Olwyn Owers
Olwyn Owers, known as Lady O, is the first major target of the Jack the Ripper expansion. In public she is a society philanthropist who claims to rescue fallen women; in private she runs brothels, blackmails their clients and passes what she learns to the Ripper.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Jack the Ripper
Good to know
- Voiced by Philippa Domville.
- Born Mary Williams on 25 August 1847 in London's East End.
- Once ran a fried fish and potato stall in the slums and dealt in second-hand clothes.
- Owns the brothels on Gracechurch Street, Ludgate Hill and Buck's Row, which return as Brothel Attack activities.
- Her country house, Owers Manor, hosted scandalous parties for an elite men's club.
- Married the wealthy solicitor Thomas Owers and took the name Olwyn.
Lady O's business
Owers learned the trade at the Gracechurch Street brothel and then took over houses of her own. The women working for her gather secrets and compromising photographs from powerful clients, which she uses for blackmail. Her charity work is a front that keeps her respectable while she threatens her own staff with the Ripper.
Role in the story
Evie finds her giving a speech at the Kenway Mansion in early November 1888. Owers spots Evie in the crowd and flees by carriage while her men use Nellie as a decoy. You then chase her back to Owers Manor, where she tries to burn incriminating papers before the Assassin arrives.
Her deathSpoilerShow
Evie reaches her chambers by using her husband Thomas as cover and stabs her with the Hidden Blade. Dying, Owers admits she feared the Ripper far more than Evie and warns that he will go after Arthur Weaversbrook next. Jack, watching from the roof, then kills everyone in the manor so the massacre is pinned on Evie.
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.- The Lady TalksThe Lady Talks is the fourth Jack the Ripper memory, dated 2 November 1888: Evie infiltrates Owers Manor northwest of London to assassinate Lady Olwyn Owers, Jack's lieutenant. The guards are expecting her, so stealth and fear matter here.
- Buck's Row BrothelBuck's Row Brothel is the last Brothel Attack in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie frees a Whitechapel brothel where Lady O's thugs force the women to spy on clients and hand over everything they earn.
- Gracechurch Street BrothelGracechurch Street Brothel is the second Brothel Attack in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie raids Lady Owers' most luxurious and profitable house, in the City of London, to free the women from her guards.
- Ludgate Hill BrothelLudgate Hill Brothel is the first Brothel Attack in the Jack the Ripper DLC: Evie takes back one of Lady Owers' most successful houses in the City of London from her thugs, frees the women and then beats the gang leader outside.
Related characters
- Supporting
Nellie
Nellie is a Whitechapel working woman and friend of Jacob Frye who becomes Evie's ally in the Jack the Ripper expansion. She gives the brothel-focused side work: freeing Lady O's houses, finding kidnapped women and shaming abusive clients.
- 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.
- Supporting
Arthur Weaversbrook
Arthur Weaversbrook is the Fleet Street newspaper owner whose papers made Jack the Ripper famous. In the 1888 expansion he becomes Evie's main contact for side work: the Ripper letters, the lieutenant hits and the Rooks' smuggling cargo.
- 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.