User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-4254431-20140905131951/@comment-1888015-20140906235613

I'm hoping for the Native-looking Assassin to be Ata:sata, considering his outfit looks very reminiscent of the Silent Shadow's Warrior costume. It would give a nod of the head to the fact that the Assassins listed in AC3's MP played a part in the Assassin-Templar war, considering Connor and Achilles were what was left of the Brotherhood in AC3.

Personally though, I kind of doubt that Shay's DNA could just be bottled up by a blood vial and that's all okay. Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that keeping the blood in the vial for such a long time (in this case, 300 years) would greatly reduce its effectiveness of ever proving successful?

Abstergo have Adewale on record because they took a sample of Milton Jones' DNA in the 21st century and traced his lineage back, and they aimed to get Desmond's remains back to Abstergo fast to fully preserve his DNA for the Sample 17 Project. Having a three-century old dusty vial to get Shay's DNA profile from seems such a flimsy a pretense. I'd much rather have an RDR cutscene showing the death of Shay from a child's eyes, even if the child themself don't know it's their dad. That would be quite the dramatic irony.