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|name = Henry Raymond | |name = Henry Raymond | ||
|image = ACS DB Henry Raymond.jpg | |image = ACS DB Henry Raymond.jpg | ||
|death = 1868<br | |death = 1868<br>[[London]], [[United Kingdom]] | ||
|species = [[Human]] | |species = [[Human]] | ||
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
By 1868, Raymond had written a number of amateurish penny dreadfuls based on local murders he found intriguing.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – [[Database: Henry Raymond]]</ref> While his works never reached a wider audience, they were enjoyed by Artie and his friends, the former of whom became Raymond's greatest fan and began accompanying him to crime scenes around London. While investigating one such scene in [[Whitechapel]], the pair met Jacob and Evie Frye and enlisted their help to solve the murder, as well as several others, so Raymond could adapt them into penny dreadfuls.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – ''[[The Dreadful Crimes]]'' – [[A Simple Matter of Murder!]]</ref> | |||
Raymond | After their reputation as detectives had grown, the Frye twins were summoned by Queen [[Victoria]], via [[Frederick Abberline]], to solve the murder of one of her [[Queen's Guard|guards]] at [[Buckingham Palace]]. Conducting an investigation, the Assassins discovered that the culprit was in fact Raymond, who had posed as the seemingly deceased guard to steal the Sceptre of the Dove. His deception involved taking spider venom to induce a death-like state so he could watch the Queen enter the combination to her safe when she assumed a thief was after it, as well as leaving a series of false clues that the palace would be bombed in order to cover his escape.<ref name="Murder at the Palace">''[[Assassin's Creed: Syndicate]]'' – ''[[The Dreadful Crimes]]'' – [[Murder at the Palace!]]</ref> | ||
Artie had already uncovered the true plan and set out to stop Raymond, but was kidnapped. Raymond then successfully stole the sceptre, but was cornered on the palace's roof by the Frye twins. Using Artie as a human shield, Raymond was distracted by one of the siblings while the other climbed the palace façade, reaching Raymond from behind and throwing him off the roof to his death to save Artie.<ref name="Murder at the Palace"/> | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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Revision as of 15:01, 9 August 2025
Henry Raymond (died 1868) was a penny dreadful journalist during the mid-19th century. In 1868, Raymond and his greatest fan, a young boy named Artie, worked together with the Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye to solve a number of murders across London.
Biography
By 1868, Raymond had written a number of amateurish penny dreadfuls based on local murders he found intriguing.[1] While his works never reached a wider audience, they were enjoyed by Artie and his friends, the former of whom became Raymond's greatest fan and began accompanying him to crime scenes around London. While investigating one such scene in Whitechapel, the pair met Jacob and Evie Frye and enlisted their help to solve the murder, as well as several others, so Raymond could adapt them into penny dreadfuls.[2]
After their reputation as detectives had grown, the Frye twins were summoned by Queen Victoria, via Frederick Abberline, to solve the murder of one of her guards at Buckingham Palace. Conducting an investigation, the Assassins discovered that the culprit was in fact Raymond, who had posed as the seemingly deceased guard to steal the Sceptre of the Dove. His deception involved taking spider venom to induce a death-like state so he could watch the Queen enter the combination to her safe when she assumed a thief was after it, as well as leaving a series of false clues that the palace would be bombed in order to cover his escape.[3]
Artie had already uncovered the true plan and set out to stop Raymond, but was kidnapped. Raymond then successfully stole the sceptre, but was cornered on the palace's roof by the Frye twins. Using Artie as a human shield, Raymond was distracted by one of the siblings while the other climbed the palace façade, reaching Raymond from behind and throwing him off the roof to his death to save Artie.[3]
Trivia
- The name "Henry Raymond" was a known alias of Adam Worth, a famous criminal mastermind nicknamed "the Napoleon of Crime," a title that would eventually be shared by Professor James Moriarty, the adversary of Arthur Conan Doyle's famed fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes.
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