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00:00We are a beacon of reason in a world beguiled by superstition.
00:06Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're looking at characters where Ubisoft didn't need to bend the truth to make them exciting.
00:13Hey, it's not the machine's fault. It's mine. I checked and rechecked my blueprints. It's just impossible. I don't know how to extend the flight.
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00:33Queen Victoria, Assassin's Creed Syndicate
00:35Your Majesty, I apologize. The cake is particularly good. Enjoy the ball.
00:43She only appears in Syndicate very briefly, in the final sequence and during the post-game missions, but being Her Majesty Queen Victoria, she was very memorable nonetheless.
00:54In 1868, when the game is set, she was 49, wearing the black mourning clothes she wore for the rest of her life after Prince Albert's death in 1861.
01:05She's perhaps more amenable than you'd expect, offering Evie Fry some cake and then enlisting both twins to help her on some clandestine missions to save Parliament.
01:14She also knights both Frys and Henry Green, only to be asked by Evie to abandon the ruthless colonialism of the British Empire at the end.
01:23I understand and respect your position. Bound as you are by your creed, you will indulge me one final time and receive these gifts.
01:35Blackbeard, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
01:38If a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade but appear to be the devil.
01:44It's always difficult to ascertain any facts about the golden age of piracy.
01:50Nearly all of what we know about these famed figures comes from the book, A General History of the Pirates.
01:56It was written anonymously, but it's widely believed to have been written by Daniel Defoe, though nobody knows for sure.
02:03Black Flag drew considerably from this book and what other sources are available, and paints one of the most remarkably accurate pictures of its pirates, including the most famous, Blackbeard.
02:14In real life, his flag did look like a skeleton stabbing hearts with a spear.
02:19And he did light his beard on fire and was killed in a dramatic naval battle off the coast of North Carolina.
02:26And I would profit better by using your organs for chum and your bones for char.
02:33King Louis XVI, Assassin's Creed Unity
02:36Peoples, I die innocent. Gentlemen, I am innocent of all that is my fault.
02:43Another monarch, Louis XVI, is barely in Unity at all.
02:47But Unity takes more liberties with its historical figures than most of the games, so by appearing in only one scene, they manage to avoid disputing anything too seriously.
02:58Arno's trying to assassinate Germaine at Louis' execution, which doesn't go well, but we do get to see the execution play out.
03:07From what we know of the event, the king did make that exact speech as he approached the guillotine, attesting to his innocence.
03:14In a rare case for Unity, they also gave his speech entirely in French, as it was originally delivered, instead of translating it into English and having it read by a Canadian voice actor trying to do a British accent.
03:27I must take my leave. Good day to you. Kill him.
03:32Alfred the Great, Assassin's Creed Valhalla
03:35Do what you must, but treat him with care.
03:39One of England's most popular kings, Alfred is renowned for freeing London from Viking rule and reforming many parts of English life, including bringing sweeping changes to education and literacy.
03:52It was under his direction that important books are translated into English instead of Latin, meaning that ordinary people could read them.
04:00In Valhalla, while Alfred has inherited control of the Order, he despises it and uses Eivor to eradicate its presence in England.
04:08When they meet for the final time, it's in Athenaly, where Alfred really did hide while planning his successful defeat of the Great Heathen Army in 878.
04:18He definitely wasn't commanding an ancient conspiracy in real life, but the game effectively conveys his intelligence and mind for strategy.
04:26The Order wanted me dead. I had to be careful.
04:30Benjamin Franklin, Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed Rogue
04:34Almanac pages? Not quite. It's a treatise, actually.
04:39While we're sure that in real life, Ben Franklin wasn't constantly losing the pages of his almanacs and begging strangers in the street to chase them down for him, other parts of his character are true to life.
04:50One of the most bizarre, historically accurate moments is when Franklin tells Hatham Kenway about his treatise on the benefits of taking an older woman to bed, which really does exist.
05:00It's called Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress and began as a letter, but was eventually published in collections of Franklin's correspondence and controversially censored in 19th century America.
05:13He actually wrote many not-safe-for-work essays, including a comedic one about farting called Fart Proudly.
