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4 hours ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:
I'm asking that those free units be given the same care and treatment in their creation as Effie, Est, Nino, Reinhardt, Nephenee, Ayra, Amelia, and other non-lord characters got. That's certainly reasonable.
Okay well several of those are extremely strong 5* exclusives that do better than most 4* availables, much less 3*, and depending on the unit do better than other 5*s. And one of those is Reinhart, a character they clearly underestimated.
Expecting a ton of new 3*s to be on the level of some of them is a bit much.
But then you mention Est? Est really not that great. I wouldn't necessarily say AWFUL, but she's outclassed by a lot of other flying lances. I'd say that they would have to release a ton of purposely underpowered units with like..one skill line to have less care put into them than Est. I'd be very surprised if anyone they added was straight up garbage, especially since they've been giving new toys to old characters who were lacking even at release (Felicia being the big winner here, and hopefully Fir).
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Watch us all be wrong and FE Switch deals with this mysterious pair of people
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1 minute ago, omegaxis1 said:
Forneus sought to create the "perfect lifeform". There's no such thing as "settle" for anything less than the best. And give by how he remarked that it had been dangerous, I would say that he clearly succeeded. How he got it is a mystery.
If he went into dragon territory he probably snuck past a ton of feral dragons. If that happened there may not even be any divine dragons for him to get the blood.
I don't see this dweeb standing to any divine dragon, much less able to successfully trick them into giving up blood.
Also, I double checked. The rite of awakening requires you to be bathed in Naga's flames. We never see what color those flames are, but Awakening & Naga in general have a tendency to blues....
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3 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
Wait what? Who? Alm and Celica? They aren't dragons. So who are they referring to?
My first thought was referring to the first exalt & naga, but the entire passage is sort of confusingly written (doing a good job of imitating old texts like this)
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1 minute ago, omegaxis1 said:
Any scientist that seeks to create perfection desires nothing but the best. Using dried blood that would no doubt lose much of its potency is something that Forneus wouldn't accept. Also, the way its worded, crossing the bridge is very much likely in the metaphorical sense and he took a big risk in trying to acquire it.
This is fantasy mad science, though, and divine dragons are at the top of the dragon foodchain besides earth dragons. And also maybe the bulk of them are dead (I need to go find the timeline again). Sometimes you need to settle. I have a hard time seeing Forneus successfully take live blood from a live dragon, is all I'm saying.
Even Victor Frankenstein settled for graverobbing rather than just killing people and taking fresh body parts.
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5 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
Guess even Forneus had some form of moral compass. Or rather Grima is something that's worse than anything he could come up with. But I absolutely love how creepy Forneus made Grima out to be. Like Forneus realized he just created the devil incarnate.
I don't think that dried blood is something that Forneus would ever use for his experiments. For the blood to have such terrifying power and being mixed as it was, he collected living blood from a Divine Dragon. How he did so is anyone's guess. I'll still say its Naga's because that would be interesting.
Why wouldn't Forneus use dried blood, though. We don't really know enough about him to say he wouldn't settle for *any* divine dragon blood. Blood is blood, I imagine it retains power regardless of age. Especially since it's ~divine dragon blood~
Considering Forneus is doing abomination experiments in secret and rushing back to his secret underground labs I have a hard time seeing him successfully getting live divine dragon blood from...anyone.
Just now, VincentASM said:Anyway, now that I've had some time to digest what I translated...
Yeah, I think we probably know what happened to Forneus now. Poor guy tried to stop his own creation and probably got killed, eaten or assimilated.
Also, it kinda creeps me out a tiny bit that humans and dragons might not actually be that different. Perhaps they have a common ancestor (similar to the Zunanma in Tellius)?
I think it makes sense. Dragons seem to have always been able to take on human form, even before using dragon stones. That always implied some far back relation rather than just general magic usage.
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Hahah yesssss I love this, its great.
Love how at first he's all attached to it and then has to go "yeah...yeah okay i think i messed up". Wonder if Grima really did like anything about Forneus before then, or was just messing with him.
I don't think the divine blood is anyone in particular. Could have even been dried blood from old battles near where the dragons sleep (i think the bridge is an actual chapter in FE3?). You can apparently "feel" the power even in blood, so just keep wandering around until you get a reaction.
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1 minute ago, Vince777 said:
But is it reasonable to expect all characters to be competitive in a game with more than 200 of them? You're asking of free units to compete with top tiers.
They could have value in small niches and as fodder instead.yeah like...Amelia and Dorcas...they're going to outpace most axes they'd add unless they were added as new 5s. But I'd be surprised if any new 3*s were unusable.
Like...Bord & Cord, would probable be strength-focused with decent defense (probably one would get higher def/lower str than the other), good hp , low speed & res, but probably get an exclusive 5* weapon (BordnCord Axe)that gives them some cool niche.
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1 minute ago, Vaximillian said:
Blue and grey Reposition fodder! Green and grey Moonbow fodder!
Healers in general because with power creep and probably realizing they should have like, more than one skill line, even a new 3 star healer would be nice!
