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TRUE. Fantastic backgrounds, too, that will probably go largely unnoticed by the fanbase at large. FEH has some amazing music and beautifully illustrated backgrounds that have such distinct themes they carry.

Actually, since it makes sense that IS would give us a new character, I wonder if we'd get a daughter of Loki's. I could see IS being all "the trickster goddess just wants a better future for her daughter so she was planning to overthrown Alfador but got caught and now her daughter is coming to the Askrans for help and (skipping to the end) we defeat the corrupt Alfador and set up an era of peace...until the next pantheon bursts through a gate someone forgot about since now that the old pantheon is gone, this next one is fee to come in and take over and now we have to do it all over again and Lif's over there in a corner being all 'SERIOUSLY?!! AGAIN?!!'" So, yeah, I've been saying this for a while now, but it looks like there's a lot of agreement that ragnarok (in its actual mythos, is just the beginning of a new cycle and has already happened many times in the past) just beginning a new "arc" in the story. As for the talk of Baldr, I don't know. They already used that name for a really prominent FE character in the past (one of the 12 crusaders from FE4/5, as I recall -- and, I think, the first wielder of Tyrfing.) Not that they couldn't reuse his name or make a fem version. (They already riffed on names in the past, but an especially good example is how "Askr" means "ash" and "embla" means "elm.") As far as I'm aware, "Baldr" just means "brave," etymology-wise, so there's a lot they could do with that to have a "Baldr" without actually using that name.

I fully expect Lif (at the very least, if not also Thrasir and MAYBE the Dokkalfar (I'll explain this in a bit)) to be on Alfador's side and that we'll have to take them on (maybe as the first half of the book, if this is indeed the Ragnarok book, which it seems like it's going to be.) Rearmed Lif has a castle quote predicting as much, warning the player that Alfonse is going to have to prepare himself and that he's likely to be our enemy in the future because he's more or less a sworn vassal of Alfador's. So, the Lif timeline goes like this: He was Alfonse in a version of Askr where they faced Hel and lost, and he was resurrected by Hel as one of her vassals. She cut a (false) deal with him, where if he killed everyone from a different Askr that his own Askr would be restored, since life and death need to be balanced. So, he did that and Book 3 happened. In the end, though, he couldn't go through with it and turned against Hel (as well as he could; he had very little autonomy, being animated by her.) After Hel was killed, he and Thrasir were revived and given the chance (by Thorr) to serve Alfador. They accepted, but only in order to get close to their targets (the gods) in order to destroy them. They later also recruited Triandra and Plumeria to their cause. Those two wanted to wake Freyja up from her coma. After that, Lif was always ranting about how much he hated the gods, so as much as he hated them before, he doubly hated them now -- as such, his experience was very likely not the best in Asgard. The next time we see Thrasir, she's looking for Lif, and is worried about him. Lif himself, however, was summoned by Hel's handmaid (whose name is escaping me right now - I usually remember it as similar to "Gangrel" but that's not helping this time), who was trying to replace her (Hel.) It's implied that he may have allowed her to gain authority over him since he's become completely focused on increasing his own strength (likely, so that he couldn't be overpowered by the gods, who are making him act against his will.) He adopted an evil sword from her too, to this end. Lif winds up talking to Eir about it, since she guesses correctly that he's doing all this in order to protect Thrasir (probably trying to become strong enough that she doesn't have to suffer in his fight against the gods.) Looks like the Dokkalfar may have bailed, since the next time we see them, they're in Freyja's dream since she's about to wake up from her coma (which was the end they were trying to achieve by going with Lif anyway.) Alternatively, once they have Freyja, they may see if she's willing to help Lif out with his rebellion against the gods in Asgard. Anyway, Hel's handmaid gets defeated by Eir and Lif is free from all that again, but got to keep his new strength, and was reunited with a worried Thrasir. Presumably, they returned to Asgard after that. SO yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Lif and Thrasir are enemies in the first half of the Ragnarok arc, at least until we beat them. I also wouldn't be surprised if we had to fight Thorr (though she's definitely "I like fair fights and seeing humans reach their potential -- they're weird cool things" she's also staunchly loyal to Alfador.) However, I believe that Loki may kick things off for us in the Ragnarok book (whether it's this one or not) partially because in the Nordic mythos, Loki always causes Ragnarok (in this case, bringing the humans to challenge the gods, and maybe doing stuff in the background while the main focus is on Team Askrans vs Team Asgard.) Either way, she seems like she'll be an ally and has been setting up for this for a while. As such, we might get another baddie supporting Alfador, who will almost certainly be the big bad at the end.

