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I'm annoyed that they'd give Myrrh a refine before Fae even gets a prf. Myrrh does deserve one but at the awfully slow pace they do these, and the fact that Fae came out one year before her, I don't like it. At the very least I hope her refine is really good. Also while I don't plan on using them I'm happy for Draug and Donnel.

I like Himukai's Raigh art, but my issue is that he doesn't look nearly as cool as he does in Cipher. It fits Lugh, but Raigh could be better. And of course, the stat boost. I imagine it'd be Lilina before Raigh ever gets one though.

While I don't think it's the best (Sophia and Hector are better I think), I really like it. And the artstyle is nice. And...that's another season of the FEH Pass I'm getting. On another note, I'm pretty happy about the news of the revivals. More free rolls is good (I got Dimitri from a ticket just now!), you can spark on these, and I really want some accessories I missed out on. These events also give precious grails...but I wonder how frequent they'll be. The twitter vote seems to suggest every two months. I will say that I wish we'd get Zofia's Call next, because I'd love a shot at Silque or more importantly Forsyth, plus the accessories are really good. Desert Mercenaries would be my second choice if only for Ewan merges.

I don't have any bonus units this time, but I'm sure Hinata will work just fine once I get him. Going to grind the entire event in one day because I am desperate for orbs for Amelia merges.

He looks so silly that it's honestly charming. This art also looks much better than his normal appearance so I retract my "ew" comment.

Isn't Oboro's (and likely Hinata's weapon) just Shoreline Rake but better? I just promoted and foddered a Summer Ylgr to Ross for that...lol

Hinata is ehhh...I hope he has some good fodder. Rafiel and Nailah are cool picks, and Oboro looks nice. Finally another character with not only Atk/Res Push 4 but Mystic Boost. I'll probably just free roll for Micaiah/Sothe.

I love this and am going to be sad when these aren't our Summer heroes. Especially if Leif is the 4* focus in this scenario.

