A Boorish Man

**A Boorish Man** was a virtual representation of one of Ratonhnhaké:ton's genetic memories, relived by Desmond Miles in 2012 through the Animus.

## Description

Ratonhnhaké:ton started his journey to find the man that Juno mentioned, ending up on the Davenport Homestead.

## Dialogue

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Leaving home was harder than I thought. I expected the journey would fill me with a sort of pride. A sense of accomplishment. But whatever it was that carried me away from home soon fled, replaced by questions - and no small amount of doubt. Had I been too hasty? Had I made a mistake? The others in the village - they thought this was something I wanted. Something I chose to do. But it never felt that way to me. No, it was not a choice. It was an obligation. Because if not me, then who?*

While making his way to the Homestead, Ratonhnhaké:ton witnessed an elderly man on a horse being chased by two robbers.

* **Achilles:** *GET OUT OF THE WAY!*
* **Robber 1:** *After 'im!*

Reaching the Homestead, Ratonhnhaké:ton found a man with a horse. If he stole the horse, the man would attack him.

* **Man:** *Hey! What are you doing?! That's mine! I'll have your head, scapegrace! Get back here, you addle-plot! Stop, thief!*

Ratonhnhaké:ton entered the Homestead and came along Terry and Godfrey.

* **Terry:** *Hello!*
* **Godfrey:** *Hello!*
* **Terry:** *You must be one of them native fellas. From the uh...what's it called...Iroquois tribe? Aye. You from that?*
* **Godfrey:** *Course not, Terry. Iroquois ain't a tribe.*
* **Terry:** *Is so.*
* **Godfrey:** *Is not! The Iroquois is a confederation.*
* **Terry:** *Confeda-what-now?*
* **Godfrey:** *Confederation, ya tony. It's a group. An alliance. Lotsa different kinds of people all united.*
* **Terry:** *Right. Like I said. A tribe.*
* **Godfrey:** *Listen you totty-headed twiddle poop - there's difference between a tribe and a confederation and it's not my fault your skull's too thick to make sense of it.*
* **Terry:** *Who you calling a twiddle poop, you crump-backed scab!*

The two men then started fighting.

* **Terry:** *Hey now! This is between me and him!*
* **Godfrey:** *Yeah! Mind your business!*

Ratonhnhaké:ton approached two robbers talking to each other.

* **Robber 1:** *Just give it a few days. We'll tend to the wounded, resupply, and come up with a plan...I've sent Enoch to scout the place, figure out the best way in...*
* **Robber 2:** *You hear 'im before? Sayin' 'e 'as no master but 'imself. What a load of fee faw fum. If he ain't no master, guess he's ours to do wit as we please.*
* **Robber 1:** *Indeed. All in good time.*

Ratonhnhaké:ton approached the robbers.

* **Robber 1:** *Private matters being discussed here. Best you move along.*
* **Robber 2:** *Won't warn you again...*

Ratonhnhaké:ton then knocked on the door of the mansion.

* **Achilles:** *What?*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Um... I... I was told you could train me.*
* **Achilles:** *No.*

Achilles closed the door and Ratonhnhaké:ton knocked again.

* **Achilles:** *Go away!*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *I'm not leaving! ... I need a place to camp. This should do.*

Ratonhnhaké:ton then spent the night in the stables. The following day, he tried the door again.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *There must be another way in.*

Ratonhnhaké:ton tried the back door.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Please, all I ask is a moment of your time...*
* **Achilles:** *I apologize if I've been unclear - or otherwise confused you with my words it was never my intention to mislead. So let me try to clarify: GET THE HELL OFF MY LAND!*

Ratonhnhaké:ton climbed up to the balcony porch.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *I'm coming up! Just hear me out! What are you so afraid of?!*

Achilles opened the door and tripped Ratonhnhaké:ton with his cane. He pressed the head of the cane to Ratonhnhaké:ton's throat.

* **Achilles:** *Afraid? You think I'm afraid of ANYTHING, least of all, a self-important little scab like you?! Oh, you might dream of being a hero. Of riding to rescues, of saving the world - but stay this course, and the only thing you're gonna be is DEAD. The world's moved on, boy. Best you do too.*

Achilles went back inside, slamming the door.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *I will not leave! Do you hear me? I am NEVER leaving! Just wait, old man. I won't be defeated so easily. You WILL train me, you HAVE to.*

That night, Ratonhnhaké:ton slept in the stables again. Sometime during that night, robbers moved around the house.

