History WMG / AssassinsCreedUnity

** As per Initiates, Connor was active in America at the Davenport Homestead till 1804, when he recieved Eseosa's Adewale's son who fought in the Haitian Revolution. He might have supported them briefly but it's unlikely. I think the best we can hope for are some cameos and ContinuityNod.

Connor might make a small cameo at the end of the game, or even play a small role in alliance with Arno, seeing how both at one point attempted an Assassin-Templar Alliance. He might end up playing a role similar to that of Solid Snake to Arno's Raiden from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''.

** And he will be betrayed by [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Fouchet,]] before [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority Napoleon]] takes over.

* Expanding on this, perhaps the unity is the result of both groups having civil wars. The Unity faction we end up rooting for is a mix of sane Templars and Assassins who support neither the old order or the insanity of the Reign of Terror. Their greatest enemies end up being [[KnightTemplar fanatical]] [[NotSoDifferent Assassins]], and the conflict opens up a power vacuum into which steps [[MagnificentBastard Napoleon.]]

While Ubisoft has been saying YOU are the main character, they said that same thing in AC4. However, the main character this time around could be someone who's closely associated with the previous PC, whether they're family or friends.

* The problem with this theory is that Robespierre remains highly controversial to this day in the real world. Danton and Mirabeau, and even De Sade, are looked at far more favorably in France with their bad aspects either pardonned or placed in context. No such consideration is given to Robespierre. For this theory to work, it would make more sense for Danton and Mirabeau to be Templars, Robespierre be the Assassin and have his vilification in real life be the work of Templar policy, mirroring the historical debate on that highly contentious controversial figure. The metaphor of Templars reworking history makes zero sense in UNITY since what we see in the game is a highly conventional, one-dimensional, right-wing portrayal of the events with zero attention to nuances. In Black Flag, the pro-pirate stance works because they are actually being subversive of established cliches.

Just as AssassinsCreedRevelations let you play as both Ezio and Altair, Unity will follow both Connor and a new protagonist (native to France, since all AC games have had a protagonist with a heritage suitable for the setting) simultaneously. Connor might be visiting France, since he was completely disenchanted with the US at the end of III, or we might switch between France and the Americas.

* She's dead. Pretty simple. Maybe Arno killed her, since after all, she is a Templar and he is an Assassin. Or she was successfully guillotined during the Great Terror, or killed by the BigBad, making her Arno's LostLenore.

Connor might make a small cameo at the end of the game, or even play a small role in alliance with Arno, seeing how both at one point attempted an Assassin-Templar Alliance. He might end up playing a role similar to that of Solid Snake to Arno's Raiden from MGS2.

* Semi-confirmed, Arno ends up allying with a Templar named Elise.

** Jossed. It turns out Robespierre is a Templar after all, though what kind of Templar remains to be seen.

** Jossed. Robespierre is a Templar.

** Nope, new guy Arno Dorian has a first name that means "The Eagle's Strength" in old German.

** Confirmed. Versailles is in the game.

** Jossed. The recent trailer shows him with his hood down. He's definitely a dude, in fact nearly an Ezio clone. The real female character is Elise.

* Jossed. She is Elise de la Serre and completely separate, though perhaps a descendant of Altair and Maria Thorpe.

** Jossed. He appears in the post-game set DLC ''Dead Kings'' which means he survives the events of the game for sure.

** Jossed. She does appear, but is the guilty party in a murder mystery.

*** Jossed.

** On the other hand, given that the game features Vidocq and the birth of modern forensics, using a hidden blade for assassinations has a practical function, in that it's a modus operandi only a very few would be aware of (and those ones, the Templars, have no desire to out the Assassins), kills instantly and prevents the weapon from being left behind in the crime scene and ensures that it can't be identified with any other blade available on the market or the house. In Ezio's era, where the police and investigation methods were not yet sophisticated, it was easier to use different kinds of weapons.
** As for the mostly ceremonial aspects of the Assassins - the fact is all the known Assassins we have seen so far - Mirabeau, Dumas, Arno himself - save for Bellec - are nobleman and aristocrats. To them the Assassins mystique and tradition has greater appeal and value appealing to their intellectual side (the Renaissance Assassins were also big on tradition and also mostly noble), so they would be more focused on the rituals as opposed to someone like Achilles, Connor, Edward and James Kidd from earlier games who are working-class and common people. Bellec being a Jacobin partisan and rough and tumble will perhaps try and push them towards the people creating a class-war within the Brotherhood itself.

** The problem with this theory is that Robespierre remains highly controversial to this day in the real world. Danton and Mirabeau, and even De Sade, are looked at far more favorably in France with their bad aspects either pardonned or placed in context. No such consideration is given to Robespierre. For this theory to work, it would make more sense for Danton and Mirabeau to be Templars, Robespierre be the Assassin and have his vilification in real life be the work of Templar policy, mirroring the historical debate on that highly contentious controversial figure. The metaphor of Templars reworking history makes zero sense in UNITY since what we see in the game is a highly conventional, one-dimensional, right-wing portrayal of the events with zero attention to nuances.

Eseosa, Adewale's grandson with Bastienne, as revealed in Initiates, fought in the Haitian Revolution which erupted at near about the same time as the FrenchRevolution. Toussaint L'Ouverture was an Assassin who was eventually executed in France but is revered in Haiti as OurFounder. The situation in Haiti was of obvious concern to the Revolutionaries. Robespierre outright abolished slavery by constitution, the very first man to do so politically in the Western World, several years before abolitionism took effect in England and much before it happened in America.

*** Napoleon will actually become the new grandmaster of the assassins and will have surprisingly good
intentions. He will have a ruthless front but in actuality the Apple has shown him visions
of what's to come if the Templars win and he then wage war in Europe
for the secret goal of preventing total Templar domination even at the cost of
countless European lives.

** Jossed on that end. He's actually the Assassin Grand Master here, though he was still poisoned.

** Jossed.

** Jossed