This seems fun. 1.) Shadow Dragon Etzel - Red Tome Infantry Midia - Lance Cavalry Horace - Axe Armour Ymir - Axe Infantry (4* Focus) TT+: Frey - Lance Cavalry GHB: Lorenz - Bow Armour Horace doesn't actually use an axe in his base class, but it's in his art and I didn't want to have 3 lances. I guess I could've made him a bow, but I wanted Lorenz to have something unique to him among his Archanean peers. Lorenz is also a lance user, but in SD armours could use bows so why not show that here? I also just wanted to add in all the gaiden characters here, plus Midia for Astram's sake. 2.) Shadows of Valentia Kamui - Sword Infantry Mycen - Lance Cavalry Luthier - Green Tome Infantry (4* Focus) Tatiana - Staff Infantry TT+: Nomah - Blue Tome Infantry GHB: Deen - Sword Infantry I wanted to keep the representation of both routes equal, though there were some unfortunate casualties (Jesse, Atlas). Due to the gender rule, I was basically forced to add Tatiana, plus there's no way she wouldn't be on a hypothetical last SoV focus in the first place. Mycen and Nomah are top priorities from the start because FEH desperately needs more old people. Deen is the GHB over Fernand for Celica route representation + I really like him. Kamui, in this scenario of mine, would be a special unit with a prf skill that wards off magic damage and has the Dread Fighter design. Deen would have a prf weapon called Shadow Blade (since Shadow Sword is taken) that basically has Sol Lance's effect. 3.) New Mystery of the Emblem Malice - Sword Infantry Cecil - Sword Cavalry (4* Focus) Arran - Lance Cavalry Samson - Axe Infantry GHB: Medeus - Colourless Breath Armour TT+: Eremiya - Red Tome Infantry I don't have much to say about this one, I wanted Cecil to go with Roderick and Luke, Samson with Sheena, and Arran because he also fits with the Altean knights. Plus having both Arran and Samson on the same focus is funny. Medeus and Eremiya seem like obvious picks since the former is a blatant hole in Archanean representation and Eremiya's obvious ties to Legion, Clarisse and Katarina. Malice works for variety's sake and she's an interesting pick originating from an obscure spin-off that I've seen more than a few people like. I guess Nyna is a pretty huge omission but maybe it just wasn't meant to be. 4.) Genealogy of the Holy War Azelle - Red Tome Cavalry (4* Focus) Lex - Axe Cavalry Brigid - Bow Infantry Edain - Staff Infantry GHB: Lombard - Axe Armour TT+: Dew - Green Dagger Infantry We've needed a common red tome cavalry in the summoning pool since...forever, really. Azelle is also the first mage in FE4, he's Arvis' half-sibling, he's Lex's friend, he's Tailtiu's husband, and I just want him. You also can't have one without the other, so Lex is a no brainer too. I'd imagine Lex could get the Master Axe, but named "Meisteraxt" because Heroes likes doing that. I'm not really sure if Brigid counts as an alt, but I also think her and Edain feel really necessary for FE4's roster. Brigid is also good Yewfelle representation. And speaking of holy weapon representation, I put Lombard as GHB solely so that Helswath could be in the game. Dew is one of only few possible dagger units for FE4, so he's a must. I'd imagine his prf to be the Wind Sword but as a Wind Dagger instead, thus why he's green. It'd also be nice to have a f2p green infantry dagger, though we do already have an armoured one in Jaffar. 5.) Thracia 776 Diarmuid - Sword Cavalry Dean - Lance Flier Dagdar - Axe Infantry (4* Focus) Linoan - Staff Infantry GHB: Raydrick - Sword Armour TT+: Marty - Axe Infantry Diarmuid is cheating a bit, but still counts. He would, of course, wield the Beo Sword, and unfortunately shaft Fergus. Dean would have the Dragonpike, as a prf with an effect like the Meister- weapons. I don't personally care about Linoan herself much but I think Dean is very out of place without her at the very least. Dagdar - Tanya's Father and Marty - Dagdar's Lover are just filling out the units you start out with. Halvan is unfortunately left out in this regard. 6.) The Binding Blade Juno - Sword Flier Elffin - Blue Tome Infantry Refresher Hugh - Blue Tome Infantry (4* Focus) Niime - Colourless Tome Infantry GHB: Murdock - Axe Armour TT+: Douglas - Lance Armour Hugh is my most wanted character and I want him to be easy to +10 first and foremost. Being a blue tome is good for variety, since FE6 only has one blue tome in Brunnya. I also want to be able to make a balanced team of Raigh/Hugh/Lugh/Chad without colour overlap, and I have so many red and green +10 projects as it is. Juno is mainly there for Shanna and Thea's sake, and she's a sword for variety purposes. Elffin is a very requested character, I like him, and he's another dancer for FE6, he's also kind of important to a lot of characters in Heroes right now. I think blue tome is what fits him best. Niime would wield Apocalypse, which would be colourless because Bramimond is colourless and I think it suits her. She would also be the most broken tome in the game when she releases. Murdock is there for the Bern trio and would wield his signature Tomahawk which gives him 2 range whenever he initiates or an enemy with 2 range initiates. Douglas is there to complete the Etruria trio and be there for Larum. 7.) The Blazing Blade Erk - Red Tome Infantry Sain - Lance Cavalry Oswin - Lance Armour (4* Focus) Sonia - Green Tome Infantry GHB: Nergal - Red Tome Infantry TT+: Kent - Sword Cavalry I feel like all of these are pretty self-explanatory, Kent and Sain are probably the most popular Christmas cavs not in the game yet, and I personally like both. Erk has been missing for a long while, and so has Oswin. Sonia is there because she's a fairly important antagonist and she'd probably work the best for the waifu crowd, while her being a green tome is a coincidence, it's interesting to imagine it's because she's the one who "taught" Nino magic. 