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Emmanellain de Fortemps | Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward | reserved
Name: Zorn
Age: 25
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Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Emmanellain de Fortemps
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
Age: Early twenties (never explicitly stated)
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Post 3.0
Background Link:
Coming from the Fortemps family, Emmanellain is a true son of one of the four ruling houses of Ishgard. The second true born to be specific, though he is the third son of Count Edmont. As such, he's lived a pretty privileged and carefree life (as much as one can when your nation is locked in a thousand-year war). Ishgard is a very classist society, where nobility is supreme over all, and those not of noble birth are treated very poorly. Thus the distinction that, while he is the third son to Count Edmont, he is the second true born son, where the middle child, Haurchefant, is an illegitimate son, and thus not a true born and isn't treated as one.
His nation is highly religious, and through their faith it dictates those who have right to rule: the four high houses that descended directly from King Thordan and his knights twelve. So, those born of the high houses aren't only just nobles, but they are decreed their right to rule through their religion. Which, of course, provides them quite an aggrandized view on their position in society, and oft breeds selfish and oppressive attitudes among them. Though, House Fortemps is a bit of an exception of such, with Count Edmont and Haurchefant both enjoying outsiders. They often accept help from them, where other houses refuse to even ponder the notion, while also supplying their own aid in kind.
Unfortunately, an added stress to the nation happened five years ago when the calamity struck and the second moon fell from the sky. Thus, Bahamut was released unto the land, and weather patterns and the landscape was changed indefinitely. Plunging Coerthas into an eternal winter. Killing many Ishgardians from the suddenness of it all (seriously there's a crap ton of corpses still buried under mountains of snow and ice, it was rather brutal). This only served to further isolate Ishgard from the rest of the world, focusing more on their recovery and their war, than anything outside their borders.
When the Warrior of Light (the player character) is finally allowed into Ishgard, Emmanellain gets paired up with them to go to Camp Cloudtop. It's there that he gets assigned busywork for the most part, till that busywork gets him kidnapped by Vanu, which are large, rotund bird beastmen native of the area. What should have been a simple fetch quest for some spring crystals, turned into a quest to infiltrate the Vanu's village and rescue Emmanellain. A mission that proved successful, and unearthed that the vanu had summoned their primal (god more or less), which explained their growing aggressiveness when they had seemed rather docile before.
Emmanellain was quick to recover at least, but for the rest of the expansion he mainly just sticks around the Jeweled Crozier (shopping area of Ishgard), and is used for some information since he's an intense gossip and info hound. However, halfway through the story his brother Haurchefant was slain protecting the Warrior of Light, and he's left rather devastated. The impact of which is later on shown when you speak to his manservant Honoroit. He mentions that in the wake of his brother's death, Emmanellain has picked up training with the sword with a renewed fervor, and plans to take up the mantle his brother left behind. Which is rather uncharacteristic of the typically lazy and carefree Emmanellain.
With the truth of the origins of the Dragonsong War being revealed, and thus the foundation of Ishgard's very structure being pulled into question, it can be assumed that had an effect on Emmanellain's attitude towards his training. Of course, his brother dying to protect the truth and hope of Ishgard greatly affected him as well. However, the very structure of his society possibly changing would certain have a huge effect on him, as such, those huge developments in his life have clearly left him changed for the (possibly) better, even if outwardly he doesn't present it so easily.
If he takes up the mantle or not is yet to be seen, but for now this is where canon has left off with him.
Inventory:
He will be bringing primarily this. Just his froo froo noble clothes.
Which broken down is:
-Coat
-Tunic
-Pants
-Thigh-high leather boots
-Ring
-And probably a bag of gil that won't help him at all!
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To start this off simply, Emmanellain comes from a society that is hugely built upon classes: high borns (nobility), and low borns (peasants). There is such a divide between the two, that even where the two hold residence are in separate areas within the city of Ishgard. Low borns live in the lower parts of Ishgard, where there is little care for the city's up keep, while nobility live in the upper levels, where buildings are beautiful and prestigious, manors abound! There is no love for the poor, and they are seen as not much more than useless fodder in their war against the Dravanians, as well as unintelligible lambs to be lead by nobility.
With that stated, Emmanellain being a noble of such a society has left him rather short sighted, and a bit of an arrogant, spoiled child. He's very carefree, and has a pretty stilted view of himself and those around him; which leads to him not taking things very seriously. This could be because he's so far from any immediate danger, but also because he's the son of the Count of House Fortemps—which makes him Ishgardian royalty. His life has been pretty easy in comparison to a lot of Ishgardians, and his flippant attitude reflects that.
Since he's the second (true)born of Count Edmont, and thus most hazardous and important responsibilities fall to his brothers Artoirel and Haurchefant, Emmanellain is pretty lazy. He worms his way out of responsibility as he can, and seems far more interested in having a social life (at the bar more often than not), than actually serving his country in the same way his brothers do. He wants all the benefits of being a noble, and none of the responsibilities. He definitely shows this when the Warrior of Light comes to stay with them, and his father asks the WoL to aid Artoirel and Emmanellain in their duties—Artoirel takes it as an insult, while Emmanellain takes it as being bequeathed a choreboy/girl.
