Astelaine

Go ahead and spill! And really, Eclipse, you are definitely better than you think! You should enter all the splicing contests you can manage - it will give you plenty of practice/observation of the official mugs, and fitting the pieces together will help you get comfortable with customing. I'd love to see more stuff from you. Btw, you were a pleasure to work with, and I am proud of our lord :D @AK/MarioKirby: I love love love both your sprite and the sketches!

I believe I've received everyone's work from the Super Spriting Team Challenge, so without further ado: the entries! I've included any character blurbs or reference sketches that came with the sprites. Team Challenge: Round 1 Showcase! Challenge Theme: Sprite a Lord character! This can be an existing FE lord, or an original character meant to lead a Fire Emblem army - however you choose to interpret it. [battle Sprites] Team 13: Mercenary Lord & Deranger "Meet Keril, the Common Lord. Born to a regular villager family, he became the leader of a civilian rebellion against a corrupt king through chance, confusion, and his uncanny skill with an axe." [Portraits] Team Old Ladies of Serenes Forest: Eclipse & Astelaine Team 2: Kon & Ponih Team 4: Solum & Ubel Engel Team Amewlia: Mewiyev & Amelia Team 6: RisingSolaris & Kramgnauh Team 7: ShinyPichu & BwdYeti Team Fuzzy Merc: Fuzz94 & The Merc Team 9: AthenaWyrm & Yoshi Team10: ObLivia & MarioKirby Concept sketch/ref Team 11: MiniBladez & Lenh Team DoYouEvenLift?: Redfield & Seph1212 ---------------------------------------- Everyone, please pat yourselves on the back - these are fabulous! Due to the great turnout, high number of completed entries, and the overall quality of the sprites, I am considering the team challenge a success. Feel free to celebrate and comment on the entries in this thread. In addition, please give me some feedback: 1) What was your experience with the exercise? How did it go for you? 2) What was your process - how did you go about making your sprite with your partner? Discuss! Fuzz and Merc, you've been randomly chosen to provide the theme for the next round! Please PM it to me after you've settled on an idea! (Keep it safe for work, will ya, Merc? ) Thank you so much to all the teams that participated! Let's party!

Don't forget the TROROROROROROROS!

I've received a couple PMs asking for more time, so if you couldn't make the deadline, just go ahead and send it in whenever you finish. I'll wait a day or two before putting up the gallery thread, and if it's not in by then, I'll just edit it into the showcase when I get it. Next round I think we'll extend the challenge period to one month, just to make sure people can finish comfortably. tl;dr Chill out, finish your stuff, and then pat yourselves on the back, because these all look great so far.

Whatevs, shit happens!6 more hours~

Double-posting, deal with it! Today is the last day to submit your team entries! I have received a bunch already, but if you haven't finished yet, you still have today to wrap up. Can't wait to display all these!

Three more days til the deadline! Oh snaps! I should take my own advice and get finished

Read this whole thread, comments and all. The poster's health problem probably doesn't apply to you, but there's lots of discussion about how (US) grad schools operate and how to deal with the workload. Best of luck in your program!

oh and I stole Alejandro too

Yeah, definitely enjoying the LP as well. I tried playing this game years ago and gave up in the end, but I always wanted to see how it plays later on and what happens to all the apprentices. Thank you for your very awesome and thorough playlog!

Ohhhhh snaaaaaaap that's perfect! I will totally use those colors. Thanks, Char!

I fully acknowledge this set is terrible auuughhh

Thanks guys! @ Phoenix: Yeah, that's the difference between FE8 and FE7 colors. I really hate that her hair looks so washed-out; I'm gonna have to tool around to find a better set of colors for black hair. I just grabbed Jaffar's cloak colors out of laziness. P.S. Thanks to AK for the FE7 dark skin color palette, and eCut for giving me crit/edits!

Really enjoyed playtesting this. Can't wait to try 5x!

As I understand it, tsunderes are characters that cover up their vulnerable, sensitive sides with hosility or aggression. It seems like self-protection thing. Duuuddezzzz like tsunderes because they have a fantasy of being the only one to find and bring out that rare vulnerability and sweetness, hence making them teh_speciallzzzz.

Yay neglected sprite thread! Might as well bump it. Got a WIP going: -> Left is an old splice (like Round 17 old!) Right is the new mug. I've been wanting to turn this into a custom sprite forever, but never got around to it til now. :) Oh yeah, I spliced this too: The set was Desmond/Geese/beta Eliwood.

Yep! There will be new teammate pairings each round. :)

New Apollo looks badass. Getting mega Captain Harlock vibes over here!

I imagine that they did try hard not to have children. According to the timeline, Maira's rebellion began in 535 and he was presumably exiled not long afterwards. FE4's first generation doesn't begin until 757. If left to reproduce as one will, a person could have a ton of descendants within 200+ years. Yet, at the time of the game, Maira's last remaining descendant is Diadora. That leads me to suspect they were at least trying to keep it in check. You're right, though, that in each generation, at least one of Maira's descendants reproduced. Not sure why. Lots of people feel a desire to have children and be parents, so like Diadora, maybe they couldn't help falling in love and starting a family. Maybe some were accidents or the product of youthful teenage dalliances in the village. Some might have been (eesh!) raped by Verdane soldiers or bandits while away from town. Some might have resented being in village custody and been a little rebellious, especially many generations after Galle and Maira - "who are you to tell me what to do with my body, just because of some crappy emperor 200 years ago?," etc. (I wonder if that is what happened with Diadora's mother, Cigyn?) It's also possible that the villagers were less strict in the past, and Maira's descendants were allowed to have children provided they remained hidden and did not leave the Spirit Forest. Maybe they only became restrictive about it recently, because of Cigyn and her violation of village law.

As I understand it, Lopt blood is hated/feared across Jugdral, because people don't want to return to the horrible evil empire days of Emperor Galle. They fear that someone with major Lopt blood would bring back the old tyrannies and child sacrificing with the help of the Lopt Cult (as did happen with Julius later.) Thusly, in every kingdom in Jugdral, there is an ongoing "witch hunt" for remaining bearers of Lopt blood. Diadora escaped persecution because she was brought up in a hidden village, with her descent presumably kept secret from everyone in Verdane, except the other hidden-villagers. The village is where the descendants of Saint Maira and his attendants had lived for centuries after Maira had defected from his predecessor Galle's cause. Because of that, the people in the village understood that Lopt blood alone does not make someone evil, but at the same time, they kept the remaining descendants (Diadora) tightly under control, so the blood would not be spread. Even people associated with the legacy of Maira don't want Lopt blood getting around, because the Lopt Cult is out there to make sure the blood is used for the dark lord to be revived. Alvis grew up in a completely different enviroment - among the Grandbell nobility. Unlike Diadora, there was not anyone around who would be sympathetic to his situation. He lived constantly with the terror of being found out, knowing he could be denounced and burned at the stake. When the Lopt Cult found out about his lineage and approached him, he had to cooperate, out of fear the cultists would reveal his secret. Hence, he got swept up in the events of FE4 and ended up married to Diadora so Loputous could be revived. So, TL:DR; response to your question, no one is accepting of Lopt blood, except the crazy Loputous worshippers who want to bring back his power. Diadora just had the luck to be born in a community that was slightly less assholish about it. Edit: More info about Galle, Maira, and Lopt witch hunts in the designer notes in this post, under the heading "Secret of Blagi Tower."

Yeah, it's Levin!