Cymbalina's Revenge

It's a whole lot of exploitable fun, especially when Arthur gets his horse.

Holyn/Briggid makes Patty so much better it's not even funny.

Yeah. Jamke!Faval has accuracy issues and needs a SKL boost but he will hit hard and he's sturdy, Jamke!Patty is hard to train but can still steal and ferry gold around. Ayra/Noish kids will be just fine. Claude!Arthur will never be able to use his holy weapon. Let us know how Azel!Lester turns out, because I've never tried that.

Norne in FE11, Amelia in FE8. I've put way too much effort into Alec and Noish in most FE4 runs but draw the line at Arden.

Yeah, it won't work. I was trying to do a run with Sharlow and Laylea and Sylvia kept pairing with Midayle during Ch5 even though he was warehoused in the home castle. Had to let Sylvia get Meteor'd to get my subs.

If you play the opening phases of the chapter efficiently enough that Silvail is seized on or before Turn 19 (I think), and then keep going until turn 50 when love points stop accumulating, they WILL get married unless you kill Finn (which just sends him home) or get him married to someone else beforehand. If you take it slow through the early phases of the Chapter and don't seize Silvail before the tipping point, then Finn and Bridget can't rack up enough love points to get hitched. Doesn't matter if you leave him at the home castle-- if you don't want them married, either make sure he's with someone else, "kill" him, or take your sweet time seizing Silvail. OTOH it's not a bad pairing! Just have Finn yank the Thunder Sword from Jacoban for Patty to inherit. :)

Mystery of the Emblem has a vague echo of LOTR in that the great race of divine dragons declined and decided to pass the earth on to the lesser race of men, which does evoke the elves handling Middle Earth over to mankind. When I encountered that passage in FE3 I definitely thought of LOTR.

Double post b/c my connection got spotty; please delete.

Cuan and his knights would've gotten massacred anyway because of the sand. It was a facepalm-worthy decision on Ethlyn's part but Travant was planning the ambush before he even learned Ethlyn & Altena were there in the party. Altena's presence just gave him extra leverage and a bonus prize. Even given the hand-wavy timelines, a substantial number of the FE4 Gen1 women would've HAD to be pregnant during some of Sigurd's campaigns, and they had kids along up until half the husbands tell the wives and kids to get out of danger during various points in Chapter 5, so it's not like having a kid along on the warpath was completely unheard of. Still a bad decision... just not unprecedented and unfathomably bad.

Judah gets my vote for worst, that's for sure. It's hard to see how that bar could get any lower.

Fury --> the mythical Furies aka the Erinyes --> Erin, which also suits the Celtic flavor of many of the Jugdral proper names.

Very cool. Thank you for posting it. It was a fascinating time-capsule.

Except Lewyn is a different "archetype" altogether-- as a wandering noble his predecessor isn't Merric, it's arguably Jeorge. And yeah, Ced's The Gotoh in FE5 for sure.

Asvel is a clear enough expy. I'd count Soren as well even though he's got several different... things... going on what with also being a strategist and also the whole secret heritage business. Ricken has the cuteness and wind magic but not the deep bond with the Lord and Hayato looks on the surface like Ricken Mk II (haven't played it yet). And then there's Lugh and Raigh who have some visual resemblance to Merric but otherwise don't fit. Honestly red-haired shota mages are more of a pattern at this point, and Ricken and Hayato fit that progression easily.

I would actually buy the same game three times for this. And only this.

Top Five Guys: Innes Marth Duessel Finn Ephraim Top Five Ladies: Caeda Celica Palla Eyvel Lute Honorable mention to Soren, Jeorge, Amelia, and Raquesis. Haven't gotten into Fates.

Just beautiful! It took a second before I noticed the Sigurd lurking there.

Jamke/Ayra and Noish/Ayra were both all kinds of fun. Ayra and Jamke did indeed make a solid set of battle buddies and Ulster did just fine without any legacy weapons from Dad. And someone can inherit Verdane without Jamke's SKL wrecking their stats.

Ethlyn is the queen of null level-ups. Though in every PT I've ever done Azel was close competition.

I second all of this. Raquesis/Alec is not a beloved pairing but it gets the job done. Midayle!Lester may've been more effective in Ch6-7 thanks to inheriting the Brave Bow but Finn!Lester did a competent job before getting good weapons and caused fewer restarts down the line. The +5 MGC for Lana was pretty sick, too.

Guns and artillery that work like devil weapons and have to potential to blow up in your own face would be fun. The boomerang suggestion would also be fun.

Awakening's maps were not fun enough in that regard. 3/10 would rather play Shadow Dragon again.

I'd vote for Thracia 776 except that I do think the actual story suffers from a lack of resolution. The final villain is a joke and the story doesn't really end. I might go with FE8 even though it shares a lot under the skin with FE3 just because it's self-contained and doesn't depend on other entries in the franchise to explain or resolve anything. (I quite like the baseline story of FE3.) FE13 is the worst I've experienced to date. Overwrought, undercooked, unwilling to deal with actual consequences, and so bad it detracted from replay value.

Eirika's supports with Saleh describe a sword forged from a dragon tooth, given by dragons to the heroine Nada Kuya. It sure sounds like Marth's dragon-forged Falchion but the connection isn't explicit.

From what I recall he didn't keep all of it and his kids (Lester and Lana in the most recent case) only each received a fraction of what Finn had pre-timeskip.