Jacob Frye

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{{Dialogue2|Evie|You're relentless!|Jacob|That relentlessness will see me become Master when we finish this.|George would allow nothing of the sort. Whatever's left of the Creed would perish under your control.|Jacob and his sister, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
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|birth = 9 November 1847<br>[[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]]<br>[[Rooks]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice= [[Paul Amos]]}}
'''Sir Jacob Frye''' (1847 – unknown), born to [[Ethan Frye|Ethan]] and [[Cecily Frye]], was a [[Master Assassin]] of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] of [[Assassins]] active in [[London]] during the [[Victorian era]], and the younger twin brother of [[Evie Frye]], later becoming a member of [[Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria's]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]], and the grandfather of [[Lydia Frye]].

Born in [[Crawley]], where they were raised as Assassins from birth, Jacob and his sister eventually moved to London after their father died of natural causes.

Alongside Evie, Jacob led the [[Rooks]], a criminal syndicate opposing the Templars. At some point in their life, the twins came into contact with the novelist [[Charles Dickens]], the biologist [[Charles Darwin]] and the inventor [[Alexander Graham Bell]].

== Biography ==

=== Early life ===
Born four minutes after his twin Evie, Jacob and his sister were raised by their grandmother as their mother Cecily died in childbirth. They were later trained by Ethan Frye in the Assassin ways. Unlike Evie, Jacob dismissed his father's education, preferring to explore factories and gambling dens in Crawley late at night while Evie trained with Ethan.<ref name="Syndicate">[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate|''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'']]</ref>

Sometime after their father's natural death in 1868, Jacob and Evie traveled to the [[Ferris Ironworks]] with [[George Westhouse]], a fellow Assassin, to eliminate the Templars [[Rupert Ferris]] and [[David Brewster]]. Jacob infiltrated the Ironworks and assassinated Ferris. Escaping the enraged [[Blighters]] gang by train, Jacob narrowly survived the subsequent derailing and crash.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins later returned to Westhouse, having each completed their tasks. Impatient to journey for London, the twins were scolded by the older Assassin, warning them that it was not Ethan's plans for them. Despite Westhouse's sermon, Jacob and Evie secretly hitched a train to London, intent on liberating it, despite the Order's ruling against it.<ref name="Syndicate" />

=== Arrival in London ===
After arriving in [[Whitechapel]], the twins sought out the [[Assassin leader|leader]], and sole remaining Assassin in London, [[Henry Green]]. Informed of the Templars' vast control over the city, Jacob proposed to form a gang called the Rooks to challenge the Blighters' power in the area, disagreeing with Evie's plan to recover [[Pieces of Eden]]. While discussing this, the three Assassins bumped into the writer Charles Dickens who invited them for a talk sometime. After losing the [[Blighters]] tailing them, the twins joined Henry in his hideout, where he explained his array of contacts within the city.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins later encountered a disguised Sergeant [[Frederick Abberline]], who gave them a list of Blighters, whom they could kidnap and bring to him for arrest, preferring living to dead. Jacob and Evie also liberated abused children from the local factories, in order to satisfy their young contact [[Clara O'Dea]], in exchange for access to her network of child informants. Together with the new recruits, the siblings assassinated [[Rexford Kaylock]] and took control of Whitechapel from the Blighters, forming the Rooks in the process.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Following a street battle with Kaylock’s Blighters, from which they emerged victorious, the Assassins won the gang leader's personal train, and decided to utilize it as their hideout, gaining [[Agnes MacBean]]'s services as a financier in the process. They proceeded to travel to [[Southwark]] to meet Henry Green's accomplice and inventor, [[Alexander Graham Bell]], to fix the broken rope launcher for use on their [[Assassin Gauntlet|gauntlets]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

After Bell returned from installing fuses with Evie, the inventor showed Jacob the first messages of the telegraph and made him a second new rope launcher. The twins then headed to their hideout where they met [[Ned Wynert]], an American transgender entrepreneur, who gave them his business card. The Assassins planned their next motive, with Jacob determined to strengthen the Rooks and eliminate [[Crawford Starrick]]'s associates within London's infrastructure, whilst Evie searched for the [[Shroud of Eden]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

