#emile de launcet

[dragonagereversebang]

mage against the machine

Summary: What if ZITHER!, Dorian, Anders, Emile and Merrill formed a band? Perhaps it would look something like this!

Rating: G Artist: AnonymousBenefactorOne

A spotlight on the mages! Performing live near you! In a modern AU, this unlikely group is rocking out and raging! Go look a little closer and leave some love for this piece!

[anneapocalypse]

Okay so given the likely historical purpose of the monk's tonsure, what are the odds that Emile de Launcet was given this haircut deliberately by a templar? He's the son of an Orlesian Comte who lives in Kirkwall so (as discussed here) they aren't going to abuse him in the way they would feel free to abuse most other mages unless they have an airtight excuse to "punish" him. But noticing that he is lonely and obsessed with being attractive to women, and giving him an "unattractive" haircut as a way of humiliating him is probably something the templars could get away with.

[burnouts3s3]

In Bioware's Dragon Age 2, Hawke must assist Dulci De Launcet in finding her son, Emile, a blood mage. Except Emile isn't a blood mage, he made it up to sleep with Nella. If Hawke allows Emile to sleep with Nella, she will put ceramic cows in Dulci's garden.

[hollyand-writes]

Dragon Age II – Mark of the Assassin DLC

Comtesse Dulci de Launcet (right), with her daughters Babette and Fifi de Launcet

[sapphim]

so I've been thinking about the politics of tranquility. I've spoken before about tranquility and the fragile illusion of chantry control.

I've been thinking about how the objection as stated to Ser Alrik's "tranquil solution" isn't that mages are being made tranquil, but that they are being made tranquil unwillingly, having passed their Harrowings. how Hawke says, "Doesn't Chantry law say that mages who pass their Harrowing can't be made Tranquil?" how tranquility is so ultimately distasteful, how its optics are so poor, that it is never meant to be meted out as a punishment, but as precaution. how an entire class of enchanters are free of its threat by law.

it is a "choice," an alternative to attempting and failing one's Harrowing. "they chose this," you are meant to be able to say, of the tranquil, "of their own free will. they felt it would be better this way. they're happier and safer now." how even Meredith rejects Alrik's proposal, despite presiding over such unlawful rites of tranquility from at least as early as Maddox, prior to 9:31.

I've been thinking about the level of responsibility that is placed on the shoulders of first enchanters like Irving or Orsino. how they can't control that templars expect to mete out punishment, but they can try to direct that punishment at certain targets to spare the others under their care. how Irving and Uldred, in cooperation with Greagoir, honeypot apprentices into taking up blood magic, to feed a steady stream of untrustworthy delinquents to the templars. how Irving plays favorites. how the first enchanter presumably has full control over the details of each apprentice's Harrowing.

I've been thinking about the apprentices who are browbeaten into believing they cannot possibly pass their Harrowings, or denied their right to one entirely.

I've been thinking about how, for poor communities, who can't demand a level of accountability from the chantry, mages taken to the circle often might as well just fall off the face of the earth. Carver says of the templars, in act 1, "So, they don't always just make you disappear, like it seems?" it's different for mages like Finn Aldebrant, or Connor Guerrin, or Emile de Launcet, whose families directly empower chantry rule and could cause a scene if they didn't like what they heard.

I've thinking about how the tranquil don't get to go home to their families, once their existence has been rendered "safe." because unpaid slave labor is an essential chantry asset, but also because the families who would still claim their mage relatives are exactly the ones who would be most likely to care about their mistreatment.

[loveofdragonage]

The Best Orlesian: Pt. 2

We had Leliana, Antoine, and Vivienne as the top three in part one! Briala and Fiona completed the top five. ❤️

Now, for characters who didn't make it into the first poll, we've got part two. This still won't be everyone, because there are a lot of Orlesian people in DA, lol.

[miraculan-draws]

This is headcanon/magic speculation, BUT I've mentioned before that in Awakening, Anders isn't particularly observant when it comes to Fade stuff, in fact it's almost always NATE that mentions Veil-related anomalies. SO I PUT FORTH!

Merrill was four when she was traded to clan Sabrae as a mage. Emile de Launcet had been in the Circle since he was six. I put my Hawke as getting his magic right after the twins were born, so just around five years old.

ANDERS was twelve. Now I suppose we don't know that he WASNT doing magic before then, but the narrative certainly implies setting the barn on fire was a surprise incident.

Twelve is quite a bit older. That's a tween. Merrill was a toddler when she got magic and Anders was teetering on the line of puberty.

I wonder if having so many formative years of growing WITHOUT magic didn't allow for the same level of like intuitive sense for it that some other mages might have. It's not for lack of talent or skill, like there is NO support mage in the SERIES that can really hold a candle to Anders, but I think sometimes the ✨Vibe✨ of a room just goes over his head.

