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3	A list of characters appearing in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue''.
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5	Returning characters from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' are marked with asterisk (*) and have links in their folder.
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9	!The Templars
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11	[[folder:Shay Patrick Cormac]]
12	!!Shay Patrick Cormac
13	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shay_cormac_acr_render2_9206.png]]
14	[[caption-width-right:300:"I make my own luck"]]
15	-->'''Voiced by:''' Steven Piovesan (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''': Creator/SylvainAgaesse (European French), Ivan Zharkov (Russian)[[/note]]
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17	The main character of the Animus portion of the game, an Assassin turned Templar who hunts his former brothers.
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19	* TheAce: Of the Templars, being their best fighter, spy, and altogether more morally sound than any of them except perhaps Monro. It's implied he might have been this of the Assassins too; he is given several extremely critical missions and multiple people comment on his skills and potential.
20	* AllForNothing: Shay spends much of his Templar career dismantling the Assassin Brotherhood in Colonial America and building up the Templar Order to its strength by ''Assassin's Creed III.'' [[spoiler:When Charles Dorian tells him of Connor's actions and the decimation of the Templars in North America he's very upset to learn that his life's work was undone.]]
21	* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Is basically the [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] of ''Assassin's Creed''. He was a member of an ancient group who sought to protect the freedoms of others, but despite all his accomplishments was often dismissed and distrusted by others. Then after feeling betrayed by this group [[FallenHero he joined their enemies]] as TheDragon and [[ThePurge hunted down his former allies]] after pulling an EvilCostumeSwitch from a gray and white outfit to a black and red one, and while interacting with his former allies has a NeverMyFault attitude while ignoring how his new allies are [[{{Hypocrite}} just as bad]].
22	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Shay himself. Despite the fact he doesn't de-synchronize if you kill innocent people, he seems to be the Assassin (later Templar) most concerned with the morality of what he's doing. Only Connor rivals him since he too criticized Achilles for his manichean obsession in killing the Templars and rubbishing any attempts at forming a truce.
23	** He becomes much less ambigious in the epilogue, where he thinks nothing about [[spoiler:sacrificing thousands just to get back at the Assassins via starting a revolution (the French Revolution.)]]
24	* AntiVillain: A rare VillainProtagonist example. A mixture of [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type I, Type II and Type III]]. He becomes a villain out of the purely heroic motive of saving the world [[spoiler:from the Assassin heroes' unthinking actions]].
25	* 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 and Cormac means "Raven".
26	* 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.
27	* ApologeticAttacker: Shay regrets having to kill most of his former comrades and usually asks for forgiveness in their final moments.
28	* TheAtoner: Shay's reasons for joining the Templars. [[spoiler:He wishes to help people in order to make up for his role in the Lisbon Earthquake.]]
29	* AuraVision: Possesses Eagle Vision, making him the second Templar aside from Haytham Kenway confirmed to have the ability. His is much more powerful: His version has the same abilities that Edward's displayed[[note]]tagging up to ten enemies and keeping track of them whilst Eagle Vision is not active[[/note]] and in addition, it passively warns Shay of nearby Stalker characters like a Spider Sense, and when activated directs him towards the vicinity of the nearest one. It does, however, have the same weakness in that Shay can't run while it's active.
30	* BadassCape: Shay's Assassin Killer outfit (Available from U-Play) adds a cape emblazoned with the Templar cross.
31	* BadassLongcoat: Most of his outfits have one of these, in particular his Assassin and Templar uniforms.
32	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Wields two Hidden Blades, seeming standard Assassin issue as of the American Colonial Period.
33	* BrilliantButLazy: How Hope sees him at the start of the game, noting that his lack of discipline means his full potential can't be reached. It turns out she was right, as after joining the Templars he becomes far more serious and a far greater threat than when he was an Assassin.
34	* BrooklynRage: Was born in New York to Irish immigrants, and happens to be fairly badass. He himself jokes about this when Gist states that New York has been restored to order:
35	-->'''Shay:''' I don't think New York was ever orderly.
36	* CatchPhrase: "I make my own luck.", which he invokes anytime anyone mentions luck in his presence.
37	* CombatPragmatist: Double-teams [[spoiler:Adéwalé]] with [[spoiler:Haytham Kenway]]. Uses a Puckle Gun to [[spoiler:kill Kesegowaase]]. Murders a group of Assassins individually before they're going to mass on attacking [[spoiler:Benjamin Franklin's house in Paris.]] We also see him shoot an Assassin who's downed in the trailer rather than approach him directly. Shay knows how the game works, and more importantly, how to make it work for ''him.''
38	* ConflictingLoyalty:
39	-->'''Shay:''' Life's hardest choices are ones that force you to question your own moral code.
40	* CoolBoat: The Morrigan, which has flame cannons and machine guns and is faster/more maneuverable than any of the previous playable ships (''Aquila'', ''Jackdaw'', and the ''Experto Crede'').
41	* CoolSword: Like previous Assassins, he has quite the large collection by the end (Which can include a Viking Sword and a ''Katana''), but his first sword is notable in that it's an old school hand-and-a-half sword that wouldn't look out of place in the first ''Assassin's Creed'', unlike the styles previously shown in the Colonial Period games.
42	* DarkIsEvil: Most of his clothes are dark shades or black and he happens to be a VillainProtagonist.
43	* DeadpanSnarker: Quite possibly the most snarkiest Assassin in history, prior to his defection.
44	-->'''Shay:''' Maybe Le Chasseur has [the manuscript] figured out for us.
45	-->'''Liam:''' [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba And maybe I'm Emperor of Rome.]]
46	-->'''Shay:''' Ave, Caesar!
47	* DeathByChildbirth: His mother died giving birth to him.
48	* {{Determinator}}: To the extent, he surpasses even Connor Kenway. This man will simply not give up and stay down.
49	* DefectorFromDecadence: In his eyes, he defected from an order whose blind obedience has led to nothing but the deaths of thousands.
50	* DisappearedDad: Shay originally joined the Assassins due to his father dying.
51	* TheDragon: Shay starts out as this to Achilles, being his best hatchet-man. Then he moves onto Colonel Monro. [[spoiler:Then becomes CoDragons with Charles Lee under Haytham Kenway.]]
52	* TheDreaded: Shay is described as being the most feared Assassin hunter in history. [[spoiler:Even Charles Dorian, a French Assassin, can recognize him by sight.]]
53	* DualWielding: Seems to prefer using a sword and main-gauche in hand to hand combat. Makes sense, as this was the Assassin fighting style during the Colonial Era.
