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But it's really not? FE1-5 & 13 were always connected to begin with. 9/10 still have nothing explicit and the biggest connection (I'm aware there's other, more minor things you can read into), Priam, is explicitly from another realm. Elibe & Jurgdal have gotten no connections to the others at all, beyond the bonus items and Lyn being reminded of Mark which just seems like a cute nod to previous avatars and the player likely being the same. And even so far as bonus items go the Awakening Armads (only available from spotpass) goes unremarked on even in the artbook. Fates.......miiiight connect to the big archanea timeline? Guess it depends how you want to look at the hoshidian children's death quotes and the Before Awakening dlc. It all seems a bit messy to me though and doesnt really add much, though...I mean it'd be nice to at least get a name for the continent before linking it to other things... Warriors & Heroes just take the outrealm concept and run with it in different ways for the sake of bringing in a bunch of games together. Now obviously this can always change moving forward, but I feel if they wanted to connect Tellius (or indeed, all the games) they'd probably be a little more explicit about it. Right now they seem content with just having Priam (or an ancestor) wander in through the outrealms and just mercenary-ing around. That's uh That's pretty messed up there, forneus. On multiple levels.

Okay well several of those are extremely strong 5* exclusives that do better than most 4* availables, much less 3*, and depending on the unit do better than other 5*s. And one of those is Reinhart, a character they clearly underestimated. Expecting a ton of new 3*s to be on the level of some of them is a bit much. But then you mention Est? Est really not that great. I wouldn't necessarily say AWFUL, but she's outclassed by a lot of other flying lances. I'd say that they would have to release a ton of purposely underpowered units with like..one skill line to have less care put into them than Est. I'd be very surprised if anyone they added was straight up garbage, especially since they've been giving new toys to old characters who were lacking even at release (Felicia being the big winner here, and hopefully Fir).

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If he went into dragon territory he probably snuck past a ton of feral dragons. If that happened there may not even be any divine dragons for him to get the blood. I don't see this dweeb standing to any divine dragon, much less able to successfully trick them into giving up blood. Also, I double checked. The rite of awakening requires you to be bathed in Naga's flames. We never see what color those flames are, but Awakening & Naga in general have a tendency to blues....

My first thought was referring to the first exalt & naga, but the entire passage is sort of confusingly written (doing a good job of imitating old texts like this)

This is fantasy mad science, though, and divine dragons are at the top of the dragon foodchain besides earth dragons. And also maybe the bulk of them are dead (I need to go find the timeline again). Sometimes you need to settle. I have a hard time seeing Forneus successfully take live blood from a live dragon, is all I'm saying. Even Victor Frankenstein settled for graverobbing rather than just killing people and taking fresh body parts.

Why wouldn't Forneus use dried blood, though. We don't really know enough about him to say he wouldn't settle for *any* divine dragon blood. Blood is blood, I imagine it retains power regardless of age. Especially since it's ~divine dragon blood~ Considering Forneus is doing abomination experiments in secret and rushing back to his secret underground labs I have a hard time seeing him successfully getting live divine dragon blood from...anyone. I think it makes sense. Dragons seem to have always been able to take on human form, even before using dragon stones. That always implied some far back relation rather than just general magic usage.

Hahah yesssss I love this, its great. Love how at first he's all attached to it and then has to go "yeah...yeah okay i think i messed up". Wonder if Grima really did like anything about Forneus before then, or was just messing with him. I don't think the divine blood is anyone in particular. Could have even been dried blood from old battles near where the dragons sleep (i think the bridge is an actual chapter in FE3?). You can apparently "feel" the power even in blood, so just keep wandering around until you get a reaction.

yeah like...Amelia and Dorcas...they're going to outpace most axes they'd add unless they were added as new 5s. But I'd be surprised if any new 3*s were unusable. Like...Bord & Cord, would probable be strength-focused with decent defense (probably one would get higher def/lower str than the other), good hp , low speed & res, but probably get an exclusive 5* weapon (BordnCord Axe)that gives them some cool niche.

