Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

=== Characters ===
The main character of the game is Edward Kenway (Matt Ryan), a Welsh privateer-turned-pirate and eventual member of the Brotherhood of Assassins. Edward is the father of the Colonial Templars Grand Master Haytham Kenway and grandfather of the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton, the two of whom are playable characters of Assassin's Creed III. During the game, Edward meets and interacts with several real-life historical figures, including notorious pirates Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch (Mark Bonnar), Benjamin Hornigold (Ed Stoppard), Mary Read (Olivia Morgan), Stede Bonnet (James Bachman), Anne Bonny (Sarah Greene), John Rackham (O-T Fagbenle), and Charles Vane (Ralph Ineson).

Setting

As is the case in previous Assassin's Creed games, the story is divided into two intertwined halves. One is set in the time of the game's release and the other in a historical setting. Although the modern-day story had previously established that an Animus was required to view ancestor memories, the ending of Assassin's Creed III reveals that Abstergo can now view a host's genetic memories simply by sequencing the host's DNA. As such, the unseen player character is hired by Abstergo Entertainment to investigate a pivotal character in Desmond Miles's ancestry, Edward Kenway; this occurs in 2013. A notorious pirate and privateer operating during the Golden Age of Piracy, Kenway's story is set in the Caribbean and mixes open-ended ship-based exploration with combat and land-based adventures in Cuba, Jamaica, various Caribbean islands, southern Florida, and eastern Mexico, as well as Principe and Charlestown, South Carolina.

Plot

In 2013, months after Desmond Miles's death in Assassin's Creed III, samples taken from his body allow Abstergo Industries to continue exploring his genetic memories with the Animus's newfound cloud computing abilities. The unnamed player character is hired by Abstergo Entertainment, a subsidiary of Abstergo Industries, to examine the memories of Desmond's ancestor, Edward Kenway, an eighteenth-century pirate. Ostensibly, this is to gather material for an Animus-powered interactive feature film. In reality, Abstergo—the Templars of the modern day—are searching for a First Civilization structure known as the Observatory which Edward interacted with.
Edward's story begins in 1715 when he stumbles into a conspiracy involving high-ranking Templars within the British and Spanish Empires. Under the guise of cleaning up piracy in the Caribbean, they have used their positions to locate the Sage—later identified as Bartholomew Roberts (Oliver Milburn)—the only man who can lead them to the Observatory. This device can monitor anyone anywhere in the world when provided a blood sample, which they intend to use to spy on and blackmail world leaders. Edward inadvertently becomes involved when he kills a rogue Assassin, Duncan Walpole. Seeing an opportunity for profit, Edward takes Walpole's place at a meeting of Templars in Havana, and meets Woodes Rogers (Shaun Dingwall) and Cuban Governor and Templar Grand Master Laureano Torres (Conrad Pla). His recklessness endangers the Assassin Brotherhood, prompting him to pursue the Sage and the conspirators from the Yucatán Peninsula to Jamaica, eventually catching Roberts on the island of Príncipe off of the Central African coast.
Meanwhile, a band of notorious pirates—including Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch, Benjamin Hornigold, and Mary Read (operating under the alias "James Kidd")—dream of a pirate utopia where people are free to live beyond the reach of kings and clergy. Thatch and Hornigold had previously seized control of Nassau and establish a pirate republic, but poor governance, lack of an economy, and disease threaten to collapse the republic. Edward attempts to resolve the dispute but is too late to stop the Templars from exploiting the situation, resulting in Blackbeard being killed by the British, Hornigold joining the Templars, and Mary devoting more time to the Assassin Brotherhood in Tulum. Edward, Rackham, and Charles Vane attempt to locate Roberts, but Rackham betrays the others and leaves them marooned.
Eventually, Edward finds and joins his crew with Roberts' men and uncovers the location of the Observatory. However, Roberts' betrayal leads to Edward's arrest. He is imprisoned in Port Royal, but escapes when Ah Tabai (Octavio Solorio), the Assassin Mentor, infiltrates the prison to rescue Mary Read and Anne Bonny. There, he learns that Rackham and Bonnet have already been hanged while Vane is in prison awaiting execution. Mary dies from complications in her recent childbirth and a disheartened Edward joins the Brotherhood. Chasing down and eliminating Rogers, Roberts, and Torres, Edward seals away the Observatory. He receives a letter informing him of the passing of his wife, Caroline, and the imminent arrival of the daughter he didn't know he had, Jennifer Scott. Edward moves to London, promising Ah Tabai that he will continue fighting the Templars. Years later, Edward attends The Beggar's Opera at the Royal Opera House with Jennifer and Haytham.
In 2013, John Standish, Abstergo Entertainment's information technology manager, persuades the player to investigate supposed Abstergo secrets. Under John's guidance, they hack several Animus terminals and deliver the information to Shaun Hastings (Danny Wallace) and Rebecca Crane (Eliza Schneider), who they know to only be courriers. When the hacks are discovered and the facility is locked down, John instructs the player to access the Animus's core. Juno (Nadia Verrucci) materializes into an incorporeal form but reveals the world is not yet ready for her and that she is unable to possess the player as John intended.
John is then revealed to be a reincarnation of Roberts, and therefore a Sage, and attempts to murder the player to cover up Juno's failed resurrection; he is killed by Abstergo's security and discovered to be the one behind the hacks. It is further revealed that all Sages are reincarnations of Juno's husband Aita. The player is contacted by Rebecca, who reveals herself to be an Assassin.