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Ah true! Anyway the one at 0:20 is definitively a wyvern since someone is riding it.

In this trailer at 0:20 and 0:22 we see what seems to be a white wyvern. At 0:22 you can see the wyvern's leg hair which is orange-ish. That and the fact we saw Claude on a wyvern pre timeskip in the other trailer, showing us a potential strength are enough hints. I think we can say that once again Thany was right.

Definitely Sylvain! He's the male character with the best design to me. And he seems to be a good guy. Also, I just thought about it but I guess there will be (high) bonuses when lovers are next to each others. It was like that in Genealogy/Awakening/Fates so I think it'll continue. I wonder which kind of bonuses it will be. Fates/Awakening's stats bonuses or Genealogy's avoid/hit/crit bonuses?

Yeah I was thinking the same. Edelgard would want axe and whatever else if she was recruitable. If she's indeed "recruitable", it would just be something like her only helping during pre time skip battles as a bonus unit since she can't leave her house. Anyway I'm pretty sure we can't recruit any lord.

Gosh I hate it when people doesn't credit the artist... (I'm talking about the original poster on 4chan) I didn't found the artist of the other pic tho.

It's the class after myrmidon. Y'know, with the high crit and avoid. Assuming you're French (or at least speak French) because of your username, swordmaster is "bretteur" in French. In Three Houses, swordmaster is not gender locked but hero is (like before Genealogy)

Yes I know, I wanted to mean "considered as a noble in the game mechanics" instead of "technically a noble". Yeah true, it would be an interesting backstory!

Yeah but is Catherine confirmed to be a noble? Having a crest do not mean being a noble (Mercedes). She could be from a not so important branch of the family since Lysithea seems to be from the main one. Or she could have left the family to live as a knight for the church since she's supposed to be loyal to Rhea, not to her family. It's too soon to bury the fish I think, except if I'm wrong and she has been confirmed noble. If that's the case, woops, ignore me. But yeah Cyril may not be related to her, but I don't know, he may be adopted by someone from the church?

Would be cool but I kinda think that Cyril is related to Catherine. I really think that kids are related to the church staff: I don't see why they would leave their home this young and if they're related to the staff, it makes sense since their home would be the church. Edit: Cyril's base class is commoner so...

Oh I hope I'm not too late in this conversation but I wanted to give some advices and I hope it'll help. Tools: It's obviously pretty important to have good tools but the "good tools" are the tools you're comfortable with. Some may says that pencils are the best, others says criterium are the best. I personally am more comfortable with criteriums. About the eraser, you must not put it in the same place than a pencil sharpener or it'll won't be white anymore. Traditional art and digital art are really different and none is better than the other. To have a clean drawing, digital art is great but if you want to give some watercolour + salt effects for example, it'll look better with true watercolour + salt on traditional art. Watercolour is a great tool but it is pretty expensive. If you have watercolour, I'd recommend you to put water without colour on the part you want to colour (let's say the skin of a character) and then add colours. You can give a cool effect by putting big salt on it (if there's enough water). Ink is affordable I think. You only need cyan, yellow, magenta, dark gray (black if you don't find it) and white if you want pastel colours. I think ink is pretty cool to use. For markers, I'd recommend alcohol markers. It blends easily. The paper needs to be adapted to the tools you plan to use. Tips: First how to make not-too-dark colours when mixing: always use the lighter colour as a base. For example, pink is a white base and you add red until it looks pink enough for you. Orange is a yellow base and you add red until it's orange enough. Base priority: white>yellow>magenta/red>cyan/blue. Also, brown is orange with a black drop in. Sorry if this tip is dumb but I saw a lot of people not knowing that and I find it really important. Eraser is not really a friend. It's like a video game when you're supposed to do your homeworks. To practice, it's good to make doodles with a pen to avoid the eraser. It really helps to minimize mistakes and it's how I improved the most. See the pen like the permadeath mode. One big mistake and woops let's begin again. For a serious drawing, eraser should only be used once: to erase the sketch. Because the paper doesn't like the eraser, whatever its lb is. Try some exercises like drawing with a single line. You draw without breaking contact between the paper and the pen. It's nice to do it with references (like a landscape, an object or a human being for example) instead of imagination. About references, you need to understand how things works, not just copying it. Look at yourself, it's great to check things like how long the arm is. The best is really to observe the world to give more natural poses to your characters. While sketching, draw a little sun where the light is supposed to come from. It helps to make a proper shading. Don't be scared of experiments. I like to take my sketchbook with me when I go to the aquarium because it's great to draw what you see and fish moves a lot so I must be quick. Finally, the not-so-secret secret is practice. Drawing is a bit like a sport. You use your hand and you need to draw once per day to not lose the muscles.

