Alan Jacob

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Alan Jacob was a businessman who served as the representative of the Far East Company in Portuguese Macau during the 1720s.

Alongside Jan van Aert of the Dutch East India Company and Master Sun of the Hualien Trading Company, he was a rival of the trading company led by Madam Lee. All three ultimately allied with the Templars in order to sabotage Lee's business and benefit their own.

Biography

In February 1725, under the Templars' influence, Alan collaborated with Master Sun, head of the Hualien Trading Company, and Jan van Aert, the Chief Navigator for the Dutch East India Company, to sabotage the rival trading company led by Madam Lee and benefit their own respective businesses in the process. To this end, they hired Shimazu clan ninja led by the Templar Shimazu Saito to eliminate Lee at her own residence, the Mandarin's House.

After the ninja failed to kill Lee, Alan called an emergency meeting with Sun and Jan at St. Dominic's Church in order to discuss their next course of action. On his way to the meeting, Alan was unknowingly followed by the Assassin Edward Kenway, who had protected Lee from the ninja. Observing the meeting from a balcony, Kenway listened to the three men's conversation and suspected one of them of being a Templar.

Alan meeting with Jan and Master Sun to discuss about Madam Lee

To cripple Lee's company, Alan came up with a plan that would require him, Sun and Jan to work together more closely and combine their respective companies' resources. While Sun was going to use his connections with the Shimazu clan to have the ninja continue attacking Lee's operations, Jan would have the Dutch East India Company detain Lee's ships in the Macau harbor.

Seeing that Sun and Jan were hesitant to follow his lead, Alan tried to entice their cooperation by showing them a "treasure" he had acquired, which he promised would bring them unprecedented wealth. Having convinced the two to do as they had been told, Alan then left the church in order to prepare for the next step of his plan.

As it turned out, this plan was to frame Lee's company for trafficking opium, which was labelled as contraband by the Macau authorities. Seeking to aid Lee, Kenway followed Alan to one of his convoys, which he then tailed to a basement in an alley where Alan's men were unloading the opium. Upon discovering the true nature of their cargo, Kenway was disgusted by the Far East Company's drug trafficking and sought to end their scheme. He later staged a raid on one of their ships being used to smuggle the opium into Macau, ultimately exposing the company's drug trafficking and leading to the ship being detained by the Dutch Navy.

Following this, Alan met with Jan and Sun at the port, where he furiously accused the former of betraying their agreement and attempting to sabotage his company, despite Jan claiming he had no choice in the matter. Their fight was broken up by Sun, who suspected that Lee had somehow learned about their plan and had sabotaged it. He then offered to help Alan recover the confiscated opium shipment, and reminded him and Jan that they could not end their alliance until they had dealt with Lee.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Forgotten Temple