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[fefuckability]

Tellius Fuckability Face-off: Qualifier 3

Feel free to rb/comment with your reasoning!

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Devdan / Largo A Support Translation

FE Game Script Translations - FE Novel Translations - Original FE Support Conversations

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[ラルゴ] (中央右)

ダラハウ、ちょっといいか？▼

Largo: Devdan, can I talk to you for a minute?

[ダラハウ] (中央左)

もちろん全然かまわないのよ〜。▼

Devdan: Of course, Devdan does not mind at all~!

[ラルゴ] (中央右)

あの時ぁ怖くなっちまって

逃げちまったんだが……

ほんとに悪かった、ダラハウ。▼

なんてことをしちまったんだ、

どうしたら償えるかとずっと悩んでたが…

謝ることしか思いつかねえ。▼

ごめんな、ダラハウ……ウハラダも。▼

Largo: I was so scared last time that I ran away, but… I’m really sorry, Devdan. I did something terrible, and I’ve worried this whole time about how I can make up for it, but… all I could think of is to apologize. I’m sorry, Devdan… and I’m sorry to Nadved, too.

[ダラハウ] (中央左)

ああ〜そんなに気にしてくれてたのね〜？

ごめんよラルゴ、ウハラダは大丈夫なのよ！▼

Devdan: Ah~, Largo was that worried, were you~? Devdan is sorry, Largo! Nadved is okay!

[ラルゴ] (中央右)

ほ、ほんとか！？▼

Largo: R-Really?!

[ダラハウ] (中央左)

ウハラダはいつだってダラハウの友達！

友達はいつでもそばにいてくれるのよ〜！▼

だからこうやって紙に描いて〜…

むにゃむにゃむにゃむにゃ〜▼

ほ〜ら、ウハラダよ！▼

Devdan: Nadved will always be Devdan’s friend! And friends are always by your side~! You just need to draw on a piece of paper like so~... *Mumble mumble mumble~* Ta da, Nadved!

[？？？] (見えない位置・左)

久しぶりね、ラルゴ。▼

???: Nice to see you again, Largo!

[ラルゴ] (中央右)

おお！　ほんとだ！▼

すまなかったウハラダ〜！！

おれがつまんねえ腹立てちまったばっかりに

痛い思いを……▼

Largo: Oh! You’re right! I’m sorry, Nadved!! I hurt you just because I got a little mad…

[？？？] (見えない位置・左)

いいのよラルゴ。▼

???: It’s okay, Largo!

[ダラハウ] (中央左)

そうそう、いいのよラルゴ〜！

ラルゴはダラハウの友達だから

ウハラダとも友達なのよね〜！▼

友達はそんなこと気にしないのよ〜！▼

Devdan: Yes, it’s alright, Largo~! Largo is Devdan’s friend, so Largo is also Nadved’s friend~! Friends do not worry about such things~!

[ラルゴ] (中央右)

よかった……ありがとうな、２人とも！

おまえらいい奴らだよな！　わはははは！▼

Largo: That’s good to hear… Thanks, you two! You’re both such good guys! Wah ha ha ha ha!

[ダラハウ] (中央左)

いえいえ〜、ラルゴが一番いい人なのね〜。

やさしいラルゴを、ダラハウ大好きよ〜。

これからもよろしくね、ラルゴ〜！▼

Devdan: Largo doesn’t have to thank us, Largo is the best kind of person~. Devdan likes how kind Largo is~! Devdan is happy to continue being your friend, Largo~!

[ラルゴ] (中央右)

ああ、もちろんだぜ！▼

Largo: Yeah, of course!

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Localization:

Largo: Um… Devdan? Do you have a moment?

Devdan: Devdan always has time for you.

Largo: Look… I’m…sorry that I got scared and ran off the other day. I’ve been agonizing over how to make it up to you, but I can’t think of anything that’ll make it right. So I’ll just…apologize. Sorry, Devdan. Sorry, Nadved.

Devdan: You worried that much for us? Poor Largo! Nadved is fine!

Largo: R-really!?

Devdan: I am Nadved’s friend. And friends are always close by! I just have to draw a picture like so… Hum de dum… See! It’s Nadved!!

