#thabes au

[starlitcrows]

reference sheet + doodles for my grima redesign

[felikatze]

Plusquam Chapter 7 director's commentary because i adore being a blabbermouth

hi hi hello. i am going to talk about my fic and nobody can stop me but i don't want to turn the ao3 author's notes into their own 30k novel so yelling on tumblr it is!!

if you are interested in SOME of the machenations of my enigmatic mind, feel free to read. If not. Well i don't care really it's your life. I'm writing this for MY enjoyment.

First of!! I dunno if I talked about them before!! (I have the memory of a goldfish). The silly codenames!!

As I may or may not have mentioned before, the inspiration for this came from the Project Thabes mod for Awakening. In the ferox duel, the mod replaces the generics with inigo, severa, owain, and gerome. The awakening trio get their fates names (a coward's move, but one i understand), but gerome is named michalis, which i just enjoy soooo much???

so when i initially planned out for all the future kids to band together with lucina, i decided they all had to have codenames! otherwise there's really no point in lucina having one....

merric for laurent was the biggest no brainer of all of them, with caeda for severa being a close second. feel free to interpret why. gerome was obviously taken from the thabes mod, and the rest were... a challenge... to come up with!

owain actually gave me a lot of trouble. what WOULD he name himself? i've not finished shadow dragon myself (I only played the prologue so far... haha...), and most i know of the cast comes from mitosis. and scarf's new mystery lunatic reverse run on youtube. and it was that run that reminded me. that kris's confect is an item in the game. meaning that awakening era people know kris exists. except wasn't kris' deal that they like. did not want to be noted down in history.

hence kris being a "heavily debated historical subject". which of COURSE owain would name himself after an unsung but vitally important hero of the shadows.

others i may discuss as they come up? eh, we'll see. not every future kid is gonna be important (god knows that's way too many characters for me to handle), but they will be There. main focus of course being the fp3 squad, with the addition of two others. it is very obvious who it will be, i think.

next up, pairings!

most pairings werent set, outside the ones that are my obvious favorites (panne/lonqu, henlivia, chrobin (duh)). others were up in the air and just happened as i wrote. as i thought about gerome in this, and chatted about the subject with friends, frederick/cherche came to be for this fic! (and for the shrek au, oddly enough. it may have just been on my mind, and i thought chrom missing freddie's wedding was funny.)

it suited my purposes best if gerome had a stronger emotional tie to the blueberry siblings, and a knightly duty to protect them served just that. hence the dialogue of lucina being his liege. he's so utterly disinterested in getting to know the people of the past that i needed that extra bit to keep him coherent. he won't get close to anyone, but he'll do anything to support lucina's aims as though they were his own.

which brings me to the next subject, lucina's PoV! This is the first perspective switch in all of plusquam (not just because I couldn't meet my 4k benchmark with morgan alone this time). Since Morgan and Lucina act separately and won't encounter often, I needed the extra time to establish her character here. To me, there's a clear dissonance between how Morgan views her and how Lucina is. Both of them are unreliable narrators to varying degrees, yet how they differ is where the meat is.

Like, for example, Morgan completely rejecting that Lucina is Robin's child as well, and not just Chrom's, because Grima told them Lucina was different. As compared to the actual Lucina still deeply affected by Robin, and even engaging with grimleal theology on an even field because of him and the other plegian influences in her life.

there's also the matter of her narration style. I waffled back and forth on whether to give her second person narration as well, but ultimately decided on third person limited, with a catch - she exclusively refers to everyone, including herself, by their codenames.

in both their perspectives, i want to create separation between their original names and who they act as. With morgan, this succeeds because the viewpoint has no need to mention their name whatsoever, and with lucina, it succeeds because she's the one creating that distance in her own mind. it's fun to play with!

ah, siblings. so different, yet so similar.

as for the pronouns situation on lucina's pov. well. schrödinger's transgender.

minor thing. i hate adapting canon scenes close to script, hence me just freestyling when lucina and co meet chrom and squad. there's also just... no future portal risen roaming about, which would've made the point moot anyway. that's a very interesting consequence to play with.

having an endless army of generic undead is lame. having to draw on the actual dead of the immediate area - now we're getting spicy!

