Jayadeep Mir

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"You can be a great Assassin without being a great killer, Jayadeep."

―Pyara Kaur to her son, 1865.

Jayadeep Mir
Biographical information
Born	7 December 1843 Sikh Empire
Species	Human
Database entries	Henry Green
Political information
Affiliations	Assassins Indian Brotherhood British Brotherhood Order of the Sacred Garter

Jayadeep Mir (born 1843), also known as "The Ghost" and more commonly as Sir Henry Green, was an Indian-born member of the British Brotherhood of Assassins, based in London during the mid-19th century.

The son of Arbaaz Mir, a Kashmiri Master Assassin of the Indian Brotherhood, and Princess Pyara Kaur of the Sikh Empire, Jayadeep was the grandson of the Maharaja Kharak Singh and the great-grandson of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh. He was also the great-nephew, and an associate, of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire also exiled to London during the Victorian era.

Jayadeep was trained in the Assassins' ways from a young age by both his father and the British Assassin Ethan Frye, with whom he developed a close bond. While a skilled and intelligent Assassin, Jayadeep possessed a weakness for violence. It was during his first mission that he hesitated to kill his Templar target Tjinder Dani, forcing his father to rescue him. This act was seen as a breach of the Creed's tenets, for which the Indian Brotherhood sentenced Jayadeep to death.

Saved by the timely intervention of Ethan, who offered a banishment alternative, Jayadeep's life was spared and he was exiled to England. Given the new name Bharat Singh by Ethan, he worked undercover at a railway site used by the Templars to search for an Apple of Eden in order to spy on them. Although Jayadeep ultimately failed to prevent the Templars from obtaining the Apple and decided to retire from his life as an Assassin, he would resome work for the Brotherhood a few years later, following a visit from his parents.

In time, Jayadeep became the leader of the Assassins in London and sought to liberate the city from the Templars' control, while also adopting a new name, Henry Green. In 1868, following Ethan's death, Henry became an ally and mentor figure to his children, Jacob and Evie Frye, who had traveled to London to eliminate the British Templars' Grand Master Crawford Starrick and retrieve another Piece of Eden, the Shroud.

Following an unsuccessful assassination attempt by Starrick on Queen Victoria, Henry and the Fryes killed the Grand Master before being knighted by the Queen and becoming members of the Order of the Sacred Garter. Henry later married Evie, with whom he had become close during their quest for the Shroud, and the two migrated to India.

Biography

Early life

"He lacks the killer instinct. The boy can kill and no doubt will, but he lacks something we have, you and I, or perhaps he has something we lack."

―Ethan Frye, explaining Jayadeep's weakness to his father Arbaaz, 1853.

Jayadeep Mir was born within the borders of the Sikh Empire on 7 December 1843, to the Indian Assassin Arbaaz Mir and Princess Pyara Kaur, the daughter of Maharaja Kharak Singh. The young boy spent his childhood idolizing his father and his stories and was told that greatness lay ahead of him. Due to his charisma, he was able to twist his family and household to his will.

In 1847, Jayadeep began training under his father to join the Assassins, and was discovered to have extraordinary, almost supernatural potential. In order not to hinder the training of such a talented Assassin with a parental bond, Arbaaz called upon his friend, the British Assassin Ethan Frye, to tutor his son. Ethan taught him swordsmanship and theories, putting the teachings into practice in the streets of Amritsar. Though confused at first over his tutor's harsh manner and rough tone, the two eventually developed a mentor-pupil bond.

One day, Ethan ordered Jayadeep to return with information using covert means as an exercise in stealth. The boy returned to Ethan with gossip about his mentor, and learned that Ethan's wife Cecily had died during childbirth. His mentor confirmed this and, in his own way, admitted that his friendship with the boy had awakened a parental instinct inside him.

However, as he transitioned Jayadeep's training from wooden swords to steel ones, Ethan discovered a serious problem with his student. Prior to leaving for Britain in 1853, he informed the boy's parents that although Jayadeep possessed tremendous Assassin skills, he would never be a true warrior due to his lack of a killer instinct, much to Arbaaz's anger and Pyara's sadness.

Exile to England

In order to let him prove his worth, the Indian Brotherhood sent Jayadeep out on his first mission in 1859 to kill the Templar Tjinder Dani with the weapon garrotte. Using his extraordinary skills in freerunning and discretion, the young Assassin eventually found himself in his sleeping target's room. However, Jayadeep hesitated, causing the coin in the garrotte to fall and awaken Dani. The two wrestled down to the streets and Arbaaz, who had accompanied his son to assist with their getaway, was forced to eliminate Dani and the guards himself.