05:20Is there anything I can do for you to repay you for this kindness?
05:24Julius Caesar, Assassin's Creed Origins
05:27You will each be sent for when our congress is concluded. I wish to hear both Ptolemies' side of the story.
05:36Like Alfred the Great, we're sure that in real life, Caesar wasn't being manipulated behind the scenes by an ancient secret society obsessed with opening a magical door.
05:46But the likeness in-game is very good according to busts and sculptures of Caesar from the time, as is his eventual assassination at the hands of Rome's senators.
05:56Though he was a great military leader who formed a key alliance with Cleopatra, he was eventually ousted and killed on the Ides of March.
06:05The senators, led by Brutus and Cassius, feared that Caesar would go even more power-mad after being named dictator for life, so they killed him.
06:15She will never fall to you or your kind.
06:18Freedom is not given, Caesar.
06:21Bartholomew Roberts, Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
06:24Every mechanism that gives this device its light is a true and physical thing. Ancient, yes.
06:32Another pirate, Bartholomew Roberts, is also represented relatively accurately.
06:37Better known today as Black Bart, Ubisoft resisted the urge to call him this in-game, as it would have been an acronym since he was never called that in his lifetime.
06:47Roberts was one of the most successful pirates in history, taking 400 ships and creating the pirate code.
06:54In Black Flag, he dies at Edward's hand after being pursued in a ship chase, which is also accurate.
07:01And he did request to be buried at sea.
07:04In the game, this is so that Templars can't use his body for research since he's a sage, but it did happen in reality too, and his body has never been found.
07:14Oh, you're a Stoic then. But perhaps I was wrong about you.
07:20Leonardo da Vinci, Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
07:25Oh, Ezio Auditore! I didn't expect to see you again.
07:30Ezio meets Leonardo early in Assassin's Creed II, as his mother is buying some of Leonardo's paintings.
07:36Already, he's becoming renowned as a Renaissance artist and thinker in Florence.
07:41But this culminates in the following game, when he's enlisted by Cesare Borgia to build war machines.
07:48It is true that da Vinci worked for Cesare as his military architect, but not that he was forced to do this.
07:55By all accounts, da Vinci did this willingly.
07:58The machines you destroy in Brotherhood, like the tank and flying machine, were never functional in real life.
08:05But they are based on real designs da Vinci made during his lifetime.
08:09Ezio, what are you not telling me?
08:12What else are you working on?
08:14Socrates, Assassin's Creed Odyssey
08:17It's slow to fall into friendship, but once you do, continue firm and constant.
08:23Was Socrates as annoying in real life as he is in Odyssey?
08:26Yes, actually.
08:28He's a fun, but infuriating friend of Cassandra and or Alexios,
08:32frequently showing up to challenge people to think a little more about why they do the things they do.
08:37There's no right answer to many of the questions he poses, which can make him an acquired taste.
08:43But he becomes an old friend, and a lot of what we see is reconstructed.
08:47Oh, because almost nothing of what we know about Socrates comes from him directly,
08:52but from his students writing about things he said and did.
08:56In philosophy, this is known as the Socratic Problem.
09:00Odyssey is still as accurate as it can be here, though.
09:03Beauty is short-lived. You may as well use it, Alcibiades.
09:07And to that, I raise my drink.
09:11Charles Dickens, Assassin's Creed Syndicate
09:13One might surmise that the spirits that haunt us are simply our deepest fears manifested as apparitions.
09:24Dickens is nearing the end of his life when Evie and Jacob Fry meet him,
09:28but was still an active participant in the famous Ghost Club, of which he was also a founding member.
09:35The Ghost Club's members were notable skeptics,
09:38who wanted to prove to the gullible Victorian public that the psychics and spiritualists claiming to commune with the dead were frauds.
09:45In Syndicate, Dickens enlists the Fry Twins in investigating various instances of alleged hauntings,
09:51some of which are suggested to be genuinely supernatural.
09:55He was so instrumental in the Ghost Club that, following his death, it was ultimately dissolved,
10:01though it has since returned.
10:04Splendid. I have your first case.
10:07Let us know in the comments which character you enjoyed spending time with the most.