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There is unused data for Cleobulus in Three Houses. Obviously as it's unused, it could also be unfinished, but the gender of Cleobulus' character data is male. https://mobile.twitter.com/DeathChaos25/status/1291239650980503552

In Scarlet Blaze there's a troubadour in the explore before fighting the Dominic's who say's he can't reveal his identity and that he escaped from Faerghus because otherwise he'd have die on the battlefield like his father and uncle are going to do. It's pretty clear that that's Simon.

Claude blamed the Church in Verdant Wind too. Like, this isn't something Three Hopes invented, it's a consistent trait between games. Lorenz also argued that opening the borders was against the Seiros Tenents, but Claude planned on installing Byleth as Archbishop to change the doctrine.

No. Seteth specifically calls her unharmed in that scene.

Nintendo first mentioned the Zelda timeline splitting after Ocarina of Time in 2002. They called Four Swords the oldest game in the timeline in 2004. They placed literally every game except the Oracles in relation to another well before 2010. The only surprise in the Historia was that there was three timelines.

According to Warriors, Tiki was about a thousand years old when Marth was alive, placing her birth 500 years before the establishment of the Archanean calendar. Naga became a Manakete 1000 years before the establishment of the calendar. Course, Warriors could be wrong, but that lines up with Tiki being 3000 in Awakening, and that taking place 2000 years after Marth's games too,

At the end of Verdant Wind, Rhea says that people began to think of themselves as gods and that's why they challenged Sothis to battle. Except Myson says they need to return the world to mortal hands at then end of Azure Moon, Arundel wants to see the moment humanity is free from Rhea's control at the end of Crimson Flower, they describe themselves as children of men in Romance of the World's Perdition. So if the Agarthan's think of themselves as mortal humans, and have always thought of themselves that way, does that not disagree with one part of Rhea's information at the end of VW? And if one part is wrong, does that not cast a shadow on the rest of the information?

Nintendo actually does list Heroes with the main games, while Cipher, #FE and Warriors are in a separate section here: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/fe/history/index.html

The Deadlords the Grimleal use are 12 in number, use the same names and carry some of the Jugdral Holy Weapons. They're clearly meant to be related if IS wanted them to be a different set of undead just using the same name, why given them weapons from Jugdral? Why give them the same name at all? There's only ever 12 Deadlords on Jugdral, they predates the 12 Crusaders by nearly 200 years, implying that Loptyr could not produce more than 12. If he could, why would he not have an army of Deadlords? Undead are not hard to create in the Archanea universe. My theory is he had 12 Death Masks, so 12 Deadlords. And while the corpse changes, the Thanatophages in charge do not, which is why the name stays the same - it's for the mask placed on a corpse.

I wonder how Loptyr and Forneus' knew each other, given this origin for the Risen - and therefore the Deadlords, as they were Risen in Awakening.

Lucina easily. Warriors says she's about the same age as Chrom, and Grima was resurrected about 10 years prior to her going back in time, making her 9 at the oldest when her father died. Probably younger, as she had never played tag before she played it with Elise in Warriors and she's played few games in general. From her conversation with Rowan, we know her world was just a burned out husk when she left and that fighting battles back-to-back was incredibly common. From various other tidbits we get across Awakening and Fates, we know that there were frequent attempts to save people from the Risen, but they rarely managed to save people and that friends and neighbors would one day die and become Risen that would need to be put down. As far as Lucina knows, when she went back in time the only people left alive was her and her friends. She's an option so I voted for her, but she's not a Lord. Leif's probably the Lord with the harshest backstory.

Grima after he resurrects in Awakening does, yeah. However, he doesn't in Shadows of Valentia, and there's a huge dragon skull that's probably his near Plegia Castle that indicates he didn't have the human face at the time of the First Exalt either. Which means that Grima's human face only came about after he resurrected himself by devouring the Lifeforce of the Plegian's gathered at the Dragon's Table whilst connected to a human host. They're wrong, and assume it was built by humans due to their biases. Unless Thabes predates the Golden Era of Dragons, then it can't have been a human civilisation, as Naga's death is 500 years before Archanea is established, and she died in Thabes. Which I found the source for, the perfect ending of Mystery gave a full timeline for the events on Archanea: https://serenesforest.net/mystery-of-the-emblem/scripts/book-2-war-of-heroes/ending/

Earth Dragons in Mystery of the Emblem take half damage from anyone who attacks them, which is what Dragonskin does. As Grima still has it here, but Duma, a Divine Dragon doesn't, it's clearly not something inherent to all powerful Dragons, so Grima's having it has to come from somewhere. As well, his origin prior to this game was that he was thought to be descended from Earth Dragons, so having his creator be an Earth Dragon means that information is still correct.

Or Thabes was a city founded by dragons. They are the only ancient, advanced civilisation on Archanea we know of, which is the description of those who built Thabes. Forneus' workshop is sealed by a lesser version of the Shield of Seals and is guarded by a degenerated Fire Dragon, so dragons evidently had a hand in sealing his workshop, something explicitly done by the Council of Thabes. Plus, if Forneus was an Earth Dragon, adding his blood to the Creation explains Grima's Earth Dragon traits, like Dragonskin, and how Grima can be descended from Earth Dragons despite being created from Divine Dragon blood.