despite everything, i have grown attached to the risen wyvern and its chittering ways, but it sadly has to go. there's a reason morgan never named it. farewell my sweet prince. aurgh. i mean. this thing has been with morgan through the entire past so far. and it just fell apart more and more over time. crashing into a wall and breaking its neck, having half its throat torn out - poor thing. good thing it can't feel pain anymore.

that is, i think, all i wanted to blabber about? if you're a reader of plusquam, hi, i love you, i hope you have a great day, you may summon me for one turn of battle without expending an action and i will appear as a shimmering blue specter to protect you from harm.

that's all!! see you next time!! as usual, if anyone has questions of their own, or wants to yell at me for hurting their feelings, shoot me an ask, a comment, or anything at all! see ya!! ily!!

[iturbide]

😭 But what the ever-yummy strawberry cheesecake were Alm and Celica even doing down there?!?! They had to go, what was it, like 13 floors underground to even find Grima?? And then he doesn't attack??? So they do??? The poor baby was probably really scared!!! (I mean, Alm and Celica probably were too; Grima does look pretty scary and reading all the stuff on the way down... But still!!! He didn't wanna fight!!!) I want an au where Grima is adopted and loved instead. I just want him to be happy..

This question...I may need to pass on to someone with more Valentia expertise, because I have not actually played through Echoes and don't know the narrative justification for that jaunt through the Thabes Labyrinth -- all I really know is that it's a post-game dungeon. @fayesdiary, can you weigh in on this? Was there a stated reason for Alm and Celica to go to Thabes, or did they just decide a vacation was in order after beating up Duma and decided to top it off by beating up Grima?

(Fun Fact though: I do have a very loose speculative AU idea where Alm and Celica don't attack Grima in Thabes Labyrinth, realize that oh hey this thing is sentient, and end up taking a giant dragon baby back to Valentia after their vacation is over; Grima then proceeds to become bestest buddies with Tiki when Marth brings her over on diplomatic visits and they spend a good millennium just having fun together being besties and causing childish trouble.)

[the-priestess-of-dawn]

There's an AU out there where Forneus is plotting to kill baby Grima and instead his late wife's ghost haunts his dreams and threatens him that if he harms that baby and is a terrible dad, she'll never forgive him. Mostly because this is funny to me.

Sometimes I wonder what could have happened if Forneus's wife had lived but he still went through with creating Grima and was just... less out of control about everything because he had his wife there supporting him. Could Grima have had loving parents... Could they have come to view Naga as a mentor instead of an enemy... Could they have perhaps even prevented Duma from destroying Thabes? So many possibilities...

But I like this AU you pose here too, where Forneus's wife is still dead, yes, but that doesn't mean she can't be Grima's mom anyway. Forneus go hug your baby right now. "Dark thoughts," pah, she'll show you some "dark thoughts" if anything bad happens to that poor child.

[fayesdiary]

Fic Authors self rec

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love!

@iturbide tagged me for this, say hi to them

I don't have many fics to recommend since I just posted 8 of them on my AO3, but there are a few stories I've written that I'm really proud of!

Nuibaba's Risen Journal

(Echoes/Awakening, 3.8k words oneshot)

My favorite fic I wrote (mostly due to how it came to be), it's about Nuibaba travelling to Thabes Labyrinth and discovering the Risen, immediately deciding to experiment on them and their masks and learning more about how they work so she can use the mask to stay young forever.

And yes, she does run into Grima at one point.

Blinding Light

(Awakening, 2.3k words, stuck in Chapter 1 Limbo since November 2021)

Funnily enough a gift fic for Iturbide and heavily inspired by theirs and @banyanas' work, this is a story where Naga and Grima have swapped roles, with Naga having degenerated when killing her daughter, and Ylisse basically being a police state where she outright possesses the current Exalt, which in this case is Chrom's father.

Grima accidentally becomes the protector of Plegia and free humanity while they were trying to defend themselves, since Naga views every dragon as a threat to humanity that must be destroyed, but the war has currently taken an unspoken truce with both gods having lost their physical bodies and their countries reorganizing themselves for future battles.

And since Chapter 1 of this was written for Chrobin Week, yes, those two are going to kiss eventually.