54	* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: By establishing Templar control over various forts, settlements, and New York neighborhoods and building or renovating businesses in those areas, he can build up a sizable stream of income.
55	* EvilCostumeSwitch: After defecting to the Templars, Shay replaces his white Assassin robes with a black colored Templar longcoat.
56	* EvilCounterpart:
57	** To Connor. Both started out idealistic only to be exposed to the uglier side of the conflict, both were Achilles's prize students, and both were TheDreaded (Connor was this for the Templars, Shay this for the Assassins) for their role in wiping out the other side. Additionally both were the targets of Haytham's manipulation. Connor saw through it immediately, while Shay never really figured out that Haytham was using him. Also, while both were exposed to the positives and negatives of the two ideologies, Connor stayed with the Assassins because he believed in freedom above all else; Shay cared more about protecting people, which aligned nicely with the Templars' beliefs.
58	** He's also one for Edward Kenway. While Edward initially worked for the Templars, he quickly became neutral and later became one of their greatest foes. In contrast, Shay started as an Assassin, but by the epilogue of ''Rogue'', [[spoiler:he has become one of the most feared Templars of his time]].
59	* EvilMentor: According to supplemental materials, in later life he went on to teach his son and grandson the Templar business.
60	* FallenHero: Subverted during the story, as he only defected in order to stop the Assassins from doing something horrible. Played straight at the end of the story however, as he becomes a full fledged Templar and [[spoiler:is likely responsible for the French Revolution.]]
61	* FamedInStory: Juhani Otso Berg holds him in very high esteem in the modern day.
62	* FightingIrish: A darker version of the trope.
63	* FromNobodyToNightmare: He was once an average Assassin who while liked by his fellow recruits wasn't considered to be anything special. He became the most feared Templar of all time and was responsible for destroying the Brotherhood's influence in the colonies.
64	* GameplayAndStorySegregation:
65	** Shay can kill civilians unlike other protagonists in the series. Oddly enough, he never displays any requirement to do so in game and there's no indications he ever did so.
66	** Shay's potential piracy can lean into this. The story more or less treats him like he's a Privateer working in service of the Templars and the English army, but he's still more than able to attack British vessels and even soldiers in the city.
67	* GasMaskLongcoat: After taking out the first Assassin Den, 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.
68	* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:It is implied that after killing Charles Dorian, he would go on to help instigate the French Revolution, thus making him partially this to ''Unity''.]]
69	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a prominent scar above his right eye.
70	* HazyFeelTurn: It's actually ambiguous whether Shay does anything wrong by turning against the Assassins. Even those who believe them to be in the right note this could all be chalked up to a colossal series of misunderstandings. [[spoiler:By the time of the epilogue, however, he seems to have gone through a genuine FaceHeelTurn, willingly engaging in the more morally questionable actions of the Templars.]]
71	* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He's responsible for killing Adéwalé.]] He also destroys an entire Assassin Brotherhood, leaving only one man left as a form of CruelMercy [[spoiler:and out of PragmaticVillainy regarding the temples]].
72	* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Implied in the end. Adéwalé outright tells him he's become a monster, and Shay doesn't disagree.
73	* HiddenDepths: Shay turns out to have been a case of this for the Assassins. His fellow Assassins, even his friend Liam, thought of him as TheLoad of the group since he was a BrilliantButLazy thuggish street-brawler from New York who was only brought in because of his HeterosexualLifePartners relationship with Liam. Shay proves to be the most talented of the recruits and a great deal more philosophical than all of the rest put together.
74	* HighCollarOfDoom: His outfit has a very high collar.
75	* {{Hypocrite}}: Shay's motivation of joining the Templars is to stop Precursor artifacts from failing into the wrong hands and to prevent unnecessary deaths, ignoring that the Templars tend to cause even more deaths than the Assassins and they always abuse the power of the Piece of Edens. [[spoiler:Many years later, he could've just stole the Precursor Box from Charles Dorian without killing him, leaving Charles's son an orphan. Moreover, he tells Charles that the Templars are planning to start the French Revolution that will lead to the deaths of thousands of people.]]
76	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Shay accuses the Assassins for messing with powers beyond their understanding with the Pieces of Eden when the Templars are guilty of the same.
77	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His sole reason for becoming a Templar and betraying the Assassins was to stop Achilles from messing with artifacts he had no business messing with, as he does have genuine regret for his actions but sees them as necessary to prevent catastrophe.
78	* InTheHood: Played straight earlier in the game as an Assassin, and even as a Templar he continues wearing a hood with several outfits (Namely the Dark Assassin gear), though similarly to Edward Kenway, he doesn't wear it all the time. His Templar outfits subvert this.
79	* ImportantHaircut: Shay has a rough-cut hairstyle and stubble until after his betrayal of the Assassins wherein he shaves his stubble and slicks his hair back.
80	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:He has not been shown suffering any kind of consequences for his actions as a Templar. In particular, Arno never learns that he was the one to kill Charles Dorian or his implied role in starting the French Revolution (by which point Shay has fully embraced the Templars' ways, even the morally questionable ones that are similar to what prompted him to leave the Assassins), and he apparently gets off scot-free.]]
81	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Ultimately a DownplayedTrope as [[spoiler:unlike Haytham, Shay never suffers any direct consequences for his actions. In fact, he lives into old age training both his son and grandson to become Templars. The only blow he does suffer is [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Connor]] and [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity Arno]] completely undermining and subverting his efforts to grant the Templars a stranglehold on Colonial America and France respectively.]]
82	* TheLoad: {{Downplayed\|Trope}} at first as he is still an Assassin, but out of the recruits in the game he was considered the least skilled and dedicated. However it's then {{subverted\|trope}} as he proves to be much smarter and skilled than they thought, with Achilles implying that he had hoped that with time Shay could have grown into being a better Assassin.
83	* MadeOfIron: Over the course of the game, he's been shot in the back, poisoned, runs through a burning building and takes two hard falls, [[spoiler:the second of which ends up killing Liam]], but still manages to come back for more.
84	* MeaningfulName: Shay is the Anglicized form of the Gaelic ''Séaghdha'', which means "Hawk", "Patrick" comes from the Latin "Patricius" (Nobleman) and "Cormac" means Raven.
