- That actually seems to be shot down in the game; Kishuna is specifically referred to as the "only morph he made with emotions", implying that Kishuna is not his first morph. Also, while Renault's friend is likely the first morph, part of the reason Renault was turned away from it was because it was an emotionless shell of his old friend.
- What if Kishuna was a Super Prototype, and all the morphs made after were emotionless?
- Besides, although we see that Kishuna has emotions, he never, ever speaks. Him not speaking was why Nergal cast him aside, believing him to be a failed test. That not speaking would have Renault think that Kishuna was emotionless as well, also rejecting him. So for me at least this feels like Kishuna had emotions, but could not express them for some reason.
- I did it via a purge tome and a bunch of energy rings (for range). He didn't say anything. Though it could just be the devs not thinking of this possibility. Given that this is FE, I'd still say Kishuna is the friend Renault tried to revive.
- Nils and Ninian refer to a Dragon Shrine, not explicitly the Ice Dragon Temple. However, the Ruins of Time area in Awakening is certainly draconic in nature, due to the presence of Naga's Tears, and presumably there is some unexplored suspicious property about it due to the appearance of the time-lost and partially amnesiac Morgan. It seems more likely that the other side of the Dragon's Gate is what eventually becomes known as the Ruins of Time instead of the Ice Dragon Temple, which when explored in FE3 shows no indication that it was ever the other end of a dimensional portal.
- Seems to be Jossed by Fire Emblem: Awakening. Nah seems to be the only known Half-blooded Manakete (aside from a ♀ Morgan, provided she's either Nah's sister, or Tiki's or Nah's daughter) in the land of Archanea/Ylisse. Tiki's comments explicitly suggest that there has never been a half-blooded Manakete in Archanean history prior to Awakening.
- How does Archanea not having any half-dragons before Nah lead to Archanea not being at least one of the places the dragons went to after the Scouring? Tiki never mentions Elibe, and what she said only rules out half-dragons in Archanea.
- One would think anyone on Archanea would have at least heard of Ninian or Nils prior to Awakening if the world behind the Dragon Gate in Blazing Sword was indeed the world was the one where Archanea, Valentia, and Jugdral are all located. There's a possibility that she could be wrong about the part of being no half-dragon on Archanea before Nah, but considering the circumstances...
- As shown here
, Tiki is speaking using her own knowledge. She spent a large portion of her life being asleep, it's not guaranteed she would have been informed of any mixed manaketes or read about them in any available sources, assuming in the case of Ninian and Nils that any dragons Tiki was in contact with knew about their parentage. None of the characters of confirmed mixed human and dragon heritage in the Elibe games were said to have been born in the land the dragons went to after the Scouring, and only Nils always goes to the land beyond the gate in Blazing Sword's ending. Going with the Scouring occuring before the Judgral and Archanea games, Tiki could have never found out about the half-dragons up until she had her talk with Nah.
- How does Archanea not having any half-dragons before Nah lead to Archanea not being at least one of the places the dragons went to after the Scouring? Tiki never mentions Elibe, and what she said only rules out half-dragons in Archanea.
- She would look a lot like Ninian if her hair and eye color were to be changed appropriately.
- In the infamous Chapter 19xx, the boss talks of how those who dedicate themselves to dark magic often forget why they're doing it. This is totally consistent with the above. Limstella is his subconscious trying to fulfill his original goal.
- This could be confirmed — it's not shown on screen, but ROM-probing shows that the game does load Harken's portrait data for that sequence in addition to that of whichever unit is visiting the village.
- I propose that Lilina's his sister. I mean, Oujay mentions it with his support with her (too?), and they look alike. On the other hand, Lilina's mother is mysteriously missing. None of Hector's endings even hint at a "canon" one, and if anything, Lyn's his love interest, despite it being a doomed romance. (She wanted to go back to Sacae, Hector had to run Ostia.) Maybe Hector just adopted.
