Celene Valmont I

The current Empress of the Orlesian Empire, the creators of Dragon Age have compared Celene I to Catherine the Great.

Within her country, some claim that, at the age of 17, she organized her uncle's assassination and then outmaneuvered three older cousins in a contest for the throne, avoiding death twice.

Celene is an amateur scholar and her patronage of education and the arts has led to a cultural renaissance in her empire.