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sleeping with the gardener. However, since Celene promised Briala she would one day free the elves of Orlais, Briala continued to do Celene's bidding in secret. Briala was mainly her spymaster, using the city elves as her eyes and ears. Along with Celene's chevalier champion, Ser Michel, Briala ensured Celene kept the throne while her cousin Grand Duke
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to her if she has any chance in stopping him. Along the way Celene encounters the mysterious elven apostate
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Gaspard eventually launched a coup attempt against Celene while she is in the city of
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as a notable example of BioWare's approach of publishing novels and written works in other media which introduce forthcoming locations, ancillary characters and quest lines leading up to a new release or a further project in the distant future, with the goal of advance the overall narrative of the
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