I want to return to this one so badly there are some ideas i have for it i just have to write down but at the same time I still haven't managed to write even a single word of Chapter 2

Socially Distant

(Echoes, almost 6k words, 3/5? chapters WiP)

A Modern AU set during Covid, this was originally a oneshot about the Ram Gang trying to keep in touch with each other while everyone has taken a different path in life, but with the next chapters it turned into "Faye meets Rinea and the two slowly fall in love while being complete bisasters about it".

This is chronologically the second fic on AO3 with the Faye/Rinea tag, and the first one where it's the actual focus and yes I will brag about it

Also it's my multi-chapter fic that's most likely to ever get finished so...

The Barbecue of Belhalla

(Geneaology, 822 words oneshot)

Arvis invites Sigurd's army for a barbecue. No, really. They have a barbecue together.

Tagging @good-beans for this if you want to do it!

[aurora-boring-alis]

mullet tobin vibe checked me

[dailyawakening]

Memories

Inspired by @levin-swort’s eldritch!Robin AU, One and the Same

“Over a thousand years ago, a Thabean alchemist and his nephew sought to fill the void left by the gods’ departures. The younger became something un/holy, but the city still crumbled and fell, lost to time and sand. Decades later, a monstrous Fell God — Grima — nurtured the desert village of Plegia into a prosperous city. Naga’s champion, the First Exalt, defeated him and put him into a deep slumber as hatred between the two gods unfurled. Prophecy foretells that Grima will Awaken within the Thabes Labyrinth in 1,000 years to try to bring about the end of the world once again. Now, two halves of a greater whole find each other and stand together at the precipice of divinity and destiny.”

[abrasife]

You know why turned au works out so well in terms of his canon timeline based in medieval fantasy/f.e:ec.hoes? 

It’s because I never pictured him living past the war in general, or for very long after it. He’d never reunite with his father because he probably wouldn’t make it home (hey, he’s coming from an entirely different continent in the case of Thabes Labyrinth and either way, he’d have to cross through the opposing country of Zofia--the country he defected to during the war--so he’d have to be super careful returning back to his homeland of Rigel for outright betraying them). If any Rigelian soldier knew and recognized him, they’d probably kill him on the spot man.

And I can’t imagine him living that far into adulthood if at all in this verse, nor would he ever form/develop an actual relationship [long enough] to have a family of his own (I mean, Rachael would). I just never imagined him coming home once he leaves, or like he’ll send one final letter back and never again, or maybe he’ll show up and just not go in because he doesn’t feel like he can go home after betraying. Also like, his home village is literally on the other side of Rigel--yeah, that denoted village on the map literally called “Rigelian village”, known for harvesting grapes, rocky hills, and having a cool climate-- good luck heading there in one piece! 

oh, here’s a map of the whole area if you need. the top half in the orangey color is Rigel while the bottom half in green is Zofia.

And now that I think about it, it’s depressing as hell. Why can’t I give him a good life? I’m incapable of it.

[jasperlion]

No! for berkut because au

Death in the battlefields [2 / 4] | No longer accepting

It had taken everything in his power to have Lukas and Clive even let him accompany the Vanguard. Ever since his ascension to King— no, even as Emperor, it had been tougher and tougher to ride out with those he considered his family whenever a crisis occurred. He wanted to fight too, he wanted to help his nation and lead it properly. If it was not him leading the charge, why should his people trust him to defend them?

“Try to make it back in one piece.” Berkut had scoffed as he took the reins of his destrier, mounting the saddle. “You’ve a family and all, cousin, and you must be so rusty you’ll look like a clodhopper.”

He sure had laughed then, hadn’t he? “Sure, sure. I still train every day, you know?”

He had, hadn’t he?

It wasn’t enough for this.

The terrors that burst through the earth weren’t normal, natural, the aura about them more eerie than it had ever been before. Some wore masks, masks that sunk his stomach in horror at the sight. 

Terrors from beyond the sea, emerging from the depths. They were here for them, here for him, and something screamed at him from his mind that the eerie feeling when they had left Thabes was perhaps the six-eyed demon’s final order to kill those who had dared to slay it.

“Call for reinforcements!” He had barked to Clair, Falchion flaring to life. “Warn the Queen! We do not know how many have come here!”

It is hard to be impressed at the corpse’s long journey when it had been to come for them, years after the fact. Actions, consequences, but he can’t find it in him to berate himself now.

