Emperor Hardin

If so, that is one dedicated political enemy.

The notes by Kaga say his mother was killed there, so he possibly was an outcast? If I did another Shadow Dragon remake, there'd be a recruitable pirate in Pyrath who'd be recruitable by Ogma.

What do you mean by minor stat tweaking? Do you mean stuff like raising everyone's defense growth and lowering Valbar's speed? If so, I'm not crazy for that. And as I mentioned there is still a number of gameplay mechanics in Gaiden that are superior to Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. What would you think of armored units having higher movement and stuff like new personal skills like Arden having Pavise thus enabling him to pass it to a potential kid? Or adding a hard mode which increases the amount of enemies as well as their stats? Same.

Basically IS needs to learn if they remove some broken things like the movement giving ring, then they shouldn't leave others like Armored units being 3 movement other infantry, and add new like giving 5 range the already broken Bow Knight great accuracy growth and giving the also absurd Dread Fighters the ability to halve all magic damage in a game filled to the brim with magic users. Like its less balancing and more just pointlessly messing around with the game engine.

If anything removing that made the game much more broken as the already awful 4 move Barons who already had to compete with mounts and 7 movement Dread Fighters, now have absolutely nothing to patch their movement which is truly bad even by armor standards.

I bet if Kaga remade Mystery of the Emblem, there'd be a Pyrathi chapter. Remember the entire Pyrathi map was removed in FE3 for space. The pirates weren't random criminals, they were Mannu's official army.

Cyas and Othin/Osian to Genealogy of the Holy War. Cyas for story reasons and Othin/Osian for gameplay reasons+Pugi. Hannibal has some great skills and stats from what I remember in his cameo in FE5, so I'd add him to Thracia.

Arden's personal skill should be pavise so he can pass it to his kids.

Outside of the DS remakes where they only balanced classes, since when has IS balanced any remake? They certainly didn't balance Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Based off Shadows of Valentia, they'll likely get even worse.

Ohtz's portrait is a recolored version of several generic village NPCs within this game. Ohtz won the least votes in the Binding Blade popularity poll, though it should be noted many mini bosses didn't even rank.

There are a few other changes I'm curious about too. FE1 Emereus seems to have different dialogue in each version of the game, but that seems to be due to his different weapon. Originally he used a silver sword for reference which became a Steel Lance or Silver Lance in later versions. Nehring, a boss in Mystery of the Emblem says "long live the Emperor" in the SNES translation, but says "Glory to the empire" in the DS translation. I'm wondering if Emperor was actually switched with empire in the DS version Sonya's ending in Gaiden, I'm very curious about. The two translated endings: “Her two older sisters, Mara and Heste, had been reborn as witches to be sacrificed to Doma… Sonya would never forgive their father Judah for making his three daughters into sacrifices.” “”Her older sisters Mara and heste were Doma’s sacrifices. Sonia would never forgave Judah for her deeds.” It was changed from a slaver who was a Manakete(NES) or old lady(SNES+Manga) capturing Linde and some boys to sell to bandits capturing adult men for vague reasons. It's presumed it was done for the sake of the game being localized in english, even though similar scenes have happened plenty of times. Fire Emblem warriors used that version and excluded the actual boss of the chapter in favor of making generic bandit the map's boss in a very questionable decision.

Are you ok with unit suggestions or PMU of any kind?

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Some characters could use more focus, but I'd mainly like all the info from out of game sources to be implemented directly into the game's story. That just reminds me about several fan translation differences. Like a pirate boss in Mystery of the Emblem, Guile/Gail says in the SNES fan translation: “Please spare me! Wait, that’s useless...No choice... I’m going to chop your head off!” In the DS fan translation, Guil/Gail instead says: I'm sorry! ...I wasn't thinking! Gahaha, just kidding! I'll be smashing your pretty head in! I'm kinda of curious here. It removed other thing due to space or other gameplay mechanic issues rather then by choice. Marth may not have falchion at the moment but he is still the proud descendant of the human who dared rebel against his Manakete peters, killed many Fire Dragons and is a symbol of defiance in face of dragons. And again, we don't have anything concrete, so we can only speculate. We do see Mannu is very proud of his heritage as a member of the Salamander tribe and finds the idea of a human thinking they're better then a Manakete to be absurd. There's no evidence they didn't do as such either. Pyrathi is underdeveloped as we've talked about.

