Ubisoft said that the upcoming game is about redemption, absolution and all the things that pirates do.
According to Ubisoft scriptwriter Darby McDevitt, Edward Kenway and his wife have issues because of his other relationships and because he is a true pirate - he tends to be a “raucous and bawdy chap”. The game will also be more “open and free than ever before” although everything is scripted and Kenway will even run across famous pirates such as Anne Bonny.
“His primary motivation in Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is to get rich and prove himself a ‘man of quality’ to his family and betters. So there is a special woman in Edward’s life, but there are also other not-so-special women as well.”
Some of theses “not-so-special” women can be directed to distract targets using seduction. “While this scene in the reveal trailer was clearly designed hint at the pirate lifestyle, there is a gameplay element here, to show that you can use certain NPC characters to more effectively achieve your goals,” said McDevitt. “You might have noticed that the woman [who was part of the earlier ménage] in the foreground seduced his target at the end of the trailer.”
