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This theory might be a buzzkill for lore enthusiasts, but I think the "Emblem of Foundations" is not meant to be a defined character, but rather a stand-in, most likely representing protagonists from 80's JRPGs like Dragon Quest, Xanadu, Ys, and Hylide. Besides the description of the character's feats and demeanor (Silent, does quests solo, and has no attachments) matching that type of character better than any type that would fit in a SRPG, the other thing that stands out is the character being stated to be from "another world" - a strange terminology consider how most FEs feel like different settings or different timelines in and of themselves yet are all in the same "world" as defined by Awakening and Engage. Why else would this very specific and somewhat confusing differentation be necessary for this character? If it was meant to be a future protagonist, he would be stated to be from the future. If he was meant to be Anri, Marth should know about him and they would both be in the same world. If it was an alternate timeline/dimension version of a FE character, Sombrom would have a stand-in to fulfill his desire in place of the original. No, the only explanation that would be consistent with prior established lore is something so completely outside that lore that it can't fit in... Hence, a character from a completely different game genre, franchise, and property ownership. If we limit it to other Nintendo IP, Link in the first Legend of Zelda on NES best fits the description.

Xane and Jake? Maybe they're buried in the Prelude version somewhere... probably not, but it at least gives me an idea on what to look for.

Yeah, it looks like the character profiles match the site (Even the ones who had their colors changed). And the "Prelude" looks less detailed than the "Story" section of the site, so it's probably spoiler-free. That actually kinda bums me out; A part of me is hoping the original story had more direct ties to FE that had to be edited out, but it seems at least looking on the surface level that that may not be the case. Of course, it's most likely that if the direct ties were there than they'd be more deeply hidden anyway, but seeing text that matches the character bios on the site makes me think more that whatever was changed was bare minimum.

Since it's all stills I decided to snapshot it and put it up here.

A little update. While this is probably not as significant as the Dengeki Playstation D43 demo, it seems Dengeki Playstation D41 also had a promotional bit on Emblem Saga. It's a buncha picture slideshows and text, but maybe something worth translating is in it.

I don't recall playing the multiplayer mode so I have no idea, sorry.

I'm going to assume Tirnanog would not have changed anything they already made into the game unless it was absolutely necessary. That said, I am curious if anything can be found by datamining - it may be possible that future game plans were changed in an attempt to give Tear Ring more of a separate identity.

Hey guys. Long time no post, huh? I'm gonna assume no one really pays attention to what I do outside of here, so I'll summarize: Lots of game proto and demo research. Recently I decided to grab as many dumps of Playstation demo discs and magazines as I can and examine them. Thankfully projects like Redump acquired many, including a certain "Dengeki Playstation D43", which I assume means the 43rd Playstation disc volume of Dengeki Playstation magazine. So where am I headed with this? Well, this volume has a certain demo that I think might be of special interest to the folks here. I went and checked on "Emblem Saga Prelude" and recorded a bit of the footage here. I know there is another known demo of "Tear Ring Saga Prelude", and this seems to be similar to that one, but it has Blue-haired Runan, at least. It's possible there are other changes that are harder to notice. (Or possibly ones that would require datamining to find.) Any help on finding anything else out of this would be appreciated.

Not 1:1 in looks, but... yeah, I can even see personality similarities now.

I was referring more to the sprite edit than the given name. I suppose you saw the resemblence beforehand? :P

So, wait.... the "prince" is now Makina from Grisaia no Kaijitsu?

Okay, this time I am on time. Maybe.