History Characters / FireEmblemThreeHousesAdrestianEmpire

* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: On Silver Snow (as well as Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes if Byleth recruited both Petra and Bernadetta) Petra's shared paralogue with Bernadetta has the former travel back to Brigid in order to gather troops for the war against [[spoiler:Brigid's imperial overlord, the Adrestian Empire]].

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In ''Three Houses'', he's seen to not be a wanton warmonger and is an honourable opponent. A notable example comes when the Alliance gives a sudden retreat due to [[spoiler:the Almyrans invading their land out east.]] When Caspar insists on pursuing, Leopold notes that Claude refused to torch the fertile Imperial lands they were traversing through, which would starve the Empire, and that the decency on the part of the Alliance deserves decency in kind.

The step-father of Mercedes. He was once the head of an Imperial minor noble family who sought multiple Crests until all members of the house and himself were killed for unknown reasons, with the sole survivor being his son, Emile von Bartels, who disappeared.

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:He wanted to use his son's half sister to become his new wife after her mother was past child-bearing to try and gain more Lamine crested children. It's no wonder Emile broke and killed his father at last.]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: He wanted a bunch of different crests in his family, such as with Mercedes' mother who married him for financial security and gave him a child with the Lamine crest. [[spoiler:He even wished to breed with his own stepdaughter Mercedes in hopes that the children would bear her Crest of Lamine]].

* HateSink: Probably one of the most vile nobles and parents to be seen in the series. Once Mercedes' mother gave birth to Emile, who had a Crest, he had no use for them and sought other women to give him Crest-babies. This was on top of the fact his crestless children were extremely terrible to the ones who had a crest. [[spoiler:When Mercedes tells Emile they wanted to take him with them after they left, he surmises that his father would have no hesitation killing them to get his heir back, a sentiment which Mercedes agrees with. Finally, he was planning on making Mercedes his new wife once her mother grew too old to bear children so that he'd have more Crest-babies. All and all he was a pretty vile human being.]]
* KidsAreCruel: His crestless children were quite cruel. Mercedes recalls how they were both verbally and physicall abusive, and it was only bearable because she had her mother and Emile. In ''Three Hopes'', Mercedes tells Felix that back when she and her brother secretly fed a cat Emile found, they were certain that their siblings would've tied it into a bag and threw it in the river to drown if they ever found out about it.

* PosthumousCharacter: He's been dead for several years by the time of ''Three Houses'', with what we learn about him primarily coming from Mercedes [[spoiler:and Jeritza.]]

The step-father of Mercedes. He was once the head of an Imperial minor noble family who sought multiple crests until all members of the house and himself were killed for unknown reasons with the survivor being his son, Emile von Bartels, who disappeared.

* AmbitionIsEvil: He wanted a bunch of different crests in his family like with Mercedes mother who married him for financial security and gave him a child with the Lamine crest. [[spoiler:It's more depraved when he decides he wanted more but this time, with Mercedes!]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Considering Mercedes and Emile had several half-siblings due to him wanting other crests in the house, they were mainly crestless and horrible and abusive towards the ones who had crests. Even Constance, the siblings' childhood friend, knew how horrible the household were.
* HateSink: Probably one of the most vile nobles and parents to be seen in the series. Once Mercedes' mother gave birth to Emile, who had a crest, he had no use for them and sought for other women to give him crest-babies. Let's not get into the fact his crestless children were extremely terrible to the ones who had a crest, so yeah bad parenting there. [[spoiler:When Mercedes exclaims to Emile they wanted to take him with them after they left, Emile surmises his father would have no hesitation to kill them to get his heir back which Mercedes agrees with. And especially with what he decided when he found use in Mercedes... you definitely will feel great that he is dead in present time.]]
* KidsAreCruel: His crestless children were quite cruel. Mercedes recalls how they had horrible insults and violent actions towards them and it was only bearable because she had her mother and Emile. In ''Three Hopes'', Mercedes tells Felix that back then she and her brother secretly fed a cat Emile found. She claims that if her half siblings found it, she was very certain they would put it in a bag and throw the cat in the river to drown it.
* LastWords: Subverted [[spoiler:as Emile doesn't even remember his father's last words or how he even killed him when he snapped.]]

