What’s interesting about Bernadetta’s hidden talent in Riding is that her Brave version in Heroes gave a direct reason for it. She states, “I realized just a bow isn’t enough to keep me away from other people in fights. So I’ve decided to ride a horse!” Not only does this fit her character, it also explains the skill she gets from unlocking the talent: Pass. Makes sense that she’d get a skill that allows for free rein of mobility.
As pointed out before, this is also her reasoning when she asks you to tutor her in Riding in Three Houses, but also this very much explains her lack of proficiency in armors, even though she very much "holds her position" in regards to her room, on the battlefield wearing an armor would make it harder for her to get away from others.
@@Justic_ And I'd even go so far as to extend it to why she's neutral in both magic skills and has a full spell list despite having a low growth rate and cap for magic as a stat. It's another way to keep her off the front lines, so even if I interpret her as not being naturally good at magic (as her growth rate and cap would suggest), she'll put in the effort regardless. Rescue... doesn't exactly make sense with that in mind, but Rewarp (which would be far more fitting for her) isn't in 3H and they probably wanted *someone* to have potential access to Rescue on Crimson Flower, as the only other base game unit to have that spell in their Faith list is Flayn, who leaves on that route.
Cyril has weaknesses in Faith and Reason because he's illiterate, both their icons are books, they probably need a LOT of study and reading, more than other categories at least
Maybe this is why he was scrapped for 3 Hopes since mages in that game literally use tomes like older titles so it wouldn't be lore accurate to reclass him into one.
Seteth knows Rhea/Seiros better than anyone. His lack of "faith" could be interpreted as him not being a religious follower but actual peer of her species who is pretty much the only person who will question her to her face.
And it's entirely possible that Axes and Bows are likely to be trends for her going forward, as the subsequent Anna has both of those as default proficiencies (with Bows even being her innate proficiency, and as such the one that allows her to use bows one rank higher than normal in some classes)
Hilda is one of the few characters to learn bolting; a long-rage attack. She is very lazy and would rather zap a fool from 10 tiles away rather that walk all those 10 tiles.
You could probably double the length of this video if you wanted. There's so much interesting little details to the stats/skills and their story/character connections. An example I like, is Ferdinand "I am Ferdinand von Aegir" von Aegir's skill preferences. He lacks any weaknesses and has a preexisting advantage in the weapon triangle and horse riding. This, to me, is a show of Ferdie's identity as a noble and his indomitable work effort, specialising in the 3 most direct forms of martial weaponry and the most classical of mounts. His lack of weaknesses seems to suggest that he also maintains at least some knowledge and ability with all the other skills as well, tying back to his work effort. He does his best to hold up that image of noble perfection. There's also his hidden skill for armour, which I like to think is him furthering his one-sided rivalry with Edelgard. He's basically trying to one-up her by gaining an advantage in her movement style, as well as his own.
To a certain extent, you could perhaps also tie his proficiency in the 3 weapon triangle weapons to his Crest, since Seteth similarly has a proficiency in all 3, and there are other examples of Crest-bearers having certain weapon-proficiencies due to their Crest, however Seteth is also bad at Riding, while Ferdinand obviously has a boon in it.
Same for Claude and Balthus. They both are tied for having the highest amount of proficiencies. For Claude, it could be a similar testament to his work ethic, Almyran culture, and martial talents. Almyrans hold martial prowess in high esteem, and place large cultural significance on horsemanship and wyvern riding. For Balthus, he already attended the Officer's Academy and follows the Seiros faith. In spite of his luck, he's actually pretty insightful, lending to his hidden talent in reason.
Funny thing about Dimitri's lack of magical talent: not only is it advantageous to put Dimitri down the Mage Path in Three Hopes (mostly for the very powerful skills he gets at the end, and only really needing a good Brawnstrike tome for stuff). A second funny fact is explained in the spoilers below. In the final map of Verdant Wind, his ancestor Blaiddyd is a Dark Knight, which does mean a level of quite good magic proficiency.