Gazing upon the glowing eyes of the Terrors and Masks alongside them, he steels himself, grits his teeth, and pushes his horse to charge as his Brotherhood of Knights do the same. There’s an evacuation at the port and all they can do is hold off the invasion until every citizen is safe. May Clair and the rest of the Valentian army return to them to a situation under control, something they can laugh and drink over in the castle’s Great Hall. A story for the children. It’s all he can pray to, he mutters it under his breath for the dead Gods beneath them.

Falchion cleaves foe after foe, Berkut at his heels to deliver finishers to those who survived with clever lancework. They make quite the pair, for those who used to fight on opposite sides, once upon a time. If their foe weren’t so horrific, he might have even laughed in glee — perhaps it was the Rigelian in him.

Yet they cannot last forever, exhaustion in his bones and horse breathing like every inhale would be the last. He leaps to dismount, stabbing a Mask at the center of it’s head and using it as a landing spot as he uses his weight and feet to push it to the ground.

From the thud behind him, his cousin had done the same, as had Mathilda, a little further and nearly past his sight. Alm does not turn back to watch the animals go, the hooves are indication enough.

“We won’t last at this rate.” Is what he hears his cousin say between haggard breaths. Alm doesn’t have the heart to disagree.

“May help arrive soon, then.” He grits his teeth even as he tries to smile. “We can’t retreat.”

The mires of undead crawling from the waves ensured it. If they stopped, they might not even make it to the backlines before their weapons and claws shredded them to pieces.

“… I know.”

Yet his eyes scan the foe even as he fights, and it is then that it suddenly catches his eye: The concentration point of the enemy, where they seemed to amass before spreading to try and take the entire beach in waves. No matter the amount, if they had all traveled single file before surfacing—

Without a word, he breaks formation, dashing to where he was sure was the key beneath the waves.

Even the calls at his back don’t stop him, Falchion blazing, energy collecting at the tip. He has an idea, a plan, and perhaps it’s crazy and not at all thought out—

He skids, pivoting on his right leg to turn and face the onslaught. The enemies who followed him jump, clawing at his side even as he lifts the blade skyward, pillar of light taking shape. And he swings.

Scendscale crashes into the waves, splits the seas and the Terrors beneath them. For a singular moment, the true scale of the enemy is seen, yet so many see decimation before his very eyes.

It feels like eternity.

And then, he’s fallen, and his right side feels like fire. Claws tear, it feels like shards on his face, then it stops stops as there’s a scream of his name.

Fire rains from the skies. The focal point, a pegasus, an it feels like his soul calls to Her.

Vision swims. He’s on his back, Berkut over him and a numb feeling on his side, like something’s pressed there…? What…? “Hold on!” He hears. “Don’t you dare die, you absolute fool!” That’s his worried tone, isn’t it? There’s nothing to worry about, right? He doesn’t feel anything, right?

… He knows what this is.

Alm smiles instead, weakly grasping at his neck. A tug is all it takes, and the pendant of a promise is pressed weakly against the chest of his kin.

“Take care of them—”

“Stop.”

“Please.”

“Alm—!”

Yet his gaze is transfixed on the sky above, the pegasus.

Is this what flying felt like?

[seasaltmemories]

gentleoverdrive replied to your post “4 to 7 with Daydreams and Delights?”

Man, thank you so much for this. While I like the standalones you did, D&D just felt like it made way too much sense. Like I can picture Celica and Alm being like this post-Thabes.

Why thank you ^^ I find Alm and Celica to have the type of dynamic I love testing in countless different alternative AU’s but with D&D I wanted to show what I liked about them from canon and show them as older and wiser but not necessarily having lost the little quirks that make them fun

[dornishsphinx]

... Scum Villain AU :D

I tried hard to not make these entirely based on Berkut, but he has been on my mind since we were discussing him, sooo (I also tried to come up with new ones we’ve not come up with yet too!)