85	* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: In the beginning of the game, it is fairly obvious that the majority of his Assassin brethren do not think fondly of him. Which is greatly exemplified by how many times he is derided, belittled and undermined for his skills and character. This becomes more blatant when the other Assassins are shown to have no trust or respect for Shay, despite all of his accomplishments and already pre-established loyalty to the Creed. After the Lisbon earthquake however, his belief in the Assassins' ideology was shattered. But the final straw was when they tried to kill him for attempting to prevent further disasters[[spoiler:, and likely to cover up their involvement with the Lisbon earthquake]].
86	* MoralMyopia: Shay has a lot of objections to how the Assassins do things. He, oddly enough, fails to bring up any objections to how the Templars operate. By the epilogue (set more than a decade after the start of ''Rogue''), it's implied that he's happy to resort to mass murder to serve Templar goals.
87	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Shay has this reaction when he realizes that his actions led to the earthquake destroying Lisbon and killing thousands of innocents in the city.
88	* NeverMyFault: He accuses the Assassin's order for the Lisbon earthquake as they sent him there, but had he actually not touched the Piece of Eden when he felt it was off, nothing would have had happened. [[spoiler:Contrasts this with Achilles, who after seeing that there are Pieces of Eden which are different from what he thought they were, suggested that the Assassins just leave them be and acknowledged that maybe Shay was right. If Shay didn't start blaming him and calling him a murderer, Achilles would have probably agreed.]]
89	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His plea to Haytham to spare Achilles, seeing his defeat and the loss of the Colonial Brotherhood as a CruelMercy to him, bites him ''hard'' when Achilles takes Connor under his wing. Achilles' tutelage aids Connor in destroying the Templar Rite in Colonial America that Shay spent his life building.
90	* NobleDemon: Despite his ruthlessness, he does have a conscience.
91	* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:States this as he assassinates Charles Dorian, as he only had the box that Chevalier managed to get away from the Colonies.]]
92	* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Keeping the [[spoiler:Manuscript]] out of the hands of the Assassins was probably a good idea. Joining the Templars to exterminate the Colonial Assassins, help the British defeat the French (after spending years doing the reverse), and give [[spoiler:Haytham Kenway]] the Pieces of Eden is probably not the best course of action Shay could have undertook.
93	* OneManArmy: Like all PlayerCharacter he is this, though Shay takes it a special level in that he's ''this'' for the Assassins and regarded as a dangerous "Assassin hunter" [[NoSell who can counter and defy]] all their tactics and methods.
94	* PoorCommunicationKills:
95	** He doesn't do a great job of conveying the danger of the Precursor sites upon his return from Lisbon, being too shell shocked and shaken up to do more than hurl accusations that Achilles knew full well what would happen. Considering [[spoiler:Achilles realized Shay was right with a mere few seconds look at another site,]] a simple description on Shay's part might have convinced him and prevented his defection.
96	** A more subtle example is that it's implied Shay is among the best and brightest of the American Assassins. He's the one sent to secure the extremely important Precursor artifacts and multiple people comment on his potential. However, perhaps to keep him from getting overconfident, much of his work is downplayed and his flaws are emphasized in conversation. Part of what fuels Shay's betrayal and siding with the Templars is how he felt like an errand boy for the Assassins.
97	* {{Privateer}}: Shay is interestingly in the middle ground between Connor and Edward in that while he is able to engage in acts of piracy with his ship like Edward, the story treats him as acting in service of both the Templar Order and the English efforts.
98	* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: The game has Shay start off as an Assassin and follows him as he slowly becomes disillusioned with their cause and switch sides to the Templar Order.
99	* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: To Achilles, though Shay's probably the most moral Templar in the series.
100	* RageAgainstTheMentor: Towards Achilles and Adéwalé, both of whom he trains under before betraying the order.
101	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Wears a red and black outfit upon joining the Templars, and his own ship the ''Morrigan'' also has this color motif.
102	* RememberTheNewGuy: He was a collaborator of Haytham Kenway during his tenure as Grand Master of the Colonial Rite ''and'' a former Assassin who played a role in ThePurge, operating in the North Atlantic no less, all of which makes the lack of any prior mention of him in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' or ''Literature/AssassinsCreedForsaken'' stick out a fair bit. According to WordOfGod, in the latter case this was due to the book focusing on Haytham's life, and in the former case it was unlikely the game-makers had him planned out yet.
103	* ScarilyCompetentTracker: The premier trailer shows him tracking an Assassin through a city, a grassy field, and finally catching him on an ice bank in the GrimUpNorth. He's explicitly tasked with hunting down his own ParentalSubstitute and all his old allies.
104	-->'''Shay:''' [[ImplacableMan I reach the end of the trail.]] The air is still, and I am a hunter. [[TheDeterminator The hunt has lead me to the forgotten edges of this world.]] Seasons pass, [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain draw me deeper into the darkness,]] where I have found the truth; [[FaceHeelTurn that my redemption is found in ashes.]] [[ThePurge That I must burn away the past to set things right.]] Once an Assassin, now their pursuer, [[HeroKiller I must destroy those who I once called brother.]] DramaticGunCock '''[[MadnessMantra The air is still, and I am a hunter]]'''.
105	* SpiderSense: He can detect when Assassins are hiding nearby, though he still has to actually find them.
106	* TeamKiller: He personally kills, for understandable reasons, all his former team-mates except [[spoiler:Liam, who dies from a fall, and Achilles, who he spares]].
107	* TokenGoodTeammate: So far, the only Templar who joins the Order for a genuinely heroic motivation, rather than seeking to grab power, feeling slighted by the Assassins, or to further his career. He also tries to reason with his Assassins targets and genuinely regrets going after them. He was also the one [[spoiler:who insisted on sparing Achilles -- and in doing so, he cites a pragmatic motive[[note]]leave Achilles alive to ward other Assassins away from Precursor site meddling[[/note]] ''second'', and a moral one[[note]]"''What kind of world are we making if we cannot show mercy''?"[[/note]] ''first'']]. Compared to him, even Haytham comes off as a thug.
108	* TookALevelInJerkass: Shows shades of this in the epilogue where he [[spoiler:smugly brags to the dying Charles Dorian that the Templars plan to kickstart the French Revolution, an event which will cause many innocent deaths, in order to undo the damage Connor did to them. A far cry from the Shay who joined the Templars because he wanted to ''save'' innocent lives.]]
109	* UndyingLoyalty: Shay develops this to Colonel Monro and later [[spoiler:Haytham Kenway]].
110	* VillainProtagonist: As an anti-villain, Shay has sympathetic reasons for going against his former brothers, and genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing.
111	* WalkingArmory: Shay, with the skills of an Assassin and the resources of the Templars, 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!
