Fire Emblem Three Houses (Spoiler Thread)

Really? I thought their goal was the genocide of all the children of the Sothis?

Yes.

Unless they are ignorant its them, their main goal is Seiros and Sothis as they are strong enough to challenge goal of human dominion and their blood yields the greatest experiments.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Aug 23rd 2019 at 7:26:04 AM

So, while Seiros isn't exactly a saint (at least by the time the main game takes place) and what Sothis was like before her death is totally ambiguous, we are sure the Agarthans were jerk faces themselves, rather than poor victims standing up against a bully goddess right?

Even though that's probably how they view themselves.

Ignatz does indeed say that in their eyes they truly believe themselves to be maankinds saviors liberating them from the Dragons yes.

Yeah, but it's a lie.

I mean, from the sounds of things, they were doing horrible experiments on people well before they got nuked, and decided to try and kick Sothis' ass less because she herself did anything and more because Move bitch! Get out da way!

They're may not be many good guys in this series besides Byleth, but they are on the totes always bad guys list without a doubt.

They caused everything in both the backstory and the main story.

I mean to so fully believe they are righteous and not Card-Carrying Villain who worship a blatantly evil being is a pretty big difference. Helps show how mankind doesn't need Gods around to commit atrocities and delude themselves that they're the Good Guys.

And we still make their wish come true on Edelgards route.

Edited by OmegaRadiance on Aug 23rd 2019 at 8:01:08 AM

Notice that the Agarthans' version was "Sothis was horrified that we had technology!" and the more detailed version was "Sothis was horrified that we were using the technology she helped us develop to massacre people, and was willing to sacrifice herself to make things right!"

And people who only play Crimson Flower still believe that Rhea was keeping the continent in artificial Medieval Stasis....

So I'm curious, anybody doing any Crossover Shipping with this game's characters? Like, shipping Three Houses characters with any other Fire Emblem characters? Me personally, I'm having fun with Hilda x Mareeta.

I like to imagine Veronica from Heroes has an unrequited precocious crush on Male Byleth. Which leads to animosity towards Edelgard

Not really doing any crossover shipping myself, but I'm amusing myself by imagining if Anankos was the villain of the setting. His M.O. could probably get some really interesting results with Dimitri's trauma.

Another thing I'm imagining is post-timeskip Arvis looking at Edelgard at the end of Crimson Flowers getting together with the woman she loves, changing the world for the better, and presumably turning Those Who Slither in the Dark into Those Who Burn Brightly on Pyres, then holing up in his room to get stinking drunk and wonder where he went wrong to be denied his happy ending.

Also imagining a crossover with Dragon's Dogma, if only to imagine what Rhea's reaction would be if the Dragon ripped out Byleth's heart to turn them into an Arisen, and how the rest of the class would react if they saw that Crest Stone attached to said heart.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Aug 23rd 2019 at 9:41:31 AM

Arvis's barbecue needed to be more thorough. Never leave leftovers. And Anankos would totally view Dimitri as free real estate. Kinda funny now that you mention it, i've said that Edelgard basically has the same motivations as a typical FE lord but the methods of the Rudolf, but now that i think of it, one could make a lot of parallels with Revelations Corrin.

Fodlan in general would probably be free real estate for someone like Anankos. Lots of people with inner demons he can work his magic on. Dimitri's an easy target, but I can also see him getting into Seiros's head and causing all of her repressed anger and hatred to explode. Or maybe he'll just get into the heads of the Agarthans and have them turn Fodlan into the greatest light show the world has ever seen.

Now that I think about it, if post-timeskip Arvis was the kind of person to write self-pitying fanfics about himself, his self-portrayal would probably be pretty close to Crimson Flowers Edelgard.

So does that mean Arvis has a thing for teachers now?

Maybe. Did Deirdre homeschool Julius and Julia?

Not shipping but I would love fluffy family reunion with big sis Sothis and Imouto Naga.

We can't bring up fluffy dragons and not even mention Fae!

Just beat Azure Moon. I really like Hegemon Edelgard's design, and it was kind of funny watching her desperately trying to hit Seteth from long range and constantly missing (and she wouldn't have done any damage even if she did hit him).

In my fight with her, she tried going for Flayn instead. Which I was perfectly fine with, as she had only 50% chance at hitting her, and she regenned most of the damage right after.

...Huh. I wonder if she is hardcoded to always go for Dimitri and the Saints first.

Seiros was keeping Fódlan in medieval stasis. she's not just doing it to maintain her own power like Edelgard thinks, but she's definitely doing it. im much more sympathetic to her reasons than i was when i had only played Crimson Flower, but a bad thing done for sympathetic reasons is still a bad thing. Well-Intentioned Extremist is a villain trope for a reason.

Edited by razorrozar7 on Aug 24th 2019 at 12:33:33 PM

I'm not sure how tightly she held onto the idea of Medieval Stasis, though. She gave Hanneman a job and allowed him to operate within the walls of the monastery. His work would probably could go smoother if she willingly told him the secrets of the Dragons, but she still gave him a place and the materials required.

Why then Almyra and Dagda medieval all the same? She is not involved with other continents and yet they are on same level as Fodlan.

Edited by Tenzen12 on Aug 24th 2019 at 9:54:56 PM

hm. Hanneman wants to enable everyone to have the power of crests. if Rhea doesn't want him to succeed, isn't it better for her to have him under her thumb so she can sabotage him if he starts getting close?

also, isn't it implied that the other countries, Almyra and Dagda included, are much more advanced than Fódlan? not to an Industrial Revolution stage, but more like Renaissance compared to Fódlan's Dark Ages?

No. Declaring his work blasphemous and forbidding him from ever publishing, if not sentencing him, would be way easier.

The Renaissance was just a continuation of the the so called Middle Ages. The fact that people outside of Fódlan can have ideas doesn't make them more advanced. They still come at us with the same wyverns and battle axes. Also, Fódlan has a printing industry sophisticated enough to allow for fashion magazines to be sold at the local markets. Me thinks they're way past post-Roman Dark Ages.

Edited by Kayeka on Aug 24th 2019 at 10:07:25 AM

Well, at least now we know Fodlan isn't as advanced as Valentia, since the latter has comic books. Get with the times, Fodlan.

gonna get into half-joking Fan Wank territory for a second here: maybe they don't have printing presses, but fashion is such Serious Business in Fódlan that they have legions of scribes dedicated to copying out the magazines. that would explain why there's no newspapers and such. no one cares about actual news. they just care about what outfit Lady Goneril wore to the Gloucester Ball.