* **Robber 1:** *He's a square toes - this'll be easy.*
* **Robber 2:** *That's what you said last time and I wound up with a dead 'orse an a dark eye.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Who are you?*
* **Robber 1:** *No one you need concern yourself with, little breeches.*
* **Robber 2:** *Best cut 'fore something bad 'appens.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *No.*
* **Robber 2:** *Can't say we didn't warn ya.*

Ratonhnhaké:ton fought the robbers and killed one of them. The other then called for the rest of the men.

* **Robbers:** *Oi! Brothers! Yield, boy, and we'll do ya quickly. Songs and spirits can't save ya now! Hah! Look at the savage dance! Shoulda run when ya had the chance...*

Ratonhnhaké:ton then questioned one of the robbers.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Why are you here? What do you want?*
* **Robber:** *Best ask the bossman.*

The leader beat Ratonhnhaké:ton to the ground.

* **Leader:** *You workin' for the old man, then? That it? Maybe this'll get ya talkin' Oh.*

Achilles snuck up behind the man and stealthily killed them.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Thank you.*
* **Achilles:** *Clean this up. Then, I suppose we should talk...*

Ratonhnhaké:ton then entered the manor and spoke with Achilles, falling through a chair when trying to sit.

* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Sorry.*
* **Achilles:** *Not your fault. This whole place is ready to come down. Goddamn miracle it hasn't already. Anyway, who are you?*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *My name is Ratonhnhaké:ton.*
* **Achilles:** *Right. Well, I'm not even going to try to pronounce that. Now tell me why you're here.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *I was told to seek this symbol.*
* **Achilles:** *Do you even know what that symbol represents? Or what it is you're asking for?*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *No.*
* **Achilles:** *And yet here you are.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *The spirit said that - That I've -*
* **Achilles:** *These "spirits" of yours have been harassing the Assassins for centuries. Ever since Ezio uncorked the bottle... Ah - but you don't even know what an Assassin is, do you? Well best settle in then. I've got a story to tell and it's gonna take a while to get it all out...*

A certain amount of time passed with Achilles explaining about the Assassins and Templars.

* **Achilles:** *...and so this is why the Assassins have dedicated themselves to the pursuit of the Templars. Because if they succeed - your spirit's visions will become reality.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Then I will stop them.*
* **Achilles:** *Oh I have no doubt you'll try. Come on. I've something to show you. Careful. Wasn't a joke when I said this place was coming apart.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Why don't you repair it?*
* **Achilles:** *What's the point? Besides I don't have materials for the job.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *So buy them.*
* **Achilles:** *Look at me! You think I can just march into some store, purse full of pounds, and go shopping?*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Yes. Why not?*
* **Achilles:** *So naive...*

Achilles then opened a secret door to the basement.

* **Achilles:** *This way.*

Ratonhnhaké:ton started looking at the Assassin robes in the basement.

* **Achilles:** *Don't think you can come in here, throw those on and call yourself an Assassin.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *I...did not... I would never presume...*
* **Achilles:** *That's all right. I know they've a certain allure. Very well. I'll train you. Then we'll know if you've the right to wear those robes...*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *Thank you...uh...*
* **Achilles:** *Name's Achilles. Come on, then. We've work to do.*

Ratonhnhaké:ton removed a board, revealing the portraits of Haytham Kenway, Charles Lee, Nicholas Biddle, William Johnson, Thomas Hickey, and Benjamin Church.

* **Echo:** *You are a speck of dust. A nothing. You - and all your kind. Living in the dirt like animals. Oblivious to the true ways of the world...*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *What do the Templars want?*
* **Achilles:** *What they've always wanted: Control. They see an opportunity in the colonies. A chance for new beginnings, unfettered by the chaos of the past. This is why they back the British. Here they ave a chance to illustrate the merits of their beliefs: A people in service to the principles of order and structure.*
* **Ratonhnhaké:ton:** *I have seen what is to come if they succeed. They have to die, don't they? All of them. Even my father.*
* **Achilles:** *Especially your father. He's the one holding the whole thing together.*

## Outcome

Ratonhnhaké:ton met with Achilles Davenport, who, after a while, accepted to train him into an Assassin, allowing him to follow the path Juno had shown him.