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This time was Jakob's turn as Great Butler. If I keep doing these I'll stop drawing them in order. I wanted to do each "faction" in order, but I'm not particularly interested in the ones that always join Corrin and it's making drawing them boring, especially since I don't have all that much time now.

This month promotion is Felicia! I'm calling this class "Head Maid" and design wise it's obviously a mix of the maid and butler classes. Since I'm making this for the sake of improving my skills in character design (or more specifically their clothes lmao) I'd like to have your opinions on certain aspects. First of all, does she still look like Felicia? I tried to make her feel a bit older, but I fear I might ended up changing her too much. Next are the lipstick and glasses. For the former, which color do you prefer? I came up with the blue/green one while thinking about a post Birthright setting, as a way to remember Flora, while pink one would work for the rest of routes, but which one would you choose if there was only one? And do you think the glasses suit her? Finally, I would like to ask for ideas for Jakob. I don't think the idea of mixing the two uniforms sounds as interesting with the male model as a base. Feel free to ignore the questions though haha.

I've been busy (and tbh I've been pretty low in fire emblem hype lately), but I finally decided to continue this, hopefully from now on I'll post at least once a month. This time is Corrin Rider Azura(?) I was inspired by this image from the artbook and kinda wanted to make a serious version of it lmao. I have more (and better) ideas for Azura I'll probably draw down the line, but this will be it for now for her haha.

Thanks! I was going to cover her thights, but since I was trying to create a paralel to the Nohr/Hoshido noble designs and both of them have it... for future ones I'll probably go for thights like Brave Camilla if they have thigh gaps. As for the weapons and skills, I'm overall more focused on the aesthethics, but in this particular case I did think a bit about weapons. In universe I'd like to see them using dragon fang more casually instead of as a skill, and the better weapon for that would be fists. In game, since Fates obviously doesn't have fists, I think empowering a bit his dragonstone abilities would be a good idea. Maybe make them capable of attacking from distance with a certain unused animation.

I see that maybe I should have left creating the thread for a moment when I had more free time and explain it better, there's a lot about how and why I began this that I simply left out because I didn't think anyone would care haha. The shortest answer to "why fates?" would be that I simply like canon "things" in general, for example I've never had a Chrom who is not a Great Lord, or an Edelgard who isn't an Emperor, it simply doesn't feel right. So when I got the idea to make more personal designs for some promotions, imagining, for example, Laslow as a hero was more interesting than vaike as a hero or a warrior. I guess you could say that for most characters the "canon" one is obvious, but the lack of confirmation simply makes me less interested, and you never now when there will be an unexpected one like Peri as a Great Knight or Selena as a Bow Knight. You might also be thinking "if you like canon stuff why are you making your own designs?"... and tbh it is pretty ironic lmao, but the truth is that the idea has been changing for a while. First I saw Bow Knight Selena and thought about drawing her with other colors since her clothes' canon colors are usually not red. Then I thought about making a drawing of everyone in their canon promotion as is, because while everyone has a general idea of the designs the resolution of the 3DS wasn't that great, and cipher doesn't always show the full body. Lastly I saw Peri, who has a unique design as a cavalier, and thought that it's a shame that 1) she is the only one with a unique design, and 2) she loses it as a Great Knight. Now how much I want to change the designs kinda depends on the character. As for why I brought up Awakening, it's simply because I tend to overthink stuff, so in my mind when I wrote that Fates has canon classes I thought "wait, technically Three Houses has canon classes, and while I haven't played them yet I'm pretty sure the radiant cast also have canon classes at some level, better be safe than sorry". I could have said "unlike Sacred Stones" just as easily.

Thanks! You are right, I was in a hurry and worded it horribly, I wanted to say that they don't have canon promotions, I'll edit it.

Due to various reasons, which range from the indignation I felt when I discovered years ago that "Valla Noble" didn't exist, to me wanting to improve my designing skills, passing by me liking how Fates, unlike awakening for example, have official promotions for (most of) the first generation, I've decided to make designs for potential "promotions" of said first generation. I probably won't be constant, I don't even know if I'll finish this, but I might as well have them all together here. So, to begin with, here's Valla Noble Corrin: Opinions, feedback and critique are all welcomed, and though I have to say in advance that I won't change the designs once I post them, I will take into consideration comments for future designs.

