Napoleon Bonaparte
Masterful Watchman Napoleon Bonaparte is a tier 7 Professional.
Bonaparte is the Tyrant of France, and governs the French Empire. He has a Fortitude-based build.
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Historical Notes
Napoleon Bonaparte makes for an interesting "villain". Idealized by the French, blown larger than nature by even his opponents, he is the focus so many legends that you can write it any which way. His fulgurant career shaped all Europe. By the way, the "small man" legend is pure British propaganda, stemming from a difference between french and english measures: Napoleon was 5"2... in french feet/inches, which makes him 5"6 in english measures (1m69), which was the average size for the era.
Napoleon was all sort of things. A malingerer, an extreme misogynist in a sexist era, a logistic and military genius, a born leader, and an hypocrite and liar of the first order. He found fascination in the Roman empire - and Alexander the Great, of course.
When the Great Gates open up, Napoleon is fresh from his Brumaire Coup, which replaced the authority of the Republican Assembly by the Triumvirate, of which he was the First Consul (an idea he took from the Romans). He qualified for the Labyrinth and decided quickly to use that to propel himself ahead and seize more power.
He figured out that the resources extracted from the Labyrinth would revolutionize war. He was prompt to agree to the Peace of Amiens, which is where history starts to really diverge in Europe. His "Savants" and engineer took inspiration from Da Vinci's war machines, and made them real. When Napoleon restarted war in late 1803, his armies rolled over all forces. Even Russia fell to his assault - it turns out that having a horseless carriage logistic baggage train, and Crystal-Powered heaters means you can invade Russia in Winter and win.
By 1805, he has abandoned all pretenses of republican government, and installed a French Empire, naming himself as "Tyrant" using the classical term. While the British have mostly conquered France's oversea colonies, all of Europe is "French", and the British no longer have allies on place to help them. As a result, France and the United Kingdom are locked in a military stalemate and a state of cold-medium war.