#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!

[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.

[grimwarden]

wait if i made Emile de Launcet a blorbo in dav would it crash time and space

[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.

[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] 

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: I wanna pull Emile de Launcet’s hair

[schmooplesboop]

“And you are...?

“Sympathetic.”

[dragonageconfessions]

Confession:  I love categorizing things and I'd love to see a canon list of mage characters, or at least significant ones, listed from strongest to weakest. If you exclude the Evanuris and the Darkspawn Magisters, they could even be ranked on a scale of 10 or 12. I have my own theory and my own list, but I'd love to know the canon order of magical potency.