World War I
World War I is a bonus Helix simulation in Assassin's Creed Syndicate that drops you into London in 1916 as Lydia Frye, Jacob's granddaughter. You hunt a German spy ring for Winston Churchill across seven memories, while the Isu Juno speaks to you between them.
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Good to know
- You play as Lydia Frye, a British Assassin born in 1893 and the granddaughter of Jacob Frye.
- The simulation is set in London during 1916; the opening memory is dated 23 September 1916.
- In the story, Juno opens the simulation to the Initiate through a rift that branches off Jacob and Evie's memories.
- Seven memories make it up: The Darkest Hour, two Spy Hunts, three Spy Hideouts and the Master Spy Hunt.
- Winston Churchill gives Lydia her targets and, in return, promises to look at votes for women once he is back in Parliament.
- A locked chest inside the simulation holds Boudicca's Torque, a unique crafting material used for the Nightshade Cloak.
- Lydia carries a replica of Henry Green's kukri and still uses the Assassin gauntlet first built for the twins.
How you get there
While you relive the Frye twins in 1868, a voice draws the Initiate to a rift in the Helix. Stepping into it moves you nearly fifty years forward into Lydia Frye's memories of wartime London, with zeppelins over the city and soldiers guarding the bridges.
Who Lydia is
Lydia grew up comfortable and at first wanted her studies more than the Brotherhood. Losing friends and relatives to the war with the Templars changed her mind, and Jacob and Evie trained her. She married fellow Assassin Sam Crowder just before the war; he enlisted, and she stayed in London to deal with German agents and the British Rite of the Templars.
Memory order
The Darkest Hour opens the simulation at Tower Bridge. The Spy Hunts (The Apothecary Twins, The Magpie) follow, then the Spy Hideouts (Hopton's, Clarence Stock House, 17 Walpole Lane), and finally The Master Spy. Each hunt and hideout is a short, self-contained job.
Juno's interruptions
After most memories, Juno cuts into the simulation to talk to the Initiate about the Isu: how they made humanity and how they failed to survive the Great Catastrophe. She also tries to win the Initiate over to her cause.
How it endsSpoilerShow
Lydia kills the Master Spy, who turns out to be a Sage devoted to Juno. Juno then thanks the Initiate for showing her what became of him and suggests she and the Assassins could work together one day.
- 1The Darkest HourThe Darkest Hour is the first World War I memory: as Lydia Frye in September 1916, you clear German spies from a safehouse, find a hidden radio guiding zeppelins inside Tower Bridge, then man an anti-aircraft gun on a boat to bring down the raid's escorts.
- 2Hopton'sHopton's is a Spy Hideout memory in the World War I simulation: Lydia Frye raids a rough pub that German agents now use as a base and plants false information among their papers. It is the first of three hideouts.
- 3Clarence Stock HouseClarence Stock House is the second Spy Hideout memory of the World War I simulation: Lydia Frye breaks into a disused paper warehouse the spies have taken over, steals their documents and, for full sync, wrecks three caches of their military gear.
- 417 Walpole Lane17 Walpole Lane is the last Spy Hideout memory in the World War I simulation. Lydia Frye raids a house run by a cross-loving new tenant and his hired thugs, takes the spies' documents and frees two captured allies.
- 5The Apothecary TwinsThe Apothecary Twins is the first Spy Hunt memory in the World War I simulation: Churchill sends Lydia Frye after a spy posing as a nurse who collects blood samples, and her brother who supplies her drugs. You spot their meeting and kill both.
- 6The MagpieThe Magpie is the second Spy Hunt memory of the World War I simulation: a spy held in the Tower of London has been telling anyone who listens about the Assassins, and Churchill offers Lydia Frye the chance to silence him. Best done by getting the guards to kill him.
- 7The Master SpyThe Master Spy is the final memory of the World War I simulation: Lydia Frye leads Churchill's men against the spy ring's headquarters in a carpenter's shop, chases the ringleader when he escapes, and finally assassinates him.
- JunoJuno is the Isu who hijacks the Initiate's Helix session in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and sends them forward to 1916 to relive Lydia Frye's memories. Through that detour she tells her own story and tries to win the Initiate over.
- Master SpyThe 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.
- The InitiateThe Initiate is the player's own modern-day character in Assassin's Creed Syndicate: a Helix user working secretly for the Assassins. Bishop has you relive the genetic memories of Jacob and Evie Frye to find a Shroud of Eden, while you watch Shaun, Rebecca and Galina through camera drones.
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill is Lydia Frye's contact in the 1916 World War I memories. He sends her after German spies in London, arranges an anti-aircraft boat against a dirigible raid, and supplies intelligence for the hunt for the Master Spy.
Related missions
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Charles Darwin's London Stories
Charles Darwin's London Stories are side memories in which the naturalist, a friend of the twins since the Starrick's Soothing Syrup affair, asks for help as his enemies turn from argument to threats. You protect a fossil, destroy toxic flowers, tear down smear posters and finally rescue Darwin himself.
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Charles Dickens's London Stories
Charles Dickens's London Stories are a set of side memories in which the novelist recruits Jacob and Evie Frye into the Ghost Club and sends them after rumours of demons, hauntings and spectral thieves around London. Most cases end with a human culprit behind the supposed ghost.
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Epilogue
The Epilogue in Assassin's Creed Syndicate's memory list holds one memory, Pressed Flowers, where Evie collects flowers around London for Henry Green's herbarium. Collecting every pressed flower is also tied to the Language of Flowers achievement.
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Karl Marx's London Stories
Karl Marx's London Stories are five side memories in which the exiled philosopher asks the Frye twins to help London's working people rather than the comfortable citizens they have already helped. You shield his union meetings from police spies, expose a dangerous factory, stop a grieving worker's bomb plot and guard a rally.