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Hi there anyone know how one could insert new spell animations into FE6. I haven't been able to figure it out with either Nightmare or FEbuilder.

Recently playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, I can't help but notice the huge similarities between Micaiah and Linde's Fire Emblem: Heroes skillset. I can't see Micaiah serving any other role than damage dealer and she'd obviously have her iconic ardent sacrifice mechanic, so I wondered what they could even do to differentiate them? At first, I thought they could just make Micaiah a different coloured unit, however with the treatment of Linde, Julia and Lucius, I actually get the impression the developers don't really no what to do with light magic in general. Thus, I wanted to discuss other people's opinion on this matter. First and foremost, if memory serves correct, the primary light-magic wielders in the Fire Emblem series are: Linde (FE1) Not really recognized as a light magic user, just Aura is her signature weapon. Deidre & Julia (FE4) Linoan (FE5) Lucius (FE7) Now relegated into a healer. Artur (FE8) Micaiah & Sephiran (FE10) I assume we could also assign other units such as Gotoh and certain Bishops into this category, but I'm unsure where we should draw the line since a lot of them are commonly recognised as healers over magicians. Similarly, characters like Lekain and Valtome are likely not going to be featured in the game, at least for a very, very long time. Micaiah will most likely get Rexaura as her final weapon, removing any desire for Lekain anyhow. Now with that out of the way, onto the discussion. First, the current in-game examples of light-tomes we have are Julia's Book of Naga and Linde's Aura. This instantly raises eyebrows as both units belong to different coloured groups. Their colours were chosen based on their prior accessible skills (in Linde's case, lightning and thus blue and for Julia, she got wind spells and thus green). Simply put, it doesn't look like light magic has any delegated colour for units to be assigned to. This is weird because of the fact that dark magic users (the counterpart to light magic) are located only in the red group, allowing us to hypothesize future dark magic users such as Canas or Lyon will also belong to the red-class group. If dark mages are assigned to a particular group, why aren't light magic users? I think this colour differentiation is mainly due to the fact that there are no weaker variants of light magic such as Lighting or Divine currently in the game like Flux is. Whilst these may be accessible in future content, for units that are already released such as Julia and Lucius who should be apart of this supposed group, they likely won't be changed due to changing units of whom people have already invested in is a bad practice. Next, that raises the question of what's going to happen in the future? Will the future light mages get a colour associated with them? What will happen to the remaining light mages? These are the first discussion points I thought of, however I'm sure there are more anyone else is free to raise, discuss and the like. There are a few options they could do. They could keep the 'light mage system' as it currently is and pass them to various colours and just have their final tomes be the light tome or delegate the monk/light mage into a healer like Lucius. I can see this for Linoan or Sephiran (although, I also funnily can't because of his iconic tome Creiddylad) and would be outraged by some such as Lucius or Arthur. Initially, people had argued light mages were in the blue colour because of the fact that they counter reds (dark mages), however there isn't enough evidence to suggest this with Julia going against it and there being no weaker-level light spells. We can assume Linde and Julia's colours were specified based on their prior accessible spells. To be honest, I'd prefer if they treated light mages similar to how they treated dark mages and assign them a particular colour, at least for the remaining monks/light mages. What does everyone else think?