Commissaire Jules Delaroche

Player: Phil. Chapters played: 2 (Lyon, from after the Orphans’ Hospital Raid to the Silkweavers’ Guild Assault). Replacement character: Varrio Harrowmont (Chapter 3).

Delaroche began Chapter 2 as Savarin’s hostage — the police commissioner of Lyon, coerced through threats to his daughter into shielding the Choir’s Lyon cell. Delaroche approached Gus at Adrien’s lodge and offered to turn against Savarin if his children were rescued, precipitating the hospital raid. When Jacob died at the Orphans’ Hospital, Phil took Delaroche up as his character, and the informant became an investigator.

After the Camberonne ball, Émeric took the investigators and Thomas to Adrien’s hunting lodge. Delaroche came there and laid out his terms to Gus: rescue his children from the hospital, and he would turn against Savarin. His appeal precipitated the hospital raid.

The raid freed more than 240 children, including children of nobles, politicians and other influential families. Their rescue broke a wider network of hostages through which Savarin had controlled civic figures, opening the possibility of further allies.

After the hospital raid, Magistrate Béraud was summoned to report and Delaroche arrested him.

• Chapter 2 (Lyon) — Redemption: Turned against Savarin once his family was protected; supplied records, warnings, and the map of who else she owned in the gendarmerie.
• Chapter 2 (Lyon) — Silkweavers’ Guild Assault (Death): Led his own police against the Guild’s front entrance while the party went in through the sewers — the two-pronged assault that destroyed the Chakota, killed Savarin, and rescued the children’s choir. Delaroche died trying to scale a barricade, cut down by a Blue Sash. See Silkweavers Guild Assault.

Delaroche was the campaign’s proof that Savarin’s hostages could be unmade — the man who spent the chapter forced to protect the Choir and died breaking it, with his daughter safe and his office clean. Phil’s second character lost in a single chapter, in the same assault that took Marina Garrick.

• Commissaire Jules Delaroche Story — narrative retrospective
• Silkweavers Guild Assault — the death event