Oculus and Ocular are described as Fell Dragon magic in their item description, at least in the English version. That's pretty much dark magic.

Wasn't that a localisation only thing?

Walhart: Walhart is great. He hates gods/dragons, he wanted to conquer the world in order to bring about world piece, and he's gloriously hammy. He works extremely well for what he is, a mostly unimportant filler villain. Lucina: Is also great. I enjoy the contrast between her seriousness about the future, and her awkwardness with everything else. She does everything well.

So the first two are obviously Soren and Stefan, but is the the third Petrine? I can't think of another Branded in PoR apart from those three.

No, but it should avoid aggravating Begnion. Like by say, ignoring a request for military aid?

No, but the soldiers morale remained the same, despite the fact that they weren't fighting the race they're racist against, and wouldn't be getting the large bounty they get for killing Laguz. If she wants to change the racist attitudes, there kind of needs to be a country to change the attitudes of. Micaiah thinks that if she doesn't follow Pelleas' orders, the country won't pull together under Pelleas' rule, and that would lead to the collapse of the country. Which is probably true. And she's not participating in racism, she's leading her soldiers against enemy soldiers.

Yes they were. The Daein army's morale remained just as high when fighting on Oribes Bridge, and when confronting the Apostle's Army in the southern mountains, as it was when fighting the Laguz in Begnion. And Micaiah, a woman who fought to break her country free from oppression, and spent so much time rebuilding it that she didn't return to her place of residence, should think that because the citizens are racist towards Laguz, the country doesn't deserve to exist? Micaiah doesn't know that in 3-6 though.

Yes, because it isn't a sub-human hunt, it's a legitmate military campaign. Daein did not go "LOL we hate the sub-humans, let's go attack them!", Begnion asked for aid, and Daein elected to respond. The attitudes of Daein's soldiers towards enemy Laguz is irrelevant, since they're just as happy fighting the predominately Beorc-comprised Apostle's Army. And also because Daein would collapse as a country if she didn't.

Because if she doesn't, she thinks Daein will collapse. The country that she took back from occupation and oppression, that she's put so much work into rebuilding would be gone. Plus, it's because she's doing her job as General of Daein's armies. Begnion asked for military aid, and Daein elected to answer. She has to lead them into battle in a legitimate military campaign. Just as she later fights against the Apostle's Army, which was comprised of more Beorc than Laguz. Or should she refuse, and let Daein tear itself apart, and have the country itself cease to be?

But the only country capable of occupying Daein is Begnion, which is controlled by the Senate and not Sanaki after Part 1, and they don't care about the geopolitical scene of Tellius. Yeah, I see your point there. Although I don't thing we can assume that she didn't say anything, Pelleas says Laguz in Part 3 without having to verbally backspace from sub-human and seemingly has no problems being around the Laguz in Part 4, so he appears to have become less racist than he was in Part 1, perhaps as a result of Micaiah's influence. And yeah, she should take action against their racism, and presumably did after she took the throne, but is the best time to try and remove the racism and possibly incite civil war during the reconstruction efforts? The reaction of the citizens would be the same afterwards as it would have been during, but the stabler ground would mean that Daein would still exist as a country if it did come to civil war, rather than ceasing to be.

Of course she goes along with it. If she doesn't, she thinks the country will collapse. Which it would. The Priestess of Dawn disobeying the king she put on throne? Civil War time. And why should Begnion reoccupy Daein? The Senate controls both anyway. And the Senate doesn't care about the opinion of Laguz, and sees Crimea and Daein as little more than territories of Begnion, so they wouldn't care about Crimea's opinion either. Then what do you want Micaiah to do? Either she's tirelessly crusading for Laguz equality, or she's doing nothing to combat racism. It's either/or. Putting in a good word for the Laguz would do nothing. Crimea needed help from Laguz nations with both reclamation and reconstruction, and even then racism still exists in the country. Daein does not start in as good a place, and does not have that help. At best, Daein would just ignore 'a good word' to focus on reconstruction, so there's no point. And if she's campaigning for Laguz equality, she can't help with reconstruction efforts. Which she's doing to the point where, despite ostensibly living in Daein Keep, Pelleas barely sees her. Plus, Micaiah's popularity would be rising even higher, since she's actively helping the reconstruction efforts. And Pelleas says that she's the only person he can turn to for a kind word. Once the county has recovered more, with Micaiah's enormous popularity power and proof that Pelleas isn't a terrible ruler, they could bring up that Crimea's recovery went quicker due to aid from Gallia, and that Laguz helped with Daein's liberation. Through Micaiah's connection with Queen Naliah, they could get aid in reconstruction from Beast Laguz, which combined with Micaiah's and Pelleas' support and the abolition of anti-Laguz propaganda, could improve Daein's perception of Laguz, especially for the younger generations. And yeah, she really should've taken the throne for herself in Part 1. She wouldn't have signed the Blood Pact, and so Daein AND Hatari wouldn't have gotten involved in the war, preventing Ashera from awakening. However, Pelleas taking the throne did lead to all that, and thus the great bonds of friendship that unite the leaders of the nations at the end of the game, which would certainly help with creating an age of prosperity. I'm reaching here, it's pretty clear that the game didn't take place in the good visions, and due to her faded Farsight, Micaiah doesn't realize that.