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    English/British Assassins?.

    So, I've been reading up everything on AC recently all over again, and i can't seem to find a English Assassin anywhere?.


    Is England mostly a Templar country?
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    There's one dude in the IOS game I think. Beyond that, Ezio sent some apprentices to London, so presumably there are Assassins there.
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    Originally Posted by Animusaurus Go to original post
    So, I've been reading up everything on AC recently all over again, and i can't seem to find a English Assassin anywhere?.


    Is England mostly a Templar country?
    not really

    edward kenway stayed in england for quite some time, but was killed by templars, there may be assassins present there who knows ..

    secondly as from the latest news article on ac, it was revealed that america is discovered not by columbus but by a templar 90 years before columbus ... so that means america is a templar country lol .. and well shay kind of finished all the assassins present in the american colonies .. so its hard to say ...
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    Damn, was thinking that Jack the Ripper London would be great, pretty dark and such, fighting guards with batons and swords...

    But eh, I'm not sure.
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    Originally Posted by Animusaurus Go to original post
    Damn, was thinking that Jack the Ripper London would be great, pretty dark and such, fighting guards with batons and swords...

    But eh, I'm not sure.
    Honestly if they ever make an English AC game I hope they stay away from Jack the Ripper, or at least relegate him to a side quest. He's just not that interesting TBH. So he killed a few women in Whitechapel; that's awful, sure, but it's not enough to carry an entire game. A MUCH more interesting story would involve the corruption and dissolution of the British East India Company. THERE'S a real AC-style conspiracy for you.
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    Originally Posted by LoyalACFan Go to original post
    Honestly if they ever make an English AC game I hope they stay away from Jack the Ripper, or at least relegate him to a side quest. He's just not that interesting TBH. So he killed a few women in Whitechapel; that's awful, sure, but it's not enough to carry an entire game. A MUCH more interesting story would involve the corruption and dissolution of the British East India Company. THERE'S a real AC-style conspiracy for you.
    They might be able to draw a background around the victims, they were undercover Templar members or agents, they were all prostitutes, maybe they spied on enemies of the Templars through that.


    Im just saying, the murders could of been committed by a Assassin, and made to look like normal murders committed by a serial killer.
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    Originally Posted by Animusaurus Go to original post
    They might be able to draw a background around the victims, they were undercover Templar members or agents, they were all prostitutes, maybe they spied on enemies of the Templars through that.


    Im just saying, the murders could of been committed by a Assassin, and made to look like normal murders committed by a serial killer.
    you are allowed to leap higher in imagination .. but not that higher . as its never going to happen .. the story should be cannon and attached with other ac games
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    Shaun!
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    Originally Posted by naumaan Go to original post
    secondly as from the latest news article on ac, it was revealed that america is discovered not by columbus but by a templar 90 years before columbus ... so that means america is a templar country lol .. and well shay kind of finished all the assassins present in the american colonies .. so its hard to say ...
    Even according to real history, Columbus didn't discover the land known today as the USA, and only intended to find a simple sea route from Europe to Eastern Asia. He went to the Caribbean, and a handful of locations in Central and South America. Despite returning repeatedly, he did not advance north of the Caribbean.

    Why US schoolkids are taught that Columbus discovered their country is hard to explain. Maybe it's an act of revisionism to avoid mentioning the claim of the English Crown. John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) was an Italian explorer who sailed to what is now Newfoundland in 1497 ("Newfoundland" being a general term for this new land before "America"), claiming the territory on behalf of his English royal sponsors. There's some argument where he landed on the subsequent journey, but Maine seems to be a likely contender. There isn't evidence that his crew met any native people but it's recorded that they found fishing nets and an abandoned campsite. He brought a cargo of inessential luxury goods on his last journey, so it's reasonable to assume that he had ideas about who his buyers would be and intended to establish a relationship with them via trade.

    Prior to him, other Europeans have a claim to being the first explorers to reach the north of the Americas. Bjarni Herjólfsson might have been the first Viking to discover the land according to legend, but the only real evidence is for Leif Erikson as the first European explorer of the Americas. He sailed west of Greenland in 1000 or 1001 with the intention of finding land. He did, and his crews built a permanent settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows. The settlement's true history was uncovered by 20th century archaeologists. The saga of Erik the Red mentions other outposts beyond L'Anse aux Meadows, but we don't know how far these settlers travelled into the territory.

    There are many other, less easily provable claims to have discovered the land. It's all a bit questionable, given that the indigenous people were themselves explorers who discovered the Americas too.
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