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While I have issues with the game's writing as applied to the forking paths, the game's backstory and Act 1 is pretty solid overall, providing a good backdrop for why people are doing what they're doing. I also appreciate that the blatant exposition is largely confined to the history books and what not. So it's both optional to read and not in your face. It also lines up nicely with the idea that random people aren't going to strictly know what's happening with all this political movement without spending some effort to figure it out.
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The Shadow Library - Part 2 Encyclopaedia of Fodlan's Insects posted:
And here we go. The Shadow Library is either loved or despised for content like this. Rhea and the Church have been withholding technological advances from the people of Fodlan. The amount of time they've managed to do this is unclear. I would presume that these are relatively recent discoveries otherwise someone on the borders would likely have found out about them independently. Notably the battle advantage access to oil and looking glasses would likely be very significant. The damage that this has caused to the population of Fodlan is difficult to assess really. But at the very least, the banning of the printing press has likely stopped the population from meaningfully educating themselves.  Romance of the World's Perdition posted:"In the land of Thinis, where the old gods are said to live, the False God has awakened. Its looming, heteromorphic vessel was resurrected to sink the world to the depths of the ocean. It will bring extinction to all children of men, and salvation to all beasts of the land, sky and sea. For the children of men who spilled too much of the blood of life, it promises only cruel retribution. This is the origin story for Those Who Slither in the Dark such as it is. The timeline here is muddied at best, but the False God here is very likely to be Sothis, the heteromorphic vessel noting how Nabateans have the ability to switch between human and beast form. The ancient Slitherers wage war against Sothis, firing javelins of light at her, but to no avail. Instead she manages to flood the earth and remove all of the Slitherers beyond those who ended up underground and hidden away. At some point later the Slitherers resurface and wage another war against the Nabateans and the new? humans of the world, which leads to the death of Sothis and many Nabateans as well as the creation of the relics we know today. If I'm honest, I'm unsure if this is the correct read, but it certainly adds colour to ancient history.  The Truth of the Heroes' Relics posted:"I, a priest of _______ the findings of my investigation___ When a Crest Stone was removed while its Relic was being wielded by ______ all movement within the Relic ceased. When the Stone was returned, the Relic once again ____ It is beyond question that Crest Stones supply their associated Relic with power of some kind. And the impetus of said power is clearly related to the Crests that certain humans possess... Here we have some stuff we already probably know the material of by this point. Heroes relics are made from the bones of Nabateans and gain power when wielded by someone of a Nabatean bloodline. There were more crests and relics than those of the ten elites, as we've seen with Marianne's Crest of the Beast as well as the crests wielded by the Ashen wolves. Fragments of a Forgotten Memoir posted:"___/15 - Ailell Forest Again not a huge amount of new stuff here. It looks like one of the ten elites wrote a memoir as they were chased to the ends of the earth by Seiros for the murder of Sothis. It's interesting that this person doesn't seem to know why Seiros is so angry with them, which implies that the ten elites were patsies who were just given Nabatean blood and weaponry. If you recall Rhea asserts that they helped the massacre at Zanado, but if that's the case, then why is this person so confused?  Mysteries of the Calendar, Vol. 2 posted:"Much time has passed since the Imperial calendar was adopted. In the prior calendar, the year began with what we now call the Guardian Moon and ended with Ethereal Moon. Back then, the 12 lunar phases were exclusively referred to as months. They came to be known as moons with our current calendar system. This last bit from the library is rather uncontroversial. We know now that Rhea was supported by Wilhelm at the founding of the Empire and we even have hints that they were romantically involved from elsewhere in the library, so both supporting the church and cementing the authority of the Empire are things that would really have been desired. It's interesting though, when did the Empire start passing down the idea that Nemesis was a hero if Wilhelm was so strongly tied to Rhea? *** What I really liked about the Shadow Library is that absolutely nobody has it right. Not even Claude manages to get to the whole truth by the end. So much is lost to history, so much has been changed by word of mouth that almost no fact about the world is guaranteed. So is Edelgard's crusade right in that context? I remain impartial, but I just love thinking about this and seeing all the fan theories and ideas that have come about from this game.
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If the Slitherers are the OG humans, where did the current humans come from?
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If the Slitherers are the OG humans, where did the current humans come from? They sailed from the continent of Deece.
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Linhardt should have a line somewhere alluding to the missing relics somewhere in CF. As for the 10 Elites thing. So, like, when Seiros was on her warpath she actually dyed her hair blonde. I don't think I saw a single person mention this or note it ever before her Fire Emblem Heroes unit came out and she was strikingly blonde. The opening cutscene with her has such specific lighting that you'd think it was just the sunlight on her but the tips of her hair are a bright green. So, that's why the Elites don't know this. The Nabateans have green hair and eyes. Seiros doesn't. They don't know she's coming for revenge because of that. If they ever were involved with Zanado in the first place.
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Yeah until her FEH art came out I legit just thought her hair was light green, so the Rhea thing was a massive nonreveal to me, but nope her hair is intended to be different. They just used hues that look totally green in that scene.  
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:If the Slitherers are the OG humans, where did the current humans come from? The survivors that stayed with/around the destroyer rather than fleeing underground.
