Assassin's Creed: Black Flag - 5 Awesome Pirate Details You Missed

2. Vane's Desolate Demise

Speaking of Vane, there's a particularly cool detail plucked straight from his history that some players might have missed out on during the first mission in sequence eleven, To Suffer Without Dying. To achieve 100% synchronisation for the mission, Edward must find two 'old friends' as he attempts to escape from Kingston with Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

By this point, the last time players had seen Charles Vane was following the showdown with him on Isla Providencia. He and the player share a final conversation with the Animus background surrounding them, usually a sign that a target is not long for the world, and Edward ends things by walking away with Vane cursing him as he does so.

Whilst it would be natural to assume this was the end of Charles Vane, both the history books and this one small side feature in a mission, far more significant for other reasons, prove this to not be the case. In real world history, Vane was actually picked up by a passing British ship and, once his ruse of being a simple working man had been clocked onto, was taken to Port Royal where he was imprisoned and eventually hung.

And, for players who follow Vane's faint singing once inside the prison, the once fearsome pirate can be found inside his prison cell, driven mad by all that he had seen and twisted himself into.

Edward will offer a couple lines expressing his regret at seeing how things have turned out for Vane, with his former friend unable to even acknowledge the player stood in front of him. It's certainly a small detail to take the time to throw in, one that plenty of players could miss out on, but one that nevertheless shows Black Flag's keen eye for historical accuracy.