RJWalker

I don't see why you're changing stuff like 'Dragon's Altar' to 'Dragon's Table'. 'Dragon's Table' is the name of that location during the time period of Awakening. Names change. This is even a plot point in the japanese version of Awakening where the Fire Emblem is called by a different name until Emmeryn (or was it TIki) that later says that the item with the new name and the legendary Fire Emblem are the same.

The house which offered to forge the Silver Sword is part of a long, tedious and completely-not-worth-it sidequest of forging two items to make a new item. The only worthwhile items are the Blessed Bow, which is a Long Bow that is effective against flyers and a second Hammerne staff but that takes too much time to do. Miacis posted more info so look there. The house where you kept getting ignored is the secret shop. Of course, it's not possible to get the Key that gives you access on Holmes' route just yet. In the next chapter, a special event happens that introduces two extremely important characters earlier than usual. This event happens on turn 11 and can be missed but is purely story based. But you should be ready to seize immediately on your turn because the event will cause trouble if you stick around after it happens. Frau and San are really good. San gets a unique sprite palette change if she promotes too. I don't remember if the house event on the next chapter will give you hints on who to take there so just in case it doesn't while you're playing, open this spoiler:

I don't really care if other people don't buy this game. I've never bought into the whole 'brand loyalty' concept. If it appeals to me, I'll buy it. If it doesn't, too bad, they won't get my money. I'm liking how Shadows of Valentia is shaping to be like. I'm glad they're sticking close to the original and not bringing back so many mechanics from the other 2 3DS games that I hate. If I have to choose between a game that appeals to me (but does so at the cost of alienating the newer parts of the fanbase, causing the game to suffer or even fail in sales and likely result in trouble for the series) and a game that appeals to the newer parts of the fanbase (by making a game that is closer to the super popular 3DS games and ensuring continued success for the series), I'd choose the former everytime. I don't care if others don't like FE15 as I'm loving what I'm seeing and ultimately, for me, that's all that matters. Call me selfish if you wish.

The mount could have just died, you know. Especially in the older games, the mount will be mentioned by name, like a couple of times at best. After that, you're free to change.

Why does this divide matter? People have different opinions. Get used to it.

Too much effort for Treehouse lol.

Can you though? Is English really that common? Just last year, I was in Vienna on vacation. And a lot of people I tried to speak to didn't understand english. My father was working there at that time and he had a hard time since he spoke no German. And I speak it slightly but from what I understand, the dialect is different enough that you need to keep in mind. All of the signs and stuff was either also in English or obvious enough to not need to be but the people didn't always speak english. And this is Vienna, a major capital we're talking about, not some small town.

Oh, okay. With that, let it be the end of spoilers, even if we're using spoiler tags.

The game wouldn't really have you send off a 15 year old girl to her death now, would it? Miacis wouldn't have suggested to keep an out for a Plum event if it did. I won't spoil the exact circumstances of her return.

I don't know for sure. The wiki says it depends on who rescued her. Better safe than sorry, I guess.

Okay, next time, you have free roam. Maybe use that to return to the areas Runan's been to instead of going directly to the new location? Also, maybe it was just me but in the next chapter, I encountered a glitch where all my units except the lord disappeared from the map when the screen automatically scrolls during enemy phase. So maybe keep that in mind just in case. It only ever happened for that map too. And Miacis, I commented on the youtube video that Deltre should get Plum back with Holmes instead of Bartz. Would you agree that the ending variation for Holmes rescuing her is the better one?

Nobody is saying Archaneans are gullible. We're saying the Awakening writers are shit and don't know what they're doing (as evidence by the huge number of retcons and errors such as Valentia's geography). Tellius and Archanea are completely incompatible with each other in terms of lore. They simply cannot exist in the same timeline. I've detailed all the problems putting them in the same timeline creates and all explanations that anyone has ever put forth requires a great deal of willful ignorance. Archanea and Tellius are separate timelines and the only link that can exist is Outrealms because that specifically allows for bending of all rules and ignoring all lore. Archanea and Tellius simply cannot exist in the same timeline as no explanation exists for the plotholes this creates, like the different dragon tribes vs the different dragon laguz types, the fact that archanean dragons could not (I repeat, could not) transform into humans without sealing their powers whereas the laguz can, the fact that for the archanean dragons, the dragon form is their base form whereas the humanoid form is the base for the laguz and they possess the ability to go beastial, the fact that you need to explain how and where the Taguel came from (as they come out of nowhere, establish a huge presence and are wiped out all within the space of 2000 years with the only explanation possible is the outrealms which allow for these sort of shenanigans), the fact that none of the games before Awakening (ie the game that introduced Outrealms) suggest any possible link between Tellius and Archanea. Archanea and Tellius are not connected by a direct timeline.

KRIS Hands down the worst character in the series.

I would go with either Genealogy or Mystery of the Emblem. Not the remake for the latter though.

Camus clearly knew that Gharnef held the Grustian royal twins hostage during the war of shadows. And Lorenz didn't. It explains so much about their characters. It adds another reason why Camus doesn't betray Grust. It explains why he chooses to return after his memories return after the events of Gaiden. It explains why he's found near them and immediately joins Ogma. It also explains why Lorenz is willing to trade his life for the twins. He betrayed the king and sided against Grust during the previous war but if he didn't know about the whole situation and found out later, it explains why he's so devoted to them. As for the topic, I don't see any reason why the characters from Archanea wouldn't return in Echoes. There is no reason to remove them or replace them with OCs. Will we see more characters return? I think that's unlikely to happen.

I prefer them to not be linked at all but the Outrealms already exist and it should remain that way at the very least.

They're clearly not linked. Anyone with even basic knowledge of the mythology and lore of the various worlds would know that they contradict each other too much to be directly linked. The Outrealms exist and they're stupid enough as it is. It should remain at that.

