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Great use of lighting and color to make Sigurd fade while Celice comes forward witht eh light. The way you colored this has a really nice texture to it.

Very painterly and very pretty! Great attention to detail in Ayra's outfit and with her sword. I especially like her face (and looking Asian) and the D: expression of the axefighter below.

As someone who cannot 3D art, this is really impressive with all the attention to detail. Best touch is the actual feathers.

Very nice. A lot of different angles and perspective, as well as shift in color temperature in the lighting.

Kaden.... Kaiden....

I'm late to the Dark Mage party but here's my reason for why they're clothing is stripperific: Made it into a historical/social issue. I also made Camilla's mother a dark mage, thus why she herself would dress so scantily. (because fanservice is a crappy reason)

Hee, thanks! Pacing at the start of chapter 6 will likely feel a bit slow, cause both characters are feeling like they're in a rut- but glad to hear you're giving me a chance! FCCA has a much smaller scope, so the pacing and overall description works more cleanly. I'm really flattered to hear that Takumi gave you that growing adolescent impression. I might do another POV piece with him, if I find the right subject matter- he will show up in IAWG down the line. Kazahana being brutal came from the Takumi/Kazahana supports where as kids she's want to spar with Sakura watching and whalloped him hard, she might actually have graceful swordwork but Takumi never appreciated it, haha. IAWG is set in Nohr so I definitely have backstabbing and other real politcks planned for the future.

Update! Chapter 6: Tangled Web We Weave

Kozaki made art for the New Year! source

Personally I think Kamui+Aqua fill the 19-21 range, thus slot both older sisters mid twenties while the olders bros are late twenties. But as has been stated in the thread the game never gives us any solid numbers for ages. Only things we for sure know is that Sakura was born before Kamui's kidnapping and Elise afterwards.

Don't forget the shirtless version! source

Thing is these vary, especially in the artbooks. For older unlocalized games it's almost always a hodgepodge of romanizations since there's no agreed upon standards. Which is why some of the FE13 DLC names seemed to come out of the blue, Quan and Raquesis were not the names used in past artbooks but showed up there.

There's really no "official" spelling of the Japanese names in English. Which is why the Jugdral games have countless variants for romantization for the entire cast (briggid vs briget, aideen vs aeden vs edain, ect). Therefore both Marx and Marks is correct, it'd only be "official" if one or the other was localized. Though weirdness like Raquesis and Ulster can happen which are not romantizations used by jfen and where just picked by localization, like Tiamo into Cordelia. And on the flipside, before FE14 the series had avoided repeated names (in localization) for seven other games (even if by only one letter difference). Now we've got Selena x2 (14/8) and Arthur x2 (13 DLC/14). Which makes me personally disappointed.

I never liked the change from Cyrus to Silas cause Pokemon jokes because it's so similar to how the localized Saias' name. Now there's Nils and Niles? And two FE Selenas? Treehouse you'd already made me sad at E3 with double Arthur, now the sads are back. Wow, if this is true I'm definitely going dual audio. Baritone, yes. Campiness? Eh...

"Niles" huh. Guess we don't get any "we number our children like the Romans did" jokes now. Also poor Hoshidans with halfed names. Wouldn't be surprised by "Obo" and "Asa" at this rate. I'm just gonna go weeb and use the Japanese names.

Question! Have we seen whether the localization uses "Shirasagi" or "Shirazaki" for the name of Hoshido's capital? I'm curious as to which they went with (and well all the location names) I really wish they'd bring the magic triangle back, made mage vs mage fights more fun. I also wonder why they don't like light magic all of a sudden? Putting some responses in the spoiler cause it'll discuse chapters outside of 5:

Ah you mean this version? source This one certainly has a less DBZ shape to the hair.

S'more Marx and Hinoka art source

Kozaki posted a Ryouma art source (his hair, such body)

With the higher voices the big bros even sound younger... which is too bad, I liked picturing them being on the late side of 20s. But it's a weird direction to go in because in the Japanese script while Hinoka has every reason to hate Nohrians for what they've done to her family, she's is not overtly racist to Nohrians in general. It wasn't part of her character, actually it was actually a part of her development as a person. Hinoka mentions in her supports how she hated Nohr in the past, but since gotten over it. With the localization reintroducing it, that means it'll need to be resolved too- though I doubt it'll be written into the narrative, therefore possibly part of supports (not guaranteed) and thus she'd optionally stay racist. No one really cares if a character's rascism is justified or not, they care if they're a racist. I have no problem with Hinoka having beef against Nohr with all the trouble they've cause Hoshido, I just don't like the localization injecting a trait that wasn't there for lazy drama. As far as Chapter 6 goes this fan translation does not contain her using those precise words in the context that localization has. As for her doing it elsewhere, could you give me general location to check? The scripts really big to just read the whole thing for the use of "scum" by one particular character.

I don't mind Hoshido getting more grey injected into them, but when its stuff like making characters who didn't show many signs of racism (such as, using racially charged insults- them being scum cause they're Nohrian, rather than cause they're the enemy) more racist, I can't really like that. The random Hoshido chapter bosses (on Nohr route) were plenty racist, but the royalty weren't really depicted on that same level- like Takumi's more pissed about events. And it was a sound bit for Hinoka so I'm a little worried they're going to reuse it liberally which would....really racist up her characterization. Which could be said to grey up Hoshido, but I'd argue at the cost of that character in particular. Honestly I don't want to be rooted in one characterization vs another but *sigh* when trying to make fanwork that's "accurate" to a character I've never had the original script vs localization knowledge like I do with FE14. But that's all the whining about it I'll do for now. The sound bits of just laughing is pretty weird when the repeat it so close together like with Corrin,

Thing is Takumi used to be the only aggressively anti-Nohr out of the Hoshido royal sibs (with his "I don't trust you OR Aqua" rant). Hinoka never used phrases like "Nohrian scum" so... I'll just be watching to see how localization tweaked her character. I just hope they didn't do anything too weird.

Oh thank goodness, the Nohr sibs in cutscene were better than the Smash dub, phew. Although now I'm weirded out by Hinoka's voice... Edit: Also just checked the Chapter 6 transcript and they're making Hinoka more aggressively anti-Nohr (dang it).

Thanks! And oh my, Marx/Hinoka headcanon status, I'm flattered~ It was another slow chapter but I want to try to get once last quality time moment between the main pair before I started chucking plot into their building relationship. Yeah, the tricky part about wyverns is that so far the wyvern-riding characters haven't been as front and center so it just didn't feel as central to explain. (and I went and watched some FE14 vids of gameplay on Youtube to figure out how the game depicts wyvern riders fighting) That theory on Chevalier breeding their wyverns for looks makes sense to me! More appearence concious while Nohr just wants practicality. The Temna colors idea mostly came from the fact that the Dark Falcon class attached to an item- thus you can access it in both Hoshido AND Nohr. The the fact that normal tenma riders only have white got the ball rolling. I'm not quite sure why wyverns wouldn't move over to Nohr, maybe weather and terrain? Totally a Sun Tsu quote, just like I snuck one in at the end of Takumi's twoshot. I wanted to keep from spoilers but since you've been so good about comments, I feel I owe you an explination- at least for the pacing.

Elise english voice in the cutscene was too annoyingly grating, throughout the rest of video voiceover she wasn't nearly so bad. Xander's english voice though is SO HIGH compared to Japanese Marx (and not nearly as stoic) I can't get over the difference. I kinda want to give the english VAs a chance but at the same time might just watch the eng cutscenes on Youtube.