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In a way, this is part of why I have little intention of replaying Edelgard's route anytime soon, because it's the route that actually tries to feed you misinformation. Edelgard is completely off in regards to Fodlan's history, directing every problem at Seiros/Rhea when it really wasn't just her that was a problem. Now that's not to say I think Edelgard is badly written. If anything, I think this sort of discussion actually shows they wrote a compelling character, but as you said, her situation is very ironic.

What personality and dynamic? Robin is one of the most painfully generic characters in the entire franchise. A piece of cardboard has more personality than he does.

Doubt it. They outright said no 5th route. And unused voice clips are nothing new. Berkut has a whole list of unused clips suggesting he might have been planned as playable at one point but they didn't go with it.

Yeah definitely agreed there. It's kind of telling that the game has been out for nearly two weeks now and we still don't have a full grasp on how exactly the game uses that closest allies section to determine character endings. A simple choice to lock 2 A-rank characters together would have made things infinitely easier. The route they choose seems so oddly convoluted.

Olivia was not the highest. Rather, she's the second lowest.

I don't know if this has been said or not yet, but Annette and Gilbert's Paralogue seems to require them at C-rank at least. It only appeared for me right when I got their support.

Admittedly, I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter. We got Thrasir focus as I wanted, but as I feared, it really feels like they just threw her in there for kicks. Compared to all the info they gave on Lif, Thrasir came off as kind of rushed and lackluster. Didn't even get all that much talk between her and Veronica.

I agree. It's nice how they balanced Byleth in comparison to the other Lord's. At the very least, he's my favorite Fire Emblem avatar so far.

Twlight of the Gods still reigns supreme for me.

Thales gets dealt with in another route.

Petra/Bernadetta as well.

Kiran trying to stay cool because a new protagonist is in town. 😄

Wrong. Edelgard and Lysithea do have a paired ending.

Except you know they're going to favor students before any of teachers or other characters outside of the houses.

Well it's kind of obvious one house is going to get one more than the others on a 4 character banner. No matter what, one house or another would have gotten more. Sounds to me like youre trying to stir something that isn't there.

So they gave Hilda her Heroes Relic. Might want her for that alone but we'll see. So Hubert is introducing a new color tome. Though we're still missing red serpent.

No we don't. But of course they will make it anyway because people need their lust satiated.

I can confirm that the first A-support doesn't automatically do it. I had Edelgard first get an A-support with Lysithea, and her A-support with Hubert came afterward. Hubert ended up being the one. There are some things I know for sure. If two characters have an A-support and are at the top of each other's "closest allies" list, they will have a paired ending. That's how it ended for me. Obviously, Byleth's S-support would go first, but I don't know how that would mix. I supported Bernadetta and her and Byleth had each other at the top of their lists.

Ah, so Annette and Gilbert do have a paralogue in Part 2 together. Does Gilbert join automatically on the Blue Lions route? That's the one I'm currently on so I'd like to make sure I don't miss it.

So I've been trying to keep track of which Relics we've accounted for. What about Annette's Crusher? I don't think I've heard that one mentioned yet. Edit: I've also heard of a Tathlum Bow associated with Mercedes' crest. I know the Rafail Gem is apparently from a Caspar/Mercedes post-skip paralogue.

Yeah, I like Byleth and Bernadetta's chain as a whole.

Such poor taste.

Whenever you get that note, it means you have to proceed in the story first.

One thing that really surprised me about this game is how much incentive they actually give you to use Dismounting depending on the situation. I imagine many of us figured it would be situational at best and probably not used often, yet there's surprisingly a lot of things that will slow down horses in this game.

Anything on renown increases compared to the first playthrough? I thought I read somewhere that renown is boosted in NG+.