???: Laaaaaaargoooooo! I miiiiiised yooooooou! Whooooooooooooo!

Largo: Oh! It’s you! I’m so sorry, Nadved! I put you through pain just because I lost my temper.

???: Thaaaaat’s all riiiiiiight, Laaaaaargoooooooooo!

Devdan: Nadved is right, Largo. We are all friends. Friends forgive each other!

Largo: Whew! I’m so glad. Thanks, you two! You’re both good people! The best! Bwaaah ha ha ha haaaa!

Devdan: No, no. You’re the best, Largo. Let’s stay friends! But first…come closer… Nadved wants to tell you something…

Largo: Um…yeah, all right. Let me just take a step closer here, and… YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

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[real-fire-emblem-takes]

I don't get why people hate on different fire emblem games. I've had a lovely time with every game I've played, even fates, which people for some reason insist sucks? It's so good. Here's my favorite things about each game I've played just cause. I am very sick so no one can criticize me btw.

Binding: obviously goes for all gba games but the battle animations are so!!!!! Lovely and charming. Roy's just a silly guy, Lilina :], the cast is excellent, everyone from the most insignificant playable characters to the nastiest of villains like Narcian and Jahn is just so fun and nicely written.

Blazing: I LOVE THE ELIBEAN LORDS SO MUCH THEY HAVE MY ENTIRE HEART AND SOUL. I think fe7 has my favorite cast. Everyone is awesome like in fe6 but cranked up a notch. And I quite like how this game isn't about war!!! Lyn's just trying to save her grandpa and Eliwood is searching for his dad. There's some hints of civil war here and there but ultimately less war than usual which is quite fun and interesting.

Sacred stones: I adore how the game is like. almost horror. In my ideal fe8 remake they would lean into the horror aspect a more and maybe have a higher age rating. I really love how it starts out like any other fe game then you start to see monsters and then there's the necromancy and characters like Riev who worship this vile demonic thing. And the art director for this game was Wada Sachiko! She was such an excellent choice for the art director because her style leans into the darker feel than fe6 and 7. Also I'm a Christian so I do really enjoy L'Arachel's character where she's obviously inspired by Christianity but not in an offensive way. She's a nice god(s) (?) honoring teenage girl full of whimsy and optimism!!! Also I love Eirika. Did a cosplay of her once and gotta say, I felt drop dead gorgeous in it lol.

Path of radiance: I have yet to finish this one but oh MAN do I love the artstyle and combat and character design. Not a single bad character, they're all nicely written. Except Devdan but he's not real if we ignore him. I love how believable Ike and Mist are as siblings and I got say I actually find the bad voice acting to be charming, especially in that opening cutscene where Mist says something like "you're finally awake! 'bout time!" like she's so silly and cute I would die for her. I also really love how Ike is not royalty, he's just some guy!!! With autism!!! Like for a while my view of Ike was kinda skewed by looking at super smash bros content of him so then playing the game and discovering he's such a kind, reasonable and autistic dude was a very pleasant surprise. Seriously though this dude NEEDS to get assessed. Anyway I quite like the laguz too. Reyson, Tibarn and Caineghis are my favorites and I'm excited to see more of Kurthnaga because he's got such a pleasant design. Also just. Caineghis is probably one of my top favorite character designs ever, like top 20. It goes so unbelievably hard.

Awakening: THE TRAGEDY. THE TRAGEDY OF EMMERYN'S DEATH. UWAAAGHHHHH. I love LOVE how Emmeryn is written, how you can't save her despite Lucina being able to time travel, how you're given the options "save Emmeryn? Yes or no?" and it doesn't matter if you pick yes cause she dies anyway. The cast is not quite on the same tier as fe7 or 8 and there's certainly some characters I do not like but my favorites really are just so wonderful and lovely. I'd kill and die for Henry, Maribelle, Libra, Gregor and like 5 other people. The child unit mechanic is also very fun! It's such a clever idea for a time travel game and it gives you so much control over how your units end up. The self sacrifice ending also makes me feel sick. /pos "there's better places to take a nap than on the ground, you know. Here, give me your hand" and then Robin reaches out to Chrom and the symbol of Grima is gone and when he pulls them in closer, he says "it's finally over." just. Ahdhdjsjsjsj!!!!!!!