Even the duty he is handed is rather minuscule in comparison to his brothers, it almost feels more like Edmont's attempts to get him out of the house, or away from the bar, than anything fundamentally important. Even Liainette, who is in charge of Camp Cloudtop where Emmanellain was sent to help out, sends him on look-out patrol, knowing nothing was really going to happen. Then later on, sends him to get spring crystals for the camp's water reservoirs. Exciting stuff... The sad thing is, it isn't that he's incapable, he's just lazy and chooses to be incompetent. Which is hilarious, because he wants to be more honored than Artoirel, inventing for himself some rivalry between them, but he doesn't want to do the actual work for it.
In fact, he's so bad at working for anything, he has a man servant that follows him around like a nanny, nitpicking at him for slacking or having bad posture, or telling him his belt for his sword is too loose and he'll trip. What's even further sad about him needing someone to nanny at him 24/7 is the fact his manservant is a child. A TINY ONE AT THAT, the kid cannot be older than 16 or so, perhaps even younger, but Honoroit has his shit together better than Emmanellain. Which is just really sad.
To add to his staggeringly admirable traits of being a partying, lazy, spoiled noble, he's also a relentless flirt, as well as a bit of a pervert. When first arriving at Camp Cloudtop, Emmanellain immediately tries to flirt with Laniaitte, who, unsurprisingly, has little interest in his advancements. So much so, she actually uses the player character as a messenger to tell Emmanellain what tasks she wants him to do, even though he's standing right there. He never seems to catch on, even as he remarks on the fact she could have told him herself what she wished for him to do! Needless to say, whether it's that he's clueless or doesn't give that much of a shit about her discontent with his flirting, he has no tact at all when it comes to the ladies. Even other people in general when it comes to his, uh, private thoughts about women... Like whether or not Lady Iceheart's carpet matched the drapes... so to speak.
Another important fact about Emmanellain is he's an absolute coward. While helping Lady Laniaitte with whatever duties she required of him, he got himself captured by a village of Vanu Vanu. Upon being freed, he proceeded to run away from them all, shaking in terror. He was very much the damsel in distress, and needed not only the player character to save him, but Haurchefant came to the rescue as well. He wouldn't even attempt to defend himself, just ran like a giant coward and hid as he could behind those willing to protect him. Not at all being the valiant knight his older brothers have proven themselves to be. Regardless, he seems quick to bounce back to being optimistic and his old self even after such a traumatic event. So, at the very least he's resilient.
Despite the way he carries himself, there does seem to be more to him than what he lets on. For all he might be a carefree noble who likes to piss his days away by partying and being irresponsible and drunk, he later on shows he is capable of bettering himself, and taking on responsibility. When his brother Haurchefant is killed protecting the warrior of light, he's rather stricken by his death, his cheerful demeanor rather absent in the wake of the tragedy. For all he may have seemed dismissive towards his elder half brother, he truly did care about him.
So much so, he started to take his training more seriously where as before he was completely content with blowing off his responsibilities completely. He doesn't say it himself, however, still presenting himself as he always had, but his actions speak volumes of how the loss of his brother has changed him. So, while he might still enjoy his old irresponsible hobbies, he now has much needed inspiration to give himself purpose and a cause. He wants to pick up his brother's mantle and make something of himself, where as before he was content with being not much more than a useless party boy. Emmanellain has a lot of growing to do yet, but at the very least he is starting to head in the right direction.
Flavor Abilities:
Due to being an Elezen and having descended from Thordan and his knights who devoured the eyes of a great wyrm, as well as just being an Elezen anyways, Emmanellain has heightened senses. Primarily with hearing and seeing, however these will be dampened to human levels, though on the above average level of which.
Other than that, he's honestly pretty average all around. He has received some training with a sword, and has some muscle to him, but not nearly as much as one who wants to be a knight should. Primarily due to his own lackadaisical lifestyle. He has since picked up training again, but other than just being well enough in shape, he's got nothing to boast about (not that it will stop him any).
He does, as mentioned, have the blood of Ratatoskr in him, which, with some magical ritual, and sipping of some dragon blood would turn him INTO a dragon, but he will be losing all of that in game anyways. Also, where the hell would they get a dragon to make some dragon-blood beverages with anyways!
Suitability:
I honestly wish to take this pampered noble who already lives in an eternal winter, though from the comfort of his city and manor, and play him out actually having to deal with the survival aspects of such a horrible climate. He'll likely get lost half a dozen times, and end up needing to be saved or helped just as many. He's pretty much useless and defenseless on his own, so it could lead to some interesting and fun shenanigans with him and others. He's literally a burden. He'll probably be more interested in trying to gossip with people, than helping others, and will have a break down or two, probably.
RP Samples:
Network/Action samples
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A two-story A-frame house. The first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and two bedrooms. The second floor has a master bedroom, master bathroom, and balcony. From the outside, the curtains appear drawn, but if you go inside, it's apparent the curtains are built into the windows and can't be raised at all. The interior of the house is very dark as a result, and completely empty. There's a locked door near the back of the house. "ALPHONSE ELRIC, TADASHI HAMADA, STEPH BROWN, MAMI TOMOE, FREYA CRESCENT, EDWARD ELRIC, DAY NINETEEN, TRAVELLING WEST" has been carved into one of the walls.
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