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Honestly, it would be better if they just stick it as black and white, like Nohr being a true antagonist route, Corrin became a tyrant themselves, crashing all opposition in the end.

Theoretically they could change it to Rhea simply fled the battlefield, and abandoning all hope and her own knights after presuming Byleth was dead, instead of being captured. (funny, they never explained how did they capture a flying dragon at the first place, or preventing her from transform again in the jail) She then spent next 5 years wandering in the wilderness just like when Nemesis killed Sothis, Silver Snow picked up from there looking for her, only realized that Imperial Army also found her location, so Byleth and co raced against time to get her and repeal pursuers. Rhea was overjoyed that Byleth was still alive, and handed over the power to them there, and herself fight as a soldier under Byleth (can even introduce her Saint class here) The game then went back to the "original" track of contacting Alliance for troops and counterattacks As for Nemesis, he could actually be placed before Shambhala, where TWISTD assemble a field army to attack newly victorious Resistant Army, the two armies met on Gronder (as replacement for SS not having Eagle and Lion), where Rhea and Byleth slayed Nemesis again before marching into Shambhala. The ending would be what I suggested before, giving a better explanation about Rhea's degeneration by actually states Javelin was poisoned against dragons. In this concept, they actually only need to make one extra level (rescuing Rhea, can even reuse Tailtean), with some dialogue adjustment, yet making Silver Snow an unique path of it's own. * My new Chapter 15 Silver Snow: A Race for a Hope After defeating Imperial attacks on the Monastery, Seteth informs Byleth that they have found Rhea, who has been sighted near Tailtean Field where she fought Nemesis eon ago, but Imperial Army also got this info, Byleth and co must rescue Rhea before Imperials get her. Mandatory deploy: Byleth, Seteth, Flayn + 8 Objective: Rescue Rhea, then escort her to evacuation point Failure: Byleth, Rhea, Seteth or Flayn fell Boss: Cordelia, Arundel The level would be a rescue and extrication type. Cordelia who works for the empire, already captured Rhea and ready to hand her over to Lord Arundel from Empire. Rhea, after losing hope, simply letting herself to be captured. Rhea would be on the north side of map in the fortress (where Dimitri made his stand in CF), surrounded by Cordelia's man. Seteth would explains to player about Cordelia being the true ruler of Faerghus Byleth must fight through the defense, kill Cordelia and get Rhea. One Byleth reaches Rhea, a cutscene would play showing the two reunites and Rhea express her surprise that Byleth still lives (could even use the still CG from Enbarr with a different background). At this point, Lord Arundel and his army would show up, trying to intercept Rhea. The objective changed into escorting Rhea to an evacuation area, with Arundel pursuing player, who can choose either defeat them or simply get Rhea out. From the next level Rhea would join as an unit, player can choose either using her Archbishop class or Saint class, former being mag base while later being melee based. -------- Since we were here, I still need to mini rant again about the "mystery of Silver Snow". That Seteth and Flayn insist to show Byleth something important hidden in the monastery, yet was never mentioned again. Then the next chapter name "A King without Kingdom" also makes wondering...who's this king we are talking about? the level has nothing to do with Dimitri as far as I know...

Looking at the game structure, Silver Snow seems to be the first route to be made. So removing Silver Snow wouldn't happen chronologically unless you are arguing making the Verdant Wind after Silver Snow like currently, then remove Silver Snow, but that seems very redundant to me. Also like people already point out, Verdant Wind is quite detached from the rest of game, so it would be probably just start over with a new route. What I was arguing is at the point they realize they can't make a unique VW, they should just postpone VW and focusing on SS, AM, CF on release, then come back to make a brand new VW when they have time.

I really think Verdant Wind should be released later as a free update, with completely unique story if they didn't want to push the release day, and spent their pre-release resource on improving Silver Snow and Crimson Flower. Such as having Rhea as a lord in Silver Snow (like by making the route slightly longer to justify playing her after the rescue) or having better closure with TWISTD in Crimson Flower then just an ending slide on one character.

Despite I like the general direction and theme of Silver Snow, I agree with you there. The way Rhea

That itself also has major logical issue: - if Slither was so powerful to begin with, why do they even need Edelgard and imperial army to fight Rhea? - If Edelgard became so powerful that took down what Slither couldn't, how could they still be so confident in their own fighting abilities?