Fates: now, I've only played birthright but it was a very nice experience. I went in expecting nothing and had my socks blown off. Combat is fun, characters are so silly billy and it's got such a nicely done representation of a broken families. It's nice. The characters and supports are nice, even if I do feel like we could've had a few less support chains. And idc if I doesn't make sense story wise, bringing back child units was fun!! Again with the unit customization but also it's so fun to give your favorite character a teenage/preteen kid that they have to deal with. Azama and Mitama's supports are peak silly. I think people would enjoy birthright more if they took it a little less seriously. It's full of whimsy and people ignore that in favor of comparing it to more serious games which I think is kinda unfair.

Shadows of Valentia: oh MAN. I LOVE THE TWO ARMIES MECHANIC!!!! And bangin' cast! Absolutely adore almost every single one of those gay bitches!!! The artstyle is so gorgeous and I hated the combat at first but grew a soft spot for it, it's so strange and I like it!!! Also the game is less hefty so my computer had an easier time running it than POR, awakening and fates which is quite nice too. I love Berkut's character (I won't defend him, he's a son of a bitch) and MAN Ian Sinclair really went HAM on that voice acting!!! Also Zeke and Tatiana feel handcrafted for me specifically. Angsty married couple? Where one has amnesia?? And the other is worried he'll leave her if he remembers another woman he was dating??? And they're voiced by Patrick Seitz and Cristina Vee, two of my favorite voice actors ever??????? SIGN ME UP!!!! I'm excited to eventually play the Marth games and see what else is up with Zeke :] also adore Celica, Silque, Jesse and Boey! Very nice, solid characters.

Three houses: different routes! DIFFERENT ROUTES!!!! You get to see all sides of a war and it's so fun piecing together the history of Fodlan and nature of Rhea's character as you play each route. And again, excellent voice acting!! And it was fun being in the 3h fandom when it first came out and seeing all the silly things the VAs did together. I've got like 400 hours on this game and it holds a special place in my heart cause it was the very first game I finished without help from siblings and it was my first fe game. Also banging soundtrack, fun and unique combat (LOVE battalions) and amazing characters.

Enage: now I'm only 8 chapters in, I think? Haven't been able to play it recently. But it's so fun! Before getting it, I hated the bright artstyle and character designs but they've grown on me and I have been enlightened so I now know that f!Alear is a cutie patootie and I love her. I love the mechanic of adopting animals. Like I am quite happy recent fe games have, in some aspects, become more a little more lighthearted and silly. I love variation in game series' and when the devs aren't way too formulaic!!! That being said I also love the archetypes!!! I just really love fire emblem :]

I'm excited to finish engage and POR and play more of the games :]

Sorry about the long ass ask, I'm full of love and I want people to know it because I wish other people could learn to be a little more positive and focus on the aspects of fe games that they like instead of being hardcore haters. Okay now everyone say thank you Senri Kita (fe9 art director) and Wada Sachiko

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[xenoblogue-chromicles]

intsys please for the love of god give us the duo unit we all know deep down we need

give us the duo unit of devdan and danved

[djtitus921]

All of Fire Emblem vs Awakening

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Artist: Homazo

Source: Twitter

[okiankeno]

Devdan commission!

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[emblemxeno]

👏👏👏 LOUDER

I used to be of the mindset “yeah it’s bad but it’s a video game so ultimately what does it matter” when talking about this kind of stuff, but now a few years later I’m just like... this game is fucking wack. Like, it’s racist, ableist, queerphobic, misogynistic, totally wack.

And what good is the supposed “deep, serious and dark” story and characters when the actual content does a very incompetent job at it 90% of the time? People honestly want these writers back? The “mental illness, haha laugh” writers? The “model minorities/respectability politics will stop the fighting” writers? The “most women in this game are Trauma Tokens Abused By Evil Men” writers?” 

Well, I guess if people are so entrenched in the game’s exhausting lore that they’d sooner defend their waifu Edel-chan from people instead of engaging with the fact that the writers-and ergo the writing-sucks, or that Edelgard was intentionally written to be complicit in Petra’s situation and oppression, then I guess they’d be satisfied with that. Cuz what does regressive writing and poorly organized lore matter when you got so many sad babies in a sad war to take care of and it’s so “morally gray” and blah blah blah

Regarding the last rb: I think most of us can recognize how patently ridiculous it is to just blanket accuse someone of misogyny or queerphobia for, idk, thinking that starting a war is bad. It's an annoying and unfounded accusation, but it's ultimately something most of us can shrug off.