* ParentalIncest: What would have happened if he [[spoiler:got his hands on Mercedes who was likely in her teens that time. Unforunately for him, his son heavily disagrees.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:He wanted to use his son's half sister to become his new wife after her mother was past child-bearing to try and gain more Lamine crested children. It's no wonder Emile snapped and killed his father.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Considering Mercedes and Emile had several half-siblings due to him wanting other crests in the house, they were crestless and horrible and abusive towards the ones who had crests.
* HateSink: Probably one of the most vile nobles and parents to be seen in the series. Once Mercedes' mother gave birth to Emile, who had a crest, he had no use for them and sought for other women to give him crest-babies. Let's not get into the fact his crestless children were extremely horrible and terrible to the ones who had a crest so yeah bad parenting there. [[spoiler:When Mercedes exclaims to Emile they wanted to take him with them after they left, Emile surmises his father would have no hesitation to kill them to get his heir back. And especially with what he decided when he found use in Mercedes... you defintely will feel great that he is dead in present time.]]
* ParentalIncest: What would have happened if he [[spoiler:got his hands on Mercedes. Unforunately for him, his son heavily disagrees.]]

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[-''Main Characters:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesByleth Byleth]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesEdelgard Edelgard]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesDimitri Dimitri]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesClaude Claude]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesRhea Rhea]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesShez Shez]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesOtherMainCharacters Other Main Characters]] \\
''Secondary Characters:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesHubert Hubert]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFerdinand Ferdinand]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBernadetta Bernadetta]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesSylvain Sylvain]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesIngrid Ingrid]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFelix Felix]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesLysithea Lysithea]]\\
''Houses:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBlackEagles The Black Eagles]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBlueLions The Blue Lions]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesGoldenDeer The Golden Deer]]\\

* TheEmpire: As is the standard for a ''Fire Emblem'' game. The continent of Fodlan is divided into three countries, the Adrestian Empire, the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance, as well as the non-aligned region housing the mediator the Central Church of Seiros, coexisting in relative peace. 1180 years ago, the first Emperor Wilhelm I and Saint Seiros launched the War of Heroes to unify Fodlan. Hundreds of years later, the regions that became the Kingdom and Alliance seceded by war and rebellion. Subsequently the Empire has not instigated any major conflict unprovoked. It does have a vassal state (Brigid), but that state was actually a nation that invaded the empire first. In the present, there is some sentiment in the Empire that the other nations were lands and people unjustly taken from them. Ionius IX is the Emperor, and Edelgard is the princess. In these games, the empire continues the tradition of inciting the story, but [[spoiler:not purely out of conquest. Edelgard seeks to reunify Fodlan without the classism and societal issues present on the continent, but makes clear that her ambition ends at Fodlan's borders, and would rather release Brigid from its vassalage.]]

* PsychoLesbian: She doesn't express any sort of romantic interest in any of the male characters and has an ''extreme'' obsession with Edelgard which goes to the point that she keeps track of every meal that Edelgard has eaten, the amount of times she's sighed, the amount of times she's said Monica's name, or to her chagrin, the names of others compared to her own. Downplayed, as while Monica's obsession with Edelgard is clearly unhealthy she doesn't actually physically hurt anyone over it.

* TheCycleOfEmpires: By the time of the game's plot, Adrestia sits firmly in Phase 3, having lost multiple territories over the years while also having a corrupt bureaucracy obsessed with Crests where the Emperor and their lineage have little to no actual power.

* PsychoLesbian: She doesn't express any sort of romantic interest in any of the male characters and has an ''extreme'' obsession with Edelgard and, to a lesser extent, Dorothea. Downplayed, as while Monica's obsession with Edelgard is clearly unhealthy she doesn't actually hurt anyone over it.