User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-4136513-20150124163408/@comment-13471981-20150124230242

I know - other sources say he died in 1759 though. Seeing as it's disputed, Ubisoft could do anything with him. And as he's otherwise just a bit of a jokester, I think a good way to use the character would be to kill him off, seeing as he was important to Shay (according to Steven). That'd plunge Shay farther into a darker mindset, which he seems to have adopted by 1776, sorta.

Yes, I totally live for seeing characters suffer :3