[Not FE related] Shinobu Kochou from Kimetsu no Yaiba: I'm a big kny fan! I really love this manga. I'll stop to put a spoiler tag because now I'll post my drawings one per one so it would be silly I think (I'll obviously put a spoiler tag if I draw spoilery things tho)

UPDATE: Cyril, Solon, Thales and Kronia added + Linhardt's, Ingrid's and Leonie's names "completed" (I have no clue about Linhardt's surname) Thanks!! I'm really glad I'm not the only one who find this kind of stuff interesting!

M!Byleth looks way colder from the FE protag archetype. And I actually see the Byleths like a Ephraim/Eirika choice: cool guy or cute girl? I think you're right, F!Byleth may draw in new gamers but it's also true for M!Byleth, the cold, ruthless, anime character/protagonist. And it's also true for every characters because FE characters always looked like anime characters with big eyes, colourful hair/eyes and art which looks like animes from their times. So like I said it's because people has different tastes. You said that you prefer M!Byleth's face, fine! I personally prefer F!Byleth's face. It does not mean I'm a teenager who wants a otome game character. It just means that I like cheerful characters and honestly I would feel awkward and annoyed playing a stoic one since I don't like these kind of characters and they're the total opposite from me. Also some people thinks the Byleths faces are due to the demon Byleth mythos (it appears either as a scary looking guy or as a cute girl) but I didn't searched sources about that so I don't know if it's true. Anyway I think we should stop talking about that because it's pointless to argue eternally and a bit off topic. We're still talking about Byleth, yes but not answering OP's questions which were already answered.

I'm actually glad that Lysithea didn't grew up so much. Petite women exist and trust me, being adult do not mean having a big breast and being taller than 160 cm. There are women who stop to grow up around they 15, so yeah, Lysithea's case makes sense. Anyway I'm glad that time skip appearances are diversified. And I'll definitely recruit Lysithea!

Because she secretly is Togame from Katanagatari. More seriously I think it's due to the harsh lighting but it would be interesting if she changed eyes/hair colour.

I'm glad too! 😄 Thanks for the info!! Haha Thales reminds me of middle school X) I'll add this week's new names Sunday anyway! So first at all, THANK YOU!! You don't bother at all, I love to see others researches! About Ashe, I knew it was from the ash tree but didn't knew about the spear thing! So yep, it may be a Faerghus reference. Ashe better have a strenght in spears with that name! Yeah the eagle was used a lot to assert dominance. Like Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Napoleon, etc. I think Edelgard have a German name because Adestria may be based on Germany (so many German names and this eagle), Faerghus on France (lot of French names) and Leicester on England (because Shakespear). The Christian names are normal since it's mainly western names. There are almost a saint for each name. So it don't really amaze me but maybe it can be interesting, yes! I personally think that mythical names are more relevant. Yeah it's very interesting! Also don't forget that Sothis is the Greek version of the name of the Egyptian goddess so all 3 names are Greek (4 with Seiros). Yes I don't know for Sylvain since it's also a normal name but Lysithea is litterally a mythological name so I think it means something. Maybe, it's a good mini theory! It's pretty funny that the two characters with "lion" in their names are not from Faerghus tho. Ahah yes, but interpretation is analysis's friend so it's normal to have speculation!

No need to be this salty about F!Byleth XD I actually like her because she looks young and happy. And she actually naturally smiles, I like characters who smiles. Also she doesn't have a skirt but shorts (it doesn't matter anyway since she can change her job) About the sword thing they're just not preparing the same attack but are both in guard. M!Byleth will probably thrust and F! Byleth will probably hit toward the sky to disarm/remove her opponent's guard. There is a (Kendo) technique where you show this weak guard and weaknesses to the opponent so they will attack and you take advantage of that by disarming them/removing their guard by hitting their weapon from below. This need more strength than thrusting. So yes, there is people who likes M!Byleth because he looks cool, bored, etc, and others who likes F!Byleth because she looks like the opposite, and I prefer her since I'm not a fan of cold characters. I don't see them as the same character because they're too differents actually.

Oh thanks! I had really hard time with German names so it helps! Clever comparison!

Thanks for the info! It seems really interesting... I'll make more researches about that.

Woops I forgot to put it in! Thanks!

I think the kids we saw were family of the church's staff. Maybe, let's say, Catherine and another teacher got married and had a child. The child would be the one who looks like a young Claude with orange eyes. Both his parents live in the church so he lives here too. For Flayn I think she's Rhea's little sister. There's also this possibility: the church is also an orphanage.

Ahah yeah maybe! Yeah, thanks for pointing it out! Let's wait for Leonie to see if she also have a reference. Yes that is really possible...

Dudu from Eduardo is the closest one, thanks. The pronunciation of ドゥドゥー (Dedue's Japanese name) is pretty similar. I don't think it's from the French surname (if it exist), the pronunciation would not be similar I think. Thanks for the website for references! It'll help.

So I made some researches about the etymology of the names and I have a theory...

I find things like that really interesting and sometimes it means a lot about the character. I know the FE wiki does have some etymologies but not for all the characters. For the researches I mainly used several websites about baby names and Wikipedia. There's also some potential spoilers so if you really want to avoid spoilers, don't click on the spoilers tag. It has nothing to do with the leaks. Just some... interesting things about the name which can be a spoiler. If you want to discuss about spoilers, don't forget the spoiler tag. Also if there's things you want to add about an etymology, tell it and I'll add it in the post! (after verifying, obviously) "Von" means "from" in German so see that like a "of" (like Edelgard of Hræsvelgr for exemple) Byleth : Name of a demon from Goetia => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beleth Rhea : Name of the mother of the Greek gods Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Demeter and Hera => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_(mythology) Also a part of the name of the mother of Remus and Romulus => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_Silvia Jeralt : Apparently a derivative of the Germanic name Gerald. "Ger" means "spear" and "ald" means "rule". So "spear to rule" I guess. Catherine : French name from the Greek "katharos" which means "pure". It can also be from the name of the goddess Hecate => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate Seteth : No idea about the etymology. It just reminds me of Seth actually. Alois : German name from the Germanic "Alwis" which means "all wise". Gilbert : English, German and French name from the Germanic "Gisilbert". "Gisil" means "pledge" and "berht" means "bright". So "bright pledge". Manuela Casagranda : Manuela: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, English (...) name from Hebrew which means "God is with us". Casagranda: "Casagrande" is literally "big house" or "mansion" in Italian. "Casagranda" is a derivative. Hanneman von Esser : Hanneman: Usually a surname. German. Apparently a compound noun but I didn't find the meaning. Esser: From the Germanic "asse" which means "axle" and the "er" suffix. Usually means the family was a cartmaker family. Rodrigue : The French version of "Roderick". From the Germanic "hruod" which means "fame" and "ric" which means "powerful". So "famously powerful". Shamir : From the Hebrew verb "shamar" which means "to guard". Flayn : No idea. The closest thing I found was the Irish "Flynn" which mean "reddish"... Cyril : Czech, German, English (...) name from the Greek "Kyrillos" which means "of the lord" (with "kyrios" meaning "lord"). Name of an alphabet (Cyrillic). Name of a lot of holy men (bishops, saints, patriarchs). Solon : Name of a Greek statesman, lawmaker and poet => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solon Thales : Name of a Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales_of_Miletus Kronia : Name of an Athenian festival held in honour of the Greek Titans Cronus (y'know this guy who ate his children, Rhea's lover) => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronus Sothis : Greek version of the name of the Egyptian Sopdet, who is Sirius (the brightest star) personalized as a goddess => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopdet Seiros : Seiros is the name of a Portuguese town but I think the right etymology is Seirios, which means "glowing" in Greek. Nemesis : Name of the Greek goddess of retribution => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis BLACK EAGLES Edelgard von Hræsvelgr : Edelgard: From the Germanic "adal" which means "noble" and "gard" which means "protection". So "noble protection". Hræsvelgr: Means "corpse swallower" in old Norse. It's the name of a giant who takes the form of an eagle => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hræsvelgr Hubert von Bestla : Hubert: English, German, Polish, Czech, French (...) name from the Germanic "Hugbert". "Hugu" means "spirit" and "berht" means "bright". So "bright spirit". Bestla: Name of the mother of Odin in Norse mythology => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestla Dorothea Arnold : Dorothea: English, German and Scandinavian name from the Greek "doron" which means "gift" and "theos" which means "god". So "gift of god". Arnold: English and German name from the Germanic "arn" which means "eagle" and "ald"which means "rule". So "eagle ruler". Caspar von Bergliez : Caspar: English and German name from the Persian "ghaz" which means "treasure" and "bar" which means "manage". So "keeper of the treasure". Bergliez: I'm pretty sure it's German. "Berg" means "mountain" but I don't know about "liez". Bernadetta von Varley : Bernadetta: Italian name from the Germanic "ber" which means "bear" and "hart" which means "brave". "Etta" is the feminine suffix. So "brave as a bear". Well, I don't know if this name suits her. Varley: English surname from the French "de Verley". It appeared during the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Petra McNairy : Petra: English, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Polish (...) name from the Greek "petros" which means "rock". Feminine form of "Peter". McNairy: Scottish surname from Gaelic. Apparently derived from the name "John". I don't really know. Ferdinand von Aegir : Ferdinand: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish (...) name from the Gothic "Fridunanth". "Frith" means "peace" and "nanth" means "brave". So "peace through bravery". Aegir: Giant from the Norse mythology representing the sea => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ægir Linhardt von Hevring : Linhardt: German version of Leonard. From the Germanic "leon" which means "lion" and "hart" which means "brave". So "brave as a lion". Hevring: Name of one of