Helson Kenway

Is there really absolute justice in Assassin's Creed? It is difficult to clarify whether the good or bad of the Assassin and the Templars. The assassins believe in freedom, while the Templars believe in order. Such a conflict of ideas led them to engage in a secret struggle throughout human history. Before Assassin's Creed 3, players were pure assassins and took it as their mission to destroy the Templars. But in "Assassin's Creed 3", a man appears, and his appearance sublimates the theme of Assassin's Creed, whether the world needs freedom or order.

In the first three chapters of Assassin's Creed, first-time visitors will think that Helson is a master of assassin, but when the phrase "Will the Father of Understanding guide us" puzzles us, the ring marking the Templar marks pointed out now on the screen, it really shocked us.

Helson Kenway appeared in the games "Assassin's Creed 3" and "Assassin's Creed: Rebellion", but he doesn't have many scenes. His life is told in the official novel Assassin's Creed: Abandoned.

Helson's childhood experience

As the first highest master of the Templar Colonial Volume, his father Edward Kenway (the protagonist of Assassin's Creed 4: The Black Flag) is a master of assassin. At the beginning of AC3, Heerson mentioned in the theater that "My father took me here once when he was a child", which corresponds to the CG in the Black Flag after passing the pass.

According to common sense, members of the assassin family should also be assassins. Helson should have put on an assassin's robe and hood to fight for freedom. But when he was 10 years old, Edward's friend Reginald Birch secretly sent the Templars to attack his family and captured his half-sister.

Jenny, Helson, Edward

A life full of lies

Helson was also taken away by the "savior" Reginald for training to avenge his father. He was little by little influenced by the Templar concept instilled by Reginald, and in lies and deception, Helson gradually grew up. As time goes by, Helson began to gradually become more like the Templar. He became stern in his work and agreed with the concept of order "all things are known and controllable." As an adult, he naturally joined the Knights Templar. His superb swordsmanship and loyalty to the organization made him achieve a good position. Later, when he investigated his father's enemy, he also discovered Edward's true identity and learned that he was an assassin and an enemy of the Templar. However, the teachings of the Templars have long been deeply rooted in their hearts. Although they have been touched, they have not changed anything.

Heelson, as a Templar, possesses the unique weapon of the assassin - sleeve arrows. In the novel, Helson's first sleeve arrow was taken from an assassin named Miko. Because he was able to use it with ease, he put the sleeve arrow onOn his wrist.

The beginning of AC3

After a while, Reginald assigned Helson an important task: to find the ruins of the pioneers, and to obtain the mysterious power inside. Helson accepted this delegation and the story of Assassin's Creed 3 begins. In the Opera House at the beginning, the man Helson assassinated was Miko. Then he took a boat to America to look for ruins, although it ended in failure. But he developed a favorable impression with a Mohawk woman and had a child - Connor. Achilles trained Connor into the Assassin Master, just as Reginald trained Helson into the Templar Master. During Connor's growth, Helson was busy clearing out the assassins in America (Assassin's Creed: Rebellion), and he almost killed all the assassins in America. His children established the American assassin organization.

During that time, Heelson also learned about his sister who was captured. He left America for a while and rescued his sister. And he learned from his sister that Reginald was his father-killing enemy. Reginald not only killed his father, but also guided him on a path that was completely opposite to the original trajectory. Helson, who knew the truth, decisively avenged Reginald, but he could not change the fact that he was the Templar.

When Helson was 53 years old, he met Connor for the first time. The father and son were similar but completely different.

Connor

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Connor

The concept is hard tolerate, and father and son are tragic

Both wanted to bring peace to the American colonies, and for this reason the Assassin and the Templars collaborated for the first time. Although the father and son cooperated more and more, the conflict of ideas between the two still existed, and debates continued throughout the cooperation. Because of Reginald's affairs, Helson became suspicious, questioning Washington's ability and purpose, and also wanted Connor to know that Washington was not worthy of support. But Connor believed that Washington could lead the colonial people to freedom and peace and help Washington kill his enemies. While going to assassinate Charles Lee, the father and son face each other with swords and Helson died. He was born in the arms of an assassin and died in the arms of an assassin. The final result is obvious, and Washington did not bring the freedom Connor wanted.

Is this world need order or freedom? Both have never existed absolutely. The tragedy of the three generations of the Kenway family is just a microcosm of this problem.

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