#brave!seliph

[femuirdris]

has anyone checked on seliph is he ok

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

The Tempest Trial Team for “Life and Death III”

[nekoyawn5]

✨🦋

[zantetsukennn]

brave light inheritor✨💙

[silvergarnet12]

A couple of Brave Heroes that definitely didn’t take me months to finish due to being rusty with watercolours.

Everywhere that’s gold is metallic paint!

[number-1-haxorus-fan]

I am adopting Seliph as my son I don't not CARE what people say, I love him and he is wonderful. I already love him based on heroes, planning on emulating FE4 and feeding all of the gen one statboosters to Finn probably because he's so based that he's immune to plot devices

[undyinglantern]

rates are kinda ridiculous in this game ngl

[lucinagf]

halloween kurthnaga summons 👻👻!! (400ish orbs)

he is at +9 now! I'll post the build when i get him to +10 from the combat manuals 😸🩷

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

PoR feels oddly kaga-coded for a more "modern" FE game (as in it has a lot of NES-era style BS-ery)

Jill just switching sides and taking your items, skills, and exp with her unless she has an A support with Mist is definitely one of the design decisions of all time (on hard and maniac mode only but still)

Stefan's random tile in the desert very much feels like the Arden pursuit ring event, the Lex Brave Axe event, or the Seliph Ghost Convo event

The scripted battle between BK and Ike where you just lose if your Ike is stat screwed or unlucky or if you didn't prepare properly/train mist feels very kagaesque (the fe version of kafkaesque)

Also the absolute enemy vomit of certain chapters (looking at you, 22 and 23), generally bulky enemies (esp cavs), and emphasis on mounts and canto feels very reminiscent of Genealogy

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[quartersety-of-a-holsety]

I made myself a Fire Emblem theme for my solitaire game

Deets under the cut

Base theme: Fable Deck: Solitaire Celebrates Effect: Stars

PLAYING BACKGROUND:

CARD BACKING:

ACES:

Ace of Diamonds: Hoshido/Birthright

Ace of Spades: Mark of Naga/Brand of the Exalt

Ace of Hearts: Valla/Revelation

Ace of Clubs: Nohr/Conquest

KINGS:

King of Diamonds: Lewyn

King of Spades: Alm

King of Hearts: Eltshan

King of Clubs: Eliwood

QUEENS:

Queen of Diamonds: Mikoto

Queen of Spades: Edelgard

Queen of Hearts: Tiki

Queen of Clubs: Michaiah

JACKS:

Jack of Diamonds: Forde

Jack of Spades: Inigo

Jack of Hearts: Seliph

Jack of Clubs: Leo

IMAGE SOURCES:

Background: Here

Card backing: Here

Aces: The French Wikipages for Awakening and Fates

Face cards: Heroes and official art [Inigo specifically here]

FUN FACTS NOBODY ASKED FOR:

The face cards did not align this way naturally. All of them had to be zoomed in at least twice, most four, and a few had to be scooted over a little to avoid being cropped in the wrong places or to fix general alignment issues

The game doesn't properly support transparent images, so I had to give each face card a background; really all I did was colour drop the deck's base colour and use that as the background so it would match

Each face card was shrunk to the card's base dimensions [422x562] with the background being twice that size [844x1124] to allow for easier placement without running into a black background because of said transparency issues

I didn't make any changes to the playing background. I just set it and left it as is

The card backing isn't quite aligned in the center, but I have no motivation to try and fix that right now

The backing border was completely unintentional. I chose that deck to build off of simply because of the gold rim around the face-up cards. I didn't realise it would come with a backing border, but hey it works

I chose Fable as the base theme to build off of for two reasons: 1. Aesthetic™, and 2. The background music is the closest to Fire Emblem music the game has [I really wish you could choose your own in-game ambience instead of having to use a preset theme first]

The stars effect has no real impact on the theme, I just like it

I initially wanted Ferdinand to be the Jack of Diamonds, but I didn't want to use his pre-skip design, which is all Heroes had, so Forde was chosen instead

Takumi was briefly considered for Jack of Diamonds and King of Clubs before those roles went to Forde and Eliwood

Ishtar was going to be the Queen of Clubs, but I decided three Genealogy characters was enough, so Michaiah took this spot

Other candidates for Queen of Clubs were Cherche, Celica, Seiros, and Eirika

I went with the Chrom!Inigo edit instead of normal Inigo or Lazward simply because Chrom!Inigo is best Inigo and you cannot change my mind

