History Fridge / AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag

* More FridgeHorror, its implied in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' that Haytham initiated ThePurge on the ColonialAssassins. We don't know how far that reached. TheRemnant exists in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'' in Spanish Louisiana but considering that the Naval missions in ''III'' has Connor visiting Belize and the Caribbean, and Achilles Davenport has Caribbean descent, and those waters are filled with Templar privateers its possible that Haytham purged his father's old associates there. Can you imagine the horror of Edward's own son purging his former associates? Related to this, how come none of them tried to remind Haytham of his roots?

** Achilles (and others like him) may be at partially fault there since his general attitude to the Templars was KillEmAll. Haytham implies is all the Assassins do in the 17th century, which carries over to the Modern Era. This is backed up by the fact anti-slaving Assassins like Aveline and Adewale have to do their activities as a side-job despite it being tailor made as an activity for followers of the Creed. Edward's closest friend in the Assassins, [[spoiler: Mary Read]] was also [[spoiler: dead]] so it's possible they didn't really feel much loyalty to the man. Haytham's messianic delusions of uniting the Assassins and Templars probably didn't win him any friends either.

* A bit of GameplayAndStoryIntegration tying into AssassinsCreedForsaken. Why was [[spoiler: Edward so easily killed by a bunch of mercenaries?]]. Well, not only was he not wearing any of his special armors from the game [[spoiler:-- neither the Templar Armor, the Mayan Armor, OR his many Health bonus providing animal-skins --]] but he's also [[spoiler:protecting his wife and son]]. In other words, it's an EscortMission. Given how vulnerable [[spoiler:Edward is during diving missions without his armor]], it's easy to understand why one of his opponents got lucky.

** Well, Connor had regenerative healing in ''AssassinsCreedIII'' under the Assassin interface.

* The gameplay insists you shoot down several ships, murder surrendering captains of forts with you only impressing a few of the captive sailors into service aboard the Jackdaw. Which means you pepper the Caribbean Sea and make shark food out of several poor sailors not any different from Edward essentially, yet Edward is the one who retires in England with a mansion, wealthy wife and beautiful children. It's weird to actually play a KarmaHoudini(''Literature/AssassinsCreedForsaken'' nowithstanding)

* Anne Bonny(red head) and Mary Read(black hair) are two ShipTease for Edward who is married to Caroline first, who is a redhead and his second wife, Tessa, mother of Haytham, must have had dark hair which her son couldn't have got from his blonde father. Edward's fondness for Anne at the end of the game, especially his insistence she come to England with him(since [[spoiler: his wife his dead at this point]]) might stem from a desire for a ReplacementGoldfish for Caroline, while his continuing devotion to live to Mary Read's promise might have led his attraction to Haytham's mother, since Mary has some resemblance to Haytham, which makes Tessa his ReplacementGoldfish for Mary Read.

** Furthermore, you must not be the only person doing it. You can hardly sail for a few minutes without running into loose carge or some sailor clinging for dear life to some wreckage. And you might just decide [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential it isn't worth the effort]] to turn and pick them up.

** Achilles (and others like him) may be at partially fault there since his general attitude to the Templars was KillEmAll. Haytham implies is all the Assassins do in the 17th century, which carries over to the Modern Era. This is backed up by the fact anti-slaving Assassins like Aveline and Adewale have to do their activities as a side-job despite it being tailor made as an activity for followers of the Creed. Edward's closest friend in the Assassins, [[spoiler: Mary Read]] was also [[spoiler: dead]] so it's possible they didn't really feel much loyalty to the man. Haytham's messianic delusions of uniting the Assassins and Templars probably didn't win him any friends either.

* Aesop's Fable of ''The Eagle and the Jackdaw'' is a running motif in the game with obvious parallels and symbolism of Edward and the Jackdaw. But here's Fridge Brilliance, what are the names of the two ships you pilot in the series. The first ship you pilot is called ''L'Aquila'', captained by Edward's grandson. L'Aquila means you guessed it, ''The Eagle''. In other words players, in Anachronic Order, first captain The Eagle and then the Jackdaw in the course of one century.

* I'm really sick of doing mindset work for FridgeBrilliance so long story short: Is there a [[CorvidTropes Corvid Trope]] that doesn't fit Edward Kenway?

* From a simple gameplay perspective it might seem odd to go back to the regenerative healing system that was done away with after the first game. However this simple gameplay choice is actually an inversion of ((GameplayAndStorySegregation)). Altair's memories were relived through Abstergo's animus system while those of Ezio and Connor/Ratonhnhaké:ton were essentially enacted in one reverse engineered by the Assassins. Now that the player character is back within the walls of Abstergo Industries their gameplay within the Animus is dictated by their software standards... including regenerative healing.

** And with that pose being a equilateral triangle instead of an isosceles more indicative of the Assassins there's also reference to any of the three Abstergo logos.

** And with that pose being a equilateral triangle instead of an isosceles more indicative of the Assassins there's also reference any of the three Abstergo logos.

* Further horror, when Kenway and Vane are tailing a slave galley for the Royal African Company, and undergo the Mutiny. That ship is a slave galley with slaves below deck, Adewale specifically warns Edward not to fire broadsides for fear of hurting lives beneath. Well, after the Mutiny, they take over that ship, with [[JerkAss Rackham]] promising to sell Adewale for [[NotSoHarmlessVillain "a tenner"]]. What happened to the rest of the people underneath, who we don't see? The obvious answer is that Rackham and Co. sold them too and then pissed away all that money on alcohol.

** And with that pose being a equilateral triangle instead of an isosceles more indicative of the Assassins we also reference any of the three Abstergo logos.