Rooks

This article is a stub. You can help Assassin's Creed Wiki by expanding it.

"I've always thought of myself as a gang leader. Firm, but fair. We'll have uniforms, and I'll unite a mix of disenfranchised outsiders under one name. […] We'll call ourselves the Rooks."

―Jacob Frye, February 1868.

The Rooks led by the Frye twins

The Rooks were a gang and crime syndicate active in London during the 19th century, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, and led by the Assassin siblings Jacob and Evie Frye.

Founded in March 1868, the Rooks was formed through the liberation of the last remaining criminal competition to the Templar-controlled gang Blighters, the Clinkers. Led by the Fryes, the Clinkers and other volunteers formed the Rooks. The criminal syndicate was regularly involved in fighting the the Blighters, vying for influence and territory in the city, mainly through overrunning their strongholds, hunting their members, liberating the child laborers in Blighters' run factories, and eventually engaging in gang wars. By eliminating the Blighters' leaders of each borough, the Rooks gained more recruits from their rivals.

It was an open secret among members of the Rooks that they were being led by the British Assassins.

Trivia

• A rook is a member of the crow family of birds, asserting the continued connotation of Assassins and avians.
• The Rooks' symbol depicts a rook clutching onto a chess piece, the knight, marked with a Templar cross, symbolizing the Assassins', and by extension, the Rooks' goal of getting rid of the Templar Order and their gangs.

Gallery

• 
  Concept art of the Rooks' flag
• 
  Concept art of the Rooks
• 
  Promotional art of the Rooks capturing a Blighters stronghold