Sitruk

On your point about Byleth’s effect on her progression, she states multiple times throughout the path that if Byleth hadn’t sided with her, she would have shut her emotions away completely, becoming just like some of our other Villains, Zephidel and Hardin, whereas with Byleth around, she can trust someone who isn’t Hubert, which allows her to have an actual emotional support system, which is why (I’m guessing here, only finished Crimson Flower), she is so different between stories.

I agree with this, but she has more of a reason to want this than Zephiel, not saying that Zephidel doesn’t have them, it’s just that Edelgard’s reasons are logical to me, especially having played Crimson Flower first.

Hey, don’t know if this has been mentioned yet, but Death Knight (Jeritza) is playable in one of the Edelgard storylines (the one where you side with her over Rhea), so he isn’t DLC, as you have been listing him. EDIT: if it’s on purpose, since he’s limited to one variation of one story, which has at least 2, potentially 4 different variations (only played 2 of the storylines so far, joining Edelgard, and Claude’s, and only finished Edelgard’s, so far)