I figured that Dorothea's swordplay training as a songstress wasn't so much for FIGHTING as it was for ACTING - I'm sure dramatic fight scenes are fairly common in Fodlan operas, and if you're so clumsy with them that you won't even hold them by the hilt (let alone be clumsy WIELDING them), then you'll look like a fool on stage. That would also explain starting at E+ - she never trained to actually KILL someone with one.
Personally, I think it's both, though I agree it leans more on the latter. Dorothea mentioned in a few of her Supports how she's fought through several attempted kidnappings as a songstress, so I was under the impression she got her claws out of her kidnappers through putting up a decent enough swordfight to defend herself instead of directly ending their life. Like not only is the swordplay for show, but it's so performers can put up a decent fight in an actual dire situation. Then again, her background as a street urchin who most definitely got into a lot of fights to survive in life must have been the actual reason for that (which is strange because her strength growth is... something.)
to this day my favourite budding talent is still Constance with fists. gotta love how it just implies the Nobel lady has been hanging out with Balthus too much.
I love the idea that she's just naturally good at brawling, but it's too "indignant for a noble of her standing", and so she only does it when the Professor asks
I think it also goes for her double personality. Her soft personality might prefer launching spells that people to keep them away from her. While her dark personality is probably more vindictive and not afraid to get her hands dirty
I like this rabbit hole a lot because you can argue most skill affinities, base stats, growths, and even unique combat arts abilities have story relevant. A particular interest of mine is stat caps. While usually not reached they don’t match bases/growths completely, and the differences reflect their preferences abilities but in a more abstract long term way. My favorite detail among them is that Petra has the second highest charm cap among the Eagles in spite of rather average growth, she is very narrowly behind more overtly charismatic or leadership types in the cast. So the gap is that she’s young and identifies as a warrior in the present when the game takes place but in the future she has the makings of a strong queen and leader.
Petra's charm growth could be because she's still learning the fódlan tongue which leaves her with a stunted way of speech. If she was back home her charm growth could be higher than we see it in Fódlan.
An additional fun detail with Felix is that there's boons that he should normally have. All of his friends and even his father specialize in Lances and Riding. Which makes all of them prefer to go through Cavalier > Paladin line. A class line that can ride to the front lines, save a distant friend in need, got good attack bonuses on lances and good defense abilities. A good all-rounder and a naturally chivalrous class. Felix likely got trained by his father to be good at these two aspects as well. But it seems very likely that after Glenn's death, Felix got so dislliusioned by the concept of chivalry, that he's half-assing his trained talents. Purposefully training himself in weaponry that are more unbecoming of a knight. A bow is known to be a coward's weapon and brawling is the weapon of an unrefined savage if Balthus is anything to go by.
Another thing I'd like to add about Dorothea is the way she's the only Black Eagle who grows out of their Faith bane (her Budding Talent). In one of the lectures, she comes to learn how being devout to the Goddess isn't exactly needed to develop Faith, but just believing in something hopeful (her professor, in this case) And much like with Leonie having some shared strengths and weaknesses as Jeralt, so does she with Manuela (like how Dorothea has a Flying weakness and Manuela has a Flying boon, the aforementioned Sword proficiency in the video, Manuela being weak at Reason compared to her apprentice and her esteemed rival Hanneman...)
No lore, but an interesting situation: The three house leaders all have banes in one of the other house leaders’ main weapon. Edelgard has a weakness in bows, Dimitri has a weakness in axes, and Claude has a weakness in lances.
yeah, it is interesting... I do wish it worked the other way where Dimitri was weak in bows, Claude was weak in axes, and Edelgard was weak in lances, though... Dimitri's whole thing is that he's got super strength and keeps accidentally breaking his weapons, so being able to use the heavy and more durable weapon but snapping bowstrings by pulling back too far feels more accurate... Claude isn't about overpowering his opponent, but rather striking from afar so the axe bane plays into that, though it does hurt his "standard" going into Wyvern a bit... and I got nothing for Edelgard other than filling the rest of that triangle
@@tektonik4616Cyril states that riding a wyvern is a right of passage in almyra and since claude the crown prince he was definitely required to learn how ride one and use a axe which is the signature weapon of wyvern riders.
