"History may call me a traitor, a rebel or a treacherous person. But in the end, how history remembers me no longer matters. What is important is that I followed my own creed."
Speaking of Ubisoft 's AC "Assassin's Creed" series, players' first impressions are often tourist attractions with different styles and protagonists with distinct personalities throughout the ages. From the first Damascus to the recent ancient Greece in "AC: Odyssey", AC, a huge IP, has taken us through Europe and the United States one after another; from Altaïr during the Crusade, Egio who disappeared from the romance of the Renaissance , to Master Kong who took the lead in the War of Independence, Edward, the pirate grandfather of the Golden Age, or the Yano who investigated the conspiracy behind the French Revolution, the gangster leader Fry on the streets of London, and the invisible couple who recently laid the foundation for the fraternity, the demigod mercenary Cassandra/Alixios... However, with such a character, his unique experience often becomes the focus of people's debate, and he makes all players love and hate - he is "Assassin's Creed: Rebellion AC: The protagonist of Rogue, Shay Patrick Cormac).
Generally speaking, I have communicated three ACRGs in total, and the second time was to play seriously and basically collect them all, but the save was swallowed by playU. In order to write this article, I rebel for the third time, hoping to regain my initial feelings and continuous thinking. In my opinion, rebellion against AC is such a kind of thinking.
Now, let's start with the game story and help you recall the unique and short and complex life experiences of Shei in the game.
His story, you and I know
1731, Shay was born in an Irish immigrant family in New York City. Her mother died while giving birth. Her father owned a merchant ship, so she often went out to work, so Shay was raised by his aunt. Living between the market makes Shea often get into trouble. He and the Lian Ann O'Brien Liam O'Brien 9 (1726-1760) became the closest friends. At the age of 16, Shay's father unfortunately died while going out to sea. After wandering around the streets and alleys for a period of time, Shay joined the Colonial Assassin Brotherhood under the recommendation of Lian En, and became a disciple of the mentor Achilles Davenport Achilles Davenport 9 (about 1710-1781) .
1751, Templar stole the artifacts owned by two brothers: The Box of the Pioneer and the Voynich Manuscript . The following year, in the mission to recover the artifact, Shay captured a sloop warship, Maureengan, Morrigan, .
As he and Liane chased the Templars who possessed the artifact, Shay began to question the way the assassin acted. After retrieving the artifact, Shay and his assassin companion Hope Jensen Hope Jensen (1732-1759.10) used the artifact to find the location of the Temple of the First Civilization in Lisbon.
1755, Achilles, who was convinced that the artifact was located in the temple, was familiar with Lisbon , and went to recycle the artifact. However, when Shay visited the temple, he accidentally triggered a major earthquake, causing thousands of casualties and homelessness. After she returned to Davenport's home, Shea angrily accused Achilles of having the task even though she knew that the fragments of Eden would cause a catastrophe. Although Achilles insisted that he knew nothing about what would cause the earthquake, Shay firmly believed that the Port-au-Prince earthquake, which claimed countless lives four years ago, was also caused by the same reason. His trust in the Brotherhood was shattered. In order to prevent the Brotherhood from finding more temples and prevent other cities from suffering from this misfortune, Shay decided to steal the manuscript of Voynich, but was blocked by Achilles who was prepared. A big chase unfolds, and Shay eventually fled but almost lost her life.