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Clawtopsy posted:They sailed from the continent of Deece. Deece Nuts? Natural 20 posted:It's interesting though, when did the Empire start passing down the idea that Nemesis was a hero if Wilhelm was so strongly tied to Rhea? Wasn't it also Rhea's idea to rewrite the story that way? A fallen hero of course, but originally a hero... who was originally just granted the weapons in good faith, cause there's totally no way some mere uppity humans could kill gods and turn their bones into weapons right 
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WoG says that Nemesis was written down as a hero because, at that time, humans really did see him and the Elites as heroes for liberating them from their immortal 'Dark God' (coughNabateancough) rulers. So he was 'good' when he was removing the "dark gods" and then 'turned evil' when he started going after other humans, whereas it is more likely he was a powerhungry bandit who knew that humans hated their immortal overlords, who was given a unique opportunity by the Slytherins and also knew the value of good pr and so cloaked his I-want-power bullshit in rhetoric about liberation. As for Wilhelm, his concern regarding Sothis probably started from a similar place- once she revealed to him that she was secretly a Nabatean, the War Of Heroes begins to look a lot like a human-v-dragon proxy war for who gets to rule Fodlan, and even after joining Rhea for his Empire (and maaaaybe his relation with her?) he could have harbored some concerns about the whole thing. E: WoG quote quote:From the human perspective/side, Nemesis and the Ten Elites were heroes. As a result, ruling above humans, she [Rhea] would be unable to completely fabricate points that would deny every aspect of their history, eh. As a result, she left them as heroes while changing other parts in order to suit her own needs. As for why Rhea doesn't talk about this, it seems unlikely she'd want to mention the whole "Nabateans had installed themselves as immortal rulers over humans, who saw them as dark gods and tyrants" to Claude in VW, after Claude breaks Rhea free from a war that occurred at least partially because Rhea once again installed herself as an immortal ruler of humans and humans again not liking it. Shinji117 fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Character Roundup 2 - Part 1 So on the final supplement I have for the LP (whilst I edit the nightmare that is Chapter 18 which is something like a 2.5 hour long battle), I wanted to give a final roundup on how our characters ended up with their stats, comparing them to the average and briefly commenting on how well they did! I'm using https://fe3h.com/average_stats as my basis for calculating average stats. I've done my best to track when people joined and what they leveled in as well as what stat boosters they were given, but it's essentially a reasonable estimate. Additionally I wasn't able to keep track of birthday stat gains so charm is going to be high on most characters as a result. Byleth   Ugh, Byleth had a pure hatred of getting strength bonuses in the latter half of the game. It really showed near the end where I felt like he just wasn't hitting for real damage at all. I patched him with some boosters so he ended up being okayish. But largely he was carried by how good Trickster is over anything else. The mobility the class afforded me and the team in general outweighed Byleth being a bit of a paper tiger. Edelgard   Edelgard was near enough bang on average for us. Which goes to show just how absolutely broken she is honestly. Aaverage and she was far and away the most powerful single character in the army. The strength of Aymr is so polarising that basically no map could challenge me if I decided I was going to burn Raging Storm charges. On top of that, she's strong and fast enough to do insane things like one round Maddening Rhea and Dimitri. I used to rate her around the same level as I did Claude, but honestly if I were to tier list this game again I'd make an S+ one just for her. Jeritza   Jeritza doesn't really have that much lattitude with which to express himself. His stats are unsurprisingly near average. I will say that he was a big surprise for me. Incredibly powerful out the gate and a key piece in my anti-bow knight doctrine. Constance   Constance was the queen of the early game, but she settled well in her endgame role. Magic returned to the norm slightly but still ended up a powerful stat. Nothing else was particularly remarkable, although the high res helped. I think I would have liked a little more Magic ultimately. She came perilously close to being able to oneshot certain characters with Bolting, but the threshold was just a little out of her reach. Leonie   Leonie did oh so well for us. Luck is almost certainly not that high from growths. I'll be honest, at some point I lost track of all the luck and dex boosters I was giving her, so I'm really not sure how much of that is a booster stat. That being said, her strength is phenomenal and she had key extra growths in both speed and defense, lending her more to her physical tanking role than normal. And of course, dex/luck build made her into the critical killing machine you've been seeing in the latest videos. At this point I'm pretty convinced that she's the most underrated character in the game from a gameplay perspective. Lysithea   What the hell happened. Lysithea dropped five points in magic and gained nine, bloody nine points in speed. I've never seen anything like it. Speedy Lysithea was absolutely incredible this run. Her speed meant that she was able to effortlessly murder a swathe of enemies that really should not have been doubled by her. It meant that I favoured Dark Flier on her pretty significantly because the mobility let her instakill and poke people down. I don't think she's generally better than Constance, but if Lysithea got this statline on average, she definitely, definitely would be. Dorothea   Dorothea had amazing growths all around! I never noticed though because she was too busy dancing for my entire army. She was excellent in that role unsurprisingly but it's a little bit of a shame that she was the dancer this time around when she could have done some really good work as a Gremory. Alas. I'll review the remaining 7 endgame units in the next part!
