Rayleigh is no fool, but how the hell would he know that Ace is Roger's son? Ace was born long after Roger died and Rayleigh went into hiding. Ace's birth was kept lowkey and his identity as Roger's son was kept a secret. The chances of Rayleigh knowing that Ace was Roger's son prior to the announcement is extremely low.
Someone as smart as Rayleigh and as powerful did not know of Gol D's son even considering how deep their friendship was? The chances of that are extremely lower than what you are proposing sir.
Seeing as how Rayleigh separated himself from the rest of the world, Ace was kept secret from the world, and neither Roger nor Rayleigh knew when or where Ace would be born, and the fact that Rouge died right after giving birth and that Garp kept his relationship with Ace mostly a secret, no, his chances aren't looking very good at all.
Its not stupid, actually its a good question, but i guess he entrusted everything to whitebeard.
Here's a tip.
Ace told Rayleigh? There has never been any indication of Rayleigh and Ace meeting, so unlikely.
Forgive my run-on's and comma splices.
Perhaps because if one of the Big shots of the roger pirates was hanging around a certain island it would have attracted a lot of unwanted attention.
This is one of the weakest arguments ever.
By that logic Luffy would have been the obvious contendor to be rogers son. From what Shanks told rayleigh and how he was on the same island as Ace it should be easy to confuse luffy and ace. Because luffy's behaviour is also very similar to Roger than Ace's was. The thing is WB never met luffy until the marineford war.
Please tell me how Roger was supposed to tell his crew where his son would be born, when he'd be born, where he'd live and what he'd look like when Ace was born after he died?
