Editing 7th Sea (section)

===Montaigne===
France before the French Revolution, it is even ruled by a guy called the "Sun King" (and or "Empereur") though, rather than a frothing Catholic, he's a mad sorcerer who's recently declared that his nation will be ruled by devil-magic. He competes with the Vodacce merchant princes for title of the most depraved, corrupt ruler in the setting. 

The first edition supplement is largely focused on the intrigues of the various noble houses and secret societies that dominate the country. The Rilasciare, for example, are a secret society dedicated to overthrowing the monarchy. Or Church. Or any other form of government, to be honest. They still pretend to believe in Revolution and power to the people. No one else does. A later book included the option to have the nation undergo its inevitable revolution.  It ain't pretty, especially with multiple secret societies all slap-fighting each other over who get to be the ones to cause and steer it. 

Also, they have one of the most elite combat units in the setting - the musketeers. And since there is no way to force player to choose a profession that is simply a bodyguard of a greatest dick in the universe, they are also depicted as the best fighting force in the setting, supposedly capable of conquering rest of the Theah by themselves. Montaigne racial magic involves creating various teleportation points (by cutting-up reality itself to force it to bleed), and traversing a <s>Hell</s> mysterious void in-between.  No matter what, don't open your eyes in there...

Montaigne schools are extremely varied, but double-wielding is generally popular, whether twin knives (Boucher), the rapier and main-gauche (Valroux), or the sword and triple-dagger (Gaulle).  The only Montaigne school that is ''not'' a double-wielding school, in fact, is the sicknasty Rois et Reines school of gunfighting, using a musket with bayonet and a brace of pistols to be a storm of brutal damage at range and one of the best polearm fighters in the game up close.