Edward Kenway

Edward Kenway is a British privateer-turned-pirate and a member of the Assassin Order. Born in relative poverty to an English father and a Welsh mother, Edward was a charming and charismatic individual who aged to become a fairly reckless and selfish young man with a penchant for drinking. During his early teens, Edward's family moved to Bristol, in south-west England, where he eventually met and married Caroline Scott, a woman two years his senior, and with whom he had a daughter, Jenny Kenway. Although a lively marriage by all accounts, Caroline soon grew tired of Edward's inability to find steady work or take his responsibilities as a husband seriously, though it was Edward's grandiose ideas about sailing as a privateer in the West Indies that ultimately led to their estrangement. Determined to prove his worth, Edward pursued his dreams of being a privateer and in late 1712, boarded a ship chartered for Jamaica, with the intention of sailing under the renowned privateer, Benjamin Hornigold. He remained in Jamaica for six months until the Treaty of Utrecht in early 1713, which effectively ended all conflict between the major empires, and as such, British privateers were no longer needed or tolerated in the West Indies, causing Edward to find himself out of work. By 1715, Edward had two years of piracy under his belt, and command of the warship Jackdaw; an experience that had made him deft with a ship and able to climb under even the most extreme conditions.