112	* WellIntentionedExtremist: A DownplayedTrope. Shay's one-man war on the Assassins and assistance to the Templars results in a lot of deaths which really don't relate much to his desire to protect the innocent. What is more relevant to his goal of protection is his renovation of run-down buildings so as to improve the economic sitaution of the various locales.
113	* WhatTheHellHero: Gives an ''epic'' one to Achilles after [[spoiler:returning from causing the Lisbon Earthquake due to his orders.]]
114	** Receives them in turn by the ''truckload'' by most of his targets.
115	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: His Irish accent is atrociously awful, rivalling Creator/RichardGere in ''Film/TheJackal'' for worst attempt at an Irish accent. It's particularly jarring when contrasted with Liam, who was at least voiced by a native born Irishman.
116	* WildCard:
117	-->'''Shay:''' 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.'''
118	* WishFulfillment: By the end of the game, he's a [[CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority renegade]] Master Assassin who wears a BadassLongcoat, carries an AceCustom air rifle with an underslung GrenadeLauncher, captains the most powerful CoolBoat in the hemisphere, [[BeenThereShapedHistory pals around]] with historical figures, is a leading figure in the AncientConspiracy that runs the Colonies, and draws a sizable income from his New York City holdings. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor He only had to suffer massive trauma and kill most of his closest friends to get there.]]
119	* WouldHitAGirl: Has no issues fighting and/or killing female Assassins.
120	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Shay joins the Templars and plays a major role in the destruction of the Colonial Assassins because rather than listen to his warnings about the dangers of Isu artifacts like the one he accidently activated that caused the Lisbon earthquake, they try to kill him after he tries to steal the manuscript containing their locations from Achilles.
121	* WorkingClassHero: A rare version for a Templar. But as a first-generation Irish Immigrant and the son of a sailor, Shay is especially keen on making things safe for ordinary people.
122	* YouMonster: [[spoiler:Adéwalé calls Shay this as he dies, and it actually appears to have an effect on him.]]
123	* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Shay has no problem killing armed men or acting as a privateer but his first two assignments for the Assassins are killing helpless old men, one of whom is already dying and is George Washington's brother. He has this reaction when the Assassins all but high-five him.
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126	[[folder:Christopher Gist]]
127	!!Christopher Gist
128	[[quoteright:305:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gist_screenshot.png]]
129	-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RichardDumont (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Sergey Chikhachev (Russian)[[/note]]
130
131	Shay's quartermaster, an accomplished surveyor and frontiersman who has connections to some of the most powerful men in Colonial America.
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134	* AffablyEvil: Gist displays none of Colonel Monro's more noble qualities. He also twists the knife about Shay's Assassin past, bringing up his Templar victims. Gist, otherwise, acts like Shay's best friend.
135	* TheAlcoholic: Likes to drink a lot and judges other people by their company when drunk.
136	* AllThereInTheManual: Gist doesn't reveal his Templar allegiance to Shay until they've been working together for a year, but this trivia was actually available to the player earlier on. During Shay's time as an Assassin, you unlock an Animus Database entry on Jack Weeks that reveals Gist as a Templar long before you even meet the man.
137	* BoisterousBruiser: A rare example for a Templar.
138	* ConsummateLiar: Despite being a former Assassin and living with him for a year on a ship, Shay never picks up Gist is a Templar until told otherwise.
139	* TheDragon: To Shay. Played with as it seems very likely Gist is there to watch over Shay, at least until he formally joins the Templars.
140	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: He was a famous surveyor who in the early part of the French and Indian War saved George Washington's life.
141	* LargeHam: Every time he talks you'd think he was proclaiming things to the entire ship.
142	* TheMole: Played with. Gist's position as Quartermaster on Shay's ship with him picking the crew is awfully suspicious in hindsight. Alluded to when Gist mentions he would have killed Shay if the latter hadn't joined the Templars.
143	* SecretTestOfCharacter: Gist was Shay's friend for over a year before revealing his Templar allegiance.
144	* SharpDressedMan: Wears a slightly battered suit underneath that longcoat of his.
145	* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Shay first meets him when he saves Gist from being hanged by Assassins, canonically by shooting the rope.
146	* WorthyOpponent: Sees Hope Jensen as this, telling Shay he admired her for her loyalty when they discuss her following the mission "Caress of Steel."
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149	[[folder:Colonel George Monro]]
150	!!Colonel George Monro
151	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/acrg_george_monro_render.png]]
152	-->'''Voiced by:''' Graham Cuthbertson (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Vladimir Gerasimov (Russian)[[/note]]
153
154	A Colonel in the British Army and a member of the Templar Order who takes an interest in Shay.
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156	* AntiVillain: He is easily the nicest Templar in the series, and is utterly sincere in his efforts to establish a beneficent OneWorldOrder that will protect people from chaos.
157	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Shay is exceptionally loyal to him because George went out of his way to save his life and give him a second chance]].
158	* ColonelBadass: A colonel of the Royal Army who leads from the front and is quite capable in holding his own in personal combat. Of course he's nowhere near the OneManArmy Shay is due to not being as young, but what normal man is, anyway?
159	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Shay rescues him from a burning building but he ends up dying after a brief exchange]].
160	* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: He sports this; it makes him look quite sinister, but he's actually one of the nicer Templars.
161	* {{Foil}}: Monro seems to be designed to be the complete opposite of Achilles when it comes to his relationship with Shay. Achilles is [[ConsummateProfessional cold and distant]], having almost no personal relationship with Shay, and only appearing to him when he has a mission to send Shay out for. Monro by comparison is AFatherToHisMen, quite warm to Shay, and trusts him without fail. [[spoiler:Monro inspires so much loyalty out of Shay that his death is the final push Shay needs to join the Templars.]]
162	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: His unsuccessful defense of Fort William Henry in 1757 served as the inspiration for ''Literature/TheLastOfTheMohicans.''
163	* TheMentor: To Shay after he joins the Templars up until his death.
164	* MentorOccupationalHazard: Given that he's Shay's mentor and dies in ''Last of the Mohicans'', his death shouldn't be too surprising.
165	* PatrickStewartSpeech: A rare example given by a villain. Colonel Monro talks about how the Templars are fighting for freedom too, freedom from hunger and want and disease. It's pretty convincing if you're an economist, and also if you grew up in poverty like Shay did.
166	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His coat has a similar design and motif to that of Shay's Templar outfit. As the latter is described as a uniform, this may be justified.
