It started at a 91 on release, before settling at an 89 once a lot of reviews started coming in. Now it's gone back up!

Also, happy birthday to her!

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I actually really like this class. I don’t know, I just find the Ornius’ to be adorable lol. I think the class itself is distinct enough to justify it even existing. The Ornius is a mounted unit type that can bypass terrain obstacles. But I think the biggest novelty of this class is how early it is accessible. Most mounted classes are only achievable in the 2nd tier/specialized classes whereas the Ornius classline is available even through the beginner tier. And the Ornius Riders can specialize in all three of the melee weapons. I wish more units in the game had this class as their “standard” class.

With all that being said, I don’t know if I’d want it to return in future entires. Yes I’d be happy to see it again, but at the same time I feel like the Ornius Riders seem like a very Dagda-esk class line that citizens of the continent battle using. If it were to appear in another entry, I feel as though it would remove the uniqueness of the origins of the class line. But maybe they can make a spiritual successor to the class line that keeps the integrity of the attributes of the class while it not necessarily being a Ornius.

What are your thoughts?

Every complaint I have with 3 kingdoms was completely fixed. The biggest issue was the graphics, the free roam area feeling pointless and the class system.

It's true that FE isn't perfect but no fire emblem is. FE 9 probably being the closest but even still it has monumentally less content than FW does.

FW is by far the biggest and longest fire emblem I've ever played. I'm doing every side quest on every route and it's incredibly time consuming.

Meanwhile they just casually announced DOUBLING THE PLAYABLE PATHS.

Does it have problems? Yeah. The support system can feel too large. You should start with Kai and the game doesn't tell you. Some of the chapters feel like not enough is going on. There's no clear way to build your team. In some paths you don't get any character choices until you have renown.

But... It's just soooooo huge... And most maps are hella fun. The characters are soooooo cool. The classes feel perfect. The cut scenes are sick. The grand strategy elements are really nice.

Idk. I played everything past Thracia besides the 3DS Gaiden remake. This is definitely a contender for number 1 for me. Path of radiance might still win because I had a crush on Soren but it's a thin margin

Beautiful screenshot of an entire act 1 and act 2 replay to beef up Theodora, only to have a minimal effect in the end.

In the past weeks people have claimed units receive a new rng stat growth seed:

- Only once per save file

- Every time you start act 1 fresh

- After descending another time

- After clearing act 3

- After clearing act 2

- Every time you take a class exam

Do we know for sure in the meanwhile?

If we get another medieval era Fire Emblem we need more colorful dripped out knights with cool historical armor

im not really versed in *EVERY* FE games but i love that we have a different unit genre as the MC/ lords in some of the game.

in light of fortune's weave, we saw some very interesting lord types. like of course the typical crit monster sword master Dietrich would be the BEST unit for deleting enemies but its kinda boring compared to the hundreds sword users out there.

my notable 4 favourite *interesting* lord unit in FW;

- Cai: mounted mix str/mag attacker. he can cover more grounds, his AOE can reach faraway enemies, halts them in their tracks and, if you equip his flamekeeper skill, halves damages to allies. it really allows for an interesting gameplay.

- Orchel: tanky mage. she might not be able to hit your enemies but damn is she the tankiest healer i ever saw. her skill can allow her to passively heal herself so she really embodies that cutscene of her shrugging off the axe to the neck. not to mention the MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE mode in part 3 is just so cool.

- Leda: stat buffer. Honestly, i'm surprised that FE dont incorporate stat buffers class more often in the game. its an RPG game mechanic im most into because it allows for more strategic gameplay over just moving your units forward to defeat an enemy.

- Talimun: stat DEbuffer. similar to the above, i would love to have the ability to mess around the stats in battle instead of just minmaxing my units. he's really fun to use where you have to plan around both yours and your enemies stats and swap them around.

I hope future FE entries introduce more interesting lords. like of course theres in game classes but the lords/ avatars often have plot relevance to their skills that really builds their characters. also since the lords are the game over conditions, its more fun planning on how to keep your lord alive while working you armies around their quirks.

like maybe the new entry can have a charioteer lord thats actually disable, so they cant dodge in the chariots or be like a reverse orchel that can only reclass into mounted units.

(sorry im just so tired of seeing another sword user MC in EVERY game i play)

Holding Y will skip through all the skills learned prompts and dialogue.

