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The game begins at the apex of the Achilles' Brotherhood, when the Assassins controlled North America and were much more powerful than the Templar in the area

For Shay hunting the Assassins will not always be easy. Some of them will be old friends of his

At one point in the story Achilles may be wrong, but refuses to see it

Shay will begin as an apprentice under the tutelage of Achilles. At this point, the Brotherhood is very powerful and there are many Master Assassins.

The game begins in 1752, two years before Haytham travels to the Colonies. When Shay meets Haytham, he (Haytham) will have already gathered his alies, gone back to Europe (from the Forsaken novel) and been back once again in the Colonies

When Shay meets Adéwalé for the first time, he is already a legend among the Assassins, and is even the most famous Assassin of that period.

A major character in Rogue is Liam, Shay's best buddy and the person who introduces him to the Assassins and makes him join the Order. For Shay he is like an older brother. He is a couple of years older than Shay and is wiser and more experienced than him, while Shay is rather brash in the beginning. Liam at a certain point in the game will be one of Shay's targets and this will be very hard to deal with for him

Liam is the only "family" that Shay had. The two then lost touch with each other, but when they met again (all this happens before the game) Liam was already an Assassin trained by Achilles. Some time after Liam introduced them to one another Achilles let Shay join the Brotherhood