But like... I really don't think the people making these accusations are aware of how badly that plays when the criticism you're trying to defend against is calling out bigotry.

Now, let me elaborate.

A few days ago I was on Twitter and happened to see that Edelgard was trending. So I figured I'd go see what that's about because it was probably a shitshow (since there hasn't really been anything official lately that would explain it, e.g. a FEH alt or a figma or something. So, obviously, drama was afoot).

Color me surprised to see there was a lot of criticism about Edelgard's treatment of Petra in canon (primarily, how she keeps Brigid a vassal state and holds that over Petra's head the entire war, instead of immediately granting Brigid independence when she obtained the power to do so). In sum, just discussing the racism inherent to the writing (for tiptoeing around that and definitely not condemning it like it should have) and often inherent to the fanbase (for justifying everything Edelgard does, including this)

And I was seeing two main "rebuttals" to this point.

It's not her fault because she was just a poor wittle girly who is just soooo powerless (nevermind the fact that she spends five years in a position of absolute power over the nation that is currently holding Brigid hostage. And, also, she's a grown ass woman for the entire time skip and events of the war phase), and even if she did it it's not her fault because society just raised her like that (nevermind the fact that people can grow and learn and you aren't stuck with the values your society forced on you when you were a child).

Accusing the people raising these points of misogyny and queerphobia

We could debate exactly how to approach this criticism (a mark against the character? The writers? Both? Was it intentionally written to be racist? Is it a product of social conditioning and unexamined biases on the part of the writers? Some combination?).

But you know what you probably should NOT do in, like, any circumstance? Deflect responsibility for the actions because "she was just a poor little girl who doesn't know better" and accuse the people raising these concerns of misogyny and queerphobia.

This is the kind of shit people are talking about when they say the FE fandom has a lot of unexamined racism. Your first response to someone bringing up racism is to basically say "Okay, but the reputation of the White Girl PNG I Like is more important than your feelings about racist writing/handling of PoC characters. So it's not her fault, and even if it was, you're just a bigot so you're wrong"

And just, like, there's this implicit elevation of the struggles of (white) women and (white) queer folk as more important, valid, or worthy of being defended than the struggles of people marginalized on the basis of race. Let's not even get into the fact that many of the people raising these criticisms were queer women themselves, and it's entirely possible to be a queer woman and also be prejudiced (it happens ALL THE TIME. The queer community and the feminist movements have a LONG history of explicitly excluding people who are not white. E.g. the whitewashing of Stonewall and white feminists excising black feminists from the movement to try and make feminism "more palatable" to racist white men).

Not to mention the double standard here. They'll be so quick to call out racism if it's a character they don't like, but the second it's their fave? Crickets.

Hate to break it to you, but if you only care about pointing out potential racism when it involves a character you don't like, then you're not an ally. You're an opportunist leech co-opting the struggles of real people to win petty internet arguments.

Inb4 someone accuses me of having a double standard for the Dimitri/Dedue relationship, as if Dedue following Dimitri completely of his own free will because he cares about him and believes he can help rebuild Duscur is in any way comparable to Petra being a literal hostage who risks the annihilation of her entire country if she steps out of line (and she knows it). There's definitely racist elements to Dedue's writing (I've even talked about some of them) but specifically his relationship with Dimitri/Faerghus is NOTHING like Petra's with Edelgard/Adrestia.

[fefuckability]

ROUND 1: I mean c'mon he's basically the same character I don't care what he said in RD. Oh, and Soren is here too

Feel free to rb/comment with your reasoning!

[four-loose-screws]

Devdan / Largo B Support Translation

FE Game Script Translations - FE Novel Translations - Original FE Support Conversations

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[ラルゴ] (中央左)

よっしゃ、今日もがんばるか！▼

ん？　こりゃあ……

ダラハウのダチのウハラダじゃねえか。

こんなとこに落ちてて大丈夫なのかよ。▼

おい、平気か？▼

Largo: Alright, I’ll do my best again today! Hm? What’s this…? Well, if it isn’t Devdan’s friend Nadved! I hope he’s fine after falling in a place like this. Hey, are you okay?