Actually isn't Eldegard weakness faith I think she's neutral to lances.😅 I look it up on my game her 2 weaknesses are Bows and Faith she also has a buddy talent for Reason and is neutral to Lances.
@@tektonik4616it’s more about the Lord’s ideological differences. Edelgard thinks Claude is annoying, Claude thinks Dimitri is a stick in the mud, but agrees with Edelgard in some level so has a talent for Axes, and Dimitri obviously has major issues with Edelgard
My favourite is Cyril having a weakness in the two book icons (Reason and Faith) since he can't read (He also doesn't actually believe in the Church's religion anyway, but stays loyal to Rhea after she freed him from slavery and gave him a home)
I think Seteth's lack of faith is due to the fact that he doesn't worship the goddess Sothis considering yknow... thats his mom probably? lol. I think its more accurate to say the opposite regarding Flayn, Flayn doesn't worhip sothis BUT she does have healing magic, so that's shown through a fath boon
her crest is all about healing... those who have her blood are more dedicated to healing... in a sense, you could say that Linhardt's Faith boon comes from that, since he's also not a devout worshipper, but he does have a natural affinity to healing... which makes it even funnier when I make him my Dark Mage
@@tektonik4616why stop there. Lindhart is one of the bulkiest units in the game with his personal bases and growths ( only balthus is bulkier) so make him a general so you can have a unit that takes nothing from mages and physical enemies. And give him a bolt axe to swing while you are at it.
Funny enough seteth is not directly related to Rhea. As mentioned she is the only survivor from the red cannon meaning that it is possible that others like sothis are on the earth or whatever it is called. A good indication of this is three hopes as the evil sothis like person in there is a different unrelated creature yet similar. If I had to guess flayn and seteth are similar to rhea but might not be dragons but similar creatures. This can be seen as there is a few indications of flayn being a cat with her love of fish. The reason some can take from seteth and flayn is flayn is strong in faith due to her growing up around the church more while seteth is more warry of Rhea given she is not always the most honest with him given how many times he is skeptical of her motives.
Something that I feel is noteable is that, to a certain extent, proficiencies just like character-traits are tied to certain Crests. For example Bernadettas and Hannemans bow-proficiency is most likely directly tied to their Crest of Indech, with Indech himself seemingly having been a Bow Knight. Edelgard has a hidden proficiency in Reason-magic, which can be interpreted as her hiding her disdain for religion, and I guess you could say her ties to TWSITD, although there doesn't seem to be a problem with someone using Dark Magic, since Hubert can do so openly, and it doesn't seem like Lysithea is getting questioned about her magic either. For Petra, you could also point out how her main strength, swords(probably including knives) and bows are somewhat typical tools for hunters... making axes somewhat stand out, I guess you could extrapolate that woodcutting seems to be a common aspect of life in Brigid. Flying seems like a somewhat weird proficiency to have for her as well, until you consider Huberts fear of heights being the reason he's bad at it, in which case you could tie her proficiency to her being adept at climbing, something that can for example be seen in her supports with Claude, and would also tie into her axe-skill at further cementing Brigid as being a quite forested island (which can also be seen in her Paralogue, but I'm honestly not sure if I consider that a proper look at Brigid, since it just seems like asset-reuse to me, instead of actually showing off Brigid culture). Linhardt is also somewhat interesting, since he has a boon in Faith, despite not really being a faithful person. You could just trace it back to him being a scholar... however Hanneman, his fellow scholar and pretty much mentor, DOESN'T have a proficiency in Faith. Which seemingly just leaves his Crest as main justification for why Linhardt may have a proficiency in this field. As for Seteth lacking proficiency in Faith, I feel you could argue it's not due to balancing OR a lack of faith in the goddess... but due to lack of faith in Seiros as a saint, and the church she built. Something I consider funny about Bernadetta is that she is terrible in the field of armor, despite being a very... stationary person, so to say. Even in