8.) The Sacred Stones Knoll - Red Tome Infantry Vanessa - Lance Flier Duessel - Axe Cavalry (4* Focus) Moulder - Staff Infantry GHB: Selena - Blue Tome Cavalry TT+: Gilliam - Lance Armour Knoll here would get some kind of ascended form of Gleipnir to make up for his initial shafting. And on that note, Duessel would get the same treatment but with Garm, hopefully with some improved follow up effect. I don't have any ideas for Vanessa, but Moulder would ideally be the strongest staff in the game. (I would also be perfectly fine with the idea of an armoured Moulder as shown above lol). Selena would have the first siege tome, Bolting, with 5 range because the game is dying in this scenario anyway so screw balance. 9.) Path of Radiance Stefan - Sword Infantry Gatrie - Lance Armour Boyd - Axe Infantry (4* Focus) Shinon - Bow Infantry GHB: Petrine - Lance Flier TT+: Rajaion - Red Breath/Beast Armour? Gatrie/Boyd/Shinon are to fill out the Greil Mercenaries a little more, though realistically Marcia would probably take Gatrie's place. Stefan is there because he's weird and interesting, and would come with the Vague Katti, having the passive of -2 cooldown to reference its stupid crit rate in PoR. Petrine is probably the most popular PoR antagonist not yet in Heroes, and she would of course have her Flame Lance with its beast-effective and magic damage effects. Rajaion is completely random in comparison to the others but I'd just like to see him playable, I'm not quite sure what the situation with dragon Laguz will end up being though. Boyd being the demote is entirely because I want to +10 him. 10.) Radiant Dawn Edward - Sword Infantry Nolan - Axe Infantry Laura - Staff infantry Leonardo - Bow Infantry (4* Focus) GHB: Dheginsea - Red Breath/Beast Armour? TT+: Sephiran - Staff Infantry Being honest here, I don't remember much about Radiant Dawn or many of its characters so I figured I'd just put some of the prominent Dawn Brigade members here + Dheginsea for more dragon Laguz representation and Sephiran because I like him and his obvious importance to RD. The Ashera Staff can just be what it is in RD, except the effect is triggered every time he attacks an enemy. 11.) Awakening Priam - Sword Infantry Flavia - Red Bow Cavalry (4* Focus) Emmeryn - Blue Tome Infantry Basilio - Axe Infantry GHB: Gangrel - Blue Dagger Infantry TT+: Yen'fay - Sword Infantry I don't care all that much about the characters left in Awakening not in Heroes yet, but as I began to think about it, I started warming up to the idea of a bunch of the paralogue characters + Basilio and Flavia on one focus. Priam could have something like an "Ancient Ragnell" or whatever with a breaker effect against swords, lances and axes just like in his Awakening appearance, but I'd expect him to be a clone of RD Ike statwise. Basilio could have the Vengeance axe since no one else is using it. Flavia is a bow cavalry because there would be way too many sword infantry otherwise and she can...technically become one. Gangrel is a blue dagger infantry because, again, more variety plus blue fits with the Levin Sword. But in this case it would be the Levin Dagger, I guess. Yen'fay would just have his signature Amatsu. 12.) Fates Nyx - Red Tome Infantry Reina - Blue Bow Flier Benny - Blue Lance Armour (4* Focus) Orochi - Colourless Tome Infantry GHB: Kiragi - Green Bow Flier TT+: Mozu - Lance Infantry Honestly I'm not even sure that Fates deserves another focus with only 24 left in this scenario with how heavily it's already represented, but I'll admit it still has some cool choices left. Kiragi here is the GHB because he feels betrayed for being the only royal child left not in the game and is enacting his revenge on the world. 13.) Three Houses Felix - Sword Infantry Ingrid - Lance Flier Flayn - Staff Infantry Dedue - Colourless Gauntlet Infantry (4* Focus) GHB: Miklan - Lance Armour TT+: Sylvain - Lance Cavalry I know absolutely nothing about Three Houses besides the identities of some antagonists and the weapons of these characters, so I don't have any thoughts on this besides Dedue seems cool. Also apparently people wanted more Blue Lions. 14.) Three Houses (Timeskip) Lorenz - Red Tome Cavalry Marianne - Blue Tome Flier Leonie - Lance Cavalry (4* Focus) Ignatz - Green Bow Infantry GHB: Nemesis - Sword Infantry TT+: Raphael - Colourless Gauntlet Armour Out of all of them, I think Golden Deer seems to be the most interesting house, based solely on character design. 15.) Thracia 776 (2) Lara - Red Dagger Infantry Refresher Homer - Blue Tome Infantry (4* Focus) Asbel - Green Tome Infantry Sara - Staff Infantry GHB: Galvus - Sword Infantry TT+: Shannam - Sword Infantry Asbel is another character I've wanted in for a long time, and coming with Grafcalibur would be even better, but that would also make him 5*, so Homer ends up being the demote. This is more of an assortment of favourites than a realistic focus, but Lara and Sara being in there for waifu power sales makes sense I think. I made Lara a dagger because she's a thief and there'd be too many swords otherwise. I was considering Machyua over Sara, but then it'd feel weird without Brighton (plus more sword infantry). Shannam with his status as a joke character is pretty much perfect for a TT, and Galzus fits a GHB quite well in my opinion. I'd imagine he comes with the Flame Sword to let him stand out a bit. 16.) Heroes I honestly can't come up with anything for this so I'm going to have to give it a "Whatever". 