History WMG / AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag

[[WMG: The PlayerCharacter R-L's Name]]
Is maybe a play on pronunciation on his/her name as Aurel or Aurelia, the names derived from Aureus meaning "golden" in Latin. Maybe R-L has [[AuraVision Eagle Vision]] like Desmond?
* Maybe, but if s/he does, s/he certainly doesn't know it.

[[WMG: Edward's first language is Welsh.]]
The real decline of the language didn't occur until around the 1800s. His father taught him English during his teen years.

[[WMG: The game will be packed with references to ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.]]
Self-explanatory.
* One of the trophies/achievements early in the game is titled "A Pirate's Life for Me", which is a reference to the theme song for the original Disney amusement park ride and also gets frequent mentions in the films.
* The best reference is that toward the end of the game, Abstergo Entertainment plans to use all the data mined about Edward Kenway to create a game called "Devils of the Caribbean."

[[WMG:''Assassin's Creed IV'' will feature Edward teaching Haytham because the present day character was related to Haytham's younger sibling/half-sibling]]
Now that Desmond's saga is over with the new central character is looking to the past and finding Edward and will not be related to Connor directly.
* According to the novel ''Assassin's Creed: Forsaken'', Haytham never had a younger sibling. Although he ''did'' have an older sister...
** Also WordOfGod has stated that by this point, Abstergo has upgraded the Animus to the point where the user no longer has to be related to the person whose memories they're viewing, so the new guy may not be related to Edward at all.

[[WMG:Edward's home base will be...]]
* Your ship. Let's face it, it basically is the pirate's overall home. Just step away from the wheel and manage things from the captain's cabin.
* A small [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII Monteriggioni]]-style pirate port that you serve as "governor" of.
** Corfirmed, Nassau will serve as the Monteriggioni of the game.
*** Jossed. Nassau is a port in the game, but you get another island called "Great Inagua" that serves as the base.

[[WMG: Edward's crew will be LockedOutOfTheLoop.]]
As Blackbeard asserts in the trailer, it is unwise to meddle in his personal affairs. There are probably only a handful of high-ranking confidants that know the truth of the Assassin/Templar conflict, while the remainder of the crew are your average buccaneer who either don't give a rat's arse, decide to not to get involved, or are simply ignorant of the goings-on behind the closed door of the captain's cabin.

Instead, they will be other captains in your fleet. Rather than having special footsoldiers to summon in combat, you summon whole ships to assist you in naval combat.
* Jossed. There are no recruits for Assassins, but plenty of crew to get

[[WMG:Edward's ship will fight the Aquila, leaving it in the state Connor found it in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Assassin's Creed III]]''.]]
* Extremely unlikely. We know the game takes place in the days of Blackbeard, meaning it takes place at least before 1718 (the year of his death). The Aquila didn't get built until 1749 and didn't end up in its decrepit state until 1768. Unless Mr. Haytham impressed Blackbeard ''really'' early in his life and lived ''extremely'' long, it's highly unlikely that he was involved in devastating the Aquila like that. Same goes for the ship itself; I highly doubt whatever ship he uses would last 50+ years without getting replaced, decommissioned, or reconstructed so many times that the remaining original materials don't really constitute "the ship" anymore.
** Also the reason that ship was in that state was because Haytham destroyed it.

[[WMG:Edward is a VillainProtagonist.]]
Consider that, in the launch trailer, Edward seems to be a bit more cold and have looser morals (killing a target then walking out with his lady) than all of the previous Assassins combined. So much that even Blackbeard is scared of him. Not to mention that Haytham took on the directly opposite ideology. It's possible that Edward will hit this trope at some point. Also, it might make a good parallel to Haytham's relation with Connor.
* Since the game is being made, in-universe, by one of Abstergo's subsidiaries, the chances for this are either going up or we're sniffing the first clues of a [[EnemyMine Templar-Assassin alliance]] in the face of [[spoiler: Juno's]] escape.

[[WMG:There will be a mission that takes place in the Royal Opera House in London.]]
Haytham Kenway mentions in the opening level in the third game that his father brought him to the Royal Opera House when Haytham was very young, and that he remembers very little of it. There could be a mission in Black Flag that shows this, perhaps even an assassination mission. This would serve as an effective call back to ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII Assassin's Creed III]]''.
* He took him to see the same opera, not to the same theater.
* Due to the nature of the Animus, (you can't follow the older ancestor after they've conceived the next generation of your bloodline) that would only be possible if the source of Edward Kenway's genetic memories came from the descendants of Haytham's younger sibling(s), of which there are none.
** There is a way around this. Subject 16 was descended from Ezio but wasn't related to Desmond by anyone else because Ezio had more than one child with different women throughout his life. This is entirely possible with Edward see above WMG.
** Wrong. Ezio had two children with Sofia, a boy and a girl, who we see in ''AC: Embers''. Clay is descended from one and Desmond from the other.
*** Clay was said to have been born from an illegitimate child Ezio conceived sometime during his life, giving him "far fewer" memories of Ezio than Desmond has access to.
** [[spoiler:There's not a mission per se, but the epilogue does show Edward taking his children to see the Beggar's Opera.]]

