User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-24179671-20141031172835/@comment-13471981-20141031223741

Exactly; it's gonna confuse people that we're sticking with the Arno avatar, even if the environments are different. There's theories out there now that Arno's pocketwatch is a Piece of Eden that allows him to travel through time >.<