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Maybe M!Kamui could have slipped something in Zero's drink to magically make him pregnant. But that would be ridiculous.

Do Songstress and Villager promote to anything or are they special classes that can go to a higher level like Dancer and Villager in Awakening?

As always thanks for the translations Vincent.

I can't see it but that might be more to do with the fact I can't tell what the heck is going on with that over-designed nonsensical outfit.

They may have been referring to the purple text box which occurs after choosing Nohr, correct? I feel like the dark dress will only appear after a certain point in the story. It makes sense for her to wear the lighter Hoshido dress at the start of both routes what with her having lived in Hoshido regardless of which route is chosen. That screen cap may be taken very early in the Nohr route before she changes dress. Or the dark dress could be cutscenes only which would be a shame.

I think last week we got scans on Wednesday (roughly in the morning for the US and afternoon for Europe). EDIT: Sorry I just read you asked for when we got the preview. That may have been earlier but I forgot which day.

Oh wow your badge changes to "Hoshidan" or "Nohrian" that's so cool. I'll play both but Nohr interests me the most right now. Also how could I ever say no to Marx lol

If there aren't any same-sex romantic pairings I'm going to be very disappointed. I'm not feeling too optimistic though.

I'm a little confused. Do we know Harold's base class? I don't know why I just assumed he joined as a (Brave) Hero. But seeing that he promotes from something means be must join as a unpromoted class? Nevermind I reread the write up lol. Fighter it is.

The final boss will probably have a skill where their stats can't be lowered I'm calling it now.

When I saw units were getting personal skills in this game I thought that'd just mean regular class skills normally unobtainable for that character (like how some spotpass characters in awakening came with lord class skills or opposite gender locked class skills). I didn't expect units would get a new individual skill tailored to their personality. That's cool. it's just a shame some of them are looking a lot better than others...

That's still 4 promoted classes to choose from. Or 3 depending on overlap but since the number of reclass options has been reduced it would be pretty unlucky for a character to get 2 base classes which shared a promoted class. 2 base classes and 4 promoted classes is still 12 skills to choose from and that doesn't even include the extra personal skill that all characters seem to be getting. So I think that's still some good choice. The only thing I'm disappointed with is Joker's choice of classes. They may make sense from a character perspective, but he has 2 physical promoted classes, 1 mixed and one magic class. There weren't many examples of characters in awakening who could pull off both physical and magical classes. That along with the fact that there's not a lot of weapon overlap between Joker's 2 class trees I don't know if his physical options are looking so viable. I'm really hoping that all the characters get 2 usable class trees that make sense for that character and product interesting and unique skill combinations while also staying balanced.

If rod knights can promote to butlers/maids does that mean Elise, princess of Nohr, could become a maid? Doesn't seem a class befitting royalty. I'm definitely making her a valkyrie.

Serenes class page says lancer.

Since the butler class, and I'm assuming maid too, can reclass to strategist/valkyrie and they have the troubadour class skills can we assume butlers and maids have replaced war monks and war clerics? Also 2 class trees instead of 3 and parallel reclassing instead of infinite levelling makes sense for a game with limited grinding opportunities. We must be able to reset levels some how since how else would be fill 6 skill slots? I really hope we get an in depth view into class and skill mechanics soon It's interesting to see how much has been changed since Awakening.

But yet I remember reading that concentration still worked if the until was in double, implying a 1-3 range. Oh well different skills, different conditions.

Unfortunate considering the design of the trickster class suits status staves perfectly imo.

Also I don't know about the popularity of different FE lords in Japan but if this game plans to go international then Cellica pretty much needs the unique class to sell as well as other more popular characters. Lyn, internationally anyway, is probably popular enough to sell as well as the others without a unique class.

Long shot but she could be an assassin (swords and bows, avoids duplicates) but with a skill similar to Micaiah's that allows her to use the myrm/SM swords in any sword wielding class. But to be honest I don't think those class restricted swords (which there are only about 2 of?) have enough importance to warrant a skill, unlike dark magic.

Henry because it's Henry. Also he has a cute laugh.

Serge is 2 days before mine. Awesome. I don't know if this has already been asked in the thread or it's already common knowledge but is there any in-game significance to the characters being allocated birthdays or is it just for fun?

I just read that apparently in the FE9 beta Ike was originally named Paris? Probably doesn't mean anything but I'll still throw that little nugget of information into this thread anyway.

Would that even be possible? I guess since it would just use the tomes rank it would be okay. It probably would have been best introduced along with DLC Micaiah with her as a new class like light mage or something like Alm has demon fighter.

I didn't realise we had six. I was only aware of 2. Could anyone reveal to me the 5 we already know?

How many kids have you got so far? How many more do you think you'll get. Do you think it's viable to recruit every child in a single playthrough?