Heroes, they made a joke about how the armor knights around the Order of Heroes misunderstood and looked up to her as a "siege expert" due to how long she's staying in her room all the time. However, once you start thinking of her on the battlefield, as her suggestion to train her hidden proficiency in Riding basically points out, the reason she wants to get good at riding is to move away from others more quickly, meanwhile an armored unit would be the opposite and have trouble getting away from others. Dimitri saying he and his family lack any kind of magical prowess is somewhat funny when you consider that their ancestor, Blaiddyd, was a Dark Knight, a class that you can only reach with a sufficient degree of knowledge in Reason-magic. Meanwhile Dimitri is actually neutral in regards to Faith-magic, which you could perhaps tie to him being very faithful, balancing out his weakness in the magical field. Never thought about Sylvain potentially actually having issues with his eyesight, but something else about him is that, just like Felix, he has a hidden proficiency in Reason, which makes sense as they both seem like muscleheads, or at least like very one-track minds, but if steered in the right direction they both are actually quite smart. As for Lysithea, yes she is very bad in the 3 main melee-weapon types (although ironically not in archery, which realistically requires quite a bit of muscle to draw a bow, or in brawling, which... also very muscle-dependant), but she also DOES have a hidden proficiency in swords, potentially linked to her Crest of Charon, but also, if you unlock her proficiency in swords, she learns the Combat Art Soul Blade... which you could say might imply that the reason she starts to get the hang of swords in the first place is because she learns to enchant them with her magic.
Anna's bane in reason and authority might be better explained with her job, she doesnt study at garreg mach to become an officer, she hasnt been in any prominent leadership position, commanded a battalion, or have any family that would have placed an emphasis on that during her upbringing. She's a commoner, and most characters proficient in authority are nobles or aspiring commanders, neither of which applies to her. As you hinted at with Hildas high charm stat (relating to her manipulative/persuasive and social side) its the only direct stat that would help Anna sell wares, barter for lower prices, convince people to buy and overall make running her business much smoother. Reason could be related to the metaphor that magic is a bit otherworldy and esoteric while a money-hungery walking definition of being materialistic would be the very opposite of that, dealing onnly in the physical goods. When you think on how magic is trained and learned in FE3H it wouldn make any sense for her to sit behind musty tomes and study spells when she could be balancing the medieval equivalent of a checkbook to make sure the numbers are as positive as they can be, aquire more materials or run a stall selling goods.
Re: Felix's weakness and talent in magic: I think it's mentioned in Hopes that Rodrigue is strong in magic because he studied to compensate for Lambert's Blaiddyd-brand magic ineptitude. So it could also be an element of Felix's "I hate my dad" thing that he is also talented in magic but refuses to be like his father (similar to the reasoning behind Annette's weakness in heavy armor). Though there is still a difference because Rodrigue's talent is in faith while Felix leans toward reason
On the topic of felix reason bane, but talent. There is one professor question that has him asking why he would need magic. The best answer is that it makes him a better warrior
I picked up on a lot of these too. I do genuinely believe a lot of the correlatione are intentional and that it speaks to the meticulous design of the game and it's world.
I don’t know about Anna weaknesses, but her strengths are all references to her past playable roles Awakening Anna was a trickster who uses swords and staves, so that swords and faith Heroes Anna was an axe user And fates Anna was an outlaw so that’s where the bows come from
I love these details in 3h I noticed some.of them but obviously there is stuff I miss another nice detail if I remember correctly Manuela amd hanneman have almost opposite talents to reflect that they're total opposites of each other
Dorothea only having E+ in swords makes sense when you consider that she's learned stage-fighting: a style designed to look flashy but not cause actual injury. So she can hold a sword convincingly, but she doesn't actually know how to hurt someone with it.