I don't care about Gullveig, so there's nothing that would really disappoint or hype me. So for the rest: Soren: A Priam alt would be the best and the worst at the same time. Would love to see the fandom's reaction though. Corrin: The worst would probably be another dragon, but I don't really have too much of a problem. As for best... she has so many options that I can't choose, from Queen of Nohr/Valla/Hoshido to an hypothetic vallite noble. Robin: I don't want him to be blue. I'd love to put him in the same team as B!Lucina and B!Chrom, which is already not optimal, so having yet another blue unit would make for a pretty lame team. As for the artwork, the worst for me would be 1) a grima alt, which I don't think is likely, and 2) giving him Chrom's outfit. I think the most likely outcome, if he were to be drawn by Kozaki, would be Grandmaster!Robin, which I can see a lot of people disliking but I'd be fine with it, his legendary art feels a bit too detailed. Him as King of Plegia could also be interesting, something like "the country needed to recover and having Robin as king allowed it to have closer ties with Ylisse". Honestly, I think Gauntlet!Corrin transforming her hands with dragon fang would be pretty dope. XD

This is honestly very cool, it must have been quite the effort to connect to many classes so well, you did a great job. Though, as a really nitpicky suggestion, I'd say "Swiss Guard" should have a different name, as it implies the existence of Switzerland lmao. Since IS sometimes takes names from real countries it could happen in the future, but it would be weirdly specific for a three that seems to be for the series as a whole, it'd be like having samurai instead of myrmidon. Something like "Pontifical Guard" or, since you already have Greil and Black Knight as classes, "Apostle/Apostolic guard" might be better imo. End of the nitpickyness lmao.

I don't think Chrom would have that much wealth since, if I remember correctly, his father's war against Plegia was relatively recent. Also, while not really the same as wealth, there's his conversation with Timerra where after she compares the shepherds with her sentinels, he says "being able to station squads all over Solm suggests a greater wealth of personnel." So, while I don't think they are necessarily comparable since Ylisse might be bigger than Solm, I don't think the Halidom is in it's best moment.

True, but thinking about how a deadbeat father became one of my favourite characters is still kinda funny lmao

Gilbert somehow became one of my favourite characters in the game, students included. I can't think of anyone aside from Edelgard who is quite at that tier in Three Houses.

I can't say I agree with this, at least not about SW5. Then again, I know it has the problem with extra modes and replayability, which I couldn't care less about but I know it's a pretty big deal for a lot of people.

Yesterday I said that I'd like it if the returning characters were older than in their games. I take it back, I don't want them to make new designs if they are going to look like the two we have seen lmao.

This is not even a complain, but the fact that the characters only have 1 special makes me slightly disappointed, specially since in the first FEW they had 3.

I'll stay positive until they show the trailer, not point on getting disappointed about something that could be done in so many ways, specially since Emily said that there would be a ton of new characters and that the ones from old games would be a minority, so it shouldn't be something like warriors or a "best of". It's super unlikely, but if they do this I'd want them to take the characters from a point in time after the games, something like 30 years old Marth or Alm and Celica in their 50's.

Do we know anything about the emperor/great lord classes? I'm not counting on it, but it would be nice if they changed them to have something to do with the magic/horse talents that ended up feeling kinda useless in three houses. Also, will they be advanced or master classes?

Yeah! And since it was done by CC2 it had lots of quick time events that made it feel pretty cinematic, similar to the storm games.

It was a psp game that came out arround the time of storm 2, so maybe it went under the radar, people tend to speak less about handheld games than console ones (unless they are from nintendo).

Nope, my first warriors was Warriors Orochi 2 on psp, and not much later I played WO3 (or z, I don't remember how it was called) Since then, that I can remember, I've beaten Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors, Pirate Warriors and Dynasty Warriors 7. I have also played yukimura's story in Samurai Warriors 2, but I hated everything about the game so I never touched it again, probably won't play any old school warriors either. I have SW4 SoS though, and I plan to play it soon-ish, but I'm playing too many games at the same time right now. I also really want to play SW5, the Persona one is a bit lower on my list of priorities, but I want to play it one day too. I didn't like the demo for DW9 at all, but tbh it didn't run properly on my pc. Not from Koei but from the "warriors" genre, I have also beaten the 2 Fate Extella, one of the Neptunia ones, and Naruto Ultimate Ninja Impact.

I mean, it makes sense, the crest of Gloucester is related to magic, while Charon's appears during combat arts.

8- Leonie, I love her time skip design, and that makes this one kinda hard to swallow. 7- Ignatz, I like his clothes, but I really don't like his hairstyle, wich is probably the thing I care the most, 6- Raphael, not bad, but not interesting either. 5- Hilda, I don't like her hair. The overall look is not bad though. 4- Lorenz, he is fine, I like this version more than his ts design, the others are just better imo. 3- Marianne, I really like her with her hair down, but I'd like the design more if she didn't have eye bags. 2- Claude, he is fine, just not different enough. 1- Lysithea, at first I thought she was too similar, like Dorothea, and was going to make her third because she didn't feel all that exciting... but I really don't like her timeskip dress, so this one feels like a big improvement.

Fantastic new look for Marianne. Lysithea looks good too, but as with Dorothea, she looks too similar to her past designs. I hate the hairstyles for Hilda, Ignatz and Leonie, though. That said, Ignatz's armor is pretty neat.

I mean, while I was counting on Ferdinand being GK too since it suits him so well... the one student who we actually see being a GK is Sylvain. Unlike in former games, Paladin and Great Knight aren't each others counterparts in TH, so there's no reason to think Syilvain won't be the one representing the class.