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Evie Frye

2015-11-17T17:47:55Z

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|image = ACS Evie Frye Render.png
|birth = 9 November 1847 [[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Rooks]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]] [[Ghost Club]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice = [[Victoria Atkin]]}}
'''Dame Evie Frye, LG''' (1847 – unknown) was a [[Master Assassin]] of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] active in [[London]] during the [[Victorian era]], and the elder twin sister of [[Jacob Frye]]. She was also a member of the [[Order of the Sacred Garter]], and the grand-aunt of [[Lydia Frye]].

Originating from [[Crawley]], Evie and her brother moved to London to overthrow the oppressive [[Templars|Templar]]-led establishment and help the poverty-stricken masses, following the death of their father by natural causes. To accomplish this, she and Jacob founded the [[Rooks]], a criminal syndicate that opposed the Templar-back [[Blighters]].

During their time in London, the twins came into contact with the biologist [[Charles Darwin]], the novelist [[Charles Dickens]], the inventor [[Alexander Graham Bell]], [[Metropolitan Police Service|Metropolitan Police Sergeant]] [[Frederick Abberline]], the nurse [[Florence Nightingale]], and Queen Victoria herself.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Evie was born four minutes before her brother Jacob. Due to their mother [[Cecily Frye|Cecily's]] death after childbirth, the twins were raised by their grandmother in Crawley until the age of six, after which they were trained by their father, [[Ethan Frye]], in the ways of the Assassins. Evie relished in her father's lessons and gravitated in planning and research on the Brotherhood, and the [[Pieces of Eden]], unlike the carefree Jacob.<ref name="ACS">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>

Early in her career as an Assassin, Evie assassinated an abusive mill owner who refused to provide adequate wages to his workers; her first assassination target. The mill owner was eventually replaced by an Assassin.<ref name="ACS" />

After their father's death in 1868, the twins coordinated with [[George Westhouse]] in [[Croydon]], to remove the Templar threat of [[Rupert Ferris]] and [[David Brewster]]. Having her research and plans for her attack in [[Starrick Telegraph Company|Starrick and Co.]] train yard, Evie deployed a diversion by detaching the train's carriages to infiltrate Brewster's laboratory and recover a Piece of Eden from him and the Templar occultist [[Lucy Thorne]].<ref name="ACS" />

Upon gaining access in the laboratory, Evie assassinated Brewster, who was experimenting the artifact on a machine and destabilizing it, causing the machine to malfunction and explode. She later returned to Westhouse and Jacob to report her accomplishment. The twins shared impatience upon traveling to London, an idea which Westhouse disagreed, warning the siblings that it was not Ethan's wish for them. Adamant to continue her father's legacy, Evie accompanied Jacob in hitching a train heading to London.<ref name="ACS" />

=== Arrival in London ===
The twins arrived in [[Whitechapel]] and decided to seek out the [[Assassin leader]] Henry Green who apprised them on the Templar control over London. Evie contradicted her brother's proposal in creating a gang called Rooks to challenge the [[Blighters]], instead suggesting to recover Pieces of Eden. The trio bumped into the writer Charles Dickens and Blighters thugs. Evie joined her brother in driving a [[Wagon|carriage]] to distract them in chasing Henry, destroying Blighters carriages in the process. Returning in Henry's hideout, the Assassins discussed their contacts within the city.<ref name="ACS" />

They later met with a disguised Frederick Abberline, the Chief of Metropolitan Police Service in the back alley. Abberline gave them a list of notable Blighters members whom they kidnapped. Following this, Evie and Jacob contacted their young ally [[Clara O'Dea]] in Babylon Alley for information in exchange of freeing children from labor in the factory. After eliminating the rest of the Blighters and their leader [[Rexford Kaylock]]'s control of Whitechapel, the duo formed the Rooks.<ref name="ACS" />

The Assassins took ownership of the former Blighters train, making it their hideout, and allied with [[Agnes MacBean]] who provided her financial services. Brother and sister further traveled to [[Southwark]] to meet Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Green's associate, to fix the broken rope launcher and attach it to the [[Assassin Gauntlet]].<ref name="ACS" />

In return for his aid, Evie assisted Bell in setting up a free telegraph line for companies competing against [[Starrick Telegraph Company]] to use, by installing new fuses in the [[Clock Tower]] of the [[Palace of Westminster]], while at the same time suggesting that he rename his phonetic telegraph as the telephone. Returning to Bell's carriage, the latter showed Evie his smoke bombs and provided her the formula. Evie then made her way to a Blighter stronghold to loot metal components and returned to Bell's workshop. The twins headed to their hideout where they were greeted by [[Ned Wynert]], who gave them his business card. The Assassins began planning their next move, Evie focusing on recovering precursor artifacts.<ref name="ACS" />

=== Hunt for Pieces of Eden ===
Seeing Jacob's plan to destroy the Templars a brash and reckless idea, the siblings were in disagreement. They headed to Alexander Graham Bell who added a dart mechanism to their gauntlets. They aided the inventor by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the College Wharf, in addition to discovering a poison shipment from Starrick.<ref name="ACS" />

The twins decided to recover an artifact from Lucy Thorne's shipments. As Jacob eliminated the guards, Evie searched the chest and found documents and a book with an Assassin insignia on the cover. Unfortunately, more Blighters came, forcing the twins to take the carriage. Evie took the defense while Jacob took the reins. Ultimately, they were forced to abandon the carriage, along with the documents, but Evie managed to keep the Assassin book.<ref name="ACS" />

After returning to the hideout, Evie investigated the journal with Henry Green, finding a hidden map using her Eagle Vision which lead to the Assassin [[Edward Kenway]]'s [[Kenway Mansion|mansion]]. They discovered that Lucy Thorne and the Blighters had taken control of the mansion which forced them to sneak inside and scrutinize the Kenway's memorabilia for clues. Evie deciphered a code in the piano which opened a hatch on the floor. The Assassins managed to recover a documents and an artifact before the Templars discovered the hatch, escaping through tunnels below the mansion.<ref name="ACS" />

Continuing their fight against Starrick and his control of the press, Evie and Jacob returned to Bell's laboratory where the latter told them Starrick's efforts of bribery to coax the inventor to his side. This caused him to invent voltaic bombs to stun assailants and offered them to the twins with insulators to protect the Assassins from harm. Soon enough, the infuriated Blighters arrived; they took this as an opportunity to test the bombs as Bell distracted them through talking.<ref name="ACS" />

