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Oh, I hadn't done that because it wasn't accurate. I'll try it.

Where do you contact them? I try to use the "contact us" feature, but it keeps directing me to selection what type of question i'm interested in and none of them apply. What email do you use? I wanted to ask about the replacement of skinship….

Well, ignoring the DLC classes for a moment (so that the advice can apply to everyone who has the game, regardless of whether they bought the DLC or not), Cordelia does tend to have better access to magical husbands: Sumia gets Henry, Trickster Gaius, and the male Avatar. Cordelia gets all of those options, PLUS Ricken and Libra. There's also the tendency for Sumia to often be given to Chrom…. So in practice, Sumia often ends up with a physical husband (same with Frederick here) so that holds back her magical potential. Cordelia tends to have more freedom of choice…. you're planning to put her with Stahl, but with Henry/Ricken/Libra/Avatar etc. she can get a solid magical boost…. Actually, Tomefaire Dark Flier Sumia with generic +3 pair-up (Chrom/Frederick don't tend to give more for magic) reaches 42 + 5 + 3 = 50 magic. Cordelia with a Sage also reaches 50 magic; 41 + 9 = 50. So with a Sage partner (something that Sumia doesn't get outside the Avatar, but Ricken/Libra can do for Cordelia), Cordelia will end up tying with Sumia in magic when Sumia is stuck with her more typically physical partners. It does go more favorably to Sumia if she actually marries Henry, but I don't think that happens too often….

Resistance is futile… prepare to be assimilated. More seriously, yes, its a somewhat odd name. I'll get used to it.

Or, a brief image of the character model, and then let it fade to black…. Then you can envision as tame or as wild of an interaction as you please… use your imagination…

There's also this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/4303fq/can_we_all_just_agree/czei694 I don't know enough for myself to know if its right or not…

Maybe I should just save myself the pronunciation trouble and nickname her "Dory" then…. works doubly well if I go with Oboro!Dory because of the blue hair color and the other Dory in the spoiler tagged quote…

My best guess, and this is just speculation (assuming its actually removed and then actually replaced, which it might not) is along these lines: --- Invite someone to your room with a menu and they enter just like in skinship. --- We see their character model --- PETTING OMITTED --- Now, after skinship they would generally say some lines of dialogue. My plan is to just skip over the petting phase and immediately get them talking, like a short conversation with you, or even just a line or two. ---- Your relationship has increased!

Its "caelum" that means sky/heaven/air in Latin, although you are correct at least in that "cael-" is the root of the word, which would then be declined according to the declensions to denote what its function in the sentence was.

Grad School, BUT I've finished all my classes and just have research - my schedule is flexible and I have no specific hours of when I'm supposed to be in or out of the office; as long as I get work done, they don't care if I step out of the office or show up later one day… there IS historically a stars & planets discussion group on Fridays, but its at 11 AM… EB Games opens at 10 AM…. So I'll just go to EB Games on that day at 10, quickly test to see if everything is working, and head to the stars & planets group.

Well, there are Japanese names that end with the -ori sound, so Caeldori at least follows those… names like Kandori, Chidori, etc.

Firstly, I don't exactly trust Kotaku. Now, if someone posts a stream of a reviewer copy and shows what's actually available inside MyRoom, or after the game comes out, or if Nintendo releases a press statement in advance, then that would be far more compelling evidence. Secondly, I kind of feel indifferent to the whole thing. My only hope is that seeing that a decent amount of VA work was associated with the MyCastle that they figured out some other way to use the VAs, assuming skinship was even removed in the first place.

Kanna doesn't seem like a particularly impressive unit this time around… but what do you think are the best pairings (1st gen for 2nd gen Kanna or 2nd gen for 3rd gen Kanna) for making Kanna turn out as well as reasonably possible in a no-grind run? Kanna's clearly no Morgan, but perhaps some combinations turn out better than others?

Basara does have +1 more magic than Falcon Warrior [in bases, 5 vs. 4] so there is that, but do you want to go for the +1 magic on Basara or the +2 movement and flight on Falcon Warrior? Is there another key reason why you advise Tsubaki/Hinoka as Basaras? For magic Matoi, whom would you recommend as her parent? Sakura (50% parental magic, 40% parental Spd, 30% parent Str), the more magic but slower and physically weaker Orochi (65% parental magic, 15% parental Spd, 5% parental Strength)? Orochi also starts with combat abilities and might pair-up more readily, but Sakura has a fast support with Tsubaki…. Or would you use a different parent?

Counting both 1st gen units and child units, whom would be the best Shockstick user in Birthright in the combination of effectiveness/practicality to bring them to being a useful Shocksticker in the first place?

