Lydia Frye
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Lydia Frye (1893 – unknown) was a member of the British Brotherhood of Assassins, and the granddaughter of Jacob Frye. During World War I, Lydia destroyed a group of Templar spies led by a Sage and working for Germany.
Biography
Born into relative comfort, Lydia was initally reluctant to join the Brotherhood like the rest of her family, preferring to concentrate on her studies. However, after discovering through her studies the length of the Templars influence and seeing family and friends fall fighting them, she decided to accept her Assassin heritage. With both of her parents away for great lengths of time on missions for the Brotherhood, responsibility for training Lydia fell to her grandfather and her great-aunt, Evie Frye.
Before the Great War, Lydia fell in love with her fellow Assassin Sam Crowder, and married him shortly before the fighting broke out. Eventually her husband, like many British Assassins, enlisted in the army. Lydia remained in London, in order to protect the city against German spies, and the British Rite of the Templar Order.
In 1916, at the behest of Winston Churchill, Lydia infiltrated and eliminated a German Templar spy facility in Tower Bridge. She later sought out, on his request, the rest of the group and their Sage leader that he deemed to be a pressing matter of national security which he was unable to broach with the government as he lacked strong enough evidence. In exchange for her services, Churchill promised Lydia that he would do what he could for the enfranchisement of women when he will return in parliament after the War.
Personality and characteristics
Equipment and skills
Lydia was equiped with the same model of Hidden Blade and the same arsenal that her mentors used nearly fifty years earlier. Lydia possessed the skills of both her brawling grandfather and her stealthy great-aunt and much like her grandfather and great-aunt, she possessed the rare trait of Eagle Vision.
Trivia
- Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin Λυδια, which means from Lydia, a region on the west coast of Asia Minor. Frye is a derivative of the English word free.
- While being a married woman in the early 20th century, Lydia was called "Miss Frye" by Winston Churchill, instead of "Mrs Crowder".
Gallery
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Lydia's profile picture in the Helix database
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