Unofficial Serenes Forest Advent Calendar - Day 22

[shiningpikablu252]

Having been inspired by advent calendars serebii.net have offered in Decembers past, even though I've got no aptitude to create Twitter icons and wallpaper images (as you'd find on serebii.net's advent calendars), I figured I might take a crack at creating some Fire Emblem-themed puzzles and activities for the fandom to try during this holiday season.

Today, it's an ode to the many brave and talented illustrators of Fire Emblem Cipher and Fire Emblem Heroes!  Many of these talented artists appear in today's activities in some form!  If you need some help with today's activities, feel free to cross-examine the lists of Cipher and Heroes illustrators over at Fire Emblem Wiki!  ...I've managed to make the Cipher illustrator listing quite well-maintained after working on trying to make the translations of their illustrators' names consistent wiki-wide, but I am not the maintainer of the Heroes illustrator list--if you have any bones to pick about the Heroes illustrator list, hit up Luke (that listing's maintainer), not me...

Our first activity for today is a pair of crossword puzzles!  These were actually intended to be all one puzzle, but the program wasn't playing nice with the sheer number of clues I was putting in, hence I had to split it into two puzzles; the Cipher specialists got their own puzzle as the biggest group amongst the three specialty groups I used, while the Heroes specialists and non-specialists got the other puzzle.  A key to determine what kind of illustrator's specialty as far as Fire Emblem is concerned:  a (C) in the clue denotes a Cipher specialist, an (H) denotes a Heroes specialist, an (NS) denotes a non-specialist.  Specialist information accurate to date topic was initially posted, and may have changed in the meanwhile; the puzzles use information from Fire Emblem Wiki's illustrator list articles that stood at the date the topic was initially posted (permanent links to those revisions used above), information on both pages have changed in the meanwhile.  All names in both puzzles are in western order.

Our second activity for today is a video quiz challenge!  For each question, you'll be shown a card (or, in one instance, two cards) and the name of an illustrator.  That illustrator did not illustrate the card(s) in question.  Three choices will then appear; try to pick the correct answer from among them.  Can you tell who actually illustrated which card?  This took quite awhile to make, and I've cultivated enough material to potentially make several episodes of this (any further episodes will be made outside the auspices of this unofficial advent calendar).  The video's too long for Twitter, so you'll be watching it via Youtube.

 

Edited February 26, 2021 by shiningpikablu252