I don't know about the growths rounding up or down… the whole 2.5% growths are just resulting from inference from taking a bunch of child sealing videos and comparing the results of the video against the expected averages of various growth inheritance rules [such as the Awakening ruling vs. average of mother and child's default, etc] and seeing which rules most closely adhere to the data [both from "eyeballing" it and from least-squares analysis. So (as far as I'm aware), its not explicitly proven (unless some resource/source has come out since then that explicitly tells us it), but this seems to be the most probable conclusion from the mathematical analysis: its average of the mother [variable parent] and the child's default. But yes, Hinoka gives Matoi Lance Fighter just like Oboro does. The rules, remember are: 1. The child has a default class tree (for Matoi, this is Pegasus Warrior). 2. They receive one class tree from their father 2a. If they don't already have it, they get his primary (starting) class tree. [Matoi already has Tsubaki's primary, Pegasus, so skip to 2b.] 2b. If they already have it, they get his secondary (alternate) class tree instead. [so Matoi get's Tsubaki's Samurai secondary] 3. They receive one class tree from their mother: 3a. If they don't already have it, they get her primary (starting) class tree unless its not inheritable. [Matoi already has Hinoka's primary, Pegasus, so skip to 3b.] 3b. If they already have it, or if their mother's primary class is not inheritable, they get her secondary (alternate) class tree instead. [so Matoi get's Hinoka's lance fighter secondary] 4. If they already have that, they get a counterpart class to the mother's primary class instead, typically from the opposite nation [for example Spellcaster and Dark Mage are alternates to each other, so in the case of Nyx!Eponine Nyx actually passes Spellcaster to Eponine] 5. If they already have that, then they get a counterpart class to the mother's secondary class instead. [For example, this happens for Jakob!Shigure: He starts as a Pegasus Warrior, Jakob gives him Troubadour, Azura's Singer is uninhabitable, she cannot give her Pegasus secondary because Shigure already has it, she tries passing Troubadour as a counterpart class to Singer but Shigure already has that, so she finally passes down a counterpart class to Pegasus Warrior and gives Shigure Wyvern Rider instead.] Marriage seals also work the same way. The result is that Hinoka x Tsubaki results in three units with identical class sets (although which one is their "secondary" differs): Pegasus, Samurai, and Lance Fighter.

I suppose whether you go for the philosophy of "play to their strengths" or "patch up their weaknesses". Matoi has default personal growths of: 55% HP (tied with her father) 35% Str (5% more than her father) 15% Mag (5% less than her father) 40% Skl (10% less than her father) 40% Spd (20% more than her father) 45% Lck (20% more than her father) 35% Def (10% less than her father) 20% Res (15% more than her father) TOTAL: 285% (35% more than her father) Now, yes, you could stick her with Rinkah's 25% HP growth, which if my ideas are correct would yield a Matoi with 40% personal HP growth. But you could also give her a mother with higher HP (like Hinoka, ignoring for a moment that Tsubaki x Hinoka's pair-up synergy isn't ideal) and you could end up with something like 50% personal HP growth, keeping it fairly high still. 50% = (55%+45%)/2 Actually, although given pair-up bonuses and not wanting to concentrate fliers together Hinoka!Matoi probably isn't that good of an idea, if you DID do it you'd end up with a unit with comparable growths to Hinoka herself, and only 10% less total growths (mostly attributable to RES). Hinoka's Stat vs. Hinoka!Matoi's Stats; (Hinoka - Hinoka!Matoi) difference HP: 45% vs. 50%; -5% Str: 45% vs. 40%; +5% Mag: 15% vs. 15%; 0% Skl: 40% vs. 40%; 0% Spd: 45% vs. 42.5%; +2.5% Lck: 40% vs. 42.5%; -2.5% Def: 35% vs. 35%; 0% Res: 40% vs. 30%; +10% Total: 305% vs. 295%; +10% Their growths are almost identical, just 5% trades in HP/STR, 2.5% trades in Spd/Lck, and Hinoka's only large growth rate advantage being 10% in RES.

Oboro should give her something like 2.5% less DEF growth for 5% more HP growth…. Rinkah!Matoi actually thus has slightly LESS single-strike survivability (HP+DEF) than Oboro!Matoi (just going off growths)…. they might be more comparable on two-strike survivability.

Class bases…. also, Rinkah!Matoi has lower DEF growth than does Tsubaki, and Rinkah is in a high DEF growth class by default…. Rinkah!Matoi might have a +6 DEF mod, but she's not actually REACHING that during the main game…. EDIT: Rinkah also notably cuts into her HP growth and STR growth…. Rinkah is a good pair-up for Tsubaki but a weak mother for Matoi….

Although I have a general sense of it, to clarify, which children do you think are clearly better than their fixed parents, which do you think are clearly worse, and which are about the same? For example, I'd guess that Matoi is clearly better than Tsubaki, and I might guess that Lutz is better than Arthur, but I might imagine that Deere is clearly worse than Jakob [Jakob's personal skill might be really helpful to the Avatar, for example]. What do you think in general on this subject?

Well, to be honest, I also kind of want Ophelia on the Nohr playthrough to then pair her up with the Avatar. But I have little desire to use Odin himself except as a vehicle for getting Horse God and Ophelia….

Speaking of using/Deploying Odin to get him paired for Ophelia/her chapter and getting a Horse God spell for Leo that way, if you were using Odin for such a purpose, whom would you give him to from a practicality standpoint?

I thought it was because Otaku have been found to spend their income disproportionately on their interests here relative to the rest of the population, such that they constitute a disproportionate amount of money that gets paid into the industry compared to their size within the general population. They're in other words a highly profitable demographic to target.

Also, there's the question of whether the benefit is for giving them class access or whether the benefit is simply because the chosen class gives them pair-up bonuses that they happen to like. Maybe the spouse doesn't want a class itself but really likes getting the pair-up bonus from it.

Let's see… I've posted in other topics, but I'm still trying to figure this out…. Like the topic creator, I want to do Birthright on Hard/Lunatic (maybe Hard first time, Lunatic subsequently) and I want to end with a full team of 16 for the final missions. Given how deployment slots and recruitments progress, this probably means children or late game pre-promotes will fill in some of the later slots. I'm assuming no-grind, no skill buying or DLC grinding. Now, in this post, I'm going to try to reason out my team, step by step, so this is going to be somewhat of a "stream of consciousness" approach to writing in which I write down my thoughts as I try reasoning it out… if you wouldn't mind, if you could evaluate my thought processes and see if you think my conclusions are sound, that would be helpful. I'll put the rest in spoiler tags to avoid taking up too much space on the page: