other chances. Wei knows several exiled Assassins in Liaocheng, a city en route to Jinan along the Yellow River. Wei and Jung take a fishing boat to Liaocheng.*

*In the game, players will have the ability to fast travel across rivers to cities they've encountered on their assassin journey on a boat.

Coming across Liaocheng, Wei struggles to find the exiled Assassins, numbering in two, who are named Chan and Kai-shek. Kai-shek is a large and buff ethnically Manchu man with his signature red-dyed, fur-toppled, traditional Manchu straw hat, and armed with a crossbow that has a bladed annex; Chan is an young female Assassin armed with a pistol and many knives. In Liaocheng, Chan and Kai-shek are in trouble for incriminating themselves to the Qing dynasty. they have reward for their heads sponsored by Templar puppet and Qing official, Xiong Tai, and a British Templar "deliveryman", known as Hocomb, whom they tried kill a year ago. When the two exiled Assassins mention the Ring of Eden, Wei identifies Hocomb as the same British Commodore Jack Hocomb, and wonders about what Hocomb is doing up North in mid-Qing. They note that Hocomb is present in Jinan, while Xiong Tai is leaving for Jinan next morning for the festival. They tell Wei that Hocomb, according to govt-public notions, is trying to establish a trade connection in Jinan between the Qing and British in addition to the open door trade with Beijing. Hocomb is still holding the Ring of Eden, and is up to something with it.