17.) Spin-off Same as above, I'd do the FE6 manga but I have some issues with it. 18.) Choose Your Legends 4 Unfortunately I really don't know about this one so I'm going to have to pass here too. 19.) Genealogy of the Holy War (Gen 2) Oifey - Sword Cavalry Tine - Blue Tome Infantry Arthur - Green Tome Cavalry (4* Focus) Lana - Staff Infantry GHB: Manfroy - Red Tome Infantry TT+: Fee - Sword Flier Oifey is a must before the game ends, and for me so are Tine and Arthur. Fee is the most interesting one here, because she's going to introduce Berserk to FEH through the Berserk sword and ruin everything. I also feel that Lana is necessary, but Ulster and Lester are unlikely to make it unfortunately. Manfroy here is going to have Jormungand, and it's going to be a really stupid tome that deals 10 damage to every opposing unit when the unit initiates combat. But seriously, I want Arthur. 20.) The Binding Blade (2) Miledy - Sword Flier Zeiss - Lance Flier (4* Focus) Guinivere - Blue Tome Infantry Elen - Staff Infantry GHB: Dayan - Colourless Bow Cavalry TT+: Galle - Lance Flier I think it'd be fun to have a Bern-themed focus with just Dayan as the GHB. Miledy is one of the best units in FE6 and I think she deserves to be in for that alone, Zeiss is just there because he's Miledy's Brother and I prefer using him and he'd be the ideal pity breaker for Guinivere. Guinivere would have Aureola, since no one else will. Elen is kind of just there to be there, but she does have some good supports with Chad and Lugh, so that connection is there. Galle would complete all of the Bern generals and I think a lot of people like him. Dayan is just here to shoot down Bern's wyverns. 21.) The Sacred Stones Forde - Sword Cavalry (4* Focus) Franz - Lance Cavalry Garcia - Axe Infantry Neimi - Red Bow Cavalry GHB: Vigarde - Lance Armour TT+: Colm - Blue Dagger Infantry To complete the Renais playables (sans Kyle due to some unfortunate circumstances), this is what I'd want for a second FE8 focus. Note that I prioritise character over class variety (usually), so the first three are a bit stale by now. However Neimi could easily be a red bow cavalry, since Ranger is one of her promotions and I think Red suits her best. Vigarde is the GHB since he's (in the minds of the Renais playables) who started war against their country, he's their big bad basically. Plus I like his design and would like to see him playable. He'd have the "Emperor's" Spear which would work like Murdock's Tomahawk and enable 2 range when initiating or when a 2 range foe is initiating. Colm is here for Neimi and it's a good opportunity to make him a blue dagger. 22.) Path of Radiance (2) Lucia - Sword Infantry Geoffrey - Lance Cavalry Kieran - Axe Cavalry (4* Focus) Astrid - Bow Cavalry GHB: Renning - Sword Cavalry TT+: Bastian - Green Tome Infantry This one is focused on Crimea, currently a bit of a hole in PoR representation. Kieran is here because I want him in Heroes badly. Lucia, Bastian and Geoffrey are self-explanatory. Astrid is popular and adds variety to the focus. Renning is perfect for this with being Elincia's Uncle, Bastian and Geoffrey's superior and mentor respectively, a PoR boss, and being able to bring the Runesword in the game. Unfortunately I don't have any interesting prf ideas for the others. Makalov isn't here because he's a menace to society. 23.) Young Crusaders Julia - Red Tome Infantry Leif - Lance Cavalry (4* Focus) Seliph - Green Tome Cavalry Julius - Staff Infantry GHB: Ishtar - Red Tome Cavalry TT+: Nanna - Sword Cavalry Something like The Start of it All but for FE4 gen 2, also with some swapped holy weapons because why not? Julia has Loptous (RIP), Leif has Gae Bolg, Seliph has Naga and Ishtar has Valflame. Nanna also has the Earth Sword Heroes never gave her or her mother. Hopefully this one doesn't break any rules. I don't have any more ideas for a CYB focus, the games I'd make them for already have one. Legendary/Mythics: 1.) Legendary Seliph - Sword Cavalry with Holy Tyrfing My #1 priority, the scion of light. 2.) Legendary Arvis - Red Tome Armour with Imperial Valflame While his methods weren't pure, he brought years of peace and prosperity to Grannvale. Plus I need an excuse to get tome armour Arvis in the game. 3.) Legendary L'Arachel - Staff Cavalry with Latona 4.) Legendary Joshua - Green Tome Infantry with his own version of Excalibur Both of these may seem like odd choices but if you stretch the definition of a legendary hero enough I think the rulers of Rausten and Jehanna who helped slay Fomortiis fits the bill. 5.) Legendary Xander - Sword Cavalry I don't care about him personally but it's just weird to have Ryoma in this position and not Xander. 6.) Legendary Claude - Colourless Bow Flier I just like his design and I figure 3H deserves another legendary. 7.) Mythic Mila - Green Breath Flier Duma needs his sister with him. This would also make SoV pretty much perfect in terms of legends/mythics. 8.) Mythic Athos - Red Tome Infantry with his own Forblaze If Bramimond got in, so should he. 9.) Mythic Hartmut - Sword Armour with Eckesachs and the Binding Blade FE6 deserves a mythic, plus Hartmut could use some full art. 10.) Mythic Soan - Green Beast Armour I'd like to see him with the other heroes of his age in the game, I'm curious what kind of human design they would make for him if any. Plus he'd be a beast mythic. 11.) Mythic Ashera - Colourless Tome Flier To fit with Yune, and she seems like a pretty important Tellius mythic to have. 12.) Mythic Seiros - Sword Infantry Same reasoning as Claude. Overall this was a pretty fun exercise and actually made me appreciate Heroes more. The reason being that if this carefully selected group of 24 focuses and 12 legendary/mythics still leaves me wanting more, then it's a good thing Heroes is still alive. I don't really want to stop seeing new heroes added.