The problem is Sothis nearly the fusion and after it seems to recover some, if not most of her memory (how much she shared with Byleth is up to debate, but she does address Byleth as part of herself in the end of the quote) Yet her request to you is actually stop human from fighting and dying, which doesn't sound to me like a human hating goddess

This troubles me greatly too in CF, like why would Edelgard tell him about her plan to attack TWISTD after war with Rhea? Or why didn't TWISTD afterward just bomb Enbarr (such as during ending mural scene), wipe out whole Imperial leadership in one strike, that way they easily destroyed both church and empire. Since without church, none has ability to defend against those Javelins. We already know that TWISTD could at least fire it twice if not more times. They really dumb down TWISTD sometimes just for plot purpose.

Another thing Three Houses is miles above Fates is lore and world building, Of course we all heard the joke about Fates doesn't even have a name for their land, but it's quite true reflecting the barebone lore in Fates There were so many "single use" characters and locations, with little to no lore or explanation behind it, for example, Duke Izana and Dukedom Izumo (no idea why it's called a kingdom in the game when it was rule by a duke) We were never explained what's the deal about Izumo, who they were, why they refused to fight for Horshido, what's with Izana's connection to dragons. All we know about him was he won "5 times hair contests", seriously? He has roles in just one level, and have no significance after, or even worse, died in the very minor ritual just to convince Takumi to help Corrin. Characters like these are all over Fates, such as kitsune and wolfskin as well. It's almost feel like watching comedy anime shows, they would create a new character and location just for one episode then never heard of them again. In Three Houses, almost every character on our side and location have a lore and a fairly reasonable arc.

No, you don't, because unless you paid $19.99 for another route, you are stuck with the version you bought. If you played blind, how were you going to know any of these characters or their motivation before you choose Birthright or Conquest when you stood in a game store? I know guys that couldn't finish Fates because they bought the route that hated, and refuse to spend $20 to buy the other route, and giving up on Fates all together. And Conquest was extremely misleading, the marketed it as an antagonist/villain path, only turned out Corrin didn't believe in Nohr cause at all, they were just trying to show everyone Goron was bad guy by putting him on a throne. If Goron refused to sit (like Corrin themselves in Drama CD), or for any other reason he didn't make it to the throne (like if Horshido defense was successful, or castle burnt down...etc) then the whole war and bloodshed would be for nothing.

One problem here is that one of Edelgard's main manifestos to the world was the Church are evil because they manipulated Kingdom and Alliance to succeed from the Empire. The truth here was debatable especially with new DLC, but that's for another topic. The point here is such condition would never be accepted by Kingdom and Alliance, since agreeing it would invalid their claim of sovereignty. As so the Empire is in a irreconcilable position with other nations since they are basically saying other nations are illegitimate governments created by the church, thus rendering peace term between very difficult if not impossible.

He's very clear that Imperial army has entered Faerghus and was resisted by Kingdom defenders, he also literally said they have occupied west Faerghus. I am not sure how you can interpret as empire never once attacked the kingdom. Then there is the solider you mentioned, again, he didn't say they never attacked, he only said this was the first head on battle.

Technically Rhea could fight since chapter 5. There is absolutely no lore reason she can’t fight in 6 and 7 since she’s presented This also applies to Shambhala in base game, she literally told you she’s joining the war, and was in the cutscene. It’s still bothers me that she wasn’t useable in both occasions

To me, the fact that Byleth cannot die due to Divine Pulse and is immortal in all but Crimson Flower alone would place them very high on the list, if not the top. You could only truly defeat Byleth if you had even stronger power over time and space, that can overpower Sothis to prevent Byleth from manipulating the time

Abyss, only available during part 2

I found chapter 3 was harder, as enemy would wear down your combat effectiveness over time, let alone the Kaga style trap lever that got my Claude the first time...

