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''The Eagle's Heir'' is a choice-based InteractiveFiction game, written by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold and published by Creator/ChoiceOfGames. In an AlternateHistory version of 19th-century France where Emperor Napoleon was victorious at Waterloo seventeen prior, you play the boon companion of Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon's [[HeroicBastard illegitimate son]] and an avid airship racer, and are drawn into the vicious intrigues of the aging Emperor's court when someone makes an attempt on Alexandre's life.
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''The Eagle's Heir'' is a choice-based InteractiveFiction game, written by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold and published by Creator/ChoiceOfGames. In an AlternateHistory version of 19th-century France where Emperor Napoleon was victorious at Waterloo seventeen years prior, you play the boon companion of Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon's [[HeroicBastard illegitimate son]] and an avid airship racer, and are drawn into the vicious intrigues of the aging Emperor's court when someone makes an attempt on Alexandre's life.
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''The Eagle's Heir'' is a choice-based InteractiveFiction game, written by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold and published by Creator/ChoiceOfGames. In an AlternateHistory version of 19th-century France where Emperor Napoleon was victorious at Waterloo, you play the boon companion of Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon's [[HeroicBastard illegitimate son]] and an avid airship racer, and are drawn into the vicious intrigues of the aging Emperor's court when someone makes an attempt on Alexandre's life.
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''The Eagle's Heir'' is a choice-based InteractiveFiction game, written by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold and published by Creator/ChoiceOfGames. In an AlternateHistory version of 19th-century France where Emperor Napoleon was victorious at Waterloo, Waterloo seventeen prior, you play the boon companion of Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon's [[HeroicBastard illegitimate son]] and an avid airship racer, and are drawn into the vicious intrigues of the aging Emperor's court when someone makes an attempt on Alexandre's life.
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* AlternateHistory: Ignoring the fact that the game is set in a {{Steam Punk}} universe, the main historical divergence point is that France won the Battle of Waterloo, causing Napoleon to remain Emperor of France. The actions of the protagonist can cause history to veer even more off the beaten track. It is possible to get an Austrian prince on the throne of France or create a Franco-British Union through the marriage of Emperor Alexandre of France and Queen Victoria of England.
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* AlternateHistory: Ignoring the fact that the game is set in a {{Steam Punk}} universe, the main historical divergence point is that France won the Battle of Waterloo, causing Napoleon to remain Emperor of France.France up until 1832. The actions of the protagonist can cause history to veer even more off the beaten track. It is possible to get an Austrian prince on the throne of France or create a Franco-British Union through the marriage of Emperor Alexandre of France and Queen Victoria of England.
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* AmazonBrigade: Under a liberal Emperor Alexandre or a Republic, Eugenie Duval and her friends support the establishment of a corps of women aviators.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Neither Alexandre and Franz are bad people and both can become authoritarian autocrats or liberal progressives as emperor. The player can also forgo the Empire in favor of spreading Republican values. Whatever path you take, you're likely to have sympathetic allies along the way.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Neither Alexandre and Franz are bad people and both can become authoritarian autocrats or liberal progressives as emperor.emperor, though Franz naturally leans toward the former and [[ALighterShadeOfGray Alexandre the latter]]. The player can also forgo the Empire in favor of spreading Republican values. Whatever path you take, you're likely to have sympathetic allies along the way.
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* AntiVillain: Franz isn't that bad a guy and if he wasn't opposed to Alexandre, you'd have little reason to be opposed to him. [[spoiler: The only serious move he makes is made out of the (correct) fear that the Austrians [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness will kill him]] if he doesn't become Emperor. All the other attempts on Alexandre's life were actually made by his bodyguard Amalia, who was only motivated by the justified desire to protect her master from the aforementioned Austrian murder.]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In contrast to how most Choice of Games books handle it, GenderIsNoObject is ''not'' in effect here. 19th Century gender, sexual, and class divides are all in effect and further influence how the player can operate in the world.
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* HeirClubForMen: In full effect. Eugenie is capable enough that if she was born male she could have easily been in command of her own regiment, but as a young lady she'll have to make do with her own airship and an indefinitely postponed wedding (courtesy of her very liberal father). [[spoiler:In certain epilogues the birth of Alexandre's son is celebrated much more intensely than the birth of his firstborn daughter, as the throne finally has a legitimate heir.]] Part of the reason why the protagonist's grandmother is in keen favor of Napoleon's rule is because he's been making moves to eliminate this. [[spoiler: A liberal Alexandre tends to make greater strides than his father in equalising the genders if he's crowned, whereas Franz repeals several of the more progressive reforms put in place under Bonaparte rule.]]
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Neither Alexandre and Franz are bad people and both can become authoritarian autocrats or liberal progressives as emperor. The player can also forgo the Empire in favor of spreading Republican values. Whatever path you take, you're likely to have sympathetic allies along the way.
* HeirClubForMen: In full effect. Eugenie is capable enough that if she was born male she could have easily been in command of her own regiment, but as a young lady she'll have to make do with her own airship and an indefinitely postponed wedding (courtesy of her very liberal father). [[spoiler:In certain epilogues the birth of Alexandre's son is celebrated much more intensely than the birth of his firstborn daughter, as the throne finally has a legitimate heir.]] Part of the reason why the protagonist's grandmother is in keen favor of Napoleon's rule is because he's been making moves to eliminate this. [[spoiler: A liberal Alexandre tends to make greater strides than his father in equalising the genders if he's crowned, whereas Franz repeals several of the more progressive reforms put in place under place under Bonaparte rule.]]]]
* HeroicBastard: Alexandre is the illegitimate son of Emperor Napoleon and the player is the child of one of his soldiers and a woman he met during Napoleon's military campaigns.
* HeirClubForMen: In full effect. Eugenie is capable enough that if she was born male she could have easily been in command of her own regiment, but as a young lady she'll have to make do with her own airship and an indefinitely postponed wedding (courtesy of her very liberal father). [[spoiler:In certain epilogues the birth of Alexandre's son is celebrated much more intensely than the birth of his firstborn daughter, as the throne finally has a legitimate heir.]] Part of the reason why the protagonist's grandmother is in keen favor of Napoleon's rule is because he's been making moves to eliminate this. [[spoiler: A liberal Alexandre tends to make greater strides than his father in equalising the genders if he's crowned, whereas Franz repeals several of the more progressive reforms put in place under place under Bonaparte rule.
* HeroicBastard: Alexandre is the illegitimate son of Emperor Napoleon and the player is the child of one of his soldiers and a woman he met during Napoleon's military campaigns.
