Future mainline Assassin’s Creed could feature female lead
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has featured a female lead before, but not when it comes to the mainline series. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will be maintaining the tradition with Edward Kenway as the game’s star.
Ashraf Ismail, Black Flag’s creative director, was recently asked about the decision to highlight men in the Assassin’s Creed series thus far:
“It’s a bit of a tough question. Really early on, we decided to tell the story of the Kenways. So we already had in place the idea to tell Edward, Haytham, and Connor. This was actually years ago, we had this. …we actually never thought, ‘could this be a woman?’ …from the pirate perspective, there were a few famous women pirates. But it wasn’t common. So we didn’t want that element to be a detail people got stuck on.”
Regarding the possibility of releasing a mainline Assassin’s Creed with a female protagonist, Ismail said:
“I would say it wouldn’t be surprising to see a female assassin coming up in a mainline Assassin’s Creed. But for us, for AC4, it was always Edward.”