1— At the beginning of Alm’s reign, he and Berkut are still not on the same page, despite Alm’s insistence that they’re Cousins and Family and that means they should get along really well because he’s pretty sure that’s how families are supposed to work, right? The moment they actually do kinda start to get along is when one of them complains about how their friend (—crush—) is too subservient to Clive and the other is like I FEEL THAT

2— Berkut and Rinea are not together for a long while following Duma’s defeat, as Berkut is fully aware he would have sacrificed her had Alm and the gang not arrived as early as they did, and therefore mostly avoids her while being too proud to admit why (though he still does extend his protection as current heir to the throne over her when some nobles try to eject her from the court for being a “backwater noble without proper standing”. Lukas and Rinea also get along fairly well due to that last point.)

3— Python’s novel was popular enough that he had just received an advance for a publishing deal which included both “Echoes of the Jasper Lion” and a new work before he died and swapped bodies with Genny. When “Ribald Tales of the Faith War”, a loose adaption of some history she faintly remembers being taught at the priory, comes out, critics note how much the quality of the author’s work had improved and “Python” wins an award for it, even getting to meet the author of the ultra-popular “Dragon of Shadow and the Light Blade”. They seem very interested in where “Python” got the idea for the story. Too interested—and far too invested, especially in the depiction of its main characters and villains. 

4— When Alm and Celica undertake a joint venture to visit the kingdoms of Archanea, (and find Zeke and Tatiana) going via Thabes and on to other different places, Lukas meets a young knight named Roderick at King Marth’s court. He seems interested in Lukas’ life and position, and congratulates him on what he’s made of it. (“He seems to have made a better life for himself than I did in his position.”)

5— When Real World!Forsyth dies—not too long after Python does, even though he hadn’t realised he was dead all this time, just very different—he also ends up in Valentia, in the body of one of Clive’s lackeys. Forsyth had never actually read “Echoes of the Jasper Lion”, having never liked reading and just having bought a copy of the book when it was finally published physically to support his friend. He is extremely lost.

[starlitcrows]

“Introduce myself? Ah... I am Forneus Perezia of Thabes.”

“I am an archivist, currently working for the Senate. Um. I consider myself a scholar, and I enjoy reading through ancient texts, as well as deciphering spells...”

“M-more about me?”

“...I did wish to oversee my own library one day, but the Archives are already fascinating enough for me... Huh? Th-the tattoo on my back? My eyes...?

“Oh, an alchemist colleague of mine needed a volunteer for an experiment regarding dragon blood. It was endorsed by the Senate, and I was the only one available... I think the study was something about the effects of dragon blood injections into humans...? So, now I have enhanced sight and faster reflexes, along with a few other things...

“The process was painful, which my tattoo-- my seal rather, suppressed. It was also designed by my colleague. His name is Astaroth Hesteri.”

“Am I interested in alchemy...? Well, a little, I suppose. I’m currently the scribe for Hesteri’s projects, so I’ve picked up a few terms and all... but I doubt I could ever be an alchemist myself. I’m quite content where I am.”

[felikatze]

Sorry I'm a stranger being Not Normal about Grima, which is a reawakened thing in me, and you Understand.

I keep thinking about the Divine Dragon blood Forneus somehow got. And how I can only square with it somehow being Naga's given Grima's power levels and power SET. He's basically opposite-Naga.

I'm going feral over this idea and how no wonder Naga's Like That because eventually she had to realize and tbh I'm surprised she's not sitting there sipping wine to deal with this constantly.

But also the comedic idea of a short AU fic where Naga just scruffs baby Grima after Forneus dies like a feral kitten is funny to me.

AU where Duma still destroys Thabes but he brings back baby grima to placate Dragon King Naga. Tiki just got a really weird sibling.

this is gonna be a specific comparison for my loh besties but this is such a laphlaes situation. mad wizard stole his dna and a couple years later he suddenly has two children. one of them is a chuuni to put owain to shame and the other one is a teen girl in her rebellious phase who hates his guts. this is tiki and grima to naga.

my favorite hc is that grima is Like That because he's made from divine and earth dragons (which is the hc used in out of the labyrinth! yay!). this mixture is Not Good to produce a functional being not prone to dragon madness. FE dragon madness / degeneration is such a fun concept and grima gets the full brunt of it. predispositioned ot fits of madness.

I feel like Naga can deal with a lot of things because she's just peaced out of the physical realm of being. which raises the question of how FP grima managed to kill her, if she has no physical form.