Nathaniel Howe, a noble-born ranger: hmm. This place is....unsettling. Something must have wounded the veil here. Be wary of spirits lingering about

Anders: man it's creepy as shit in here. Anyone else think it's creepy in here?

[idolbound]

Meredith's response about Emile de Launcet is the only time we ever hear her laugh in the series, and it's so special to me.

[dragonagekeeper]

Disclaimer: The keep does not record whether or not your Hawke lets Emile sleep with Nella.

DA2 Act 3 Polls

Dragon Age 2 Polls

See quest and choice descriptions from Dragon Age Wiki/Keep below

Emile de Launcet is the fifth son of Guillaume de Launcet and Dulci de Launcet, two minor nobles from Orlais. Emile was born in Kirkwall, but was discovered to be a mage at the age of six and taken to the Gallows in Kirkwall.

Meredith requests that Hawke track down 3 dangerous apostates (Huon, Evelina, and Emile de Launcet) and bring them back dead or alive.

If Hawke returns Emile to the Circle:

If Hawke sides with the Circle of Magi in The Last Straw, Emile is present in the Gallows just before the final battle starts as well as during the first stage of the final battle. Attempting to speak with him will have him say that he regrets not being able to say goodbye to his mother, his cluelessness in helping due to his lack of skills as a mage, Meredith being a pretty woman despite wanting kill him, how he regrets coming back and blaming Hawke for his predicament, and (if Hawke allowed him to sleep with Nella) him stating that they are all going to die, but he is glad he was able to have some fun with Nella.

Returned Emile to the Circle, after allowing him to sleep with Nella

Before returning him to the Circle, Hawke can allow Emile to sleep with Nella. If so, she will later show up at the Comte's estate claiming to be pregnant with Emile's child. If Isabela is in the party, Hawke can also propose that she sleeps with Emile. She refuses, saying that she can whore herself without help (this is possible even if Isabela is in a romance with Hawke).

At some point during the party at Chateau Haine, Emile's sister Babette wrote him a letter telling him of the excitement at the party and of seeing a laborer crushed to death when he rolled down with a barrel of wine.[2].

If Hawke let Emile sleep with Nella and he speaks to Dulci at the party, Dulci will bemoan to Hawke about the fact that they weren't able to stop him from doing so, claiming that they would have rather handled blood magic rather than Emile's scandal.

2. Returned Emile to the Circle, but not allowing him to sleep with Nella

I did not find anything specific about what happens if you do not let him sleep with Nella other than the obvious outcome that she does claim to be pregnant with Emile's child.

3. Allowed Emile to go free

If Hawke allows Emile to leave:

Emile leaves Kirkwall. His mother sends Hawke gold along with a thank you letter. When reporting to Meredith, Hawke can either tell the truth or tell the Knight-Commander that Emile is dead. If Hawke tells Meredith the truth, Meredith will simply state that they will track him down soon enough. If Fenris is in the party and not a friend or a full rival, he reveals Hawke's lie. Meredith then says that her templars will pursue Emile.

[mabaris]

having the horrifying realization that i’m emile de launcet in real life 😟

[fuckyeahvarric]

When you hit the screencap at the exact right moment to express the ‘UGH’.

[chess-blackmyre]

Dragon Age - Blow Us All Away

The next in my Dragon Age/Hamilton animatic series. In her defense, Elsa was nineteen, freshly Harrowed, and still riding the 'I punched a demon in the face' high.

Still, dick move Meredith. Dick move.

[anneapocalypse]

On the actual significance of the "Grand Game"

In the three Dragon Age games thus far we have seen Orlesians from three perspectives. In Origins we get the Fereldan view, Orlesians Are Evil, this from a nation occupied and oppressed by the empire and not yet over it. In DA2 we get the Marcher view, or you could call it specifically the Tethras view, Orlesians Are Stupid, a view no doubt cultivated by the fact that the only Orlesians you meet in Kirkwall are rich expats wealthy enough to have a second home in the Free Marches but not important enough to actually need to be in Orlais. And in Inquisition we get I think the closest thing to the Orlesian view of Orlais, which is: we're very powerful and you should want to have us on your side; please ignore all the chaos and civil war and how expendable we consider the lower classes.

Throughout all of this I think it is worth noting that the only people who think Orlesians are so subtle and clever are Orlesians, and mostly it's just the nobles and their hangers-on who think that about themselves. We're introduced to the concept of the Grand Game through Leliana, who romanticizes the whole thing due to her life as a bard. Varric by contrast has very little in the way of romantic notions about Orlesian nobles and mostly portrays them as comical buffoons, from Emile de Launcet to Duke Prosper de Montfort; not one of Varric's Orlesian characters is ever meant to be taken seriously by the audience. In Inquisition, a lot of hay is made about the Game and the need for favor and so forth but it pretty much all boils down to "Nobles have money and troops. We need those. Make them like you."