Ah, I think we need to take this one with big grain of salt We don't know who wrote this, when was this written, or how much primary source they have to begin with since it's called "romance" (like Romance of Three Kingdom, which takes extremely biased side of historical events), it could just be Agarthan mythology from a few thousand years of oral traditions. Of course Agarthan mythology was going to blame the other side starting the war, yet all the Agarthan we know are manipulative people that use misinformation and deceptions, making their claim questionable at the best. It also oversimplify the cause of the war, simply claimed "human spilled too much blood." What does this even mean? Who's blood was spilled? I think the key to solve the truth is if Byleth could fully recover Sothis' memory one day, if IniSys would continue expend Three Houses universe. Rhea implied this is possible but without elaborating it. In the game we indeed see part of Sothis' memory in the opening cutscene (which was completely flashback from her memory fragments), and again in Red Canyon when Byleth picked up more memory from Sothis' life (but only in text form), then we never really revisit this topic.

Regarding this, do we know what happened to the four saints in the DLC?

I don't see how you could interpret "pull her into a close embrace" not as some hint of romantic involvement, but at least in JPN/CN version I check it literally said the emperor embraced Seiros closely and spoke words of love to her. The book title is also likely a mislead, the other book in the same room was called encyclopedia of insect, but it's about technology Thing is, the official church stance is that Seiros was the origin of the emperors, but most of us used to interpret it as just blood transfusion Now it makes likely they were telling the truth, that it could be by actual birth. At least the book indicates it's widely believed by the general population. And is there any evidence suggests otherwise? Against the theory Seiros was with the emperor?

From book banned recently by Seteth, The Feast of Decadence. While the book itself was depicting a play on the Imperial Wedding, books in the actual church library supports the claim that the emperors traced their lineage to Rhea And Seteth is known to ban books that was too close to the truth in regard of Nabatean, such as how he confiscated drawing of Immaculate One from Claude...

But then there goes Wilhelm I, who also took blood from Rhea (thus "one of her children") but implied in the new DLC support also by books from the base game also to be

Come to think about it, Seiros scream at Nemesis that "You took everything I have loved", it might mean more than just Sothis, but Wilhelm as well... We don't know when or how exactly Wilhelm died, but he certainly died during War of Heroes before Seiros dueled Nemesis in year 91 according to history. It's possible that he died at the hand of Nemesis as well sometime in the war, which also makes more sense why Nemesis was smiling at Seiros since he already killed both of her families

I think that's as far as we know at this point, really wish they would reveal more about Jeralt, Rhea, and Sothis someday.

Already edit for new spoiler Yes, Jeralt indeed saved Rhea once according to Rhea, but presumably he wasn't the only one ever did so. (Assuming Rhea needs to be saved to begin with, like how random bandits could even harm her.) Even so, Rhea's favoritism extended long after she saved his life and practically grant him immortality in return.

Since the new DLC has a questionable book I can't help but wondering if Jeralt was also romantically involved before Sitri showed up There were a few things I noticed how Rhea gave preferred treatment to Jeralt over the years: 1. Jeralt was the only person Rhea saved by giving her blood. Rhea had many people worked under her over the years, but Jeralt was the only one had such treatment, even Catherine didn't receive her blood. Jeralt was also not even an knight, but a mercenary augmenting the knights 2. Jeralt also got more blood from Rhea than anyone maybe except Emperor Wilhelm, even cardinals only have minor crests but Jeralt has major one. 3. Jeralt was invited to the knight by Rhea's order, he then raised rapidly in the ranks, eventually he became the second in the church after Rhea, commanding the whole order of knights, despite he wasn't even a believer. 4. Jeralt was never punished for setting fire and steal away Byleth, despite being accused publicly by Seteth. Rhea often punishes traitors harshly but reinstated Jeralt to the captain instead. Jeralt also seem to not worry about being chase down by the church, he used his real name the whole time despite being a well know figure. Both Leonie and Edelgard knows him by name It's harder to demostrate but I really feel Rhea speaks a lot softer regarding to Jeralt, both with him or about him. In fact, when I first played Three Houses, I thought Rhea was Byleth's mother and estrange wife of Jeralt just by the way of their interaction. It's pretty obvious that Jeralt has strong favoritism from Rhea and to him alone, question is why? Was she interesting in Jeralt? Did Jeralt reciprocate? (obviously he married Sitri later) Was there other human over the years that could be involved with Rhea? From a side quest we know that she has many suitors from mortal men, even her students.