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.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Templars
Good to know
- Voiced by Nathalie Toriel.
- Born on 20 October 1833; inherited her family's stagecoach company and turned it into a bus line.
- Starrick's cousin; she rejected his proposal to keep the company in her own name.
- Her rival, the Millner Company, belongs to Starrick.
- Gives Jacob his jobs from inside her carriage and insists on appointments.
Working with Jacob
In Friendly Competition Pearl meets Jacob beside one of her burning buses and points him at Millner's storage yard. In Research and Development she has him steal Millner's internal combustion engines, and in Survival of the Fittest she orders Millner's death.
Betrayal at WaterlooSpoilerShow
Millner's dying words tell Jacob that Pearl and Starrick are family, and Jacob overhears them settling their differences. Pearl takes the engines to Waterloo station in a fortified wagon guarded by Blighters, and Jacob kills her through a weak spot in its roof. Without her or Millner, London's transport falls into disarray until Evie helps Edward Bayley's group in One Good Deed.
- Friendly CompetitionFriendly Competition introduces Pearl Attaway, the omnibus owner competing with Starrick's Millner Company. Jacob finds her beside a burning bus, protects her fleet from Millner's raiders and then blows up Millner's own omnibuses in his storage yard.
- 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.
- Survival of the FittestSurvival of the Fittest is the hit on Malcolm Millner: with the engines secured, Pearl Attaway sends Jacob to the Thames to sink Millner's smuggling boats and kill him at the docks. What Jacob overhears afterwards changes everything.
End of the LineEnd of the Line ends Sequence 5 at Waterloo station, where Jacob has to reach Pearl Attaway's fortified train carriage before Starrick's men collect the engines. You free a hostage station chief, clear the crowd and find a weak point in the carriage roof.- One Good DeedOne Good Deed has Evie protect omnibus builder Ed Bayley in Southwark, where Blighters want to force him to build buses for them now that Attaway and Millner are gone. You fight off a chase, then steal his factory deed back from a gang leader.
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
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.
- Supporting
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.