Lucy Thorne
Lucy Thorne is Crawford Starrick's second-in-command and the Templars' expert on Pieces of Eden in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is Evie Frye's rival through the search for the Shroud of Eden and the target of the memory A Thorne in the Side, set in the Tower of London.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Templars
Good to know
- Voiced by Emerald O'Hanrahan.
- Born in London on 8 August 1837 to a tea merchant and the daughter of a minor noble house.
- Starrick recruited her after she outbid him at an auction for an occult manuscript.
- Uses the Kenway Mansion as an office while she researches the Shroud.
- Fights with an ornate dagger and carries smoke bombs.
- Threatens David Brewster at his Croydon laboratory in A Simple Plan.
Rivalry with Evie
Lucy has Assassin documents shipped to London, and the twins steal the carriage in The Crate Escape, taking Edward Kenway's journal. She reaches the Kenway Mansion too late to stop Evie and Henry in Playing It by Ear. In A Room with a View she confronts Evie at the top of St Paul's, fights her with dagger and smoke bombs, crashes through a stained-glass window and escapes with the Isu necklace.
Personality
Lucy refused the marriage expected of her and threw herself into occult study instead. She is cold to subordinates, telling one that the artifact is worth more than his whole family, and boasts about the cruel deaths she plans for the twins. She takes Pearl Attaway's death personally.
Death in the TowerSpoilerShow
Convinced the Shroud is in a royal casket, Lucy has her men lock up the Tower's constable and pose as Royal Guards while they search. Evie lets a real guard pretend to capture her, gets close in St John's Chapel and stabs Lucy with her cane-sword. Lucy dies refusing to say what she knows, insisting the Templars would have used the Shroud to improve humanity.
A Simple PlanA Simple Plan is Evie Frye's first memory and the second in the story. You ride a supply train into a Templar compound near Croydon, find the hidden laboratory of Sir David Brewster, and kill him to get at the Piece of Eden he is studying.- The Crate EscapeThe Crate Escape is Evie's first lead on the Templars' new Piece of Eden: Lucy Thorne is expecting a shipment at the docks, so you raid her cart, open the chest and flee in a carriage chase while Jacob drives badly on purpose.
- Playing It by EarPlaying It by Ear sends Evie and Henry into the Kenway Mansion, now a Templar house, following Eagle Vision clues in Thorne's notebook. You hunt for Edward Kenway's keepsakes and solve a piano puzzle that opens a secret room.
- OverdoseOverdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.
- A Room with a ViewA Room with a View follows the Kenway clues to the Monument to the Great Fire and then the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, where Evie solves a disc mechanism to find the key to the Shroud's vault. Lucy Thorne is waiting, and the memory ends in a fight with her.
- End of the LineEnd of the Line ends Sequence 5 at Waterloo station, where Jacob has to reach Pearl Attaway's fortified train carriage before Starrick's men collect the engines. You free a hostage station chief, clear the crowd and find a weak point in the carriage roof.
- A Case of IdentityA Case of Identity opens Sequence 6 with Jacob chasing a name in a letter: Plutus, Starrick's banker, and a meddler called Mr Dredge. You infiltrate the Royal Exchange to kidnap Dredge and find out what he knows.
- A Thorne in the SideA Thorne in the Side sends Evie into the Tower of London, where Lucy Thorne and Templars disguised as Royal Guards are hunting for the Queen's casket that her stolen key opens. You can rally loyal guards, free a jailed constable and walk in as a fake prisoner to get close to Thorne.
Related characters
- Image: UbisoftProtagonist
Jacob Frye
Jacob Frye is one of the two playable Assassins in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the brawler of the Frye twins. In 1868 he founds the Rooks gang, fights the Blighters for every borough and goes after Crawford Starrick's inner circle one Templar at a time, from Rupert Ferris in Croydon to the Earl of Cardigan in Parliament.
- Protagonist
Evie Frye
Evie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.
- Antagonist
Crawford Starrick
Crawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- Antagonist
Philip Twopenny
Philip Twopenny is the Governor of the Bank of England and the Templar banker known as Plutus, who has his men rob the bank's own vaults for the Order. Jacob Frye unmasks him in Sequence 6 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and he is the target of the memory A Bad Penny.