[？？？] (見えない位置・左)

…………▼

???: …

[ラルゴ] (中央左)

……やっぱりなあ。

こんな紙っきれが話すわけねえじゃねえか。▼

…………ちょっとハラ立つな……

丸めて捨てちまうか！▼

Largo: …I knew it! This scrap of paper can’t really talk! …This makes me kinda mad… I’m gonna ball you up and throw you out!

[？？？] (見えない位置・左)

い、いた……い……▼

???: Th-That… hurts…

[ラルゴ] (中央左)

！！？▼

お、おい！　マジかよ！？

今確かに声が…………

すまん、大丈夫か、ウハラダ！？▼

Largo: H-Huh?! H-Hey?! Was that for real?! I’m sure I heard a voice just now… I’m sorry! Are you okay, Nadved?!

[？？？] (見えない位置・左)

……………………▼

???: …

[ラルゴ] (中央左)

なんてこった……

おれぁ、とんでもねえことを……▼

Largo: What have I done… Oh, I’ve done something terrible…

[ダラハウ] (中央右)

ラルゴ〜！

そこでなにしてるのね〜？▼

Devdan: Largo~! What are you doing over there~?

[ラルゴ] (中央左)

うわあ！！

ゆ、許してくれ〜！！▼

Largo: Waaaaah!! F-Forgive me~!!

[ダラハウ] (中央右)

……逃げていっちゃったのよ〜。

ごめんよラルゴ〜、悪いのは

うっかりネタを落としちゃったダラハウなのね〜。▼

でも一族の秘技だから

決してバレるわけにはいかないのね〜…

罪の意��なのね〜……はぁ。▼

Devdan: …He ran away~. Sorry Largo, the person in the wrong is Devdan, who so carelessly dropped his prop~. But this is a secret family technique, so Devdan cannot let it be revealed~... Devdan feels so guilty~... *Sigh.*

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Localization:

Largo: Ah, what a great day! I think I’ll wander the streets and see what trouble I can… Hello? What’s this? Hm? Well, if it isn’t Devdan’s friend, Nadved! Why are you just lying in the street? Here, let me pick you up… Hey, Nadved! Speak! …Speak! Speak, Nadved! I command it!

???: …

Largo: Oh, this is nonsense! Bah! How would a piece of paper talk, anyway… Speak, Nadved! Speeeeak! Grrrrr! This makes me so mad! Fine, then! You don’t want to talk? I’ll just crumple you up instead!

???: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! GYYYYAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Largo: Yaaaaa! What the…?! N-no way! It screamed! Oh, I’m sorry! Are you all right, Nadved!?

???: …

Largo: Oh, by the goddess… What have I done? I’m a monster! A monster! …I gotta dispose of the body!

Devdan: Oh, hello Largo! How are you today?

Largo: Wha–?! Oh, Devdan! Um…how are you? I-it’s such a nice day, and I was just… AH! F-forgive me! Yaaaaaaaaaa!

Devdan: He ran away… Oh, poor young one. Perhaps Devdan is to blame for showing you his trick. But Devdan can’t tell you how it’s done, because it is a…secret… Oh, the shame of it all…

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Fire Emblem Cipher Series 22 HN/N Cards (All Games)

Hi all~

Like mentioned, I’m trying to update my blog and make it a little easier to navigate. In this post, I have a full set of HN/N cards from B22 available for sale for $15.00 and includes 81 cards shown in the pictures above. This full set includes cards from all games in Fire Emblem.

Additionally, I have extras of some cards for sale as well. I’m selling my HN cards for $0.50 and my N cards for $0.25.

