User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-199.96.205.93-20140805193014/@comment-2.223.224.20-20140805200833

Not necessarily "not mentioned": maybe not relevant to the memories/story being told. Haytham's Journal has a number of gaps in the entries shown: I also believe it makes a point that it is only extracts of his journal shown (In Forsaken). If I remember right, one of the bigger gaps IS during this period.

Just had a quick look at the dates in Forsaken. An 8 month gap between 54 and 55 waiting for Ziio's word to attack. And then two years from 55 - 09/57: which is Haytham travelling to free/rescue Jenny. And then after Haytham's rescue of Holden: Haytham's injury and recovering ending with Holden's suicide in 01/58. and then there is a 16 year gap to 1774. So that leaves 8 years or so of time from Haytham leaving the colonies till the end of the war that Shay has: giving some plausibility to him not being mentioned: He wasn't too key or relevant to Haytham's story. I guess Shay could have been recruited by Haytham sometime during the 8 months between 15/11/54 and 8/07/55. and would have been tasked to hunt the Assassins around 13/07/55. Or: maybe he was recruited by Charles?. I would GUESS: we meet(Begin with) Shay sometime between 50 and 54/55 as an Assassin: maybe by 54-56 he becomes a Templar and that 1763 will be the important("final battle") year that through some kind of mercy... Shay defeats and spares Achilles (Maybe his former Mentor and teacher?). Potentially Shay is also the one that kills Kryn's father (If they even include ACIII MP personas).

I could be (most likely) completely wrong... Haha... just showing how/why nothing mentioning may have worked up to this point: We were looking through Haytham's eyes during III. B)Forsaken was his story C) Haytham may not have known of him/or known him very well.