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London

2015-12-23T21:45:55Z

69.119.27.194: I edited some spelling and added some information I thought to be needed.

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[[File:ACS London Streets - Concept Art.jpg|thumb|250px|London during the [[Victorian era]]]]
'''London''' is a city in southern England, and the current capital of the [[United Kingdom]]. London is also the Templars main home ground, like France is to the Assassins.

==History==
===Renaissance===
[[File:PL Pretenders.jpg|thumb|250px|left|London during the Renaissance]]
During the time of the mid-[[Renaissance]], London was ruled by King Henry VII of England. During the late 15th century, the [[Templars]] made attempts to obtain the English throne. However, their plans were thwarted by Henry VII, as he imprisoned [[Lambert Simnel]] and had [[Perkin Warbeck]] hanged. In 1503, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], the [[Mentor]] of the [[Italian Assassins]], sent a group of his [[apprentices]] to London to aid [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]]. The assassins killed Warbeck and Simnel's co-conspirator [[Margaret of York]] in November of 1503.<ref name="ACB">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – Contracts</ref><ref name="PL Contracts">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]'' – [[Contracts (Project Legacy)|Contracts]]</ref>

Afterwards, the apprentices killed several Templars instigating riots over Margaret's death. One such Templar revealed that their Order had infiltrated Henry's Star Chamber, to which the apprentices quickly searched for the infiltrators; they found a group of Englishmen signing [[House of Borgia|Borgia]] documents and eliminated them. As a reward, King Henry offered the Assassins a seat in the Star Chamber.<ref name="ACB"/><ref name="PL Contracts"/>

===Restoration era===
[[File:King's Return.png|thumb|250px|Charles II's crowning in London]]
In 1660, [[Charles II of England|Charles Stuart]] was invited to London to be crowned King after having been exiled by [[Oliver Cromwell]] for several years. At his crowning, Stuart noticed a man holding a [[Apples of Eden|sphere]] wrapped in a thick piece of cloth talking with his General, [[George Monck]].<ref>''Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy'' – ''[[Holidays: Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past]]''</ref>

===18th century===
[[File:PL-Ut Prosim.png|thumb|250px|left|London during the late 19th century]]
Following his time as a privateer-turned-pirate in the Caribbean, the Assassin [[Edward Kenway]] retired to a spacious [[Kenway Mansion|mansion]] on [[Queen Anne's Square]], in Bloomsbury, with his wife [[Tessa Kenway|Tessa]], son [[Haytham Kenway|Haytham]] and daughter [[Jennifer Scott|Jenny]]. On 3 December, 1735, mercenaries hired by the Templar – and family friend – [[Reginald Birch]] attacked their home, murdering Edward and kidnapping Jenny. Birch then took in Haytham, training him to become a Templar.<ref name="Forsaken">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forsaken]]''</ref>

In 1754, Haytham attended a performance of ''{{Wiki|The Beggar's Opera}}'' at the [[Theatre Royal]] to find and kill the Assassin [[Miko]],<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref> an act which saw Assassin influence in the city collapse entirely for the next 114 years.<ref name="ACS">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref> Haytham recovered an [[Grand Temple Key|artifact]] for Birch, who believed it was a key to a [[Isu|Precursor]] [[Grand Temple|site]] in [[North America]]: Haytham set sail for [[Boston]] on the ''[[Providence]]''. Meanwhile, Miko's murder became public news and left many civilians wondering whether to should leave the city or not.<ref name="AC3"/>

Four years later, Jenny returned to Queen Anne's Square after Haytham found her and rescued her from a palace in [[Damascus]].<ref name="Forsaken"/>

During the 18th century, the Templars were able to gain complete control of the city and kept it under their thumb well into the 19th century.<ref>[https://soundcloud.com/ac-initiates/the-network-podcast-episode-13 The Network Podcast - Episode 13]</ref>