167	* StealthMentor: From his very first scene, Monro goes out of his way in trying to mold Shay into the ideals of becoming a Templar, right down to encouraging him revitalizing the colonies in a way that would directly increase the Templars' influence.
168	* VillainsNeverLie: Colonel Monro never directly lies to Shay. However, everything he says is designed to put him at ease despite being in the hands of the Assassin's worst enemies.
169	* VisionaryVillain: Speaks of the Templar way as paving a bright new future for humanity.
170	* VocalDissonance: For a grizzled officer of his age, experience and build, his voice is surprisingly soft and gentle. He sounds more like a preacher than someone whose job revolves around shouting orders over the din of battle.
171	* WorthyOpponent: He speaks of General Montcalm in these terms, chiding Shay for insulting him, stating that Montcalm gave him good terms and treated him with honor.
172	[[/folder]]
173
174	[[folder:Jack Weekes]]
175	!!Jack Weekes
176	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jack_weeks_foto.jpg]]
177	-->'''Voiced by:''' Ralph Prosper (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexander Gavrilin (Russian)[[/note]]
178
179	A member of Haytham Kenway's Inner Sanctum. He's a high ranking African-American Master Templar.
180	----
181	* AgentProvocateur: He and Shay [[spoiler:serve as this to shut down the gangs of Hope Jensen. They stage several heists while wearing gang colours, forcing the English to move their militia against them]].
182	* BatmanGambit: Comes up with a smart plan to shut down Hope Jensen's organized crime support base.
183	* BlackAndNerdy: Has this sort of personality.
184	* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Averted. Jack is first seen at Lawrence Washington's garden party at Mount Vernon, in a conference with Washington, Samuel Smith, and James Wardrop, making it seem like he will be one of Shay's targets along with the other three. Jack's the only one of the four to live until the end of the game.
185	* FalseFlagOperation: Frames Hope's gang for robbing the military of their payroll.
186	* CoolShades[=/=]SinisterShades: Sports a gold-rimmed green tinted pair of spectacles.
187	* TheSmartGuy: Has this role in the Templars, despite all of them being geniuses of one fashion or another.
188	* TokenMinority: Jack's position is undoubtedly earned but his race is rather noticeable in a group of otherwise upperclass white 18th century Englishmen. A JustifiedTrope as the Templars have been depicted as race-blind as early as the original ''Assassin's Creed.''
189	[[/folder]]
190
191	[[folder:Lawrence Washington]]
192	!!Lawrence Washington
193	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lawrence_wahington.png]]
194	-->'''Voiced by:''' Harry Standjofski (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Oleg Virozub (Russian)[[/note]]
195
196	A Virginia businessman, landowner and slaveowner, Lawrence Washington is a Master Templar who laid the foundations of the Order in the British American colonies. He is the elder brother of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington.
197	----
198	* BigBrotherInstinct: Dearly loves George and insists to his fellow Templars that they exclude him from Templar business.
199	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: How he's presented to Shay, special emphasis is placed on him being a slaveowner(a business that his brother inherited only to end by manumission in his will).
200	* CommandingCoolness: Aside from having a pretty successful military career, Lawrence also managed to use the distraction of the 1751 Haiti earthquake to sneak into a Assassin camp and steal two Precursor artifacts without being spotted. [[HandicappedBadass Note he was suffering from tuberculosis at the time]].
201	* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:He's actually grateful to Shay to give him a quick death rather than the prolonged illness of tuberculosis. While still an Assassin, Shay laments to Liam how unsatisfying it was to kill a frail, sick man]].
202	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Lawrence Washington was George's brother and the two had a close relationship. In his retirement, Washington kept a portrait of Lawrence in his study, a place of honour excluded to other close friends and relatives.
203	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: He is dying of tuberculosis (his cause of death in real-life) [[spoiler:when the Assassin Shay Cormac descends on him)]].
204	* KickTheDog: While in Haiti in 1751, he followed the Haitian Assassin Vendredi to a cave, but soon after the earthquake struck the island. He found Vendredi pinned under a rock and promised to free him in exchange for the location of Assassin Mentor François Mackandal. Vendredi agreed, but Lawrence slit his throat instead after learning the location of the Assassin's base.
205	* NoRespectGuy: Although he is the original head of the Templars in the American Colonies, he feels that he isn't respected by Reginald Birch for his accomplishments in recruiting and setting up the Colonial Rite simply because he has not found a Piece of Eden, which Birch is obsessed with. Birch even berates him in one letter for basically being a massive idiot and that he is sending Colonel Monro to assist him while telling him that Monro is his better in every way. After stealing the Precursor Box and manuscript from the Haiti, Lawrence hopes that Birch will finally acknowledge his accomplishments.
206	* ValuesDissonance: Lawrence is a slave-owner but seems to be, otherwise, like a decent person. His brother, at least, ended the family business. [[invoked]]
207	* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Lawrence tells Shay that the other Templars have already scattered and he anticipated his arrival as a distraction for them to make an exit]].
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Samuel Smith]]
211	!!Samuel Smith
212	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/samuel.jpg]]
213	-->'''Voiced by:''' Alain Goulem (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Alexey Aptovtsev (Russian)[[/note]]
214
215	One of Shay's Templar Targets in his time as an Assassin. He serves as the Colonial Templars treasurer.
216	----
217	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Is the Templar's treasurer and staggeringly wealthy.
218	* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Reversed in that it's a meaningless Assassin victory. Killing Samuel Smith does nothing as the Templar's assets just go to someone else. The Assassins still attempt to play it off as a great victory.
219	** They do, however, recover the box. Which is a ''much'' bigger deal.
220	* NonActionGuy: Shay complains to Liam about how killing a guy who can barely hold a sword is hardly heroic. Liam merely insists that it has to be done.
221	* ThisCannotBe: States this verbatim as Shay assassinates him.
222	* ZeroEffortBoss: Just stands there cowering while Shay murders him.
223	[[/folder]]
224
225	[[folder:James Wardrop]]
226	!!James Wardrop
227	[[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_wardrop_render_acrg.png]]
228	-->'''Voiced by:''' Vincent Hoss-Desmarais (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Oleg Shcherbinin (Russian)[[/note]]
229
230	One of Shay's Templar Targets in his time as an Assassin and according to Kesegowaase, responsible for several war crimes against Native tribes.
231	----
232	* AssholeVictim: Is presented as such to Shay by Liam. Subverted by the fact his dying thoughts are worries about the Colonies and its people.
