while making a timeline of the events of the entire Assassin's Creed franchise for a project, possibly the craziest idea for an OTL personage i've had since deciding on US President Winston Churchill occurred to me: Cesare Borgia living longer than he did historically and, of all things, possibly taking the place of Hernan Cortes as the leader of the conquistadors that defeated the Aztecs (or alternatively in the role of another historical conquistador)
leaving out any biases from Assassin's Creed (and i'll have to look further into Cesare's OTL history for this to work) what does everyone think? my typical quick research has told me that IOTL he died on March 11, 1507, in Viana when he chased a group of enemy knights out into the open without realizing that he was by himself and was killed by them in an ambush. this ultimately came about because of a fit of rage, as i understand it, so if Cesare keeps his cool, he could very well survive this operation in Viana. the trick of making him a conquistador afterward would really rely on him being in a position to either willingly depart for the New World or be assigned to it