- Lyn never mentions anything about wanting to go back to Sacae if she's paired up with either Eliwood or Hector. And even disregarding that fact, how does Lyn wanting to go back to Sacae entail to Hector/Lyn being a doomed romance? If anything, her desires to go back to Sacae could be very much like Ninian's desire to travel through the Dragon Gate once more, meaning going back to Sacae might not be as much deeply desired as we think.
- Jossed now that we've gotten Fates, so no more Awakening DLC... Unless we end up getting a direct sequel to Awakening in which he appears?
- Most people would use chapter 19xx as "proof" over one optional character. That actually changes the story a lot.
- 19xx doesn't really change the story at all. It gives the characters more insight into the villain's motives, and the player even more insight than that, but as far as changing the story, I wouldn't even put it over 32x. On top of that, it's a hard-to-obtain optional chapter (although most of the optional chapters have fairly strong cases for canonicity); Chapter 25 is a mandatory chapter.
- I can really hope so. I'd love to see a remake of both in one new game.
- Alternately, the writers will tease us with this possibility and then have an unrelated character become Bramimond, while the avatar fades into obscurity (Either due to not having a Legendary Weapon to attach their legend to, or because they left the Legends' forces and faced a different climax.)
- Maybe he's just trying to speed things along and get Guinevere on the throne even sooner? Preventing the war of FE6 is just an added bonus on top of that.
- Desmond had no interest in preventing any wars, according to Hector. In fact, Uther was afraid that Desmond would start a war.
- FE7 made it pretty clear that Desmond envies Zephiel and hates Hellene, and really has no more reason to want Zephiel dead than that. Besides, only Athos was ever able to get a glimpse into the future.
- Uhai does seem to be a fairly high-ranking Black Fang who respects Brendan a lot, so it's fully plausible he'd be close enough to the Reeds to train Lloyd. Maybe he trained Linus a little bit, too, but ultimately spent more time with Lloyd, explaining why Linus is a Hero instead.
- Alternatively, Linus wasn't interested or realized Sacaean swordsmanship isn't his thing. Since Sacaean swordsmanship focuses more on skill and speed and Linus prefers using raw brute force, as said stats are lower than Lloyd's, although he does has more strength.
- Another point in favor of a tutor-pupil relationship between Uhai and Lloyd is that if you fight Lloyd in Four Fanged Offense, Eliwood will specifically call out Lloyd's honorable behavior as being similar to Uhai's. (Linus behaves equally honorably in his version of Four-Fanged Offense, but Eliwood does not note any particular resemblance to Uhai's behavior there, suggesting that Uhai had more of an effect on Lloyd than on Linus.)
- A small addition: if, in this hypothetical remake, units had three class options like in Awakening, then Renault's third class would probably be a physical one, too. For pretty much the same reasons stated above. (And he'd get a huge strength boost upon reclassing into it.)
That said, there are a few hints of Mark potentially having a secret from the rest of the group.
During the ending cutscene of Chapter 22/22X, Eliwood talks to Mark:
“Hello, Mark. So you’re still awake. Mark, do you know Bern well? No, nor do I… Nothing more than I’ve heard at the court. I’m sure that, with all of your travels, you know more than I. By the way, Mark, where were you born? Before you met Lyndis in Sacae, where were you? If it’s difficult to speak about, you needn’t worry. It’s just that we’ve been together for so long, and I really know almost nothing about you. If you don’t mind, won’t you tell me about yourself? I would like to learn more about you and your life.”
While this intentionally cuts off so that it's actually still up to the player about Mark, there is something important here.
"Do you know Bern well? No, Nor do I..."
Mark clearly here states they do not know Bern well.