The twins 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="ACS" />

Much later, Evie visited the [[Lambeth Asylum]] after Jacob's assassination of Dr. [[John Elliotson]] where she saw an ill Clara O'Dea who came searching for medicine for the children in her care. However, Clara fainted in Evie's arms. Fortunately, the door to the hospital was opened by a woman who identified herself as Florence Nightingale and asked the Assassin to recover supplies for the cure.<ref name="ACS" />

She continued her investigation, with the documents leading her to a contraption for a puzzle in the [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. After solving the gear puzzle, she discovered a precursor necklace at the top of the cathedral. Unfortunately, Lucy Thorne arrived and the two duelled which resulted to Thorne escaping with the necklace.<ref name="ACS" />

=== Search for the Shroud ===
Sometime after Jacob's assassination of [[Pearl Attaway]] and shutting down of her omnibus company, Evie visited [[Southwark]], finding a man, [[Edward Bayley]], harassed by the Blighters. She chased the Blighters on a carriage as she defended the man. The pair rode to Attaway's former omnibus factory to steal the deed and return it to Bayley, safeguarding the businessman's family from the Templars. Grateful to his savior, Bayley introduced Evie to the founders of the London General Omnibus Company, notifying her their endeavor to supply the needed omnibuses for the city. Realizing that her brother had caused more problems for the citizens with his assassinations, Evie warned Jacob of the consequences of his actions.<ref name="ACS" />

Much later, Evie and Henry Green researched the precursor necklace Lucy Thorne stole. Green commented that it matched the casket owned by the [[Queen Victoria]] kept in the [[Tower of London]]. Evie infiltrated the fortress, witnessing the disguised Blighters took care of aware guards and search for the casket. Eventually, she managed to assassinate Lucy Thorne who mocked the Assassins of not using the capabilities of the precursor artifacts. The Royal Guards eventually regained control, forcing the Blighters into combat and Evie to escape in a [[Riverboats|riverboat]].<ref name="ACS" />

Evie met with Frederick Abberline, learning from the sergeant that Jacob's actions had caused major turmoil in the citizens of London, despite Evie's warnings to her brother. She was forced to recover the currency printing plates, whom Jacob was accused of stealing. Abberline also requested her to destroy counterfeit notes while she was at it. Evie then tailed the counterfeiter's carriage and finished Abberline's request.<ref name="ACS" />

Continuing her search, Evie and Henry congregated with the Prince Escort [[Duleep Singh]] who had the lead on the location of the Shroud's vault in the [[Buckingham Palace]]. The Prince Escort informed the pair that their plans were removed by Starrick but he had their location. Henry provided a distraction for Evie to sneak past the guards and recover the documents. Still unable to find the documents, Evie kidnapped a Templar guard only to discover that Henry had been kidnapped.<ref name="ACS" />

Abandoning her mission, Evie decided to rescue Henry instead. Some of Clara O'Dea's children witnessed his kidnapping and told Evie to follow the cart's wobbly tracks. She had to interview witnesses to unveil Henry's location. Evie finally tracked him down the tunnels beneath the church and escorted him to escape. She advised her fellow Assassin to let Florence Nightingale heal his head injury while she contacted the Maharaja again.<ref name="ACS" />

Eventually, Evie aided her brother and the Rooks in taking control of London's boroughs during gang wars against the Blighters by eliminating their Templar leaders [[Bloody Nora]], [[Lilla Graves]], [[Victor Lynch]], [[Octavia Plumb]], [[Cletus Strain]], and [[Edith Swinebourne]].<ref name="ACS" />

=== Assassinating Crawford Starrick ===
With most of the Templars now eliminated by Jacob and Starrick the only threat left, Evie discussed the situation of the Shroud in the palace, only to find Jacob uninterested. Annoyed, she scolded her brother with his reckless planning and mistakes Evie was forced to fix. Evie mentioned their father, much to Jacob's irritation and the twins argued. Henry calmed them down and notified them of a ball to be held in the palace which Starrick was planning to enter, steal the Shroud and eliminate the heads of church and government.<ref name="ACS" />

Using this as an opportunity to recover the Piece of Eden, Evie and Jacob joined forces and invited [[Benjamin Disraeli|the]] [[Mary Anne Disraeli|Disraelis]], the prime minister and his wife, in their hideout. Here they expressed their need to enter the ball and offered to steal the Disraeli's rivals Gladstone's invitation which the couple gladly approved. As Jacob recovered the invitations, Evie visited the Maharaja for a second set of plans.<ref name="ACS" />

Duleep Singh told her, however, that he had a matter of urgency that would require stealth and speed - acquiring a royal carriage to drive politicians in their destinations in exchange for the information. Evie complied as Singh rode the carriage and talked to the politicians as they rode around London. With the job completed, the Maharaja told her of the plans' location with the Queen.<ref name="ACS" />

The twins successfully managed to infiltrate the ball using Gladstone's carriage and invitations. Evie then headed off to locate the plans in a white drawing room. Due to the restrictions of her dress, Evie was forced to kidnap one of the royal guards to get inside the room and steal the plans. On the way down, she bumped into Mary Anne Disraeli who introduced her to the Queen, who knew their dealing with Gladstone.<ref name="ACS" />

Politely excusing herself, Evie continued her way towards the vault entrance only to be grabbed by Crawford Starrick himself. The Templar Grand Master offered her a dance and told her that people would never change and that soon as the dance ended, the snipers would end her life. Fortunately, Jacob came to her rescue, eliminating the snipers with his recovered weapons. However, Starrick managed to steal the precursor necklace from Evie.<ref name="ACS" />

After changing her clothes, she immediately dashed towards the vault to save Jacob in the hands of Starrick. However, Starrick had activated the vault's precursor defense mechanism which sent Jacob sprawling on the floor. Evie fought the Templar one on one but the Shroud prevented her to deal much damage. Crawford grabbed Evie by the neck but was stopped by Jacob. Afer exchanging more blows with Starrick, the two of them were trapped.<ref name="ACS" />

Henry Green fortunately arrived, throwing a knife at the Templar. Joining the fight, Henry, too was knocked off by the Templar. Evie and Jacob joined forces to remove the Shroud and eventually assassinate him. By working together, the rift between the twins vanished. Evie aided Henry as Jacob returned the Shroud and the two Assassins shared a kiss.<ref name="ACS" />

Shortly thereafter, the three Assassins met with Queen Victoria, who was grateful to her saviors. She knighted them to her [[Order of the Sacred Garter]]. The twins then raced off to their hideout, leaving Henry behind.<ref name="ACS" />

===Pursuing Jack the Ripper===
In 1888, Scotland Yard asked Evie to help them put a stop to the murderous madness of [[Jack the Ripper]].<ref name="Jack">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)]]</ref>

