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  1. Axel987
    Honestly my biggest issue with Jeritza is that he doesn't have any supports with Edelgard and she uh, never really explains his whole...deal. It's more than a bit disturbing that she picked up someone who slaughtered his entire family outside of Mercedes, gave him a new identity, made him the heir of another house, a stable job at Garreg Mach and hunting grounds where he could kill people where she saw fit. This is basically never adressed to my knowledge and it's quite disturbing tbh. A shame because Jeritza as a character had a LOT of potential IMO but he's kind of relegated to this weird mix of a gag and recurring antagonist.
  2. Axel987
    Honestly i imagined it as a combination of Rhea being quick to put the axe down and her just being sick of their shit, since this is far from the first time the western church has made power plays or tried to kill her.
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    The Agarthan supporting him is also quite far away and nothing changes if he gets killed outside of no more Demonic Beast reinforcements appearing. He even awakens without an Agarthan actually needing to do it, outside of Thales kamikazing his own stronghold. Now him acting on the last thing he remembers; Seiros killing him? That's PROBABLY what actually is going on. Still doesn't change my point that this is more indicative of his character and corroborates what we're told about the actual him from not only Rhea but Thales too.
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    There's actually reason to believe otherwise with regards to the Agarthans; When someone is under their influence or acting as one of them, there is almost always the initial few notes of Area 17 - Shambhala that plays at the start. The game plays with this several times, with Cornelia for example having it playing before you fight her in AM even if you do not have any indication of her relation to them yet. There is no such thing for Nemesis, implying this is Nemesis acting, fully of his own volition.
  5. Axel987
    Honestly what he does after he gets revived, presumably working fully on his own is more indicative of his character than anything. He makes a beeline for Rhea, pillaging and destroying any settlement between him and his target. We have no clue of what he actually did with his powers once he got them beyond the folklore but his actions really do not indicate him as being much more than a bandit whispered sweet nothings by TWSITD, committing countless atrocities for his power
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    He also wields the full force of the Crest of Flames which is stated to be beyond the power of all other crests and considering one of those other crests is the Crest of Blaiddyd that grants super strength to the point where a super diluted version of it still allows Dimitri to be effectively a one man army...yeah.
  7. Axel987
    It was an extrapolation given that Edelgard uses the same wording of "defeated" for Seiros beating Nemesis and we know that Nemesis was killed there. I wonder if the Japanese localisation has any different kind of wording for that? The same dialogue also implies by "recreating that scene" that it would be the sign of a victor overall. It's also stated that winning the war is what gave the Kingdom it's independence, as per Edelgard's statement again which corroborates the Knight's statement that again, it was winning the battle that got them their independence. ..man now I wish the DLC was on the War of Eagle & Lion or the War of Heroes or the Crescent Moon War again..... Would've been so cool and I wouldn't feel like I'm looking at singular lines of dialogue for this stuff haha. I appreciate that you humour my arguments since I'm trying to get better at debating stuff which these threads tend to help. I feel it's weird to criticise her for acting on half the facts when that's, kind of the point? Characters rarely ever know everything and she felt it was her duty to act given what she knew. At this point my stance on her is that I really like her as a character but prefer the other lords and wish that the game wasn't kind of half-baked in certain places (see Edelgard and Dimitri being done kinda dirty in VW and Claude not even appearing in Silver Snow...)
  8. Axel987
    ..yes that's why I said it's worth criticising them for the asking of prosyletising rights. My point was that saying "The Kingdom wouldn't exist at all" is blatantly wrong when the game itself outright states that they won the war for independence and Loog had killed the Emperor of the time at the Tailtean Plains as per Edelgard's own admission.
  9. Axel987
    While I don't agree with the church interferring with politics; In terms of the Kingdom being created they had just went to war with the Empire for their independence and won. Their sovereignty was theirs and the church stepping into negotiate between them isn't inherently wrong, especially when the Kingdom was at that point able to conquer just about the entire Empire. By the time the game takes place there has been like 400 odd years insce then so saying it is 'Empire territory' at this point is like saying that America is British territory. It is however quite fair to criticise them for asking for prosyletisation rights, even if according to the DLC it would appear Rhea had actually understandable motives for wanting to do this beyond wanting more power. That was absolutely a power play into politics that shouldn't be tolerated. The standing army thing is definitely eyebrow raising-worthy. At the same time the Kingdom is also in clear chaos after Lambert's death even now and Lord Lonato was directly marching on the Monastery to try and kill what is effectively the Pope. Generally otherwise the Church tends to be -requested- for help in the game as seen by Margrave Gautier requesting them to retrieve the Lance of Ruin from Miklan.
  10. Axel987
    GD's final boss was probably the only one I actually enjoyed tbh.
  11. Axel987
    The Insurrection of the Seven was an event that occured entirely outside of TWSITD's scope of action, they simply benefitted off of it. Edelgard's father was rather power hungry and tried to consolidate all power unto the Emperor's position, heavily punishing houses that acted against him; House Ordelia and Hrym for example, Ordelia had much of it's higher ranking members replaced by Empire officials(some which included TWSITD agents) Thales simply took Arundel's body at some point after the Insurrection occured, by the time Edelgard was taken back to the empire it was almost certainly Thales acting as him.
