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* InTheHood: Played straight earlier in the game as an Assassin. Later on, it's replaced by a Templar neck cuff that can be collapsed.

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* InTheHood: Played straight earlier in the game as an Assassin. Later on, it's replaced by Assassin, and even as a Templar neck cuff that can be collapsed.he continues wearing a hood, though similarly to Edward Kenway he doesn't wear it all the time.

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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villain Protagonist]]: Shay has sympathetic reasons for going against his former brothers, and genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing. That being said, he has no qualms with butchering civilians.



* TheDreaded: Shay is described as being the most feared assassin hunter in history.

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* TheDreaded: Shay is described as being the most feared assassin Assassin hunter in history.


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* VillainProtagonist: As an anti-villain Shay has sympathetic reasons for going against his former brothers, and genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing. That being said, he has no qualms with butchering civilians.
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* TheDreaded: Shay is described as being the most feared assassin hunter in history.
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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villain Protagonist]: Shay has sympathetic reasons for going against his former brothers, and genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing. That being said, he has no qualms with butchering civilians.

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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villain Protagonist]: Protagonist]]: Shay has sympathetic reasons for going against his former brothers, and genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing. That being said, he has no qualms with butchering civilians.
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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villain Protagonist]]

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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villain Protagonist]]Protagonist]: Shay has sympathetic reasons for going against his former brothers, and genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing. That being said, he has no qualms with butchering civilians.
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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villian Protagonist]

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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villian Protagonist]Anti-Villain Protagonist]]
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* [[VillainProtagonist Anti-Villian Protagonist]
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* TheAnticipator: His AuraVision gives him the special ability to sense who is stalking him where and how, making it harder than usual for others to sneak up on him.

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* AuraVision: Possesses Eagle Vision, making him the second Templar aside from Haytham Kenway confirmed to have the ability.

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* AuraVision: Possesses Eagle Vision, making him the second Templar aside from Haytham Kenway confirmed to have the ability. His is much more powerful: Even while not activated, it passively warns Shay of nearby Stalker characters like a Spider Sense, and when activated points him towards the nearest one.


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** Note that Shay can survive successful assassinations. Only two characters in the series have done that so far, and they nearly died from one. Shay can get up from several AIR ASSASSINATIONS [[ImplacableMan AGAIN AND AGAIN]].


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* CoolShip: The Morrigan, which has flame cannons and is faster than any other ship.


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* GasMaskLongcoat: Later in the game, Shay will get a mask that will allow him to breathe in poisoned environments. While everyone around him is suffering the effects of a poison barrel or smoke bomb, he can simply walk by. It isn't a helmet, however; it folds into his jacket.
* InTheHood: Played straight earlier in the game as an Assassin. Later on, it's replaced by a Templar neck cuff that can be collapsed.
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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the ''Morrigan'' has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead. The ''Morrigan'' of mythology also most often took the form of a crow.

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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the ''Morrigan'' has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead. The ''Morrigan'' of mythology also most often took the form of a crow.crow and Cormac means "Raven".



* MeaningfulName: Shay is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic ''Séaghdha'', which means "Hawk".

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* MeaningfulName: Shay is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic ''Séaghdha'', which means "Hawk"."Hawk", "Patrick" comes from the Latin "Patricius"(Nobleman) and "Cormac" means Raven.
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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the ''Morrigan'' has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead.

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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the ''Morrigan'' has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead. The ''Morrigan'' of mythology also most often took the form of a crow.
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--> ''"History may brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''

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--> ''"History may brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but renegade. But in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''
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--> ''"History may be brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''

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--> ''"History may be brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Shay knows better than to get close to an Assassin if he can afford it, so he'll just shoot them.
* DualWielding: Seems to prefer using a sword and dagger in hand to hand combat.

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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Shay knows better than to get close to an Assassin if he can afford it, so he'll doesn't have the advantage, and the announcement trailer shows him just shoot them.shooting one rather than risk it.
* DualWielding: Seems to prefer using a sword and dagger in hand to hand combat. Makes sense, as this was the Assassin fighting style during the Colonial Era.
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* TheUnfettered: Unlike previous protagonists, even Haytham Kenway who was a Templar, Shay has no problem killing civilians or shooting berserk darts at them so that they can get killed by guards as a distraction.
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* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: The game will have Shay start off as an Assassin and follow him as he slowly becomes disillusioned with their cause and switch sides to the Templar Order.
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A list of characters in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue''. For the game-unspecific cast, here's [[Characters/AssassinsCreed the main index]].
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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the Morrigan has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead,

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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the Morrigan ''Morrigan'' has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead,figurehead.

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* AnimalMotifs: His first name means "hawk", and the Morrigan has numerous wolves on its sail and figurehead,



* CoolSword: Notable in that it's an old school hand and a half sword.

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* CoolSword: Notable in that it's an old school hand and a half sword.sword that wouldn't look out of place in the first Assassin's Creed.



* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a red and black outfit, and his own ship the ''Morrigan'' also has this color motif.

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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a red and black outfit, outfit upon joining the Templars, and his own ship the ''Morrigan'' also has this color motif.

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* CoolGuns: Wields an air rifle.

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* CoolGuns: Wields an air rifle. It doesn't require black powder and has a much quieter report than the more common rifles of the time. And it has a [[StuffBlowingUp grenade launcher.]]
* CoolSword: Notable in that it's an old school hand and a half sword.
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* WalkingArmory: Shay, with the skills of an Assassin and the resources of the Templars, [[UpToEleven surpasses every other protagonist in the series here.]] He carries multiple pistols, an old school hand-and-a-half Templar sword, and a prototype Air Rifle, capable of quietly killing from a distance and launching a freaking grenade!
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!! Haytham Kenway

See Characters/AssassinsCreedIIITheTemplars

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--> ''"History may be brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but in the end, it doesn't how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''

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--> ''"History may be brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but in the end, it doesn't matter how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''

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* ConflictingLoyalty:
--> ''"Life's hardest choices are ones that force you to question your own moral code."''




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--> ''"History may be brand me traitor, rebel or renegade but in the end, it doesn't how history remembers me...what matters is that I followed my own creed."''
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* FightingIrish: A darker version of the trope.
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! The Templars

!! Shay Patrick Cormac

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! The !The Templars

!! Shay !!Shay Patrick Cormac
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* DangerouslyGenrySavvy: Shay knows better than to get close to an Assassin if he can afford it, so he'll just shoot them.

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* DangerouslyGenrySavvy: DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Shay knows better than to get close to an Assassin if he can afford it, so he'll just shoot them.
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* DangerouslyGenrySavvy: Shay knows better than to get close to an Assassin if he can afford it, so he'll just shoot them.
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* {{Badass}}: He's a former Master Assassin, with all that that entails.
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! The Templars

!! Shay Patrick Cormac

The main character of the Animus portion of the game, an Assassin turned Templar who hunts his former brothers.

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* AuraVision: Possesses Eagle Vision, making him the second Templar aside from Haytham Kenway confirmed to have the ability.
* CoolGuns: Wields an air rifle.
* DualWielding: Seems to prefer using a sword and dagger in hand to hand combat.
* MeaningfulName: Shay is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic ''Séaghdha'', which means "Hawk".
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a red and black outfit, and his own ship the ''Morrigan'' also has this color motif.
* {{Revenge}}: His main goal is getting revenge on the Assassins for trying to kill him for abandoning the Order after a mission went wrong.

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