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1	[[WMG: Roy was named after Roland.]]
2	Or possibly, "Roy" is a nickname and "Roland" is his full name, kind of like "Lyn" was a nickname for "Lyndis."
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4	[[WMG:Gwendolyn's parents are Oswin and Serra]]
5	There are no female A-knights in 7, and they're rare in the setting in general, so if it's in Wendy's blood at all, it must be from her father's side. Gwendolyn has crappy DEF and STR for an A-knight (even taking starting at level 1 into account). Of course, you could argue that's just due to being a girl, but it wouldn't make sense for her mom to be someone like, say, Vaida. It's clear she's uncomfortable with the role and that would make sense if her parents were radically different. Finally, she has pink hair, which is unusual even for Fire Emblem. Now, what canon pairing involves a male A-knight and a non-combat-type female with pink hair? Bingo.
6	* Her brother, Bors, has green hair, though, and Oswin's is brown... So if we're using hair color as evidence, that would leave one scratching their heads as to where Bors's hair came from.
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8	[[WMG: Lowen is the cook/meal delivery man in [=FE6=].]]
9	We know Lowen as the eager-to-please Pheraen cavalier in [=FE7=], in which he spent an entire set of supports lecturing Eliwood on the importance of proper nutrition, as well as revealed that he had been cooking for the army surreptitiously. In [=FE6=], Lugh mentions in his supports with Chad and Ray that the man who delivered meals to them in the field has given him extra baked tarts. Klein also mentions, in his A support with Perceval, the cook's concern that Percival doesn't like his meals because he eats them without expression. Neither of these men is given a name, but they both seem to share the same concern over making sure everyone in the army gets enough to eat and, what's more, that their food actually meets their preferences and tastes good (which, from what I've gathered, is unheard of in any military). It's likely that at least one of these guys is actually Lowen returning to (half of) his previous role, if the two unnamed caterers aren't, in fact, the same person.
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11	[[WMG: Erk is Niime's grandson and Hugh's cousin.]]
12	That purple hair. He's a little too old to be Canas's kid, but Canas notes having several brothers, at least one of whom was probably older. But all those brothers ended up soulless husks due to Dark/Elder magic, and given Niime's special child raising practices, it's not too strange to imagine she might have shipped him off to study under Pent.
13	* Louise says that Pent "brought [him] home" on a snowy night when Erk was 12, and Erk says in his B with Nino that he "read only the most difficult books from the time [he] was small", i.e. before he was studying under Pent. Definitely sounds like behavior Niime would encourage. Erk didn't get the prodigy genes from either side of the family, so she couldn't do as much with him, as opposed to Hugh, who theoretically could have his father's talent if she hexed him enough. It's possible she told him to get going early and pointed him towards Etruria so Pent could eventually discover him.
14	* Pent insists that Erk tell him everything he knows about Nergal despite Pent being the one to bring him up, and Pent collects books on elder magic as established in his Canas supports - he doesn't seem to know that dark magic misuse makes you an EmptyShell before Canas tells him, but it's definitely possible he's aware that general bad stuff is a workplace risk.
15	* For bonus crossover points, Lute from Sacred Stones is actually related to this family too.
16	* Lute refers to her grandmother as being alive in her A with Ross and compares her to "an elegant goldfish that's been sun-dried with a wildflower", and Niime says she was beautiful back in the day. Lute doesn't remember her parents, but the grandmother says they're "traveling in distant lands", i.e. dead or close to it. Niime realized Lute had anima talent and decided to move to Magvel and not inform her about her heritage - so Lute wouldn't grow up with Hugh's insecurity issues. Niime took a hands-off approach to parenting after seeing what micromanaging got her, which is why Lute calls Knoll "an enemy of the light" in their B. She just doesn't know better.
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18	[[WMG: The [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Juna_Fruit Juna Fruit]] isn't actually exclusive to Magvel.]]
19	In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'', the character Gonzales can be found at level 12 on one route, and level 5 on the other, but his stats are the same regardless. This is consistent with the effects of Juna Fruit. Note that to drop 7 levels, Gonzales would need to have eaten at least two Juna Fruits, as there is a 5-level maximum per fruit. How he managed to get two of what is obviously a very rare delicacy in Elibe is anyone's guess, though the most likely scenario involves the corrupt nobles who push him around, seeing him only as a weapon and therefore thinking only to make him stronger.
