User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-4786308-20140813083125/@comment-90.213.46.114-20140813125349

That is something that is worrying me: Haytham has his own tale going on at this time, and really should only become a regularly seen character from about February 1758 onwards... 54 - 55 is seen in ACIII, 55 - 58 he is not in the colonies, so Charles Lee is maybe the man in charge during this time.

They seem to be putting to much emphasis on Haytham for the overall role and appearance he should be making, which really... will probably be an appearance while Shay is an Assassin. Then on Shay's induction: maybe a couple of missions during this time. But from then onwards we should have like a 3 year gap from him before he becomes more predominant from roughly Feb 1758 till the end (and it is this period that gives the best creative licence).