The reason Edelgard is so adept at using heavy armor and weapons is because of her two crests, which give her insane amounts of power. Her strength growth rate is one of the highest in the game, second only to Dimitri (who is canonically a pseudo-superhuman that can’t handle fragile objects cause using even the slightest amount of strength causes them to shatter). Edie’s way stronger than a lot of people give her credit for lol
Funny enough Rhea and Edelgard are basically one and the same when you look at them comparatively. Both of them are stubborn and unwilling to give up no matter what for the ideals they have no matter how twisted. The will even do whatever it takes to convince themselves that what they are doing is right despite people directly telling them that this was a bad idea. I feel the biggest difference between the two is how they treat byleth. For Rhea byleth is not a person but a vessel needing to be protected so her mother will return and will do anything it takes for that to happen even if it meant sacrificing others in order to do it. This can be seen with her making pretty much clones in order to house the soul with the only notiable one she cared even a little for was byleth's mom but that was more on the fact that she probably already saw her as a lost cause by that time. Lets be honest the real reason byleth's mom was not in a grave was most likely because Rhea was still trying to find a way to use the corpse to reserect her mom and did not want it to decay so she put a spell on it to slow down the process. For edlegard tho it is different as to her byleth is more than a person. She is unstable in a different way going through hell and back similar to lysithea but worse. To her byleth is her and the worlds salvation, her way out of a hellish world stuck in a constant evil practice that allows the weak to be used and exploited for personal gain. To her, the title of emperor is nearly worthless, only used to push for her dream so she can destroy the status quo even if it means she must gain the ire of everyone in the process, a real martyr is any. Truth be told I do not hate anyone in this game as all of them are right in their own ways but it is how they go about it that is wrong. One question for all her tho is why is the religion called the church of serios and not sothis? My idea for this is that Rhea is not actually wanting her mother back like she states but wants her mother's power. Her mother was the light of the world and once gone Rhea had to take up that rein. However as strong as she is she wants her mother back for the power she has which is why she is fine with having byleth around and not doing any experiments on them in order to force her mother's presence which makes sense given every experiment has failed so far and if she was to try again it could end with her loosing the one chance she has left. It could also explain why those who slither in the dark are popping up.
he never really shows any sense of "buying into the bullshit" because...Well you know...he even basically says it a few times in game that he views the church as purely pragmatic, like Edelgard he can see all too well how fragile the current "peace" is but they differ in what the see in The Church. where she see's oppression, he see's stability.
This video sums up my feelings perfectly on why 3H and W3H are my favourite games in the series, and just in general. The amount of thought and love behind all these little details is incredible. Wouldn't it have just been amazing to see the brainstorming sessions at Koei Techmo as this amazing little world was given life. And all the little details were planned, and how they'd all tie into gameplay. I find myself forgetting characters in Fire Emblem games prior to 3H and even in Engage I need to be reminded certain characters exist. (Like even now I'm struggling to remember the names of some) But I don't imagine I'll forget anyone from this game or it's sequel/ retelling any time soon.
Authority is more than working with others. You have to tell them what to do and guide them. You have to be pushing to a degree. Anna is a salesman. Anyone in the sales field can tell you the worst thing a salesman can be is pushy.
My opinion on some of these takes : - For Catherine's low Faith : let's not forget the stat isn't only about the belief, but also about your practice of it. It has been portrayed a little that Catherine isn't very good at praying, traditions, and other things. - For Seteth's low Faith : he may be a member of the Church, but he is a very methodical and sceptical person (which actually has surprised a lot of characters in game). Also, due to some story reasons (I won't spoil), he knows the truth about religion and myths and Fodlan. And ESPECIALLY, he also know the true identity of some of the religious figures. Knowing this truth, of course, can only undermine one's faith... - For Dorothea's low Sword level : I have practiced swordplay a little, for drama/theatre course. And there is one big nuance : they do not teach you how to fight, but how to fake a fight. The purpose of swordplay is not to hurt or kill your partner, but to give a show. So of course, you will not learn actual moves, but methods to make believe. Dorothea does know how to wield a sword, but she doesn't know how to use it for fighting, only for pretending. As for Manuela, she is of course recruited later, but she also has been at the academy for longer and is older.
Another thing sbout the Blaiddyd bloodline is that the 10 elite, who they are descended from, is a dark knight. Suggesting the family got worse at magic over the years.
