Sigh. I just watched a youtube video so here we go.
A friendly reminder that the Assassin Brotherhood did not trick Shay Patrick Cormac into triggering the earthquake in Lisbon!
The entire Brotherhood and Shay didn't know that the Piece of Eden in Lisbon was the only thing keeping the land stable!
Achilles and Hope can't even believe what Shay was saying (even though they should have given him the benefit of the doubt because, come on, by this time, they all should know how deus ex machina these POEs are)
What about Haiti then?
Well, in an earlier memory, Achilles and Adéwalé actually talked about it and Adéwalé made it clear that they could not find anyone that could tell them what had happened to the Precursor site (aka: the place that held the same POE that Shay tried to retrieve)
This means that Achilles and the Brotherhood did not know that the POE was the trigger in Haiti as well.
Of course, this does not excuse the Brotherhood's actions against Shay. It's clear that Shay was distraught and most probably in shock yet they didn't even give him the benefit of the doubt.
ESPECIALLY ACHILLES WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THEIR FREAKING MENTOR! (And yeah, they tried to explain that it's because he's still grieving over the death of his wife and child but STILL)
However, it is simply false to summarize the whole thing as 'these jerks tricked Shay (and the player) into doing a terrible thing' because the word trick meant it was intentional.
It was not intentional.
Shay and the rest of the Brotherhood did not have all the information and they all went straight to making bad conclusions that started the main conflict of Rogue!
In other words, Shay wouldn't have freaking defected IF EVERYONE JUST SIT THEIR ASSES DOWN AND FUCKING TALKED TO EACH OTHER.
Thank you and I still love that youtube channel.
REFERENCES:
Lessons and Revelations was a virtual representation of one of Shay Cormac's genetic memories stored in the Helix, relived by a research ana
Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa) is the capital city of Portugal. During the Age of Discovery, the city was a hub for commerce with Africa, India
