History Fridge / FireEmblemGaiden

* Why does Fatigue not kick in between regular battles? Actually, it makes sense — your characters had ample time to rest and eat up in between battles.

* Walhart's methods were very akin to Rigel before it got cleaned up, suggesting that at some point the real lesson of Alm and Celica's deeds were lost in history, leaving the big about Alm slaying gods and conquering the continent (which would also explain Walhart's naythesist beliefs) It's telling in ''Heroes'', he shares the same weapon effect with Brave Alm.

* Further along with Berkut... he is basically a WellDoneSonGuy. But [[spoiler:one reason for this could be the fact that Rudolf knew Alm was still alive... hence there was no need to treat Berkut like a son]]. Good going Rudolf! You screwed up your nephew by keeping him LockedOutOfTheLoop!

* Whereas most other battles are Rout maps, Rudolf's is an assassination map. Odd choice... but wait. The DecapitatedArmy is totally justified here. [[spoiler:Rudolf ordered anyone left to surrender if he fell. The battle ends because anyone still left standing on the Rigelian side surrendered.]]

* In Act 2, Celica has a dream where Alm fights Rudolf and gets killed. This contradicts [[spoiler: Rudolf's original plan to have Alm and co. defeat him and gain the power to fight the [[{{Cult}} Duma Faithful]] and is therefore out of character]], but it makes sense as Celica sees this dream via the Mila's Turnwheel. She is not seeing what ''will'' be the future, she is seeing an AlternateTimeline where she did not leave the monastery at the same time Alm left Ram Village. Therefore she was not around, and as a result of the ButterflyEffect, Zofia is now under Rigelian control, Celica somehow got captured or killed by Rudolf, Alm's friends are dead, and he is left to fight Rudolf alone (and, judging by his aura, by this point Rudolph had apparently been corrupted by Duma). Her merely deciding to leave changed everything for the better.

* Apparently, Mila and Duma are both [[spoiler:succumbing to the madness that set the stage for ''Fire Emblem 1''[='=]s backstory with Medeus]]. Yikes, just what would have happened with [[spoiler:Mila]]?! Considering [[spoiler:the SlasherSmile she gives Rudolph when he confronts her, it's probably ''already happening'' by the time the game begins.]]

** So, if a mage from Archanea came to Valentia, would they CastFromHP? Actually, we don't know - the characters from Archanea (Zeke and the pegasus sisters) are fighters — not mages.

* Alm and Celica both perfectly represent the positive traits that both Mila and Duma spoke of in the Iris Gem Flashback, even though they both also firmly represent one nation in terms of their origins.

* In Act 2, Celica has a dream where Alm fights Rudolf and gets killed. This contradicts [[spoiler: Rudolf's original plan to have Alm and co. defeat him and gain the power to fight the [[{{Cult}} Duma Faithful]] and is therefore out of character]], but it makes sense as Celica sees this dream via the Mila's Turnwheel. She is not seeing what ''will'' be the future, she is seeing an AlternateTimeline where she did not leave the monastery at the same time Alm left Ram Village. Therefore she was not around, and as a result of the ButterflyEffect, Zofia is now under Rigelian control, Celica somehow got captured or killed by Rudolf, Alm's friends are dead, and he is left to fight Rudolf alone. Her merely deciding to leave changed everything for the better.

** Alm's journey involves facing the realities of war and becoming stronger through hardship, which was what Duma felt made mankind stronger. However, Alm never gives up his empathy for others, nor does he forsake friends or love ones for his own gain, and his motivation is to end war over gaining power. Basically Alm ends up showing the MightMakesRight qualities that Duma advocates for, but without the superiority complex or obsession with power that made Rigel the problem it did by rejecting the chance for power for the sake of others.
** Celica firmly believes in peace and strives to bring prosperity to others, so that others can live their lives happily. However, Celica also is aware that she needs to fight for her beliefs, and won't tolerate injustice on others, while also having gone through a life of hardships due to being forced to hide her true identity. She essentially takes Mila's teachings of peace, but funnels it through the lense of someone who has endured hardship like how Duma believes man should, thus instead of letting peace come to her, Celica fights to bring peace to others instead.

* [[spoiler:Berkut]] is the third major character in the series to be directly empowered by divinity. The first guy to get divine power, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Ike]]]], is completely heroic in both thought and deed. Naturally, he gets the player's color, blue, for his BattleAura. The second guy, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Takumi]]]], means well enough, but his personality is increasingly subsumed by the malevolent deity's will, to the point where there is nothing left of him by the time you fight him for the last time. He gets purple, a mix of blue and red. [[spoiler:Berkut]], on the other hand, while somewhat sympathetic, freely makes the decision to enter a pact with his malevolent deity for his own selfish gain. He gets the enemy's red for his aura.