In June 1756, Shay woke up in a manor in New York City. He was rescued by an old couple. The male owner was called Barry Finnegan and the female owner was called Cassidy . Templar George Monroe George Monro (1700-1757.11.3) Let the old couple take care of Shea who is unconscious. After recovery, Shay was commissioned by Monroe to rescue his colleague Christopher Gister Christopher Gister (1706-Unknown) and took back the Maureen Gen, who became Shay's first mate. They then started working together to eradicate the fraternity and the gangs that were allied with the assassins. After
, Lian En assassinated Monroe during the siege of Fort William, and Shay followed the colonel's will and joined the Templars, along with the colony volume master Helson E. Kenway Haytham E. Kenway (1725.12.4-1781.9.16) to help Britain win the Seven Years War and destroy the Colonial Assassin Brotherhood. 1760, in the last confrontation in the Arctic, Liane died, Achilles was disabled and lost both followers and manuscripts. Shay was looking for the Box of the Pioneer for the next 16 years, and eventually he chased to Versailles, where he assassinated assassin Charles Dorian Charles Dorian (Unknown-1776.12.27) and took back the artifact. Shea then devoted herself to finding more artifacts and training his son and grandson.
The story really begins
So, where do we start to tell our story? Let’s start with the Port-au-Prince earthquake that occurred in Haiti in 1751, and this is the beginning of the whole story.
1738, a letter sent to Lawrence Washington by the Supreme Master of the Templars of Britain, Reginald Birch, , delegating Lawrence to find out the location of the Great Temple hidden somewhere in the New World. After 12 years of searching for it, Lawrence received another letter from Birch, who expressed his dissatisfaction with Lawrence's failure to find the artifact of the First Civilization and allowing the assassins to establish a fraternity in the colony.
1751, Lawrence managed to find clues about the First Civilization Cultural Relic. After his younger brother, George Washington, recovered from smallpox, Lawrence set out for Port-au-Prince, the location of Haitian assassin led by François McCanda. On November 21, under the command of Haitian Assassin Brotherhood mentor François Macandal François Mackandal (Unknown-1758.1.20, the 18th century Assassin Brotherhood mentor, using the Box of the Avant-garde Box and Voynich manuscripts, the Assassin entered the temple on Friday, and Lawrence was ambushed around. The moment when you touch the artifact in the temple on Friday, the temple’s protection mechanism was activated, resulting in a major earthquake that attacked Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas. When you tried to escape on Friday, your legs were crushed by rocks. Washington expressed his willingness to rescue the assassin in exchange for McKanda's position, but Washington killed Friday after telling him the intelligence Friday.
In the year, Lawrence resigned and returned to his home in Mount Vernon, and suffered from tuberculosis and . He was followed by assassin Shea Komak, who eavesdropped on the future intentions of Lawrence with his colleagues, Samuel Smith, , James Wardrop, and Jack Wicks, about the Box of the Box of the Forerunners and the Voynich manuscript.
Lawrence also asked other Templars not to involve their younger brother George in the affairs of the Knights, and they followed Lawrence's wishes. Shortly after the meeting, when Lawrence was walking around the estate, Shay approached and assassinated him, and on his dying day, he thanked Shay for giving him a happy break to protect him from the long-term illness.The attack on a seriously ill elderly person made Shea begin to think about the necessity of killing.
Shay at this time can be said to be the end of the first stage of his life. As an assassin apprentice, he still has the honesty and simplicity he had before joining the Brotherhood, as well as a free and easy way of having nothing and knowing nothing, so the 「I make my own lucky」 sounds so cheerful and sincere.At the same time, Shay was not valued at this time. Lian En, a young man who joined the club before, had a strong ability, broad knowledge and was able to eat. His former playmates were able to use his own side, but he, who had not poor abilities, could only obey others' tasks. Although Hope lamented that Shay's indifference was a waste of his talent, even though Achilles had high hopes for him and gave him 官网, he could not completely eliminate the doubts in the child's heart. But he still fulfilled all the tasks assigned by the Brotherhood conscientiously and thoughtfully.
So that day came.
11-1, Halloween. Because the Molingen could not cross the Atlantic Ocean, Shay arrived alone at the Carmo Monastery, Lisbon, the capital of the Portuguese Empire, to attend the Mass. Amid the sings, Shay walked into the temple of the Prophet. The holy artifact floated on the base, and the dim blue light could not illuminate the entire underground temple, but made Shay tremble and stretch out his hands to touch it.
