United Rogues
A year after all that Sage stuff happened in the Ubisoft offices, a new Employee ends up tripping a hidden memory file that corrupts the Abstergo servers and sends the entire building into lockdown, thus forcing the Employee to clear the system by going into the memories of one Shay Patrick Cormac, which kicks off Assassin’s Creed Rogue.
Shay is a recent Assassin recruit working in the North Atlantic during the French and Indian War under Achilles’ tutelage, even though he’s kind of a dick to his mentors. After being given a ship of own called the Morrigan, Shay is sent to track down a Templar cell that’s hard at work deciphering a Precursor artifact that can find the other Pieces of Eden. After seeing fellow Assassins not even talk to Templars before executing them and having just killed an already dying Templar, Shay ends up accidentally triggering an earthquake in Lisbon while recovering a Piece of Eden that destroys the city. He leaves the Assassins after learning they want to find the remaining Pieces and eventually winds up in New York City, using his skills to protect the city from gangs. The city’s governor, George Monro, reveals himself as a Templar to Shay and offers him a place in their Order, which he accepts just before Monro is killed.
Shay begins killing several senior members of the Assassin Brotherhood, including Adewalé, Edward’s first mate from Black Flag who took up the hood and blade some years after Edward’s adventures. Eventually, only Achilles and his old friend Liam are all that remains, and Shay and Templar Grandmaster Haytham Kenway follow the two Assassins to a Precursor temple in the Arctic. Shay manages to kill Liam and convince Haytham to let Achilles live long enough to persuade the Assassins from pursuing any more Precursor sites. Shay then spends the next 20 years looking for the man Achilles handed off the artifact capable of tracking the Pieces of Eden to, which places him in Versailles. Shay murders Charles Dorian, who turns out to be the father of one young Arno.
Assassin’s Creed Unity kicks off in 1776 with young Arno being adopted into the family of the Grand Master De La Serre after his father has been murdered by Shay. Despite knowing full well that Charles was an Assassin and fully aware that the son is unaware of this, the Templar raises Arno as his own for 13 years. When De La Serre ends up murdered and Arno gets framed, he meets an Assassin named Bellec in prison, who gets him to join the Brotherhood after escaping during the Storming of the Bastille. Mirabeau, an Assassin who planned on brokering peace between the rival Orders with De La Serre, allows Arno to pursue and kill Templars he thinks were connected with his surrogate father’s death. Arno soon discovers that the murder was ordered by silversmith François-Thomas Germain, who is also the Sage and plans to start a mass revolt against France’s King.
After Mirabeau is killed by Bellec, who’s then killed by Arno and the French Revolution kicks off, Arno finds Germain at the execution of King Louis XVI, but opts to stay and protect De La Serre’s daughter Elise. The Brotherhood exiles him for pursuing his own vendetta and falls into a drunken depression until Elise finds him months later. The two return to Paris during the Reign of Terror and discredit Maximillen de Robespierre’s reputation and eventually get him to tell them where Germain is in hiding. Germain, now armed with the Sword of Eden and intent on purging the Templar Order of everyone who forgot the teachings of Grand Master Jacques de Molay, fights Arno until they both wind up in a Templar crypt. Germain kills Elise as the Sword breaks, and is then killed by Arno, who promises to keep his love’s memory alive and watch over Paris. Years later and now a Master Assassin, he takes Germain’s skeleton from the Temple and puts it in the Catacombs of Paris.
The present day Employee in Rogue uploads all of Shay’s memories to the Assassin network, sending the organization into disarray and giving the Employee the choice of joining the Templars or die. What happens to the Employee is unclear, but in Unity, the Assassins retaliate by hacking Abstergo’s Helix gaming system to tell the Player about the company’s plan to find a Sage for their Phoenix Project and compile an entire Precursor genome. The Assassins, naturally, want to find a Sage corpse first, but not before destroying all of Abstergo’s Precursor samples and causing several of their servers to melt down.