Off the top of my head Wyverns are weak to bows, more powerful thunder enemies, and cavalry is weak to fire. Oh and add Largo even if he is class changed to Reaver.

That was entirely because they didn't become Manaketes, which Medeus and Mannu are. Mannu is most definitely not degenerated. Mystery of the Emblem fleshed out a lot of the things that were more bare bones in FE3. For example, the backstory on Morzas replacing Camus as overseer of Altea comes from Mystery of the Emblem. The narration says "But the kingdom of Pyrathi seldom made contact with the outside world." There is historical precedence for neutral or even isolationist nations passively supporting another nation in a war by selling them supplies. Not quite, here is the line from the villager: “Your best chance of stopping a Manakete lies in what they call a wyrmslayer. It’s a type of sword, and I hear one is enshrined in the eastern palace.” So it seems Pyrathi was keeping as part of a shrine's treasure. Mannu must've known as the risk though as his soldiers are sent to try to take the sword off of the battlefield. Now I'm thinking if Shadow Dragon is ever remade, we should get another pirate unit from Pyrathi.

That is why I imagine as well. People can visit Pyrathi, but it is very selective. I think Mannu is good with humans who show manaketes "proper respect" and most of the people on the island are indeed humans. However they may be culturally very different from the humans in Archanea, possibly similar to the humans in Dolhr in their veneration of Manaketes. Just general view of culture it's of course all vague but the fact that you brought up how that one villager had said they visited Pyrathi and possibly Jorge's presence makes it seem like they do allow some selected individuals to enter. Probably because it is of great historical importance to the continent. Could be a bit like North Korea where that one villager paid a large amount of gold to visit the country and examine the ruins and Mannu himself personally over saw it. Besides my impression that he supports Medeus and Dolhr, mostly through supplies, I imagine Mannu could've been a keeper of an important location to the fire tribe. Overtime people came or lived there all along, and Mannu allowed them to live there after culturally influencing them to his liking and basically ensuring they adhere to Fire Dragon customs. There could easily be more, I don't think Marth/the player fought the whole nation in game. And agreed on that bit, makes me sad we never got that planned sequel.

Well it says: Mannu, was wroth when he heard of the League's unexpected visit. Specifically mentioning the league like that could definitely mean that he was angry that it was them being the Archanean league that angered him. Given it was left out of FE3 that is probably a major reason. The NES didn't have as much room for text. You don't have to actively involve your soil in a war to be supporting one side. For all we know Mannu could've been seen supplying weapons and resources to Dolhr. Whilst Xane has negative feelings towards humans, he isn't actively aggressive towards them as Mannu is to those who don't work for him. It is possible for Mannu to be unaffiliated to Dolhr entirely, but that isn't the impression I get. Whilst that is the Doylist reason, your thoughts on Pyrathi's culture and Manny's motivations. No problem at all. Some of these interviews are so hard to find. I still want a proper translation of the Aurelis history posted on this site.

Nothing contradicts it and Mannu's obvious pride over being a dragon as well as his use of a derogative towards a human fits in with the Dolhr's world view that they were there for first and humans should respect their betters. Foolhardy humans, defying a Manakete king! Tremble now, and feel the last quickening of your heart! What...? Slain, by this fangless coward and his minions? As mentioned, Marth is the descendant of Anri, the man who toppled the Manaketes and sent them back to the bad lands, and is currently on land important to the Salamander tribe. He has every reason to be opposed to Marth. What makes you so sure Mannu isn't affiliated with them? Given his dragon pride, why wouldn't he not support them?

