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Every noble house blessed with many children needs a role for them all. Daughters are married off to run their own households, but sons... Sons need jobs within the family.

It is all so simple if you have three sons. The eldest inherits and becomes head of the family. The second son goes to war for the glory for the family name. The third son goes into the priesthood or academy. But if your family has the rare curse of a fourth son? What of he?

He becomes the élancée. A flagrant domestic luxury, more like a prize bird of paradise to be brought out and dazzle guests at parties. He is shown off, a statement of the family's success. He is always kept slender. He is always meek. He is dressed in the utmost finery. He is usually feminised. He belongs to mother, his sisters and to the house itself. He is cherished, but does not assert any rights.

In this way, his presence is neutralised and he cannot upset the good order of things for his elder brothers.

He may rue his station, but every family is proud if they can keep an élancée ...

Description
Every noble house blessed with many children needs a role for them all. Daughters are married off to run their own households, but sons... Sons need jobs within the family.

It is all so simple if you have three sons. The eldest inherits and becomes head of the family. The second son goes to war for the glory for the family name. The third son goes into the priesthood or academy. But if your family has the rare curse of a fourth son? What of he?

He becomes the élancée. A flagrant domestic luxury, more like a prize bird of paradise to be brought out and dazzle guests at parties. He is shown off, a statement of the family's success. He is always kept slender. He is always meek. He is dressed in the utmost finery. He is usually feminised. He belongs to mother, his sisters and to the house itself. He is cherished, but does not assert any rights.

In this way, his presence is neutralised and he cannot upset the good order of things for his elder brothers.

He may rue his station, but every family is proud if they can keep an élancée ...