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Mark Whitten is Seteth.

Nintendo UK has uploaded the Japan Expo footage with Kusakihara and Yokota with English subtitles.

Well there it is. Morgana has infiltrated Fire Emblem!

Courtesy of Easy Allies. (Time stamped to 24:55) OH DAMN!

Griffin Burns is Cyril.

I wouldn't take the presence of Heroes' Genealogy cast in Three Houses as a sign that a remake is coming.

Laura Post is Catherine.

Patrick Seitz, the voice director of Awakening, Heroes, and Warriors, is the voice director for this game.

And yep. Tara Platt is Edelgard.

Faye Mata is Petra. Edit: The #CoTP hashtag indicates that Cup of Tea Productions is the recording studio for Three Houses.

Don't buy a console just to play a single game! In my opinion, grab Breath of the Wild as well if you get a Switch. That is the one game that justifies a Switch purchase in a way other titles won't. If JRPGs are your thing, you can also grab Octopath Traveler, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (personally not my favorite, but still a good game), or if you can wait until Fall, Dragon Quest XI. Anyway, the Avatar, Byleth, is less Robin, Corrin, Kris, and Mark, and more Persona's Ren Amamiya, Minato/Minako Arisato, and Yu Narukami. Whereas past Fire Emblem avatars (Robin, Corrin, and Kris, in particular) engaged in dialogue within the story, Byleth is in line with Persona's player protagonists: mostly silent with dialogue choices and the occasional thought bubble or two. Most talking in this game is done by other characters, and the most Byleth will speak will be during battles and in combat, otherwise he/she is generally mute. Like Persona's protagonists, Byleth is not customizable except with names, though like Persona 3: Portable, you can select the gender of the player protagonist. The general story: Byleth takes up a job as a teacher at the Officer's Academy, a leading military institution on the continent of Fodlan where some of the best and brightest of Fodlan's three countries, the Adrestian Empire, the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance, attend school, including their future leaders: Edelgard of the Adrestia, Dimitri of Faerghus, and Claude of Leicester. Each one of them leads a certain academic house within the Officer's Academy, Edelgard with the Black Eagles, Dimitri with the Blue Lions, and Claude with the Golden Deers. The decision to choose which house you'll teach will greatly impact the story as a series of events will accumulate into a full blown war between the three countries after a five year timeskip. Unlike past titles, you are introduced to ALL the characters in the beginning of the game, thanks in part to the school setting. Three Houses has more in vein with Echoes and Genealogy of the Holy War gameplay-wise, while taking story beats from Genealogy, which the directors of the game have cited as being the single most influential title on this game. I would go into details, but I believe other users can offer explanations better than I can.

Here's a translation of some parts by a Spanish user from another forum (LunaSerena on ResetERA). And gathering the feeling of excess and scales that the series tried with Fates, what is proposed here is, before anything, a decision: north, south, east, eagles, lions, deers, blue, black, gold. Those are the colors, the emblems, and the origin of the three houses that come together at the monastery, and also the three vertices of a new triangle that gathers the teachings of the original game. No one is better than anyone, each house has advantages and disadvantages, there is no single right choice. Whatever faction we choose, we'll regret it, because all have charisma to spare and its quite easy to choose favorites here and there, and mainly because we're talking about the kind of decision that heavily conditions everything that will come after it. Starting from a certain moment, things start twisting and what awaits us after are up to four branches of a story that doesn't limit itself to recycling scenarios and events from different points of view. Nintendo speaks of completely independent stories, new scenarios and up to four games in one (I repeat, there are surprises regarding this), and considering what we've seen until now, of the dialogue's complexity, the amount of characters involved and the immense work reflected in every detail of the world, we feel they are not kidding at all.

So it appears that Duscur are the victims of this game's Serenes Massacre it seems. I think the profiles themselves warrant their own thread.

You have to look at various gameplay videos since Byleth doesn’t speak much except during battles.

You will find what you are looking for if you look in the right places. At risk of derailing the thread, I am not going to directly discuss it. Anyway, I think Female Byleth sounds like either Abby Trott or Marcella Lentz-Pope.

After hearing Dimitri a bit more at the cutscene at 9:37, I am pretty sure that it's Christian La Monte who's voicing him.

Here's another cutscene (starts at 9:29)

Nemesis, from what I am hearing, is probably Jamieson Price.

Extended version of the opening cutscene has been uploaded by Gamespot. It includes what GameExplain already showed, but it shows that the "time vortex" is definitely part of the cutscene, and our first introduction to Sothis. (Is the battle a dream of hers or something?). Edit: Listen towards the end!

Game Informer has hinted that upcoming info on Three Houses is dropping on their website soon during their latest GI Show episode.

Nice preview. Didn't someone on Reddit spot a few Switch users playing the game days ago?

One was killed in an ambush. One was beheaded. One was incinerated after being betrayed. I am curious to wonder if similar fates will befall Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude and their armies.

It will be funny if Claude and the Golden Deers ends up being the darkest path in Three Houses.