the nine daughters of Rán and Ægir => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Daughters_of_Ægir_and_Rán BLUE LIONS Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd : Dimitri: French, Russian and English name from the Greek "Demetrios" meaning "follower of Demeter" => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demeter Alexandre: French, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese (...) name from the Greek "Alexandros". "Alexien" means "to defend" and "aner" means "man". So "defender of men". Blaiddyd: Legendary king of the Britons => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladud Dedue Molinaro : Dedue: May be "Dudu" from the Portuguese and Spanish name "Eduardo" which is from the old English "Edward". "Ead" means "wealth" and "weard" means "guard". So "guardian of riches". Molinaro: From the Italian "molino" meaning "mill". Usually means the family worked in/owned a mill. Felix Hugo Fraldarius : Felix: English, German, Polish, Romanian, Russian (...) name from Latin origins. Means "lucky". Hugo: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish (...) name from the Germanic "hugu" which means "spirit". Fraldarius: Looks like the Portuguese "fraldário". But no. Sylvain Jose Gautier : Sylvain: French version of "Silas". From the Latin "Sylvanus" which means "of the woods". Sylvanus is also the name of a Roman deity => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvanus_(mythology) Jose: Portuguese and Spanish version of "Joseph". From the Herbrew "yacaph" which means "to add". Gautier: Common French surname and French version of "Walter". From the Germanic name "Waldhar". "Ald" means "rule" and "heri" means "warrior". So "army ruler". Annette Fantine Dominique : Annette: French diminutive of "Ann/Anne/Anna". From the Hebrew "channah" which means "grace". So "little grace". Fantine: The name of a character from "Les misérables" by Victor Hugo. From the French word "Enfantine" which means "childlike". Sad name => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantine Dominique: French version of Dominic from the Latin "dominicus" which means "of the lord". Mercedes von Martlitz : Mercedes: Spanish name. From the word "merced" which means "mercy". Martlitz: No idea. Maybe German? Ashe Duran : Ashe: From the English name "Ashton". Means "ash tree in town". Duran: English surname from the French "Durant/Durand" which means "enduring". It appeared during the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Ingrid Brandol Galatea : Ingrid: German and Scandinavian name from the Old Norse god "Yngvi" followed by "rida" which means "ride". So "Ing's ride". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yngvi Brandol: South-East French surname. Derivated from "brandolar" which means "to wag". Galatea: Means "she who is milk white". Name of the ivory statue which came to life thanks to Aphrodite from the Greek mythos of Pygmalion => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea_(mythology) GOLDEN DEERS Claude von Riegan : Claude: French name from the Latin "claudus" which means "lame". Riegan: Probably from the surname "Regan/Reagan" which means "little king" in Gaelic. Regan is the name of a character in Shakespear's King Lear (one of the three daughters) => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regan_(King_Lear) Hilda Valentin Goneril : Hilda: English, German, and Scandinavian name and short form of "Hildegard". "Hild" means "battle" and "gard" means "protection". So "comrade in arms". Valentin: Czech, French, German, Russian (...) name from the Latin "valens" which means "healthy". "Valentine" in English. Goneril: Name of a character in Shakespear's King Lear (one of the three daughters) => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goneril Lysithea von Cordelia : Lysithea: Name of an Oceanid from Greek mythology. Sadly there isn't a lot of informations about her. It also seems to be another name for Semele => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semele Cordelia: English and German name and diminutive of the Latin "cordis" which means "heart". So "little heart". Name of a character in Shakespear's King Lear (one of the three daughters) => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordelia_(King_Lear) Lorenz Hermann Gloucester : Lorenz: German, Polish, and Scandinavian version of "Laurence". From the Latin "laurus" which means "laurel". Hermann: German and Scandinavian name. From the Germanic "heri" which means "warrior" and "man". Gloucester: Name of an English city. Also the name of a cheese. Also the name of a character in Shakespeare's King Lear. Ignatz Victor : Ignatz: English and German name from the Latin "ignis" which means "fire". Victor: German, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish name from the Latin "victoris" which means "victory". Raphael Kirsten : Raphael: English, French, German (...) name from the Hebrew "raphal" which means "heal" and "el" which means "god". So "god has healed". Kirsten: Danish and Norwegian name from the Latin "christiana" which means "Christian woman". Marianne von Edmund : Marianne: French, English and German name. Combination of "Maria/Marie" and "Anne". The Hebrew "mirjam" means "sea of sorrow" and "channah" which means "grace". So "gracious sea of sorrow". Symbol of the French Republic, so of freedom. Edmund: English, German, and Polish name from the old English "ead" which means "wealth" and "mund" which means "protector". So "protector of wealth". Name of a character in Shakespeare's King Lear => https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_(King_Lear) Leonie Pinelli: Leonie: French, English and German name from the Latin "leo" which means "lion". Pinelli: Italian surname from the word "pino" which means "pine tree". Also the name of an old (14th century) atlas.