Talk:John de la Tour

First Assassin in the colonies
I know we will probably not get answers on this, but something that has been bugging me for quite some time. After Connor unraveled the robes after giving them to Achilles, Achilles said "These were the robes of the first Assassin to come to the colonies."

The thing is, the Assassins have been in the Americas since circa 1503, when colonization had already started with the Spanish. Firstly we have Ezio to thank for making sure that Columbus' voyage to the Americas was a success. Then Ezio sent some of his Assassins to Constantinople, who stole some of Piri Reis' maps from his workshop in 1503. The Assassins used these maps to start their spread to the New World, as the Templars were also expanding their influence by then. By 1510, the Assassins were very present in Florida, and offered refuge to Alonso Carlo and Miguel Ramón Carlo de Lugo, who were escaping from Juan Ponce de León's persecution in Puerto Rico.

John de la Tour does not sound particularly Spanish; John is an English name, and de la Tour is a French surname. Moreover, his Assassin robes do not look very 15th or 16th century to me, more 17th or 18th century. The same goes for his colonial robes, they are most definitely not 15th or 16th, or maybe not even 17th century. This is why I believe that John de la Tour was not the first Assassin in the colonies in general, but the first Assassin in the English colonies, the Thirteen Colonies. Since his second outfit is called the Traditional Colonial Assassin outfit, and the 'Colonial Assassins' were the Assassins in specifically the Thirteen Colonies and not the others, I am even more sure of this. I also don't see a way that John de la Tour's robes would be so well conserved for nearly 300 years, and how they would have gone from the Caribbean area to Massachusetts.

I was hoping that Utopia would shed more light on this since it would focus on the Brotherhood in the New World during the 16th and 17th centuries, but it's still not released and I'm not even sure if it's ever going to. I hope it does, because this is a plot point I'd really like to see cleared up. I was wondering if you guys have thought about this, or what your thoughts on this are. -- 18:21, August 10, 2013 (UTC)