If it's Ragnarok, then Loki is the natural choice. She's been kind of a behind the scenes "guide" all along, and as far as I'm aware, in Norse mythology, it's always Loki who ultimately causes Ragnarok.

Well, all the prior stuff was me trying to explain the italicized part, but I'll do my best to clarify it. Basically, it's all context. We chased Kvasir to Njordr's house before we were taken from the past (and at that time, Kvasir had the knowledge of who she would become.) Seidr doesn't remember her past, and was raised by Njordr as the sister of Heidr. Njordr knew what was coming at every phase and what to do which each event (almost as though someone told him, hm?) It was Gullveig who knew the entirety of the plan, and no one else (including Njordr) and Gullveig who restarted the cycle, made Heidr, and infected Heidr with the curse at the end of every cycle. Basically, in each instance, Gullveig is the one in control and making autonomous decisions. When Njordr snapped and explaine dhis motives, he just wanted to live forever and that's it. He's always disliked mortals, even since before he met Kvasir. (Nerpuz tells us as much when we meet her in the past. That's why she's trying to stop us from going to his place -- she wants to protect us from her brother, who has no tolerance for humans.) Gullveig needed Njordr to set things up for Seidr to become her. Njordr didn't need Gullveig for anything, except that he thought that he would never die if she came to be (which was obviously a lie since she killed him and there's nothing about her at all which would suggest that he'd live forever if she's around unless she lied to him herself about that.) Anyway, all those pieces point to the theories I explained. That's where my logic took me, based on the evidence I had on hand. I'm always open toward and happy to read other information germane towards story theory that others have picked up on that I've missed, so this is fun! 🙂 Regarding the part where Kvasir says "But there is one part of my memory I've lost," I interpreted that as referring to just after meeting Njordr (especially since she also says that Seidr is aware of that part of missing memory and what it's from.) Seidr says that she was taken in by Njordr and was raised by him, and Heidr eventually came into the picture, too, and they lived as sisters (which all lines up with Gullveig's machinations to get Seidr to turn into her and continue the cycle, so that's very likely the reason why things played out that way) Basically, her memory starts there, which means that she loses her memories of being Kvasir and Gullveig after coming into Njordr's care. It could be that she lost her memory twice, though (maybe once after becoming Kvasir from Gullveig and once after becoming Seidr from Kvasir.) Maybe instead of development, she had more of a metamorphosis at each phase, during which her memories get scrambled? The only one we see, really, is Gullveig becoming Kvasir, but instantaneous transformation makes sense when going backwards like that. And yeah, I've been thinking about that, too (regarding the Japanese perhaps being clearer in intent) but it's actually a very contextual language, so maybe not. That said, I'm still somewhere between beginner and intermediate in my studies of the language, so I'm really no expert. That said, hopefully the translators IS picked are doing the jobs they were hired for and properly giving us exactly what is intended in the story. Anyway, do you have anything to say about the quotes in the opening movie for the Seer's Snare? I feel like that really adds some structural integrity to the "Kvasir was born from a flaw in time" theory (well, sort of theory. I feel like it's one of the few overtly stated things we have here.) As for the Alfador theory, maybe? I feel like that's kind of reaching, though, in that there's not a lot of evidence to support it. So, I'd be cautious about leaning too much into it, especially since IS likes to keep their books fairly stand-alone. I was surprised they even mentioned Freyr/Freyja in this book, since they have stated that they'd like to make it so that new players can jump into the latest book without needing to play previous ones for context. Whatever the case, I'm looking forward to this story stabilizing. Speaking professionally, if your story is done (no sequels planned, etc.), then you should have as many threads tied off by the time the consumer finishes it as possible and not leave plot holes. So it's annoying that there's so much that isn't explained even though the book's done. At least they gave us Kvasir quotes to fill in some of the gaps (that's how it looks to me, anyway) and maybe we'll get a TT+ main story to help for the fallen banner again (that Seidr pulled Kvasir and Gullveig into herself and even talked about how they'd kind of fill in the gaps in each other's memories could be a hint towards this "collaborative introspection") but I still wish that the book ended more satisfactorily, personally speaking.