233	* EvilColonialist: According to the Assassins, Kesegowaase and Liam, Wardrop had a reputation for rooting out native peoples from their ancestral land, the Assassins also have proof of his involvement in "countless massacres".
234	* HiddenDepths: Is presented as a monster by Liam. James, if nothing else, seems to be worried about the (European) people of the Americas.
235	* JerkassHasAPoint: His last words really stick with Shay because they're fairly hard to refute if you take a literalist view of the Assassin's creed:
236	-->'''James Wardrop:''' If everything is permitted, then no one is safe.
237	* MotiveRant: A dying one which says the Templars are the only people who actually give a shit about ruling people decently versus every other ruler out there. Also, that the Assassins are doing nothing but harm to the innocent. His LastWords disturb Shay greatly.
238	[[/folder]]
239
240	[[folder:Haytham Kenway*]]
241	!!Haytham Kenway
242	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedHaythamKenway
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:William Johnson*]]
246	!!William Johnson
247	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedIIITheTemplars
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Charles Lee*]]
251	!!Charles Lee
252	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedIIITheTemplars
253	[[/folder]]
254
255	!The Assassins
256
257	[[folder:Achilles Davenport*]]
258	!!Achilles Davenport
259	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedIIITheAssassins
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:Adéwalé*]]
263	!!Adéwalé
264	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlagTheAssassins
265	[[/folder]]
266
267	[[folder:Liam O'Brien]]
268	!!Liam O'Brien
269	[[quoteright:336:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/liam_obrien.png]]
270	-->'''Voiced by:''' Julian Casey (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Denis Bespaly (Russian)[[/note]]
271
272	A member of the Assassins and childhood friend of Shay who originally introduced him to the Order.
273	----
274	* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: His gun tutorial begins with him pointing a flintlock pistol right at Shay's chest, with his finger on the trigger. Ladies and gentlemen, your firearms instructor.
275	* DeusExitMachina: He accompanies Shay on most of his missions in the early parts of the game. However, when it comes time to go to the Precursor site in Lisbon, he is away on business. This leaves Shay to go alone and therefore have no one share his perspective of the danger of the Precursor sites.
276	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Dies after falling off a glacier with Shay in the Arctic Precursor Temple.]]
277	* TheDragon: To Achilles, after Shay's defection. [[spoiler:By the time Achilles is able to mount an expedition to the Arctic Temple, Liam is his only surviving lieutenant, and even he doesn't survive the events there.]]
278	* DragonInChief: Shay's final opponent in ''Rogue'', rather than Achilles himself, who ends up dealing with Haytham instead. [[spoiler:Liam is also a lot more enthusiastic about the Arctic Temple than Achilles is, who by this time has realized that Shay was right about the Precursor sites all along.]]
279	* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:Shay puts his hood up after he expires.]]
280	* FightingIrish: A more straightforward and affable version than Shay.
281	* TheGunslinger: While concept art has him wielding a very large axe, and a British soldier even describes him as "a man with a big axe" within the game, in the game proper, however, he seems to favor pistols at long range, being the one to teach Shay about guns and the final encounter involves him trying to snipe Shay from a distance.
282	* HeroKiller: Mortally wounds George Munro and leaves him to die in a burning house [[spoiler:and makes off with the Manuscript]] while Shay is busy dealing with Kesegowaase.
283	* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: It's brief, but Liam holds Adéwalé in high regard; considering him a LivingLegend for all of the work he's managed to accomplish in the West Indies.
284	* NumberTwo: To Achilles: he was his first recruit to the Colonial Brotherhood, and Shay even tells him that everyone thinks he will be Achilles successor as Mentor.
285	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Nothing good, for the Assassins and Shay, resulted from Liam bringing Shay into the fold.
286	* VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler:While not a villain per se, before dying he tells Shay that he hopes the world he's fighting for is a good one, and even appears to give up the book in his death throes.]]
287	* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Shay were very close to one another before he joined the Templars.
288	* WhatTheHellHero: Is particularly angry at Shay for what he perceives as a betrayal of their Order.
289	[[/folder]]
290
291	[[folder:Kesegowaase]]
292	!!Kesegowaase
293	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kesegowaase.png]]
294	-->'''Voiced by:''' Danny Blanco-Hall (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Vladimir Rybalchenko (Russian)[[/note]]
295
296	A First Nations Abenaki mercenary turned Assassin. Kesegowaase is heavily involved in the war effort against the British during the French and Indian War. He is ruthless, even by Assassin standards, and has a massive number of allies.
297	----
298
299	* AssholeVictim: Kesegowaase did once hold an entire Oneida village hostage for the sake of getting special armor, broke a promise to let the British go after they were defeated and attempted to massacre them, and pillaged Albany because [[spoiler:he got scarred by Shay]].
300	* BadassNative: To be more exact he's a member of the Abenaki Algonquin tribe and is fairly badass.
301	* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: His Assassin outfit evokes all of these.
302	* GetBackHereBoss: Kesegowaase attempts to be one of these by constantly keeping his distance from Shay. Canonically, Shay TookAThirdOption and gunned him down.
303	* DualWielding: Dual wields two tomahawks.
304	* {{Expy}}: Considering his nature as a brutal Native American antagonist who supports the French in the Seven Years War, Kesegowaase could be called this game's answer to Magua from ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans''. Just as Magua did, he leads a surprise attack on the British as they're leaving Fort William Henry in defeat, and while he doesn't kill Col. Munro himself, he ensures that Liam does. This is alluded to in his database entry with Violet saying that his story would make a nice movie, to which Melanie quips that it's been done. Many times.
305	* FourStarBadass: Shay says Kesegowaase has a gigantic number of Native American warriors under his command, more or less every one allied to the French, and some more besides. He uses them to devastating effect.
306	* GoodScarsEvilScars: Kesegowaase is heavily scarred from [[spoiler:Shay dropping a barrel on gunpowder on his face.]]
307	* HiredGuns: Was a mercenary for the French before joining the Assassins.
308	* InTheHood: Wears a hood like most Assassins, though he only has it on while on a mission.
309	* KickTheDog: Kesegowaase sets up an ambush with the French to massacre a bunch of British troops which had been allowed safe passage after surrendering. This would be forgivable if not for the fact it's implied this was their plan all along. Kesegowaase also arranges for the Oneida tribe to be attacked in hopes of finding some First Civilization armor, likely partially due to the Iroquois/Algonquin mutual emnity, but still pretty dickish. He also sacks Albany in revenge for his face. Really, as Assassins go, he's kind of an asshole.