Healers in general because with power creep and probably realizing they should have like, more than one skill line, even a new 3 star healer would be nice!

Oh man it's absolutely going to be that second one. Feh needs a cake so grand it will need all 233+ heroes to give it to the poor owl. I'd be fine with that. They'd still get decent stat loadouts, with a few stinkers in there, and even if they just have some so-so kills they'd be important for foddering reasons. Absolutely anything to dilute the 3* green & colorless pools, please...

The're not going to show weapons to refine. The last one didn't and the upcoming batch has already been detailed. The only way I see refines being shown is if there's another big change to how the refinery works (& also if the askr trio will get theirs).

Tellius also had 2 pretty story heavy games to spread around information Valentia basically has echoes and that's it. It's also kind of a smaller scope game, in general. It's rarely referenced otherwise and the one game that really does, Awaekning, is so far ahead of the timeline it's meaningless to the going ons of the character. The artbook here also gets to connect it more directly to Marth's games, which is nice. Like yeah it's always been tied to them, but barely. I really appreciate lining up the timelines. I think an Elibe artbook would get similar reactions, since those games have the whole...prequel made after the "sequel" issue that mucks everything up & FE6 is kind of...eh...with its going ons.

well if its not new modes i can't see what would be in an update to cause it to be 18 minutes. Even if the modes arent' ready it, it makes sense to start teasing things in the pipeline.

Guessing a new mode will be shown off, Thracia will finally get showcased andd maybe an early teaser of our CYL2 friends? and of course they will finally finally listen to our pleas and demote a bunch of people AND add like 30 new 3* units please intsys please dont make me pull for random nobodies because they're 5* exclusive

That's not laziness, that's just how game development is. They likely start with a benchmark, "2018" in this case, and go from there based on things that arise during development. If they announce a date and then change that date, it probably means something happened that caused the game to be pushed back. Long bug testing, trouble implementing key features, glitches found, etc

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Fates has this same issue because even after DLC designed entirely around expositing important backstory and another DLC that ALSO gives some information despite being an AU scenario, there's still gaps in the story and setting and background and just...its a mess. its all a mess. I am pretty sure more information was given in radio dramas?!

Yeah she probably got Rinea'd into a witch. Or a vestal, more specifically.

It comes with the pegasus sisters. All we know is they line up roughly within the year but we don't know specific dates and the scaling of the timeline is already pretty vague. They probably brought it back before Hardin properly went into action, or at least before chapter 8

I feel like they're meant to be a mish-mash of asian countries but with a slight bent to Japan. Say'ri's support with M-Robin are all about ah yes famous "chon'sin" armors and swords and rice dishes and let me regal you with tales of cherry blossoms.It's all imagry I feel is usually trotted out for "this is not-japan". I think F-Robin's supports are slightly different and bring in other stuff? Been a while since I read those. So maybe a specific mix of Japan, China & Korea?

In addition to what @Chconroy said, there's nothing about their excursion that claims they unleashed grima at all. Grima was already there, awakened, in a crumbling prison. There's nothing that implies they woke it up or empowered it or set it loose. Considering its size and relative power, it's probably still young (relatively speaking) and just hasn't broke out on its own.

I think it's easier to assume Marth never got the Gradvius. So far as retcons go, ignoring a game mechanic (dropped weapons) is pretty easy. Also very cute to make the post game quasi-canon.

"Snowfall in even random places" hm? I don't remember any snow until you cross the sluice gate, which is over in Rigel.

duma witches probably are the most common and more of a fast-track to witchdom. It may not eve just be use of dark magic as it is continual usage of dark/forbidden magic. I'm more surprised that the pact with Medusa was not the explicit thing that made her a witch, unless Medusa just gets there slowly.

Thanks! I really hope there's even an offhand "strange materials" or something. That and the prison thats just uh just full of hanging bloody body bags that goes completely unremarked by the cast feels like they had to have something written about it somewhere