FoolyCharged posted:

E: Plus we're not quite a nobody. We're the child of a legendary warrior who lead the holy knights back in the day.

Omobono posted:

You just have to imagine all the flying around the monastery, spawned by Jeralt showing up with the major version after disappearing for give or take two decades.

Cuntellectual posted:

There's got to be some way of easily telling, because otherwise it would be weird that nobody at any point in this massive game lies about having one when they don't.

Maybe the little magic light up effect when one activates isn't supposed to be just a gameplay thing?

Cuntellectual posted:

Sure, but the thing Hanneman has in his room doesn't seem like the sort of thing people would be lugging around all the time.

One of Awakening's paralogues had some random bandit say he was Chrom, y'know?

Lord Koth posted:

Rhea's comment is extremely cold, brutal and callous (and it IS), but at the same time it kind of needs to be kept in context. This isn't civilians in the sense of "that guy down the street who said hurtful words to this believer and needs to be burned" it's "that militia member who engaged in armed rebellion and fully intended on putting everyone in their way to the sword." Like, her rebuttal certainly should not be "yeah, it's totally fine to kill them and you should feel good about it," and highlights certain incredibly unpleasant aspects of her, but what's actually being done isn't any different from what would be happening if they'd done the same against any other feudal power base.

It needs to be driven home that the Church here DOESN'T ACTUALLY CARE IF YOU WORSHIP IT, it only cares if you're actively attacking them. This is not a case of "A God am I, worship me or perish." For instance, very few of the high ranking knights of Seiros are religious. Jeralt? Catherine? Another one we haven't met yet? None of them are actually followers the religion.


Honestly, Black Eagles is really not the route that should have been the first for a balanced LP, as it's by far the most slanted of any of the routes in terms of presentation vs. reality (not so evident now, very much so in the future).

Ragnar Homsar posted:

I'd respect that too, but it's a matter of intent, I think—I don't believe, in his mind, that Glenn was saving a terrified kid, he was saving someone with a higher station in life than him.

Obviously, we'll never know, since his thoughts died with him, but it's what Rodrigue implies.

Junpei posted:

I remember them having pretty good Crit? Or is that just because my Sylvain, who used them, was very Skill blessed?

Omobono posted:

Thanks.
I'm going on a limb and say that if Sothis' power is called out as divine intervention in its name (bonus points for the heaven/time double reading) then this reveal wasn't really meant to be a surprise for us players.

Alxprit posted:

Was it? I thought it was just Mila's Turnwheel.

Faillen Angel posted:

Remembering that Divine Pulse is an option in-universe is UNBELIEVABLY refreshing after Fates ignoring Dragon Veins outside of gameplay or Echoes not updating its story at all to reflect Mila's Turnwheel.

Tae posted:

I can't believe Jiraiya died, what a type cast

Ragnar Homsar posted:

I just did the math and even if Bernie was in Brigand for all of her levels (+10% Str growth), she'd still be a whopping 5 points ahead of her average Str. Given her actual growth rates (yes, I checked), she's about 6-7 points ahead of her average. I haven't even given her any Str boosters.

Arcturas posted:

I am doing my first run Golden Deer, so I suppose I'll go Blue Lions, Black Eagles, Church of Seiros after that? Or would you all recommend swapping Blue Lions and Black Eagles?

Lord Koth posted:

Shei-kun posted:

Wait, did they literally just put it in a hole under the bridge?

Wow.

Melomane Mallet posted:

Yeah, Dimitri almost did something awful (); that's kind of the point -- his character arc requires him to hit rock bottom before he can work his way back up. (And please tell me you are not getting into the "mentally ill man should be put down for his own good", because, holy poo poo, that ableism).

Cythereal posted:

I don't think they are enablers, really, because there's a deeper problem here. If Dimitri dies, Faerghus dies. He's the last member of the royal family. Everyone in part one was looking to Dimitri to be the one who could turn things around in Faerghus, which as it stood was in severe decline, divided, impoverished, and lacking leadership.

Turning on Dimitri at this point is tantamount to giving up on and abandoning Faerghus, because despite all his manifest problems, the hope of Dimitri is the only thing keeping Faerghus in the fight at all.

Cythereal posted:

Is it really a death march if Silver Snow and Verdant Wind do exactly the same thing, though?

TheGreatEvilKing posted:

Claude is also smart enough to recognize that the Alliance isn't that great and doesn't enjoy a lot of popular support.

I'll go more into this when we talk to the appropriate characters in the appropriate circumstances, but the Alliance, like almost every other system in this game, isn't worth preserving.

Clawtopsy posted:

fwiw, Edelgard actually acknowledges this in at least one of her supports that I can think of off the top of my head and concedes she doesn't have all the answers, and is completely open to new ideas to uplift the common folk. I think it's the Ferdinand B in which he proposes a system of universal education.