SorrowOfAcheron

Bizarre choices for M!Byleth in comparison to F!Byleth.

The customization and the characterization post-timeskip. I'm going Golden Deer but I really wanna see what the Blue Lions are like, especially since we got a look at Dimitri; do they all back him or do some have second thoughts?

I want each House to have its own ending. What I would like though, is an alternate path that has you join the Night Crawlers or something, then you fight against the 3 Lords. I think that would be pretty cool. Also agreed with the mentioned roster problems; I hated how many units you get in Revelations in relation to when you get them. Some of them didn't have the stats for when they joined. It was annoying.

I hope that if there's a 4th path, it isn't tied to choosing the Black Eagles. The whole point of having 3 different Lords to choose from is that they all provide a different experience; flat-out giving Edelgard more content than the other two undervalues the choice. Anyone who prefers the Blue Lions or the Golden Deer is now going to have to decide if playing with the characters you want trumps getting a whole new side of the story. And every time you want to replay the game, and you want to experience the '4th' path, you're going to have to choose Edelgard. Why not have all three Lords have an extra ending? I know it isn't confirmed and I'm ranting, but man, I hate it when games present 'equal characters' and then they turn around and say, "Actually X is more important." Though I should have seen this coming with how much screen time/narration Edelgard got in comparison to the other two.

Getting physical copy; still not sure if I should get the SE.

Golden Deer, still. I feel they have the largest pool of different personalities. My favorites right now are Leonie, Claude and Ignatz. Can't wait to see how those two end up after the timeskip. And Claude has become (mostly) what I wanted out of his type of character; laid back, joker type but also the whole 'trust' thing and making heavy decisions. Maybe he'll even become a snake.

I'm getting Hollow Knight on the 12th, and also received some books I ordered, so gonna read some of those too. I will try to avoid looking too much info from now on but I think I'll still browse the webs. The thing I'm most worried about is YT thumbnails.

Nah, still going Golden Deer. Claude's my favorite house leader by far and really excited to see Leonie post time-skip, though I might get off FE internet for it to be a surprise.

Really curious to see Leonie.

The gender lock for classes sucks; that's disappointing. As for Crests, I was think that if we don't get the children system, then the support system could be a way of spreading their effects around. So like if you S rank two units (or whatever the equivalent is, if there is) then the partner gets the effects of the Crest the original bearer has. So you could choose to partner two Crest bearers for two stronger units, or have a bearer and a normal unit to spread the effects more.

Yeah, there probably has to be some sort of limit to how much you can train a student between battles. I could see that bar being tied to how much experience you gain in a chapter, or something like that.

This is really interesting stuff! I would love the idea of each house having it's own challenge to overcome; would be interesting to see how the other to houses play a role. If you think about it with the theories you have presented, the fourth mystery country could be responsible for each of the other countries' problem in each route Adrestian Empire - 4th country wants revenge for being taken over in the past. Faerghus - 4th country causing the spread of disease Leicester - 4th country is the invading enemy the alliance is formed to battle (or already battled in the past)

I could see him coming back after supposedly dying, unless we bury him or something. Maybe like how Basilio and Flavia worked; you knew them almost the whole game, they were with you in everything but gameplay for part of the first arc and most of the second arc and then they joined near the conclusion. Basilio even had the whole 'Not really dead' thing going.

That could be a possibility. It actually makes sense, if the Church is on the more sketchy side, and use Crests for unsavoury things like it's being discussed in another topic. Recruiting someone with a weird skill would be good for them. I'm also wondering if the Church hires Byleth because his father apparently won't make it to that stage (maybe trigger his 'mysterious power') or because his father recommends him (and stays alive).

He has to be some kind of bigshot, otherwise I don't see why the Church would hire a bunch of mercs for teaching purposes. Maybe they're looking for rougher, more practical approach to teaching, to prepare the students for war; I wonder why they wouldn't just gather the top commanders from the respective territories to oversee the learning of the nations' future leaders. Also has there been any info on how long the school has been a thing? I might have missed it, but if it's a recent thing and Jeralt/Byleth are meant to be newer instructors (along with those already present; old man in brown coat, glamorous-looking lady) then it might be a case for preparing for some conflict that only the higher-ups know about.