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Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Victorian London

In 1868, at the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution, twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye come to a London controlled by the Templars under Crawford Starrick, and set out to take the city back: building their street gang, the Rooks, across an open world of seven Victorian boroughs. Jacob works through Starrick's lieutenants while Evie hunts a Piece of Eden, the Shroud, from St Paul's to the Tower to a vault under Buckingham Palace.

Contains major story spoilers.

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  1. In 1868 the twins set out to take London back from Crawford Starrick's Templars, building their own street gang, the Rooks. One of Jacob's targets is Philip Twopenny, Governor of the Bank of England, who is secretly robbing his own bank for the Templars — and Jacob assassinates him. The real Bank was established in 1694 as the government's banker; its headquarters have been in the City of London since that year, and on Threadneedle Street since 1734.

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    Visitor guidance: Still a working bank on Threadneedle Street in the City of London.

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  2. Evie's half of the story is a hunt for the Shroud's vault key: she traces it to St Paul's Cathedral, only for the Templar Lucy Thorne to steal it and flee to the Tower. The cathedral stands on Ludgate Hill, the highest point of the City of London, and the high-domed present structure was completed in 1710, designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren.

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    Visitor guidance: On Ludgate Hill, the highest point of the City of London.

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  3. Evie follows Thorne to the Tower of London and kills her there, only to learn the Shroud is not there at all, and the real vault lies somewhere else entirely. The real Tower has guarded the Thames since the Norman Conquest: founded toward the end of 1066, it has served as armoury, treasury, menagerie, home of the Royal Mint and public record office, and it is still the home of the Crown Jewels of England.

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  4. The twins infiltrate a ball at Buckingham Palace, but Starrick reaches the vault first and takes the Shroud; with Henry's help they kill him, put the Shroud back, and Queen Victoria knights the Frye twins and Henry. The real palace, in the City of Westminster and the centre of state occasions, became the monarch's London residence on Victoria's own accession in June 1837.

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  5. The Jack the Ripper expansion is loosely based on the 1888 murders in the Whitechapel area, and sends Evie after a killer murdering female Assassins working as East End prostitutes. In reality, Whitechapel and neighbouring Spitalfields saw the infamous 11 Whitechapel murders of 1888-91, some attributed to the unidentified killer known as Jack the Ripper.

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    Location precision: The expansion ranges across the East End; the pin marks Whitechapel itself.

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  6. The last stop jumps to the Great War. In 1916, at Winston Churchill's request, Jacob's granddaughter Lydia Frye destroys a German spy facility in Tower Bridge. The real bridge is a Grade I listed bascule and suspension bridge built between 1886 and 1894, opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 30 June 1894. It still crosses the Thames close to the Tower of London.

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    Visitor guidance: The bridge still crosses the Thames close to the Tower of London.

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