Jim Holden

"You make sure you do take his cock and balls before you finish him. You make that bastard suffer."

―Holden to Jenny regarding the assassination of Reginald Birch, 1757.

Jim Holden (Unknown - 1758) was an ally and close friend to the Grand Master of the Templar Order, Haytham Kenway.

Biography

Jim Holden served under Edward Braddock's campaign in the Dutch Republic. His brother had been executed alongside the same gallows as Haytham Kenway, whom managed to escape. Holden aided Haytham in his investigations to find Tom Smith who allegedly had connections to the murder of Edward Kenway and the two became close friends.

Haytham invited Holden to London to aid him in his investigations under the guise of his carrirage driver. After suspecting the treachery of Reginald Birch, Holden quickly became the only ally Haytham could trust with such sensitive information regarding both his father's murder and the disappearance of Jenny Kenway.

Following the failed attempt to enter the precursor sight in Colonial America, Holden aided Haytham in resucing his sister, Jenny. In 1757, Holden had tracked Jenny to Damascus, where she was serving as a concubine to the Ottoman court in Topkapi Palace.

Jim and Haytham infiltrated the palace and located Jenny under the guise of eunuchs. Upon being discovered, Holden defended Haytham and Jenny as they made their escape. Holden was overwhelmed and sent to Abou Gerbe monastery on Mount Ghebel Eter to undergo operations to become a eunuch. In September 1757, Haytham rescued Holden whom had already been castrated and suffering from dehydration, burning the monastery and killing many of the priests who conducted the operations on other men. Haytham, Jenny and Holden escaped to a cottage, where Holden spent several weeks recovering from his injuries.

In October, Holden aided Haytham and Jenny on an assault on Reginald Birch's chateu in France after the discovery of his orchestration of the raid on Queen Anne's Square in 1753. After Birch's death, Holden helped the prisoners, Monica and Lucio escape. Attempting to apologise, Haytham was stabbed in the torso by Lucio, whom he had captured for Birch in 1753.

Holden and Jenny catered for Haytham in Birch's chateu during his recovery over the coming months. Upon seeing the latter's recovery in January 1958, Holden commited suicide on 28th January after struggling to come to terms with the injuries suffered from the operation to become a eunuch.