[[WMG:Music/HenryRollins will be in this game somehow.]]
How can you have something named Music/BlackFlag without Rollins?
* Obviously, he'd be the gung-ho, loose cannon gunner of the crew. '''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond BLOW IT ALL UP!]]'''

[[WMG:Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts will be a Templar pirate.]]
The most successful pirate of his time, Black Bart has plenty of traits that would make him a candidate for the Templar Order during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy. He was much more bloodthirsty than his peers, and was a FauxAffablyEvil gentleman who dressed in fine clothes and jewelry. Plus, we know that one of his prized possessions was a bejeweled crucifix, so the iconography is there. And think about the contrast between rakish, unkempt pirate turned Assassin Edward and [[ShadowArchetype groomed, fashionable pirate Templar Bartholomew.]]
* Partially Jossed, Roberts isn't a Templar, but he is [[spoiler:the BigBad.]]

[[WMG:The player character will turn on Abstergo.]]
If they are merely hired by Abstergo they will relive both Edward Kenway's memories and some of Desmond's that has been hacked back in by Erudito. Find out that Abstergo are the Templars and turn against them as a result. If they were full members of Abstergo they will use stealthy and risking tactics to help out the remaining Assassin's out in the world. Either way using the animus will bite Abstergo in the ass again.
* [[spoiler:Played with. The player is used by John for a long time and granted the means to be as hack-happy as one wants, but given how much of a blank slate the player character is, it's up to AlternateCharacterInterpretation on whether it's a deliberate anti-Abstergo effort or if it's just an employee dicking around with coworkers.]]
* [[spoiler:Well, at the end of that, it seems that R-L will be an ally of the Assassins now.]]

[[WMG:''ACIV'' will involve a Templar Cabal of Pirate Hunters.]]
Since the protagonist is a pirate, nothing more fitting than Templar conspiracy of Pirate-''hunters'' [and men of the royal navy] who seek to bring forth the EndOfAnAge of the golden age of piracy [and given the period the game is set, at the very end of the golden age, they seem to be succeeding]. Possible members being:
* [[BigBad Woodes]] [[TheChessmaster Rogers]]: The greatest and most successful pirate hunter of the entire pirate age, who basically wiped out piracy from the Bahamas (an area confirmed to appear) and was relentless in his pursue of Charles Vane [who has also been confirmed to appear].
* [[TheDragon Benjamin Hornigold]]: Has been confirmed to appear in the game. Died mysteriously [his boat apparently clashed with a reef that nobody can localize]. He was [historically] recruited by the aforementioned Woodes Rogers and served as his main lieutenant.
* [[TheBrute Robert Maynard]]: Slayer of Blackbeard [who has been confirmed to appear, and the game is set in the year of his death], historically, he had no connection to any of the two above, but the fact we historically know ''absolutely nothing'' about the man who killed [[TheDreaded Blackbeard]] makes him prime value for conspiracies.
* [[ManOfWealthAndTaste Chaloner]] [[HeroKiller Ogle]]: British navyman and pirate hunter who fought and killed Bartholomew Roberts more or less along the game's period. Roberts' death is seen as the nail of the coffin of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy, so it'd make sense to portray him.
** Partially confirmed, Rogers & Hornigold are major characters, but the latter two don't appear.
*** Stretching the definition of "appearance," Maynard is present at Blackbeard's death but doesn't have a unique character model like the formally-named characters and there's nothing to suggest that he's personally a Templar.

[[WMG:Edward will be reminiscent of Altaïr.]]
That is, ''early'' Altaïr before he was demoted for his recklessness. Specifically in terms of a libertarian, carefree interpretation of the creed "nothing is true, everything is permitted."
* Confirmed. The first time Edward hears the maxim, that's what he thinks it means, with James Kidd retorting that he parroted the words without understanding their meaning.
** Partly. Altair was motivated by anger and arrogance. Edward is only in it for the gold. The misinterpretation and abuse of the creed is the same, but the motivations are different.

[[WMG:Blackbeard will be TheMentor to Edward Kenway.]]
By showing him the ropes of how being a pirate works, etc. Bonus points if he suffers from MentorOccupationalHazard and Edward decides to go after his killer.
* Absolutely correct, minus the "going after his killer" bit since the guy who killed Blackbeard in-game was just a random British soldier who got a lucky hit in while in a big fight.

