Fire Emblem Fate (IF) thread (spoiler warning)

If you consider the power his sane half had, it's likely Hydra was still trying to weaken himself. Think about it. He removed his insanity and made Lilith. Yet he was still clearly insane. There's no way this is a coincidence. It's possible absorbing his blood restores the power lost by removing them from himself, along with likely his boosting his power to the level it would be if the songs weren't suppressing him.

Plus part of the problem was that the song eventually killed the Songstresses as well over the years when it didn't originally.

edited 22nd Aug '15 11:46:54 AM by OmegaRadiance

Yes, he did. He bestowed his power upon the royal family many times. I think that pretty much implies he didn't seal his power into dragonstones; rather, he gave the royal family more of his blood (and thus his power) in hopes that that could be a solution. However, it didn't. With his final remnant of sanity, he cut the sane part off of himself (and promptly forgot in his madness) who got up to his own stuff before Anankos found out about it and wanted to take back his power.

Heck, it's possible that if someone with Anankos's blood dies outside of the Invisible Kingdom, Anankos would not get his blood (and thus his power) back, and thus would be permanently weakened (though by the time that could matter, he was already insane).

He gave the gifts of his blood before that happened. As a reward for their part in the Dragon Wars. Invisible Kingdom wasn't an exception.

That's true. Yet, even if we go by that, Anankos would still have needed to give Garon (or rather, Garon's corpse) power that he had to take back. No matter how much blood Garon inherited, he should only be able to do Dragon's Vein stuff, not feats that even the land's most powerful sorcerers could not do (nor should his true self be a slime monster-slash-familiar to Anankos). Also applicable to Takumi. Heck, as you said yourself, Anankos was trying to lose power by bestowing things upon the royal family (and the ability to maintain said things), so he could easily decide to give Garon (and Takumi) power that he was ultimately going to take back through devouring him latter on..

Joker/Oboro Supports

This I found interesting, you'd think that Oboro would be all gung ho for cleanup duty of Nohrians, but nope.

Despite Oboro's hatred of Nohrians, I've found that most of her supports with Nohrian characters have her pretty civil. That's one thing I like about her; she knows that not every Nohrian is responsible for the death of her parents, and that there is no merit in treating every single Nohrian as an enemy.

And then you see her support with Belka and you get plenty of respect for both of them.

She's like Kallen from Code Geass well more nicer to the kingdom of jerks than Kallen was to Brittania...

Nohr isn't the kingdom of jerks.

It's the kingdom of Mordor the poor and aggressive.

Only Ganz and Iago are legit villains in the story since Slimedad wasn't so bad before the slime.

Yeah, I wouldn't say Nohr is a kingdom of jerks; it's the kingdom ruled by jerks. I mean, how can a kingdom that spawned someone like Arthur be completely evil?

On a more serious note, I would say that Nohr is really a more unfortunate version of Grado. Yeah, Grado was the antagonistic force (at least before Fomortiis shows his face), but it wasn't an evil kingdom. It just so happened to be run by a bunch of jerks because the leader of the jerks put them there. Just like how people like Ganz and Iago are in power because the Garon familiar, being controlled by Ananko, put them there to do what they do best: be murderous douchebags.

True still like Britannia it's the rulers that make the empire/kingdom so rotten while this one girl is ready to kill any Britannian/Nohrian only to mellow out later.

edited 25th Aug '15 9:58:12 AM by Mizerous

Pretty much.

Unlike Grado though, you have the chance to make Nohr come out on top this time around.

And Grado was pretty peaceful and well off, apart from the imminent earthquake in a few years (and few knew about that).

Nohr seems to least have had a militaristic, if not expansionist culture even before Garon got nasty. And their resources are shit.

They bring up in the IK Supports that conquering and being militaristic was indeed the only way to keep Nohr a functioning society.

Hoshido has so many resources it never had to do such a thing.

Who was Nohr going to war with though? Isn't Hoshido their only real neighbor?

Chevalier, Muse, and the Ice Tribe are smaller nations subservient to Nohr. Garon even killed Sumeragi in Chevalier and the dance scene with Aqua happens in the Muse City Amusia.

There are smaller nations near Hoshido as well, but they're Neutral in the conflict. Izana, Wind Tribe, and the one allied with Nohr are from these smaller nations.

edited 26th Aug '15 5:03:37 PM by OmegaRadiance

Fire Emblem Fates the movie (fake) poster (small spoilers)

Gender Bent Hoshido

Gender Bent Nohr.

edited 26th Aug '15 6:40:50 PM by mega-dark

Cmon, don't turn Ryouma's armor into a chainmail bikini.

And of course genderbent Takumi has twin tails. Of course.

Still, rather hilarious drawings.

Need more Papa Hydra fanart.

Would be nice if we knew what Papa Hydra looked like under that hood.

You know, given the way his head is positioned and the locks near his shoulder...it would be totally hilarious if Hydra looked just like the female Avatar from Awakening.

There was one artist drawing sketches of Dragon Hydra as well. With Female Takumi even holding the eye ball.

Can you link some of those art pieces please.

Here's the artist.

They even updated recently with Dragon versions of the royals.

It seems some false info has started to spread about Inigo, Owain, and Severa being alternate versions of the characters seen in Awakening.

Just letting you guys know in case anyone has mentioned it in other places.