=== Rise of the Rooks ===
Although in disagreement with Evie's hunt for Pieces of Eden, Jacob aided his sister in recovering an artifact from the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne's shipments. He eliminated the guards as Evie searched the chests. However, he was caught and chased by Blighters as he returned to Evie, forcing the twins to flee on a carriage; Jacob took the reins while Evie acted on the defense. Ultimately, their pursuers were closing in, forcing the twins to abandon the carriage and its cargo, though Evie managed to keep hold of a journal belonging to the late [[Edward Kenway]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob begun his investigation into the source of ''[[Starrick's Soothing Syrup]]'', which was ravaging London’s poor districts. After chasing a merchant and locating the distributor to the factory, stealing his files in the process, Jacob managed to track down and kidnap the distribution boss in the [[Southwark]] Foundry, learning from him that Starrick's Soothing Syrup were produced in the distillation building.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Arriving there, Jacob witnessed an elderly man attempting to break inside, and hiding when the guards appeared. After eliminating the Blighters guarding the place, Jacob broke the lock of the factory and entered with the man. The duo investigated the tank and its ingredients, learning that the Syrup contained opium, turning it into an addictive and deadly substance. While the man hid near the entrance, Jacob turned the pressure valves, destroying the distillation tanks and setting fire to the building, which Jacob narrowly escaped by jumping through a window. The man introduced himself as [[Charles Darwin]], who showed the Assassin a document that indicated batches of the Syrup were sent to the [[Lambeth Asylum]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

He later found Darwin arguing with the asylum owner [[Richard Owen]] whom Jacob chased and hijacked his carriage, damaging it to scare Owen into revealing the creator of the Syrup - the doctor [[John Elliotson]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins visited Bell, who upgraded their gauntlet with a dart mechanism capable of firing hallucinogenic darts. Brother and sister provided assistance to the inventor by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the shipments in College Wharf. They also discovered poison in the shipments from Starrick.<ref name="Syndicate" />

After informing Darwin of his latest exploits regarding his hunt for the Syrup creator, Jacob infiltrated the asylum where he discovered the doctors brutally experimenting on patients for medical purposes. He assassinated Elliotson, who mocked him, calling him childish for not thinking of the consequences of his actions.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Continuing their fight against Starrick and his control of the press, brother and sister returned to Bell's laboratory where the latter told him Starrick's efforts of bribery to coax the inventor to his side. Aware of the Blighters aiming to attack him, he invented voltaic bombs which may stun assailants and offered them to the twins with insulators to protect the Assassins from harm. Suddenly, the infuriated Blighters arrived; they took this as an opportunity to test the bombs as Bell distracted them through talking.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The Assassins further aided the inventor in the telegraph station to keep Starrick from spreading false information throughout London and show people the truth about his operations by distracting the guards and defending Bell with their newly acquired weapon.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob introduced himself to Starrick's cousin and fierce business competitor [[Pearl Attaway]], unaware that she was a Templar and the Grand Master's family, to discuss a business preposition. He killed an employee of Attaway's rival company, [[Millner Company]]. The pair traveled to Millner's storage yard where Jacob destroyed their enemy's omnibuses, making [[Malcolm Millner]]'s profit plummet quickly.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Soon enough, Jacob suddenly entered Attaway's carriage, obviously disregarding her request for an appointment. The businesswoman gave him a job to secure internal combustion engines being delivered to Millner. Knowing the man he needed, Jacob freed the arrested Ned Wynert from his police convoy and asked for his aid to transfer the package cargo. Climbing aboard the moving Blighters trains, the young man searched the cargo for the engines and detached its wagon for Ned's train to recover.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Attaway tasked Jacob in murdering Millner who was in the [[Thames]] with his [[Riverboats|ferry]], the only business he had left. Jacob sabotaged the contraband on the boat to lure Millner outside where he assassinated him. The dying businessman revealed that Crawford and Attaway were family and allies. Dismayed, Jacob located Attaway and overheard her conversation with Starrick that she was a Templar. Finally, he headed to the [[Waterloo station]] to assassinate Attaway, recover the engines and escaped with the train.<ref name="Syndicate" />

