Maxwell Roth
Maxwell Roth is the showman and crime boss who leads the Blighters for Crawford Starrick. In Sequence 8 he invites Jacob to the Alhambra Music Hall and offers an alliance against Starrick, and his story becomes the game's darkest look at what Jacob could turn into.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Blighters
Good to know
- Voiced by John Hopkins.
- Says he was born Oberon to parents in a travelling theatre troupe.
- Trained Starrick's borough gang leaders, including Rexford Kaylock, Bloody Nora, Cletus Strain and Lilla Graves.
- Bought a burnt-out theatre in the Strand with Starrick's money and made it the Alhambra Music Hall.
- Keeps a baby crow called Rook as a pet.
- The only major assassination target in the game who is a Templar associate rather than a sworn Templar.
Background
Roth's family lost their love of performing once they turned to theft and fraud, and the troupe broke up. In London he drifted through workhouses, ran off to a circus to learn acrobatics and sleight of hand, and came back to put those skills to criminal use. Jail never held him for long, and his network grew until Starrick hired him.
Partnership with Jacob
Bored with Starrick's orders, Roth wants chaos. In Strange Bedfellows he proposes a deal, and in Triple Theft he and Jacob kidnap three of Starrick's people. In Fun and Games they plan to blow up a Starrick factory, but Roth is willing to burn children inside, and Jacob walks away. Roth shoots the dynamite anyway and Jacob has to rescue the children.
Final ActSpoilerShow
Roth sends Jacob his dead crow as an invitation to a one-night show at the Alhambra and sets the theatre alight with the audience inside. Jacob snares him with a falling sandbag and kills him. Roth's last explanation for everything is simply why not, and he kisses Jacob before dying. Lead writer Jeffrey Yohalem later confirmed Roth was in love with Jacob.
AftermathSpoilerShow
Losing Roth cripples the Blighters, who are finished by the end of 1868. Seeing himself in Roth, Jacob becomes less reckless.
- Sequence 8: The Joys of FreedomSequence 8 is a Jacob-only stretch built around Maxwell Roth, the theatrical leader of the Blighters, who offers an alliance against Starrick. Its four memories run from a dinner invitation to a night at the Alhambra Music Hall and unlock The Joys of Freedom achievement.
- Strange BedfellowsStrange Bedfellows is Jacob's first outing with Maxwell Roth, leader of the Blighters, who invites him to dinner at the Alhambra Music Hall and proposes they hurt Starrick together. Roth's first idea is to blow up a dynamite shipment at St Pancras station.
- Triple TheftTriple Theft is a kidnapping tour of London with Maxwell Roth riding along: Jacob grabs three of Starrick's people, an art procurer at the National Gallery, a security chief in St James' Park and a police informant inside Scotland Yard, and delivers them to Roth's boat.
- Fun and GamesFun and Games has Maxwell Roth take Jacob to one of Starrick's weapons workshops to rig it with dynamite. It turns into a rescue when children are seen walking inside just as Roth's Blighters move to light the fuses.
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.
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.
- Image: UbisoftProtagonist
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.