===19th century===
{{Quote|Today, Starrick sits at the helm of the most sophisticated Templar infrastructure known in the western world. Every class, every borough, the gangs, the industries - his reach extends all across London. [...] Look at what Starrick has done to this city. Whitechapel is riddled with crime. Child labor, despite regulations. A gang known as the Blighters overruns the streets. And Templars manipulating behind the scenes. As in all the other boroughs. We need to return this city to the people who built it in the first place.|[[Henry Green]] describing the state of London, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
[[File:ACS Southwark - Concept Art.jpg|thumb|250px|London's [[Southwark]] borough during the Victorian era]]
By the 19th century, under [[Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]'s rule, London became the global capital of invention with its technological advancement. It was divided into seven boroughs - the [[City of London]], [[Lambeth]], [[The Strand]], [[Westminster]], [[Southwark]], [[Whitechapel]] and the [[River Thames]] - each with a different culture but with a single commonality. As country folk moved in to the city for employment, however, it resulted in a sudden increase in population and decrease in wages, in addition to most businessmen abusing workers. These actions became a spark for the [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/games/assassins-creed-syndicate/gameplay-london.aspx ''Assassin's Creed'' official website]</ref>

During the year 1868, Assassins and fraternal twins [[Jacob Frye|Jacob]] and [[Evie Frye]] created the [[Gangs|gang]] known as the [[Rooks]] to remove the influence of the Templar-backed gangs throughout London.<ref>[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/05/12/five-things-to-know-about-assassins-creed-syndicate-game-informer.aspx GameInformer: Five Things to Know About ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'']</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACS City of London - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of the [[City of London]] borough
ACS London Slums - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of the [[Whitechapel]] borough
ACS Industrial London - Concept Art.jpg|Concept art of an industrial area
ACS City of London.jpg|The City of London borough
ACS The Strand.jpg|[[The Strand]] borough
ACS Westminster.jpg|The [[Westminster]] borough
ACS Southwark.jpg|The Southwark borough
ACS Whitechapel.jpg|The Whitechapel borough
ACS Lambeth.jpg|The [[Lambeth]] borough
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{AC3}}
{{ACS}}
{{ACUW}}
[[Category:London| ]]
[[Category:Capital cities]]

Lydia Frye

2015-12-23T21:35:31Z

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{{Era|ACS|Assassins}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Dialogue|Churchill|If you could put your considerable talents to good use at Tower Bridge, you would have the thanks of a brave, but beleaguered nation.|Lydia|I would settle for the right to vote.|Lydia to Churchill, 1916.|The Darkest Hour}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS Lydia Frye Render.png
|birth = 19 March 1893<br>[[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice = [[Lisa Norton]]}}
'''Lydia Frye''' (1893 – unknown) was a member of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]], the wife of [[Sam Crowder]] and the granddaughter of [[Jacob Frye]].

During [[World War I]], Lydia operated in [[London]], protecting the city from [[Templars|Templar]] machinations. At the request of [[Winston Churchill]], she tracked down and eliminated a group of spies that were led by a [[Sage]].

==Biography==
===Early life===
Born into relative comfort, Lydia was initally reluctant to join the Brotherhood like the rest of her family, choosing to focus on her studies instead. Through her education, she nevertheless realized the extent of the Templars' influence throughout the world. This, coupled with the loss of friends and family to the [[Assassin–Templar War]], led Lydia to eventually accept her Assassin heritage and join the fight against the Templars.<ref name="Lydia Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' - [[Database: Lydia Frye]]</ref>

As her parents were frequently absent, engaged in missions for the Brotherhood abroad, Lydia turned to her grandfather and her great-aunt, [[Evie Frye]], for training. From them, she learned to analyze situations and plan accordingly, yet also stay flexible enough to improvize when things went awry.<ref name="Lydia Database"/>

At some point in time, Lydia fell in love with fellow Assassin Sam Crowder, whom she married shortly before the outbreak of World War I. While her husband, like many British Assassins, eventually enlisted in the army, Lydia remained in London, in order to protect the city against [[Germany|German]] spies, and the [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Rite]] of the Templar Order.<ref name="Lydia Database"/>

===Tracking the spies===
In 1916, at the behest of [[Winston Churchill]], Lydia infiltrated and eliminated a German Templar spy facility in [[Tower Bridge]]. She later sought out, on his request, the rest of the group and their [[Master Spy|Sage leader]] that he deemed to be a pressing matter of national security which he was unable to broach with the government as he lacked strong enough evidence. In exchange for her services, Churchill promised Lydia that he would do what he could for the enfranchisement of women when he had returned to parliament after the War.<ref name="ACS">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate''</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
===Equipment and skills===
Lydia was equipped with the same model of [[Hidden Blade]] and the same arsenal that her mentors used nearly fifty years earlier. Lydia possessed the skills of both her brawling grandfather and her stealthy great-aunt and like them, she possessed the rare trait of [[Eagle Vision]].