Below is a list of the available HN/N cards (pictured above) and how many are available* (and their rarity):

B22-014 N Marth x22

B22-016 HN Cain x2

B22-017 HN Abel x5

B22-018 N Wrys x11

B22-019 HN Tiki x3

B22-021 N F!Kris x23

B22-023 N Alm x20

B22-024 HN Celica x3

B22-025 HN Tobin x6

B22-026 N Silque x21

B22-027 HN Valbar x6

B22-028 N Sigurd x20

B22-029 N Deirdre x22

B22-030 HN Brigid x8

B22-031 N Brigid x19

B22-032 HN Claude x3

B22-033 HN Seliph x5

B22-034 N Leif x21

B22-035 N Perne x13

B22-036 HN Miranda x5

B22-037 N Miranda x13

B22-039 N Roy x19

B22-040 N Lilina x23

B22-043 N Eliwood x20

B22-044 N Ninian x14

B22-045 N Eirika x16

B22-046 N Ephraim x10

B22-048 N Knoll x15

B22-049 HN Fomortiis x3

B22-050 N Ike x23

B22-052 N Soren x20

B22-054 N Mia x19

B22-055 N Micaiah x19

B22-056 HN Sothe x4

B22-057 HN Devdan x5

B22-058 N Kyza x14

B22-059 HN Black Knight x4

B22-060 N Lehran x13

B22-061 N Chrom x20

B22-063 N Lucina x16

B22-065 N F!Robin x21

B22-066 N Lissa x21

B22-067 HN Frederick x6

B22-068 N Frederick x16

B22-069 HN Cherche x4

B22-070 N Cherche x10

B22-071 N M!Corrin x21

B22-073 N Azura x8

B22-075 N Hinoka x20

B22-076 N Takumi x22

B22-077 HN Kaze x6

B22-078 HN Saizo x3

B22-079 HN Kagero x4

B22-080 N Camilla x17

B22-082 N Leo x20

B22-083 HN Felicia x2

B22-084 HN Jakob x1

B22-085 HN Flora x2

B22-086 N Alfonse x19

B22-088 N Mirabilis x18

B22-089 N M!Byleth x6

B22-091 N Edelgard x17

B22-093 N Dimitri x17

B22-095 N Claude x9

B22-096 HN Bernie x2

B22-097 HN Felix *locked

B22-098 HN Marianne *locked

B22-099 N Gilbert x11

B22-101 HN Itsuki x3

B22-103 N Mamori x13

B22-104 HN Draug x4

B22-105 N Tiki x15

B22-106 HN Rowan x3

B22-108 HN Emma x5

B22-109 HN Shade x5

B22-110 HN Yuzu x5

B22-111 HN Randal x6

B22-112 HN Alice x6

B22-113 HN Valjean x5

B22-114 HN Niamh x5

B22-115 HN Poe x6

*Some cards are locked to the full HN/N set and will NOT be sold separately.

Shipping from the states. Shipping will depend on location and prices are around $5ish but will include tracking. International shipping will need to be estimated based on size of package and location. International shipping might not come with any tracking.

If you’re interested or have any questions, just shoot me either an ask or message! ^^

Thanks for your time and reblogs would be greatly appreciate. It’s hard to get attention on tumblr and the FE tags get flooded often and my post might not get noticed! ><

(Apologies for poor pictures! If you want to see any specific card alone and up close, just let me know!)

Last Update: January 9, 2023

[slumberinglabyrinth]

a while back i did a review of the prison chapter in por and it was totally overblown and whatever but i kinda wanna do that again for (what remains of) radiant dawn so i guess i will

I'll be doing them in batches since this got long. In this post: 3-5 through 3-9

3-5: it's been two years and i forget why we have to defend this castle

this was a pretty alright map. the reinforcements were annoying but that's because I generally don't actually turtle all that much on defend chapters and as a result I was Right There whenever and wherever they showed up. I tried to grab the energy drop off the boss but the dude ran away from Heather the moment I created an opening and I didn’t want to reset so :^/

I moved provoke off of shinon and onto Brom for this and its... probably way too strong? like it wasn't a 100% draw rate but there were several turns in a row where he was the only person being attacked which is. insane. and also super fun lmao. I think it's a shame that the hostility mechanics in fe aren't as well documented; on some level it ruins the magic, but in cases like this where you're actively influencing it i think it'd be useful to know to what degree you're actually influencing it

disarm + steal is also a really neat/fun idea that would be a great way to counteract how i apparently will never have any money for weapons while playing as the greilgallia party crew 😔 (not to be confused with the greilgallia polycule, which disbanded around twenty years earlier) but I can also never get disarm to proc and half the things that i was able to get unequipped were too heavy for Heather to actually steal 😔

all around a decent map to ease myself back into playing rd with. I certainly could have played better, but defend maps tend to be easier and I appreciated that here

3-6: dawn brigade returns and promptly sinks into a swamp

god this map sucked. it's really hard to pick where to start with it but while i get that lore dictates that they need to only be fighting laguz right here it was probably the wrong gameplay decision with everything else that was going on. I think maybe making tigers have ~4 less str across the board would have been a nice start since I kinda needed to either never get hit by them at all or to kill them first.

several chapters later I’m also realizing maybe i should have like. started to use bexp lol

fighting laguz is also really weird in terms of like... because they have boosted stats while transformed so you can either kill them while they're untransformed (which is fairly easy but since they don't attack, you have to kill them during player phase which means one per turn per unit), deal chip damage (or none at all) to burn down their gauge so you can actually kill them, or try to power through their boosted stats and hope you don’t die in the process.

Because I hadn't used bexp and almost all my units were super weak, I mostly had to rely on the eff against beasts knife that you can buy in the bargain shop this chapter and also volug, who had enough def (even with halfshift) to not die in one round. Honorable mentions go to noland (a fitting name for this map), jill (with canto!), and zihark, who were able to help pick off untransformed laguz, and to micaiah, who could deal magic damage and actually damage transformed laguz.

this was also the first dawn brigade map! i know lots of people people dont like their maps after act 1 and while i was trying to go into this one with an open mind... yeah, they totally got shafted by this map design. it's not really their fault but this map sucked hard. I know that they generally did one of each class variant (fire mage, wind mage, etc.) and not have duplicates but I think that the dawn brigade would have benefited from another mage of some kind if only so you could have someone who could deal with all these goddamned cats

also bk shows up but since he's not a bonus unit i didn't want to feed him kills so i didnt really use him. maybe that was a mistake. also why couldn't he like. warp someone that wasn't the furthest away from the action.

3-7: hey so we heard you liked the previous map

Zihark is there? fuck this i'm reverting to a previous save and unrecruiting him

3-6: i forgot to mention that this map was a swamp map and also had darkness

I know I've mentioned that the similar map in fe6 (desert+fog) was actually kinda alright but this one isnt that at all. Playing through it a second time helped because i knew where enemies were spawning, but it was still more annoying than fun.

Swamps commit the cardinal sin of forcing everyone that can't fly (in this case: everyone but jill) to suffer massive terrain penalties. Deserts at least let mages move a little bit further (which admittedly wouldn't help much here since it's only micaiah and laura), but here everyone friend and foe alike (except Jill) moves slowly and it makes gameplay just grind to a halt which is never, ever fun level design.

Also Fiona just. could not move beyond the starting island. she couldn't even wade a little bit into the swamp like i did with ed and leo to attack at range and get laguz to untransform. they let you deploy everyone but it genuinely felt like i wasn't handed the tools to succeed at this map. always a great goal to have when designing a game

I don't know how to improve this map. unrecruiting zihark (by flying him up to the northeast with jill and having him talk to mordy/lethe) wasn't particularly difficult (battle saves make it easy enough to scout out where they were, and it's not like i'd ever feel bad about 'cheating' on this map) but... would a greater field of view actually help? would making it not a swamp actually help? would giving you more allied units that'll throw themselves in the face of danger with no regard for their own lives actually help?

I don't know.

3-7: but for real this time

Back to ikequest!

this map is... literally the same map as the previous one, but with a different map objective. and larger. and backwards. and not at night.

it's still a swamp.

Luckily, it's a survive map, and the vast majority of the enemy force does not have the time to actually reach you if you hide up in the corner.

Which is exactly what i did.

Here's the list of the optional units (ike and ranulf are mandatory, which sucks because i don't like using twinks cat laguz and ike's plot promotion feels miles away) I deployed and why I deployed them

Haar: to fly out and recruit Jill

Gatrie: to be carried by Haar and specifically to bait the single thunder mage in Haar's way (and help Haar clean out that area so Jill can be safely recruited). I gave him corrosion two maps ago and it actually fully disarmed a guy on this map! 🎊

Brom: stand near where the swamp ends and draw the handful of enemies that actually make it all the way there away from ike and ranulf and ulki and jaffar (who are auto-recruits in this chapter).

