WARNING! Major spoilers for Assassins' Creed: Constitution are in this chapter. If you don't want to be spoiled, don't read this one until I've finished posting that one.
Chapter 19: Whiskey
Mentor Kenway,
I am not responsible for every populist revolt that plagues this nation.
Besides, I have it on good authority the objections to this so-called 'Whiskey Tax' were – and still are – encouraged by your Brotherhood. I can hardly be responsible for your inability to control your own insurgents.
Fortunately, it seems George can.
Yours,
Shay Patrick Cormac
Grandmaster of the American Rite
Bill,
Cormac is definitely lying here. No, wait, he never actually said he wasn't responsible. Nice dodge.
Anyway… 'Whiskey Tax' ― it means this is about the Whiskey Rebellion, which, as we know, was manipulated into violence by Master Templar Hamilton. Since Cormac was Grandmaster, he must have signed off on it, if he wasn't the one who created the plan in the first place.
Huh. Rereading this, Cormac implies he was responsible for a populist revolt, just not this one (though he totally was). I thought he meant the French Revolution, but the wording would indicate the US. That's…
Oh. My. God. Seriously?! How did we miss this?! Shays' Rebellion! Or should I say Shay's ? We've been trying to figure out what he did to piss Connor off and how it tied into the Constitutional government, and it was staring us right in the face all along.
One stupid apostrophe…
Excuse me, I need to call Shaun and gloat.
R
AUthor's Notes:
So I can FINALLY say that Shay caused Shays' (Shay's) Rebellion. About time. The coincidence was too perfect not to use and pretty much inspired this entire universe.
Yes, Hamilton was a Templar. Just Look at his policies.