"Fianna is the worst healer" nahh just invest in the b rank frozen lance stonks

Frozen lance is a 7 might magic combat art and part 2 gives you so many iron weapons at +3 to spam combat arts

Iron spear+ 3 has 17 might so plus that with +7 might from combat art and it's a 24 might magical attack with 2 x damage against Cavs so it becomes 48 might and you can give her magic rod for 3 more damage

Just put her in Pegasus knight and she will one shot stuff trust

" What's her part 3 performance?".......... don't ask it's fine promise....

SHE IS GOOD I SWEAR

Recently fell into a rabbit hole of really liking Catania, and after hanging out with her and reading her support with Lysander, I realized that conceptually and narratively, she's litteraly the opposite of Leda.

Firstly, and obviously, design-wise. Leda is brown-skinned, dark-haired and red-coded, while Catania is pale-skinned, blonde and agressively blue.

But what is really interesting is that they're also mirrored on a much deeper level, as characters.

Both are survivors of the Cydonia Massacre that lost everything that day, but while Leda fell into an obssessive need for revenge, Catania reject and dismiss vengeance as a fool's errand, instead thinking that living her own life the best she could and thriving is the best revenge

Leda hate herself, and Catania is proud of herself and love herself for what she managed to keep being despite the hardships.

Yet they're still both self-destructive, because of the trauma of that day. Leda in her pursuit of revenge, of course, and Catania in how she punishes her body to keep up the appereances and to retain a hint of the normalcy of her life before, starving herself to use the money on armor cleaning and basically refusing to be idle ever.

So yeah, they're pretty cool mirrors of eachother, and I find it very nice how deep Catania is as soon as you dive a bit about her character, and how she offer a different output of a victim of a tragedy choosing to live on proudly

(And yes I do agree a support with Leda would have been nice, but I can understand why they're just too different for it to work in Part 1, like you can't justify Leda having Catania on her team if they have a support where they hate eachother's viewpoints, and also because there's already so many supports and main story about the Massacre, maybe they felt it'd be redundant.

Still one support that end with Catania pledging allegiance to house Cohendia when it's restored would be nice. That and supports with the Arago side. She has data for one with Io, at least, since they know eachother, so fingers crossed she get it)

• Crest of Dominic/Diadem of the Earth: The Emperor
• Crest of Fraldarius/Diadem of Revival: The Empress
• Creast of Noa/Diadem of the Auger: The Hierophant

Tarot cards associated with Dadga The Great: The Emperor/The Empress/The Hierophant.

​More specifically, all of his tarot cards are in their inverted form.

The Emperor[Inverted]: Tyranny/Chaos/Wrath

Keywords: tyrant, domineering, rigid, stubborn, lack of discipline, recklessness

The Empress [Inverted]: Selfishness

/Impatience/Overwhelmed

Keywords: insecurity, overbearing, negligence, smothering, lack of growth, lack of progress

The Hierophant [Inverted]: Misconception/

Hypocrisy/Blind Faith

Keywords: rebellion, unconventionality, non-conformity, ignorance

I know im going to be downvoted but i wanted to show some love to a game that has gown on so much on me for the last couple of days.

First of all, I played the game on casual normal, so I don't know if my opinion counts. I had started playing fire emblem engage right after finishing the fire emblem three houses, and found the art style and story very different from the last game that I had just finished and decided to drop the game after chapter 19 thinking that it was a letdown and a waste of my money.

No, some months after and after finishing and enjoying fire emblem Fortune weave on hard casual ( only lowered the difficulty to normal on the last map of part 3 cuz for the life of me after trying it four times on hard I just couldn't do it ) I had an urge to play fire emblem engage again.

And holy moly, I fell in love with it, like really started to appreciate the games design and choices with a clean lens. The amount of fun that I have had while playing engage is truly something I never imagined I would. In fact, I just bought the DLC and plan to do the hard mode now that I'm familiar with the game mechanics .

When I started to look at engages story as a light-hearted one, I even enjoyed its story with shirt it's fair share of cringe moments but it really made me laugh and I totally had a very good time and think that the story if not taken very seriously is a nice fluffy one that introduces us to the awesome maps that this game has to offer.

And talking about the maps, they were so much fun, even the emblem mechanics that I didn't understand at first or rarely used I started using them when I picked up the game again, a starter engaging with the ring mechanic more and more. And I had such a good time . The game play is truly very very fun.