Shamed for breaking the tenets of the Creed, Jayadeep was imprisoned at an Assassin base called The Darkness to await execution. Fortunately, Ethan caught news of his student's plight and returned to India in order to save his former pupil. Through Arbaaz's permission, Jayadeep was instead banished to England to live a humble life in the aid of the Assassins there under the pseudonym "The Ghost". Ethan gave him some money and told him to blend in with the poor and find a home by himself.

Arriving in London, Jayadeep worked on the world's first underground railway, taking the name "Bharat Singh". He was required to check the gravestone at Marylebone Church every evening for Ethan's messages and warnings. Without a proper home, Jayadeep took up residence in the Thames Tunnel along with other homeless beggars. There, he befriended the street urchin Charlie, the beggar Jake and saved an elderly woman called Maggie from her attackers in the Marylebone Church. In addition to eliminating the criminals in the Thames Tunnel, he also served as the tunnel's guardian and personally aided his new acquaintances.

In 1861, Jayadeep approaching as "The Ghost," communicated with the Assassin Simeon Price and his apprentice Pierrette Arnaud about any knowledge on Price's former mentor, Oscar Kane. However, he was unable to find any clues on Kane's whereabouts.

Search for the Apple

The following year, Jayadeep disposed of the body of the Templar Robert Waugh, whom Ethan had assassinated, in the same railway dig site where he worked undercover to observe the Templar Cavanagh, who was using the site to search for a Piece of Eden buried there. When Police Constable Frederick Abberline came to investigate the body, Jayadeep began ingratiating himself with Cavanagh to gain more intel on the Templars' plans.

However, Cavanagh eventually discovered Jayadeep's true identity after interrogating the Indian Assassin Ajay, and tried to frame him for the murder of Charles Pearson, who had unknowingly obtained the Apple of Eden sought by the Templars. He ordered Jayadeep to assassinate Pearson during the railway's inauguration, under the pretense of proving his loyalty, but the Assassin refused to kill an innocent man. Cavanagh subsequently killed Pearson himself and took the Apple, using it against Jayadeep and Ethan, but the artifact's powers caused the underground tunnel they were in to collapse. Jayadeep and Ethan managed to escape while Cavanagh was killed by fellow Templar Marchant for plotting against Grand Master Crawford Starrick.

Jayadeep's failure to secure the Apple was only worsened when the Templars later killed Maggie as revenge for the Assassin's interference with their plans. Distraught over his failure and blaming himself for his friend's death, Jayadeep sank into a deep depression and refused to be involved in Assassin affairs ever again, taking refuge in the Thames Tunnel where he lived in seclusion for several years.

Building a network

"Brother George. It is as I feared. London has fallen. Thrice I have written to you, begging your aid. Thrice you've responded - with silence. And yet I write again, so desperate my need, so few my options. I need you. London needs you."

―Henry writing to George Westhouse, 1868.

In 1865, warned by Ethan and George Westhouse of their son's whereabouts, Arbaaz and Pyara traveled to London to help him recover. They convinced him to accompany them to their temporary apartments in Berkeley Square, but there were still tensions between Jayadeep and Arbaaz, as the young Assassin was uncertain of the role his father had played in his death sentence that had led to his banishment.

After several days with his family, Jayadeep joined his mother for a walk, during which she tried to push him to return to the Brotherhood and help Ethan. Bringing him to a curiosity-shop that Pyara and Arbaaz had bought for Jayadeep, she convinced her son to build and oversee a network of informants for the British Assassins. She also gave him an Assassin outfit and his old confiscated Hidden Blade, and encouraged him to take on a new name. Jayadeep ultimately settled on "Henry Green", after a name he had heard repeatedly since his arrival in the country and the color of the hat he was wearing at the time.

By 1868, the British Brotherhood had nearly fallen, and as one of its last remaining members in London, Henry became the leader of the Assassins in the city. Due to Crawford Starrick's Blighters firmly controlling the city's streets, Henry was forced to remain hidden, rarely leaving his curiosity-shop, which doubled as the bureau of the London Assassins. During this time, he wrote to his friend George Westhouse to petition the Assassin Council of Crawley for aid, but his pleas were largely ignored.

