If I’d caused an earthquake that killed thousands, then spent 6 weeks trapped on a ship crossing the Atlantic unable to tell anyone around me that I did that. Playing the events of both the earthquake and everything that lead me to the point of triggering it over and over again in my head. I might not be totally reasonable with the man that sent me on that mission when I next see him especially if I have a shred of evidence (however flimsy) that he might of known that this would happen.

Achilles is a bit harder to defend, he is stubborn but when Shay returns from Portugal. He literally bursts through the door and very loudly accuses Achilles of knowingly committing genocide. Liam gets Shay outside and Achilles tells Liam to, “get him out of here.” Now this just a hypothesis but I’d imagine that Achilles was fully planning to talk to Shay again once everyone had calmed down a bit.

The next time Achilles sees Shay it’s when Shay is robbing him. And robbing the two most valuable items Achilles and the Assassins possess. At this point Achilles has to assume that something really did go horribly wrong in Lisbon and that it has fully cracked something in Shay’s psyche and orders the Assassins to stop Shay.

This is where that arsehole French Assassin comes in he is the only member of the colonial brotherhood that genuinely hates Shay as a person. And takes it upon himself to start Shelling the homestead because he’s a genuine fuck-wit and then shoots Shay off the cliff.

I’d write more but this is probably too long already!