Anna being bad in Reason could be because, at least until recently, her main business strategy has been the "Secret Shop". Not only hidden, but inaccessible from anyone without the Member Card! Can't exactly call that a "Reasonable" move!
I love stuff like this and i have a lot of headcanons for things like budding talents: - Constance with brawling: she is extremely haughty so you know she probably is great at slapping - Balthus i like to ship with Lysithea, so it's cute to imagine her giving him endless lore dumps about the latest magic she's learned, hence his budding talent in reason - Claude with axes: i ship him with Hilda and it's not hard to imagine her batting her eyelashes at him and getting him to do her axe work for her on a regular basis - hilda with heavy armor: a skill that lets her just stand around? that would absolutely appeal to her, even if she might come to regret it later once she starts doing it in actual battles - Byleth with faith: this one's more of a given; they start out knowing nothing about Sothis or the church and end up being the enlightened one - hapi? classic butch lesbian. budding talent in axe because she's from the middle of nowhere so she'd probably fit right in as a flannel-wearing lumberjane
From Seteths point of view (also massive spoiler warning for like everything): He witnessed the genocide of his race leaving only Rhea, Flayn, the saints and himself. His wife died. He almost lost Flayn in the great battles, she was in a oma for centuries. Flayn has been a target of so many dangers (mostly TWSITD aka Agarthans) and to top it all off, he knows how crazy Rhea got after like a thousand years, how much suffering there truely is and he can't even transform into a dragon anymore. The fucking legendary weapons are made of the bones of his fellow kin, maybe even his wifes. Some folks loose faith when ONE of thise things happen in their life.
(2:03) I can explain why she does not have a weakness in authority. In her ending with Raphael, it states that Bernie got over her fear of the world and became an influential figure in Fodlan after the war. She does has what it takes to be a great leader, but her fear weigh her down.
I had a theory that characters with a boon in a reason were the same characters that had artistic hobbies, not sure how accurate that is though lol. It’s still fun to make theories about the correlations between the characters personalities and stats though!
Anna usually operates businesses alone or with other Anna so maybe that has to do with her authority bane. I can't think of a reason for her lack of skill in reason
I feel like Dimitri’s weakness in reason is also a nod to him not thinking clearly. He is driven by emotion, not reason. That’s especially clear during the beginning of the war phase, but even during the academy phase there are moments were he’s shown to not use reason in his decision making.
Another thing to note about Manuela, in Blue Lions during the Silver Maiden paralouge. If she isn't recruited pre time skip she will actually appear as an enemy assassin during the map. Which makes her more assassin like stats make a bit more sense.
My guess with Anna is that she is good at persuading and tricking people, but not in actually working with them being a sneaky mostly solo worker in general
I think we need to look less at the boons and banes literally. a bane in authority doesn't mean, doesnt like people, it means they have a hard time commanding or the ineptitude to command. Bernidetta likley doesnt have a bane because as a noble it was likley part of her training to lead/command despite her inclination to do otherwise. Faith is more in the church/religion than it is in people, both cyril and catherine have extremely strong ties to rhea, but never express much faith in the religion itself.
Interesting things I've noticed: the characters tend to look more "out of place" design-wise when put into classes which work on their weaknesses. Lysithea looks out of place as an armored/fortress knight, Linhardt in axe/brawling classes, Dedue as a cavalry class, etc. Something to not about Sylvain to is that in the Japanese version, when talking with Ingrid, the "scarecrow" is actually a cross-dresser (which is less frowned upon on Japanese society than in the West) and so the translators made it a scarecrow instead.
The thing about 3H that I find so interesting Is that Engage exists, we've had a whole game And yet 3H is still the one people talk about I mentioned that I didn't think Engage was a good game, not because I played it, but because I didn't hear anyone talking about it
Engage is not bad. It’s just simple. The world and the story are not that complex as you spend most of the story walking around in a circle gathering allies and fighting mindless zombies commanded by purely evil antagonists until right before thier defeated when they try to turn in to more complex characters and get immediately killed for it. In Engages the story drives to world In 3h the world is telling us one of it’s stories
people are still talking about 3H because there's much to talk about, like the story, the characters, the worldbuilding... even boon and banes in talents are interesting and bound to the different characters' personalities and stories. maybe it's not got the best gameplay in the series but it excels in every other aspect in my opinion
@@mvjbass9561fates is 3 games with more characters and more replay-ability imo due to how reclassing and second gen units work. The story is also bad it’s just not as bland a world I feel.
