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I've been thinking about this for awhile as I have a love hate relationship with these, which has now changed to content with my analysis. Mainly due to from my knowledge no confirmed chance to get these units again, and how hard it is to summon them as f2p when you go for other banners. For example, I spent most of my orbs on Nohrian Summer and I got Celica instead of Summer Leo, who I could get on any other banner. My luck seems better on other banners, as I got 2 5 stars from Sacred Stones 1st time and 2 5 stars from Brave Heroes 1st time, one being Brave Lyn, my first alternate 5 star other than free Brave Lucina. You could argue I should save my orbs more, which now I may start doing after Brave heroes with my %4 rate. I'm going to go over the alternate units to see what ones are more replaceable than others. Heroes of the same weapon and movement type will be compared, so I wont be comparing Brave Lyn to Takumi or Bridal Cordelia. Fan service done right, at least maybe: Spring Festival: #2 Spring Chrom can hold his own in Atk and Def, but Raven is a great Brave Axe user with Hawkeye Chrom's resistant counterpart. #3 Spring Lucina is just a more defensive blue mage which takes away from her Atk but has great Spd. Linde is better in most cases and Delthea is great support. #4 Spring Xander has the highest Def of the lance horseman but lowest Atk. Great debuffer, buffer and using Bonfire but Clive is also defensive and Mathilda is the resistant counterpart. #1 Spring Camilla is unrivaled on flier emblem being one of two magic users on a pegasus. Due to this she's almost mandatory to respond to defensive units. Bridal Blessings: #4 Bridal Caeda is a slightly better Spring Lucina with 1 more Spd and 5 more Res. Go Delthea/Linde. #2 Bridal Lyn is one of the more versatile healers, stopping counter attacks with Dazzling Staff and Candlelight. Only bested by horse healers on horse emblem. #3 Bridal Charlotte is a great for a infantry lance on the offensive, but Sharena is only 4 less Atk. #1 Bridal Cordelia was considered the best archer before Brave Lyn (though that doesn't matter as they aren't the same movement type), but Innes is a better mage killer with 9 more Res 2 less Atk and 1 less Spd and works fine. Ylissean Summer: #3 Summer Robin (F) is Sharena with 7 more Res but 8 less HP. EIther work depending on what a team lacks. #1 Summer Tiki is more defensive and resistant Spring Chrom. Another great choice like him. #2 Summer Gaius is a slightly better Setsuna with 2 more Atk so good Quad. #4 Summer Frederick is similar to other debuffers but with Seal Atk Spd with the 2nd highest Atk of the Ninjas. Won't enjoy a counter like Felicia or Saizo and Kagero is used a lot anyways. Nohrian Summer: #2 Summer Xander is better than Summer Tiki in HP and Def but bad Res. Barst is his counterpart, though infantry pulse makes him very useful. #3 Summer Leo is similar to Sanaki and Katarina, though Katarina has better Spd. Leo can run Quick Riposte though and is the unit I wish I got ;-;. #4 Summer Elise is the better variant of Nino with Gronblade (same Atk/Spd as Delthea, just not a better weapon to start with). #1 Summer Corrin is a must for flier emblem with or without Spring Camilla, or just Spring Camilla. Can't be compared to anyone else sadly. Hoshidan Summer with Staff Male Corrin someday? #3 Brave Lucina is a better Sharena with better buffing and Atk/Spd. Slightly less bulky. #4 Brave Roy is closest to Cain and Seth with slightly less bulk for more Atk/Spd. Eldigan and Xander are the Def variants with less Spd. #1 Brave Lyn is the only horse archer so similar to the flying mages is not comparable. Closest thing is Bridal Cordelia, then Innes. #2 Brave Ike is in the end the better Bartre and somewhat the opposite of Anna. So far, only Spring Camilla, Summer Corrin and Brave Lyn are unrivaled. Of course some of these units come with specific new skills but that doesn't mean their available versions are truly inferior. All units have their uses, even Wyrs... I hope this review eases the minds of those who missed out on these units like me or didn't get their +10 merged or optimal IV's. Leave your thoughts in the comments, and happy summoning!

I'll just start by saying this: Yeah, it's pretty late for me to write down a form like this considering we have shifted on to the next focus characters, but I thought it was better late to put this down than never. At least I wrote it on Easter! Anyways, I'll move on to the actual topic. I am not sure how many other people have, but I have always been interested in thinking about lore for things that aren't completely explained or that could have been written better. For some odd reason, the Spring Festival grabbed my attention. I know it was mostly made for Spring character fan service, but I saw it as a new piece of lore added to Awakening and even Fates, even if Heroes is not considered canon in the other games (from what I have seen anyways), which is why most of this is pretty much hypothetical. Just in case you want a better explanation about what we'll be discussing here, I'll give you a brief explanation! We're going to be thinking about potential lore for the Spring Festival from how it was shown in Heroes. Most likely most of the things that will be added in the discussion will be adding lore to it since we don't have too much lore for it from what Heroes has given us, but some things we talk about may be changing to what was already written to make it better if it were to be canon. Also, feel free to talk about any lore related to our Spring Festival characters, (Lucina, Chrom, Xander, and Camilla) too. By the way, I don't know exactly where this topic will be leading exactly, but I guess I may as well say it now that there may potentially be spoilers, specifically for Awakening and Fates (presuming we do have spoilers). I guess I'll start with a few of the things that I have been thinking about! Addition: The reason as to why royalty from Nohr came to celebrate the Spring Festival in Ylisse is because they heard of it from one of the Annas, who advertised it as being a good way to represent their country to otherworldly neighbors, especially by showing deep appreciation and involvement into the festivities. It most likely would be the reason as to why Xander was willing to go along with his siblings putting him in that different costume and acting... like a colorful character. Since the Spring Festival seems to be obviously based off of our Easter, (it may even have been called Easter at one point in Heroes, but I don't remember for sure) I think that the roots of the Spring Festival may be similar to Easter's roots. I think it would be a holiday originally set as a day to celebrate something related to Naga. Perhaps it has something to do with Tiki becoming the Voice of the Divine Dragon. Change: I don't think Ylisse would have a festival be set as an excuse to fight each other, so they, in particular, would not celebrate Spring by fighting; however, I know a certain northern neighbor of Ylisse who would celebrate a holiday like that: Regna Ferox. Because of this, I would have set the fighting tradition to be in Regna Ferox instead of in Ylisse. Of course, I doubt that would make people like Chrom not want to participate, but that is just my opinion. Those are just a few things I was thinking about, but I am more interested in what you guys think about improving the lore of the Spring Festival! I hope that this forum ends up running smoothly with great, yet polite, discussion. ^^