I never said he wasn't needed, just that he didn't come up with the plan. She (Gullveig) used him to look after Heidr (and Kvasir while she grew up after losing her memory), and keep events running toward the loop's continuation. He was used, and tricked into thinking he was in control of the plot. (I have actually explained this already, so I won't bother breaking everything down again. ...Actually, since you're confused, maybe I should. What is currently theory/indicated (but not overtly explained yet by IS) will be italicized.) We'll start with what's chronologically first. So, Kvasir shows up in the past with the knowledge of being Gullveig and knowing how events play out. She hangs out for a while with the summoner before going to Njordr's house (and the Askrans are prevented from following.) There, Kvasir tells Njordr (who is NOT happy about having an uninvited guest) about the future and lies to him about how this plan is good and will help him live forever. Njordr adopts the plan as described ("here's what to expect and when each of these things will happen and what to do when these happen"), and Kvasir loses her memories. Somewhere along the way, as Kvasir is growing up into Seidr, Heidr shows up with the golden serpent curse and a lot of confusion. Njordr takes her in (as per the plan he's following), and she and Kvasir -> Seidr grow up as sisters, fostering a bond. Nerpuz steals Njordr's Ar. Heidr's condition with the curse worsens. News of the golden seer being in the world and destroying stuff starts to spread, as Gullveig has traveled to the past to stir up trouble and get pieces moving. Seidr, not realizing that she's actually Gullveig, follows Njordr's orders to stop Gullveig. Seidr gives a vision to the summoner, then goes to meet said person, also meeting the summoner's allies at around the same time. She takes them to meet Njordr because that's what needs to happen next. Expecting this since he was told about it already, Njordr welcomes the Askrans and makes all benevolent. Also, Heidr gets met by the summoner and friends. Heidr's not doing well, though, and now's the time for Njordr to drop the "I need my Ar but my sister stole it" thing, which he does (and tells Seidr to make a child since Heidr's important to the loop.) The Ar is gotten and returned to Njordr, but Gullveig causes more problems. Njordr gives the Ar to Seidr and tells her to use it to find Gullveig (ironically, that's actually kind of what happens.) Seidr gets her time powers and timeline-jumping happens. Finally, back in the present, Seidr's confronted with Heidr being almost completely consumed by the golden serpent curse. Njordr puts on the pressure (and even argues logically about it being a mercy kill) for Seidr to kill Heidr, which would simultaneously infect Seidr with the golden serpent curse, and scar her heart, both of which lead her to eventually become Gullveig, who intends to destroy the world. Seidr does the thing. Now that he's fully enacted his role in the plan, Njordr drops his act and starts ranting about the truth behind his actions, fully expecting his reward of never dying (as per the promises he was told way back when Kvasir came to him.) But then Gullveig shows up and kills him. Nerpuz shows up. TIMELINE SPLITS HERE. Timeline 1: Loop - The golden serpent curse and the anguish of killing her "sister" both wear away at Seidr. However, Briedablik hasn't gone through being blessed by Nerpuz enough to be strong enough to get rid of the golden serpent curse. Unable to fight the golden serpent curse, she succumbs to it and becomes Gullveig. The Askrans do their best to try to defeat her, but being in control of time, she is simply too difficult a foe for them. She kills everyone who opposes her. After killing the summoner, she takes a piece of the summoner's soul, makes Heidr with it, and passes the golden serpent curse onto her. She tells her that her name is Heidr, but the newly-created girl is very, very confused. Still, Gullveig doesn't leave any time for questions or explanations, and she sends her into the past. Then, she reverts herself into Kvasir and goes even further back into the past than she sent Heidr. This is all in order to start the time loop all over again. Timeline 2: Hope - Briedablik gets blessed by Nerpuz, and it's been blessed by her power enough times in previous loops to be strong enough to get rid of the golden serpent curse. Seidr gets immunized to the curse via being shot by the empowered Briedablik. Then, Nerpuz says that learns that Gullveig and Kvasir need to die. The two of them also now realize that their loop is getting off the rails and that this Seidr is no longer quite their own selves, and that whichever version wins out (the new Seidr or Kvasir/Gullveig) will determine the future. Seidr kills Kvasir, then Gullveig, then brings their souls into her own mind, but is still the one determining the future now (being the only one alive anymore.) Like I said, Gullveig used Njordr in order to keep things on track while her past self developed into the one who would take on the curse. Edited in Briedablik's role since I forgot to include it in my initial post. Also editing this in: This has been the loop the whole time, ever since the first one. There was no loop in which events went differently. Kvasir, appearing in the past, has always known she would become Seidr, and then Gullveig, and then Kvasir again, and all the events which occurred/would occur in the loop. She just started existing as Kvasir in the past one day due to a glitch in time (nothing else made her), and that's the time which Gullveig returned to after becoming Kvasir again. Anything else ignores Kvasir directly stating that she was never created or born, and just "was" due to an error in time. (It's rather plainly stated.) Anything else also ignores Gullveig/Seidr's narration in the trailer for the Seer's Snare (I remembered the name! :D) in which she says that she was never meant to exist and so on. Unless someone has a theory which can explain this discrepancy, of course; I'd be happy to read it, but these pieces of canon have to be addressed or the theory isn't water-tight. A sound theory explains every piece of canon related to the events described. Anything else is faulty.