Alm, Michaiah, and Forde are the only ones who use official art instead of Heroes art. I preferred Alm and Michaiah's official art while Forde isn't even in the game yet [get on that, IS]

I originally wanted to use Edelgard's official post-skip art as I didn't [and still don't] like how her Heroes art sharply cuts off, but it ultimately clashed badly when trying to align it, so I had to use her Legendary alt [her pre-skip and Three Hopes designs were out of the question from the get-go]. I aligned the cutoff with the edge of the card as best I could and I'm surprised it worked

The only set in stone characters from the very beginning were Eltshan, Seliph, and Inigo. The rest I decided as I went on

Tiki was completely spur of the moment. As soon as I remembered she existed, I was like "Oh yeah, adult Tiki would be a perfect Queen of Hearts". I saw her Brave alt and didn't look back

I briefly considered using Eltshan's performance alt, but decided against it

While I knew I wanted Seliph as the Jack of Hearts, I initially wasn't sure which version to use, but I ultimately went with the version I liked the most, which was his Brave alt

Lewyn was a toss-up as to which version I wanted to use, but I went with his festival alt as I liked it more than his normal version

Other characters I considered but with no solid placement were Sigurd, Arvis, Lucina, Ayra, Soleil, Dorothea, Olivia, Deirdre, Say'ri, Elincia, Ryouma, Innes, Tana, Ephraim, Felix, and Constance

Inigo and the aces required some additional editing to remove their white backgrounds before setting up the off-white backgrounds they were supposed to have for this set. I worked on Inigo's for so long trying to edit out lossy pixels around the edges of his art that the editor crashed on me. Hurray for autorecovery

[kan-zaiaku]

A Brave Seliph and a Halloween Corrin. Two of some of my favorite FE guys

[katfreaks-hidyhole]

A late celebration of +10 Brave!Seliph; hanging with Summoner Katze

[nekoyawn5]

Random Chibi Seliph doodle.

[fehtism]

hmm yes winter edelgard what a silly unit i wonder what her weapon does

this is possibly the worst thing i've ever seen in my life.

so for the "easy part"

accelerating special trigger is a given on any modern prf weapon.

the next part is actually a reference to her raging flame gambit in 3 houses. after combat winter edelgard applies flame terrain in a 2 by 5 area the same as her raging flame gambit

i think it's a cool reference at least.

important to note that unlike flared sparrow and flared mirror, winter edelgard will not get 7 pre combat damage on her first combat due to her applying terrain /after/ combat. however if she attacks a foe already on flame terrain she will get the 7 pre combat damage.

now for. the rest of this thing.

okay let's start.

winter edelgard will inflict a stat debuff on the enemy based on how many allies she has adjacent. the values for the stat debuff are as follows:

- with 3 adjacent allies inflict -9 atk/def on foe in combat

- with 2 adjacent allies inflict -11 atk/def on foe in combat

- with one adjacent ally inflict -13 atk/def on foe in combat

- with no adjacent allies inflict -15 atk/def in combat

i think that's a bit easier to understand than a dumb formula

for her next effect, winter edelgard gets a special jumping effect before her first attack in combat. she gets -1 special cooldown for every space moved based on who initiated combat up to -3 cooldown. for example, if winter edelgard were to move 3 spaces and then attack a foe and she had a special like galeforce equipped, it would go from 4 cooldown to 1 cooldown before her first attack in combat.

if flame terrain is active on the foe's space, it grants edelgard the max special cooldown jump of 3, even if no spaces were moved.

fair and balanced effect.

next is the damage reduction piercing effect in her weapon. this is probably the most complicated effect of her weapon. similar to the stat debuff it is based on how many adjacent allies she has.

- with 3 adjacent allies she pierces damage reduction by 10% (40% damage reduction would become 36%)

- with 2 adjacent allies she pierces damage reduction by 40% (40% damage reduction becomes 24%)

- with 1 adjacent ally she pierces damage reduction by 70% (40% damage reduction becomes 12%)

- with no adjacent allies winter edelgard pierces 100% of non special damage reduction (i.e damage reduction from a skill like gambit, guard bearing 4, or spurn 4)

the last effect of her weapon triggers if she either has weapon triangle advantage or if foe is on flame terrain, neutralizes miracle effects that are not the special "miracle"

this is found on units like ascended celica and brave/legendary seliph

sorry brave seliph, you never stood a chance.

hope this helps at least one person understand the evil wall of text that is "Black Yule Lance"

[rosecelebi]

Now that Fire Emblem Heroes has opened it's yearly Choose Your Legends voting period.... I am kindly asking you to consider sparing a vote (or two!) to two of my favorites in the series: F!Robin and Sigurd!