===Later life===
Following the events of 1868, Evie and Jacob continued to operate in London. Eventually, Evie became the great-aunt of Jacob’s grandchild, [[Lydia Frye]]. Responsibility for training the young Frye fell to Evie and her brother.<ref name="LydiaFryedatabase">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Lydia Frye]]</ref>

At the outbreak of 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" />

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|For every mission, there is a right way and a wrong way. Barging thoughtlessly into combat is, more often than not, the latter.|Evie Frye.}}
A true tactician and firm believer in the teachings of the Brotherhood, Evie took to the lessons of her father in a way that her brother did not, being more studious and more interested in the lore and history of the Assassins.<ref>[https://soundcloud.com/ac-initiates/the-network-podcast-episode-13 The Network Podcast - Episode 13]</ref> She planned her missions carefully and patiently, considering every angle to ensure the best chance of success. Sometimes, this worked against her, as it meant that she was slow to act.<ref name="Evie Profile">[http://blog.ubi.com/assassins-creed-syndicate-evie-frye-profile/ Ubiblog - ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - The Stealthy Mind of Evie Frye]</ref>

By contrast, her brother Jacob was much quicker to spring into action, yet his plans lacked sufficient forethought as a result. While the twins' means were frequently at odds, their motivations were the same, and the pair were at their most effective when they worked together, as they balanced each other out.<ref name="Evie Profile" />

===Equipment and skills===
{{Quote|A true master of stealth can blend into any environment. If I remain still, my enemies will have no idea I’m about to strike.|Evie Frye.}}
A Master Assassin proficient with the [[Hidden Blade]], Evie was able to assassinate her targets skilfully and stealthily. She excelled at masking her presence, to such an extent that [[guards]] were unable to notice her as long as she remained still.<ref name="Gamespot">[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/stalking-a-target-as-evie-frye-in-assassins-creed-/1100-6429415/ Gamespot - Stalking a Target as Evie Frye in ''Assassin's Creed Syndicate'']</ref>

As the carrying of weapons openly was forbidden at the time, she relied on an arsenal of hidden tools, much like her brother. Evie was capable of using a [[Swords|cane-sword]], a [[Machetes|Kukri]], [[firearms]], [[brass knuckles]], [[Throwing knives]], [[Bombs|smoke bombs]] and voltaic bombs, which let loose a blast of electricity upon impact. Her Hidden Blade was also equipped with a rope launcher, allowing her to scale buildings quickly as well as create ziplines, and could fire [[Poison darts|hallucinogenic darts]].<ref name="Evie Profile" />

While her brother specialized in brutal and straightforward weaponry like the brass knuckles and the firearms, Evie's stealthy nature led her to prefer more subtle tools like the cane-sword and throwing knives.<ref name="Evie Profile" /> She was especially proficient with the latter, being able to carry a larger amount and hit targets at a greater range than her brother.<ref name="Gamespot" />

She was also a skilled [[Freerunning|freerunner]] and possessed the rare ability of [[Eagle Vision]].<ref name="Gamespot" />

===Romantic life===
{{Quote|'Don't allow personal feelings to compromise the mission.' What a mistake.|Evie chastising herself for not heeding her father's words, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
During her time in London, Evie grew increasingly fond of her fellow Assassin Henry Green, with whom she frequently worked together in studying and locating the Pieces of Eden. Eager to have this partnership continue beyond research, she encouraged him to do go out in the field with her, despite his own beliefs that he was not as well suited to it. When Henry later disappeared during one of their missions, Evie abandoned the original objective to save him from his captors, a decision she later came to question.

Realizing that her feelings for Henry affected her ability to judge situations objectively, which her father had warned her against during her youth, Evie broke off the partnership and went out into the field by herself once more. However, after speaking extensively with Duleep Singh, she came to question her strict adherence to her father's words.

When Henry came to her and Jacob's rescue in their final confrontation with Starrick, Evie realized she wanted to be with him after all; once Starrick had been assassinated, she thanked Henry for saving them both, before kissing him. Sometime later, Henry proposed to her with a bouquet of flowers at the train hideout, to which she accepted.

==Trivia==
*Evie's name is of biblical origin, being an alternate form of Eve, which means ''life''. Frye is a derivative of the English word ''free''.
*Evie is the first playable female character in one of the [[Assassin's Creed (series)|''Assassin's Creed'' franchise]]'s main entries and the third playable female character in the franchise as a whole, having been preceded by [[Aveline de Grandpré]] and [[Shao Jun]].
*Much like [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], Evie and Jacob dipped an object in their target's blood following that person's death, though where Altaïr's used a feather, the twins used a handkerchief.
*Like Ezio, Evie wears a half-cape, though hers is worn on the right shoulder, while Ezio's was on the left shoulder.

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Evie Frye

2015-11-17T17:23:43Z

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{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS Evie Frye Render.png
|birth = 9 November 1847 [[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Rooks]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]] [[Ghost Club]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice = [[Victoria Atkin]]}}
'''Dame Evie Frye, KG''' (1847 – unknown) was a [[Master Assassin]] of the [[British Assassins|British Brotherhood]] active in [[London]] during the [[Victorian era]], and the elder twin sister of [[Jacob Frye]]. She was also a member of the [[Order of the Sacred Garter]], and the grand-aunt of [[Lydia Frye]].

Originating from [[Crawley]], Evie and her brother moved to London to overthrow the oppressive [[Templars|Templar]]-led establishment and help the poverty-stricken masses, following the death of their father by natural causes. To accomplish this, she and Jacob founded the [[Rooks]], a criminal syndicate that opposed the Templar-back [[Blighters]].

