User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-13471981-20150108211720/@comment-3046679-20150108225524

Connor wouldn't even know of Shay, because apparently Achilles suffered from heavy dementia and completely forgot about the man who used to be an Assassin and then stomped the Colonial Brotherhood pretty much by himself.

Shay could just show up one day and stomp elder Connor and his band of misfits too, unlike Charles Lee who just postulated about it angrily in his The Dark Knight Rises fanwank moment. Again, because I doubt they would expect it.