Lucien Lachance (Oblivion)

Lucien Lachance is a fictional character in the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Lucien Lachance is a Speaker for the illegal, underground society known as the Dark Brotherhood, an assassin's guild. He is a member of the Dark Brotherhood's Black Hand. The Black Hand includes the Night Mother (A ghostly spirit who lives under the Lucky Old Lady statue in Bravil and is prayed to(She tells the brotherhood whom to assassinate);Listener (Thumb), whom the protagonist becomes at the end of the Dark Brotherhood questline; Four Speakers (Fingers(Lachance is one)); and Silencer to do the bidding of the Listener and Speakers(Fingernail/claw).

The player can gain entrance into the Dark Brotherhood by committing a murder and sleeping in any isolated room or location that the Dark Brotherhood 'deems secure'. When the player awakens, he or she will be confronted by Lucien Lachance who offers the player the honour of becoming a member of the Dark Brotherhood after completing a test which involves murdering another character named Rufio, who resides at the ironically named "Inn of Ill Omen," north of the town of Bravil. He then disappears with an illusion spell.

After you kill Rufio in the Inn of Ill Omen, and you sleep in a location Lachance finds suitable for illegal conversation, he will contact you in his black robes. The player is now accepted into the Dark Brotherhood. Located under an abandoned house in Cheydinhal, the brotherhood's sanctuary is a top secret facility that only Dark Brothers, Dark Sisters, the Black Hand, The Night Mother, and the Dread Father Sithis know of (excluding the count of Cheydinhal, who keeps his mouth closed(he is bombarded with death threats)). Here in the Sanctuary you receive numerous assassination contracts from Vincente and later Ocheeva. Until the unexpected happens.

The player is told to meet Lachance in Fort Farragut, a castle the east of Cheydinhal. Soon he learns that there is a traitor inside the Dark Brotherhood! Lucien quests you with killing everyone inside the Sanctuary. You must kill the vampire Vincinte and the Argonian assassin Ocheeva, and all the other members too. After slaying the entire Cheydinhal Sanctuary, you return to Fort Farragut and receive orders that you are to go to Hero Hill to receive your next contract, This is called a Dead Drop. The rest of the contracts are Dead Drops, excluding one or two.

Sometime later, you are ordered to kill a wood elf archer in Bravil. After you have killed the nimble elf, Lachance comes out of the blue and tells you that your last few contracts have been ones designed to kill off the Black Hand itself. The archer you just killed was the Listener himself. Lachance tells you that you didn't actually kill the traitor in the Sanctuary and that you must find the traitor before more blood is spilled.

After the player finds the next fake dead drop in Anvil, he interrogates the Bosmer whom makes the dead drop and finds that the traitor lives in the Anvil Lighthouse. You rush to the scene and find that, inside the Anvil Lighthouse Basement, the traitor has stashed the bodies of his victims there, and some live ones. Then you find a journal explaining that the traitor's mother was killed by the Dark Brotherhood and he wants revenge. His mother's head is on a plate there, too.

After returning to Lachance in Fort Farragut, you are told to meet him in Applewatch, a farm near Bruma. When you arrive, you find that Lachance had been killed by the remaining members of the Black Hand, thinking that he was the traitor.

But Lucien's death is not unavenged.

The player and the fragmented Black Hand go to the tomb of the Night Mother under the Lucky Old Lady statue in Bravil. They enter through a secret passage and soon, the spirit of the Night Mother is right before you. In a rage by her awakening, the Night Mother counsels the Dark Brotherhood for their insolence. She knew who the traitor was all along.

The traitor was in the room. He attacked the Night Mother's ghost, but the player kills him. Two members of the Black Hand are killed, exlcuding the traitor. Only the Night Mother, Arquen, and the player survive. The player ascends to the rank of Listener, the highest possible rank you can achieve, and Arquen leads the sanctuary.

Trivia

 * Lachance is one of the most loved characters in Oblivion, his character and persona praised by a multitude of fans. He also has some particularly memorable lines, but his most famous is;
 * "Dear Brother/Sister, I do not spread rumours; I create them".


 * Lucien Lachance is voiced by Wes Johnson, who also voiced the Imperial Males, the Arena Announcer, and Dremora in Oblivion, as well as Sheogorath in the official plug-in "The Shivering Isles".


 * The name "Lucien Lachance" (etymologically "lucas the luck") may be a reference to the famous American gangster Lucky Luciano, as his name is simply the french version of that title. Lucien is, after all, a mob boss of sorts.


 * Lachance's hideout, Fort Farragut, is named after Farragut Square, an area in Washington DC located near Bethesda Softworks headquarters, Bethesda, Maryland.