During their time in London, the twins came into contact with the biologist [[Charles Darwin]], the novelist [[Charles Dickens]], the inventor [[Alexander Graham Bell]], [[Metropolitan Police Service|Metropolitan Police Sergeant]] [[Frederick Abberline]], the nurse [[Florence Nightingale]], and Queen Victoria herself.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Evie was born four minutes before her brother Jacob. Due to their mother [[Cecily Frye|Cecily's]] death after childbirth, the twins were raised by their grandmother in Crawley until the age of six, after which they were trained by their father, [[Ethan Frye]], in the ways of the Assassins. Evie relished in her father's lessons and gravitated in planning and research on the Brotherhood, and the [[Pieces of Eden]], unlike the carefree Jacob.<ref name="ACS">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''</ref>

Early in her career as an Assassin, Evie assassinated an abusive mill owner who refused to provide adequate wages to his workers; her first assassination target. The mill owner was eventually replaced by an Assassin.<ref name="ACS" />

After their father's death in 1868, the twins coordinated with [[George Westhouse]] in [[Croydon]], to remove the Templar threat of [[Rupert Ferris]] and [[David Brewster]]. Having her research and plans for her attack in [[Starrick Telegraph Company|Starrick and Co.]] train yard, Evie deployed a diversion by detaching the train's carriages to infiltrate Brewster's laboratory and recover a Piece of Eden from him and the Templar occultist [[Lucy Thorne]].<ref name="ACS" />

Upon gaining access in the laboratory, Evie assassinated Brewster, who was experimenting the artifact on a machine and destabilizing it, causing the machine to malfunction and explode. She later returned to Westhouse and Jacob to report her accomplishment. The twins shared impatience upon traveling to London, an idea which Westhouse disagreed, warning the siblings that it was not Ethan's wish for them. Adamant to continue her father's legacy, Evie accompanied Jacob in hitching a train heading to London.<ref name="ACS" />

=== Arrival in London ===
The twins arrived in [[Whitechapel]] and decided to seek out the [[Assassin leader]] Henry Green who apprised them on the Templar control over London. Evie contradicted her brother's proposal in creating a gang called Rooks to challenge the [[Blighters]], instead suggesting to recover Pieces of Eden. The trio bumped into the writer Charles Dickens and Blighters thugs. Evie joined her brother in driving a [[Wagon|carriage]] to distract them in chasing Henry, destroying Blighters carriages in the process. Returning in Henry's hideout, the Assassins discussed their contacts within the city.<ref name="ACS" />

They later met with a disguised Frederick Abberline, the Chief of Metropolitan Police Service in the back alley. Abberline gave them a list of notable Blighters members whom they kidnapped. Following this, Evie and Jacob contacted their young ally [[Clara O'Dea]] in Babylon Alley for information in exchange of freeing children from labor in the factory. After eliminating the rest of the Blighters and their leader [[Rexford Kaylock]]'s control of Whitechapel, the duo formed the Rooks.<ref name="ACS" />

The Assassins took ownership of the former Blighters train, making it their hideout, and allied with [[Agnes MacBean]] who provided her financial services. Brother and sister further traveled to [[Southwark]] to meet Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Green's associate, to fix the broken rope launcher and attach it to the [[Assassin Gauntlet]].<ref name="ACS" />

In return for his aid, Evie assisted Bell in setting up a free telegraph line for companies competing against [[Starrick Telegraph Company]] to use, by installing new fuses in the [[Clock Tower]] of the [[Palace of Westminster]], while at the same time suggesting that he rename his phonetic telegraph as the telephone. Returning to Bell's carriage, the latter showed Evie his smoke bombs and provided her the formula. Evie then made her way to a Blighter stronghold to loot metal components and returned to Bell's workshop. The twins headed to their hideout where they were greeted by [[Ned Wynert]], who gave them his business card. The Assassins began planning their next move, Evie focusing on recovering precursor artifacts.<ref name="ACS" />

=== Hunt for Pieces of Eden ===
Seeing Jacob's plan to destroy the Templars a brash and reckless idea, the siblings were in disagreement. They headed to Alexander Graham Bell who added a dart mechanism to their gauntlets. They aided the inventor by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the College Wharf, in addition to discovering a poison shipment from Starrick.<ref name="ACS" />

The twins decided to recover an artifact from Lucy Thorne's shipments. As Jacob eliminated the guards, Evie searched the chest and found documents and a book with an Assassin insignia on the cover. Unfortunately, more Blighters came, forcing the twins to take the carriage. Evie took the defense while Jacob took the reins. Ultimately, they were forced to abandon the carriage, along with the documents, but Evie managed to keep the Assassin book.<ref name="ACS" />

After returning to the hideout, Evie investigated the journal with Henry Green, finding a hidden map using her Eagle Vision which lead to the Assassin [[Edward Kenway]]'s [[Kenway Mansion|mansion]]. They discovered that Lucy Thorne and the Blighters had taken control of the mansion which forced them to sneak inside and scrutinize the Kenway's memorabilia for clues. Evie deciphered a code in the piano which opened a hatch on the floor. The Assassins managed to recover a documents and an artifact before the Templars discovered the hatch, escaping through tunnels below the mansion.<ref name="ACS" />

Continuing their fight against Starrick and his control of the press, Evie and Jacob returned to Bell's laboratory where the latter told them Starrick's efforts of bribery to coax the inventor to his side. This caused him to invent voltaic bombs to stun assailants and offered them to the twins with insulators to protect the Assassins from harm. Soon enough, the infuriated Blighters arrived; they took this as an opportunity to test the bombs as Bell distracted them through talking.<ref name="ACS" />

The twins 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="ACS" />

Much later, Evie visited the [[Lambeth Asylum]] after Jacob's assassination of Dr. [[John Elliotson]] where she saw an ill Clara O'Dea who came searching for medicine for the children in her care. However, Clara fainted in Evie's arms. Fortunately, the door to the hospital was opened by a woman who identified herself as Florence Nightingale and asked the Assassin to recover supplies for the cure.<ref name="ACS" />

She continued her investigation, with the documents leading her to a contraption for a puzzle in the [[St Paul's Cathedral]]. After solving the gear puzzle, she discovered a precursor necklace at the top of the cathedral. Unfortunately, Lucy Thorne arrived and the two duelled which resulted to Thorne escaping with the necklace.<ref name="ACS" />

=== Search for the Shroud ===
Sometime after Jacob's assassination of [[Pearl Attaway]] and shutting down of her omnibus company, Evie visited [[Southwark]], finding a man, [[Edward Bayley]], harassed by the Blighters. She chased the Blighters on a carriage as she defended the man. The pair rode to Attaway's former omnibus factory to steal the deed and return it to Bayley, safeguarding the businessman's family from the Templars. Grateful to his savior, Bayley introduced Evie to the founders of the London General Omnibus Company, notifying her their endeavor to supply the needed omnibuses for the city. Realizing that her brother had caused more problems for the citizens with his assassinations, Evie warned Jacob of the consequences of his actions.<ref name="ACS" />

Much later, Evie and Henry Green researched the precursor necklace Lucy Thorne stole. Green commented that it matched the casket owned by the [[Queen Victoria]] kept in the [[Tower of London]]. Evie infiltrated the fortress, witnessing the disguised Blighters took care of aware guards and search for the casket. Eventually, she managed to assassinate Lucy Thorne who mocked the Assassins of not using the capabilities of the precursor artifacts. The Royal Guards eventually regained control, forcing the Blighters into combat and Evie to escape in a [[Riverboats|riverboat]].<ref name="ACS" />

