User blog comment:Stormbeast/GameInformer, November 2012/@comment-4011342-20121010144345/@comment-3168501-20121012030312

Aveline is gonna be a very capable woman in this game, much more capable than all the other female characters we've seen in the series. I must thank UbiSoft for going this route instead of making her limited in her abilities and her thinking and reducing her to a damsel in distress.