* Mages in Valentia cast magic using their own life force... but in Archanea, they don't. Why not? Well, the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness can be easily justified by the fact that magic was learned from a different source - Gotoh in Archanea, but probably Duma in Valentia. Easily - the technology (or the method) that Gotoh created (and taught) in Archanea didn't make its way to Valentia yet - so they were doing it the old fashioned way. This is also why, when you fight Valmese forces in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]'', they use tomes and staves - because at some point, the method to cast magic without using your own health made it there.
** So, if a mage from Archanea came to Valentia, would they CastFromHP? Actually, we don't know - the characters from Archanea (Zeke and the pegasus sisters) are fighters - not mages.

** This also explains why units do not use books or staves when they break - they'll CastFromHP. Or maybe, they actually ''don't know HOW to cast from HP''!
* Why does Fatigue not kick in between regular battles? Actually, it makes sense - your characters had ample time to rest and eat up in between battles.

** Additionally, Rudolf had another reason for forbidding Berkut from joining the battle. While he only told him it was because YouHaveFailedMe, it was also [[spoiler: a ThanatosGambit. Berkut survived his previous encounters with Alm because Berkut knows when he's outmatched... but this would have been his last stand, ergo Berkut would fight to the death and refuse to surrender despite orders, either getting himself or worse, Alm, killed.]] Adding onto this, Berkut is the crown prince of Rigel as the only eligible heir [[spoiler: or so he thinks]]. Thus, forbidding Berkut from joining the battle would mean ([[spoiler:to the others not in the know]]) there is still an eligible heir if Rudolf dies. And tying this off, [[spoiler: Berkut would easily ruin Rudolf's plans if Rudolf had to explain.]]

* If [[spoiler: the Mila Tree]] is what grew on [[spoiler: Mila's remains]] like how [[spoiler: the Demon's Ingle may have grown on Duma's remains]], why such a large tree? Of course! Mila is the Earth Mother after all. And [[spoiler: both the Mila Tree and Demon's Ingle are Duma and Mila's tombstones]]. In a way, it's kind of representative of what they stood for.
** Not only that, but [[spoiler: Duma helped re-fertilize the Valentian soil that was becoming barren - Volcanic soil is highly fertile after all.]]

* Why does that BrutalBonusLevel not have a Mila Shrine in it to get rid of fatigue? Cause it predates worship (or acknowledgement) of her in Archanea! Belief in her did not exist at the time that Thabes was a thriving city and eventually sealed.

* Celica's starting class is Priestess, which would be a promoted female Mage, but Celica starts with this class as opposed to any other main character who would have an exclusive class like Alm's Fighter class. [[spoiler:This is of course a disguise as Celica would be able to pass as a Priestess if anyone would normally see her. She does take her role as Princess Anthiese once again and is promoted from Priestess to Princess.]]

* Mila's dragon form (seen in a sealed stone state) looks oddly disfigured and "ugly" compared to the beautiful/magnificent dragons seen in many other Fire Emblem games. But not only does this give her a physical link to her brother's dragon form, the disfigurement further implies she was suffering degeneration like her brother.

* The one spell that you do NOT cast from HP? Nosferatu - life drain. Wait a minute, [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Nergal]] harvested quintessence from others... OhCrap. Our clerics harvest quintessence! Similarly, that also means that Canas is as well - BadPowersGoodPeople?
** Canas himself, despite insisting that DarkIsNotEvil, also acknowledges the danger inherent in Dark magic (which Nosferatu is in that game). And since Nosferatu has ''always'' been life drain, regardless of what "type" of magic is considered... yeah. Even if we assume that quintessence is unique (or at least, more known) in the Elibe games, there's very little "fridge" and more "all but stated" to be BadPowersGoodPeople at play. Though there ''is'' some creepiness over the fact that it's a ''[[WhiteMage Cleric]]'' spell of all things here...
* The Demon's Ingle was known as such to avoid ContinuityLockout in the localization of ''Awakening'', but in Japanese it's [[spoiler: called Duma's Remains]]. While the location did not match up, ''Echoes'' explains that [[spoiler: that's where Duma was buried]]. It's not visited specifically in Echoes, but that does mean that [[spoiler: Duma's presence might have turned it into a volcano...]] Additionally, the localization changing that area's name while keeping the Mila Tree implies that Duma was either forgotten by history or continued to be demonized.