Evie met with Frederick Abberline, learning from the sergeant that Jacob's actions had caused major turmoil in the citizens of London, despite Evie's warnings to her brother. She was forced to recover the currency printing plates, whom Jacob was accused of stealing. Abberline also requested her to destroy counterfeit notes while she was at it. Evie then tailed the counterfeiter's carriage and finished Abberline's request.<ref name="ACS" />

Continuing her search, Evie and Henry congregated with the Prince Escort [[Duleep Singh]] who had the lead on the location of the Shroud's vault in the [[Buckingham Palace]]. The Prince Escort informed the pair that their plans were removed by Starrick but he had their location. Henry provided a distraction for Evie to sneak past the guards and recover the documents. Still unable to find the documents, Evie kidnapped a Templar guard only to discover that Henry had been kidnapped.<ref name="ACS" />

Abandoning her mission, Evie decided to rescue Henry instead. Some of Clara O'Dea's children witnessed his kidnapping and told Evie to follow the cart's wobbly tracks. She had to interview witnesses to unveil Henry's location. Evie finally tracked him down the tunnels beneath the church and escorted him to escape. She advised her fellow Assassin to let Florence Nightingale heal his head injury while she contacted the Maharaja again.<ref name="ACS" />

Eventually, Evie aided her brother and the Rooks in taking control of London's boroughs during gang wars against the Blighters by eliminating their Templar leaders [[Bloody Nora]], [[Lilla Graves]], [[Victor Lynch]], [[Octavia Plumb]], [[Cletus Strain]], and [[Edith Swinebourne]].<ref name="ACS" />

=== Assassinating Crawford Starrick ===
With most of the Templars now eliminated by Jacob and Starrick the only threat left, Evie discussed the situation of the Shroud in the palace, only to find Jacob uninterested. Annoyed, she scolded her brother with his reckless planning and mistakes Evie was forced to fix. Evie mentioned their father, much to Jacob's irritation and the twins argued. Henry calmed them down and notified them of a ball to be held in the palace which Starrick was planning to enter, steal the Shroud and eliminate the heads of church and government.<ref name="ACS" />

Using this as an opportunity to recover the Piece of Eden, Evie and Jacob joined forces and invited [[Benjamin Disraeli|the]] [[Mary Anne Disraeli|Disraelis]], the prime minister and his wife, in their hideout. Here they expressed their need to enter the ball and offered to steal the Disraeli's rivals Gladstone's invitation which the couple gladly approved. As Jacob recovered the invitations, Evie visited the Maharaja for a second set of plans.<ref name="ACS" />

Duleep Singh told her, however, that he had a matter of urgency that would require stealth and speed - acquiring a royal carriage to drive politicians in their destinations in exchange for the information. Evie complied as Singh rode the carriage and talked to the politicians as they rode around London. With the job completed, the Maharaja told her of the plans' location with the Queen.<ref name="ACS" />

The twins successfully managed to infiltrate the ball using Gladstone's carriage and invitations. Evie then headed off to locate the plans in a white drawing room. Due to the restrictions of her dress, Evie was forced to kidnap one of the royal guards to get inside the room and steal the plans. On the way down, she bumped into Mary Anne Disraeli who introduced her to the Queen, who knew their dealing with Gladstone.<ref name="ACS" />

Politely excusing herself, Evie continued her way towards the vault entrance only to be grabbed by Crawford Starrick himself. The Templar Grand Master offered her a dance and told her that people would never change and that soon as the dance ended, the snipers would end her life. Fortunately, Jacob came to her rescue, eliminating the snipers with his recovered weapons. However, Starrick managed to steal the precursor necklace from Evie.<ref name="ACS" />

After changing her clothes, she immediately dashed towards the vault to save Jacob in the hands of Starrick. However, Starrick had activated the vault's precursor defense mechanism which sent Jacob sprawling on the floor. Evie fought the Templar one on one but the Shroud prevented her to deal much damage. Crawford grabbed Evie by the neck but was stopped by Jacob. Afer exchanging more blows with Starrick, the two of them were trapped.<ref name="ACS" />

Henry Green fortunately arrived, throwing a knife at the Templar. Joining the fight, Henry, too was knocked off by the Templar. Evie and Jacob joined forces to remove the Shroud and eventually assassinate him. By working together, the rift between the twins vanished. Evie aided Henry as Jacob returned the Shroud and the two Assassins shared a kiss.<ref name="ACS" />

Shortly thereafter, the three Assassins met with Queen Victoria, who was grateful to her saviors. She knighted them to her [[Order of the Sacred Garter]]. The twins then raced off to their hideout, leaving Henry behind.<ref name="ACS" />

===Pursuing Jack the Ripper===
In 1888, Scotland Yard asked Evie to help them put a stop to the murderous madness of [[Jack the Ripper]].<ref name="Jack">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Jack the Ripper (DLC)]]</ref>

===Later life===
Following the events of 1868, Evie and Jacob continued to operate in London. Eventually, Evie became the great-aunt of Jacob’s grandchild, [[Lydia Frye]]. Responsibility for training the young Frye fell to Evie and her brother.<ref name="LydiaFryedatabase">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Lydia Frye]]</ref>

At the outbreak of 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" />

==Personality and characteristics==
{{Quote|For every mission, there is a right way and a wrong way. Barging thoughtlessly into combat is, more often than not, the latter.|Evie Frye.}}
A true tactician and firm believer in the teachings of the Brotherhood, Evie took to the lessons of her father in a way that her brother did not, being more studious and more interested in the lore and history of the Assassins.<ref>[https://soundcloud.com/ac-initiates/the-network-podcast-episode-13 The Network Podcast - Episode 13]</ref> She planned her missions carefully and patiently, considering every angle to ensure the best chance of success. Sometimes, this worked against her, as it meant that she was slow to act.<ref name="Evie Profile">[http://blog.ubi.com/assassins-creed-syndicate-evie-frye-profile/ Ubiblog - ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - The Stealthy Mind of Evie Frye]</ref>

By contrast, her brother Jacob was much quicker to spring into action, yet his plans lacked sufficient forethought as a result. While the twins' means were frequently at odds, their motivations were the same, and the pair were at their most effective when they worked together, as they balanced each other out.<ref name="Evie Profile" />

