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Weren't you supposed to have killed her ages ago? How hard can that be? 7 years ago. So it's not like Ishtar's boyfriend turning evil is a recent thing. Most certainly on another level than his brothers.

Man, with jumps like that, Celice could attack Berwick Saga wyvern with 0 range attacks. "Daddy screamed reeeeeeeeal good before he died." "Bless Levin" indeed. Crew Shanan and Oifey, I suppose. Although Oifey has it coming for his Arden erasure. You also had a really cool sword. Well, it's only a secret scene anyway. Deidre didn't even offer a golden axe or anything.

I would imagine that it only has that +5 res to protect Julius from status staffs. But of course as already stated, having more than 30 res means that status swords will work 100% of the time, so he is in fact very vulnerable to status. At least there is a basis in lore that everyone always sucks up to the avatar, no matter how heinous they are. Eh, Julius is perfectly killable here. Because unlike next map, he doesn't have Nihil yet. So crits can punch through his defenses just fine. In fact, Julius will drop the Leg Ring if it wasn't passed down. Ishtar would also drop her Life Ring. So funnily enough, under very specific circumstances you could actually have a bit of a Arran/Samson situation here. Funnily enough he has 3 less base strength compared to his NPC version. I guess that's what age does to you. Well, time for some revenging.

Let's not forget Travant.

Gotta push those cousin romances, I suppose. Although since their mothers were identical twin sisters, biologically it's less cousins and more half siblings. You guys didn't deserve Arden.

To be fair to her, if you talk 4 times to someone of the opposite gender, you are legally obligated to marry them and treat whatever heinous acts they commit as harmless quirky behavior. Kaga did it first. Although here the point of the amnesia seems more to be about keeping the resurrection of Lopto from overtaking the story until now. Doesn't exactly help that Julia is way more powerful than Deidre. I mean, Deidre cannot even change classes even if she does get to level 20. Julia is in a whole different league. It feels absurd that he can just take her without any meaningful resistance. But the worst part is that unlike Deidre, Manfroy doesn't actually need Julia for anything. He already has his dark god. If he can kidnap her, then he can also just kill her.

In order to be able to use Tornado, he also has Holsety blood. Or Holced blood, in order to be consistent with the official translation of Sety. Not sure how that fits into the lore.

I didn't even give you an exploding sword or anything. Don't think warrior codes have much to do with that. Pride, maybe. But above else I would say he is just done with life at this point. After decades he is still stuck in the Southern end of the peninsula. Not only that, his worst fear has finally become realized. The girl he raised for 17 years has finally found out that what he did to her biological parents and now looks at him with the eyes of her mother and sees in him nothing but a murderer. I would imagine he saw his two kids as a symbol of a united Thracia. Now they have instead cause a repeat of the tragedy of the Gae Borg and are if anything a symbol of it's ongoing divide. Point is, his reign was a complete failure. For all his plotting and scheming he has nothing to show for but the corpses of the good people who died in his wake. He is such a dumbass, it's impressive. I suppose we needed someone to keep leading the Thracian forces. If killing Trabant really did end the fighting, it would feel a lot more like the big climactic showdown with one of the hero killers from Gen 1 that the devs clearly don't want it to be. But this is just not a great way to do this.

Uhh, free new character. Glorious.

Definitely Arthur. It's ridiculously condescending of him to lie to his family because he decided that he is the only one who can bear the "horrible" truth that his father who everyone believed to be dead is actually still alive. And what, you think your mom doesn't on some level recognize when you lie in her face so brazenly? That's gonna turn into gaslighting very quickly, you know? Seriously, get your head out of your ass, Arthur. It's not good for your back.

I can't believe Altena did not do the thing she explicitly refused to do. Who could have seen that coming? I suppose with this kind of leadership skills I can see how Freege managed to snatch Northern Thracia away from Travant. Arione is a weird fellow. He probably thinks he is mending the issues between Altena and Travant, but if anything he is making them worse. Trying to convince Travant that Altena does not actually mean the things she explicitly says is just asking for more family trouble down the line. Idk, maybe he bumped his head falling from a dragon or something. Honestly, how dense can you be? Especially in the old translation, where Travant said that he gets the sense that Ethlyn speaks to Altena from the grave. Why do I have the feeling this was a really awkward line to translate? Oh don't you go all Arione on me, Oifey. Maybe this exchange is meant as a deliberate parallel to the Travant Trio. But if so, I can't say I find it particular meaningful. Look Fin, Celice already commented on the sad eyes of the female dragonknight. We can't have both of them doing the same Marth impression back to back. Technically Dragon Riders. Altena is the only Dragon Knight among them. The one time you get to see a female Forrester outside of Radney. I guess those are the civilians taking up arms themselves, mentioned in the prologue. Levin in 760 trying to get Briggid to tell him who the father of her kids is, just in case he needs to pass that information down decades later.

I would say the credit here very much belongs to Starfox 2. As do most things about Command that at least conceptually seem like a good idea.

I think The Hierarch deserves more love. But maybe he is just considered to be too important to be a "minor character".

Maybe he realized that no one could take a villain with the name Blume seriously. But then again, I suppose it's not much worse than Schwarze Rosen.

Yeah, they do that. I usually just bite the bullet and let Ares take it, knowing that with the Thief Ring he will never be wanting for money ever again. Jackson is really rocking that Lachesis color palette. It's not. And there is also a chance that it will cause Celice to permanently get greyed out, with the only cure being a refresh. So don't press that button. He did list Leaf as an example, but yeah. All according to the translation on the site anyway. https://serenesforest.net/general/designers-notes/holy-war/playing-guide/ Q: Is there any special meaning behind Celice’s ability to dismount? A: The reason for that is a simple one that I’m a little embarrassed about, which is for “aesthetic purposes”. At the beginning, we guessed there would be many female fans who see Leaf, for example, and think “he looks so handsome in battle, I don’t want to promote him!”. Originally, we wanted every mounted character to have the option of dismounting like in Mystery of the Emblem. However, because of space issues we had to give this idea up, so in the end only Celice’s dismounting option was kept. Fire Emblem was historically more popular with female players than with male players in Japan. Given the commercials of that era, I suppose this might not be too surprising. I would say these days they seem to be more aiming for the horny 12 year old boy with a God complex. But I mean, I was a horny 12 year old boy when I played FE7, and I still found it embarrassing how the game was constantly worshipping the player. If FE8 and FE9 didn't drop that nonsense super hard, I would have never become a fan. So it never felt quite right to me to give 12 year olds that little credit.