History Fridge / FireEmblemFates

* [[spoiler: Why does Anankos only possess Gunter on the ''Invisible Kingdom'' route and not the others? Because ''Takumi'' doesn't fall into the Invisible Kingdom on that route. In both Conquest and Birthright he falls in there and is possessed, with Azura's song preventing its influence from taking control on Birthright (though Iago can still use it to control him at a certain point) and takes complete control on Conquest by the end. Gunter meanwhile has a stronger will and is able to resist Anankos influence and even stab himself despite having been under his control as long as Takumi had been on Conquest.]]

* It may seem strange that the Ninja can share one of its promoted classes, Puppeteer, with an Herb Merchant of all things, but it makes sense considering how real life ninjas were infamous for disguising themselves as simple farmers and merchants while on missions.

** Or (more likely) it's not that big of a deal to them. [[spoiler:Even if they were married at that point, KissingCousins isn't a big deal in Japan.]]

* [[spoiler: [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment The fact that Kamui and Aqua didn't overreact when Mikoto revealed that they are actually cousins can be strange]], but it might make sense if Mikoto and Shenmei are actually best friends instead of being sisters. Sometimes, best friends can refer to each other as their own family, to the point of being assumed as HeterosexualLifePartners.]]

* Some people might find it odd that Syalla [[spoiler: is worried about the Female Avatar finding her weird due to her homosexuality (Well, bisexuality, but that's not the point), while Tharja doesn't seem to care at all what gender you are. This is explained when you realize this game is a prequel to Awakening. Tharja doesn't care because you already accepted her in a previous life. ]]

* The change to the Weapon Triangle with pairs of weapons countering other weapons may seem weird (sword and magic > bow and axes > lances and shurikens/throwing knives > sword and magic), but some of this make sense for those who played the previous Fire Emblem games. Many of the lance users were traditionally flying units like wyvern riders and pegasus knights, and since flying units have an innate weakness against bows and arrows, it would actually make sense to have bows effective against lances since the player would have to fight a lot of flying units with uses lance as their main weapon. Lance countering magic magic would make sense, since most lance users have a tendency to have built in high magic resistance (especially pegasus knights), and the fact that most magic users are often MagicKnight classes (that uses both swords and magic as their primary weapons) in the previous Fire Emblem games. Magic countering axes would make some sort of sense since many of the ax users in the previous games (particularly the Berserker, Fighter, Warrior, and Wvyern rider classes) have a tendency to have low magic resistance. Also, TruthInTelevision, shurikens and throwing knives range tend to be very short in comparison to using a bow and arrow.

* Some people might find it odd that Syalla [[spoiler: is worried about the Female Avatar finding her weird, while Tharja doesn't seem to care at all what gender you are. This is explained when you realize this game is a prequel to Awakening. Tharja doesn't care because you already accepted her in a previous life. ]]

* [[spoiler: The fact that Kamui and Aqua didn't react so much with Mikoto revealing that they are actually cousins can be strange, but it might make sense if Mikoto and Shenmei are actually best friends instead of being sisters. Sometimes, best friends can refer to each other as their own family, so it could explain why Kamui and Aqua didn't overreact.]]

* It may seem strange that the Ninja can share one of its promoted classes, Puppeteer, with an Herb Merchant of all things, but it makes sense considering how real life ninjas were infamous for disguising themselves as simple farmers and merchants while on missions.

* [[spoiler: Why does Anankos only possess Gunter on the ''Invisible Kingdom'' route and not the others? Because ''Takumi'' doesn't fall into the Invisible Kingdom on that route. In both Conquest and Birthright he falls in there and is possessed, with Azura's song preventing its influence from taking control on Birthright (though Iago can still use it to control him at a certain point) and takes complete control on Conquest by the end. Gunter meanwhile has a stronger will and is able to resist Anankos influence and even stab himself despite having been under his control as long as takumi had been on Conquest.]]

!!FridgeLogic

* If you scan Robin's amiibo and have him talk to Luna, Lazwald, or Odin, [[spoiler:they all recognize, understandably.]] However, [[spoiler:they recognize him by his ''clothes'', not his face: a neat CallBack to how Robin could look like whatever you wanted.]]

* If one understands Japanese enough, one can actually see a bit of foreshadowing with the Nohr version of Aqua's dance. [[https://kantopia.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/fire-emblem-fates-azuras-song-if-ones-thoughts-full-song-translation/#more-2821 As translated here.]] "An empty white throne" signs that Garon was long dead which wasn't very obvious until late game. "One will deceive them all by spinning a false tale" is about Garon's true nature that it was an impostor that took his place, similarly, something that was not noticed until late game.

* If one understands Japanese enough, one can actually see a bit of foreshadowing with the Nohr version of Aqua's dance. [[https://kantopia.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/fire-emblem-fates-azuras-song-if-ones-thoughts-full-song-translation/#more-2821 As translated by by a Wordpress user.]] "An empty white throne" signs that Garon was long dead which wasn't very obvious until late game. "One will deceive them all by spinning a false tale" is about Garon's true nature that it was an impostor that took his place, similarly, something that was not noticed until late game.

* Most of your siblings in Nohr are already in promoted classes while your Hoshido siblings aren't. It makes sense since Nohr is a militaristic and glory seeking kingdom it's more likely your Nohr siblings would have been in more battles and thus have the chance to go into stronger classes. The one Nohr sibling who isn't promoted is not only the youngest sibling but is also a healer which are the most among the most difficult units to level up in Fire Emblem games.
* If you scan Lucina's amiibo, [[spoiler: you meet a Lucina that is optimistic, contrary to her appearance in ''Awakening''. Remember defeating Grima at the end of ''Awakening''? Thanks to that, this version of Lucina, who was a baby at the time, did not have to succumb to facing a BadFuture caused by Grima!]]

* Most of your siblings in Nohr are already in promoted classes while your Hoshido siblings aren't. It makes sense since Nohr is a militaristic and glory seeking kingdom it's more likely your Nohr siblings would have been in more battles and thus have the chance to go into stronger classes. The one Nohr sibling who isn't pre-promoted is not only the youngest sibling but is also a healer which are the most among the most difficult units to level up in Fire Emblem games.

* The reveal that you and your Hoshidan siblings are [[spoiler:NotBloodSiblings]]. It's easy to argue that [[spoiler:it invalidates the idea of choosing between your bloodline and the people who raised you]], but it ''does'' reinforce the idea that the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings are NotSoDifferent. After all, [[spoiler:Ryoma knew all along that you weren't related to him by blood, but he still fights to bring you back home]].