Brandon Bolster was an English landlord who lived on his estate near Athlacca, Ireland, with his family. He was the father of Richard, Jane, and another younger daughter.
Biography[]
Whiteboys attack[]
In February 1822,[1] a group of about fifty men attacked the Bolster Estate during the night, after Brandon decided to use farm lands to feed cattle and increase his income, depriving his farmers of the means to feed their families. Despite the pleas of Richard, who agreed with them, Brandon stubbornly refused to negotiate with the farmers due to rising tensions between the landlords and their tenants in Ireland, with the tenants having begun organizing themselves in secret societies such as the Whiteboys.[2]
The Bolsters and their household armed themselves and faced the angry crowd besieging their house, but were quickly overrun by their numbers.[2] The Whiteboys damaged the house extensively, breaking the windows and taking Bolster's musket after threatening him. The money in the house was left untouched, however.[1] Brandon himself survived the event and would later go on to father another child.[2]
Legacy[]
Brandon eventually became an ancestor of Sean Molloy, a 21st-century crippled teenager working for the Templars. The Templars discovered that Sean's time in the Animus reliving the memories of the 19th-century Pinkerton detective Tommy Greyling had an effect on his motor cortex despite the fact that he was unable to use his legs. They subsequently decided to make him relive Brandon's memories to study the changes in his brain, hoping to use the data collected from the Animus to create new prosthesis with better responses to the user's brain patterns.[3]
Sean had trouble dissociating from his ancestor when pulled out of the Animus, once considering Brandon's daughters to be his own for a moment.[2]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Feely, Pat. "Whiteboys and Ribbonmen". City of Limerick Public Library. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved on 10 September 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan – Chapter 7
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Tomb of the Khan – Chapter 3