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Fighting for freedoms doesn't necessarily make you a good guy. Sometimes people fight for the right to be a jerk and terrible person. Still fighting for rights and freedoms just not freedoms that are seen as positive for everyone else. In One Piece for instance you could argue the clearly awful human beings known as the Celestial dragons are fighting for their "freedom" to continue oppressing everyone and be untouchable according to the laws. Freedom can let people be not nice to each other so it is a very much case by case basis if it's a good freedom to fight for or if someone is just trying to allow themselves to do awful things to others. You have to remember alot of this is due to having numerous routes to begin with and the ability to have nearly the entire cast be recruitable on each. It's kind of hard for them to do anything to make the route you are on feel sympathetic towards another without making the route you are on worse. I can't imagine people would be a fan of Claudes route for instance if it was saying " look at how cool this Dimtri guy is don't you want to play his route more than the Claude route" or vice versa. Even way more minor cases of this can cause big harm to the routes end feeling. So you end up with them going as hard as they can to support the route you are on. Additionally its hard to make a compelling storyline for a charcter that could be 1) dead (under player control classic mode) 2)recruited in your house and not able to do their against you scene. Keep in mind that past fire emblem games have pretty much incentivised recruiting everyone and I don't think three houses really differs in this regards despite people trying to argue otherwise. So it would be alot of effort for content that very few see imo in a game that had numerous delays to its launch already. Also as a final note I just want to add as a general note one of the biggest problems with three houses writing in general is we see very little development for anyone not playable. We know very little about the Agarthans and how they opperate even after three hopes gave us more. All the named ones are criticized for lack of information on them and generic motivations. As much as I like Ladislava, Randolph, Judith, Nader and Flesche they are no where near devolved as the main cast so its only natural that if you see them on the enemy side you don't feel anything from them. Tldr of the last sevreral paragraphs: its hard to do something that goes against your route for both narrative reasons and player behavior reasons so its not likely you will see a huge feel for me scene for the opposing side. Especially when there is a lack of non recruitable underdeveloped charcters it could work for.

Personally I felt the part about Nemesis in CF was more of saying that just because one side was bad doesn't make the other side good aligned in a war that has long ended. Wars usually end with the victor pinning everything bad on their opponents and saying the winning side did what was needed. So I personally take her comments to be more of her subscribing to the notion that she doesn't buy in to the idea that their was a "good" side of the battle against Nemesis and dislikes them both.

tbf Tiki and Anna are the only two it makes sense given they are known to be in multiple timelines tbh. Technically I guess they could do Three hopes/Houses or Path and Raident dawn but I highly doubt they going to do that and they are only doing it because its Anna and Tiki.

Wanting her to get a legendary for awhile was wondering if it would be her path of radiance version or this. Slightly prefer this but am a bit curious if we will ever get the path of radiance version art wise.

Tbh I kind of feel the last cyl kind of proves otherwise. A lot of the heroes people really want are already had their brave alts. Decent portions of the fandom already have the one brave unit they really wanted. Which is a big reason the number of votes is what it was last year. New eligible charcters is going to increase intrest far more than a cause for an older charcter.

Could easily see Ascended Seior becoming a unit in the future after this chapter. Kind of like Fjorm and Laegjarn.

I do hope resplendents don't just become you are all faeries now. It's a cool place but there are so many faeries other places need more reps.

Took me quiet a bit but finally did it with my final villain in the book feh team. Gullveig, Freya, Embla, Eitri. Mainly thing was dealing with Alear herself was really annoying ended up going the super chip damage route with Gullveig are special, flared sparrow savage blow and finally did it. Probably will take a bit to recreate it as it took multiple tries to get everything just right.

I think you are underestmating the group of people who are sticklers about only playing official US released games a bit. I am more optimistic on his chances despite not voting for him. Also Sigurd does more than most emblems in engage (spoilers for engage)

I mean Sigurd technically is an engage charcter so not sure engage hurts his chances. It is the first time people who only play official US released games get to see him so that might help more than people think. I kind expect his engage appearance to help him alot tbh. I know if they let me vote for one chacter of each gender Sigurd rose for personally alot because of engage. Bernadette I honestly don't see beating out other engage chatcters this year at all. The year after sure it will be more of a race but her competition is far from the engage charcters not named Ivy, Alearand Yunaka is going to be alot tougher than expected imo.

I think the Byleth's waiting for a while until female finally won and the just released legendary Alear likely mean we won't see Alear winning this year. Male Alear probably has better chances but I still see him not. winning this year. I personally would want any of Ivy, Veyle, Goldmary, Chloe, Hortensia, Yunaka and Celine to win. Wouldn't mind Zephia but her having a unit already probably hurts her chances more than Ivy having a version does just on popularity alone. My guess would be Ivy and Yunaka. Might personaly split votes between Goldmary and Ivy. I could see Sigurd winning on the guys side since he is in Engage and did pretty decent recently. Don't really care fir the guys side though so pretty much my only thought of note for that side.

So a Gauntlet hero thats not actually a Gauntlet hero interesting. Also they seem to be doing the spoiler thing without actually spoling the thing with the special.

I do think they are clearly holding back in this forging bond with Gullveig a bit for future book 7 stuff. Mainly with how she plans on achieving her goals and the like. Or even if things like Seior going to Vanehemir like she does in the forging bonds begimnig is even a good thing. Also if there ever is a repeat of harmonics for titles the next heroes harmonic probably would be Gullveig/Corrin. But Xander/Veronica exists so not a huge need for fates/heroes crossovers.