=== Reclaiming control of London ===
Jacob targeted the financial field of Starrick, kidnapping a man to gather intel; the man, however, was Frederick Abberline who was once again in disguise. The sergeant informed the Assassin of a planned robbery of the {{Wiki|Bank of England}}. As the information was confidential, Jacob talked him into revealing the supplier - Cockham Merchants.<ref name="Syndicate" />

He later met again with Abberline to continue their investigation. Jacob located the smuggled weapons and tailed their delivery to the Templar [[Philip Twopenny]], under the alias of Plutus. Left with no choice but to stop the heist, Jacob infiltrated the Bank of England and assassinated Twopenny, giving the dead man a coin in mockery to the man's belief. As Jacob escaped, Abberline arrested Twopenny's accomplices.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Desperate to regain control, Crawford Starrick now entered England's politics, plotting against the [[Queen Victoria]] for his own profit. As Jacob's latest exploits was to now meddle with the Parliament, Evie warned her brother of the consequences of his latest actions: the increase of fraud medicine, transportation and production problems, and the near collapse of the British currency, problems she mostly fixed.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob proceeded in spying the prime minister of London with the Sinopean Club, following Benjamin Disraeli and a spy walk out from the meeting. He tackled the man, assuming it was the Templar associate "B", who told him that he was just paid by another man. He was suddenly shot in the head by a sniper. Jacob then chased the sniper, threatening her to reveal information. The scared woman admitted that she did not know her employer but they were planned to attack the prime minister's carriage.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Infiltrating Disraeli's carriage, Jacob pretended to be the prime minister's bodyguard. Disraeli was suspicious of the Assassin however, unlike his wife [[Mary Anne Disraeli|Mary Anne]] who let Jacob speak. There was a sudden gunshot from outside, coming from the police and the Blighters. Jacob defended the Disraelis and chased their hijacked carriage, securing the couple's safety. Jacob then asked Mary Anne for the Templar affiliate he was searching for and the woman agreed in exchange for a tour in the Devil's Acre.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Much later, Jacob arrived at their meeting place but Mary Anne canceled the tour due to scandal-seeking journalists. The Assassin, unable to hurt the journalists, distracted them instead and returned to Mary Anne's carriage. Escaping more journalists, the pair eventually arrived in Devil's Acre and avoided the Blighters thugs in patrol. They later settled to a tavern where Mary Ann's purse, containing her dog Desmond, was stolen. After recovering the dog, Jacob returned only to find Mary Anne advising the thugs. Their misfortune was succeeded by the Blighters chasing their carriage. With the tour coming to an end, Mary Anne revealed the man Jacob was seeking for - the [[James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan|Earl of Cardigan]], and his [[Palace of Westminster|location]].<ref name="Syndicate" />

Stealthily penetrating the Palace of Westminster, Jacob eventually made his way to the earl and assassinated him. The earl called him a coward and dramatically announced his death, much to Jacob's irritation. Having done his task, Jacob escaped the palace's guards and Blighters patrol. Unbeknownst to him, his action caused major turmoil in the citizens of London, another problem Evie had to fix for him.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Moving to his next target, Jacob accepted London's biggest criminal mastermind and Templar [[Maxwell Roth]]'s invitation for dinner, who found Jacob's accomplishments magnificent. He offered the Assassin a partnership which Jacob accepted. The duo rode into the night to St. Pancras station, where the Jacob blew up shipments of explosives belonging to Starrick and Co. With the explosives dealt with, Jacob went to kidnap a driver to deliver the train to Roth.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The pair continued their goal to overthrow Starrick's control over London with theft in mind. Roth explained his plan to kidnap three of the Grand Master's henchmen [[Hattie Cadwallader]], [[Benjamin Raffles]] and [[Chester Swinebourne]], a task which Jacob accomplished, delivering the trio to Roth's carriage.<ref name="Syndicate" />