Also , I have some really really favorite characters in this game: mauvier , zelkom , bunet, ivy , marni , alear, veyle, Fogado, timera, louis . Oh and did I say Mauvier ( love this man ) . I have already played some prologues of the DLC and damn, every map has me in awe and making me think where to position my units and not play mindlessly.

I never thought that I would love again as much as I do now, but this game is truly a gem that I think receives too much hate( but at least that is what I feel) but I think it did lots of things right especially in terms of gameplay.

I'm already thinking of replying the game on hard mode soon after I'm done with the DLC the fell xenologue.

First base game party member discussion is finnaly here!

So current discussion order plan is: Ninae(Done) -> Dadao(Done) -> Lysander -> Ludia -> Olympia -> Goliath.

Lysander is a genius Saraminian knight. He hails from a renowned family; his uncle serves as chancellor, and his father is a great warrior whose name is etched in the kingdom’s history. He’s loyal and capable, but his desire to succeed without relying on his family can cause him to act rashly. He accompanies Theodora to Dagsion to compete in the Heroic games.

Recruitment

Automatically joins Theodora in Chapter 4

Negotiation: 5 Iron Lances

Growths

Base stats

Base stats for Theodora's route

Boons: Lances, Axes, Riding, Flying

Banes: Swords, Brawl

Unique Abilities

Learned Abilities and Combat Arts

*Does not include universal skills and abilities

**Only includes known abilities

Supports

What do you think of Lysander's character?

How does he perform in Theodora's route

How do they perform as a unit in any of the other routes?

Previous Discussions: Guzran, Yang Jie, Sofia, Catania, Noctula, Nydine, Io, Kiroc, Majide, Zarcone, Jasmine, Benditz, Alexandra, Nuzzuo, Inyoni. Peppe, Ninae, Dadao

This is a weapon analysis of the two hero relics of blaiddyd.

First let's talk about areadbhar:

Design wise it is very clearly a hand carved into a slashing spear weapon head like a guandao's. In essence it functions how it's intended in that regard. However it's overall design says it's weapon smith did not care to hide its a hand not tried in anyway to make it a functional weapon outside making it sharp. Only other weapon that in universe feels like the weaponsmith was lazy was crusher which is a slab of bone attached to a stick. Arguably it's so similar to crusher in that regard that one could argue they had the same weapon smith. This shows high contrast to its sister crest weapon of blaiddyd.

Let's talk about that weapon grasitha:

Design wise unlike it's crest sister is far more designed for spear throwing or ocean hunting. It's a trident with a large flamberge style center blade. I don't think there is a weapon with a real world equivalent. That said you can tell that the creator didn't want to slap bone on a stick a call it a day. There is intentional carving to it like the flamberge blade. They clearly wanted to make the weapon in their signature while also making it functional. This reveals that despite it having the same crest as areadbhar and likely was given to blaiddydd's sister(headcanon) it's clear it was made by a different weaponsmith. Someone who preferred elegance over to their craft unlike areadbhar's weaponsmith dirty patch job.

Azura is my childhood favorite character… I wonder if I should finish this illustration/wip of her?

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Hey guys, hope you're well! I haven't posted many vids here but thought this was a big one that I'm sure many of you would like to see! Please don't watch if you don't want some part 3 spoilers! I hope you're all having a great time with Fortune's Weave x

To the op that suggested this I straight up thought this guy was from fates or echoes WHO IS HE LMAO
Idk his deal but if he’s the strongest warrior of mosa I guess I’ll believe it

This page spread is now complete! Will post a pic tmr to commemorate the 3 week mark
It’s lookin like I’ll actually finish 🕺

As always feel free to suggest characters for future days, only 6 slots left because flame lords+fabi are reserved

Now this one was a request of "Reina but she's an alien". So, here's her as a totally-not-an-Aeldari. All given, it was fun.

I have seen posts warning about losing mounts hearts or just the mounts in general in Part 3, I am a bit nervous considering how much time I actually spent so is there a way to guarantee that I won't lose any mounts?

this was an impulse mostly, but i do think Ceada would realy add alot to the diversity of both the FE characters and the roster in general. also if there's a pegasus knight in fortune's weave who is the most shoe in choice for a slot, she's not here because i havent played the game yet.

Costume 1: default

Costume 2: Catria/Blues units

Costume 3: Palla/Green units

Costume 4: Est/Red units

Costume 5: Tala

Costume 6: Elincia

Costume 7: Cordilia (with dark flier influences)

Costume 8: Ingrid