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Jacob Frye
Jacob Frye is one of the two playable Assassins in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the brawler of the Frye twins. In 1868 he founds the Rooks gang, fights the Blighters for every borough and goes after Crawford Starrick's inner circle one Templar at a time, from Rupert Ferris in Croydon to the Earl of Cardigan in Parliament.
- Role
- Protagonist
- Affiliation
- Assassins
Good to know
- Born in Crawley on 9 November 1847, four minutes after his twin sister Evie.
- Voiced by the Welsh actor Paul Amos.
- Trained by his father Ethan Frye, he preferred head-on fights to the stealth and history lessons Evie enjoyed.
- His first Syndicate target is the ironworks owner Rupert Ferris, in the memory A Spanner in the Works.
- Proposes the Rooks as a street gang to counter the Templar-backed Blighters soon after reaching Whitechapel.
- Teams up in turn with Charles Darwin, Pearl Attaway, Frederick Abberline, Mary Anne Disraeli and the Blighter boss Maxwell Roth.
- His granddaughter Lydia Frye is the playable Assassin in the 1916 World War I memories.
Role in the 1868 story
Jacob's memories carry the campaign against Starrick's empire. He wrecks the distillery behind Starrick's Soothing Syrup with Darwin, then reaches Dr John Elliotson in Lambeth Asylum by posing as a corpse. He breaks the Millner Company for Pearl Attaway, unmasks the banker known as Plutus, protects Prime Minister Disraeli from a Templar plot and finds out that the man called B is the Earl of Cardigan. Evie keeps pointing out the damage his killings leave behind: fake medicine, a stalled transport network and a currency crisis.
Fighting style and the Rooks
Where Evie favours planning, Jacob was trained as a brawler and his memories lean on kidnappings, carriage chases and open fights. With Evie he leads the Rooks through the gang wars that take each borough from its Blighter leader, starting with Rexford Kaylock in Whitechapel, whose train becomes the twins' hideout.
Side stories
Outside the main campaign he works the London Stories for Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Queen Victoria, the train hideout stories, the Dreadful Crimes cases and Duleep Singh's storyline with Evie.
How his targets endSpoilerShow
Jacob kills Ferris, Elliotson, Malcolm Millner, Philip Twopenny and the Earl of Cardigan. After Millner reveals with his last breath that Pearl Attaway is Starrick's cousin, Jacob turns on his own business partner and kills her at Waterloo station. His alliance with Maxwell Roth falls apart when Roth plans to blow up a workshop full of children, and Jacob kills him at the Alhambra Music Hall. At the Buckingham Palace ball he and Evie bring down Starrick, who is wearing the Shroud, and Queen Victoria knights them.
1888 and laterSpoilerShow
Twenty years on, his apprentice Jack, a boy he had taken out of Lambeth Asylum and trained as an Assassin, seizes the Rooks and becomes Jack the Ripper. Jacob sends female initiates undercover against him, loses, and is captured and locked in a cell under the asylum until Evie finds him. By 1914 he and Evie have retired to the countryside while Lydia defends London.
A Spanner in the WorksA Spanner in the Works is the first main memory of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. As Jacob Frye you board a train into Croydon's Ferris Ironworks, shut down the machines to open a locked door, and assassinate the factory's Templar owner, Rupert Ferris.- ProloguePrologue is the first memory of the Jack the Ripper DLC, dated 30 September 1888. You play as Jack the Ripper himself, chasing Jacob Frye through Whitechapel after Jacob reaches a double murder scene at Mitre Square.
- A Simple PlanA Simple Plan is Evie Frye's first memory and the second in the story. You ride a supply train into a Templar compound near Croydon, find the hidden laboratory of Sir David Brewster, and kill him to get at the Piece of Eden he is studying.
- The UnfortunatesThe Unfortunates is the third Jack the Ripper memory: Evie searches Jacob's Whitechapel lodgings, picks up her first fear bombs and spikes, then tracks Jacob's contact Nellie from a brothel to a charity event run by Lady Owers at the Kenway Mansion.
- Freedom of the PressFreedom of the Press introduces Alexander Graham Bell, who turns Kaylock's broken launcher into the rope launcher on your gauntlet. As Evie you then test it on Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster, fitting fuses for Bell's independent telegraph line.
- The Crate EscapeThe Crate Escape is Evie's first lead on the Templars' new Piece of Eden: Lucy Thorne is expecting a shipment at the docks, so you raid her cart, open the chest and flee in a carriage chase while Jacob drives badly on purpose.
- Cable NewsCable News is a short side trip for Alexander Graham Bell: his telegraph cables never arrived, and an intercepted wire says the cargo is held at College Wharf. Bell also fits your gauntlet with a dart launcher for a hallucinogenic serum before you go.
- OverdoseOverdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.
- A Room with a ViewA Room with a View follows the Kenway clues to the Monument to the Great Fire and then the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, where Evie solves a disc mechanism to find the key to the Shroud's vault. Lucy Thorne is waiting, and the memory ends in a fight with her.
- End of the LineEnd of the Line ends Sequence 5 at Waterloo station, where Jacob has to reach Pearl Attaway's fortified train carriage before Starrick's men collect the engines. You free a hostage station chief, clear the crowd and find a weak point in the carriage roof.
- One Good DeedOne Good Deed has Evie protect omnibus builder Ed Bayley in Southwark, where Blighters want to force him to build buses for them now that Attaway and Millner are gone. You fight off a chase, then steal his factory deed back from a gang leader.
- A Bad PennyA Bad Penny ends Sequence 6 inside the Bank of England. Jacob joins a guided tour, interrogates the guard captain and bank manager, and reaches Philip Twopenny in the vault before his men can finish the robbery.
- Motion to ImpeachMotion to Impeach is the assassination of the Earl of Cardigan inside the Palace of Westminster. Jacob steals a password, takes a policeman hostage to walk into Westminster Hall, and has an opposing MP lead him straight to Cardigan's office.
- Final ActFinal Act ends Sequence 8 at the Alhambra Music Hall, where Maxwell Roth stages a masked performance for Jacob. You steal a mask to get in, deal with Roth's decoys and corner him above the stage.
- A Night to RememberA Night to Remember is the final main memory: the twins enter the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace, Evie retrieves the vault plans from the White Drawing Room while Jacob rescues captive Royal Guards on the roofs, and both face Crawford Starrick in the vault below.
Related characters
- Protagonist
Evie Frye
Evie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.
- Antagonist
Lucy Thorne
Lucy Thorne is Crawford Starrick's second-in-command and the Templars' expert on Pieces of Eden in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is Evie Frye's rival through the search for the Shroud of Eden and the target of the memory A Thorne in the Side, set in the Tower of London.
- Antagonist
Crawford Starrick
Crawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- Antagonist
Earl of Cardigan
The Earl of Cardigan, James Brudenell, is the Templar politician behind the plot to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Sequence 7 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Known in Templar letters only as B, he is the target of the memory Motion to Impeach at the Palace of Westminster.