Meeting the Frye twins

"Two Assassins. Equal in height. One female, one male. Two decades old, and those devilish smiles. You must be the Frye twins."

―Henry, upon meeting the Frye twins, 1868.

Henry meeting the Frye twins

In January 1868, Ethan passed away after contracting pleurisy, and news of his mentor's death soon reached Henry. The following month, while patroling Whitechapel's rooftops, Henry encountered Ethan's children, Jacob and Evie, and offered his condolences. Assuming the twins had been sent by the Council, he brought them up to speed on Starrick's dominion over the city. The Fryes then began to disagree on a course of action; Jacob wanted to form a gang called the Rooks to cripple Starrick's control, while Evie wanted to find the Piece of Eden that the Templars were looking for.

Subsequently, the three Assassins bumped into Charles Dickens. While Jacob was easily dismissive of the author, Henry advised the young Assassin to consider keeping a network of contacts, as Dickens knew every influential figure in the city. Unfortunately, a pair of Blighters attempted to follow them, forcing Henry to split off from the Fryes. He handed them a pair of pistols and told them to meet him at his curiosity-shop once they had driven the Blighters away.

Henry meeting with the twins at his shop

After the Frye twins had eliminated the Blighters, they arrived at Henry's shop, whereupon he directed them to meet his allies, Sergeant Frederick Abberline and Clara O'Dea, who would be able to aid them in their quest to liberate London. He also provided information on Rexford Kaylock, the Templar leading the Blighters in Whitechapel who sought to acquire Henry's research on the Isu.

As the newly formed Rooks began to stir up resistance against Kaylock's power base in the borough, Henry informed the twins that the Blighters wanted a street fight to settle the dispute, and provided them with kukris. Following the Rooks' victory against the Blighters and Kaylock's death, the Assassins commandeered the Templar's train as a mobile headquarters.

Noticing that Jacob was obsessed with Kaylock's grappling gun, which had been damaged in the fight, Henry introduced the twins to his friend Alexander Graham Bell, who repaired and installed it on their gauntlets. Upon meeting back at the train, Henry showed the twins the hierarchy of Starrick's inner circle, most whose identities were unknown. While Jacob focused on hunting the Templars, Henry assisted Evie in her search for the Piece of Eden.

Search for the Shroud

Henry: "Fieldwork is not really my specialty."

Evie: "We've found a clue to a Precursor object—don't you want to follow it?"

Henry: "Put that way, one can hardly refuse."

—Henry and Evie prior to traveling to the Kenway Mansion, 1868.

Henry and Evie in the Kenway mansion

After Evie and Jacob recovered an Assassin journal from the Templars and Evie used her Eagle Vision to find a hidden image of a ship, she and Henry followed the trail to Edward Kenway's former mansion, which had been seized by the Templars. Infiltrating the mansion and avoiding the Blighters tearing the place apart, Henry and Evie made their way to the piano room, where they found a secret room underneath, from which they retrieved a golden disk and a document. As the Templars also discovered the secret passageway, Henry sealed it before escaping with Evie via another passage.

After Evie later lost to the key to the Shroud's vault to the Templar Lucy Thorne, she and Henry looked through their research and determined that the probable location of the Shroud was the Tower of London. Henry advised Evie to seek out his ally in the fortress guard for assistance. Though Evie ultimately managed to assassinate Thorne and recover the key, she learned that the Shroud was not in the Tower.

Determining that the vault may be under Buckingham Palace, Henry and Evie went to meet his great-uncle, Maharaja Duleep Singh, who informed them that the blueprints for the palace had been confiscated by the Templars. During the Assassins' attempt to retrieve the plans, Henry was captured by the Blighters and taken to the sewers beneath a church in the Strand. He was eventually rescued by Evie, who had chosen to forgo recovering the plans in order to save him.

An injured Henry and Evie after escaping from the sewers

Upon escaping to safety, Evie advised Henry to see Florence Nightingale to attend to his head injury and return to the train while she would go see Singh again. Henry apologized for his capture undoing Evie's plans, but she ultimately chose to end their partnership. As Henry reminded her that she would not be able to enter Buckingham Palace alone, Evie promised she would not be alone before leaving.

Defeating Crawford Starrick

Henry: "Did I—did I jeopardize the mission?"

Evie: "Henry, you saved it."

—Henry and Evie following Starrick's death, 1868.