  12. Axel987
    ...? Not quite sure how this relates to my comment which had nothing at all to do with what Byleth chooses to do lol.
  13. Axel987
    There's something intriguing about something that is inherently doomed to fail despite what either party wants, I suppose.
  14. Axel987
    Isn't "The western portion of Faerghus had already joined her" only accurate in non-CF routes, given that it occured through Cornelia's coup, who she then allied with. In CF notable west-Faerghus houses like House Rowe who's territory is on the Empire-Kingdom border still seem to be on the Kingdom's side so I'm not particularly sure on that one.
  15. Axel987
    Honestly I always imagined that her successor would be someone raised under her system and that until a proper one could be found, Hubert and Ferdinand would act in her stead. IMO it would feel like the most apt ending for her.
  16. Axel987
    Possibly! Unfortunately there's not really enough fan-content of the two bc the fanbase is constantly at odds about them haha. The fact that it doesn't happen is also the inherent tragedy, since in either path it ends in one sibling killing the other because of their dickhead uncle.
  17. Axel987
    I don't think "things were worse for her" is a particularly good thing to say since they went through very different things and their issues manifest in different ways. Trauma olympics isn't a good thing. That being said I found a funny post on twitter saying that going into Abyss must be like lowkey a trigger for her given what she went through lol.
  18. Axel987
    I've heard very conflicting opinions on his depictions of mental illness from people with actual forays into psychology and metal health. Personally I've found the arguments for it being handled rather well more compelling but that might be a more inherent bias speaking. I find that the game handles mental health surprisingly best among the themes it tries to deal with tbh.
  19. Axel987
    I mean Aymr very much so seems like it was made from the same material; read Dragon Bones, as the other relics, which is what I assumed they meant by "like Hero's Relics" It's just that by the time they made Aymr, they were much more experienced with the material and were able to make it function with other crest stones. Personally I think she only knew there was some force acting from the shadows and couldn't track or figure them out, so was largely left trying to deal with the collateral of their actions. Of course she doesn't do a great job of this because, y'know, the game's events occur.
  20. Axel987
    Hm. I just reread the dialogue in Chapter 15 of Blue Lions/Golden Deer. It's directly stated that there was once a forest in Aillel and that "a pillar of light descended from the heavens and burnt it to ash." Which seems to indicate this happened AFTER the War of Heroes indeed, given that it wasn't healed by Sothis. This also seems to be corraborated by Rhea's dialogue in CH21 of GD; where she states that a pillar of light fell onto the MONASTERY, which is only built well after the war of heroes mind you, and was deflected and landed in Aillel. There's also a report in the Abyss records that implies that there's someone working behind the scenes behind all these strange occurences(TWSITD is only added in the ENG localisation) and said book has been getting updated until very recently, it mentions Claude's uncle's death for one; implying that someone VERY old is behind it, or that it's been getting added to over the years by a group. So, does she know they exist but can't track them? Hm. The same report also states that Loog's army had weapons that very much so resembled the Hero's Relics, similar to weaponry like the Arrow of Indra or even an actual artificial relic like Edelgard's Aymr? If so it possibly gives Rhea another motive for wanting to prosyletize in new Faerghus territory. Really the only reason I can think of for her not knowing was that they're basically impossible to track without being intimately familiar with how they do things and it's stated that Rhea was quite young when the massacre at Zanado happened.
  21. Axel987
    I mean yeah but also, there's fucking lava everywhere lmao. Hm. Is it ever stated that there's a forest near current Aillel at any point or can we fully believe that Aillel was blown up after? I didn't say that Sothis healed Aillel mind you, I just said she healed the world from the similar state that Aillel is in now.
  22. Axel987
    I'm -somewhat- more willing to put her in the former category if only because she healed the land from the Ailel-like state it was in after the Agarthans went ham with their Pillars of Light and given her powers over time. However I'm hesitant to say that because the Pillars of Light are also hillariously inconsistent in terms of power. Apparently they caused Aillel yet they -merely- destroy part of Arianrhod and Merceus. Rhea in Dragon Mode was able to tank several of them. Is it just a matter of numbers or are the ones nowadays weaker?
  23. Axel987
    The questionable aspect is fair, given that both sides we know are quite biased, just that there IS basis in Rhea's statement that we can actually see; note how the Holy Tomb in Chapter 11 is stated to have tech that the rest of the cast were surprised to see. The Zahras thing is so???? Like, it never gets brought up again despite literally being an insta-kill spell. Like, what the fuck game lmao. However I find it hard to believe that they used that against Solon, given that Sothis breaks Byleth out of it. If they used it before and Sothis was brought back, wouldn't they know it wouldn't work?
  24. Axel987
    Honestly I find it hard to really feel for the Agarthans when their response to fearing Sothis will smite them for their hubris and violence upon the land was to apparently nuke their own country to try and kill her alongside the Nabateans. And yeah the advanced tech came from the Nabateans who shared it with the Agarthans, who then advanced it even further; see how Rhea's Golems are rather antiquated vs the Futuristic look of the Titanus the Agarthans use, definitely not something available to the proto-Almyrans or whatever.
  25. Axel987
    It's directly stated by an NPC that no member of House Hresvelg has attended the academy for -several- generations before Edelgard. Is that a mistranslation perchance? Bc it doesn't line up with what Edelgard says about her father at all.
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