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2 minutes ago, Vaximillian said:
My first thought when I read Feh’s remark was “a huge injection of new less-popular characters into the 3–4★ pool”.
My second thought was “the Order of Heroes gathers to bake a castle-size cake for Effie”.
Oh man it's absolutely going to be that second one. Feh needs a cake so grand it will need all 233+ heroes to give it to the poor owl.
7 minutes ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:Man I really hope they demote some 5-star characters and add brand new ones to the 4 and 3-star pool. However, I would be a little nervous that they'd make those new characters kind of halfheartedly.
I'd be fine with that. They'd still get decent stat loadouts, with a few stinkers in there, and even if they just have some so-so kills they'd be important for foddering reasons. Absolutely anything to dilute the 3* green & colorless pools, please...
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The're not going to show weapons to refine. The last one didn't and the upcoming batch has already been detailed. The only way I see refines being shown is if there's another big change to how the refinery works (& also if the askr trio will get theirs).
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Tellius also had 2 pretty story heavy games to spread around information
Valentia basically has echoes and that's it. It's also kind of a smaller scope game, in general. It's rarely referenced otherwise and the one game that really does, Awaekning, is so far ahead of the timeline it's meaningless to the going ons of the character.
The artbook here also gets to connect it more directly to Marth's games, which is nice. Like yeah it's always been tied to them, but barely. I really appreciate lining up the timelines.
I think an Elibe artbook would get similar reactions, since those games have the whole...prequel made after the "sequel" issue that mucks everything up & FE6 is kind of...eh...with its going ons.
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5 minutes ago, Vince777 said:
Yeah I remember one being only 9 minutes long so there's got to be something really interesting in this one. :)
Doubt it's new modes again and it seems much too early for CYL2.well if its not new modes i can't see what would be in an update to cause it to be 18 minutes.
Even if the modes arent' ready it, it makes sense to start teasing things in the pipeline.
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Guessing a new mode will be shown off, Thracia will finally get showcased andd maybe an early teaser of our CYL2 friends?
and of course they will finally finally listen to our pleas and demote a bunch of people AND add like 30 new 3* units please intsys please dont make me pull for random nobodies because they're 5* exclusive
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2 hours ago, MyBoyHector said:
*Plucks a flower* Nintendo is going to release something *plucks a petal*, they won't *Plucks again* They will......
Pretty much feels like this at this point no? Sadly how most games feel now since Developers for the most part are too lazy to stick an actually release date that isn't just "2018"That's not laziness, that's just how game development is. They likely start with a benchmark, "2018" in this case, and go from there based on things that arise during development. If they announce a date and then change that date, it probably means something happened that caused the game to be pushed back. Long bug testing, trouble implementing key features, glitches found, etc
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49 minutes ago, YingofDarkness said:
I just want to say thank you to all the people that have been translating all this information for us. This makes me appreciate the story a lot more then I had originally!
I wish that this had made it into the actual game, but I have the feeling that most of this was made specifically for the art book. Besides Echoes was most likely given a much smaller budget to work with so there was a lot less they could have fit in compared to Awakening, Fates, and whatever the Switch game is called...that is why if the Fates art book contains all the backstory that should have been in game I will read it all and be livid. That game does not have this ones excuse.
My rant aside thanks!
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Fates has this same issue because even after DLC designed entirely around expositing important backstory and another DLC that ALSO gives some information despite being an AU scenario, there's still gaps in the story and setting and background and just...its a mess. its all a mess. I am pretty sure more information was given in radio dramas?!
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2 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Sonya's backstory is wonderful. Her sisters gave their lives to defend her and she has sought their revenge and salvation ever since.
Deen is not as good, but still certainly better than nothing and by no means bad. I like the Brave Sword he uses having some backstory to it, makes you regret prying it from his cold dead hands a bit.
What is meant by "...he found his wife, whose form had completely changed. To kill his beloved fiancee and enact revenge..."? It sounds like something happened to her, but what exactly? My hunch was she became a Terror, but that can't be insofar as we know, so I guess somebody turned her into a Witch? Or maybe she was in terminal agony and he killed her to end it? It does not say who the assailant was, but if she became a Witch, maybe the Duma Faithful?
Overall, better than what we know of Navarre, the original FE edgelord, but still not as good as Zihark if you ask me. Better than Rutger? I need to reexamine him, and Galzus (not that we have much for him).
Their food interests- does everyone playable have those on their profile b/c Provisions? *Checks SF's Preferences page*, yup S&D match up with what it says there.
Yeah she probably got Rinea'd into a witch. Or a vestal, more specifically.
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4 minutes ago, Dayni said:
Well, when you consider the director's interest in a BB remake.....
Also, I just can't buy the Gradivus thing. It has to come with Zeke, then end up Hardin's hands before Chapter 8 of MotE. And that's not even accounting for it getting to Valentia, where it then has to be retrieved from Duma's Temple after being in Zeke's hand originally.
Though him taking Conrad's mask is hilarious. Conrad must have asked "Are you Sirius?"
