#a king without people rules naught but hills--or something

[recurringwriter]

hi so i have a theory that all faith magic users draw their ability with faith from something to become more powerful (so like linhardt gets stronger the more he learns, mercedes the more she worships, flayn the more friends she has, etc.) what would rodrigue draw his power from in your opinion

I do like to think that it can be faith in Anything, so Rodrigue has this unwavering belief in Lambert and in Faerghus, and that just keeps growing. Belief in the Goddess. Belief in the future. Belief in Felix and Dimitri and that Glenn's death (and life) had meaning.

I think that he also has faith in himself, maybe not that he is the Most Confident person in the world, but he has faith that he will choose to do the right thing, and believes that he can make a difference for his home and all the people he cares about. He's adaptable and willing to approach things in different ways, and to act before the worry can set in, because he believes in just Doing the right thing.

And all that propels him forward, originating with Lambert (and Lambert's belief in him?)--and Rodrigue's unswerving loyalty to his home. Because Lambert is/was his home, the epitome of what Faerghus was becoming.

So in the context of your specific question, I think Rodrigue would draw power from the people he befriends and loves--the people he wants to shield. The more people he can and wants to protect, the stronger he can be.

[raxistaicho]

Attacking the Alliance and Edelgard the puppet

More Analyzer!

So in Three Houses this is blatantly false, it seems the Empire just moves through the southern Oghma Mountains to reach Garreg Mach. If they marched through Gloucester territory then the BESF wouldn’t need to take the Great Bridge because they’d be already over the Great Bridge.

As for Hopes, in Scarlet Blaze Edelgard concludes some manner of agreement with Lords Gloucester and Acheron to allow the Imperial troops free moments through their territories. In Golden Wildfire, Claude rather jumps the gun in rushing to secure the border, forcing Edelgard to take a more offensive approach.

As for House Burgundy...

So they sided with the group with which Edelgard had declared war. They chose a side.

Yeah, more or less. Needs must; she’s trying to usher in social reforms and new opportunities for the people of Fodlan.

She doesn’t believe in land ownership as a sacred right (this necessarily would include her if she lost whatever leverage she had over the Empire, mind you.)

Fire Emblem has toyed with the idea that a country is made up of its people and nothing else before:

Caeda: My father has a saying: “A kingless country is a country still; but a king without subjects rules naught but hills.” If you disobey your king to ensure his subjects’ safety, how is that a betrayal? You are protecting his reign. 

A country is its people, not its imaginary lines on a map. The difference here is that Claude and Dimitri do view national sovereignty as something to be upheld at all costs, while Edelgard believes in breaking it if that’s the cost to help people that have been suffering under an oppressive aristocratic hierarchy for a millennia and with no end in sight.

Yeah, we’re back to this again. Aymr means Edelgard’s a puppet because muh Devil Arcana.

Including the one where she successfully turns on them??? Okay.

This time the Analyzer is actually correct: Edelgard using Aymr there is symbolic of her being under their control. So he got his one W!

Also, in case anyone needed a reminder, the Analyzer believes Edelgard’s horrific final state in AG represents her being “cleansed” of corruption.

Wait, the good route where Byleth and Sothis don’t die is the one where Edelgard gets the mark of her corruption? Isn’t that a little backwards?

That’s actually not true because Edelgard never gives them what they want. Ever. The closest she can ever come is killing Rhea, Seteth, and Flayn in Crimson Flower (and the latter two are optional). Their plan wasn’t “kill Rhea then we can die happily,” it was “kill every surviving Nabatean, purge the surface dwellers, and recolonize our land.”

It’s not exactly a successful plan if your pawn completes steps 1 and 2 and then turns on you and kills you with steps 3 through 10 not even started yet.

Edelgard’s not Dimitri, she doesn’t need to take violent revenge on her abusers to be happy. Whoever does it, just knowing Thales is dead would be enough to put her past to rest.

And also, whether or not the player defeats the Agarthans isn’t relevant to whether Edelgard turns on and defeats them. The point is that in CF and SB she successfully turns on and deals the Agarthans crippling blows.

Uhh no, CF ends with the Agarthans losing. Unequivocally. SB, eh, I wouldn’t even say SB ends because the writers of Hopes deliberately structured each route to end on a cliffhanger.