History Characters / FireEmblemEngageAlternateElyos

* PrecociousCrush: Although Mauvier took Madeline in after her parents died, she never really saw him as a ParentalSubstitute are more like a mentor. [[spoiler:One of the reasons why Mauvier's death hit her so hard in particular is because it's implied that she was romantically interested in him.]]

[[folder:Alternate Mauvier]]

* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome: He's the largest of the Four Winds [[spoiler:and the only one to die in the story of the Fell Xenologue]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Like the rest of the Winds, he's nonplussed about the prospect of dying when facing down a seemingly endless horde of Corrupted. He's even the one to propose [[spoiler:they pull a TakingYouWithMe move by bringing down the temple on top of them and kill the Corrupted all at once... only to reveal he brought a Warp staff, which he then uses to send Zelestia, Gregory, and Madeline out of the temple as it collapses, all with a [[GoOutWithASmile smile on his face]]]].
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Defied to a depressing degree. It's made blatantly clear in the Four Winds' supports that [[spoiler:they haven't forgotten about Alternate Mauvier's HeroicSacrifice and miss him dearly, as Gregory and Zelestia are both reduced to tears in their C-Support with Mauvier. And before that, when Alear offered the remaining Winds an opportunity to come to their Elyos to start a new life there, Madeline expressed hesitation initially over the fact that it would mean leaving Mauvier's corpse and spirit behind and alone in a ruined world]].
* FourIsDeath: He's the last of the Four Winds to be introduced to Alear, [[spoiler:and the only member of their party to die]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He warps Zelestia, Gregory, and Madeline out of the crumbling temple in Xenologue 5, so that only he will die in the impending ruin. Gregory emphasizes the sacrificial nature of the act, not allowing Rafal to claim Mauvier was a victim and in turn explaining why he is not seeking vengeance against Rafal.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Whereas Mainline Mauvier is the SoleSurvivor of the Four Hounds, this one is the only member of the Four Winds to die.]]
* TheLeader: Subverted. Although he founded the Four Winds, he passed on being named the leader of the group and instead gave the reigns to Zelestia, choosing to become her trusted second-in-command. [[spoiler:He would later pass on this position to Gregory before his death.]]
* MentorOccupationalHazard: As the second-eldest member of the Four Winds, he's more or less Gregory and Madeline's mentor, especially the latter who he trained in the ways of knighthood. [[spoiler:He eventually sacrifices his life to ensure his comrades will survive.]]
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: He's the only major character who can't encounter his mainline counterpart in the story. [[spoiler:He probably would've had the chance, but performing a HeroicSacrifice prevented him from doing so.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: Despite his gameplay being [[https://youtu.be/_ulIzlZKS1M showcased in a trailer]] previewing the Four Winds as playable characters, he is never actually playable in the Fell Xenologue proper, given that [[spoiler:he dies two chapters after he's introduced]]. The trailer likely used the Mauvier that was already in the base game to demonstrate Alternate Mauvier's gameplay.
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Mauvier's horse is never shown in cutscenes, [[spoiler:so it's possible that it survived his HeroicSacrifice]]. On the other hand...

* ParentalSubstitute: In her Support with Zelestia, Madeline mentions that Mauvier took her in after her parents died. [[spoiler:That said, Madeline also states she never really saw them as "father and daughter", and that she actually saw him in a romantic light.]]
* RedHerring: Alear briefly finds odd how Alternate Mauvier is the only member of the Winds who is not surprised by meeting an alternate version of the Divine Dragon, hinting there might be something off about him. [[spoiler:Given he was sent to spy in Solm, it's implied he was already aware of the fact because Alternate Fogado and co. were informed of this as well]].

