Émile
How the game names this character and what they do, chapter by chapter.
The life stories on this page were written for this wiki. They set an invented life against the real history of its years and the game's own story, and they are not in the game.
In chapters 1 and 3
Chapter 1 The Gilded Cage 1783 to 1789
After the finale of chapter 1: The Gilded CageSealed so it does not spoil the story for you.Break the seal
Émile
Émile was born above a farrier's shop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and apprenticed at twelve to a locksmith who happened to serve the king. He learned to cut keys from wax impressions, to listen without being noticed and to keep his mouth shut, the last of these less well than the others.
In the summer of 1789 the price of bread was the highest anyone could remember, and the city had begun to look for arms. Émile had made copies of keys he should not have kept, among them one to an armory where thousands of muskets waited for a crowd that did not yet know they were there.
In the game
After the finale of chapter 1: The Gilded CageBreak the seal
At the heart of the interlude after chapter 1: The King's Locksmith
Chapter 3 The Eagle's Shadow 1799 to 1815
Chapter 3: The Eagle's ShadowSealed so it does not spoil the story for you.Break the seal
Émile
After the finale of chapter 3: The Eagle's ShadowBreak the seal
Twenty years on, Émile works for the inspectorate of quarries, which has spent a generation shoring up the old stone workings under the south of the city after whole streets fell into them. He has walked those galleries for years, by lamp and by memory, and drawn a map nobody else has.
Part of the galleries now holds the bones of the old cemeteries, moved there at night by cartloads. Smugglers use the rest, and so do men who want to come and go under the barriers unseen. A complete map would be worth a fortune to any of them, and a death sentence to whoever owned it.
In the game
After the finale of chapter 3: The Eagle's ShadowBreak the seal
At the heart of the interlude after chapter 3: The Map Beneath