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Hmm, kinda hard to tell, but doesn't seem like the four of new characters are exclusive to one of the routes because two of leaked dialogs are with each other(Coco seems to be Constance and they have work dialog with Hapi) Maybe they start out in different houses at least, but are just as recruitable as other units?

I mean, she does have her own scenes and maps and such(and on maps that appear on other routes it seems you start from the defensive location where enemy is located in in other maps so that makes them different enough). But apparently she doesn't have as many anime cutscenes and her route is shortest(18 chapters compared to 22 blue lions and golden deer have) And as said, she is only character who doesn't have her own unique paralogue story. Sure Shamir and Alois' use Derdriu's map from her route, but at least story wise its not identical to another character's paralogue.

It involves you killing Judith and Hilda though, so that is bad 😛 (also I might be wrong, but isn't Edelgard's paralogue basically Hilda's and Cyril's paralogue?)

I think TWSITD works as catharsis factor sort of deal. I mean because they are the obviously evil party, it feels good to beat them down, meanwhile you won't feel happy to take out Petra the OP Assassin 😛 But yeah, game might have even more of impact if there wasn't obvious bad guy faction running around. But same could be said if you couldn't recruit other students at all

I think I managed to kill him without using divine pulses by Claude attacking and surviving and Byleth finishim him with crit 40% crits are pretty reliable in this game for most part 😛

Another thing about Crimson Flower route is that after the campaign is over, Edelgard doesn't have Rhea to transform into dragon and take hit for Byleth when Thales tries to self destruct Shambhala 😛 Basically, when the endings says that war against them is long and arduous, you better believe it because they have no way of defending themselves for the missile attack and Thales is still alive to launch them(assuming he is only one who can do so. At least thats why I assume they didn't try to nuke Blue Lions). Like unless Thales is stupid enough to get immediately killed by what they think to be rebellious puppet ruler, the war against them is going to be long and bloody.

I think its because Ashe on GD path always leaves party post time skip to show up as enemy in mission, while Lorenz does same on BL. So maybe in those two cases you need to have recruited them pre timeskip to be able to spare them post timeskip

Well we can figure one thing out at least: Arundel secreted Edelgard way to Kingdom and then when he stopped donating to church and started planning Tragedy of Duscar, he suddenly secreted Edelgard back to Empire. So its possibly that original Arundel wanted Edelgard away from kingdom, maybe to avoid her being part of crest experiments or for some other political reason. But yeah, its really hard to say which one was done by real Arundel and which wasn't

You probably need to recruit him pre timeskip first for that to work

Lysithiea on Blue Lion route post his defeat comments on Arundel's personalty going drastic change into cruel direction so it does seem like Arundel was replaced. Tomas' personality is the biggest question mark since most of monastery staff we meet weren't there before his break, so its both possible Solon was much better actor or that as mild mannered librarian nobody just knew them that well

All of the faculty trainers aren't available every month

Well if you want to see Crimson Flower version of this, someone did record videos of all of them(and Ignatz accidentally twice)

I mean, thats why I take screen shots on switch. In 3ds that didn't matter because I had to save over the old files anyway if I started enough many new playthroughs. There were like only 3 save files on 3ds

Oh yeah, one more thing that people misunderstand that I wanted to point out, I finally found the quote for it: On Crimson Flower route, Edelgard doesn't apparently destroy church completely. I'm not sure what exactly happens, but apparently pragmatism happens and they keep institution around? How I know this? Well this is apparently Hanneman and Manuela ending on that route. After the war, Hanneman and Manuela held a grand wedding ceremony, to which all of their many students were invited. Later, after the church was transformed and rehabilitated under the super vision of the Empire, the Officers Academy finally reopened, with a renewed focus on accepting students regardless of status and offering classes on a wider variety of practical subjects. Hanneman and Manuela returned to work as teachers, almost as if nothing had changed, and filled the halls with their banter in the way only married couples can. Sooo uh yeah, not sure what up with this.

As someone who finds post game stuff kinda anti climactic, I'm kinda confused its popular enough that it being missing is "worst thing" for some people. Like, post game content in all fire emblem games has just been fighting repeatedly on generic maps generic enemies and grinding without any plot, it doesn't really feel fun to me