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Mauvier doesn't appear in many scenes, but the few he does have addresses a burning question: what happened to Veyle in Alternate Elyos? [[spoiler:Given his comments (and the fact Nel says he was previously a knight to one of Sombron's children, albeit one she did not know), it's easy to infer that Mauvier was Veyle's [[UndyingLoyalty utterly devoted]] Number Two just as he was in Main Elyos -- and that she died, which immediately caused Mauvier to change sides in disgust. This is further supported in Nel's supports with Veyle, where she states she knows there was a Veyle in her world, but she never met her.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In his final moments, he mentions being able to reunite with Veyle in the afterlife.]]

* AlternateUniverse: Assuming Nel's exposition is accurate, in addition to its MirrorUniverse aspects, Alternate Elyos has some important distinctions in its history. Namely, instead of [[spoiler:being an unknown exile, Sombron in this world was a native of Elyos, with Fell Dragons and Divine Dragons being descendants of the First Dragons (a type of dragon first described in ''Fire Emblem Fates''). As such his interest in going to other worlds was much less important as a motivation (though Rafal indicates it may have still been present), and his warmongering was more about honor and direct vengeance instead.]]
* DiscOneNuke: You can access and complete the Fell Xenologues as early as Chapter 7, allowing you to already have Nel, [[spoiler:Rafal]], Zelestia, Gregory, and Madeline recruited for deployment in the main story. All of them are prepromotes, allowing them to pull their own weight and help out the team without starving the earlygame units of too much [=EXP=]. That being said, if you wait too long to recruit them you end up with a bunch of OverratedAndUnderleveled chumps.
* DoomedByCanon: Implied with the Fell Dragon twin siblings' counterparts in the main game. [[spoiler:It's already established that only Alear and Veyle are what remains of Sombron's children, with the rest either having died toward the end of the war in battle or killed by Sombron himself for their perceived "defects". Assuming Nel and Nil (and Rafal) have counterparts in Mainline Elyos, it's possible they too are dead, either having been seen as "defects" or died fighting for Sombron. It's unclear who their potential counterparts may have been or if they were identical (Alear's alternate counterpart is of the opposite gender and the Four Winds all bear different names than their Mainline selves barring Alternate Mauvier), however; in Veyle's Support with Nel, the former asks Nel if she's really a fellow daughter of Sombron, meaning either Nel's counterpart went by another name, Veyle never met or heard of her, or was too young to remember her properly.]]

* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:It is not clarified how everyone in Alternate Elyos died and got reanimated as a corrupted outside of a small possibility as seen in RiddleOfTheAges. However...it's for the best that this is ''never'' clarified due to the horrifying implications of such a thing.]]

* RiddleForTheAges: It's never clarified exactly how [[spoiler:the Alternate Elyos inhabitants [[ZombieApocalypse became Corrupted]]. That they retain intelligence and remain blissfully unaware of their undead nature is a sign of a powerful Fell Dragon being responsible, but again, it's never clarified how in the hell an entire continent's population (small as it might have been from the war) was wiped out and resurrected. Rafal states he transformed the royals (in his C-support with Ivy explaining she was the first and was in fact a willing participant in becoming a Corrupted, and that he did the same to the other royals soon after, willing or not) and he is shown to have his own army of conventional Corrupted, but it is never said he raised the rest of the continent's population, or if he did then how he did it with no one noticing. Then again, [[NothingIsScarier perhaps we're better off not knowing]]...]]

* InformedSpecies: Like Zephia, Zelestia is a mage dragon and also has pointed ears like a standard manakete, but she never transforms into a dragon at any point, and by contrast, doesn't even possess magical abilities. However, [[spoiler:her case is justified due to the fact that when Sombron attacked her village, she was largely unnoticed at the time it happened, though she still lost her dragonstone in the process, preventing her from transforming.]]

* InformedSpecies: Like Zephia, Zelestia is a mage dragon and also has pointed ears like a standard manakete, but she never transforms into a dragon at any point, and by contrast, doesn't even possess magical abilities. However, [[spoiler:her case is justified due to the fact that when Sombron attacked her village, she was largely unnoticed at the time it happened, though she still lost her dragonstone in the process, preventing her from transforming.]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: [[spoiler: Although she accepted Rafal from the start, Nel knew the entire time her real twin brother Nil is long dead, but chose not to confront him about it due to the gesture being kind to her.]]

