Fire Emblem "Crack Theories"

[Samz707]

The reason Mark wasn't in FE6 was because he fled the continent.

He eventually became the Tactical Advisor from AW1.

[MadBoar]

A theory that I have is that Cornelia and Patricia are the same person. From character conversations, we see that they are always together, working in tandem. Cornelia is so sick in the head that she enjoys being an abuser, while role playing as a protective mommy. Both characters fit the Sonia archetype. We never see Patricia during the game because she is Cornelia. When Hapi is kidnapped, Patricia is able to meet Hapi at the secret location where she is held hostage, only because she is also Cornelia.

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[NainaInTheSky]

My favorite stupid crack theory is that Fateslandia and Fodlan (and by extension Dagda, Almyra, Brigid, etc.) are located in the same world, with one being on the opposite side of the planet from the other. Due to limitations in travel and major wars (Hoshido vs. Nohr, the various Fodlan conflicts), the two have just never got around to meeting.

To connect to that, the Anankos and the other dragons from Fates were also Nabateans, albeit a splinter branch. 

[MadBoar]

31 minutes ago, NainaInTheSky said:

My favorite stupid crack theory is that Fateslandia and Fodlan (and by extension Dagda, Almyra, Brigid, etc.) are located in the same world, with one being on the opposite side of the planet from the other. Due to limitations in travel and major wars (Hoshido vs. Nohr, the various Fodlan conflicts), the two have just never got around to meeting.

To connect to that, the Anankos and the other dragons from Fates were also Nabateans, albeit a splinter branch. 

I can expand on your theory. Iago is connected to slither. Corrin has white hair due to being experimented on by Iago. Corrin has something similar to multiple crests, because s\he has the power to harness the energy of all of the royals' weapons. In Birthright, we see that Iago posesses Takumi, and Takumi also has the white hair. Iago can summon the faceless monsters, similar to how slither has those demonic beasts. 

Valla looks like it was hit by javelins of light, and has a similar appearance to the red canyon, which is where the Nabateans lived.

Edited April 14, 2022 by MadBoar

[Red Dingo]

On 4/7/2022 at 12:48 PM, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

Alternatively, he cast it on Sothe. After all, General Ike is "the father of Sothe's children".

In my head cannon, there ain't no way Soren nor Micaiah would let their thirst targets get together.

On 4/14/2022 at 12:43 AM, NainaInTheSky said:

My favorite stupid crack theory is that Fateslandia and Fodlan (and by extension Dagda, Almyra, Brigid, etc.) are located in the same world, with one being on the opposite side of the planet from the other. Due to limitations in travel and major wars (Hoshido vs. Nohr, the various Fodlan conflicts), the two have just never got around to meeting.

To connect to that, the Anankos and the other dragons from Fates were also Nabateans, albeit a splinter branch. 

See, the problem with that is that it makes the cringe story of Fates take place in the same worldspace as the awesome story of Three Houses.

Edited April 20, 2022 by Red Dingo

[Alastor15243]

Friend of mine suggested one behind why your crops are still there in Garreg Mach even after the timeskip:

The woman running the greenhouse has a crush on the professor and has been constantly coming back to the Monastery ruins to take care of the greenhouse, thinking that if she keeps planting "his favorite crops", maybe one day he'll come back.

[henrymidfields]

I reckon Fates Conquest is actually an anti-Nohrian propaganda piece produced by Hoshidans later in history. And that Corrin is made into both a doofus and a mass-murderer when he is actually neither, and Garon is made into an evil overlord when he wasn't. As it turned out Hoshido actually acted first by closing off any trade, attacking Pearl Harbour occupying the midpoint fortress, sending the few native soldiers onto their death marches to Bataan and torturing them, and starving off Nohr. Nohr only fought back then and even then was still happy to settle with relatively lenient terms, such as enforcing trade deals and guaranteeing independence of Mokushu and a few outlying nations. Garon only went all-out because Hoshido refused to back down at every opportunity. And the whole propaganda story of COnquest was written because they could not come around the fact that Hoshidans attacked Pearl Harbour, is super-xenophobic even compared to 1940s Japan, and that their isolationist and ultranationalist ways was what provoked other nations lol.