It's a pretty clear choice for me. Owain. He's always been a character I've liked and I wish I knew him irl. We'd have some good times. 🙂

Kvasir says that she was made by a flaw in time, like how an error in code makes a glitch. That's hardly a cake making itself. It was time itself what made Kvasir/the time loop/etc. according to her voice lines. You equating Njordr to the baker of the cake assumes that he was in fact the one who came up with the idea and made it happen, which is circular logic toward your argument, rather than cited evidence. According to what I've gathered, here's what IS is saying happened. Askr normal story timeline up until it reaches the time loop -> Time loop (which has been running but simultaneously hasn't happened yet), AKA, Book 7 before this last loop -> Summoner, Seidr, and friends break the time loop (AKA, Book 7's events) -> History continues past the time loop. Sub-section: Time Loop All loops prior to the last one: Time loop/glitch in time happens, resulting in Kvasir and the golden serpent curse existing and having existed throughout what time they would normally take up (the whole thing, including all native elements (the Askrans, Veronica, Njordr, etc.) and how they respond to them.) In short, Kvasir/Seidr/Gullveig only existed within this overlaying alternate reality until time caught up with where in the timeline the glitch takes place and it was "fixed" (more like "altered" really, since Kvasir/Seidr/Gullveig and the golden serpent curse were never "meant" to exist, and were more or less suddenly written into history.) It's kind of like a dream, imagining, or implanted memories. It was real to the one who experienced it, and "happened" but didn't happen. Except that in this case, Seidr continued to exist, even though she didn't begin by being created by a person, or born from parents, but she (as Kvasir) suddenly came into being by a flaw in reality. This is not only from what Kvasir says, but another support to this theory is the opening to the "Seer's (I can't remember the 2nd half of the title right now for some reason)" game mode. In the intro, Gullveig talks about how she was never supposed to have existed (or something like that; I'm going off of memory right now, but the vid is available to view, I'm sure.) So, it's really complicated and hard to explain, especially without a visual. But that seems to be what IS is trying to say, at least according to my understanding of it after compiling as much as I can with what they've released. Do note, though, that further released data can amend/clarify/make null any of this. The canon is determined solely by its creator, after all. Not at all. I thought my earlier comments made it clear that I liked the other theory better than what the new data seems to be pointing to. I'm just taking in the new data and adding it to the whole to figure out what the canon really is. Canon trumps theory as far as what reality within a creative work is, even if it's canon that makes less sense than the theories. That said, once something stops making sense in the face of the data, I discard it. The theories posed here made more sense than the one I'd had before, so I discarded it. But then the new data came out and so I talked about how it adjusts what can or cannot be. That's all. We know for a fact that Njordr had a part to play in the curse's continuation, but it seems that the curse and Kvasir were both made by the same glitch in time, based on what's been released (Kvasir's quotes as a summoned unit, and that one Seer game mode's intro vid.) It would be nice if we could get more data, though. Confusion in the consumer isn't great when it's about things that are supposed to be clear in a story.