Which Zeke then took and ran with.
It comes with the pegasus sisters. All we know is they line up roughly within the year but we don't know specific dates and the scaling of the timeline is already pretty vague. They probably brought it back before Hardin properly went into action, or at least before chapter 8
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1 hour ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
I made up the person's name and existence. I chose that specifically because
The Joseon dynasty (also transcribed as Chosŏn or Chosun, Korean: 조선; also known as Joseon of the House of Yi, Korean: 리조조선; officially the Kingdom of Great Joseon, Korean: 대조선국) was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.
The naming scheme and aesthetics of Chon'sin doesn't seem Japanese to me. And given Choson/Chosun and Chon'sin look very similar, I think it must be Korean.
We can't be absolutely sure, since Awakening never shows us what Chon'sin is like besides a tomb and two characters, we don't even know its exact location/boundaries, only that it is somewhere in the deep south. Which is more than we can say of Roseanne though (I'd guess that'd be in the east).
I feel like they're meant to be a mish-mash of asian countries but with a slight bent to Japan. Say'ri's support with M-Robin are all about ah yes famous "chon'sin" armors and swords and rice dishes and let me regal you with tales of cherry blossoms.It's all imagry I feel is usually trotted out for "this is not-japan". I think F-Robin's supports are slightly different and bring in other stuff? Been a while since I read those.
So maybe a specific mix of Japan, China & Korea?
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9 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
I'm surprised that no one mentioned the part where the Timeline 8 mentions there being rumors of Alm and Celica actually departing to Archanea at one point.
Wouldn't this confirm that they DID unleash Grima?
In addition to what @Chconroy said, there's nothing about their excursion that claims they unleashed grima at all. Grima was already there, awakened, in a crumbling prison. There's nothing that implies they woke it up or empowered it or set it loose. Considering its size and relative power, it's probably still young (relatively speaking) and just hasn't broke out on its own.
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37 minutes ago, omegaxis1 said:
HOLD UP!
... So does this mean that Gradivus actually ended up in Valentia? But if you defeat Camus in Shadow Dragon, you get Gradivus. Does this mean that canonically, Camus and Marth never fought?
I think it's easier to assume Marth never got the Gradvius. So far as retcons go, ignoring a game mechanic (dropped weapons) is pretty easy.
Also very cute to make the post game quasi-canon.
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15 minutes ago, VincentASM said:
I think most of this info is in the game.
I have also finished translating Part 8, but I need to edit it. There's some...er, interesting-ish info XD
"Snowfall in even random places" hm? I don't remember any snow until you cross the sluice gate, which is over in Rigel.
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45 minutes ago, Sock said:
My curiosity is piqued.
How the heck did Nuibaba manage to become a witch?
And what exactly does the term "witch" mean? As we learn it ingame, a witch is a woman who offered her soul to Duma in exchange for power, becoming a shell of a person. So why is Nuibaba called a "witch"? Is it a loose term now? Or is it supposed to refer to any woman who can use dark magic and is simply most commonly used to describe the Duma-puppets? Or something else??
Rhetorical questions. Musings.
May I cast a second vote? Or third depending on how you count. If so: the witch class.
duma witches probably are the most common and more of a fast-track to witchdom. It may not eve just be use of dark magic as it is continual usage of dark/forbidden magic.
I'm more surprised that the pact with Medusa was not the explicit thing that made her a witch, unless Medusa just gets there slowly.
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Just now, Kirokan said:
Perhaps it's in the story summary section or section that talks about Draco Zombies in general. I'll keep an eye out for you though. But I believe he is indeed the Draco Zombie summoner/maker.
Thanks! I really hope there's even an offhand "strange materials" or something. That and the prison thats just uh
just full of hanging bloody body bags that goes completely unremarked by the cast
feels like they had to have something written about it somewhere
Valentia Accordion Translation Project Thread
in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
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But it's really not? FE1-5 & 13 were always connected to begin with. 9/10 still have nothing explicit and the biggest connection (I'm aware there's other, more minor things you can read into), Priam, is explicitly from another realm. Elibe & Jurgdal have gotten no connections to the others at all, beyond the bonus items and Lyn being reminded of Mark which just seems like a cute nod to previous avatars and the player likely being the same. And even so far as bonus items go the Awakening Armads (only available from spotpass) goes unremarked on even in the artbook.
Fates.......miiiight connect to the big archanea timeline? Guess it depends how you want to look at the hoshidian children's death quotes and the Before Awakening dlc. It all seems a bit messy to me though and doesnt really add much, though...I mean it'd be nice to at least get a name for the continent before linking it to other things...
Warriors & Heroes just take the outrealm concept and run with it in different ways for the sake of bringing in a bunch of games together.
Now obviously this can always change moving forward, but I feel if they wanted to connect Tellius (or indeed, all the games) they'd probably be a little more explicit about it. Right now they seem content with just having Priam (or an ancestor) wander in through the outrealms and just mercenary-ing around.
That's uh
That's pretty messed up there, forneus. On multiple levels.