Edgard Vidocq

Edgard Vidocq is an "occult detective", which apparently is a license to spend most of his days in the new century in a drugged stupor (and/or mystic trance). He does not have the best reputation in the Century Club in these days, on account of being a hopeless addict, but it is said that back in the old days he had accomplished some truly remarkable investigative feats. However, half of those are mostly forgotten now and the other half seems wildly implausible. Supposedly he has saved all of reality in a dream, but at a terrible cost. Most people are rather skeptical.

Is the illegitimate son of Eugène François Vidocq, who eventually did the right thing and adopted him properly... on his deathbed, as payment for defeating the alchemist who had mortally wounded him.

During rare moments of consciousness, he mentors Sophie and Claude Michel, which mostly takes the shape of providing them with cryptic clues and bizarre assignments. Despite this, they both seem to respect him. Perhaps they know something others don't...