Shay’s primary motivation is the refusal to allow "innocents to suffer" for a theoretical greater good.
*"They call us corrupt. They say we seek control. Yet, where the Assassins leave a vacuum, bandits arise. Where they grant freedom, tyrants seize power. I do not kill for pleasure; I kill to protect the world from itself. The Creed is a lie. Order assassins creed roguecodex codex
Within the fiction of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue , the protagonist Shay Patrick Cormac—a former Assassin turned Templar—does not possess a grand, book-length Codex like Altaïr. Instead, the game features as collectible documents scattered across the North Atlantic, River Valley, and New York. These are small, fragmented pages of Assassin intel, technical schematics, and personal notes. They serve two primary purposes: Shay’s primary motivation is the refusal to allow