Henry later returned to the train and intervened in an argument between the Frye twins, informing them that his spies had learned that Starrick was planning on infiltrating the palace to obtain the Shroud and kill Britain's heads of church and state. This prompted the Fryes to agree to work together one last time to stop Starrick.

Henry attempting to kill Starrick

When the twins entered the Shroud's vault to confront Starrick, who had managed to retrieve the artifact, Henry followed them closely behind and threw a knife at the Grand Master's back to get him to release the Fryes. He then charged at Starrick head-on, but was quickly knocked unconscious. Despite this, his intervention allowed the Fryes to relieve Starrick of the Shroud and kill him. When Henry regained consciousness, Evie assured him that he had saved the mission and expressed her acceptance of their working in the field together, prompting the pair to share a kiss. The Assassins then returned the Shroud back to its casing.

The Assassins later met with Queen Victoria, who had been informed by Abberline of their deeds and promptly knighted them into the Order of the Sacred Garter. After the Queen departed their presence, Henry watched Jacob and Evie make amends before they excitedly raced each other back to the train hideout, leaving Henry behind.

Assisting Duleep Singh

"If your mother could see you now, the last Maharajah of Punjab, basking inside his golden cage..."

―Henry to Duleep Singh, 1868.

During a visit to Buckingham Palace, Henry met with his great-uncle Duleep Singh and chastised him for his lack of commitment to the people of India, trying to convince him to reclaim his birthright as Maharaja. However, as Singh was reluctant to take drastic actions against the British Parliament, Henry turned to Evie and Jacob for help, asking them to talk to his great-uncle and see if they could change his mind. While trying to gain Singh's attention, the Frye twins witnessed a failed attempt on his life and, after an investigation, concluded that the British Indies Company (B.I.C.) and the Templars were working together to try and eliminate the Maharaja.

Reporting their findings to Henry, the Assassins decided that, in order to convince Singh to take action, they would intercept a Templar convoy carrying all of the Maharaja's correspondence to his mother, which the B.I.C. had intercepted. Henry accompanied Evie and Jacob to the ambush location, where they successfully defeated the Templars with the Rooks' helpand recovered the stolen letters. The Frye twins then left to repeat the same process with a train carrying more of Singh's correspondence while Henry returned to his curiosity-shop to meet with his great-uncle.

Once Evie and Jacob arrived with all the letters, Singh read them and, now aware of the B.I.C.'s actions, decided to fight back against the company with the Assassins' help. After the Frye twins assisted the Maharaja in delivering stolen Punjabi gold back to India, Henry came up with a plan to sabotage the B.I.C. and asked Evie, Jacob and Singh to meet him at the Southwark train station. However, just prior to their arrival, the Assassins' train hideout came under attack by the Templars, forcing the group to defend it. During the fight, the Templars managed to steal the train, but Evie and Jacob eventually reclaimed control of it.

Later, after Evie and Jacob had helped Singh steal the Koh-i-Noor diamond from the Tower of London, Henry examined the jewel and shattered it with a hammer, revealing that it was a replica. He then explained that the real Koh-i-Noor had never left India, his father Arbaaz having made sure of it, and reconciled with Singh as the two decided to work together to secure India's future.

Shortly after, Henry went to investigate an abandoned foundry that had been taken over by the B.I.C. and reported his findings to Evie and Jacob, who decided to infiltrate the building. While exploring the foundry, the twins discovered a shipment of sleeping gas headed to India and destroyed it. They also learned that Singh's childhood friend, Brinley Ellsworth, was behind all the recent attacks against the Maharaja. After they informed Henry and Singh, the latter arranged a meeting with Ellsworth to settle matters between them, where the Templar was ultimately defeated by the Frye twins.

Return to India

"Miss Evie Frye, you know that I hold you in the highest esteem... and regard. And I was wondering if you would do me the honor of- If you would, give me your hand... in matrimony."

―Henry proposing to Evie, 1868.

Over their months of working together, Henry and Evie had developed romantic feelings for each other and they officially became a couple following the death of Crawford Starrick. Henry eventually proposed to Evie and the pair later relocated to India where the former was accepted back into the Indian Brotherhood.

Assisting Tommy Greyling

Henry and Evie saving Tommy Greyling

In 1872, while Evie and Henry were in London, they were contacted by Frederick Abberline who requested their assistance in foiling the plans of Alice, an American Templar who had traveled to the city to steal pages of the Voynich manuscript from the British Museum. Though assisted by Tommy Greyling, a Pinkerton agent, and Mark Twain, the Assassins failed to stop the Templar and her Blighter henchmen from recovering the artifact and fleeing England.

Around 1873, Henry and Evie welcomed Jacob and several of his British initiates, including a young boy named Jack, when they arrived in India to learn the fear tactics of the Indian Brotherhood.

Legacy

In 2015, the Templar Isabelle Ardant included Henry's name on a list of known British Assassins. This list was later unveiled by the Assassins Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings when they infiltrated Ardant's office to plant a bug.

Personality and traits

"Look at what Starrick has done to this city. Whitechapel is riddled with crime; child labor, despite regulations. A gang known as the Blighters overruns the streets; and Templars manipulating behind the scenes. As in all the other boroughs. We need to return this city to the people who built it in the first place."

―Henry talking about Starrick's control over London, 1868.

Henry smiling wrily at the Frye twins' antics

A scholar, Henry had developed an extensive knowledge about London's society and inner workings. He was also good at making connections and gaining the trust of peoples, his network throughout London becoming very useful when he helped the Frye twins in their quest to bring down the Templar control over the city in 1868.

While both sincere and hard-working, Henry had a human side to him that many other Assassins lacked. Despite his exile, Green never lost hope of returning to India someday, after having proved to be a capable field agent.

Equipment and skills

Although he was raised as an Assassin since birth and displayed incredible and almost supernatural skill as an Assassin, Henry was more inclined towards books than he was to violence and proven to be a mediocre fighter as he was not permitted a Hidden Blade until his mother gave him a confiscated blade.

In 1868, he was easily captured by a group of thugs working for the Templars and it was Evie who had to save him. In his battle with Starrick, Henry managed to hit the Grand Master in the shoulder with a throwing knife and cut him in the stomach with his Hidden Blade, but was quickly overpowered and knocked unconscious afterwards.

Behind the scenes

Jayadeep Mir, better known by his alias Henry Green, is a character introduced in the 2015 video game Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, where he is voiced by British actor Jaz Deol. His in-game database entry reveals that he is the son of the Assassin Arbaaz Mir and Princess Pyara Kaur, both characters introduced in the 2013 graphic novel Assassin's Creed: Brahman. Henry later appeared as the central character of Syndicate's tie-in novel, Assassin's Creed: Underworld, which further expands on his backstory.

Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer for Syndicate, has revealed that Evie Frye is not an ancestor of Monima Das, a modern-day descendant of Arbaaz and Pyara. This implies that either Henry conceived a child with someone other than Evie, or that Arbaaz and Pyara had at least one other child, though there are currently no mentions of Henry having any siblings in the franchise.

Etymology

Jayadeep is a Sikh name meaning Light of Victory, while Mir is a Kashmiri clan or tribe between present day India and Pakistan. Mir is also a loanword from the Arabic emir, amir, and thus has the meaning of "leader, commander, prince" in aforementioned places.

Henry is a common English name derived from Old French Henri / Henry, itself derived from the Old Frankish name Heimeric, from Common Germanic *Haimarīks (from *haima- "home" and *rīk- "ruler"). In Old High German, the name was conflated with the name Haginrich (from hagin "enclosure" and rich "ruler") to form Heinrich. Coincidentally, Henry Green was also the pen name of English writer Henry Vincent Yorke.

The name Bharat Singh, used by Jayadeep while posing as an immigrant railway worker, also has Indian origins. Bharat is a Hindi word meaning India, while Singh is a common surname in India that is derived from Sinha, meaning "lion".

Gallery

Concept art of Henry

References for Henry's outfit

Promotional art of Henry and the Frye twins

Evie's hand-drawn picture of Henry

Henry's profile picture in the Helix database

Henry introducing himself to the twins

Henry giving the twins their revolvers

Henry explaining the usefulness of street urchins

Henry talking to Alexander Graham Bell

Henry and Evie in the train hideout

Henry talking with Duleep Singh

Henry intervening in the twins' argument

Henry fighting Crawford Starrick

Henry and the twins being inducted into the Order of the Sacred Garter

A photo of Henry, the twins and Jack in India

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (first appearance)
  • Jack the Ripper (appears in photo)
  • The Last Maharaja
• Assassin's Creed: Underworld
• Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus
• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy
• Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot (mentioned only)