This map is. so incredibly easy to both beat and complete the (meaningful) optional objectives on. I missed a conversation between Ike and Micaiah (which requires you to travel all the way across the map that i just finished saying takes forever to traverse and do it in 12 turns), but as long as you unrecruit Zihark on the previous map (he's.... right in the middle of the main force so good luck if you don't) you can probably do this map first try with no deaths even if you haven't trained haargatriebrom At All

I think that kinda underscores a problem that intsys had with rd which was... it feels like they didn't really have a lot of time to fine-tune stuff? like you're going from the hardest (or at least most unpleasant) map to the easiest one this side of the tutorial and it just. doesn't feel good? like there's going to be some inherent difficulty in balancing a difficulty curve when you're shifting from party to party but. this was bad. really bad.

Also a side observation but it does actually say who units can talk to in battle prep which is pretty useful thing to have! you need to shift the stat spreadsheet allllll the way over, but it's there!

i promptly forgot about it by the time 3-10 came around and was like "hey i should just. have ike run up to elincia, see if they'll talk, and then reset" though lol

3-8: Less-than-Lethal Lava Land

A fairly standard lava cave map. My only real comment here is that it was kinda nice how they made the spots where you'd take damage fairly obvious while still making them appear as natural parts of the terrain. I think it was the durandal map in 7 but its "if you're on these at the end of the turn you'll take damage" tiles looked super out of place while the armads map on the other hand wasn't super self-evident and i'm glad they improved

3-9: still cant use lucia >:(

Another party shift (this time to Elincia), and there was some good use of ledges in this chapter!

Most of your units couldn't use them but it created alternate paths for the ones that could (Calill and Devdan). Previous maps tended to use them more as holes in your defenses than needed to be plugged, but it created ways to progress (and ways for reinforcements to catch up) that are usually reserved for flying units, except now you're interacting with the map instead of ignoring it completely.

I think I've yet to meet someone who genuinely likes ledges as a map element, though I think this map really drives home that the sole (inherent) problem with them is the accuracy modifications (which, as this map also demonstrates when the stairs near the end become a chokepoint, are actually present with all elevation changes). While the +2 damage dealt while on the high ground is reasonable, +50 and especially -50 to hitrate are insane and completely unnecessary modifiers. They should be half that if you even choose to retain both.

Anyway.

the absolute lack of a (player-controlled) healer in Elincia's party was also........ interesting. Annoying, but interesting. Why must allied clerics choose death?1

[emblemxeno]

FE fans’ discussions of racism and discriminatory depictions in its casts are always a swing-and-a-miss.

You have people on Twitter saying that the Ravens are an anti-Semitic stereotype that’s on the same level of discriminatory as Danved/Devdan-the actual borderline minstrel show caricature-all because... Raven enemies have coins in their inventory in FE9 and Nealuchi has a more prominent nose. And yes, that’s all. And I’d agree if Kilvas was depicted differently (instead of as a country taken advantage of by oppressive beorc), and the Ravens in general had anti-Semitic design elements instead of one old man having a big nose. But as it is? Don’t get me wrong, the Tellius games’ allegories to racism ebb and flow from serviceable to batshit and gross, and it undercuts itself sometimes because of how it depicts other characters not meant to be the focus. No denying there. But it’s not “Scary black man has scary black face and is called ugly by slave trader and don’t talk good” level.

And I just find it funny that the Ravens are seen as FE’s main anti-Semitic punching bag on Twitter Discourse Land rn, meanwhile, people still short circuit whenever you so much as dare bring up how Edelgard’s treatment of the Nabateans and how her Adrestian Empire in general have some disgusting real life undertones.

Again, swing-and-a-miss.

[almyrans]

Hello! If you wanted to include more FE POC, there's also Shamir, Hapi, and Balthus from 3H, the Sacaens from FE6/7, and Danved/Devdan and Fiona from FE9/10. If you don't want to include them that's fine, I just wanted to make a suggestion. Neat idea for a blog!

hello! we appreciate the input very much and we will be updating our list sometime next week. thank you <3