Jack the Ripper

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"Grand work the last job was. I gave the lady no time to squeal. How can they catch me now... I love my work and want to start again."

―Jack, regarding his work, 1888.

Jack (unknown – 1888), formerly known as Jack the Lad during his youth, and widely feared as "Jack the Ripper", was a member of the British Brotherhood of Assassins, active in the Whitechapel district of London up until 1888.

Jack became infamous in 1888 following a series of gruesome murders of young women, in fact fellow Assassins trying to stop his madness; these murders, in conjunction with Jack's control over London's criminal enterprise, threatened the very existence of the Assassins in London.

Biography

Early life

In his youth, Jack's mother was butchered by the Templars of Crawford Starrick. Traumatized by the lost of his mother, Jack was placed in Lambeth Asylum, where ill-treatments and negligence only further aggravated his mental instability. After the death of Starrick in 1868, he was liberated from the asylum and brought into the Assassin fold by Jacob Frye to be trained among a selection of new initiates.

In 1870, he traveled with Jacob and the other initiates to India in order to learn the fear tactics of the Indian Brotherhood, a group who Jacob's sister, Evie Frye, had joined.

Returning to London

Upon returning to London, Jack began to develop an extremist view of the Assassins' mission. Eventually, Jack usurped control of the Rooks from Jacob and killed anyone sent to deter him. Radicalising his followers, Whitechapel, the centre of Jack's operations, descended into a cesspool of crime and depravity.

Autumn of Terror

During the Autumn of Terror, Jack murdered a number of Assassins sent after him by Jacob, including Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. With these murders, Jack, under the pseudonym of "Jack the Ripper", started to attract media attention. Arthur Weaversbrook in particular, under duress due to Jack having kidnapped his son, began to publish Jack's letters for the public to inquire.

Having left a message for Jacob nearby, after his former mentor had demanded that Weaversbrook stop publishing the Ripper's letters, Jack trailed and kidnapped a fleeing Jacob, defeating him in combat and locking him up at Lambeth Asylum.

Before he was kidnapped, Jacob requested by letter that Evie return to London. With her return, Jack saw the gradual disruption of his plans. He was eventually lured out of the shadows by the assassination of Olwyn Owers at Evie's hands; after Evie assassinated his right hand woman, Jack killed all of the occupants at Owers Manor and subsequently framed the former for the massacre.

He was keeping hostages in old Navy ships and forcing them to write to their families, making demands that were to be met in exchange for the lives of their abducted loved ones. This part of his plan too would be thwarted by Evie, as she dismantled his private prison and informed the police about the abducted hostages. Consequently, Jack resolved to eliminate any witnesses at Deptford that knew of his actions as well as any evidence linking him to the Assassins, in an effort to protect the Brotherhood and his new Creed.

Death

Jack staged a reunion between the Frye twins at Lambeth Asylum, with the intention of killing Evie. He lured Evie to the site of his mother's murder and left her with clues and cues indicating he was situated there. In preparation for her arrival, he killed prominent Lambeth Asylum staff that knew of his childhood confinement there, including his abusive nurse, a doctor and the asylum's director, and destroyed all records of his stay there. To slow Evie's approach, he released all of the asylum's inmates. This all proved to be in vain, however, as Evie defeated him and his incarcerated cohorts in combat and killed him with his own trademark dagger.

Legacy

"You've turned an unknown miscreant into a legend--and that's exactly what he wants."

―Jacob Frye, regarding Jack's status as a legend, 1888.

Following his defeat in late 1888, Jack's true identity, or even the fact that he had been killed, was never revealed by Inspector Frederick Abberline of the Metropolitan Police Service. This was done at the behest of Evie Frye in order to protect the Assassins from discovery and public backlash, due to Jack having been an Assassin himself.

Personality and characteristics

"The killer is selective and dispassionate, and has left not a single trace of his passage."

―Inspector Frederick Abberline, on Jack the Ripper, 1888.

The trauma of losing his mother and his subsequent incarceration at Lambeth Asylum had a lasting effect on Jack's mental stability. Jack's views on the Assassin Order quickly developed; he came to the conclusion that Jacob was responsible, however indirectly, for the death of his mother and abuse at Lambeth Asylum. He also started to develop a strong disdain for the Creed, considering a creed that couldn't protect its own a dead one.

He brutally murdered all those sent against him, Assassins commonly in the guise of local prostitutes, in order to send a message to the Frye twins. He was also meticulous in his plan to destroy all evidence of his existence and prior life, going so far as to do away with a number of Lambeth Asylum staff who might have any living memory of him as well as documents pertaining to his stay at the asylum.

In spite of his actions against the London Assassins, Jack was careful not to compromise the Brotherhood; despite his lack of respect for the contemporary Creed, he did come to believe in his own idealized version of the philosophy and still saw the Order as a means to an end. While most of his victims managed to hide their Assassin rings before death, at least one had their finger forcibly removed post-mortem in order to hide their connection to the Order. He also destroyed any evidence of his connection to the Assassins at Deptford after his plans there were foiled by Evie Frye.

Equipment and skills

"I have seen such talent for assassination and avoiding detection only once before... When I worked with the two of you."

―Inspector Frederick Abberline, on Jack the Ripper's talents, 1888.

Jack was a highly skilled Assassin, having been well trained by his mentor, Jacob Frye, while still in boyhood. He possessed a vast set of skills, including armed and unarmed combat, stealth, public assassination techniques, proficiency in firearms and freerunning. By the time of the Whitechapel murders, he was capable of holding his own against and even overpowering the Frye twins, being well-nigh impervious to frontal attacks in the heat of battle. He was also possessed of an indomitable will, never giving up on the task at hand and approaching situations with utmost focus and care, only leaving loose ends in the form of messages for others.

His repertoire also consisted of equipment and skills typically exclusive to the Assassins, such as the Hidden Blade, throwing knives, hallucinogenic darts, smoke bombs, the Victorian era rope launcher, and the rare sixth sense Eagle Vision. He could use his Eagle Vision to track down recently lost individuals or identify key targets.

Most notable of Jack's skills was his extremist use of the Indian Brotherhood's fear tactics. Rather than discretely dealing with targets, he would use excess brutality in public assassinations to instill fear in the hearts of London's populace. In combat, he would use fear bombs and jarring, psychotic screams to frighten and disrupt the composure of his opponents.

As an extension of his prowess for fear and intimidation, Jack also had a penchant for manipulation. Due to his collusion with Olwyn Owers, Jack's eyes and ears within London, his manipulations and influence spread rapidly across the city. His operations gradually began to reach well beyond the scope of prostitution, to kidnapping, extortion, and murder of the London elite.

Trivia

• Jack the Ripper is the first historical figure in the whole of the Assassin's Creed series to be a playable character in one of the main titles.

Gallery

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  Promotional art of Jack the Ripper
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  Promotional art of Jack the Ripper
• "Jack the Lad" with the Fryes and Mir in India
  "Jack the Lad" with the Fryes and Mir in India

Reference

• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper