Sid Starkiller
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23 minutes ago, Sir_Sparhawk said:
Where do you find that out? I had guessed she was a lot older than everyone else but no where has it been out right stated to me.
With as little spoilers as possible: next time you are able, get Seteth/Flayn to A support. You'll learn something interesting.
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1 hour ago, vanguard333 said:
By the way, Seteth's age is listed as "26 (by appearance)". I'm sorry, but to me, Seteth, in terms of physical age, resembles my uncle, who's 41. While my uncle can pass for early thirties, he can't pass for 26, and it's the same with Seteth.
Yeah, I remember the first time I did the Seteth/Flayn paralogue, he's like "Fortunately I am rather young for my age. We pass for siblings quite well, don't you think?" My exact words were "...I'll be polite and say yes..."
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I vote Annette. She's just friggin' adorable.
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Starting to get down to the wire! Let's see if Dorothea can pull this off.
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4 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:
I have to imagine a middle-aged Edelgard choosing her successor Willy Wonka style - by placing five golden tickets in delicious Edelbars, welcoming the five young recipients to the palace in Enbarr, then exposing them all to various base temptations until only the one least morally compromised remains.
Thank you for the new headcanon!
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10 hours ago, Darkmoon6789 said:
Despite them being step siblings, the game do seem to imply that they did used to have a romantic connection, I would like to see more fan content about the two. While my number one ship with Edelgard is with Byleth, I think Edelgard reconciling with Dimitri would have been really sweet. There is one alternative way I could think of Azure Moon ending. What if Edelgard actually accepted the offer of mercy and Dimitri and Edelgard rekindled the relationship that used to be, everything ending with a marriage between the two uniting the kingdom and the Empire as one. Which could lead to both of them getting what they want (or at least find an acceptable compromise).
I've seen fanart of the two, and I will never understand why. How can someone ship two people when the relationship would be, via both canon and differing goals and personalities, doomed to failure? I just don't understand.
As for Edelgard accepting the offer of mercy, consider why she did suicide-by-cop on Dimitri in the first place. In her C+ support, she says she wants a world without "meaningless sacrifice". The "meaningless" part is very important. She considers her siblings' deaths meaningless sacrifice because it was ultimately for Slither's petty revenge plot. By contrast, she considers the casualties of this war meaningful sacrifices because the world their deaths created is supposed to be better for those who live through it, and their descendants. So their sacrifices have meaning...if she wins the war. If she loses, then all those deaths were effectively for nothing, and she can't bear the weight of that. That's why, in the 3 routes where she dies, she begs for death.
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10 minutes ago, ciphertul said:
The problem is you won’t simple admit that this is my opinion, I was attempting to explain why this is one of the causes that Fates is worse then 3H. You are trying to argue someone’s experience, that is inviting conflict.
That's what you were doing? I thought you were complaining that things didn't go exactly the way the % chance said they "should".
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12 minutes ago, Darkmoon6789 said:
I know, but it is largely irrelevant to this discussion, the context during the mediaeval era was different from what it was today, at that time, the Islamic nations were quite advanced due to the rediscovery of philosophy from ancient greece, it is just that it is this culture from this specific time period that Almyra really reminds me of. I was hoping people could stay civil as they have done such a good job of that so far
I think the number one most memorable thing with Almyra in the game is a ridiculous overuse of wyverns. It is actually quite silly how many wyvern riders they have been their armies. That would be an incredibly difficult army to face in real life, I suspect that either Almyra has a ridiculous number of wyverns on that continent, or they holds special significance in that culture. Even Claude's unique classes are wyvern based to represent his heritage.
Well Claude does say that taming wyverns is considered a rite of passage in Almyra, so of course all the most important Almyrans (meaning the named ones) get them.
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26 minutes ago, ciphertul said:
Probability means that if I have 3% chance that mean 3 out of 100 would connect but I constantly got hit with 3% the actual chance based on experience was more around 70. I got hit 7 times out of 10 in sub-10 percentage. In the same level.
THAT'S HOW PROBABILITY WORKS. The chance that something might happen is NOT a guarantee of how often it will actually happen. Seriously, what is the problem?
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16 minutes ago, ciphertul said:
When you miss high 90s multiple times in the same stage and get hit by single digits multiple times in the same stage... when does probability actually goes off chances.
...that's how probability works? I don't understand the issue you're having. A 90% chance is just a chance. It's not a guarantee. It never was, and never will be.
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8 minutes ago, ciphertul said:
I know, but that is my full experience with conquest(Fate in general too). I get that you mean it’s more of a traditional FE more aimed at long time fans.
That's just probability. Hell, I missed a 90% attack in 3H just the other day. The only time you're guaranteed to hit is at 100%. The only time you're guaranteed to miss is at 0%.
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28 minutes ago, Darkmoon6789 said:
Well, I did participate in a lot of arguments on Gamefaqs and one common argument against Edelgard is that she apparently is genocidal because she killed Flayn, Seteth and Rhea and making their race extinct. But killing Flayn and Seteth is optional and Edelgard obviously tolerates you sparing them, so I would argue that this is clearly not a goal of hers, she just don't want the Dragons to rule over humanity. Not to mention that she believes Byleth to be one of Rhea's people, and Edelgard is very attached to Byleth and don't seem to care about their potential Dragon Heritage. Granted, this is the same board that also takes the "Edelgard burned Bernadetta" thing way too seriously. Here I quickly learned that this claim is largely false. I don't trust claims I read on Gamefaqs any more as a result, I find people on this board far more reliable.
You can actually READ GameFAQs? After a solid month of a dozen "Edelgard vs Rhea" topics a DAY, I had a very mild breakdown and quit the whole site. You must have the patience of a saint.
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5 minutes ago, Crysta said:
He does get better. I just think Fleche also deserved the chance to get better. But yes, at their lowest points, Dimitri is arguably worse than Edelgard. At the very least, he's more cruel.
Do people really get mad at Edelgard for killing Flayn and Seteth? I haven't heard that one.
As for Claude versus death, I think trying to wriggle out of it is his first option like it is in CF, but he's not a begging guy. In AM, if Judith and Hilda fall in his map, "hidden soldiers" spring up and he starts to move from his spot to kill them. When he dies, he tells Byleth/Dimitri to retreat before he flops over. It's pretty sad. Then you have to restart.
Yeah, Claude in CF came across more like bargaining than begging to me. He was trying to show them that there's a real benefit to them if they let him live (and considering they still have to fight Slither after the credits, they may need it).
As for Randolph, what bothered me about his "begging for his life" was that rumors must have been going around about Dimitri's savagery. What made him think telling the madman who's detailing how he'll torture him that he has family was a good idea? If Dimitri hadn't turned later he might've gone after them out of spite!
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37 minutes ago, eclipse said:
New Mystery started the Casual thing (along with some other things that people blame Awakening for).
Well, the more casual fans (no pun intended) may not know that New Mystery is a thing, considering IS couldn't be assed to localize it.
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1 hour ago, Nihilem said:
Maybe the Agarthians actually believed that they were innocent and Sothis was destroying them because of lulz. But as we have two contradicting versions of history, one from a source that is known for their lies and deception and one who seems not to be.... I bet my money that Sothis version is the correct one. After all in three Houses she never seem really to care if people worship her or not, so i find it hard to believe that that would be a reason to go angry goddess..... but slaugthering her children to (e.g.) harnest their magical power .... that is another story .....
But I am pretty sure that they left such kind of books laying around in the imperial palace for a certain someone to find ....
Given that one of those sources is the church, who literally created a false history of the war 1000 years ago...I'm betting neither is true.
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15 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
Well, Dimitri admitted that he killed kids. I mean, with his strength and skill, does killing kids, even if they are armed, really seem justified?
I would not say that he has "logic" in the way you are thinking. His "logic" is warped in that he deems ANYONE that is, in HIS view, "unworthy" of life. Byleth once tried to reason out that bandits might just be people that are desperate for some food or have some good reason. Dimitri immediately snaps at him.
Because in his reality, everyone that kills or is trying to kill, is absolutely unforgivable.
It's rather interesting how in this route, Felix is rather adamant in wanting Dimitri back, in the first thing he tells Byleth is that they have to try and get Dimitri back to normal.
All of this. If SS NEEDS to exist, then AM NEEDS an equivalent. By Gronder I was ready to tell Dimitri to f*** off, march his dumb ass to Enbarr alone and die for nothing, but the game wouldn't let me.
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I'll grant you that Conquest had better maps, but that's about it. I'm only going to address Conquest, because to me Birthright and Revelation are basically worthless.