However, Jacob found Roth's tactics brutal and selfish. He decided to severe the agreement after Roth's unconcern in destroying a factory with innocent laboring children inside. Jacob, opposing Roth's idea of sacrificing innocents for Starrick's downfall, refused, forcing Roth to ignite the explosives himself and Jacob save the children from the building. He was then given a letter by Roth in a form of a gift, with the corpse of Roth's pet bird inside.<ref name="Syndicate" />

With his sister, the Rooks eventually took control of London's boroughs, eliminating the Blighters threat with their Templar leaders [[Bloody Nora]], [[Lilla Graves]], [[Victor Lynch]], [[Octavia Plumb]], [[Cletus Strain]], and [[Edith Swinebourne]] by launching a gang war between the two rivals.<ref name="Syndicate" />

===Later life===
Jacob eventually married and had at least one child, a son, who was also invested into the Assassin Order; in time, a granddaughter, Lydia Frye, was born. With Lydia’s parents often away on the continent performing missions for the Brotherhood, responsibility for Lydia’s training fell to Jacob and Evie.

At the outbreak of [[World War I|war]] in 1914, Jacob and Evie were removed to the safety of the countryside, while Lydia remained in London to protect the city from German spies and Templar agents.<ref name="LydiaFryedatabase">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' - [[Database: Lydia Frye]]</ref>

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|I'm no criminal. I just do as I please.|Jacob Frye.}}
Unlike his level-headed and stealthy elder sister, Jacob was a reckless and rebellious individual.<ref name="ACS YT" /> While he was brought up as an Assassin, he did not appear to be a fervent believer in the Creed's tenets like his sister, preferring action over philosophical thoughts and a good fight over discretion.<ref name="Ubisoft">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/games/assassins-creed-syndicate/jacob-frye.aspx Assassinscreed.ubi.com: Jacob Frye]</ref> While "having fun" was very important to Jacob, he was not above altruistic acts and fighting for the disenfranchised.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewA3lw8zWM4 IGN First - ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'''s Jacob and Evie May Be Series' Best Heroes Yet]</ref>

===Equipment and skills===
{{Quote|Leave the sneaking and spying to my sister. Toss me my brass knuckles and point me to a good brawl.|Jacob Frye.}}
Having been trained by the Brotherhood from birth, Jacob was a Master Assassin adept at both stealth and combat, despite his preference for the latter. He was also a skilled [[Freerunning|Freerunner]], able to scale the tall buildings of London with relative ease.<ref name="Ubisoft" />

An experienced brawler, Jacob was proficient in hand-to-hand combat, using his [[brass knuckles]] for brutal take-downs. Due to the era's restriction on open weaponry, Jacob utilized an arsenal of hidden tools including his [[Hidden Blade]]s, one of which was equipped with a rope launcher – a versatile tool that he could utilize to access and scale areas quickly, as well as create [[ziplines]].<ref name="Walkthrough">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKR42Ci000k ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' Gameplay Walkthrough]</ref>

Accompanying this, the Hidden Blade was equipped with a mechanism that fired [[Poison darts|hallucinogenic darts]]; firing a dart into an open flame would result in a poisonous gas cloud, allowing Jacob to eliminate multiple enemies from a distance. Other weapons in his possession included a [[Machetes|kukri]] blade, a [[Swords|cane-sword]], a six-shot [[Firearms|revolver]] and [[throwing knives]].<ref name="Walkthrough" /><ref>[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassin-s-creed-syndicate-story-characters-and-se/1100-6427217/ Gamespot: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' Story, Characters and Setting]</ref>

Additionally, Jacob possessed the rare ability of [[Eagle Vision]].<ref name="Ubisoft" />

==Trivia==
*Jacob's name is of Biblical origin, with the meaning being either ''he who grasps the heel'' or ''supplanter''. Frye is a derivative of the English word ''free''.
*Evie and Jacob are the third and fourth Assassin protagonists from a main installment to wear robes whose primary color is not white, the other two being [[Arno Dorian]] and [[Shay Cormac]] while he was still allied with the Assassins.
*Jacob keeps a shilling around his neck as a memento.
*He possesses a scar on his right eyebrow, as well as one on the left side of his beard.
*Jacob has a tattoo of a raven on his left collarbone.
*He is now the youngest Master Assassin in the main franchise, replacing [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad|Altair]] who was 25 when he received the title.

