User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue leaked video/@comment-3446336-20140805110247/@comment-1153722-20140805113550

Lord Marek, I thought the same thing. If the game is set around 1758, he can be around in 1763.

And we can't relive the death of the person we're playing as, since genetic memory reaches up to the point of conception of the next ancestor. Why would you want him to die?