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Different parts of the world inspiring Fire Emblem


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Different parts of the world inspiring Fire Emblem  

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  1. 1. What parts of the world should inspire future FE games? (Keep in mind it's still in a medieval time period)

    • Europe
      3
    • Japan
      1
    • China
      3
    • India
      2
    • Southeast Asia
      2
    • Iran
      3
    • North Africa
      2
    • Sub-Saharan Africa
      2
    • The Americas
      4


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My body is ready for Pirate Emblem. It's not an option on the list because it's not even a defined place, or even culture. But it's definitely an idea that exists, if only in stereotype and one that would suit Fire Emblem, imo.

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I'd vote for all of these, though a Pre-Columbian American like setting would be a dream come true.

You'd be surprised just how much there would be to draw from even with what little we know.

That's just how I feel about it now though, I think about different regional Fire Emblem games almost every day.

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In general, Japanese media have an aversion to having an entire setting not based either on East Asia or the West.

At most, you could have something that was mainly "Medieval Europe" as all Fire Emblem are but with a few elements taken from an underrepresented culture. For example, Majora's Mask did in small part evoke the aesthetic of an African jungle culture but otherwise was culturally indistinguishable from the setting of Ocarina of Time.

With that in mind, you're not going to get a Fire Emblem where the whole cast are like desert Bedouins.

But I think Iran could be an interesting pick; it has a diverse, non-stereotypical geography along with great historical diversity in terms of its culture, religion, architecture, etc. It has the "hotness" of the Islamic world but the pre-7th century Zoroastrians used a network of sacred flames to light homes during the cold season. It was a hotbed of poetry and religious mysticism, and located at something of a crossroad between the Orient and the Ummah.

Illuminated manuscripts from that part of the world can be quite beautiful, and the Nastaliq script lends itself well for this purpose. I mean, just look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divān_of_Hafez#/media/File:DivanofHafez3.jpg

Meanwhile, it has buildings whose interiors look like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir-ol-Molk_Mosque#/media/File:Nasir-ol-Molk_Mosque_(inside).jpg

 

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I voted for everything, because they're all cool.

Lets set the game here. C'mon. It'll be perfect. Fire ELO. ELO Emblem.

With respect to Sub-Saharan Africa and the Islamic world, I still stand by this old idea as being interesting, even if the way I talked about it was kind of weird. All the spoiler tags are broken because SF broke the old spoiler tags at some point.

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5 hours ago, Hrothgar777 said:

In general, Japanese media have an aversion to having an entire setting not based either on East Asia or the West.

At most, you could have something that was mainly "Medieval Europe" as all Fire Emblem are but with a few elements taken from an underrepresented culture. For example, Majora's Mask did in small part evoke the aesthetic of an African jungle culture but otherwise was culturally indistinguishable from the setting of Ocarina of Time.

With that in mind, you're not going to get a Fire Emblem where the whole cast are like desert Bedouins.

But I think Iran could be an interesting pick; it has a diverse, non-stereotypical geography along with great historical diversity in terms of its culture, religion, architecture, etc. It has the "hotness" of the Islamic world but the pre-7th century Zoroastrians used a network of sacred flames to light homes during the cold season. It was a hotbed of poetry and religious mysticism, and located at something of a crossroad between the Orient and the Ummah.

Illuminated manuscripts from that part of the world can be quite beautiful, and the Nastaliq script lends itself well for this purpose. I mean, just look at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divān_of_Hafez#/media/File:DivanofHafez3.jpg

Meanwhile, it has buildings whose interiors look like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir-ol-Molk_Mosque#/media/File:Nasir-ol-Molk_Mosque_(inside).jpg

 

Well if we're going to talk about culture in Zelda then The Wind Waker seems the most obvious non medieval European. Because seriously what is that? The Great Sea definitely isn't mediaeval. But it's also definitely not Polynesian or any of the other ocean spanning culture. Hell with it's random submarines, canons and a holiday home it's more modern than anything else, but still also obviously not.

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