* LookBehindYou: He does this to Alear at the very end of Chapter 4 when the two of them are alone with each other. Somewhat subverted in that there really ''is'' something behind Alear, as Rafal has figured out how to re-awaken Tiki from her slumber. While Alear is talking to Tiki though, Rafal uses the opportunity to kidnap them. He does this yet again when Nel and the Winds confront him in the temple , where they are ambushed by Corrupted. Rafal uses the opportunity to get away.

* SelectiveObliviousness: [[spoiler: Although she accepted Rafal from the start, Nel knew the entire time her real twin brother Nil is long dead, but chose not to confront him about it due to the gesture being kind to her.]]

* LookBehindYou: He does this to Alear at the very end of Chapter 4 when the two of them are alone with each other. Somewhat subverted in that there really ''is'' something behind Alear, as Rafal has figured out how to re-awaken Tiki from her slumber. While Alear is talking to Tiki though, Rafal uses the opportunity to kidnap them.

* BladeOnAStick: Nel is proficient in using lances, and has a unique lance called Représailles.

* SelectiveObliviousness: [[spoiler: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as she accepted Rafal from the start, but Nel knew the entire time her real twin brother Nil had been long dead, but chose not to confront him about it due to the gesture being kind to her.]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: [[spoiler: [[Main/DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] as she accepted Rafal from the start, but Nel knew the entire time her real twin brother Nil had been long dead, but chose not to confront him about it due to the gesture being kind to her.]]

* SelectiveObliviousness: [[spoiler:Heavily Downplayed as she accepted Rafal from the start, but Nel knew the entire time her real twin brother Nil had been long dead, but chose not to confront him about it due to the gesture being kind.]]

* ShipTease: With Alear. [[spoiler:Nel was in love with the Alear of her world, and never got over their death. This has led to complicated feelings towards normal Alear as they remind her of the love she lost, but also by being around them she was starting to develop those same feelings again. This was unacceptable in her eyes because they are not the same Alear she fell in love with, and it would be a betrayal to the to those feelings. Nel eventually reconciles with Alear, wanting to treat them as their own person and start over as friends. However, Alear can pursue a romantic relationship with Nel should they choose to give her the Pact Ring.]]

* YouCanTalk: Before witnessing Fallen/Dark Tiki in Xenologue 1, Nel didn't know Emblems could speak. [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Likewise, she didn't form bonds with any of the Bracelet Emblems, and she starts out at Level 1 with them]].

* EverybodysDeadDave: Nel realizes at some point, either before Alear's arrival or while talking with the Firenese royalty, [[spoiler:that everyone on the main continent has been [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Corrupted]]. Unlike with Sombron's Corrupted, most of them have retained most of their reason and all of their memories (aside from remembering that they're Corrupted), and not even Zelestia or Gregory (noted sensors of life and danger respectively) notice. Nel says this in Fell Xenologue 4, and no Corrupted who look like normal people appear afterwards.]]
* MirrorUniverse: The personalities and preferences of most of Alternate Elyos characters, the royals and the Four Winds (with the exception of Mauvier), are notable inversions and exaggerations of their main counterparts, though for the former, it is mostly justified because of the tragedies of losing their Divine Dragon, retainers, families, and other close friends while being locked in a cold war. [[spoiler:Also further justified that they are all Corrupted, [[CameBackWrong their personalities greatly twisted as a result]]]]. However, when initiating a battle between an alternate royal and their retainer, most notable among the Elusian and Solmic royals, they will admit that their deceased retainers had contrasting personality traits to the main game retainers. These examples include Merrin hating animals, Bunet being horrible in the kitchen, and Goldmary being withdrawn and uncharismatic. Though as for how truthful they are [[spoiler:[[UnreliableExpositor from the mouths of the Corrupted alternate royals]]]], it can also be taken just as much with a grain of salt.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: A very androgynous man who could quite easily pass as a woman.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:They all think Mainline Alear and their allies are Corrupted made by Nel and Nil, with the Four Winds commanding them. This would be true in Mainline Elyos with Veyle and the Four Hounds, but in Alternate Elyos it's completely reversed: Alear, the Fell Dragon twins, and the Winds are all living, and it's '''everyone else in the world''' that's a Corrupted, including the royals themselves. Alternate Ivy actually became Corrupted willingly, though it is indicated she lost memory of the change afterward. They learn the truth in the final map when they're brought back a second time, and they're all broken by it -- except for Alternate Fogado, who knew all along and ''embraced'' it.]]

