Gilbert Fowler

Gilbert Fowler is a bounty in The Strand for an illiterate arsonist who burns down printing houses out of spite. Catch him scouting his next target, kidnap him and deliver him to Abberline alive.

Type: Activity
Given by: Frederick Abberline
Region: The Strand

Part of

Bounty HuntsBounty hunts are borough activities in Assassin's Creed Syndicate where Sergeant Frederick Abberline names a wanted criminal and you bring that person to him, ideally alive. Clearing them is one of the ways Jacob and Evie Frye weaken the Blighters' hold on a borough before its gang war.

Found in

The StrandThe Strand is London's shopping and theatre borough, a busy, well-off district full of parks, shops and easy pickpocket targets. The Templar Victor Lynch rules it in 1868, and it holds the Alhambra Music Hall, Scotland Yard and St. Pancras station.

Good to know

Borough: The Strand.
Target: Gilbert Fowler, who targets printing houses.
Full sync: deliver Fowler to Abberline alive.
When you find him, his crew is searching a print house for a weak spot to break in and burn it.
Other Strand bounties: Sylvia Duke and Milton King.
Thieftaker, the achievement for three live bounty deliveries, counts Fowler if he reaches Abberline alive.
The memory's description calls Fowler a criminal rather than a Blighter.

Background

The youngest of twelve, Fowler was ignored so completely that his family never gave him a first name; he chose 'Gilbert' himself after leaving home at fourteen. Never taught to read, he came to resent the written word and the privilege it carries.

The capture

He admits the burnings were a terrible idea but says he wants everyone to feel as angry as he does. Abberline's response on delivery: one less building burnt to ashes.

Motive

Fowler's rant before you grab him explains the burnings: if the government will not teach people like him to read, nobody should get to read at all. He orders his men to find a weak point in the building, break in and burn the lot.

The Strand context

Victor Lynch leads the Blighters here. The borough's Templar hunts are Louis Blake, Argus and Rose Bartlett, and Peter Needham; the Blighters hold Clare Market and St. Giles Rookery, and Lynch runs Lynch's Fine Ornamentation as the borough's factory.

Full-sync notes

He orders his crew to spread out around the print house looking for a way in, which thins the group standing near him. If he escapes he celebrates and asks bystanders for help rather than fighting. Recaptured, he simply begs; deliver him alive.

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