Imo Naga used to be Way Less Chill then she is these days, back when dragons ruled the earth and she was divine god-king. As evident from how she banished duma and mila for destroying thabes after a Dragon War, and gave the two another falchion to kill themselves with, just in case. Can't go insane if you're a ghost, i guess.

NEVER apologize for being insane about grima to me because it measn I get to be insane about grima too. i still have some asks from the last round of people being so normal abt grima in my inbox i ran out of steam to answer, ahahaha....

[iturbide]

Top 5 Grimas? (like, rank the ones in Feh, or any au versions, etc)

now we're just playing dirty

I'm biased and I'll always start with my predominant AU!Grima -- the one that was protector of Plegia, didn't want to be revived by Validar, and genuinely cares for Robin. Cursed Fate is the best example I have on-hand since it has the largest Grima presence.

The original FEH M!Grima. That Level 40 dialogue really added to a character that previously only had implied dimensionality, and honestly defied my expectations going: I was pleasantly surprised with that handling.

The theoretical AU where Grima gets to be best friends with Tiki. I love the idea of them as childhood friends, with Grima getting to experience something like a childhood with a fellow dragon roughly his own age

Echoes' Grima in the Thabes Labyrinth. Not only do we get new backstory, mechanically they end up implying that Grima isn't actually aggro because he does move to attack and you can touch any part of him besides his body and head and not enter combat.

this one

[exalted--zealotry]

Have you thought about doing a verse where Anri's alive in Awakening? Like he survived with amnesia or something, or stayed away once he realised Ylisse was better off without him?

( ooc. FYI, everybody, don’t expect answers like these to be common at all– it’s just a topic I thought to be interesting. It’s very long, I feel, and there’s going to be some spoilers for Awakening, Shadow Dragon/Mystery of the Emblem, Echoes and the Jugdral duology, with major spoilers for Jugdral, so it’s going under the cut; if you’re not interested, or haven’t played either Awakening or the Jugdral games yet and want to play those games as blind as possible, feel free to skip this post! You have been warned.

Oh, and this is also an experiment to see whether or not I’m making a fool of myself by trying to add in HTML to certain places where it may not work– )

In all honesty, anon? No, I hadn’t; not until I saw this in the inbox, and I did a little bit of pondering. It wasn’t too much, and not for too long, but I’ve come to the conclusion that it would be better off for Anri to be dead prior to and during the events of Awakening, unless it was an AU that heavily altered the timeline to the point where the events of Awakening never took place to begin with; while it would be easier RP-wise to have such a verse, I think that would betray some of Awakening’s themes. It’s been a while since I last played Awakening, so I may be somewhat rusty when it comes to the plot, but I have two main points for this:

1. In Awakening, Chrom’s father was stated to be a warmonger, which is why he’s remembered poorly by pretty much the entirety of the game’s cast who remembers him. In a Skype conversation with a few friends of mine– names won’t be named, but they’ll know who they are, with one person in particular hopefully helping me out if I missed something or got something wrong– it’s mentioned how eerily similar some of the actions Chrom makes after the game’s timeskip are to actions Anri would take, with the most notable I feel to be Chrom’s utter lack of hesitance to Robin’s plan to burn the ships during chapter 14 of the Valm arc; after all, they are Plegian ships. Even before chapter 14, this is present– either in the cutscene before before chapter 12 plays, or the cutscene after chapter 12, Chrom absolutely refuses to go to Plegia for assistance; he only goes to them for help when he realises that there’s simply no other option in the fight against Walhart. And do I really need to mention Chapter 9? I won’t for the sake of not spoiling those who haven’t played Awakening yet– which is probably like 7 people or something– but I will mention that in Chapter 10, Chrom is absolutely unwilling to surrender to Mustafa, who was essentially Awakening’s Camus archetype and deserved so much more screen-time. Chrom makes it absolutely clear early on that he aspires to be like Emmeryn, but the way he acts throughout pretty much the entire game goes against that goal, and from what I remember, it’s not until near the end of the game where one of the Khans– either Flavia or Basilio, but I think it was Basilio– calls him out on it. With these details in mind, I think it would be better if Anri stayed dead during the events of Awakening– the man is remembered as a hated warmonger by his own children, Chrom specifically, IIRC; if Chrom were to find an amnesiac Anri, or an Anri who became a hermit, then I feel it’d be a detriment to Chrom’s character, as he’d be able to confront the man himself and air his feelings and grievances– but he can’t. Chrom would never get those answers; based on the Art of Awakening artbook, Chrom is 6 years younger than Emmeryn, and 4 years older than Lissa, as revealed by an illustration with an age 14 Emmeryn, age 8 Chrom, and age 4 Lissa. It’s stated in-game that Emmeryn was crowned Exalt at the age of 9, close to 10 IIRC, making Chrom only about 3-4 years old when Anri died, and making it highly likely that Lissa was born after her father’s death, so Chrom and Lissa would’ve grown up hearing so much hatred and vitriol said about their father– it’s likely that’s how they’ve known him their entire lives.

