Mary Ann Nichols
In the Jack the Ripper story of Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the woman found dead as Mary Ann Nichols is the first case Evie Frye examines with Inspector Abberline, in the memory Autumn of Terror. Abberline knew the real Polly Nichols and says this is not her.
- Role
- Minor
- Affiliation
- Assassins
Appears in
- Autumn of TerrorAutumn of Terror is the second Jack the Ripper memory: Evie Frye arrives at Scotland Yard in October 1888, learns from Inspector Abberline that Jacob is missing, and rides with him to Whitechapel to investigate the first murder scene.
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.
Good to know
- Her murder on 31 August 1888 is treated as the Ripper's first.
- Abberline knew the real Nichols from the Frying Pan pub.
- In The Unfortunates Evie wonders whether Jacob used her as bait.
Who she really wasSpoilerShow
She was one of Jacob Frye's Assassin initiates, recruited as a child and taken to India to learn the Indian Brotherhood's fear tactics. Jacob sent the real Nichols away from Whitechapel and had the initiate take her name to get close to Jack. She tried to kill him on the morning of 31 August and failed. Evie and Abberline spot an Assassin ring at the scene, and she was buried under Nichols' name on 6 September 1888.
Reading the scene
Autumn of Terror starts at Scotland Yard, and Evie takes the reins of Abberline's carriage for the drive to Whitechapel. At the site beside a hay cart you check where the body lay, a bloody handprint on a stack of planks and a smear of blood on a tree branch, then work out the arc of something thrown and find it in the grass. Abberline mentions that the press reported a ring torn from her finger, as with the later victims.
Related characters
- Antagonist
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper is the serial killer at the centre of the Jack the Ripper expansion, set in Whitechapel in 1888. Evie Frye returns from India to hunt him, and you also play as Jack himself in several story segments, using his fear-based kit against civilians and police.
- Minor
Mary Ann Nichols
Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols was the first of the five victims of the Whitechapel murders, killed on 31 August 1888. In the Jack the Ripper expansion her death opens the Autumn of Terror, and Abberline has reason to doubt the official account of it.
- 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.
- Supporting
Frederick Abberline
Frederick Abberline is the Metropolitan Police officer who works with the Frye twins in 1868 and leads the Whitechapel murder inquiry in the Jack the Ripper expansion. In the main game he gives you Bounty Hunts, sending you after Blighter leaders to bring back alive.