310	* MeaningfulName: Kesegowaase means "swift" in Algonquin and he's indeed pretty fast in battle.
311	* NoKillLikeOverkill: Shay, canonically, used a Templar Puckle Gun (a.k.a a 18th century Machine Gun) to kill him.
312	* TheSavageIndian: He fits every requirement of the trope to a T. He's a brutal former First Nations Abenaki/Algonquin mercenary turned Assassin with a violent streak that's extreme even by Assassin standards.
313	* TribalFacepaint: His upper face is painted red.
314	* TheUnfettered: He can be pretty ruthless, as shown when he has British troops massacred and an Oneida village held hostage. The Assassins turn a blind eye to his actions despite his blatant violations of the Brotherhood's tenets due to not wanting to harm relations between the Brotherhood and the natives.
315	* YouMonster: Kesegowaase drips with hatred for Shay with his dying breath.
316	[[/folder]]
317
318	[[folder:Hope Jensen]]
319	!!Hope Jensen
320	[[quoteright:314:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hope_jensen.png]]
321	-->'''Voiced by:''' Patricia Summersett (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Ramilya Iskander (Russian)[[/note]]
322
323	Personally trained by Achilles, Hope Jensen is a sly, resourceful Assassin who has control over New York's underworld.
324	----
325
326	* ApologeticAttacker: Apologizes to Shay before [[spoiler:taking his gas mask and leaving him in a room filled with poison gas to die.]]
327	* ArbitrarySkepticism: In an AlternateHistory universe when SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology objects and conspiracy theories are accepted by both Assassins and Templars, Hope finds the notion [[spoiler:that messing about with some Artifacts can cause an earthquake to be ridiculous, stating men don't cause earthquakes. This is absolutely true for the real world and the Muggles within the Creed Universe, but it makes no sense for either Assassins or Templars to reject the possibility]].
328	* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler:After shooting Shay out of her skylight, she could have killed him easily, but instead she takes away his gas mask and unnecessarily starts a puzzle chase where she throws several chemicals towards Shay. Though it's noted that may have been been because she was reluctant to commit to actually killing him.]]
329	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Has a Hidden Blade in her concept art, but will only use it if Shay catches up to her at the end of their chase.
330	* BookEnds: When we first meet her, she says that it's a shame Shay is always late, because he has so much potential. The last thing she says to him after he kills her is it's a shame he betrayed them, because he had such potential.
331	* BrooklynRage: Like Shay she was also born in New York.
332	* FriendlyEnemy: Seems to understand why Shay left the Assassins, and seems to hold no grudge against him during their fight.
333	* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Wears a lot of purple.
334	* GunsAkimbo: Briefly wields dual pistols [[spoiler:to shoot out the skylight Shay's spying on her from, making him fall into the room.]]
335	* HappilyAdopted: Hope was adopted by a German family when her parents died as a baby, and she was quite happy with them.
336	* InTheHood: Her outfit has a hood, but she rarely has it on.
337	* MasterPoisoner: She is quite knowledgeable about chemistry and comes up with several deadly poison gases which she mixes in factories in New York, [[spoiler:she uses them against you when you come after her, including one that slows down your heart beat if you stand still]].
338	* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: What her job is in New York City. She's managed to bring most of the city's underworld under her control. Subverted in the fact the gangsters under her control are decidedly less than friendly to the common people.
339	* TheQueenpin: She runs the New York Criminal Underworld and uses it as an information network and as a poison gas factory. Unfortunately her goons are a bunch of cutthroat criminals who torment the populace, while she herself does nothing to stop them.
340	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Talks in much more formal and eloquent fashion than her fellow Assassins. Given she's the smart one, it's almost certainly intentional.
341	* SelfMadeMan: Her adoptive parents became rich from her stepfather's business ventures, but they were never truly accepted amongst the wealthy and after he died Hope and her stepmother were left with nothing.
342	* SexyMentor: To Shay.
343	* ShipTease: There are a few sparks that fly between her and Shay. Steve Piovesan, Shay's voice actor, believes that Shay does have feelings for Hope, [[spoiler:which is why he took her death the hardest out of his former comrades, even more so than Liam.]]
344	* TheSmartGirl: She is the brains of the Colonial Assassins, being able to talk shop with Benjamin Franklin and later reconstruct one of his experiments. In addition, she knows a lot about chemistry and crafts poisons for the Assassins.
345	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Is the only important female character in the past era. DownplayedTrope as we see many female Assassins in her employ.
346	* SoProudOfYou: After being mortally wounded by Shay, she comforts the grieving Templar by assuring him that the success of his assassination only meant that she has taught him well as a teacher, and that he is a student she can be proud of. Unlike Haytham Kenway's backhanded final compliments to Connor, the kindness and pride of these last words were quite genuine.
347	---> '''Shay:''' [[ApologeticAttacker Oh Hope]], [[TryingNotToCry I am so sorry, I didn't mean to...]]
348	---> '''Hope:''' I trained you to do this; I expected nothing less. You had so much potential... Oh such a pity...
349	* UndyingLoyalty: To Achilles and the Assassins.
350	* UnresolvedSexualTension: There's an implied attraction between herself and Shay.
351	[[/folder]]
352
353	[[folder:Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye]]
354	!!Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye
355	[[quoteright:325:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chevalier.png]]
356	-->'''Voiced by:''' Marcel Jeannin (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Denis Stroyev (Russian)[[/note]]
357
358	A Quebecois nobleman and fur trader out of his element, Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye explored and tamed the American wilderness and later joined the Assassin Brotherhood.
359	----
360	* AristocratsAreEvil: From Shay's perspective, since he is a pretty big jerk.
361	* BadassBookworm: Badass and well-educated.
362	* BoldExplorer: Captain Cook holds him in high regard for this reason.
363	* TheCaptain: Is the captain of the ''Gerfaut.''
364	* CombatPragmatist: He makes his stand in the middle of a dense field of icebergs that's covered in thick fog, to boot. The former doesn't affect the ''Gerfault'' which, unlike the ''Morrigan'', is massive enough to ram her way through without slowing down[[note]]you actually void your OneHundredPercentCompletion of this memory if you hit any iceberg during the battle[[/note]]. The latter also doesn't affect the ''Gerfault'' and her mortar batteries, but makes it difficult for the ''Morrigan'' to return fire due to bad visibility. In other words, he maximizes his own advantages while neutralizing his opponent's greatest strengths: speed and agility.
