This may be old news, but I was just looking at Assassin’s Creed 4 for the first time and ended up on a page about AC3. Again, anyone reading this probably already knew, and it’s still speculation despite my evidence. This post is entirely too long, and I can promise you don’t give a fuck. So come on now, motherfucker, keep on reading!
I was looking at a full description, with dialogue, for the opening scene with Haytham. After he kills the man who held the key to the temple, and subsequently escapes the opera house, he has an exchange with his colleague.
Holden: And how was the opera?
Haytham: Rather dull, truth be told.
Holden: Shall we be off, then?
Haytham: Aye. To Fleet and Bride.
Holden: By your command.
“To Fleet and Bride.” The turn of phrase unsettled me. I had never heard it, which wasn’t unusual, but it felt like code rather than a just a colloquialism. He didn’t seem to have a wife, and he went to a meeting rather than a ship, so it wasn’t literal, but it’s best to look at a writer’s words from all angles. I was curious enough to look deeper.
There were several results for the phrase on Google. But several results were for the same thing. St. Brides Church on Fleet Street in London. And guess which Holy Land Tour Security Firm was said to have been present near there?
This is according to a tour description on the Victoria and Albert Museum website.
Fleet Street is generally known as the “Street of Ink” or “The Street of Shame”, due to its associations with the newspaper industry and the nearby Inns of Court. The area is also linked to the Knights Templar, the first printers and booksellers, the Elizabethan theatre and the infamous Sweeney Todd, as well as many literary giants, including Johnson, Goldsmith, Dickens, Richardson and Defoe.
Also, the architecture of the structure the Templar were meeting in seemed quite similar to how i would imagine the inside of a churches tower looking.
Well played, Ubisoft.
It makes me wonder what else I’ve missed. It also makes me wonder what the fuck a day of research at Ubisoft looks like. I bet the hours suck.
Source for the dialogue.
Source for the tour description.