A sudden earthquake swept across Lisbon.
This major earthquake is one of the most destructive and most casualties in human history, and is also the largest earthquake in European history, with a death toll of about 100,000. The fires and tsunamis that followed the earthquake almost burned the entire Lisbon, and the colonial empire Portugal declined from then on.
——How could God do this to them?
——God had nothing to do with this.
Shea, who desperately escaped from Lisbon, had a life-threatening death. The broken cities, raging fires and floods, and the people who kneeled on the ground and prayed did not have such good luck and skills.
This is no longer a 24-year-old boy can take on the responsibility. He needs to vent, he needs a reason. Throughout the Atlantic, he was looking for this reason - carrying the life of a city, but there was no one around him to talk to, and Shay was just floating on the sea - it was a miracle that he didn't go crazy. Or maybe, he found the reason he needed.
Xie Yi's second stage of life has begun.
Angry Shay rushed back and questioned Achilles - "All my duty is exchanged for the title of a killer. You ask me to kill those innocent people!" -Achilles' calm explanation was regarded as excuse for himself and indifference to life. Hope's rational dissuasion was regarded as an obstacle to his just appeal, especially Achilles' defense against Shay's pictures in the middle of the night, the shot fired on the edge of the cliff of Laverondri, everything, friendship with friends, doubts about the brotherhood, guilt for innocent civilians, and resentment for himself who caused all of this, on that snowy night, all turned into obsession and despair that could not be let go of deep in his heart. With this obsession and despair, Shay fell into the cold sea... Perhaps at this time, Sleeping in the sea with the manuscript of the pioneer may be the best destination?
But fate favored him, and his own luck brought him to New York. In June 1756, Shay woke up in a manor in New York City. He was rescued by an old couple. The male owner was named Barry Finnegan and the female owner was named Cassidy. After driving away the harassing gang members, the old couple returned Shay's belongings to him and presented Shay's robe with their dead son. Shea then went to the gang's nest, successfully destroyed the gang and handed over the local control to the British army.
At this time, someone who truly changed the direction of Xie Yi's life appeared. He is George Monroe, a British colonel.
Because Lawrence Washington was not good at finding the Temple of the Patriarch, the dissatisfied commander of the Templars Reginald Birch sent his agent George Monroe to America in 1750. Unlike other Templars, Colonel Monroe regarded his British army as a kind defender of the service of colonial citizens, rather than those who regulate and manage them, such as improving the lives of the colonists through reconstruction of the city. Colonel Monroe's thinking touched Shay, and he began to face up to the similarities and differences between the Brotherhood of Assassin and the Templars.Later, Shay, who was entrusted by Monroe, rescued Christopher Gister, who was about to be hanged because of a gang making weapon. He accidentally discovered and took back the gangster's ship - the Malingen, who was his previous one. With Gister's help, Shay cleaned up the gangsters in the area and recruited his first new crew members. Gister volunteered to be Shay's first mate.
It’s time for this story to really begin.
The ending that no one can control
Shay is like an out of control train, running forward desperately...
Once a friend and colleague turned into an enemy in one thought. In just three years, Shay killed the assassin informant "Hunter" (French Castle War), the colonial native assassin Kensegowos (William and Fort William Henry), the old warrior Advar (Chasing the Sentman), his mentor Hope (Poison Gas Manor), the lord knight Virondri (Chasing the Sea Dongqing and Ambush Battle), and the Fellow Lien (The Temple of the Arctic Pioneer) - the top leaders and backbones of the entire North American Brotherhood were almost slaughtered.
Before the support battle of Fort William and Henry, Colonel Monroe explained Shay's life-threatening experience in a letter - he saved Shay and he knew Shay's identity as an assassin from the beginning. Shay took people to rescue the colonel and injured Kensegowos while escorting the colonel on the Mallingen. The colonel then went to the colonel to protect the town of Albany to prevent the French attack, while Shea went to find the French army and its Aboriginal allies. On the way to hunt down Kensegowos, Shay realized that it was the Brotherhood's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain - Lian En went to assassinate Colonel Monroe.