2. IIRC, it’s never exactly stated why Chrom’s father went to war with Plegia in the first place, although I imagine the most likely belief among the community is that the Exalt was made aware of the Avatar’s birth and the implications of that, so he rode to war to stop that; for this point, I’m going to go a lot more subjective and headcanon-y, which is why I’ll refer to Chrom’s father as Anri from this point on– this goes slightly into detail about the Grimleal breeding programme, but if you want more depth about that, I recommend reading the post(s) written by my close friend Jessica, over at @i-nsubordination; this is also where the spoilers for Marth’s games, Echoes/Gaiden and the Jugdral duology come in, so if you want to stay unspoiled for those games, please stop here. Given that I imagine Anri to be a deeply religious individual, who’s incredibly devout to Naga, I believe that his war on Plegia was, more than anything else, crusade, if you will– a holy war, if you catch my meaning; specifically, the part of Plegian religion revolving around Grima– I’m, of course, referring to the Grimleal. For those who have played or know the synopsis behind Genealogy of the Holy War’s story– referred to as just ‘Genealogy’ or ‘Jugdral’ from here on, even though the latter would like infer both Genealogy and Thracia 776– then you should be aware of the Grimleal’s method of producing an Avatar for Grima through a breeding programme is very similar to the Loptr Sect/Loptyrian Cult’s method of creating a vessel for Loptyr– even though the Grimleal almost certainly would’ve done theirs entirely internally, as Arvis worked with Archbishop Manfroy to make his ideals a reality; Manfroy blackmailed Arvis with his knowledge of Arvis’s minor Loptyr blood, most likely to ensure Arvis’s co-operation. Then Deirdre’s kidnapping and mind-wiping by Manfroy happens in/during Chapter 3 of Genealogy, where she’s left in close proximity of Velthomer castle… where she’s found by Arvis. This is not a coincidence.

“So what?”, you may ask. “What does the story of Genealogy have to do with Anri?” Well, for my interpretation Anri, such stories– alongside the rest of the story behind Genealogy, the tale of Marth’s granduncle, the original Anri– and Anri’s namesake– alongside the tales of Marth himself, and the first Exalt– were all stories he was raised upon, and stories he obsessed over growing up, as these all involve his bloodline; from Tiki and Robin’s B support in Awakening, it’s stated that Chrom is less like Marth and more like ancestor who lived a millennia before Marth; due to the lack of confirmation that the Elibe and Tellius games exist in the same timeline as Jugdral, Archanea/Valentia and Ylisse/Valm, it’s highly likely that this ancestor mentioned by Tiki is none other than Sigurd. This support also confirms that Marth is a distant ancestor of Chrom, dating back two millennia before the events of Awakening– then again, Falchion and the blue probably should’ve done that already, alongside the fact that the Halidom is located roughly around where the various different incarnations of Archanea were, alongside Pyrathi and Caeda’s home, Talys– ironically, Anri and Marth’s homeland, Altea, became part of Plegia instead. The Exalted bloodline also means that, of course, Anri would grow up hearing the stories of the First Exalt, from the previous millennium– just to make that crystal clear, Marth is not the First Exalt. How do we know that the First Exalt lived a millennium before Anri and the events of Awakening? Simple: Grima, and the length of time Grima has slumbered before awakening– that is, before he woke up, hence the lack of capitalisation. Gaiden and Echoes are stated to take place a year after the events of Shadow Dragon; the canonicity of Echoes’s Act 6 is questionable at best among some, since Echoes would seemingly have you believe in the cutscene after finished Duma that the Valentian Falchion remained lodged inside Duma’s skull. However, if the entirety of Act 6 is canon, then that means Alm, Celica and co. managed to ( seemingly ) slay Grima at the bottom of Thabes Labyrinth, likely using Falchion in the process. The stats of the Falchion obtained in Act 5 of Echoes matches the FE1 and FE3 versions of it’s Archanean counterpart in terms of might, while forging it gives it stats equal to the Archanean Falchion from Shadow Dragon DS ( the actual Falchion, not Nagi’s Falchion ) and New Mystery– 12 Might, 100 hit and 0 crit; of course, the Falchion used to seal Grima away by the First Exalt was once the Archanean Falchion, not the Valentian Falchion, but this could imply that both Falchions could get the job done, as both Duma and Mila are sealed in the Valentian Falchion, making it likely that the Valentian Falchion could also seal Grima away. However, in order to reach Grima, the Sage’s Shield must be removed to open a door; it is almost guaranteed that, a thousand years after Alm, Celica and co. leave the Thabes Labyrinth, Grima awakens to wreak havoc across the world, until put to slumber once more by the First Exalt, a thousand years before the events of Awakening.