I just remembered the generic villager in Aurelis who took Bantu's Dragonstone mentions visiting Pyrathi and seeing a old Manakete transform. I wonder if it was Bantu or Mannu himself. Also interesting that an aurelian visited the nation. Bantu mentions visiting Pyrathi and losing his dragon stone in his recruitment speech. Perhaps Bantu visited the nation on a pilgrimage, that is why I'm thinking? What makes you sure he isn't on their side. Malladeus seems to assume if Mannu is a Manakete, he'll be an enemy of Marth. Nothing in Mannu''s dialogue he is in any way close to becoming a feral animal, he speaks quite eloquently and is very to the point. Dragons are consistently protective of their territory. What actions, do you mean attacking Marth and the Archanean league? If so, most Manaketes and every seen Fire Dragon but Bantu, opposes Marth.

On the subject of whether Pyrathi is a criminal nation or not, whilst the Pirates may be there for the sea title advantage, the nation also uses Hunters in place of archers, which FE usually leaves for bandits or "wild" armies. Personally I think its clear Pyrathi is a nation with a history, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had privateers who sometimes raided near ships and took their cargo, especially to guard the island from unwanted intruders. Its too bad there is so little on Pyarthi. We know Ogma was born there and his mother later died there due to some unspecified internal strife I really wondered what Kaga would've expanded it if he'd included it in Mystery of the Emblem or done his own remake? There are national rivalries too. And assuming he is a Dolhrian loyalist or sympathizer, having the heir to Anri the legendary dragon slayer on the ground of the Salamander tribe might've angered him I hadn't see your edit, but the point stands that Fates handles degeneation differently then Archanea where age played no role. Still there is reason to assume Manaketes don't commonly degenerate. In TearRing Saga, which was once a Fire Emblem game, a Manake...Emiyu did degenerate, but only after she had been locked into her dragon form and prevented from returning to humanoid form with sealed power. Also sorry if I came off as snappy, as an Archanea fan, it is a bit of a peeve of mine when people assume that the Manaketes villains in Shadow Dragon are evil because of degeneration.

Degeneration in later titles is handled very differently then how it was originally written and I already mentioned how Naga is written way differently now then how the character was originally envisioned. Its implied that Pyrathi relates to the Fire Dragon tribe in some way, he calls its Hallowed ground, there are a bunch of weird ruins on the island and the Dragon brethren once ruled the whole world uncontested.

Mannu's definitely not degenerated, degenerated dragons don't lead armies, rule kingdoms or make military plans in the Kaga era. Notes say Mannu has always been isolationistic. In the NES script, Mannu also mentions sacrificing Marth to the salamander tribe. Tiki was the only Manakete in danger of degeneration and only due to her incredible power. And again, hating humans outside of their direct followers is very common among Manaketes, especially Fire Dragons. Malladeus also implies Mannu may be a Dolhrian sympathizer. Slightly offtopic, but Naga was unusually lenient and irresponsible there, especially as Forseti the Manakete with all his power sealed was stopped from staying on Jugdral to help humans instead of ruling them.

There is plenty of other ridiculous things too in FE like Wyvern riders using short axes on a giant mount with wings that would get in the way of the rider's axe swinging, bows shooting through walls and armor not being helpful in most situations. Exactly and that would be useful in certain situations, especially in games where armored units have terrain they can't cross at all. Say Dalshin is at the 14x escape map and realizes he can't cross over the mountain required for the mission, realistically he would dis-armor as he has to cross or else be left behind. I mean if cavalry can dismount, why not? Similarly someone like Draug or Gatrie may want to disarmor in a scenario where mobility is more important and defense isn't needed. In other FE games, armored units are still penalized in terrain like Deserts reducing their already low movement by absurd amounts. In Heroes, when you use movement increasing skills like armor march, the lack of movement loss for armored units in forests will stick. Also I'm listening to your balance ideas?

The spriters resource has a few FE Style Zelda sprites?