#path of radiance tags

[are-they-in-heroes-yet]

Tibarn...

Is in Heroes!

[serennes-art]

happy 20th path of radiance!

[yumilattea]

More FE sketches!

[saffie-eve]

Massive pile of Fire emblem art: Tellius Edition!

[kaiiyoshii]

The various times Ike carried someone

[aptericia]

My entry for Tellius Week Day 3! I used the “Identity” prompt with Nasir hanging out in his homeland :3

[jerrom]

my teacher, my brother, not quite my mother

[gloamvonhrym]

forbidden magic

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Ike and Elincia for my sister!! It was her birthday a couple days ago. Happy birthday Laura, I love you so much! 💖

[lena-cant]

I started replaying fire emblem: path of radiance earlier this week after recently really only playing modern (awakening onward) FE for the past 5 years and it's really hitting home for me how much of modern fe's script is taken up by useless minutiae. camp conversations in por are the thing really hitting it for me. In more recent fe games, there's a lot of little bits of dialogue in the between-level hub but it rarely ever adds to our understanding of a character or interact with the story. It's just there because the characters are in the hub and therefore they need a sentence or two to say to the protag.

meanwhile path of radiance has these wonderful little conversations in the camp. they're not all like, peak fiction or anything but they almost always deliver on short nuggets of story that let you know how specific characters are reacting to what's going on in the story, or otherwise just something about them. I can count on my hands the amount of moments in three houses and engage where characters outside of the "main cast" of those games actually react to story events but they're doing it left and right in path of radiance.

this, along with the fact that most characters only have 3-5 supports means that the characters all feel sharper, more present, and like they're a part of the story. I'm not gonna pretend that every character in por is a masterful study or anything but even the weak characters in por feel less annoying than some of the strongest characters in three houses or engage because they're just inserted into the world more elegantly.

so much of the dialogue in the newer games just feels superfluous by comparison. xander doesn't have checks notes 12 romantic supports because the devs/writers felt that he as a character needed that much fleshing out. he has them because they needed him to have that many girls to kiss for the eugenics mechanics to work! part of the reason why characters in the newer games feel significantly more one note in comparison is that they're stretched thin. there's so much pointless shit they have to say, decided by quota before the writers even got their hands on the characters and it all builds up into a weaker end product

anyway this has been one elitist whinging about the new games that I like less

[cat-denied]

one change i would make to each fire emblem game

hello. nobody asked for it, so here it is: what one change (or options, or two small ones in rare cases) i would make to each fire emblem game. remakes get the remade version and not the originals because the remakes are by and large just better.

i have a lot of thoughts.

SHADOW DRAGON: make nyna playable. have her join like after freeing the palace and have a custom class (staff wielding?) that promotes to gain lances, maybe and a horse. this game needs hybrid classes and i want her to wield gradivus

ECHOES: yes its the misogyny. fix act 5, meaning at least one of the following:

don't have berkut fridge his own wife. instead make rinea playable as a saint, probably. she escapes.

don't have celica sapped of all her narrative role + agency in the final moments of the game. also, let beloved zofia or ragnarok kill duma. really kind of insane bullshit that it cant

NEW MYSTERY OF THE EMBLEM: simply remove all gender locks. i.e. class sets 1 and 2 are now both merged after playing hard mode for all units. also to facilitate this:

norne is now a hunter

malice is now a mercenary (like she was originally)

maybe make katarina a dark mage and athena a mercenary too

kris can of course do whatever she wants

GENEALOGY OF THE HOLY WAR: this one's unsalvageable. here are two ideas.

Gay marriage.

Remove all incest, including but not limited to 2nd-gen cousins, Seliph and Julia implied romance, 2nd gen cousins again, any implication that raquesis is fucking her brother, the rest of the 2nd gen cousins, and make clear that claud and sylvia aren't any more closely related than like 6th cousins.

i'll allow a potential exception for arvis since he's the main antagonist of the game but you can't do this and then turn around and say "woahh hes so misunderstood and well meaning" in act two. you simply cant. he brainwashed his sister into being his wife man we cant come back from that 😔

THRACIA 776: give all the women in the game a boost of between 5-25% to their constitution growths, and some variable boosts to their starting Con stats.

BINDING BLADE: man i dunno, there's like six things i could say here but this game is still infinitely less offensive than genealogy. some ideas:

rewrite every piece of dialogue so they have actual emotion and interest, keeping the main story

vary the map win conditions. no more seize forever, this game came after thracia, give it rout, escape, defend, even defeat boss come on

try gay marriage again

FIRE EMBLEM: this game's great! two options:

boost every woman's starting constitution by between 3-8

make a Lyn Mode that lasts the whole game, a la Hector Mode

SACRED STONES: i haven't finished this one! but easy: just make all the changes Restoration Queen does.