I've wanted some actual magic weapons in for a while, if that ends up being a Gangrel with an OC Levin Dagger I'm okay with it.

After finally getting a Ross and looking into him, I just learned that the subjects of IS' experiment to add units to the 3*/4* pool (such as Ross) were gimped in BST by a generational margin. I'm a little miffed now that I have this newfound knowledge, because the thought of him standing above every other normal gen 4 infantry in sheer BST is nice, but I guess I can't be too annoyed since Ross' stat spread is still really really good. Hopefully I get more copies of him when I roll for Amelia next week.

While there are several characters I can say I strongly dislike, they're usually ones I can ignore like Tharja. I feel like Berkut is a stain on the cast of Echoes. If they had somehow reworked Fernand into being in Berkut's role (without the relations to Alm which are pointless anyway) and made him more of a threat, then that would've been a little better. As it is, Berkut is out of place and you're given very shallow reasons to actually care about his conflict. Almost all of Echoes' villains are a joke, but at least they don't attempt to make you sympathise with them and give them more screentime than is needed. And in Fernand's case, I feel like his character is a lot more salvageable than Berkut's (only needs a few tweaks and what I said above), but because he becomes Berkut's lackey he has to be thrown to the side and basically wait until the tail end of the story for him to get his moment, which is weird considering how important he was to the Deliverance and its leaders. Basically my dislike of Berkut comes from some failings of Echoes' handling of other characters and feeling he isn't needed. Also while I can't say I hate her, because she doesn't even have a personality, Rinea's existence bothers me too. She basically only exists as an accessory to Berkut to make him appear more human. I guess I could say she's wasted potential, because if she had any agency of her own and actually called out Berkut even once I maybe would've had a little respect for her. But nope, it's just her dancing with him and telling him how great he is, then she gets fed to the fires for her lover's ambitions. Peak relationship goals right there. I will also add that my annoyance with these two characters is multiplied by the fact that I love their designs.