===Equipment and skills===
{{Quote|A true master of stealth can blend into any environment. If I remain still, my enemies will have no idea I’m about to strike.|Evie Frye.}}
A Master Assassin proficient with the [[Hidden Blade]], Evie was able to assassinate her targets skilfully and stealthily. She excelled at masking her presence, to such an extent that [[guards]] were unable to notice her as long as she remained still.<ref name="Gamespot">[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/stalking-a-target-as-evie-frye-in-assassins-creed-/1100-6429415/ Gamespot - Stalking a Target as Evie Frye in ''Assassin's Creed Syndicate'']</ref>

As the carrying of weapons openly was forbidden at the time, she relied on an arsenal of hidden tools, much like her brother. Evie was capable of using a [[Swords|cane-sword]], a [[Machetes|Kukri]], [[firearms]], [[brass knuckles]], [[Throwing knives]], [[Bombs|smoke bombs]] and voltaic bombs, which let loose a blast of electricity upon impact. Her Hidden Blade was also equipped with a rope launcher, allowing her to scale buildings quickly as well as create ziplines, and could fire [[Poison darts|hallucinogenic darts]].<ref name="Evie Profile" />

While her brother specialized in brutal and straightforward weaponry like the brass knuckles and the firearms, Evie's stealthy nature led her to prefer more subtle tools like the cane-sword and throwing knives.<ref name="Evie Profile" /> She was especially proficient with the latter, being able to carry a larger amount and hit targets at a greater range than her brother.<ref name="Gamespot" />

She was also a skilled [[Freerunning|freerunner]] and possessed the rare ability of [[Eagle Vision]].<ref name="Gamespot" />

===Romantic life===
{{Quote|'Don't allow personal feelings to compromise the mission.' What a mistake.|Evie chastising herself for not heeding her father's words, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
During her time in London, Evie grew increasingly fond of her fellow Assassin Henry Green, with whom she frequently worked together in studying and locating the Pieces of Eden. Eager to have this partnership continue beyond research, she encouraged him to do go out in the field with her, despite his own beliefs that he was not as well suited to it. When Henry later disappeared during one of their missions, Evie abandoned the original objective to save him from his captors, a decision she later came to question.

Realizing that her feelings for Henry affected her ability to judge situations objectively, which her father had warned her against during her youth, Evie broke off the partnership and went out into the field by herself once more. However, after speaking extensively with Duleep Singh, she came to question her strict adherence to her father's words.

When Henry came to her and Jacob's rescue in their final confrontation with Starrick, Evie realized she wanted to be with him after all; once Starrick had been assassinated, she thanked Henry for saving them both, before kissing him. Sometime later, Henry proposed to her with a bouquet of flowers at the train hideout, to which she accepted.

==Trivia==
*Evie's name is of biblical origin, being an alternate form of Eve, which means ''life''. Frye is a derivative of the English word ''free''.
*Evie is the first playable female character in one of the [[Assassin's Creed (series)|''Assassin's Creed'' franchise]]'s main entries and the third playable female character in the franchise as a whole, having been preceded by [[Aveline de Grandpré]] and [[Shao Jun]].
*Much like [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], Evie and Jacob dipped an object in their target's blood following that person's death, though where Altaïr's used a feather, the twins used a handkerchief.
*Like Ezio, Evie wears a half-cape, though hers is worn on the right shoulder, while Ezio's was on the left shoulder.

==References==
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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 talking to his sister, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
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|image = ACS Jacob Frye.png
|birth = 9 November 1847 [[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Rooks]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]] [[Ghost Club]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
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'''Sir Jacob Frye, KG''' (1847 – unknown) 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 Templar-backed [[Blighters]]. 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 Frye|Cecily]] died in childbirth. They were later trained by their father, [[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 to throw her off the roof to reveal information. The scared woman admitted that she did not know her employer, only giving a description of his appearance. 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 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" />

To celebrate Starrick's loss and the end of Jacob's partnership, Roth called for a masquerade party in the Alhambra Music Hall. Jacob took this opportunity to assassinate the Templar and his decoys during the performance. Roth, now mad with the goal to murder his audience and Jacob, set fire to the stage. Jacob then used his blade to end Roth's life who in turn kissed Jacob, telling him his reason of killing innocents was just because he wanted to. The Assassin narrowly escaped the flaming theater.<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" />

=== Assassinating Crawford Starrick ===
After assassinating Maxwell Roth, Jacob returned to Evie who scolded him with his disinterest in the Shroud and reckless planning. Evie mentioned their father, a sore topic for Jacob, and the siblings argued. Henry calmed them down and told them about a ball to be held in the [[Buckingham Palace]] where Starrick was planning to steal the Piece of Eden and eliminate the heads of church and government.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Finding this a good opportunity to assassinate Starrick, Jacob formulated a plan with Evie and invited the Disraelis to their hideout. The twins told them their need to enter the ball and offered their plan to steal their rival Gladstone's invitation, much to the Disraelis' glad approval.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob then headed to the [[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]'s house to recover the invitations and eventually tracked Mrs. Gladstone and hijacked her carriage. Finding that weaponry were not allowed in the ball, Jacob asked Frederick Abberline for ideas and the latter told him to acquire the royal guards' uniform. The Assassin proceeded to the St. Martin's Church, stole one, giving it to Abberline.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins successfully managed to infiltrate the ball using Gladstone's carriage and invitations. Jacob sought out Frederick Abberline for their smuggled weapons. The sergeant told Jacob that Starrick had disguised his own men with the royal guards. The Assassin came to the rescue, killing all of the impostors. Afterwards, Jacob sent his sister a signal.<ref name="Syndicate" />

However, Evie lost her precursor necklace to Starrick and ordered her brother to locate the vault. Jacob made his way to the vault, finding Starrick with the Shroud. He failed to attack the Templar, instead, Starrick choked him. The vault's activated defense mechanism sent Jacob sprawling on the floor. Finally recovering, Jacob had to save his sister in return from the clutch of Starrick. After exchanging more blows with Starrick, the two of them were trapped.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Henry Green fortunately arrived, throwing a knife at the Templar. Joining the fight, Henry too was knocked off by the Templar. Jacob and Evie continued the fight and manged to remove the Shroud and end Starrick's life. With the Templar threat gone, the rift between the siblings vanished. Jacob returned the Shroud as Evie attended at Henry's side.<ref name="Syndicate" />

A short time later, the three Assassins met with the Queen Victoria who was grateful to her saviors. The queen knighted them to her [[Order of the Sacred Garter]]. The twins then raced off to their hideout, leaving Henry behind.<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.}}
Jacob was an impulsive, reckless and rebellious individual with a quick wit and an aggressive demeanor. While he was brought up as an Assassin, Jacob grew up under a strict lifestyle that restricted his active behavior. As a result, he began to resent his father as well as his teachings, and usually lost his composure when Evie brings their deceased father into their arguments. Furthermore, 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. As such, he was easily dismissive of Pieces of Eden, preferring to focus on his targets.

