Alhambra Music Hall
The Alhambra Music Hall is Maxwell Roth's theatre on Leicester Square in the Strand, the Blighter leader's base and the stage for Jacob's final showdown with him. Several of Jacob's memories with Roth start here.
- Type
- Landmark
- Region
- The Strand
- Province
- Leicester Square
Good to know
- Region: The Strand, on Leicester Square.
- Affiliation: Blighters.
- Memories set here or starting here: Strange Bedfellows, Fun and Games, Triple Theft and Final Act.
- Easter egg: in Final Act, posters advertise a melodrama called Ezio and a pirate show featuring Edward Kenway.
Roth's theatre
Roth bought and refitted the hall and used its public shows as cover. Jacob first comes here for a dinner invitation in Strange Bedfellows, and later memories with Roth, such as Triple Theft, begin with him at the theatre.
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After Jacob breaks with Roth, Roth stages a show called Corvus the Trickster in Jacob's honour, full of deadly stunts, and sets the building alight. Jacob assassinates Roth inside the burning theatre.
History
The building opened in 1854 as the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art, became a circus and turned into a music hall in 1860. The real hall burned in 1882; the game moves the fire to 1868.
- 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.
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 places
- Landmark
St. Pancras station
St. Pancras station is a new railway terminus in the Strand. In Strange Bedfellows, Jacob escorts Maxwell Roth there, blows up a store of explosives and steals a Templar train.
- Other
Bed and Bottle
The Bed and Bottle is a pub and lodging house in the Strand run by the Templars Argus and Rose Bartlett, who use it to make guests disappear. Their Templar Hunt brings you here.
- Landmark
Charing Cross station
Charing Cross station is a railway terminus in the Strand beside Trafalgar Square. Several memories point you here, from the End of the Line engine heist to Darwin's fossil delivery.
- Base
Clare Market
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