Shea, who arrived in a hurry, rescued the dying colonel from the burning house - and the leader of Shay's Templar Road was not so lucky this time. After handing over his ring to Shay, the colonel died of serious injuries. Afterwards, under the presidency of Helson Kenway, the highest master of the colonial volume of the Templar Organization, Shay officially joined the Templar, and Christopher Gister, Jack Wicks, William Johnson and Charles Lee attended the welcome ceremony. Shea then tells Helson about the coordinates of the Temple of the Patriarch, and he is sure that Achilles will definitely seek the temple regardless of the consequences, even if innocent people suffer. The temple road to hunting assassins officially begins.
He faced Advale, repelled the assassin's fire ship offensive, and chased to the old quarry. He cooperated with Helsen and killed the "legend" he once admired most -
Shay, you have become a monster.
Ade's last words lingered in his heart. However, he could no longer look back.
He tracked down Hope's estate, sneaked in while the chaos, and witnessed how she reproduced Franklin's experiment. Hope urged Liane to leave and told Virondri about the location of the First Civilization Temple. At this time, Hope found Shay, shot through the ceiling, causing him to fall into the house, and then she took Shay's gas mask and released the poison gas into the room. Shay manages to escape outside, but Hope fires a poison dart at him and affects his heart. Shay chased after him and finally assassinated Hope to obtain the antidote. Shay was heartbroken to kill her. Hope said she had bought time for Lian En's departure, and lamented that Shay was a waste of her talent for serving the Templars -
You could have been so excellent...
The last BGM that chased was called No Hope.
Yeah, No Hope, No Hope.
Arctic, Achilles and Liane finally saw the fragments in the temple, and Achilles finally discovered his mistake. Shea's appearance made Lian En excited, and he accused Shea of betraying the Brotherhood and killing so many people. During the dispute, Lian En touched the fragments and the temple began to collapse. Shay chases Liane and Helson chases Achilles, this is the final showdown.
Once a close friend met in a fierce battle, and the two fell off the cliff, Sheai survived by grabbing the edge of the cliff, while Lian En suffered fatal injuries.At the dying breath, Lian En was still resentful of Shea’s betrayal. Although the latter said that this move was to save the world, Lian En still sarcastically said -
I really hope that the world you saved is not evil.
Shay sorted out the remains for Liane, took back the manuscript from his body, and turned toward Helson and Achilles.
When he arrived, Helson had knocked Achilles to the ground, and Shay stopped the Supreme Master from his final blow to the mentor because Achilles knew the danger of the Temple of the Forerunners, and if he died, the assassins would blindly search for the Temple. Helson reluctantly agreed with Shay's reasons and spared Achilles, and to ensure he no longer poses a threat, Helson shot and broke his shin. The Templars of the colony had already begun to clear out the assassins, and Helson assigned Shay to find the Box of the Forerunners, Shay admitted that the only thing they knew was that the box had been transported out of the Colonial by the Knights of Virondri.
1776, Shea appeared in Paris, France, and he got the message that French assassin Charles Dorian was the holder of the Box of the Forerunners. He helped to save Benjamin Franklin from the attack on the French royal family. In return, Franklin provided convenience for Shay to enter Versailles . After sneaking into the palace, Shay found Charles and assassinated him. When he got the box back, Charles said that the assassins under Connor and the American War of Independence thwarted the Templar's plans in the New World. Shayze said that the Templars will stage a revolution of their own and reset the balance of power.