Coupled with his reckless behaviour, Jacob remained oblivious to the chaos created by him. Assassinating Starraick's Templar associates created as much harm as good, and when brought up by Evie, Jacob simply dismissed them. Instead, he justified his actions by claiming he was doing something proactive in toppling Starrick's power, unlike Evie who was obsessed in tracking down the Pieces of Eden.

However, complimenting his impulsive and reckless behavior, Jacob was very good at thinking on his feet, part of the reason he survived his own recklessness. Also, as a gang leader Jacob proved himself as a criminal strategist and organizer.<ref name="Syndicate" />

While "having fun" was very important to Jacob, he was not above altruistic acts and fighting for the disenfranchised. Furthermore, he had no desire to harm any innocent civillians, cutting off all ties with Maxwell Roth for doing so. Upon seeing how dangerous Roth's anarchism was, Jacob finally realised the flaw in his own idea of freedom. As such, he came to understand the tenets of the Creed, and acknowledged that his father was right all along. It was after Starrick's downfall that the two siblings reconciled. <ref name="Syndicate" />

===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">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/games/assassins-creed-syndicate/jacob-frye.aspx Assassinscreed.ubi.com: Jacob Frye]</ref>

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''.
*Jacob keeps a shilling around his neck as a memento.
*Jacob 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 and another depicting a stylized cross on the shoulder.
*Jacob is the youngest known Master Assassin, followed by his sister Evie, who is only four minutes older, and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who was 25 when he received the title.
*Much like [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], Jacob and Evie dipped an object in their target's blood following that person's death, though where Altaïr's used a feather, the twins used a handkerchief.

==References==
{{GalleryBox|Jacob Frye}}
{{Reflist}}13. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurpv61nrII YouTube: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - Jacob Frye Fight Club Gameplay]

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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 talking to his sister, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS Jacob Frye.png
|birth = 9 November 1847 [[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Rooks]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]] [[Ghost Club]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice= [[Paul Amos]]}}
'''Sir Jacob Frye KG''' (1847 – unknown) 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 Templar-backed [[Blighters]]. 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 Frye|Cecily]] died in childbirth. They were later trained by their father, [[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 to throw her off the roof to reveal information. The scared woman admitted that she did not know her employer, only giving a description of his appearance. 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 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" />

To celebrate Starrick's loss and the end of Jacob's partnership, Roth called for a masquerade party in the Alhambra Music Hall. Jacob took this opportunity to assassinate the Templar and his decoys during the performance. Roth, now mad with the goal to murder his audience and Jacob, set fire to the stage. Jacob then used his blade to end Roth's life who in turn kissed Jacob, telling him his reason of killing innocents was just because he wanted to. The Assassin narrowly escaped the flaming theater.<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" />

=== Assassinating Crawford Starrick ===
After assassinating Maxwell Roth, Jacob returned to Evie who scolded him with his disinterest in the Shroud and reckless planning. Evie mentioned their father, a sore topic for Jacob, and the siblings argued. Henry calmed them down and told them about a ball to be held in the [[Buckingham Palace]] where Starrick was planning to steal the Piece of Eden and eliminate the heads of church and government.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Finding this a good opportunity to assassinate Starrick, Jacob formulated a plan with Evie and invited the Disraelis to their hideout. The twins told them their need to enter the ball and offered their plan to steal their rival Gladstone's invitation, much to the Disraelis' glad approval.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob then headed to the [[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]'s house to recover the invitations and eventually tracked Mrs. Gladstone and hijacked her carriage. Finding that weaponry were not allowed in the ball, Jacob asked Frederick Abberline for ideas and the latter told him to acquire the royal guards' uniform. The Assassin proceeded to the St. Martin's Church, stole one, giving it to Abberline.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins successfully managed to infiltrate the ball using Gladstone's carriage and invitations. Jacob sought out Frederick Abberline for their smuggled weapons. The sergeant told Jacob that Starrick had disguised his own men with the royal guards. The Assassin came to the rescue, killing all of the impostors. Afterwards, Jacob sent his sister a signal.<ref name="Syndicate" />

However, Evie lost her precursor necklace to Starrick and ordered her brother to locate the vault. Jacob made his way to the vault, finding Starrick with the Shroud. He failed to attack the Templar, instead, Starrick choked him. The vault's activated defense mechanism sent Jacob sprawling on the floor. Finally recovering, Jacob had to save his sister in return from the clutch of Starrick. After exchanging more blows with Starrick, the two of them were trapped.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Henry Green fortunately arrived, throwing a knife at the Templar. Joining the fight, Henry too was knocked off by the Templar. Jacob and Evie continued the fight and manged to remove the Shroud and end Starrick's life. With the Templar threat gone, the rift between the siblings vanished. Jacob returned the Shroud as Evie attended at Henry's side.<ref name="Syndicate" />

A short time later, the three Assassins met with the Queen Victoria who was grateful to her saviors. The queen knighted them to her [[Order of the Sacred Garter]]. The twins then raced off to their hideout, leaving Henry behind.<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.}}
Jacob was an impulsive, reckless and rebellious individual with a quick wit and an aggressive demeanor. While he was brought up as an Assassin, Jacob grew up under a strict lifestyle that restricted his active behavior. As a result, he began to resent his father as well as his teachings, and usually lost his composure when Evie brings their deceased father into their arguments. Furthermore, 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. As such, he was easily dismissive of Pieces of Eden, preferring to focus on his targets.

Coupled with his reckless behaviour, Jacob remained oblivious to the chaos created by him. Assassinating Starraick's Templar associates created as much harm as good, and when brought up by Evie, Jacob simply dismissed them. Instead, he justified his actions by claiming he was doing something proactive in toppling Starrick's power, unlike Evie who was obsessed in tracking down the Pieces of Eden.

However, complimenting his impulsive and reckless behavior, Jacob was very good at thinking on his feet, part of the reason he survived his own recklessness. Also, as a gang leader Jacob proved himself as a criminal strategist and organizer.<ref name="Syndicate" />

While "having fun" was very important to Jacob, he was not above altruistic acts and fighting for the disenfranchised. Furthermore, he had no desire to harm any innocent civillians, cutting off all ties with Maxwell Roth for doing so. Upon seeing how dangerous Roth's anarchism was, Jacob finally realised the flaw in his own idea of freedom. As such, he came to understand the tenets of the Creed, and acknowledged that his father was right all along. It was after Starrick's downfall that the two siblings reconciled. <ref name="Syndicate" />

===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">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/games/assassins-creed-syndicate/jacob-frye.aspx Assassinscreed.ubi.com: Jacob Frye]</ref>

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''.
*Jacob keeps a shilling around his neck as a memento.
*Jacob 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 and another depicting a stylized cross on the shoulder.
*Jacob is the youngest known Master Assassin, followed by his sister Evie, who is only four minutes older, and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who was 25 when he received the title.
*Much like [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], Jacob and Evie dipped an object in their target's blood following that person's death, though where Altaïr's used a feather, the twins used a handkerchief.