I mentioned this on the Kvasir+Gullveig banner thread, but Kvasir's quotes answer some questions. She says that she came from a flaw in time, and that she was not born or created, but simple is. So...Njordr really had nothing to do with all this, except as Gullveig's pawn, it looks like. Imagine the timeline as, well, a line. But somewhere in the timeline the line loops, like the upside-down bits on a roller coaster track. That was this book. Time kept looping there until our timeline (the "real" time) got there, and changed it. So, time accidentally made Kvasir/Seidr/Gullveig and we deleted the error (ish, since Seidr still exists and brought the other two into herself.) There was no beginning to the golden snakes (time just sort of made it happen on accident), just an end (thanks to us.) I'm beginning to think IS just doesn't review their canon to look for ways forward. (Taking inspiration from your own work also helps with filling in plot holes, tying off loose ends, and generally makes a whole and consistent work.) It's just kind of an idea factory with little to no review. That's how it feels, anyway, with how things have been handled recently. A lot of theories, after all, have more consistency than the published work! (Like, it feels like they began going in a direction, and kept being all "nah, let's just do this other thing.") As an example, I've already pointed out how Book 4 could have included even small things to show Alfonse's development towards kinghood while processing his father's death. Looking into Sharena's thoughts on the whole thing would have been a great lead-in into Book 4, too. For example, I could see her grieving her dad, and reflecting on her childhood, falling asleep, and then the whole dream theme happening from that. But no, she's just empty-headed friendly girl who is never not cheerful or goes through actual feelings of pain unless it's to temporarily be "the heart." Actually, there are too many things I could go into, so I won't (across many books.) But a big thing is that FEH doesn't properly develop its characters, ESPECIALLY its male ones. (Like, they had it set up PERFECTLY for Njordr to have more personal reasons for going along with Gullveig's plan -- the threat against his kind that Ragnarok presents, the loss of Freyr and Freyja (though she's just in a coma) -- but no. It was just "I want to live forever and now I go crazy and then am killed." He could have been a mastermind character, or at least retain some class. It was set up perfectly for that. *sigh* Anyway, another thing Kvasir gives us is what might be a peek at the next book. One of her castle quotes is this: "Asgardr? I feel I hve heard the name before, but...it is now just out of reach." So, we might be seeing Asgard in the next book. I'm taking this with a healthy dose of salt, though. Eitri, after all, was all "the next book's going to be really weird" and then it wasn't...but the one after it kind of was?

Y'know, I'd like to see Nihilego from Pokemon on either side of Lady Gagap. I feel like they'd go together aesthetically (also, since Nihilego's name basically means "empty self." Like, no sense of self.)

Seidr is technically on this banner 3 times. Jokingly, yeesh, what a slot hog. But really, in some ways, it strikes me as cool. Also, looks like we get some explanation to how the time loop began: a flaw in time. So, I guess the loop just...always was until the Askrans fixed it (and we just hadn't gotten to it yet before)? I may not have liked the book very much, but the voice lines (especially of Kvasir) seem to be really well-written and well-acted. I may pull for them (Kvasir and Gullveig, but especially Kvasir.)

