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Kamek also makes Yoshi smaller in one of the boss battles in Yoshi's island. So he could have something like Negative Zone.

Well Forenus got the blood somewhere. The only other alternative is that there was a divine dragon who willingly contributed to the creation of Grima.

You can have more than one reason for doing something.

Camus can supposedly float from one continent to the the opposite side of another without any form of sustinance. Holy blood can not beat anything that ridiculous.

Thinking on this idea again, Forneus somehow managed to gain Divine Dragon blood to kill Grima. What is Duma wasn't just afraid of humans getting too powerful, but was pissed because the humans killed someone close to him.

They do. It's two thousand years.

This is funny and deserves to be acknowledged.

I actually have a whole list of Thracia changes I want sitting on my laptop, but I stupidly went away somewhere and left my charger at home :( I'm pretty sure status staves can't miss in Thracia. They work along the whole unit's mag is higher than foe's logic.

Yes to Constitution, no to Movement. Con feels more character based, but movement feels like it should be based on class.

Shadow Dragon split it's map saves and chapter saves, so that's a good bet.

FYI, Sigurd can survive an attack from Sais. Although it put my Sigurd from full HP to exactly one (meaning Miracle didn't activate against subsequent enemies even though it was fully charged). Not sure what my Sigurd's asset/flaw is.

Would be accurate to how annoying he is for debilitating your units from a distance in Thracia.

Well you can beat Sais without letting him attack any of your units.

Blue Tomr Saias? Thought for sure he'd be red tome. Though if they really wanted to stay through to his appearance, they should have made him a stave user with some really annoying status stave. Escape route certainly suits him though.

Certainly everything's possible. But I think Shanty Pete is a bit of an obscure in joke. The reason Final Fantasy pays homage to all it's spoony lines is because fans made a big deal out of it...which just means WE have to have more threads like this and spread the glorious gospel of Pete if we want to see him in the future. Let IS know Shanty Pete is a thing and we love him!

One of Kellam's supports are missing...Are you really surprised?

I actually find it cooler as a pre Awakening thing. Manaketes and Dark Tomes might not be consistent, but Shanty Pete exists regardless, just like Killing Edges.

According to the official timeline, the Pirate Nation was actually made up of the islands in between Valentia and Archanea, not on a continent. Probably like that one where you recruit Sumia's daughter in Awakening. It does suggest that the pirates went on to form Macedonia though. Yeah, Macedonia was made up of Flying Vikings. It's basically How to Train Your Dragon.

Huh, seems like he only exists in the English version. I'm a little disappointed as it means we'll never actually see Shanty Pete, but props to the localizers for making and maintaining their own little meme. Especially since it's pretty obscure and I think several different companies actually worked on the games.

You ever see a pirate us a lance? He should get swords. Or like Dark Magic, with the ability to summon skeleton pirate allies. Hell, even knives would be more piratey than lances.

Anna makes a big deal about him in one of the Awakening supports (can't quite remember which one), but it's implied she's lying her ass off (apparently he likes to donate to orphanages or something). I'd take that to mean he likely exists in the Japanese version, unless they just did some arc welding by connecting several unrelated Pirate folk heroes.

How not to do a tragic story? Do a happy one! Okay, to be serious. Upon reading some of the great classic tragedies in literature (Shakespeare, Dumas, Hugo would be my go to examples), I've come to the conclusion that there's two types of tragedy in fiction. The Cautionary Tale and the Conspiracy. The first is a tragedy born from a characters actions. Every action they take slowly brings them one step closer to their destruction. The actions are usually born from one inherent flaw, most likely hubris but it can be anything really, even kindness. In the end the character suffers and it's their own fault, even if they're not entirely to blame (if that makes any sense). If you want Fire Emblem, Lyon is a good example of this. He doesn't deserve to get his soul eaten by the Demon King, but it's happening purely thanks to his own actions. The Conspiracy is the opposite of the Cautionary Tale. That's when the character's choices are completely inconsequential. Something has targeted that character, be it a group in power or destiny itself, and that character is absolutely fucked as a result. Every action they take is logical, smart and even laudable. But it doesn't matter at all, because they're just a cog in a machine that's much larger than themselves and they're going to suffer for it. I find Sigurd is actually a pretty decent example of this. After his first decision to leave home and save Adean, his fate is sealed. Every step he takes brings him closer to that barbecue no matter what he does, because the people in power have decided that he's the right guy in the right place to serve as their patsy. There's also the random tragedy where something happens suddenly without reason or cause. That's probably the absolute most tragic thing that can happen to someone in real life, but you won't find many stories even attempting it because something that has no reason or cause is generally bad writing (although it can work if the tone is just right). I think the way to stop such stories from just becoming a sob story is to remember that the characters have to be involved in some way. Even in the Conspiracy, the character has to be trying to do something, making decisions of some sort, it just so happens that their choices are meaningless. If a character sits around and does nothing and suffers for it, then most people likely won't care (even if that's something that's pretty common in real life too). It's also a case where seeing is so much more powerful than telling (though I do have one nifty quote that is pure telling but is absolutely fantastic at depicting utter despair, so no hard and fast rules). EDIT: I realize this thread is about Backstories specifically, when I went on to write a diatribe about Tragedies in general. But I still think a lot of what I wrote works to a certain extent. The only caveat I have is that a backstory really has to mean something for it to exist (while also, at the same time, as someone else pointed out, don't just use it as an excuse for certain actions or as a tool to draw sympathy). It has to heavily tie into the plot and character to really justify existing. It's good to have a character fully realized, but if their backstory isn't tying into the actual story, then the audience doesn't really need to know.

Yeah, if you don't like that, then that's fine. That's just boring gameplay (and not even limited to Genealogy, certain maps in Binding Blade are much worse). But that's a different complaint than saying Genealogy of Holy War chapters are bad because they take twice as long to finish as chapters in other games is illogical when they're deigned to take longer to finish. That's why there's half as many of them. And now before we get into a bit long off topic argument on yet another thread, take a moment to realise that's not something you ever actually said, so you have no reason to defend the statement. It's just a comment I made on a frequently seen complaint about the game.

Haha. I meant it as more of a joke (with the express purpose of hoping someone would know who I'm talking about), as the art style would be pretty unfitting for Fire Emblem, but still semi seriously, because it probably would be absolutely beautiful.

Huh. Might do it some time just for fun. I've played through Shadow Dragon half a dozen times, but I don't think I've bothered to get the Falchion since my first.