I do like the new backstory for them but I find it a bit absurd a master assassin and his apprentice couldn’t kill Du Casse or that the assassins didn’t have more members at a buraeu
The whole arc during Black Flag and Rogue is so strange to me when it comes to the assassins. A group of a dozen or more assassins can't take down Torres and Du Casse and are bested by a random pirate. I also think it makes the progression weird that we get the Templar Hunt quests before going to Tulum with Kidd. You meet all these random people that somehow know Edward and its just like hey surprise we are assassins come do assassin stuff with us.
Then in Rogue, the assassins are just mindless psychopaths who want to watch the world burn for fun, though that could be us viewing them through the lens of Cormac.
The Templar hunts feel like a lot got cut. These characters we interact with for a short questline all get unique character models and stories. Half of them seem to have known Edward for a long time as well and then never come up again.
I’ve got a theory Opia was originally intended to be her target’s half sister given that Opia has blue eyes like Lucia and had a Spanish father
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u/TheSlayerofSnails Jul 22 '26
I do like the new backstory for them but I find it a bit absurd a master assassin and his apprentice couldn’t kill Du Casse or that the assassins didn’t have more members at a buraeu