User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 19-07-'13 — Assassin's Creed: Brahman announced/@comment-733050-20130914212647/@comment-6547588-20130915170251

I'm still thinking then that he could have served on Hornigold's ship with Bleackbeard. I would think if Blackbeard was a mentor to him he would have more respect and call him by his famed epiphet or at least Teach which was his real name, calling him Thatch and the casual way he talks to him makes them seem more like mates and equals to me.