20	* He's actually Level 11, though, so... It's more likely that the event where he's level 5 happens first, as it's closer to where Roy's party was in the opening chapter.
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22	[[WMG: Binding Blade's Gale is the son of Blazing Sword's Heath]]
23	This might seem like a long shot, but hear me out. In Heath's nonpaired ending, he relocates to Ilia and continues fighting as a mercenary. In Sword of Seals, the reason Gale is originally denied the position of Dragon General is because he isn't a native of Bern (despite being one of Bern's "trademark" Wyvern Lords). In other words, my theory is that Gale was born in Ilia as Heath's son, and became a wyvern rider like his father, and eventually traveled to Bern and became a Knight.
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25	[[WMG: Gale was supposed to be recruitable]]
26	Let's list some facts:
27	* He was shown to be at the very least a NobleDemon and he was not a boss, which is usually a hint that said unit is recruitable (Douglas is a notable exception, though he joined the next chapter if he was still alive by the end of the chapter).
28	* In the game, we could get prepromote units of almost every class. Dragon Lords are one of the exceptions, the reason is that Gale was supposed to be the Dragon Lord prepromote unit.
29	* He and his units don't attack you sometimes. Of course, this could be chalked up to programming mistakes, but it might also be because he was meant to be a recruitable unit.
30	* Some recruitable characters appear as an enemy with his/her own unit, and when he/she was recruited, the unit would become green (Perceval, Klein, Thea). Gale appeared as a reinforcement with accompanying units, presumably the game designers might have intended Gale to be similar.
31	From all these factors, we can reasonably assume that the game designers originally intended Gale to be a recruitable unit, but for whatever reason, they decided to make him a mini-boss. If the game was to be remade, [[SparedByTheAdaptation he might even be recruitable in the remake]].
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33	[[WMG: Ogier, Sue and others are reincarnations of Roland, Hanon, etc.]]
34	This stems from the fact that Ogier shares the same nickname and even manner of what we know from Roland in his appearance in ''The Blazing Blade'', and Sue is even speculated to be the reincarnation of Hanon by her fellow nomads in Sacae. What if there's actually some kind of reincarnation factor going on here?
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36	[[WMG: Roy and/or Lilina had an older sibling who passed away between [=FE7 and FE6=].]]
37	At the end of Blazing Blade, Eliwood/Hector asks the Tactician to name their firstborn child. However, the player is not given the option to enter a name, and during TheStinger, we see that they ended up naming their children Roy and Lilina, without the player's input. It would be out of character for Eliwood or Hector to break a promise that they made to such an important friend as the Tactician... but they only promised to let you name their ''first''born children. It's entirely possible that Roy and Lilina are their second-born children, with their older siblings bearing the names that the Tactician chose. What happened to said older siblings? Either they died of SIDS, were assassinated in a political struggle, or committed suicide over the embarrassment of [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential being named]] [[HelloInsertNameHere Fartface or Twinkletwat]].
38	* Wouldn't the implication be that [[CanonName Mark]] actually suggested Roy/Lilina as their names? It seems odd that they wouldn't mention any older siblings, even if they died, and it's possible that Eliwood/Hector would be a bit more protective of them if they'd already lost children, too.
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40	[[WMG: Lilina is the true protagonist of The Binding Blade]]
41	She has all of the traditional traits of a Fire Emblem lord [[note]]blue hair, dead father, noble birth[[/note]] is arguably a more well-rounded character with more of a stake in the events of the plot, and is the one who becomes a ruler at the end of the game.
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43	[[WMG: Roy takes Lilina’s last name]]
44	In ''Heroes'', Valentine Hector makes it perfectly clear that [[BoyfriendBlockingDad he has no intention of letting his daughter marry into any family]]. However, [[ExactWords he never said anything about the other way around]].
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46	[[WMG: In any case of this game getting a remake...]]
47	Let's see some 'improvements' that could be implemented. For starters:
48	* Lilina gets her own unique class and have more story presence.
49	* Roy can PROMOTE before getting the Binding Blade.