[[WMG: The 'you' in this game's modern story played [=AC3=]'s multiplayer.]]
When you reach Level 50, you unlock a development diary video [[spoiler:where Alan R. tells you that he wants to run further investigations on you, while the Erudito version has Erudito claiming he wants to contact you]]. Obviously, [[LeftHanging nothing actually happens to you, as there are no more videos to unlock]], but it could be possible that you were simply beta-testing the game at the time. Maybe, you are promoted at the start of [=AC4=] to a researcher of Edward Kenway, and will be challenged to think for yourself [[spoiler:as Erudito tells you to]].

[[WMG: [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]] is an Assassin.]]
It would fit with the bird theme-naming.
* I think he'd be more of a WildCard like Edward, affiliated with neither faction.

[[WMG:New group of Protagonists]]
The foreshadowing in the online parts of previous games will come to fruit in the modern meta-narrative as either a customisable protagonist or a selection of different people (a la Far Cry, another Ubisoft game).
The voice of the hacker you hear in the epilogue of III will be secretly guiding you while you work inside Abstergo.

[[WMG:Abstergo is looking for the descendant of Eve]]
Subject 16 told Desmond to find Eve's DNA, in the Cinematic trailer Edward is shown to hold what looks like a glass cube with something red sealed in the centre. Perhaps this is some blood or tissue, more specifically Eve's blood or tissue. Abstergo will be looking through Desmond's (or maybe his father's)ancestors' history to try and find this sample so they can recover it and analyse the DNA and find Eve's modern day descendant.

[[WMG: The genetic memories of Edward were harvested from Desmond's corpse.]]
His body was taken by Abstergo. It may be possible that they used it to view his ancestor's memories.
* Confirmed.

[[WMG: There's an even GreaterScopeVillain than [[spoiler:Juno]]]]
She'll probably go about ruling the world with an iron fist, but it's all to prepare humans for a bigger threat, whether it's from the past or in the future. Even with their new iron goddess, the Assassins and Templars will still be at each others throats.

[[WMG: [=AC4=] will have minigames like in [=AC3=], except more pirate-themed]]
(crosses fingers) Please have Liar's Dice, please have Liar's Dice...

[[WMG: There will be DLC focusing on James Kidd/[[spoiler:Mary Read]]]]
Makes sense, since [[spoiler:Mary had a baby just a few days before she died, making almost her entire life open to play, and Abstergo would likely want to know what she was up to]].

[[WMG: Abstergo will get quite a lot of Precursor data [[spoiler:from John's/Roberts' body]]]]
[[spoiler: When Roberts died by Edward's hands, he wanted him to destroy his body. John got himself shot to death while in an Abstergo building. Accessing a security camera archive video in the basement afterwards reveals they have the body in cold storage. Whatever they find from his genetic memory won't be good.]]

[[WMG: The Abstergo Shareholders meeting and Olivier's disappearance are part of the story in VideoGame/WatchDogs]]
One of the files you can obtain shows that Abstergo has had a hand in developing the ctOS, not to mention both the Shareholder Meeting and the game are in Chicago.
* Confirmed. He appears in the final convoy mission of Watch_Dogs.

[[WMG: About "[[spoiler: reincarnation]]"]]

* Jossed, at least for this instalment.

** Due to the events that take place out of the Animus, it is properly a safe bet is R-L is a woman.

** The sign of a fully reincarnated Adam is the signature scar on the lip.
** Except Connor doesn't have one. But interestingly, Aveline does. Is she p'haps a reincarnated Eve?
*** Since Edward was Welsh and his family isn't directly related to Altaïr or Ezio, perhaps various members of the Kenway line are actually [[Myth/KingArthur the Once and Future King]]?

** Nope. Voudou is a religion forged by African Slaves in Haiti who combined their native believes with the Roman Catholicism their masters tried to inculcate into them. Voudou is not a traditional religion of the Caribbean at all. Likewise, ''Website/AssassinsCreedInitiates'' shows that the Voudou is seen positively among Haitian Assassins, which doesn't quite imply any Sage origins at all.

* [[{{Badass}} Robert]] [[TheBrute Maynard]]: Slayer of Blackbeard [who has been confirmed to appear, and the game is set in the year of his death], historically, he had no connection to any of the two above, but the fact we historically know ''absolutely nothing'' about the man who killed [[TheDreaded Blackbeard]] makes him prime value for conspiracies.

[[WMG: The game will be packed with references to PiratesOfTheCaribbean.]]

[[WMG: [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]] is an Assassin.]]