This theory holds water, except that it makes more sense if it's Seidr that Njordr infects (at about the same time as, in other timelines, Seidr gets infected by killing Heidr) rather than Kvasir. It would also explain the timing Gullveig chooses for her own version of Njordr's plan. Man, I wish there was more ACTUALLY EXPLAINED in this book. I don't mind some things being nebulous/implied, but good golly -- this is, like, at least 2/3 of the overall story that the consumers need to fill in for themselves.

It shows Gullveig cursing Heidr just before sending her into the past and just after her creation. This is completely accurate.

Gullveig was the one doing the planning and manipulated Njordr, I'm pretty sure. All the events surrounding it points to this. I used to think he was the mastermind, but IS decided to go the other way, but that leaves a LOT of plot holes (mainly, "where did x come from" with x being various things. The curse is one of them, but another is Gullveig's choice to make this plan to begin with. These two alone are HUGE to the plot, and yet have no explanation for them except for where they came from after the first (and onward) loop. Not where it came from before the first loop.), let alone things that are just implied instead of overtly stated. (There's a difference between a plot hole and something that isn't directly shown to the consumer, but has evidence to imply an answer.)

I forgot to mention it before, but did anyone else notice Lady Gagap's tentacles? She has no legs. Also, the tentacles look like Ash and Askr's tails. Can't help but wonder if they're somehow related.

Ooookay, I explained this before, but I'll go ahead and reiterate on what seem to be common confusions: Veronica She was attacked, but never captured. Gullveig herself said that it wasn't time yet to annihilate her (which would come when the world ended.) That's it. The scene was just to show that Embla's not ignorant of what's going on -- just that they can't help. It preempts the following thought: "Wait. Embla's Askr's ally now. Why aren't they stepping in while this world-ending thing is going on?" Heidr Gullveig created Hedir (and sent her into the past, but not as far into the past as she would go, herself) just before becoming Kvasir again (and then went further into the past than she sent her daughter.) For now, Kvasir still had her Gullveig memories. It is very likely (but was not shown directly) that she told Njordr about what was to come when she went to introduce herself to him. He was very opposed to others coming into his place of residence, if you'll recall. So, Kvasir enticed him with knowledge and instruction on how to preserve himself ("do this stuff -- look, a false promise since I actually kill you later!") before losing her memories. SO the kid idea was still Kvasir/Seidr/Gullveig's, which she passed on to Njordr to tell her Seidr self later so that the golden serpents could infect her again. Heidr was only necessary for infecting Seidr with the Golden Seer Curse, so she was part of Gullveig's plan, not Njordr's (except by adoption (Njordr going along with Gullveig's plan), since Gullveig was using Njordr as a stabilizing agent to ensure that the plan would go forward, even while she didn't have her memories.) One thing that never really go addressed, though, was where the curse came from in the first place. It only exists in this one time loop. So, was it the serpent which circles the world, except as a sort of a metaphor/reinterpretation? That still doesn't explain how it all started in this story, though. It just "always was, except not since there's a timeine in which it doesn't exist." Also, it has an end, but no beginning. Yeah, that's one perplexing plot element there.