==References==
{{GalleryBox|Jacob Frye}}
{{Reflist}}13. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurpv61nrII YouTube: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - Jacob Frye Fight Club Gameplay]

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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 talking to his sister, 1868.|Assassin's Creed: Syndicate}}
{{Character Infobox
|image = ACS Jacob Frye.png
|birth = 9 November 1847 [[Crawley]], [[United Kingdom]]
|affiliates = [[Assassins]] [[Rooks]] [[Order of the Sacred Garter]] [[Ghost Club]]
|appear = ''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]''
|voice= [[Paul Amos]]}}
'''Sir Jacob Frye, '''KG (1847 – unknown) 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 Templar-backed [[Blighters]]. 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 Frye|Cecily]] died in childbirth. They were later trained by their father, [[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 to throw her off the roof to reveal information. The scared woman admitted that she did not know her employer, only giving a description of his appearance. 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 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" />

To celebrate Starrick's loss and the end of Jacob's partnership, Roth called for a masquerade party in the Alhambra Music Hall. Jacob took this opportunity to assassinate the Templar and his decoys during the performance. Roth, now mad with the goal to murder his audience and Jacob, set fire to the stage. Jacob then used his blade to end Roth's life who in turn kissed Jacob, telling him his reason of killing innocents was just because he wanted to. The Assassin narrowly escaped the flaming theater.<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" />

=== Assassinating Crawford Starrick ===
After assassinating Maxwell Roth, Jacob returned to Evie who scolded him with his disinterest in the Shroud and reckless planning. Evie mentioned their father, a sore topic for Jacob, and the siblings argued. Henry calmed them down and told them about a ball to be held in the [[Buckingham Palace]] where Starrick was planning to steal the Piece of Eden and eliminate the heads of church and government.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Finding this a good opportunity to assassinate Starrick, Jacob formulated a plan with Evie and invited the Disraelis to their hideout. The twins told them their need to enter the ball and offered their plan to steal their rival Gladstone's invitation, much to the Disraelis' glad approval.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Jacob then headed to the [[William Ewart Gladstone|Gladstone]]'s house to recover the invitations and eventually tracked Mrs. Gladstone and hijacked her carriage. Finding that weaponry were not allowed in the ball, Jacob asked Frederick Abberline for ideas and the latter told him to acquire the royal guards' uniform. The Assassin proceeded to the St. Martin's Church, stole one, giving it to Abberline.<ref name="Syndicate" />

The twins successfully managed to infiltrate the ball using Gladstone's carriage and invitations. Jacob sought out Frederick Abberline for their smuggled weapons. The sergeant told Jacob that Starrick had disguised his own men with the royal guards. The Assassin came to the rescue, killing all of the impostors. Afterwards, Jacob sent his sister a signal.<ref name="Syndicate" />

However, Evie lost her precursor necklace to Starrick and ordered her brother to locate the vault. Jacob made his way to the vault, finding Starrick with the Shroud. He failed to attack the Templar, instead, Starrick choked him. The vault's activated defense mechanism sent Jacob sprawling on the floor. Finally recovering, Jacob had to save his sister in return from the clutch of Starrick. After exchanging more blows with Starrick, the two of them were trapped.<ref name="Syndicate" />

Henry Green fortunately arrived, throwing a knife at the Templar. Joining the fight, Henry too was knocked off by the Templar. Jacob and Evie continued the fight and manged to remove the Shroud and end Starrick's life. With the Templar threat gone, the rift between the siblings vanished. Jacob returned the Shroud as Evie attended at Henry's side.<ref name="Syndicate" />

A short time later, the three Assassins met with the Queen Victoria who was grateful to her saviors. The queen knighted them to her [[Order of the Sacred Garter]]. The twins then raced off to their hideout, leaving Henry behind.<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.}}
Jacob was an impulsive, reckless and rebellious individual with a quick wit and an aggressive demeanor. While he was brought up as an Assassin, Jacob grew up under a strict lifestyle that restricted his active behavior. As a result, he began to resent his father as well as his teachings, and usually lost his composure when Evie brings their deceased father into their arguments. Furthermore, 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. As such, he was easily dismissive of Pieces of Eden, preferring to focus on his targets.

Coupled with his reckless behaviour, Jacob remained oblivious to the chaos created by him. Assassinating Starraick's Templar associates created as much harm as good, and when brought up by Evie, Jacob simply dismissed them. Instead, he justified his actions by claiming he was doing something proactive in toppling Starrick's power, unlike Evie who was obsessed in tracking down the Pieces of Eden.

However, complimenting his impulsive and reckless behavior, Jacob was very good at thinking on his feet, part of the reason he survived his own recklessness. Also, as a gang leader Jacob proved himself as a criminal strategist and organizer.<ref name="Syndicate" />

While "having fun" was very important to Jacob, he was not above altruistic acts and fighting for the disenfranchised. Furthermore, he had no desire to harm any innocent civillians, cutting off all ties with Maxwell Roth for doing so. Upon seeing how dangerous Roth's anarchism was, Jacob finally realised the flaw in his own idea of freedom. As such, he came to understand the tenets of the Creed, and acknowledged that his father was right all along. It was after Starrick's downfall that the two siblings reconciled. <ref name="Syndicate" />

===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">[http://assassinscreed.ubi.com/en-US/games/assassins-creed-syndicate/jacob-frye.aspx Assassinscreed.ubi.com: Jacob Frye]</ref>

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''.
*Jacob keeps a shilling around his neck as a memento.
*Jacob 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 and another depicting a stylized cross on the shoulder.
*Jacob is the youngest known Master Assassin, followed by his sister Evie, who is only four minutes older, and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who was 25 when he received the title.
*Much like [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]], Jacob and Evie dipped an object in their target's blood following that person's death, though where Altaïr's used a feather, the twins used a handkerchief.

==References==
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{{Reflist}}13. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurpv61nrII YouTube: ''Assassin's Creed: Syndicate'' - Jacob Frye Fight Club Gameplay]

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