Story beats · 6

1. 01Wrecked at the heart of the trade

   A storm strands Adéwalé in Port-au-Prince, 1735 — the Templar errand in his satchel suddenly very small.

2. 02The Maroons

   Escaped slaves fighting from the bayous; Bastienne's money, Augustin's people, and now an Assassin's blade.

3. 03The Experto Crede

   Adéwalé hijacks a slaver and turns it on the trade — plantation raids, sea chases, a resistance armed.

4. 04Bastienne's warning

   Push too hard and the reprisals land on the enslaved, not the liberator. He doesn't listen. Then he has to watch.

5. 05The scuttled ship

   A slaver sinks his own loaded vessel rather than lose it. Adéwalé saves a few from the water; the rest he carries forever.

6. 06De Fayet

   The governor dies unrepentant. Justice, not revenge — Bastienne's words are the blade's aim.

Characters

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  Adéwalé

  The Jackdaw's first quartermaster, fifteen years an Assassin — shipwrecked into his real fight

  protagonist
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  Bastienne Josèphe

  Brothel owner, Maroon financier, the voice of consequence

  ally
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  Augustin Dieufort

  Leader of the Maroon resistance

  ally
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  Pierre de Fayet

  Governor of Port-au-Prince — cruelty as administration

  antagonist

OppositionTemplar Order (and the slave economy it administers)

Modern frameAbstergo Entertainment researcher (Black Flag's frame)

Pieces of Eden

None take the stage in this entry.

Connections

• AC IV: Black FlagCharacter

  The Jackdaw's quartermaster, fifteen years on — Edward's conscience given his own story.

• AC RogueCharacter

  The man Freedom Cry builds is the man Shay kills — the purge's heaviest cost.

In game · 6 shots

Trailer

YouTube · loads on play

Introduced to the series

• Machete & blunderbuss combat
• Liberation as a systemic mechanic (freed crews join the cause)

Freedom as practice, not doctrine · The cost of spectacle