50	* Thieves can promote into Rogues.
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52	Another one, the game will also double as a remake of ''Blazing Blade'', having both stories in one (kind of like the original ''Mystery of the Emblem'').
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54	[[WMG: Lugh's and Raigh's birth month and blood type]]
55	Lugh and Raigh are twins, i.e. born in the same month, but they have different affinities (Fire and Ice respectively). In the Japanese version of ''The Blazing Blade'', affinity is determined by both birth month and blood type, and there are four birth months where you could have either a Fire or an Ice affinity depending on your blood type:
56	* January: Lugh O, Raigh A
57	* April: Lugh B, Raigh AB
58	* September: Lugh A, Raigh B
59	* October: Lugh AB, Raigh A
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61	[[WMG: Rutger is Lloyd's son.]]
62	Rutger is in his twenties in ''The Binding Blade'', meaning that he was already born as of ''The Blazing Blade'', and Lloyd and Linus were both old enough to have kids in ''The Blazing Blade''. Rutger is also half-Sacaean, half-Bernian, and the only Bernian who has been shown to have any interest in Sacae as of ''The Blazing Blade'' is Lloyd. Rutger's hair is also very similar in color to that of Linus, and just a bit darker than that of Lloyd.
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64	[[WMG:Lyn might still be alive.]]
65	We all know Lyn didn't exist when ''Binding Blade'' was developed and released at the time, and she just vanished post-''Blazing Blade'', but I'm against her being dead 20 years later, especially if she gave birth to either Sue or Lilina (I may say Roy, but in his case, his mother is very likely dead since he was wet-nursed, and I doubt said mother could be Lyn too). She might just be hiding somewhere safe in Sacae or something.
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67	[[WMG: Niime treats Hugh so poorly because Canas died so young]]
68	In ''The Blazing Blade'', Canas says that the most his mother does is cast hexes on Hugh, which is certainly not good, but is miles less bad than what she does when Hugh is older. He's also Niime's only surviving (well, "surviving", but it's not like his brothers are in a state to have children) heir, and he and his wife are young enough to have another child if they want to. Canas also brings up that because his brothers are incapacitated, he might be the last of their "ancient lineage" of dark mages. Since the possibility of his having another, dark-magic-inclined kid is out there, Niime holds back on trying to bring out baby Hugh's talents. Cue blizzard: now Hugh is her last surviving relative (that she knows about) who, despite his father's talent, is not picking up dark magic no matter what she does (mostly abuse). When she meets him again, he's about his father's age, but not only is he a mage, he's a ''mercenary'', which as a profession does not indicate a long life expectancy. When she makes it clear in her A that Hugh is in fact her grandson, even though he's not carrying on the family legacy by being a dark mage, she says that she wants him to live a "long and fulfilling life".
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70	[[WMG: Niime left her records to Raigh]]
71	In her ending, she went home and apparently "left no records" even though "[i]t was rumored she solved many of the world’s mysteries", which is odd considering her focus on continuing the "ancient lineage" of dark mages/shamans and the fact that she's in the record-keeping habit as early as ''The Blazing Blade''. In Raigh's ending, he continued to study dark magic, and through his efforts in his ending "dark magic rose from obscurity and became widely studied". In their supports, Niime tells him point-blank that he's not going to get any farther on his own, and Raigh is surprised that she knows. Given that their supports reveal he doesn't know a whole language that's used in dark magic, if he was going to get anywhere near knowing how to teach it to other people, let alone making it popular, he would have needed a lot of help - certainly more than what we see in game, where at their A support's end he's still learning about it.
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73	Niime left Raigh her records as a way of continuing the legacy of dark magic (Hugh probably can't and wouldn't even if he could, and Niime seems to have accepted that he's not going to continue the legacy the way she wanted by their A), which Raigh used to teach others. She's recorded as having left no records because a) as proud as Raigh is, he's not going to admit to the world that he got help, b) he doesn't really care about the world's mysteries, so it's not like he's going to expend effort telling people that when he could be telling them about dark magic instead and c) no one thinks they're connected - after all, why would the famous Hermit on the Mountain leave her storied legacy to this random orphan? She probably just didn't keep records or something.
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