The real outcome of the war in Three Houses was a five-year-long stalemate that eventually ended in a truce with compromises: Claude and Dimitri managed to hold off Edie long enough until she lost interest, in turn because Claude and Edie cut a deal to get Rhea to resign from the head of church, and Dimi and Edie found out who was actually responsible for the Duscur Massacre and Edie's abduction. Claude also was able to gradually open his borders, Dimitri kept his kingdom intact and, and Edelgard gradually swayed the populance to support her egalitarian policies.

The "canon" paths are actually alternate histories written by amateur historians should Byleth be swayed to one particular faction.

Edited May 16, 2022 by henrymidfields

[Heir of Dragons and Beasts]

Anna is a Divine Dragon and has shapeshifting and cloning powers which is how there’s an Anna in every game. 

[Jotari]

2 minutes ago, OutcastsofRelix said:

Anna is a Divine Dragon and has shapeshifting and cloning powers which is how there’s an Anna in every game. 

Why would she need shape shifting powers? All the Annas look the same (course Divine Dragons naturally have shape shifting powers as an innate trait, but the point still stands).

[Alastor15243]

15 hours ago, Jotari said:

Why would she need shape shifting powers? All the Annas look the same (course Divine Dragons naturally have shape shifting powers as an innate trait, but the point still stands).

Ah, but do they look the same between games?

[Jotari]

7 minutes ago, Alastor15243 said:

Ah, but do they look the same between games?

Yes. Accounting for art design and the miracle that is being able to change clothes.

[Heir of Dragons and Beasts]

2 hours ago, Jotari said:

Yes. Accounting for art design and the miracle that is being able to change clothes.

But didn’t 3H Anna have like pinkish hair

[Jotari]

2 minutes ago, OutcastsofRelix said:

But didn’t 3H Anna have like pinkish hair

Please. You don't need to shape shift to change your hair colour.

[Alastor15243]

10 minutes ago, Jotari said:

Please. You don't need to shape shift to change your hair colour.

But you do need to shapeshift to change your eye color without colored contacts.

FE4 Anna (top middle) seems to be the most radical example of her changing eye color. Not sure who the bottom right one is. Is that a Tearring Saga expy of Anna?

[Jotari]

32 minutes ago, Alastor15243 said:

But you do need to shapeshift to change your eye color without colored contacts.

FE4 Anna (top middle) seems to be the most radical example of her changing eye color. Not sure who the bottom right one is. Is that a Tearring Saga expy of Anna?

*cough* *cough* artstyle *cough* *cough*

Certainly looks like a Tearring Saga portrait.

[Alastor15243]

16 minutes ago, Jotari said:

*cough* *cough* artstyle *cough* *cough*

Nope! I've checked other FE4 portraits, and colored eyes were very much a thing in FE4.

[Eltosian Kadath]

Oh wow, did I never share the evil, manipulative Azura theory here? The places with the most evidence are Conquest and Revelation, so I will focus on those games for this

In Conquest Azura is doing everything in her power to make sure the war between Nohr and Hoshido is drawn out to its final conclusion, as a way to punish Nohr for how she was treated as a child, and for how the Hoshidans treated her after the war started. She starts by foiling a Hoshidan assassination attempt in Cyrkensia by magically causing Garon pain, so the Nohrian troops are on high alert for the real assassination, and as Corrin is starting to wonder if he needs to overthrow Garon, she shows him a magical illusion orb that conveniently convinces him to wait until after the Hoshidan capital has been captured before overthrowing that monster, and then it conveniently breaks so only the naive Corrin has seen it...