Why?

Well let's start with Robin,

Robin fans won out last year when their Male counterpart won the male division of CYL 7 alongside Soren and I'm sure many F!Robin fans (myself included) helped him reach that victory by voting, just as we did in previous years with Chrom and A!Tiki. F!Robin has waited for her time to shine and has supported her competition for several years now. It's time for her to receive the Awakening vote love!

If that wasn't enough to sway you, let's look at F!Robin's legacy in FEH.

1. Her base version was a year 1 grail unit with a mediocre (affectionate) refine that takes max investment to work around

2. Her summer alt is a year one seasonal with a bad weapon and book 1 era stats (but she sure is cute!)

3. Her legendary alt isn't even her- it's Grima. Grima took away her chance at being a legendary unit

4. Her Halloween alt is another Grima alt. She didn't even get to participate in Halloween because Grima took the spot :(

5. Her Valentine's alt is adorable but still a seasonal locked unit

6. Her rearmed version is yet another Grima.

HALF of all F!Robin's in FEH are Grima alts. There is no F!Robin available to summon in the normal 4/5 star pool. Getting a brave alt would be a big deal for her and her fans.

Please, spare a vote to the best tactician around, F!Robin!

~

Now, let's talk about Sigurd

Sigurd comes from FE4, Genealogy of the Holy War, a game I know many of you may not have played yet. That's okay though! I get it! It's a bit old and jank to play and you need to emulate it with a translation patch if you don't understand Japanese. So I'm gonna explain who this man is to you....

Sigurd is the heir to house Chalphy and a descent of the crusader Baldr in Judgral, which makes him kind of a big deal. Throughout his game, he makes allies with many people throughout Judgral in an attempt to unify and fight back against the rising corruption.

Along his journey, he meets Deirdre and the two fall in love and end up having a son together, Seliph. Sigurd is devoted to his family and loves Deirdre more than anything in the world. Sigurd is a family man. Look at this Cipher art if you need more explanation:

(*SPOILERS ahead for FE4, but FEH and Engage already spoiled this so if you somehow don't know what happens to Sigurd, maybe stop reading here*)

Tragedy befalls the couple not long after their son is born... Deirdre is kidnapped and her memories are wiped clean as she is needed for a sinister plot... Her holy blood is needed to help the Loptous cult resurrect their dark God so they use Deirdre as a pawn and marry her off to Arvis.

Sigurd is distraught with his wife gone and searches and searches for her but ultimately must continue through on his plans. He returns to his home and is met by Arvis, the Duke of Velthomer, and the descendant of the imperial family. He welcomes them in as a deceitful trick and declares Sigurd a traitor and calls for his execution. Before he issues the order, Arvis lets Sigurd meet his new wife- Deirdre as a sick and twisted punishment. With that, Arvis calls down Valflame and kills Sigurd and many of his army members.

Sigurd's legacy is carried by his son, Seliph, who will free Judgral from the horrors that the dark cult inflicted many years later.

~

So that was heavy. But do you understand why he's such a compelling character??? He has such an unfortunate heroes tale, but FEH let's us see him again and be able to reunite him with his love and his son.

Seliph got his own brave alt two years ago in CYL 6 and it feels right for it to be his father's time to step up and shine as a brave hero.

Let's look at Sigurd's legacy in FEH:

1. His base version is a year 1 sword cavalier who's a bit outdated but not unusable by any means with proper skill investment

2. His duo dancer alt is Deirdre is one of the best arts in the game and I won't let anyone convince me otherwise

3. His Legendary alt was a meta threat at one point in time and the art is gorgeous

4. Lastly, this year he got his second seasonal alt, a tea time Butler alt that just cute. He definitely is serving tea for Deirdre and making sure she's happy.

A brave alt just seems perfectly fitting for him at this point!

~

In conclusion, these are two characters who are ready for their moment to shine in FEH with a brave alt. They've waited for their friends or family members to get there first and now it's (potentially) their time for the brave win. Thank you for reading all this and may the CYL odds be in our favor!

TLDR: Vote for F!Robin and Sigurd in CYL 8!

[5seraphim]

matching brave edelgard and seliph icons

requested by anon, no ship tags

credit to use!