Gameplay: The unit customization is so expansive that no 2 playthroughs will ever be the same. I can completely ignore what a unit is "supposed to" be and make a team that is literally tailored to my exact specifications. And there's actually a reason to use silver weapons again.
Characters: I have quite an abundance of favorites in both games, but even then the 3H characters have more depth. Even the tropiest of 3H characters has incidental details to their personality and history that make them feel more real.
Story: lol no. All I'll say here is that for all its faults, I could watch 3H's story more than once without wanting to kill myself. Except the "twist" at the end of SS, that's some Gooron level BS right there.
Presentation: I've never been the type to get hung up on presentation. I'm not a hardcore graphics junkie, so while I did notice some blurry textures at times, and occasional slowdown in the monastery, it's not enough to bother me. And the full voice acting is great.
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8 minutes ago, Crysta said:
If you remove the Agarthans from the story, then...
Lonato and the Western Church attacked on their own.
Flayn is never kidnapped.
Remire is never attacked.
Jeralt is never killed.
No Crest Beasts are made.
So... some of the biggest factors people like to bring up for not wanting to side with Edelgard are basically gone.
Additionally, remove the Slitherers and you can no longer say Edelgard is being strong armed or forced to do any of the actions she does in the story. Which I honestly would like better.
If you're proposing lift them out of the story with no other changes, it won't work. Edelgard turns against the Crest system because she sees what those who desire their power will do to get it, namely, Slither's Crest experiments. Without that, she has no motivation to do anything she does, and since she drives the entire plot, there would be no plot.
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19 minutes ago, Timlugia said:
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.
Basically what Hubert said in his paralogue: Thales is so confident that he's in charge that he doesn't consider Edelgard a threat. Hence the bombing of Arianrhod: She bit, and he reminded her who holds the leash.
As for after the war with Slither starts...all we really know is that several endings state that Edelgard won. The specifics are beyond us.
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7 minutes ago, Axel987 said:
Rhea's fight is hella climactic but it doesn't have the same emotional payoff that taking down Thales would IMO. We're talking about the guy that orchestrated everything, led to the experimentation of her siblings, led to her one remaining sibling wanting to kill her, experimented on her and is actively threatening her with WMD's.
Disagree. Literally the entirety of CF sets Rhea up as the big bad, with Thales relegated to a minor nuisance. There's a reason Edelgard delays her revenge to focus on the big picture.
EDIT: I would, however, be up for a playable epilogue fighting Slither as DLC, because honestly, every route still leaves them open at the end. In AM you never even learn they exist. Some VW endings explicitly state that Slither's remaining forces and the remaining Imperial troops join forces for an offensive. If it happens in VW, it's fair to say it happens in SS as well. So imagine a DLC epilogue clearing out what's left of their forces. You would choose any ending you've already completed and get that faction's units in your roster.
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All I can really think of is an official "What Pokemon would be this FE character's partner" crossover. Not really sure what to do with it, though.
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1 hour ago, Axel987 said:
The actual weird thing is that Claude attacks you regardless of if you actually go after him.
The problem is they say that Gronder Field is incredibly foggy during the cutscene beforehand, but it's not actually a fog of war map. It would've been nice if there was some way to disguise who the third army was, and not reveal Dimitri/Claude's presence until you actually get near them.
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There's only 2 Bolting users. Take them out immediately and the map is much less of a headache.
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27 minutes ago, Bk1234 said:
Does Balthus' Relic recharge after each battle in Cindered Shadows like Byleth's?
Nope. But you start with a small amount of Umbral Steel.
The True Tragedy of Three Houses
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The thing about Dimitri is that even in Part 1, he's already full of anger. He outright tells Byleth that the only reason he's there is for revenge. It's clear to me that "Dimitri" was just a mask hiding the boar.
But let's go step-by-step: first, he (correctly) believes Arundel to be responsible, hence all the research into Arundel's personal history in the library. Then after the Remire incident, when the mask is cracked and fading, he sees Arundel talking to the Flame Emperor, assuming (correctly) that they're working together, but also assuming (incorrectly) that they were always working together, even back then. It never occurred to him that the Flame Emperor would be his age. Then finally comes the reveal of the Flame Emperor's true identity. At that point, the mask is shattered, "Dimitri" is no more and only the boar is left behind. The boar has no rational thoughts, and ALL of the blame is shifted firmly onto Edelgard in his rage.