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Use Perceval, just do. Miledy is nice too. Zeiss can end up good but he gets bodied in Sacae. Rutger and Fir are a nice combination. Sue and Shin are surprisingly good once promoted. Lugh and Raigh are a nice pair of mages. Gonzales is so much fun dodge tanking on mountains and peaks. Any Berserker is capable of dodge tanking I guess. The Pegasus sisters are ok; is nice to go Illia but they are so weak in every aspect and get easily killed at the slightest error. Any cavalier is good enough; the unpromoted ones will have some problems reaching the point they are capable of using good weaponry and the promoted ones will struggle to keep up in Sacae, Illia and Bern. Just use the ones you like the most.

Personally, I prefer soft locked weapons like the Shadow Dragon´s Excalibur. It has the exclusivity of personals and flexibility powered by lore. Having a strong weapon so early gives Merric a nice advantage in the field and tell us that he has something special, in this case, being pure hearted and the student of Wendel, who is also capable of handling the Excalibur due to his experitise with magic. Having a weapon like this, who can chose its wielder, sets a presedent of personal improvement for its wielder, like Ellerean, who at base, can´t use the Excalibur, lorewise because of its lack of compassion but after learning his lesson and honing his skills with magic, becomes worthy, gameplaywise, reching weapon level B. Now, for class exclusive I feel that weapons ranks and the kind of weapon the class uses serves as a better way of doing exclusivity than letting only a few characters in your army to use them. If anything, they should have soft locks like Excalibur´s, there´s nothing in particular to a lord to make it being able to use a rapier, special if we consider that a class called SWORD MASTER is not able to use one kind of sword (to be fair, it is a dumb name, is more like a title like General than the way you would call a unit; fortress knight makes more sense). Nosferatu is a wierd case because it has changed a lot throughout the series. However the 3DS ones seems more like a remnant of a different weapon class who is now mixed with the other two than an actual asset of a class. Maybe IS could´ve work a magic tringle with the new Spirts from Hoshido replacing light, anima just as usual based on elements, nosferatu being one of the darks. That way, the norian magic users would be differentiated by using dark magic and the hoshidians spirits, anima is fair game for both but I guess they didn´t wanted to have a slot in the triangle with only one representative and gauntlets weren´t invented yet.

Before anything, I am no expert in writing nor a very involved enthusiast of fanfiction. So I don´t know if what I´m saying is too harsh or if it even makes sense. It was short and sweet, maybe too short to find any issues and too sweet to see through your writing style. As it is, I think it is a nice scenario for info dumping. Rudolf explaining where his royalty comes from and how it is tied to the gods to teach Fernand about nobility and loyalty, or at least his vision of it, is a natural scenario to explain things about the world, without ruining the pace of the work. Now, for the fanfict it self, well, there´s not to much to talk about. It feels like an excerpt, I even thought there was more to it, as if I skipped the beginning and the end was missing. I don´t know if this is a fanfict problem, relying on prior knowledge of the character and situations or if you just wanted this to fill gaps of the original. if it was the second, well I would totally believe if someone said that this was supposed to be on the game and was cut because the VAs were charging extra. In summary: it was good and I would read more from you.