Sheayi, who walked out of Versailles, was smarter and more sharp, although she was beautiful. For the first time, he told himself extremely firmly:
I am a Knight Templar.
postscript
Looking back, it is not difficult to find that Sheayi has unique characteristics. He and Edward Kenway have too many similarities -
experienced a difficult life before becoming an assassin;
has high enthusiasm - always firmly believe that "I make my own lucky" (although grandpa is for gold);
has strong ability, loves to think - will have his own thinking before and after completing the task, and have his own reason for everything. Even Hope's regretfully thought "you could have been so excellent";
dared to face the question of "creed"
- but Shay embarked on a completely different path from Edward.
is precisely his independent thinking, his simple understanding of the creed and his sense of belonging to the fraternity, which made him misunderstand the entire fraternity because of some people, but because of some people who believed in the entire temple colony volume, he saw too little but thought too much. When assassinating Washington, he thought about "why do you want to assassinate such an old man?" but he didn't know that the old man was betrayal to his compatriots and ruthlessly waved his butcher knife, which caused the entire North American Brotherhood to know nothing about the artifacts in the temple "will cause earthquakes"; when assassinating the Brotherhood informant "hunter", the hunter said "the poison gas against the British army", while Colonel Monroe said that the Brotherhood would launch an indiscriminate attack on civilians and kill Hope. Even Lian En said, "I really hope the world you are talking about is right."
When all this finally settles, no matter you and me, whether you and I, or Assassin Brotherhood or Templar , there is no way or right to judge such a contradictory and diverse role as Shay. When he knows too little, he carries too much; when he sees all this more clearly, he becomes more lonely; when he finally gets to an end for this story, he can no longer look back. As Shay said in the first chapter of the rebellion, he gave up his "creed that he relied on for a living" and never thought about "what price" would be to come later - the price was that Lian, Advale, Hope... his childhood friend, the assassin he respected, the ambiguous mentor who guided him...
A betrayal cannot become a hero, no matter what kind of past he betrayed.How can a person with a betrayal experience gain the trust of others? People always look at problems with a fixed mindset, and often ignore the causes and processes of things. Refuting and explanation can only be exchanged for ignoring and sighing. And Shay's rebellion is essentially no different from other betrayals. The only difference is probably the innocent heart we see from it, right?
So what is the spirit of rebellion? ——The belief in seeking knowledge and the obsession with conscience.
seeking knowledge is to seek knowledge of the truth, to seek knowledge of the ruins of the pioneers, to seek knowledge of the two major camps of the Templar and the Brotherhood of Assassin, and to seek knowledge of this battle that lasted for thousands of years but no one could do anything about the other. This belief in seeking knowledge prompted Shay to cross the dividing line and step by step towards his former enemy, the Knights Templar, and eventually completely rebel against the Brotherhood.
obsession is an obsession for peace of mind. This obsession began to sprout from Shay's escape from Lisbon. On the snowy night when he defected to the Brotherhood, with Hope's doubts, Lian's call and the gunshots of the Raverendri Knights, it completely fermented. In the process, Shay got rid of the self who accidentally killed millions of people. His body died under the gun of Ravelondri, and his soul was - but Monroe gave him a second life. From this moment, he cut off the past and walked towards the opposition of the brotherhood.
Some people say that there are actually two sources of Assassin, one is Hashasheen, which is Hassan's followers. The other is derived from Asasiyun, which means people who have faith and can always abide by it.
Maybe both are right.
ends with the passage Ezio said in the ending of the vanity fire:
Twenty-two years ago, I was standing in this place now, watching my loved ones die with my own eyes, and they were betrayed by those I once called friends. There was a time when I was full of revenge. If it weren't for a few strangers who gave me advice, I would have been ruined by revenge. They taught me how to restrain my instincts. They never told me the answers, but they guided me to ask for answers from myself. We don't need others to tell us what to do. Whether it is Savonarola or the Medici family, we have the freedom to pursue our own path. There are always some people who want to take away this freedom, and most of you will be happy to give up. But in fact, we have the ability to choose. No matter what you think is right or the truth, it is the ability we have as human beings. No book or teacher can give you an answer or give you a way, choose your own path, and don’t follow me or anyone else.
