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SoV already got a full Valentine's banner to itself. Getting an anniversary one is just a matter of time. Assuming the game stays running for long enough, that is.

Ephraim+Lyon was the second duo (Nov 2020), Hector+Lilina were a month before (Oct 2020).

Summon #4: Alear Summon #5: Claude Guess there's no need for me to go for the spark. Opens up the option of spending those orbs to spark for Caeda, although I'll have to see the Double Special and Emblem banners before committing.

I'd like to get Demonic Beast Dedue, but I doubt he'd be a Rearmed Hero. And we need more armored beasts in general. Nidhoggr makes for our first non-colorless one, but we're still missing blue and green. It does seem likely for Nidhoggr to get additional versions, though, which will probably stay armored beasts. Admittedly, all Nidhoggrs released will be a ways off, and probably uninterested in an Arcane weapon released before them. Still, I personally don't think of either Rearmed Hero slots or Fallen Hero slots as particularly precious resources. We have pretty much all the relevant kinds of conventional Arcane weapons, after all.

Yeah, Fallen banners avoid the usual concerns. Rearmed Chrom isn't even any different from usual Fallen banner fare. Honestly, I do kind of hope we get Rearmed Fallen Three Hopes Edelgard at some point even though she'd be sort of a duplicate, because she'd offer an arcane beast armor weapon. Not like we'd be missing out on anything particularly new for it. December was Rearmed+Mythic, but yeah, ultimately the same story. I'm glad Thracia didn't lose a character slot though, and I hope we get another full roster in April. At least Jun-Dec aren't an issue since they get insta-demotes to make up for it (aside from CYL, which is its own story). Maybe sometime they'll start doing insta-demotes for Jan-Apr as well, to make it a moot point.

Last year's Fallen banner had Rearmed Chrom. I think it's a safe bet that this year's will have at least one of Rearmed/Attuned, potentially multiple.

Shura GHB next month is still a possibility, given that he and Castor could have different bow colors. I really hope April isn't another double-alt month. But it'll be interesting to see how they handle the Fallen banner in May.

Argh. Gaiden wasn't a one-off, this is another banner with only three new characters. Caeda looks surprisingly like Lucina here.

Sylvain's weapon certainly portrays him as stopping to make out with one of your other units before running off to stab something.

Damn, one of the ones I already have. Maybe I can at least get Alear and Claude from the banner.

Sylvain finally gets a non-demote version, complete with bonuses from finding one of your units to have a fling with. Lack of Karel is disappointing, but Framme at least offers a newcomer.

I'm interested in this math!

Yeah, that was quite a surprise. I don't know whether to expect that to count for this book or not.

I hope the next "new unit type" is combining one or more existing special unit types like Rearmed and Attuned with Ascended Heroes. We already have more than we need, it's so silly that the number keeps increasing.

Aww. I really wanted Gullveig. Alear and Claude are the two remaining units I'm missing, so I guess I'll switch to Alear.

Huh, so as a result the Jugdral path has had the only 5* first-tier for two years in a row. The third set also had just one, but that was Berkut for Archanea+Valentia. Oddly, they did have at least one qualifying unit in the form of Halloween Xane - but I guess that would have left them without a Valentia character?

According to this chart, the orb income for the current calendar "month" is about 321. We can also look for posts like this for previous posts for more data: for example, the Mar-April calendar last year covered about 311 orbs for the month. At a glance at a number of others, it looks like the average is still 300+.

New Divine Code lists are up. Winter BK is at 1200, Brave Corrin and Anniversary Hector are each at 1600, and all six paths have a Rearmed Hero at the end. Wild.

Legendary Marth, Legendary Micaiah, and Mythic Altina all introduced three prfs, even though some of those prfs have reappeared on later units. But it's a rare occurrence, and none of them fit into existing inheritable skill patterns like Dragon's Roar does.

There's also the picnic theme they used for the first April banner. That month seems solidly booked these days, but it could work just fine for March.

I already have Edelgard, Peony, and Dimitri, and the first two of those are facing each other, so I'm going Gullveig.

If we do get Awakening, Nah alluded to the possibility of Nowi joining the spring festival a few years ago.

Now I'm curious about the game distribution of past spring banners. 2017: 2 Awakening, 2 Fates 2018: 2 Heroes, 1 Archanea, 1 Fates 2019: 3 Heroes, 1 Archanea, 1 Sacred 2020: 1 Archanea, 5 Binding 2021: 1 Archanea, 2 Sacred, 3 Awakening 2022: 1 Archanea, 3 Valentia, 2 Awakening 2023: 2 Heroes, 1 Archanea, 1 Blazing, 2 Three Houses Totals: 7 Heroes, 6 Archanea, 3 Valentia, 5 Binding, 1 Blazing, 3 Sacred, 7 Awakening, 3 Fates, 2 Three Houses Jugdral, Tellius, and Engage have not gotten any spring presence. Jugdral hasn't been tending to show up on silly seasonal themes, but Tellius and Engage may be ones they want to explore, as well as more Three Houses.

Fascinating approach, and I guess we can expect the Solm banner to do the same thing. We finally have Arcane weapons for all the launch weapon types! Also I'm glad I was right about Rosado not being the demote. Mauvier seems a bit squandered as a GHB, but maybe he'll get a cool prf.

I'd also like to see her with Mani Katti, but yeah, Engage suggests an Emblem Lyn is not likely to go that route.