Adéwalé (1692 – 1758) (voiced by Tristan D. Lalla) is the protagonist of Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry, who also appears as a supporting character in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and Assassin's Creed Rogue, as well as other works within the franchise. He is an African slave-turned-pirate and eventual Assassin of the West Indies Brotherhood who dedicates himself to liberating slaves and assisting the Maroons, all the while furthering the Assassin cause. Born on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, Adéwalé escaped slavery in 1708 by joining a pirate crew who attacked the plantation, and sailed with them for several years, until his capture by the Spanish authorities in 1715. Adéwalé meets Edward Kenway while they are both in captivity, and the two work together to escape and steal a Spanish brig, which Edward renames the Jackdaw. Adéwalé then serves as Edward's quartermaster aboard the Jackdaw for several years, until becoming disillusioned with the pirate lifestyle and leaving to join the Assassins, though he and Edward remain good friends. In Freedom Cry, set in 1735, Adéwalé temporarily abandons his Assassin duties to aid the Maroon movement in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, where he meets the future mother of his child, Bastienne Josèphe. During the events of Rogue in the 1750s, Adéwalé travels to Port-au-Prince to offer aid following a devastating earthquake, and meets his son, Babatunde, for his first time, recruiting him to the Assassins. Adéwalé later travels to the American Colonies to help the Colonial Brotherhood during the French and Indian War, until his death in 1758 at the hands of the Assassin-turned-Templar Shay Patrick Cormac. Adéwalé is the grandfather of Eseosa, an Assassin who would later play an important role in the Haitian Revolution.
