John Elliotson
Dr John Elliotson is the Templar physician behind Starrick's Soothing Syrup, the addictive tonic dulling London's poor. Jacob Frye tracks him down through Sequence 4 with Charles Darwin's help, and he is the target of the memory Overdose at Lambeth Asylum.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Templars
Good to know
- Voiced by Ian D. Clark.
- Born in London in 1791; a former heart specialist ruined by his fixation on mesmerism.
- Starrick hired him when his practice had collapsed.
- The Syrup mixes datura and opium and is sold as a cure-all.
- Personally knew Ethan Frye.
- His trail runs through Sequence 4: A Spoonful of Syrup, Unnatural Selection, On the Origin of Syrup and finally Overdose.
Tracking him down
Jacob destroys the Syrup distillery with Darwin, who points him to shipments going to Lambeth Asylum. Jacob then scares the asylum's owner Richard Owen into naming Elliotson. Overdose's optional objectives include halting an electroconvulsive therapy session and not firing a single bullet.
His deathSpoilerShow
Elliotson accidentally kills a patient during a trepanation demonstration and sends for a fresh corpse. Jacob takes the body's place, is wheeled into the auditorium and kills him, ending the Syrup for good.
AftermathSpoilerShow
The asylum closes and fake tonics flood the city. Evie helps Florence Nightingale make medicine in The Lady with the Lamp, and Cardigan and Twopenny bring their worries to Starrick.
Echoes in the citySpoilerShow
After his death a mourning woman appears in cemeteries and at St Paul's, Covent Garden, blaming the Blighters for getting John killed. The game's period-style murder ballad Give Me the Cure is about his end, though it calls him only the doctor.
- Unnatural SelectionUnnatural Selection takes Jacob into the Starrick Brewing Company's distillery, where he meets Charles Darwin snooping at the window. Together they get inside, and Jacob blows up the tanks that brew Soothing Syrup.
- On the Origin of SyrupOn the Origin of Syrup is a carriage interrogation: Darwin points Jacob at his old rival Richard Owen, and you hijack Owen's coach and drive it recklessly until he names the man who created Soothing Syrup.
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.- The Lady with the LampThe Lady with the Lamp brings Evie back to Lambeth after the asylum's closure. When Clara O'Dea collapses at the asylum doors, Florence Nightingale takes her in and gives Evie a list of medicines to fetch from a peddler and a besieged pharmacist.
Related characters
- 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.
- Supporting
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin helps Jacob destroy the Soothing Syrup distillery in Sequence 4 and then gives the Charles Darwin London Stories, in which the twins protect his work and reputation from Templar-backed attacks.
- Minor
Richard Owen
Richard Owen is the naturalist and Darwin rival Jacob chases down in On the Origin of Syrup. Rammed through traffic in his own carriage, he gives up the name of the Syrup's creator: Dr John Elliotson of Lambeth Asylum.
- Supporting
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is stationed at Lambeth Asylum in 1868. In The Lady with the Lamp she treats Clara O'Dea and asks Evie to recover the supplies needed to replace the counterfeit tonics flooding Lambeth after John Elliotson's death.