Okay. I know I'm super duper late (was dealing with personal stuff), but before I read anyone else's comments, it's time to finally go through this last chapter and give my thoughts as I go. Okay, so sudden showdown, it seems. And we finally get a look into Seidr's past. And Seidr's already figured that she or Gullveig has to die too. Guess this is like seeing which of two branching futures will come to pass. Hmm. This feels like a personification of branching potential futures all of a sudden. Like...killing Gullveig is actually a merciful thing to do, and like this had to happen. Really puts a dramatic spin on small choices in life. "You were the first person I ever had...feelings for." Still pushing the romance angle. Also, sounds like they may be trying to garner some last-minute sympathy here. She's asking to be ended so that she doesn't have to kill the player, and so that the world can go on to a hopeful future (as is her true nature as Seidr.) This would be a lot more believable either with narrative to have led more soundly up to this, or without all the empty space in between meeting her and this moment. Not bad in and of itself, but the context ruins it. "Live on with [player name]." ... I know you mean that romantically. "Time can be cruel... But your time in this world, with the summoner, need not be. Enjoy it." Lots of emphasis on this going on. Aw. Gullveig smiled when she said goodbye to the player. If not for all the context, that would be sweet. And Sharena and Anna are remarking on how it's like no time went by at all. No kidding. I would've been annoyed if it had since it wouldn't have made any sense. We traveled a lot through the world's time, not personal time. "I hope you don't regret stopping Gullveig. I will not." Nice to have objective Alfonse around. "My highest priority is Askr's peace and prosperity." Oooo sounding kinglike, there. Nice to see growth from him. Yeah, I figured there'd be more. Okay, so in the end, Nerpuz was a plot device that did almost nothing but guide. And Seidr wound up pulling her past and future selves to live within her in the end anyway. Kind of feels like "What was the point?" But at least we have a way to explain summoning Kvasir and Gullveig...? ... Oooookay. I don't like how instead of showing the ending movie in the app, they bring you to YouTube. Also, it was basically just the ending we read, but without words and with more animation. Still, it was pretty cool seeing what was basically the opening movie, except "if empowered Seidr was there to stop Gullveig's attacks and blow bubbles on her." So, book's done. I wonder what's next.

Uuuuuuugh you're right. I haven't been able to finish the last book yet, but it looks like I'm going to have to make it happen before then. Here's hoping I get the opportunity/get out of this slump where I hardly have the energy to do anything.

Yeah, poor Ephraim's emblem was like...only half bound into his (sister's) ring. If that did somehow get into the mix (lore-wise), I wonder how that would show up. Of course, it we got Ring!Eirika, I'd expect Ephraim to be in the background like Fallen Berkut's Rinea.

Oh neat. Wil's in. If I go for anyone on this banner, it'll be Lady Gagap, since I collect Heroes-native units. However, I don't really care much about anyone on this banner. It was sweet that Nino was shown working with the Fangs. I guess IS had been waiting for a Jaffar-styled Nino to win CYL and it just kept not happening? I guess these units will be dressed as loved ones just like the brave units are (about half the time, these days.) And those are basically all my impressions. 🙂 Edit: Harken is cool but I don't remember much of him. I should finish my FE7 playthrough someday. I'm seriously like...2 chapters away or something. Also, just saw that Fargus is in, too! Yay! 😄

Yeah, these (FE10 quotes) felt more like comments in passing to me rather than her salivating over every girl in the area from a distance. The part that stuck with me the most was that she focused her efforts on using herself as bait in order to rob/trick men. (I also have a theory that she's the one who tricked Gatrie into giving her his entire savings in his FE9 support chain with Shinon.)

Extremely true.

Man, especially after listening to Saizo's character page lines, it's like... An attempt was made...far too late...for the whole "let's teach you guys our culture from someone who is actually from it" thing. It wasn't even the main focus. Also, I don't remember Heather being as, uh... "forward" in FE10 as she was in that bit in the TT+. She sounded a lot more like Soliel.

Okay, before I read anything, I want to write up my response to this. I played it earlier, but this is my first chance to express my impressions. The "oh no, there is no hope" and "we just have to work together!" stuff is pretty "whatever" to me, but what really got my attention was the combat background. Just... Will the end of the world take place in Kiran's (our) homeworld?! There were ruined skyscrapers there, and back in Book 1, Kiran describes his/her world as having "buildings which scrape the sky." Just...where is this going? It's got my theory wheels turning. XD

Looks like I was right about Zelgius being the silhouette. Also, Saizo is free, and Reina's the demote. They're the only 2 I even remotely care about here, so that's nice. Glad Reina's finally in the game, even if this was kind of a weird way to add her.