Here's your new goyslop bro, black samurai and all. The hotep people are going to have a stroke
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Why the fuck is there a black samurai?
I guess it's Yasuke. The guy existed, it's totally documented. Arrived with a Portuguese Jesuit mission as a servant, probably a bodyguard since apparently after being sold as a child, Yasuke had ended up in India and had been a soldier. Nobunaga liked found him exotic and thought he must be strong, so he decided to keep him as a retainer and it's documented that he was armed and was kept in Nobunaga's inner circle and even fought alongside him and was there when he died. All evidence though indicated that he was NOT a samurai in the social caste sense, armed warrior or not.
The issue then, is not that Ubisoft chose the character of Yasuke -- but the role they make him play. If I understand the trailer correctly, the female character follows the usual AC plot line and is against the centralization of power and unification of Japan, so her foe in this case should likely be Nobunaga? And Yasuke, who was historically documented to be a loyal Nobunaga warrior goes and allies with her?
I will need some clarification about this, since Ubisoft insists so much that all they do is based first of all in historical research...
I appreciate the thoughtful reply.
Seems like some woke bullshit to dredge this up, but may be actual interesting history here which is interesting.
What would the guys role have been?
Well, historically speaking it seems that he was an armed retainer of Nobunaga's. So if Nobunaga is the antagonist of the female ninja in the game, they should have mafe Yasuke the bad guy. Which would have been a lot more interesting in my opinion.
Not a samurai. A warrior at Nobunaga's service and a loyal one apparently. Doesn't mean he was made part of the samurai class. For instance, he was not made commit seppuku after Nobunaga's death, unlike all his surviving samurai allies.
If he had any honor he would have joined the other allies.
Seems like he had a hand in it.
That would in fact make a good plot for the game, as speculation.
I am thinking now, Yasuke came with and went back to the Jesuits. And weren't the Jesuits the antagonists in the AC series?
This made up Yasuke who allies with Nobunaga's enemies is even more inconsistent than it looked at first.