365	* CurbstompBattle: Canonically he didn't land a single hit on Shay during their final duel, and neither did any of Chevalier's crew. Before that, the ''Morrigan'' managed to outmaneuvre the ''Gerfaut'' so deftly she didn't hit any of the many, many icebergs in the dense field they were fighting in.
366	* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When Shay assassinates him he simply laughs and calls him "cabbage farmer" one last time while telling him he was just a distraction for Liam and Achilles, before trying to attack him one last time.]]
367	* DrillSergeantNasty: He's a pretty big jerk alright.
368	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: As per the historical record, everyone refers to him as "Chevalier."
369	* FrenchJerk:
370	** Belittles Shay nearly all the time, referring to him as "a cabbage farmer", and at the beginning of the game they even get into a fist fight.
371	** He also refers to the ''Morrigan'' as a piece of junk compared to the ''Gerfaut.''
372	** During their fight after Shay becomes a Templar, Vérendrye spends it mocking Shay by stating that he'll be forgotten by history while he'll be remembered forever for his deeds.
373	* HairTriggerTemper: Is very ill-tempered, with Shay easily capable of pushing his buttons.
374	* HiddenDepths: He may be an elitist, abrasive JerkAss, but he's still an ardent Assassin who believes in their cause. Unlike young Shay, he takes his duties very seriously and has deep reverence for the ancient Creed. He is also disgusted by royal ships firing on civilian fishing boats, and eager for Shay to attack them. Had Shay not rubbed him the wrong way, Chevalier could perhaps be perceived as a more noble, albeit harsh, figure.
375	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye was a fur trader who may have been one of the first Europeans to see the Rocky Mountains in present day Wyoming alongside his father and brother.
376	* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Shoots Shay in the back when he attempts to leave the Homestead with the Manuscript, and tells him as such during their fight, though since Shay can't speak French he doesn't realize it until Liam tells him so before their fight.]]
377	* InTheHood: Has his on while on Assassin business.
378	* ItsPersonal: Shay loathes Verendrye and while the other Assassins he likes and regrets opposing, Verendrye is someone he looks forward to killing. [[spoiler:He personally spites him by throwing his body into the Arctic Ocean]].
379	* MyMasterRightOrWrong: One of the first things he says is declaring that as an Assassin he must obey his mentor ''without question''.
380	* RammingAlwaysWorks: Seems to subscribe to this mindset. His ship, the ''Gerfaut'', is one of only a handful of Man o' Wars that mount a naval ram, and in his BossBattle you'll be spending as much time dodging his vessel's charges as you'll be running from its mortar barrages.
381	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: A commandant in the French Navy capable of slaughtering an entire deck of British soldiers with sword and gun alone.
382	* SwordAndGun: Uses a sword in conjunction with a pistol in combat.
383	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Up until Shay joins the Templars, it's pretty clear that there's no love lost between them.
384	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:When all of the Homestead Assassins are after Shay, most of them are shooting at him or sending their guards in. Louis is ''mortaring the hillside.'']]
385	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Considers both Shay and the ''Morrigan'' to be beneath him, which proves to be a big mistake.
386	* WeNeedADistraction: [[spoiler:The whole point of his final battle with Shay is to keep the latter busy while Achilles and Liam forge ahead to the Arctic precursor site. It's unknown if he GotVolunteered or actually volunteered himself, but either way he pulls a HeroicSacrifice of sorts from the Assassins' perspective.]]
387	* XanatosGambit: His final encounter with Shay is one. If he wins, Shay and the Templar Grandmaster are dead and the Assassins just chalked up a huge victory. If he loses, he still bought his comrades valuable time to complete their objectives without Templar interference.
388	[[/folder]]
389
390	[[folder:The Last Target ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]]
391	!!Charles Dorian
392	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedUnityTheAssassins
393	[[/folder]]
394
395	!Other Characters
396
397	[[folder:Captain James Cook]]
398	!!Captain James Cook
399	[[quoteright:282:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_cook.jpg]]
400	-->'''Voiced by:''' Shawn Campbell (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Daniel Eldarov (Russian)[[/note]]
401
402	One of the greatest travelers and explorers of the 18th Century.
403	----
404	* BoldExplorer: He's most famous for his exploration of the Pacific Ocean and its islands.
405	* BrokenPedestal: Minor case with Chevalier. Cook knows him only as a famous explorer and is slightly let down when someone who's actually met the man describes him as a "cantankerous bastard."
406	* CannotTellALie: The main reason he hasn't been offered with Templar membership is that he's incapable of keeping a secret.
407	* TheCaptain: Of a highly impressive Man-O'War that makes Shay jealous.
408	* EntertaininglyWrong: Being LockedOutOfTheLoop regarding the Templar-Assassin conflict, he guesses that Shay and his companions are agents of the Board of Admiralty. They say they couldn't tell him even if they were, which he takes as confirmation.
409	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: James Cook was the first recorded European to map the eastern coastline of Australia, visit Hawaii, and circumnavigate New Zealand.
410	* TheSmartGuy: His knowledge of codes and ciphers proves valuable to Haytham and Shay in tracking down Assassins.
411	[[/folder]]
412
413	[[folder:Benjamin Franklin*]]
414	!! Benjamin Franklin
415	-->See Characters/AssassinsCreedIIIAmericanRevolutionaries
416	[[/folder]]
417
418	[[folder:Le Chasseur]]
419	!! Le Chasseur
420	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/le_chaseur.jpg]]
421	-->'''Voiced by:''' Chimwemwe Miller (English)[[note]]'''Other Languages''':Radik Mukhametzyanov (Russian)[[/note]]
422
423	An Afro-French spy working for the French government, and an ally of the Assassins. He ends up being Shay's first major kill upon joining the Templars.
424	----
425
426	* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Is the first Assassin-affiliated target to die at Shay's hand.
427	* DualWielding: Wields a sword and dagger in tandem in combat.
428	* FrenchJerk: Subverted, unlike his acquaintance Chevalier he's not that unpleasant a guy.
429	* PuzzleBoss: Turns into one if you're out for OneHundredPercentCompletion. His mission's optional objective is to defeat him without taking damage, which requires a very specific sequence of attacks and counters. [[TrialAndErrorGameplay You're unlikely to succeed without multiple reloads]], unless you realize the easiest way to get it done is [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim to simply shoot him dead]].
430	* SadisticChoice: He forces one on Shay, see below.
431	* UndyingLoyalty: To the Assassins, telling Shay that he has to kill him or else he'll inform Achilles and the others of his survival.
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Context Characters / AssassinsCreedRogue