Haytham Kenway

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## Magnificent Baddie

### Alias

Haytham
Sir
Master Kenway
Father (by Connor)

### Allies

The Templar Order
Charles Lee
Reginald Birch (formerly)
Edward Braddock (formerly)
Kaniehtí:io (love interest)
Connor Kenway (son)

### Powers/Skills

Eagle vision ability
Superior athleticism
Exceptional intelligence
Pain tolerance
Master manipulator
Master combatant
Master swordsmanship
Master marksmanship
Knife mastery
Expert tracker
Expert interrogator
Stealth expertise
Sailing and naval combat
Armed and unarmed combat
Horse riding
Vast resources
Vast knowledge
Great physical strength
Superior endurance
Superior durability
Superior stamina

### Goals

Avenge his father's death (succeeded).
Unite Assassins and Templars (formerly, abandoned).
Further the goals of the Templar Order (succeeded at first, then failed).
Find the Grand Temple.
Transform the Colonies into a New Nation governed by the Templars.
Get Connor on his side or defeat him to prevent him from destroying the Colonial Templars (all failed).

### Crimes

Mass murder
Attempted filicide
Theft
Torture
Assault
Treason
Terrorism
Forgery
Stalking
Conspiracy
Kidnapping
War instigation

### Type of MB

Charismatic Manipulator

**Haytham E. Kenway** is a major antagonist in the Assassin's Creed video game franchise serving as the main antagonist of the Kenway Saga.

He is the main antagonist of *Assassin's Creed III*. He is the Grand Master of the Colonial Templars and the father of Ratonhnhaké:ton, the game's main protagonist. He is also the main protagonist of *Assassin's Creed: Forsaken* and the first three sequences of *Assassin's Creed 3*, the tritagonist in *Assassin's Creed: Rogue*, and makes a cameo appearance as a child in *Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag*.

He was voiced by Adrian Hough.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He could be genuinely very affable and charming when he wanted to.
* He is highly intelligent and is a one-man army, though he is also great at sneaking around and being stealthy when he needs to.
* He has some genuine standards, being appaled by slavery or the cruel crimes of his former friend Edward Braddock.
* While other templars in the series are seemingly either out just for themselves or delusional fanatics, Haytham is a genuinely well-intentioned extremist.
* He has a tragic backstory with his family being massacred when he was a kid and being taken in by the Templars.
* He expertly assassinates an leading assassin at the beginning of the game, while being genuinely apologetic about it.
* When an assassin tries to kill him, he challenges him to give him a sword and then defeats him in combat with it.
* He escapes a pursuing assassin boat by leading his ship straight into a storm.
* He frees a lot of Native Americans from the crime lord Silas Thatcher who was keeping them enslaved all while furthering his templar goals in the progress.
* He tracks down Braddocks expedition and he and Kaniehtí:io, lead an attack group of both his templar allies and Native Americans to stop Braddocks attempted genocide with Haytham personally chasing down and killing Braddock.
* He grows to genuinely love Kaniehtí:io, even wondering what would have happened if he settled down with her.
* He loved his son in his own way, even stating that he was proud of what he became.
* He and Connor track down the rogue Templar Benjamin Church despite his best efforts to evade them, culminating in Haytham givimg Braddock a massive beatdown for his betrayal and Connor finishing him off.
* His interactions with Connor during their team up provide some of the most entertaining moments of the entire game.
* He makes multiple excellent points about the flaws of the assassin order as well as pointing out the hypocrisy of the Founding Fathers and revealing Washington burned down Connor's village.
* He ultimately chooses to stay behind to cover the escape of his ally Charles Lee.
* He dies defiant to the end, not wavering in his ideals in the slightest and even mocks the death equals redemption trope.

## What Makes Him a Baddie?

* He is a Templar grand master.
* He kickstarted the Boston Massacre and by extension the Revolutionary War in his quest for power.
* He wants Charles Lee (a sadistic bigot) to take over the colonies and arguably enables many of his crimes.
* He tries to manipulate Connor by withholding the truth about the raid on his village until it becomes convenient for him to reveal it,
* He regularly executes prisoners after don't needing them anymore and is implied to have become a brutal torturer by the end of the game.
* While much of it is played for laughs (at first anyway), he spends much of his interactions with Connor being a total jerk towards him and expecting him to do as he says just because he's his father, culminating in trying to kill him to protect Lee (who had just manipulated Connor's best friend into trying to kill him).

## External Links

* Haytham Kenway at the Villains wiki
* Haytham Kenway at the Inconsistently Heinous wiki
* Haytham Kenway at the Assassin's Creed wiki