PATH OF RADIANCE: i could say remove the limit on supports, and i will, but also this game almost above all other fire emblems desperately needs some actual people of color in it. it has One (1) Black man (which is a depressingly high batting average for this series, this change could be put on any of these games and tbh should be) and is a game nominally about racism, cmon. embarrassing

RADIANT DAWN: my favorite even though i still havent finished it. give the dawn brigade and friends supports. i wanna see vika and fiona lezzing out. or fiona and meg lezzing out. or lyre and kyze lezzing out. or

AWAKENING: again there are two options but i need both of them to happen. call me greedy but im right

unromanceable nowi. by anyone. come on. nah is now tiki's child. supports updated to match

just don't do the stupid fucking anna change. making her a greedy capitalist and a family of identical annas is lame as hell and makes her 500% less interestng. keep her weird!!!

FATES: now i havent played this one, but from what ive heard removing the incest would be a good look. whether its by removing supports or corrin's textual relationship whatevers easiest im not picky

THREE HOUSES:

finish crimson flower. at Least add battle of the eagle and lion, hunting by daybreak, stand strong at shambhala. toss in a few extra cutscenes while we're at it.

actually while we're at it, default black eagles to crimson flower. silver snow should require some level of rhea support, B+ or A or something. and maybe have the other black eagkes side with edelgard and get rerecruited, would be cool.

make azure moon unplayable. not really but it would be funny wouldn't it

ENGAGE: haven't played this one so i'll just say make byleth female

WARRIORS: this game is goofy as hell. fun tho. maybe try rewriting the story to actually have a story and not just excuses for cool battles.

THREE HOPES: very little room for improvement here. remove gender locked classes, and make the ending cutscene a little more clearly conclusive. oh wait

ingrid can be spared in scarlet blaze.

otherwise perfect

AND THAT'S ALL OF THEM

[are-they-in-heroes-yet]

Stefan...

Is not in Heroes yet...

[hydrasplatl1ng]

You want to vote for her so bad. [X]

[charmwitch]

I was told that FE: Engage it's possible to have Ike fight Soren and he is incredibly not happy about it and this is all I can see with my mindseye upon reading this dialogue:

[fishing4interest]

Hellow Fire Emblem enjoyers.

As this blog's name suggests, we are fishing for interest - specifically, we are thinking of making a Fire Emblem RP group & want to know what people would be interested in.

The set information regarding this hypothetical potential group is as follows:

It would be for all Fire Emblem games (17 main series + Heroes & Cipher OCs)

It would be forum-based (via a host such as ProBoards)

It would not have any activity requirements

It would not be in any canon setting (so no backdrop such as taking place in Heroes' Askr)

The setting we do end up with will be one set world designed by the group-runners so that everyone can exist on neutral ground (as FE's games exist within many different worlds within canon)

Past that, everything is up in the air! We're currently thinking of a couple of AU settings that could work and want to know what would snag the most interest, and have attached a poll to this.

If anyone wants to know more about any of these settings, or how this group would go, or if you have any other suggestions for settings, our ask box is open and we'd be happy to answer any questions!

More information regarding each of the options we're currently brainstorming is below under a readmore, as well.

Thank you for reading & for your consideration, whether you're interested in what we may have to offer as a group or not!

FANTASY-BASED FARM SIM:

Inspired by the Rune Factory series & Fields of Mistria, as well as Story of Seasons (though you do not need any knowledge from any of these games to take part!) Take your favourite Fire Emblem character & place them in an idyllic, low-stakes fantasy setting that works to blend nature and magic together, living day-to-day life however you'd like them to. Is your muse a soldier within canon? Absolutely applicable here. Want to make them a baker with the best Recipe Bread this side of the kingdom? Go right ahead instead. It's up to you! It'd be relatively easy to take how a character exists within Fire Emblem canon & work them into this setting, because it's going from one fantasy-style to another!

MODERN AU:

Have you thought about how your favourite characters would be in a setting completely stripped away from its setting? With this setting, the cast of Fire Emblem's many games would be tossed into the modern hustle-and-bustle of city life. (May still come with bits of fantasy such as magic, may be wholly mundane. Undecided yet.) Want to force Berkut to work retail at the local Archanean Eagle? Want to force Frederick to work a 9-5 office job? Want to make Yunaka an influencer? Go right ahead. The world is your oyster. This setting would also come with the bonus of being able to easily treat the forum setting for RP as an actual online forum, without needing to handwave online posting capabilities!

UNIVERSITY AU:

A very specific sector of a modern AU expanded and focused upon school life! Think Luthier minmaxing his course schedule to tackle every single credit possible, or Eirika hosting study sessions in the library, or Soren being the most unwilling student tutor available with slots open in his schedule. This setting would establish a college town with plenty of potential stores for anyone who wants to be a part of the setting but doesn't want to be a student or professor specifically, & plenty of courses designed so you can - if you want - actually build your muse's schedule. The forum setting could also easily be used for online posting purposes as a school board!

[soup-for-ghosts]

assorted fire emblem doodles from various times

bonus:

shout out to @beantothemax for editing this together