* Apparently, Mila and Duma are both [[spoiler: succumbing to the madness that set the stage for Fire Emblem 1's backstory with Medeus]]. Yikes, just what would have happened with [[spoiler: Mila]]?! Considering [[spoiler: the SlasherSmile she gives Rudolph when he confronts her, it's probably ''already happening'' by the time the game begins.]]

* Silque, Tatiana, Halcyon, Specters, and an [=NPC=] in Sage's Hamlet reveal in different ways that the Duma Faithful once had Sages, Clerics, and very likely Priestesses in their ranks. Yet now only [[EmptyShell Witches]] and [[DarkIsEvil Arcanists/Cantors]] are the the only magic users remaining. Combined with how even daughters are sacrificed it seems pretty clear now why Silque's mother [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou left her in Zofia]] [[WouldHurtAChild away from the Faithful]].
** After Nuibaba is defeated in ''Echoes'', a cute-looking cleric of the Rigelian church says that she (Nuibaba) gathered "young and comely" (read: pretty) girls to sacrifice them [[VainSorceress and keep herself young and alive]]. At the same time, Alm can free Tatiana from a cellar there and it's later revealed that Nuibaba kidnapped her so Jerome could force her lover Zeke to fight the Deliverance. ''Plus'', if the player encounters Zeke in the Planes of Rigel ''before'' fighting Nuibaba, neither him nor Tatiana can be recruited. This means that, if such a thing happens... poor Tatiana may not ''just'' be KilledOffForReal, but she and probably the aforementioned cleric (and maybe another girl who's seen as an NPC) ''might be turned into {{human sacrifice}}s by Nuibaba'' since they fit in the "standard" that the cleric mentioned. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Ouch.]]

* ''Echoes''-only: Why is it that in her artwork and the cutscene where she fights Alm, Celica is depicted with the Ladyblade instead of the Beloved Zofia, her personal weapon and what should be her counterpart to Alm's Royal Sword [[spoiler:or Falchion]]? Firstly, the Beloved Zofia is [[spoiler:locked to Celica, not just any bloke with royal blood, and it's [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration not really Celica]] dueling Alm to the death there.]] Second, take a look at the Ladyblade: magic-oriented arts, and is twice as strong in the hands of female units. It being found in [[spoiler:Duma Tower]] looks like a classic case of a game saving the best equipment for last, but other than Priestesses [[spoiler:of which Rigel apparently has none left, there's some suspicious synergy between the Ladyblade as a weapon and the magically-empowered Witches that are created in the very dungeon they placed it in. If only a sword-wielding Witch would come around...]]
* ''Echoes'' only: Knowing Rudolf wanted to [[spoiler: be killed by his son's hand rather than the Duma Faithful's]], was he ''intentionally'' sending people out to face Alm who he ''knew'' would either surrender or die fighting? Yikes! Apparently Rudolf was [[spoiler: cleaning up Rigel for the One Kingdom]].
** Among these is Berkut. Was Rudolf ''intentionally'' trying to off him? ''Yikes''! Berkut is still ''family''! At the very least this may be alleviated by assuming Berkut was acting by himself, and Rudolf never called him back because he knows Berkut [[KnowWhenToFoldEm Knows When to Fold 'Em]].
* Further along with Berkut... he is basically a WellDoneSonGuy. But [[spoiler: one reason for this could be the fact that Rudolf knew Alm was still alive... hence there was no need to treat Berkut like a son.]] Good going Rudolf! You screwed up your nephew by keeping him LockedOutOfTheLoop!

* The Demon's Ingle was known as such to avoid ContinuityLockout in the localisation of ''Awakening'', but in Japanese it's [[spoiler: called Duma's Remains]]. While the location did not match up, ''Echoes'' explains that [[spoiler: that's where Duma was buried]]. It's not visited specifically in Echoes, but that does mean that [[spoiler: Duma's presence might have turned it into a volcano...]] Additionally, the localization changing that area's name while keeping the Mila Tree implies that Duma was either forgotten by history or continued to be demonized.

* The one spell that you do NOT cast from HP? Nosferatu - life drain. Wait a minute, [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Nergal]] harvested quintessence from others... OhCrap. Our clerics harvest quintessence! Similarly, that also means that Canas is as well - BadPowersGoodPeople?

* Mila's dragon form (see in a sealed stone state) looks oddly disfigured and "ugly" compared to the beautiful/magnificent dragons seen in many other Fire Emblem games. But not only does this give her a physical link to her brother's dragon form, the disfigurement further implies she was suffering degeneration like her brother.

* Everyone has a final battle quote - even the DLC characters exclusive to Cipher. Palla and Catria of course speak theirs in a slightly different tone, and Catria even says "This world is not a plaything for dragons". They've ''seen this before''.