Ned Wynert
Ned Wynert is an American crime boss who uses London's road, rail and river shipping as cover for theft. He is the twins' contact for cargo work: hijacking Blighter shipments and, once you have met him, the Ale Heist gang upgrade that adds ale carts to rob or escort.
- Role
- Supporting
Appears in
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.- Research and DevelopmentResearch and Development is a train heist: Pearl Attaway wants the internal combustion engines Millner is shipping, so Jacob breaks Ned Wynert out of a police convoy and uses a second train to rob Millner's cargo on the move.
Good to know
- Voiced by Ferelith Young.
- Born Henrietta Mary Wynn, known as Netta, on 5 October 1840 in New York City; Ned is a transgender man.
- Bases his operation in Southwark.
- Recruited by the criminal Adam Worth to build a syndicate in London.
- Loyalty levels 1 and 2 unlock gauntlet schematics; level 3 unlocks a Black Diamond.
- Loyalty level 5 unlocks the schematic for The Mars.
Who he is
Ned grew up in New York's polite society, which he hated. He played a respectable girl by day and went out dressed as a boy at night, made a name as a jewel thief, and eventually left the old identity behind for good. Worth sent him to set up in London, a city he had wanted to see since childhood.
Working with the twins
Ned first drops in on the train hideout to admire the locomotive and leave an address. At Waterloo station the twins agree to hit the Blighters' cargo, which suits Ned since the Blighters are his main competition. As the Blighters lose ground, he supplies the Assassins with rare materials and weapon schematics.
Research and Development
When Ned is arrested, Jacob gets him out, to Ned's irritation, since he prefers people owing him favours. In return he arranges a second train so Jacob can intercept Malcolm Millner's combustion engines. He grows wary on learning the engines are going to Pearl Attaway, but agrees once he is promised payment.
Behind the scenes
A chain of side missions built around Ned was planned for Syndicate but cut during development.
Related characters
- Antagonist
Malcolm Millner
Malcolm Millner runs the Millner Company, the omnibus firm Starrick uses against Pearl Attaway. In Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate Jacob Frye wrecks his business for Pearl and then hunts him on the Thames in Survival of the Fittest.
- Antagonist
Pearl Attaway
Pearl Attaway is the owner of Attaway Transport, London's leading omnibus company, and a secret Templar who hires Jacob Frye to ruin her rival Malcolm Millner in Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is the target of the memory End of the Line at Waterloo station.
- Supporting
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell is the twins' inventor in Syndicate. He turns a broken grappling pistol into the rope launcher, adds hallucinogenic darts to their gauntlets and builds voltaic bombs, all while fighting Starrick's grip on the telegraph.
- 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.