AC Syndicate characters

Bloody Nora

Bloody Nora is the Blighter leader of the City of London in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the boss you face in Gang War: City of London. Her nickname comes from the ruthless violence that won her a place in the gang.

Cletus Strain

Cletus Strain runs the Blighters in Lambeth for Crawford Starrick and is the leader you fight in Gang War: Lambeth in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. He has a taste for theatrics and likes to smother enemies in smoke.

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.

David Brewster

Sir David Brewster is the Scottish scientist and Templar experimenting on an Apple of Eden in a hidden laboratory under a Croydon train yard. He is Evie Frye's first target in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, in the memory A Simple Plan, whose optional objectives include air assassinating him.

Earl of Cardigan

The Earl of Cardigan, James Brudenell, is the Templar politician behind the plot to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Sequence 7 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Known in Templar letters only as B, he is the target of the memory Motion to Impeach at the Palace of Westminster.

Edith Swinebourne

Edith Swinebourne leads the Blighters on the Thames in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and is the boss of Gang War: The Thames. She fights only when drugged into a frenzy, which makes her unusually hard to put down.

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the serial killer at the centre of the Jack the Ripper expansion, set in Whitechapel in 1888. Evie Frye returns from India to hunt him, and you also play as Jack himself in several story segments, using his fear-based kit against civilians and police.

John Billingsworth

John Billingsworth is the chief warder of Jack the Ripper's private prison on the hulks at Deptford, and Evie's target in the Prisoners memory. He oversees the hostages Jack uses to extort their families and runs the executions.

John Elliotson

Dr John Elliotson is the Templar physician behind Starrick's Soothing Syrup, the addictive tonic dulling London's poor. Jacob Frye tracks him down through Sequence 4 with Charles Darwin's help, and he is the target of the memory Overdose at Lambeth Asylum.

Lilla Graves

Lilla Graves, nicknamed the Bludger, leads the Blighters in Westminster in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and is the boss of Gang War: Westminster. She is a former heavyweight boxing champion from an upper-class family.

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.

Malcolm Millner

Malcolm Millner runs the Millner Company, the omnibus firm Starrick uses against Pearl Attaway. In Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate Jacob Frye wrecks his business for Pearl and then hunts him on the Thames in Survival of the Fittest.

Master Spy

The Master Spy is the Templar running a German spy network in London in 1916, and the final target of Lydia Frye's World War I memories in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. He also leads a small cult devoted to the Isu Juno, whom he calls his Beloved.

Maxwell Roth

Maxwell Roth is the showman and crime boss who leads the Blighters for Crawford Starrick. In Sequence 8 he invites Jacob to the Alhambra Music Hall and offers an alliance against Starrick, and his story becomes the game's darkest look at what Jacob could turn into.

Octavia Plumb

Octavia Plumb commands the Blighters in Southwark in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and is the leader you take down in Gang War: Southwark. She keeps a crowd of allies around her and lets them do most of the fighting.

Olwyn Owers

Olwyn Owers, known as Lady O, is the first major target of the Jack the Ripper expansion. In public she is a society philanthropist who claims to rescue fallen women; in private she runs brothels, blackmails their clients and passes what she learns to the Ripper.

Pearl Attaway

Pearl Attaway is the owner of Attaway Transport, London's leading omnibus company, and a secret Templar who hires Jacob Frye to ruin her rival Malcolm Millner in Sequence 5 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. She is the target of the memory End of the Line at Waterloo station.

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.

Rexford Kaylock

Rexford Kaylock is the Blighter leader of Whitechapel, the first borough the Frye twins fight for in Assassin's Creed Syndicate. He is the target of Gang War: Whitechapel in Sequence 3, and beating him hands the twins the train that becomes their hideout.

Rupert Ferris

Rupert Ferris is the Templar owner of Ferris Ironworks in Croydon and Jacob Frye's first target in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, in the memory A Spanner in the Works. His factory works children hard to keep Starrick's industries supplied with iron.

Spring-heeled Jack

Spring-heeled Jack is the folklore figure behind two of Charles Dickens's Ghost Club cases. In the first, a cult leader in costume is attacking people in Lambeth; in the second, a far stranger Jack returns and leads you on a rooftop chase.

Victor Lynch

Victor Lynch is the Blighter leader of the Strand in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the target of Gang War: The Strand. A rich heir who plays with dangerous chemicals for fun, he fights with electric-chemical bombs.