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Character Roundup 2 - Part 2 Okay okay, the final final supplement. Marianne   Marianne monstrous strength is a little bit of a ruse, she got a huge bonus from briefly going into Assassin because I thought it would be cool. There's very little that's remarkable here, Marianne is a functional healer and that's all she really needs to be. I did have a little fun with Blutgang crits this time around though! (Which might have been fueled slightly by her great luck) Annette   Oof, Annette didn't have a great time of it. Low growth on magic meant that she couldn't really do her one offensive job of oneshotting fliers with Excalibur. I patched her HP a lot so she could fight archers better, so she wasn't unsalvageable but not great considering you're the weakest mage and you need the best growthline to compete with the rest. Shamir   The Shamir allergic to strength and dex and luck growth. You hate to see it. She compensated significantly with her speed which lead to some inexhaustible quads she otherwise wouldn't have managed. It has its ups and downs. The quads are still explosive, strength gets patched by double bowfaire, but once Inexhaustible is uhhh, exhausted, you're low on decent options. Hubert   Hubert made an excellent account of himself this run. Higher than average nearly everywhere with key growths in magic meant that he kept up admirably with the ladies despite being a man. I really underestimated him, Dark Spikes access on decent defense made him an excellent EP cav killer and his range was pivotal early. Ferdinand   You'll remember I lamented Ferdinand early on and was claiming he'd almost certainly end up on the garbage pile. Well he fixed himself. Below average speed doesn't matter when you've got a brave axe and above average strength is great on a Wyvern Lord with said brave axe. Probably the biggest surprise in overall utility, he really came into his own deep in the game. Yuri   Ugh Yuri. Yuri just collapsed as the game went on. Allergic to strength growths he had to be patched like crazy on that stat with boosts and his poor Def and Res meant he couldn't really serve as a speed tank. He was basically entirely held up by how amazing the Trickster class is and offered very little utility beyond that. Felix   Felix got growths where it counted. Good across the board with great strength is exactly where he wants to be. He's not Leonie levels of lethal, but he was never going to be, that being said he was a key piece in a lot of my offense for a large portion of the game and had it where it counted when it came to disposing of the Faerghus nobility. Overall I feel like I got lucky here. I got some real killers out of good growths and my poorest growths fell on people who were largely held up by their class choice anyway. Largely though, I think that the sheer insanity of Aymr and crit Leonie would have rendered any issues around growths moot. And notably, tracking my growths meant that I was able to patch things with stat boosters as I saw them. I will also say that my class choice for a lot of these guys was sub-optimal. A lot of the melee should have ended up in Wyvern Lord but just didn't. Felix, Jeritza and Byleth in Wyvern Lord would have helped those three immensely. On top of that a lot of characters ended up with horses that hurt them for the final battle. Hubert, Shamir and Marianne would all have served better on foot instead of in their Master classes for example. Lessons to learn are unsurprising. Use the good classes and I think more importantly, use your stat boosters. Typically your strategy with them should be to boost weaker defensive stats so that characters don't get oneshot, buff terrible offensive stats so characters aren't useless and then finally boost strong offensive stats to give your attackers the ability to kill more cleanly.
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Episode 20 - To End a Dream - With Alxprit And that is the end of Crimson Flower and the end of 3H as a whole in combination with Rea's incredible work. I think more than anything I realised as I played this for the third time that I absolutely adore Three Houses and especially what Maddening mode managed to do to it. And yes, that is my (unsurprising?) real opinion at the end of the video.
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It’s good to see a complete set of runs for each of the paths now publicly available. Personally the monastery gets tedious to me, so despite attempts I couldn’t finish CF myself.
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Thank you for finishing this! It was a great LP, and it gave me the hints I needed to do my own fresh Maddening playthrough. I would like to file a formal complaint about killing Ashe though, that was just uncalled for! I played on casual, which is good because the Bolting assholes in the final map crit Byleth just before I was done. I messed up the timing on Rhea's barrier too, so I ended up burning through her entire last health bar with Raging Storm. Amyr and Rhea broke at the same time.
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Natural 20 posted:And yes, that is my (unsurprising?) real opinion at the end of the video. 
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Now that I've seen all the routes I'm looking forward to Three Hopes even more. I've got high hopes because the Nintendo IP Warriors spin-off games are all some of the best in the franchise.
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Given that one of them's named Chevalier, I've always assumed Rhea named her golems after lesser saints and other family members who died too early to be canonized. That shared name is the only real backing I've got for that theory, though.
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Isn't the middle one named the same as the first emperor?
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Now that all routes have been shown off I can finally post...Edelgard Says and Edelgard Says More. So Edelgard's VA, Tara Platt, has had a number of roles over the years. This includes Zero, the protagonist of Drakengard 3, known for being an extremely foul-mouthed murderhobo. Someone had the bright idea to overlay scenes featuring Edelgard with Zero's lines, and these were the results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDqLPLWUxY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83MiJMmjtk
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 The true ending of this LP.
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The  ending that any CF run deserves.
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I continue to add things on to this. Fire Emblem Three Houses - Managing the Monastery I promised this video during the LP but got round to it now because we're on a break between LPs!
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