No, we do know actually. For Archanea, the dragon form is their true form. It is stated that they had to seal their powers to transform into humans. The whole idea to do so was something the elders of the divine tribe came up with. For the dragon laguz, given the history of their shared ancestry with Zunanma with humans, their humanoid form is part of what they are. The various dragon tribes also have no equivalent. For Archanea, the tribes are Fire, Ice, Mage, Wyvern, Earth and Divine. The Fire tribe can be equated to red dragon laguz but none of the others are comparable. White dragons cannot be Ice or Mage Dragons (as Ice dragons are sauropod like in design) or divine dragons (since they seem lower heirrachy to black dragon laguz). The black dragons have even less comparison. They cannot be earth dragons (since they are nothing like earth dragons). Also, in Tellius, Dragon Riders ride dragons. This is incompatible with Archanea as the only dragons used as mounts are the remnants of the Wyvern tribes, which only happpened after the fall of the dragon tribes. Dragons as a separate 'intelligent' and 'non-intentelligent' species don't exist in Archanea. All 'non-intelligent' dragons are merely remnants of the dragon tribes which do not exist before the fall of the dragon tribes.

My number was referring to the start of the Holy War'. We're told is that the Jugdral was around 1000 years before Archanea. Whatever year we use as an equivalent for those 1000 years, nothing significant changes. 180 years is tiny when we're talking in the scale of millennia. The years given for the fall of the dragon tribe is intentionally given as an approximate which lines up with the first established property Kingdom and the start of true human civilisation. The point is, Tellius cannot exist in the past of Archanea/Jugdral given the fact that human civilisation started around the time of the decline of dragons. The history of Tellius has both humans and dragons coexisting for around 1000 years (from the great flood to Ashnard's invasion). Huge kingdoms with rich histories of their own. This is incompatible with Archanea/Jugdral. The dragon laguz freely transformed into human forms and generally stay in their human form. This contradicts the lore of Archanea where dragons did not transform at all and the whole idea of turning into humans, an idea which was demeaning and beneath them, did not come about until after their decline started. They did not even turn into humans before that and the only way they were able to do that was to seal their powers, something which came as natural to the laguz as breathing.

Your timeline is not correct. Only the actual battle between Naga and the degerenated Earth Dragons took place around the time of the Miracle of Darna. The actual decline started way before. The Kingdom of Gran, which became Grannvale was formed after the decline of the dragon tribes started. The war of shadows took place in the year Archanea 600. By Kaga's words, the events of FE4 (ie the year Gran 633), took place 1000 years before the war of heroes. The Gran Kingdom was formed in hte year Gran 001. This year lines up to the Archanea calender year approximate of -1000. Which is exactly when the decline of the dragon tribes started. No kingdoms before that. Tellius being in hte past would contradict this.

No, Awakening retcons a shitload. Valentia is completely screwed up. The mythology of Archanea/Jugdral is completely incompatible with that of Tellius. There is no getting around that fact. And contrary to your claim that Elibe has no connection, there is actually a much more well detailed (if still incredibly speculative and inconclusive) theory that Elibe and Archanea are linked. There is more evidence to support this than there is for link with Tellius but even that theory has several holes. The mythology of Archanea is very clear that dragons once ruled and that humans were extremely primitive. The rise of humans did not start after the decline of the dragons due to degeneration. This aspect is incompatible with Tellius. Dragons in Archanea did not transform into humans at all before their degeneration started. They did not even possess this power. They had to seal their powers in stones and this was considered by most dragons to be incredibly demeaning and beneath them. Yet in Tellius, humans and dragon laguz exist. Not only that, dragon laguz, like all other laguz, prefer to be in their humanoid form. This is completely at odds with the dragons of Archanea and creates a timeline error. The decline of dragons started before the rise of humans (whereas humans coexist with dragon laguz in Tellius). There is not explanation for this error. The two worlds are not linked. The Outrealms are created for the specific purpose of using characters from other worlds without having to give an explanation for their presence. Why people insist on creating a linear timeline is beyond me. It simply does not exist. If it did, IS would certainly make an effort to say so. As a side note, Awakening does have plenty of retcons and errors. There are plot holes in support conversations (such as Panne saying she was raised by her mother with the other taguel in one conversation while saying she never knew her mother or other taguel in another). Anything Awakening says about lore has to be taken with a grain of salt.

There is no connection to the Earth Dragons in Fates. The dragons of Fates work quite differently to what is established in Archanea. As do the Dragon Laguz of Tellius. Until you can give an explanation that isn't wild speculation as to what happened to the Dragon Laguz and why dragons in Archanea and Tellius are different there is no connection. Trying to link all worlds together is especially silly when, as I've already said, the Outrealms exist pretty much for the sole purpose of not having to create a solid link while still being able to use characters and concepts from other games. There is literally an in-universe way for characters to travel to completely different worlds. There is no direct historical connection. There are too many contradictions between how things work in each world for there to be a direct link. No one has ever been able to provide any explanation for why things are so different other than the usual "lots of time has passed, things change" bullshit. That's not an explanation. That's just random nonsense. Come with something better if you want to insist there is some connection. Outrealms exist. This is why they even exist.

There is no timeline linking all games. Why do you think the Outrealms exist? IS can now safely add anything from any games without needing to explain anything by just saying Outrealms. Tellius' connection to Archanea is non-existent. Chrom's comments about the plots of older games being tales and myths are a meta reference, not necessarily something that should be taken literally.

Next chapter is big on the spectacle. And can provide an oppurtunity to train weaker characters. Also, after finishing that chapter, taking a closer look at the guide 4 posts up would be a good idea as the management decisions come into play.

Also, pretty soon, the site is going to need a different way of listing the games because that list is getting too long.