==Trivia==
*Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin ''Λυδια'', which means ''from Lydia'', a region on the west coast of Asia Minor. Frye is a derivative of the English word ''free''.
*Lydia was referred to as "Miss Frye" by Churchill, suggesting he was unaware of her status as a married woman. Alternatively, Lydia could have kept her family name, rather than take on that of her husband's.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACS DB Lydia Frye.jpg|Lydia's profile picture in the [[Helix]] database
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{ACS}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frye, Lydia}}
[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:Individuals]]
[[Category:Englishmen]]
[[Category:Assassins]]
[[Category:British Assassins]]
[[Category:Frye family|Lydia Frye]]
[[Category:Individuals with Eagle Vision]]

Lydia Frye

2015-12-23T21:33:43Z

69.119.27.194: /* Early life */

{{Era|ACS|Assassins}}
{{Spoilerhd}}
{{Dialogue|Churchill|If you could put your considerable talents to good use at Tower Bridge, you would have the thanks of a brave, but beleaguered nation.|Lydia|I would settle for the right to vote.|Lydia to Churchill, 1916.|The Darkest Hour}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS Lydia Frye Render.png
|birth = 19 March 1893<br>[[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice = [[Lisa Norton]]}}
'''Lydia Frye''' (1893 – unknown) was a member of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]], the wife of [[Sam Crowder]] and the granddaughter of [[Jacob Frye]].

During [[World War I]], Lydia operated in [[London]], protecting the city from [[Templars|Templar]] machinations. At the request of [[Winston Churchill]], she tracked down and eliminated a group of spies that were led by a [[Sage]].

==Biography==
===Early life===
Born into relative comfort, Lydia was initally reluctant to join the Brotherhood like the rest of her family, choosing to focus on her studies instead. Through her education, she nevertheless realized the extent of the Templars' influence throughout the world. This, coupled with the loss of friends and family to the [[Assassin–Templar War]], led Lydia to eventually accept her Assassin heritage and join the fight against the Templars.<ref name="Lydia Database">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' - [[Database: Lydia Frye]]</ref>

As her parents were frequently absent, engaged in missions for the Brotherhood abroad, Lydia turned to her grandfather and her great-aunt, [[Evie Frye]], for training. From them, she learned to analyze situations and plan accordingly, yet also stay flexible enough to improvize when things went awry.<ref name="Lydia Database"/>

At some point, Lydia fell in love with fellow Assassin Sam Crowder, whom she married shortly before the outbreak of World War I. While her husband, like many British Assassins, eventually enlisted in the army, Lydia remained in London, in order to protect the city against [[Germany|German]] spies, and the [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Rite]] of the Templar Order.<ref name="Lydia Database"/>

===Tracking the spies===
In 1916, at the behest of [[Winston Churchill]], Lydia infiltrated and eliminated a German Templar spy facility in [[Tower Bridge]]. She later sought out, on his request, the rest of the group and their [[Master Spy|Sage leader]] that he deemed to be a pressing matter of national security which he was unable to broach with the government as he lacked strong enough evidence. In exchange for her services, Churchill promised Lydia that he would do what he could for the enfranchisement of women when he had returned to parliament after the War.<ref name="ACS">''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate''</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
===Equipment and skills===
Lydia was equipped with the same model of [[Hidden Blade]] and the same arsenal that her mentors used nearly fifty years earlier. Lydia possessed the skills of both her brawling grandfather and her stealthy great-aunt and like them, she possessed the rare trait of [[Eagle Vision]].

==Trivia==
*Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin ''Λυδια'', which means ''from Lydia'', a region on the west coast of Asia Minor. Frye is a derivative of the English word ''free''.
*Lydia was referred to as "Miss Frye" by Churchill, suggesting he was unaware of her status as a married woman. Alternatively, Lydia could have kept her family name, rather than take on that of her husband's.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
ACS DB Lydia Frye.jpg|Lydia's profile picture in the [[Helix]] database
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{ACS}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frye, Lydia}}
[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:Individuals]]
[[Category:Englishmen]]
[[Category:Assassins]]
[[Category:British Assassins]]
[[Category:Frye family|Lydia Frye]]
[[Category:Individuals with Eagle Vision]]