In Revelation, she sees a chance to retake the throne of Valla from the treacherous Anankos, and is manipulating Corrin towards that end. She lies to him about the curse so he can't convince the Nohrians or Hoshidans from officially going to war with Valla, instead getting him to focus his efforts on personally convincing a bunch of prominent Nohrians and Hoshidans to join their cause, and times it so the path they take in will close behind them for a decade, so even if some of them get cold feet, or needed to return to their kingdoms, they are trapped in Valla. This makes it so Nohr and Hoshido can't claim any compensation or concessions from the deefeated Valla after her conquest, and she even has a lot of convenient bargaining chips in negotiations with Nohr and Hoshido after the fact, to for instance get that land granted to Valla in the ending in exchange for their royals being released. Corrin making for a nice figurehead to sit the throne while she rules from the shadows was a nice perk of discovering his true heritage.

 

On 5/16/2022 at 12:24 PM, OutcastsofRelix said:

Anna is a Divine Dragon and has shapeshifting and cloning powers which is how there’s an Anna in every game. 

Despite all of these arguments about the Anna's shapeshifting powers, I think its the cloning powers that are more suspect. Anna is just a cover a bunch of surviving Xane-y shapeshifting Divine Dragons setup, so they have a general description of a face of a merchant from any world who starts with no close ties to any community, but still has a reason to visit any community, and even has an excuse if they see more than one, or don't properly respond to what another "Anna" said to that person (thanks to all her "sisters"). They even have the Jake persona if a group are moving together as a mating pair...

[Jotari]

18 hours ago, Alastor15243 said:

Nope! I've checked other FE4 portraits, and colored eyes were very much a thing in FE4.

Well then obviously Genealogy Anna isn't really Anna. The Anna of Jugdral is obviously Alvis.

9 hours ago, Eltosian Kadath said:

Oh wow, did I never share the evil, manipulative Azura theory here? The places with the most evidence are Conquest and Revelation, so I will focus on those games for this

In Conquest Azura is doing everything in her power to make sure the war between Nohr and Hoshido is drawn out to its final conclusion, as a way to punish Nohr for how she was treated as a child, and for how the Hoshidans treated her after the war started. She starts by foiling a Hoshidan assassination attempt in Cyrkensia by magically causing Garon pain, so the Nohrian troops are on high alert for the real assassination, and as Corrin is starting to wonder if he needs to overthrow Garon, she shows him a magical illusion orb that conveniently convinces him to wait until after the Hoshidan capital has been captured before overthrowing that monster, and then it conveniently breaks so only the naive Corrin has seen it...

In Revelation, she sees a chance to retake the throne of Valla from the treacherous Anankos, and is manipulating Corrin towards that end. She lies to him about the curse so he can't convince the Nohrians or Hoshidans from officially going to war with Valla, instead getting him to focus his efforts on personally convincing a bunch of prominent Nohrians and Hoshidans to join their cause, and times it so the path they take in will close behind them for a decade, so even if some of them get cold feet, or needed to return to their kingdoms, they are trapped in Valla. This makes it so Nohr and Hoshido can't claim any compensation or concessions from the deefeated Valla after her conquest, and she even has a lot of convenient bargaining chips in negotiations with Nohr and Hoshido after the fact, to for instance get that land granted to Valla in the ending in exchange for their royals being released. Corrin making for a nice figurehead to sit the throne while she rules from the shadows was a nice perk of discovering his true heritage.

 

Despite all of these arguments about the Anna's shapeshifting powers, I think its the cloning powers that are more suspect. Anna is just a cover a bunch of surviving Xane-y shapeshifting Divine Dragons setup, so they have a general description of a face of a merchant from any world who starts with no close ties to any community, but still has a reason to visit any community, and even has an excuse if they see more than one, or don't properly respond to what another "Anna" said to that person (thanks to all her "sisters"). They even have the Jake persona if a group are moving together as a mating pair...

My interpretation for Azura's actions in Birthright and Conquest is that she's sort of just super lazy. She can bring anyone to Valla anytime she wants and explain what's going on but just doesn't because, eh, the effort of going swimming.