User blog comment:Kabutsu/Assassin's Creed IV Setting Ideas/@comment-4207028-20121222165153

Thoughts on the English Civil War game:

I'm thinking that for locations, the ones you suggested are good, however I would also include Dublin (Ireland was a very important location in this period, and the Cromwellian conquest/genocide of Ireland is a major event in the history of Ireland)

For events, I'm thinking one thing that can be done near the beginning of the game is to have the player character assassinate George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. That was one of te more infamous assassinations of England in this time period. Also, I wonder if its not impossible to show parts of the Thirty Years' War during the game, though it'd be hard to do as the scope of this game is already huge.

For Assassins, I'm a little surprised you couldn't find anyone on either the Royalist or Parliamentary sides who would fit under the category. :v

For Templars, I really like your ideas of shifting alliances and stuff, and that makes a helluva lot more sense then the whole "Parliamentarians are bad, royalists are good" bit that I thought would be cheap for this game.

Finally, I'm thinking that instead of ending the game in 1653, I would end the game in 1658 with the assassination of Cromwell. We know from Project Legacy that the Assassins played some role in his death. And much like how the final targets in several games (Robert de Sable/al Mualim in I, Rodrigo Borgia in II, Cesare Borgia in Brotherhood, Manuel Palaiologos in Revelations, Charles Lee in III) were all major historical figures, having Cromwell be the final assassination target would be somewhat fitting.

I apologize if this is incoherent, I just woke up and am extremely hungover from the end of the world.