==Gallery==
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ACS Jacob Frye - Concept Art.jpg|Jacob in his standard Assassin attire
Jacob Frye Art 2.png|An alternative outfit of Jacob's
ACS The Creature’s Rags - Concept Art.png|Jacob's "The Creature's Rags" outfit
jacob frye art 1.jpg|An alternative outfit of Jacob's
ACS Jacob's Hats - Concept Art.png|Various outfits of Jacob's
ACS Jacob Frye Cosplay Reference.jpg|References for Jacob's outfit
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|-|Promotional media=
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ACS Hooded Jacob.jpg|Promotional render of hooded Jacob
Jacob Frye.png|Promotional art of Jacob
ACS-Rooks promo.jpg|Jacob with his sister and the Rooks
ACS Frye Twins Promotional Art.jpg|Promotional art of the Frye twins
ACS Promotional Screenshot 2.jpg|Jacob in combat
ACS-E3 promo 9.jpg|Jacob leading a gang war
ACS Promotional Screenshot 3.jpg|Jacob performing an air assassination
ACS-E3 promo 7.jpg|Jacob causing an explosion
ACS-E3 promo 13.jpg|Jacob hanging onto a speeding train
ACS Promotional Screenshot 9.jpg|Jacob riding a carriage
ACS Promotional Screenshot 30.jpg|Jacob preparing to ignite explosives
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|-|Outfits=
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" spacing="small" widths="180">
01_SimplyJacob.jpg|Simply Jacob outfit
03_OutdoorsmanOutfit.jpg|Outdoorsman outfit
04_MasterAssassin-Jacob.jpg|Master Assassin outfit
08_Ezio.jpg|Ezio legacy outfit
09_EdwardKenway.jpg|Edward Kenway legacy outfit
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==References==
{{Reflist}}13. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurpv61nrII YouTube: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - Jacob Frye Fight Club Gameplay]

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Database: Evie Frye

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[[File:ACS Evie Frye.png|250px|thumb|Evie Frye]]
Date of Birth: 9 November 1847.

[[Evie Frye]] was born four minutes before her brother, [[Jacob Frye|Jacob]], and she never let him forget it. She was fierce from the moment she gasped and kicked her way into life, shattering the peaceful silence of a gracious country home.

Jacob and Evie's mother, Cecily, died in childbirth. She was the only daughter of an [[United Kingdom|English]] steelworks managed based in the Rhondda valley in South Wales. Her mother was of Welsh stock. Their father, Ethan, accepted his mother-in-law's offer to raise the children until the age of six. He then took charge of their upbringing at his home in [[Crawley]].

Her father raised Evie and her brother to join the [[Assassins|Assassin order]]. It was a dangerous time for the Assassins in England, as the [[Templars]] tried to extend their stranglehold on [[London]] to the surrounding countryside. Evie was studious and technical - she gravitated toward the more theoretical and organisational parts of the organisation. She specialised in research, with a side interest in [[Pieces of Eden]].

Ethan instilled in his children a strong sense of social duty - the idea that the Assassins should help the people be free, rather than solely act as agents to take down oppressive forces. While Jacob rebelled against his father's schooling, Evie relished his lessons. His teachings became a cornerstone of Evie's personal creed. Her first assassination was a mill owner who was abusing and refusing to pay his staff. The incoming owner - a member of the Brotherhood - improved conditions greatly.

Evie is valued among the Assassins for her thoughtful planning, her ability to solve problems, and her ability to see the human side of any equation.
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