Yet in chapter 24, while you're fighting outside of the Bern Royal Palace, you can talk to a villager, which results in this conversation:
Woman:“Do you know anyone named Mark? You see, I once helped out a weary traveler… who just so happened to be a brilliant tactician! Cared for the soldiers… Won battle after battle with no casualties… Ah, I wonder if we’ll meet again…”
So this Woman, in the Royal Palace of Bern (Therefore probably deep in Bern Territory if the Map screen before the chapter is anything to by.), knows Mark.
Mark is a tactician and according to Hector, very young for a Tactician, which indicates probably having actual proper training to be one, Bern happens to be the largest military force in Elibe and greatly revered for it, so it'd probably make sense if Mark someway ended up being a Tactician in Training in Bern but later ran off/deserted for some reason and if combat was a secondary thing in their training, it would explain their seeming inability to fight as them having fled before receiving any serious training in direct combat. (Especially since Bern's large numbers maybe means anyone in charge of the "thinking" might not have as much emphasis on combat training as they'd possibly have a personal guard of some kind.)
Deserting from Bern isn't exactly an action that seems unreasonable, Heath/Vaida ended up being declared traitors due to a general drumming up a false rebellion so he could advance his military career and due to trying to stop other Bern Units attacking the peasants who were unarmed they were declared traitors.
In addition, a few years later, Rutger's family would be massacred by Bern forces, with him only spared due to looking like he was from Bern, while it's unknown if such an act would be done by FE 7-era Bern, it's not impossible as far as I'm aware.
A young Tactician possibly deciding to become a deserter and flee his home country due to getting involved in some Bern military crimes (either to avoid performing the act or afterwards to avoid having to commit further ones.) doesn't seem impossible to me. (Which could also explain why Mark lied to Eliwood due to some mix of shame/guilt and trying to hide their identity, especially if they took part in some fashion, if it turned out Mark say, ordered the poisoning the drinking water of an enemy group before commanding a charge while they were all sick a day afterwards, Lyn would definitely not take that well and Eliwood/Hector would probably have a negative reaction too.)
As for why Heath/Vaida do not recognize them, Bern has a large military so it's not exactly impossible for them to not know Mark. (Indeed, Mark probably doesn't know them either.)
This would also partly explain why they're so eager to vanish once the fighting's over, Lyn, Hector and Eliwood are all royals, which means they'd probably at some points interact with Bern diplomats/other higher up types on some occasion, all it'd take is for one of them in some way to identify Mark and now the ruse is up and a deserter (who potentially committed atrocities while part of them) Bern Tactician in the employment of Sacae/Pherae would probably not go down well, if Mark's guilty of any Bern massacres/other morally dubious actions, Lyn/Eliwood/Hector would probably not take it well and Bern would probably take action in some fashion, hence why staying on the move and low on the social ladder as a random traveler would be a better way to stay incognito and avoid trouble as soon as there is no big threat that needs dealt with.
As for where they are in FE6, well, it's not exactly impossible for them to be one of the dead FE7 characters (Either hunted down by Bern or say, dying with Lyn and several other FE7 characters trying to lead a defense of Sacae during it's initial invasion by Bern.) or potentially having decided that taking part in a war against such a large military force is suicidal, tried to re-join Bern or simply is hiding out in some village somewhere/a boat sailing away from Elibe waiting for the war to blow over.
Another possible piece of Evidence is that Mark is possibly found near the Bern Mountains. (Since Lyn states those bandits at the start of the game came down from there.) which potentially means Mark was found near the mountains.
As far as anyone knows, Jaffar's only assignment at the time is to kill Eliwood (the task that Sonia gave to all of the Four Fangs, including Jaffar). Why would Jaffar be so severely wounded while trying to carry out that assignment, and why didn't he even manage to get close to Eliwood?
Because Harken found out that Jaffar was on that mission to kill Eliwood, and fought him. The house where Harken (disguised as a Black Fang agent) is waiting to give the Silence staff to somebody from Eliwood's party is not very far from the house where Jaffar is recuperating either, so perhaps the confrontation between Harken and Jaffar happened just before Eliwood arrived.
