I'm thinking of making a new assassin's creed character, but with a different setting, not in Rome, Venice or Acre like the last games. I'm thinking of making it set in the viking period of Norway and Denmark; or maybe around the tudor period set in england around london. It will follow the same story as other assassin's creed games, conflict between assassin's and templars and finding the pieces of eden, or, finding a new important artefact.
If i set it in the viking period, I could make one of the old viking kings a templar which you have to assassinate, or maybe a viking god in human form? (Odin). The tudor setting would be similar, I could make Henry the 8th a templar, bloody mary, or, I could make a point in the storyline where you meet guyfawks and assist him in trying to blow up the houses of parliament ( because they are templars, maybe?). But instead of making him get captured, change it around so that it actually does blow up. I could have the character meet famous people in history, jack the ripper? I could have the black plague involved maybe.
If i want to do the tudors and the time of Guy Fawkes I would have to have it set between 1570 and 1606 since this is when Guy Fawkes was born and died. So I could make King James 1st involved in the story because he was born in 1566 and died 1625. His reign was 1567 - 1625. Also some point in Guy Fawkes's life, he met someone who tried to kill King James 1st. So maybe I could make this all involved in the story and have my character try and assassinate King James, because he is a templar maybe.
I think as a background for my character he should of been quite good friends with Guy Fawkes and took part in the 'Eighty Years War' against Philip 2 of spain. Then he comes back to england with Guy Fawkes to assist with him trying to blow up the houses of parliament. But I'm not sure whether to have guy fawkes die during this, or to live and change history. Whether he lives or dies, my character wont die during this. I think if guy fawkes dies, that would mean that the houses of parliament wouldn't get blown up. so, maybe my character could continue to try and eliminate parliament.
Timeline - information from wikipedia
- 1600
- January - In Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone renews the Nine Years' War against England with an invasion of Munster.[1]
- 31 December - East India Company granted a Royal Charter.[2]
- Publication of Ben Jonson's play Every Man Out of His Humour.[1]
- First publication of William Shakespeare's plays The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[1]
- William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, discussing Earth's magnetic field, one of the first important scientific works to be published in England.
- 1601
- 7 January–8 January - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex stages a short-lived rebellion against Elizabeth I.[1]
- 25 February - Essex executed for treason.[1]
- Spring - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet.[2][3]
- 2 October–3 January 1602 - The Siege of Kinsale ends the rebellion in Ireland.[1]
- November - Elizabeth I addresses her final parliament with the Golden Speech.[1]
- An Act for the Relief of the Poor codifies the English Poor Laws.
- 1602
- 2 February (Candlemas night) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in Middle Temple Hall, London.[4]
- 8 November - The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened.[2]
- Publication of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.
- Richard Carew publishes The Survey of Cornwall.[2]
- 1603
- 24 March - Queen Elizabeth I dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.[5]
- 30 March - In Ireland, the Earl of Tyrone surrenders to the English.[1]
- April - Thomas Cartwright delivers his Millenary Petition, demanding an end to ritualistic practices, and signed by 1,000 Puritan ministers, to the King.[2]
- 28 April - Funeral of Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.
- 17 July - Sir Walter Ralegh arrested for treason.[5]
- 21 July - Thomas Howard created the 1st Earl of Suffolk.[6]
- 25 July - Coronation of James I.[5]
- 17 November - Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.[5]
- 1604
- 14 January to 16 January - Hampton Court Conference with James I, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans. Work begins on theAuthorized King James Version of the Bible.[2]
- 19 March - Parliament assembles and debates Robert Cecil's proposal for union with Scotland.[6]
- 20 June - The Form of Apology and Satisfaction is read out in the House of Commons to justify the conduct of Parliament following a dispute between King and Parliament over a contested election in Buckinghamshire.[6]
- 18 August - The Treaty of London brings an end to the Anglo–Spanish War, an intermittent conflict which has been going on since 1585.[7]
- 7 July - Parliament prorogued.[6]
- 20 October - King James assumes the style king of Great Britain.[8]
- November - Richard Bancroft enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1 November (Hallowmas day) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus published.
- Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organised by alphabetical ordering, is published.
- Peter Blundell founds Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon.
- 1605
- 5 November - Gunpowder Plot: A plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area, finding 36 barrels of gunpowder. Fawkes is arrested for trying to kill King James I and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day. Guy Fawkes spoke the legendary words: "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November".[1][9]
- 8 November - Gunpowder Plot conspirator Robert Catesby shot while plotters are being arrested at Holbeche House in the west midlands.[2]
- Publication of Francis Bacon's treatise The Advancement of Learning.
1606
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- 31 January - Fawkes and his co-plotters are executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.[1]
- 10 April - The London Company is granted a Royal Charter to encourage colonisation in Virginia.[2]
- 12 April - First version of the Union Flag created.[5]
- May - Severe penalties are imposed for Catholic recusancy, and for refusal to take an Oath of Allegiance to James to serve in public office, by An Act for the better discovering and repressing of popish recusants (proclaimed law 22 June).[2]
- 27 May - Second session of Parliament under King James prorogued.[6]
- August (approx.) - Possible first performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.[2][10]
- 18 November - Third session of Parliament begins.[6]
- 26 December (St. Stephen's night) - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before the King at Whitehall.[10
There is a few things I could take out of this timeline and involve it in my story like, I could have my character attend one of Shakespeare's plays to assassinate someone. Or when elizabeth addresses her final parliament with the golden speech, my character could attend this to get information or another assassination. Or when elizabeth dies, that could be caused by my character.
Clothing at the time
As you can se from these images everyone wears kind of big hats, the look like cowboy hats. They also wear capes and things around there necks. The guards carry swords and there is gunpowder involved so it gives me a rough idea of what weapons i can give my character. The men tend to all have facial hair so this is also given me an idea of what my character can look like. In the top image the men are all wearing some form of boots. Some of the people are wearing tights, and others are wearing baggy sort of trousers.
Religion-information from wikipedia
Battles between Protestant and catholic.
picture of london in the 16th century.
From what I've read, guns changed the way of warfare in the 16th century. The early guns were lit by a slow match, which would then touch the gunpowder to ignite it. But in the 16th century a wheelock was invented. It was a metal wheel spun against a piece of iron pyrites generating sparks that ignited the gunpowder. Most cavalry stopped using lances, instead they carried two or three pistols each, ready to fire, and sabres.
apparently in england at the time, they were still using longbows more than guns, but handguns were increasingly used. Muskets took a long time to reload and during that time the infantry needed protection from cavalry, they were protected by men with pikes.
Forts and towns at the time had something called bastions. It was triangular sections of wall that jutted out from the rest of the wall. This provided flanking fire at soldiers approaching the sides.
Solid cannon balls, called shots, were useful for firing at walls during sieges and for firing at enemy ships. But to kill soldiers or sailers canister or case shot was used. That was a container filled with sharp stones or pieces of metal. When this fired the container burst and sprayed over the enemy.