What’s the point of Anri waging war against Plegia, you may ask? Simple: Anri wages a holy war– a crusade– against Plegia, much like Sigurd and Seliph, in order to combat the still-slumbering Fell Dragon– this time, with the intention of slaying it for good; a way to not only live up to the legacy of his ancestors, but perhaps even surpass them, and ensure his place in history– Anri wanted to be remembered as a hero– but, even more than that, Anri simply wanted to fulfill what he believed to be the will of Naga; he went to war with Plegia because he believed that wiping out the Grimleal was the right course of action– Anri simply would not have an epiphany, and lead a hermit’s lifestyle. But he failed to stop Grima’s return, and he died, which allowed for the events of Awakening to take place. It is for this reason, and I feel for the better of Chrom’s character, that Anri is one of the most important characters in Awakening not seen in the game, alongside Robin’s mother. And it’s why I don’t plan on making a verse where he’s alive during the events of Awakening.

If you’ve stuck with me this far, thank you so much for reading! I have one last thing to say– nothing concrete, but still something interesting; in The Sacred Stones, during Eirika and Saleh’s B-Support, Saleh mentions an important figure in the history of Caer Pelyn– Nada Kuya, the warrior princess. Saleh states,  “I’ve been told she was a strong woman, beautiful and proud. She spoke with the voice of nature, and she lived at one with the earth,”; “well, in ancient times, Caer Pelyn was invaded by a foreign nation,”; “ and leading the charge against the invaders was Nada Kuya. She carried a narrow sword made from a fang gifted to her by the dragonkin. With her dragon blade in her hand, she drove Caer Pelyn’s enemies away.” A princess who fought back against an invading force wielding a sword made from the fang of a dragon… If that doesn’t sound like Marth, I don’t know what does. While this doesn’t confirm that they’re related, or that Magvel is also a part of the Jugdral, Archanea/Valentia and Ylisse/Valm timeline, it’s food for thought. )

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And add to that what happened to Morgan in The Future past...

We know that Morgan chose to serve Grima in The Future Past, but the Morgan from that timeline stayed there because no one travelled back in time. The Morgan we get in the main game is the one that could have taken a detour to Old Thabes before coming to the main timeline. After all, if Morgan was working for Grima all along, why would Naga transport them along the other children? Sure they could have followed Lucina and the others into the portal if they were the one chasing them down, but it would also be interesting if Grima had been the one who opened its own portal to send them. 

Morgan isn’t necessarily their great to the 11th power grandpa Forneus, but an agent of Grima from the future could have steered him in the “right” direction when he started with his project. Not to mention that Morgan is of Grima’s bloodline, and having them in Thabes could have given Forneus access to a glimpse of the perfect being he was trying to create and first hand information on the Risen. And, after that, Morgan could have travelled in time again to catch up to the place in the timeline Lucina had gone, only losing their memories on the way. As for the reason, Grima may have sent its best Grimleal to the time of its birth because it thought that Naga may have been trying to mess with that instead of the circumstances of Chrom’s death?

Morgan’s amnesia and ambigous parental status sure leads to interesting AUs.