I think Gullvieg they wanted complete the color cycle with and Robin was getting the sword so it was really a fight over which unit got colorless and which got green between Soren and Corrin. It probably was just simply easier to make a colorless dragon over a colorless tome which they don't do alot of.

https://youtu.be/ChQQ_EnDphQ The tips and tricks video for the cyl units came out. It's kind of cool they are playing into the Gullveig shenigans a bit and having some fun with it in small ways like this

Saw someone in a video point out a fun thing to try with Gullveig give her support partner Alear so she just can have charge and laugh at the self gravity. Wish I had Female Alear and might have to pull more on the hero fest so I can do this tbh.

The terrain stuff seems pretty cool and a way to expand the game in cool ways in the future. Going Gullvieg for my free and attempting to get as many copies of the two ladies as I can. Also on the art front they continue to play safe with all the designs.

I think that cyl three houses already showed they are not likely going to with fallen variants (aka Grima) for the cyl as they could have easily done fallen heroes for the main two winners. I think they know that would be a recipe for a ton of backlash (I would have been beyond annoyed if they did fallen hero versions of the winners that year). And even further proof is just how safe the other cyl designs have played it. Probably the most ambitious was the original cyl and even that wasn't that far out there. Gullveig I kind of hope has some physical weapon or a transformation weapon for variety sake with all her other forms being mages. Robin Levin sword is often requested so it might be time. Might have to be a dagger or magic spell functionally though. Corrin can't really think of something other than kind of conflicted if I want another dragon Corrin purely because this is a brave alt and we only had Tiki as a brave dragon but Corrin also has a ton of dragon alts so not sure where I stand on it. Sorren don't care about him at all personally so not sure what to say he gets. As for color perdections Gullvieg blue as all the other recurring charcters for the book are red, green and colorless with her main form being colorless. Robin colorless Levin sword will be here but functionally for system purposes (i.e. not remaking the entire game) will be a dagger at least as far as the back end nonsense is concerned. Corrin red omega yato? Sorrin Green it's just the leftover color tbh and he is a mage anyways so he can be shifted easily to make room for someone.

They could just use the remix formula for mythic/legendary heroes on old cyl units and ascended heroes who are out of date tbh. Ascended are still newish but time is going to catch up to them too and at least this way they have a couple different groups of heroes like the mythic and legendary remix banners. Duo would work too and is probably more likely but it obviously pairs more naturally with Harmonic hero remixes if they do that.

Actually managed to free summon some goodies today. Free summoned teatime Ayra, ascended Eir and ascended Idunn on various diffrent banners.

For my point its not so much they have to go as far as an alliance (I was extremely happy with it being a thing in three hopes) it's more so they are both better off with it ending as soon as possible so adding to it doesnt really contubute much to the plot in meaningful ways imo. I would argue it benefits Claude more than Edelgard in CF granted what he gains is mostly off screen and implied other than free from the war. He did always have the whole being an Almyrian prince thing in his back pocket. In the kill Claude option he pretty much implies that he had a read on the situation that he could get he at least part of what he wants and be spared he just wasn't correct about the living part (which is players choice so not going to go to much into that). But I do think it gives some insight to the letting him live option.

Sure but it still can feel put in there or plot armory for the other side. Kai Leng from Mass effect is a go to example of every single victory he ever gets is forced as hell against the main cast and unearned. While mass effect and three houses are vastly different games and stories I do think there is more of a chance of expanded alliance plot of this nature to give a similar vibe to Leng's "wins" due to the circumstances around what is happening in the war. But the main issue still is we are extending a battle that doesn't even make sense to extend tbh. Claude and Edelgard are more similar than they are apart as seen by the end of their fight in the route we are discussing. Heck even the kill Claude option kind of points to that still.

I will be honest and say that would be a horrible idea imo. Forced loss when when the players actually win is extremely hard to pull off. But more importantly I don't think it really fits the story in a believable way to have one in any route tbh without it feeling unearned and cheap. Even existing examples that are close to this are probably some of the most criticized moments of the writing in general (Byleth's dissapearence for the time skip and Jeralt death both have issues they raise with the story than feel a bit forced without answers). The timeskip one in particular feels like weak justification for time to pass. It just makes more sense to extend the kingdom or do slither chapters than it does to try and write a chapter in a matter that is notoriously hard to do for the alliance conflict which already feels unnecessary as is given that the two leaders are more aligned in what they want than not. As seen by all the direct dialouge between Claude and Edelgard.

I honestly can't see them doing much more with alliance conflict. Especially with the context of three hopes even more solidifying that Claude and Edelgard have interests that are not mutually exclusive so it probably would be hard to make that conflict any different than it is. Its already in the base game of 3houses especially the spare Claude option but it just kind if highlights to me why a longer fight with the alliance probably doesn't work without massive overhauls. Plus it would kind of ruin the "master tactician plot line for Crimson Flower Claude if we beat him up multiple times. If they had to do something outside of the kingdom or slither it probably would be better if they had an actual chapter with Almayra, Brigid, or another neighbor to Fodland over more alliance stuff tbh. The kingdom and Slithers being expanded on is much easier to see. And as much as people might hate it I think a final attempt at the slither is probably most important.,

Will go into more detail and other stuff later but I will say the idea that the route should be harder to get into is something that I cannot disagree with more. Plus I would argue it defeats the point of having a choice to begin with if its locked behind numerous arbitrary requirements and makes the story more unbelievable that you cant side with who you want. Now I have been on record quiet often in saying I don't think Crimson Flower and the black eagles may not have been the correct spot for the choice (golden deer would be better imo) but if they are going to make it a choice it should not be hampered with gatekeeping.