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I was assuming every character had a canon class and we'd recruit them at some point already promoted in it. Only your house's students get to be tutored, though. Skipping on 16 characters every playthrough just sounds like way too much. That being said... another issue is whether or not we'll face the other houses in combat(beyond mock battles), and that is really difficult to say at this point. As for the stories merging... I'm going to say yes. We're already seeing different Houses on the exact same map, and it doesn't seem like this will be three games in one in general.

I'll be optimistic and say yes, we will. But we don't know. I guess they could show some of the famitsu news in action, but frankly, we're long overdue for a story-centric trailer, so, maybe that instead?

That's not quite the voice I was expecting from that Oooooooi we got earlier. It's nice though.

I actually don't know anymore. I was thinking Blue Lions, but Golden Deer being the house of the commoners makes it that much more attractive to me for some reason. And Edelgard is still my favorite of the three lords at the moment, so it's not like new information couldn't put the eagles in the lead. Let's say Golden Deer for now.

That's just not how we advertise our games out there I guess. We're still getting Nintendo directs and tweets, but magazine coverage would make less sense than in Japan. Or at least that's how it is where I live.

Fire Emblem games typically go in pairs largely independent from the rest. That being said, this one is independent period, for now. It's a new world with new characters none of us know.

I was wondering about that as well, and it definitely sounded interesting to learn how they'd manage to make it all work together without making things too cumbersome(as time-based mechanics tend to do that). However, and I guess that's my cue to update this actually, they seem to have added house flags in classes as seen in the Famitsu coverage: Guess that doesn't completely prove that there's more than one classroom, but it sure gets pretty close. Not sure how to tag Calico, so I'll just empty quote; but yes, just to acknowledge, I think you were right.

There is also another tweet right beneath, that (likely)introduces Edelgard.

Not necessarily, opinions on the character vary. Many would tell you he's actually a great asset to the team. Orochi on the other hand...

Apparently there are two types of skills at this point: Class skills, and Weapon skills. There might also be a third one in personal skills, but this is currently unclear. Class skills are self explanatory, we've had those before. Weapon skills are learned as you level up your ranks. Also, at this point we can safely say that weapon ranks will clearly have a much bigger impact in Three Houses than usual. As for personal skills, I'm saying this because we've seen Byleth with Wrath as a Commoner(a type of villager), and Edelgard having Vantage or Nobility(from Nohr Prince(ss)) as a Noble(the other type of villager). Also we could spot Dorothea having some kind of green skill in a short commercial, but it was very blurry so we can only assume what it was. Point is, there's little chance any of these are obtained through class, buuuut as Edelgard has been shown with two different ones, these may not be final either.

On an additional note, Lorentz has 32 max HP as a lv9 Noble/Commoner. Also looking at her icon Hilda is not a fighter on that pic, just a Noble/Commoner with an axe. Golden Deer confirmed as the beefy house?

I mean, that may be a thing, but would there really be much of a point in displaying it during tutoring? As far as we know raising faith magic will not make your faith troops stronger, though I guess that's not exactly impossible either.

I say let's wait for a bit more context on this one. However, the issue with trying to intercept the guy instead of body blocking is that it's much less effective when it comes to protection. If the primary goal was to protect Edelgard, which seemed to be the case, I think it makes some amount of sense. Furthermore, well Byleth doesn't get axed in the back in that scene, meaning it's after Sothis rewinds time and thus they already know what's going to happen. Finally, looking at Edelgard's reaction after the save, it seems pretty obvious that she was in way over her head there, to me anyway.

The church's emblem features the symbol of the Adrestian empire, and so does Garreg Mach, even though it should be neutral, with flags and carvings. The apostle/oracle/who knows also has it on her dress. A bit tired but let me get some images:

Yeah but, from +6 to +65? That's unfortunately always a possibility. I remember an early shot of Fates showing Felicia along with female Corrin in an early BR chapter(Zola's), which killed the theory that your main retainer was always the opposite gender of yours, even though it was correct. Those things happen. It's fine though, it's not like we're breaking the internet by theorizing anyway, and we do end up finding the truth a lot of the time. In this precise case, I think it's reasonable to say we need more than what we currently have, though.

That would be news to me. All I heard was magic in general. I mean, perhaps, but from everything we've seen the Church of Seiros seems affiliated with Adrestia first and foremost, which is something else to consider.

^^We also see the effects of the tutoring on Edelgard though, and that gives 6 exp, potentially *1.5, which is consistent with what Dorothea got in the trailer. One possible explanation is that + ranks don't require you to fill the bar to reach, but something else. We did get a part in the very first trailer about Edelgard asking what she should focus training on, which could be related... though it could also be completely outdated by now. Also the bar indicates 3 tutorings being available, the empty part shows the cost pre-emptively. This is visible in the japanese trailer 2, as it flashes red, then gets consumed once Dorothea has received her bonus, then the 3 turns into a 2(which kind of makes me wonder if it really was the older build of the two). Weapon ranks are just super weird here, there seems to be something we're missing. Edit: Oh also I forgot to say, I'm not convinced any ranks we're seeing in those shots can reasonably be attributed to tutoring, almost everything is too clean at 0 exp of the current level, everyone has the exact same mood, Dimitri is only level 2 and Edelgard isn't much higher... Feels like the very first tutoring of the game to me, maybe a couple chapters in.

That could certainly pose a few problems with the FE formula, and I'm definitely curious about supports specifically as well. But at the same time, that should also limit how hated the character can be. We could do with people in this community being more accepting of avatars(since the chance of them going away seem extremely slim) than they currently are, and that's one way for that to be accomplished. I'll assume she's saying that as a reaction to Byleth throwing his back directly into the blade of an axe... which would make it warranted. If you forget the "lesser being" part.

Oh, whoops, should have checked Reddit.

That's already quite helpful to be honest, thanks for posting this. How did you even run into it though? It doesn't seem to appear on their main site... He straight up reminds me of Link in this one. If he can speak, he's certainly overreacting here, but mute characters do have to emote a lot more.

Okay, she's a Nyx rather than a Nowi, which is good news afaic. This is based on her tone and demeanor, can't help you with the translation. I seem to recognize wording typically used by very haughty characters, though. Which is obvious I suppose, but eh

I do think mood could eventually affect how much your bar decreases, or perhaps how big it is, but not that it's specifically a mood bar. Plus if this system had inevitable diminishing returns on top of having limited charges from Byleth themselves, I don't know, that'd sound too punishing. Maybe that's the point, though so that you can't focus on a single student all the time.

Those are surprisingly two dimensional quotes to be put on cards of characters we know next to nothing about. Especially Claude's. So Edelgard is the patronizing one, Dimitri is earnest with good manners but a short temper, and Claude is... the Joker?

I'd assume they'd have come up with a different icon for different formations though. Not the same one but smaller and recolored. Not that this confirms that there's nothing else, since most of what we're seeing is looking like the earlygame, but I'm starting to wonder. That'd be a weird icon to signify that, but then again that'd be a weird icon for almost anything we as a community came up with. Sounds possible.

Makes sense, though I'm not convinced the gauge and the mood icon are linked in that way. Even picking their favorites decreased Dorothea/Edelgard's gauge; logically that should refill it instead, or at worst not affect it. But that doesn't mean you're wrong about how mood works, just that the bar itself may be something else. Considering in the japanese trailer two it had three segments filled and indicated that you could train three times, in the english one only one segment and being able to train once, and this time two segments and being able to train twice... yeah. Also this made me notice that Edelgard is talented at Swords, Axes, Authority, and... Armors, of all things, judging from the base rank. And I had never pictured Edelgard as an armor knight until now.