To me, the interesting thing about the Game is not that it's actually deeply complex or intricate, but how central it is to Orlesian identity. Of course there are intricacies to court politics, but most of it comes down to knowing whose interests and connections lie where, and how those interests may be successfully manipulated. That's not "Orlesian politics," that's just politics, and it's not meaningfully different from politics elsewhere. What sets the Orlesian aristocracy apart from Ferelden, when you look past the cultural trappings and the aesthetics, is mainly that Orlais has much stronger barriers to upward mobility in place (freeholds, or land owned by commoners, are practically unheard of in Orlais, whereas the freehold is the backbone of Fereldan culture).

But where I think the cultural significance of the Game truly matters to Orlesians is in the way it's meant to set them apart as the Good Empire. The empire that is cultured, sophisticated, civilized--you know, not like that other, bad empire up north, the one with the blood magic and the legal slavery. Please pay no attention to the blood-soaked floors of the servants' quarters (or the illegal slave trade that flourished in occupied Ferelden and behind closed doors of remote estates). We negotiate power with subtle words and gestures, and definitely don't sustain it with the blood of the powerless just like the magisters do, but without the magic. It's the magic part that makes blood magic bad, not the murder part. (This is a big part of why I love The Masked Empire, so much, as it really has so much to say about the nature of power and empire and who truly suffers for the games the nobles play, but it's also why what we see in the servants' quarters in "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" is so important.)

And this all ties into Orlais as the seat of the southern Chantry as well, sitting in opposition to Tevinter politically, culturally, religiously, all of which are inexorably intertwined.

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: I wanna pull Emile de Launcet’s hair

[hollyand-writes]

While everyone else observes the 10th anniversary of Dragon Age II’s release by releasing thoughtful, beautiful, appropriately commemorative content, *I* celebrate it by uploading Emile de Launcet singing “Don’t Cha” by the Pussycat Dolls. That seductive eyebrow wiggle is sending me 😂

@delancet I think this is relevant to your interests 😆 

Also inspired by the hilarious Garrett Hawke version I saw on Twitter [x] 

[sapphim]

since we've been talking about lying, here are all the lies Hawke can tell in the campaign (or at least, all the lies marked with the icon)

Act 1 - Act of Mercy

Ser Karras: Who is this? Hawke: [I'm your best friend.] I'm the one who's going to get you a medal for putting down this mage rebellion. Hawke: [I killed the mages.] I was helping Ser Thrask. The apostates are all dead.

(then there is ofc the "[Varric, this is your thing.] Tell him who we are" but that's marked as a follower action rather than a lie)

Act 1 - Loose Ends

Athenril: Well? Are you here to socialize or did you bring my goods? Hawke: [The goods were stolen.] I rescued your boy and killed the Coterie, but your property was long gone.

Meeran: Spit it out. Is Harimann dead or not? Hawke: [I couldn't find him.] He was gone by the time I got there. I just killed his guards.

Act 2 - Offered and Lost

Viscount: So many Qunari. But you killed everyone responsible? All of them? Hawke: [Every last one.] To a man. Hawke: [It's hard to kill hatred.] This group is crippled. There may be others, though.

(those are the options if Hawke sides with Varnell. if they kill Varnell then the options are basically the same but they're not lying about it)

Arishok: Tell me: why are the bodies of my Qunari burned beyond recognition? Hawke: [That is how they died.] The zealots killed them, then burned the bodies to conceal them.

Arishok: Tell me, Hawke. I sent a battle group to retrieve my delegates. Where are they? Hawke: [I don't know.] I'm not making a habit of finding wayward Qunari.

Act 2 - Prime Suspect

Hawke: [It's not that simple.] I can't be certain of anything. Gascard may have tricked me. Moira: Then we need to find him. Do you know where he is? Hawke: [No.] He didn't tell me where he was going.

Act 2 - Fool's Gold

Yevhen: Iwan said Merin sealed himself in with the darkspawn to save his brothers. Hawke: [He's right.] Merin was a hero. He died saving his family. Be proud of your boy. Hawke: [He's right.] Absolutely correct. Not a word of a lie. Merin died with dignity and honor. Yes. Hawke: [He's right.] Merin died to keep his brothers alive—brothers who should be very, very grateful.

Act 2 - How to Frame a Templar

Ser Roderick: But I will do my duty. If you've seen something… um… suspicious, let me know. Hawke: [Conrad was bribed by mages.] Ser Conrad caught some apostates. They offered him coin to let them go, and he took it. Hawke: [He's been sacrificing goats.] Last night, I saw Ser Conrad sacrificing a goat… to the Great Demon. Then he howled. Loudly. Hawke: [I saw him murder someone.] I saw Ser Conrad stab one of the city guardsman. He dumped him in the bay.

Act 3 - On The Loose

Meredith: It seems, however, that we have still heard nothing of Emile de Launcet. Hawke: [He's dead.] Emile was killed.

also you can tell Anders "[There was nothing between us.] It never happened" when he... inquires politely and tactfully about a previous romance (thanks hepler)