Following an uproar over the new Rainbow Six Siege operator Rauora, Ubisoft has quietly made a change to the character's biography, moving her date of birth from March 15 to May 11. The original birthdate coincided with two mass shootings at mosques that left 51 people dead and 89 others injured in Christchurch, New Zealand, the city where Rauora was born.
Rauora, real name Hāpai Iwini, seems like a fairly unremarkable Rainbow Six Siege character at first glance: Māori, excelled in the military, joined the New Zealand Special Air Service, plays semi-pro rugby, and serves as a volunteer firefighter when not deployed. But it was her birthday that drew immediate notice in the Ōtautahi/Christchurch subreddit.