I want PoR/RD with either Boyd/Kieran as the demote (with the other not showing up so they don't have to be 5* locked) so I can save my orbs and get what I want. If it's 3H or Fates, well, I guess I still get to save orbs.

Gurgurant is Earthly Gáe Bolg but with a (basically free) condition and Iote's Shield built in. Pretty good.

Weighted Lance looks really good, Runeaxe had the right idea but didn't go far enough in salvaging Narcian. Here's to hoping Fae is next month.

I'm not a fan of these focuses in general even though I like some of the characters. Julia sharing red with Ike deters me from rolling, and while Lyon is a cool pick he isn't must have material for me. I'll just use my free tickets on green.

I still don't have Lugh but I have to support him with Raigh. If he loses I'll go with whoever wins out of Lewyn and Sety.

I want a new Seliph in a different role like mage/staff, BUT...I also want a Legendary Knight Lord Seliph with a souped up Tyrfing first.

Awakening or Tellius seem to be up next for a new heroes focus but I want FE6 again. Though if it were Awakening I could save orbs...

I'm not that interested in this legendary focus, but colourless has mystic boost, Larum and Silque...all of which I do want. I'll probably just do two snipe attempts on colourless, and maybe throw a green if it shows up and stop. Edelgard seems neat but I'm not that interested in her, I don't care about Nagi but she has DC and Special Fighter, and Celica has ATK/SPD Oath so it isn't bad either. The other two colours I do not care about besides Duo Ephraim. Good orb saving opportunity for me.

Emperor Arvis is the only alt I really need, in reality I'll be happy with anyone from FE4-6 to get alts. My interest is more towards whoever the 4* is on seasonal focuses like a summer Oliver, maybe? But I'd also like to see Nanna or Lachesis get an alt with the Earth Sword.

Meanwhile, Niime has a 90% chance to become our CYL queen within the next decade.

I just remembered today is actually the day FE7 released in Japan (the 25th), so maybe someone on the team just felt like celebrating it by completing the trio?

I like Hector, and I like this Hector the best of all of his appearances in FEH, but I don't know if I'll renew my pass for him. I'll have to see who is after him. If I choose not to renew it, I'll sure miss those extra grails though. 100 extra per month is no joke with how heavily scarce they are.

Hugh and Niime's support chain easily. It's funny, it's down to earth, and the last few lines are pretty touching. From someone who played FE7 first when they were young, had Canas as their favourite character, and played FE6 then saw his son and mother chatting it up in when I was older, it was pretty nice. They were like a missing link to my love for Canas.