* MoreThanMindControl: How Rafal's descent into villainy is indicated to have happened, and why he refuses to downplay his own complicity in the crimes he committed. Sombron's magic within Nel's Dragonstone appears to have influenced Rafal's mind and instincts in a number of ways, to the point that at one point Rafal almost seems to develop a split personality, with him arguing with himself after asking Nel to kill him. His memories of why he took on Nil's identity seem to only come back after the stone is shattered, and the drive the stone's magic gave him is described as an intense pain that Rafal could not soothe save for by pursuing Sombron's ambitions. However, ultimately Sombron's magic preyed on genuine desires Rafal had for power and control, and unlike with Veyle, Rafal was fully conscious of what he was doing.

* MsFanservice: By virtue of being a PaletteSwap of Zephia, Zelestia is quite the looker. In contrast to the FeetFirstIntroduction via SupermodelStrut that Zephia gets, Zelestia is introduced running toward the viewer (a rarely used animation in this game), her large chest front and center. Alongside Goldmary she is the bustiest of the playable characters, and the Melusine class outfit puts them on ample display. Further, her doting, CuddleBug behavior can get a bit suggestive at times.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite his dislike of violence and not desiring revenge on [[spoiler:Rafal,]] he also makes it coldly clear in their supports that he won't hesitate to kill them himself (or at least try to) if [[spoiler:Rafal]] ever betrays them again.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: While the Skirmishes in Alternate Elyos take place in their respective maps, the characters in Alternate Elyos reject that they're the same place. To them, what they're visiting is either [[TimeTravel the past]] or an alternate version of Alternate Elyos, or both. [[NothingIsScarier The state of Nel and Rafal's Elyos after their departure is never revealed.]]]]

* BreakTheHaughty: Alternate Alcryst doesn't take the revelation that [[spoiler:he died and became a Corrupted]] well at all, bitterly asking how such a thing could be possible. Once he's defeated for the last time, he apologizes to Diamant as he dies.

'''Alternate Ivy:''' Don't you "Ivy" me! You've no right to be so familiar. I've warned you countless times! If your plan was to collude with Solm to get my attention, congratulations. You've succeeded.

* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:At some point between Xenologue 2 and 3, Nel returned to Firene and killed Alternate Alfred and Alternate Céline.]]

* TokenGoodTeammate: Alternate Diamant and Alternate Hortensia are surprisingly this compared to the other royals. The former is meek, but he just wants to have a nice brotherly bond with Alternate Alcryst and gives Alear's party a chance to surrender. Alternate Hortensia, meanwhile, clearly doesn't want to fight her main timeline counterpart, but she's willing to do whatever it takes to revive her father with the Bracelets' power. Downplayed with Alternate Timerra - while she ''did'' begin an invasion of Elusia, it was, [[UnreliableNarrator according to her]], because Alternate Ivy was trying to resurrect Sombron, even trying to negotiate with Alear if she sees them - and she does, genuinely, love her brother and miss her retainers [[spoiler:even after becoming Corrupted]].