Being a great talker is more in line with Charm than with Authority, which Anna absolutely isn't lacking in despite her weakness in Authority. Authority is more taking command of troops, after all. They can be related, but in the sense of jobs, and skill in one can *at times* help with the other, they are still completely different. A politician or commander and a salesperson or celebrity have completely different roles, after all, and while they are not mutually exclusive by any means, the fact that someone is a great talker in one sense doesn't mean at all that they'd fit in a different sense.
Ashe's bane's are pretty straightforward but I wonder why his secondary boon is axes, considering he's a self admitted scrawny/weak boy, whose growth stats reflect it
Anna strikes me as someone who really isn't social at all outside of the prospect of making money since she has 0 support conversations. She also has the Ernest crest, which is "a crest long lost to history" which imo really is something you cannot achieve unless your entire clan hates socializing with others. I also assume she can't really sell anything to battalions since I believe their cost also includes their weapons so it makes sense she doesn't like them.
I always thought the reason why Felix isn't good at reason or faith was because he's trying to distance himself from his dad, who's a Holy Knight, as much as possible
Anna is a lone wolf. She's a smooth talker and highly skilled at what she does, but she only really knows how to look out for herself, not really forming deep connections with others. Hence the weakness in authority.
I always thought Anna wouldn't be taken seriously by batallions because she'd try to sell them armour and weapons instead of providing them, like I don't know a batallion leader?
This is a really interesting topic. Stats-character relationship could be talked about in many FE games, but I don't see it that often. I'd like to add that, similar to Balthus, Dimitri also has bad luck, which probably relates to his life being really tragic and to the fact he dies in every route that's not his. About Sylvain, I don't quite see (heh) his low dexterity as potentially bad eyesight. The way I interpret the Leonie and Ingrid supports, it's the game joking about his flirtatious / womanizer attitude. With Leonie it shows he's only courteous with women he finds attractive in a way that's conventionally feminine. With Ingrid, it's poking fun at the fact he's always been that way. This support was also changed slightly in Eng. In the JP version, instead of flirting with a scarecrow, he flirted with a "boy dressed as a girl", and he immediately says that was a misunderstanding when people start whispering. The localization probably wanted to avoid a queerphobic joke. In any case, alternatively, Sylvain's low dex could be a nod to the fact that he skips training often to go out into town, unlike the diligent Felix, Ingrid or Dimitri. So his lack of training eventually catches up to him gameplay-wise when he can't wield weapons as accurately as his peers.
An additional contributor to the “Sylvain has bad eyesight” theory that didn’t get addressed in the video is also in regards to his budding talent in Reason, and how it ties into his support with Annette. In Annette’s support with Sylvain, he sees her reading through a magic textbook and quips about how difficult it is for him to read. Iirc, he says things along the lines of the script in the textbook being small enough that he has to take extra effort to read it. Then, when Annette talks him through what she was studying, he reveals that he can actually grasp what the textbook is saying really well, with Annette saying something along the lines of him being some secret genius which he tries to play off as just random luck. Then, if you look at his proficiencies, you see that Sylvain is shown to have poor ability to study Reason magic unless Byleth makes some effort to personally instruct him first. After which, he develops a talent in it. This not only parallels his support with Annette, but supports the theory if one assumes Reason to be the most text-heavy topic to study, as it could suggest his difficulties with Reason come moreso due to difficulty reading and understanding the text itself than failing to understand what it means. Theoretically, one could even apply that to Ignatz, who similarly has a Budding talent in the topic, and canonically has bad eyesight and requires glasses, further supporting the “Poor eyesight can lead to difficulty learning Reason” angle. Of course, you don’t have to agree with the theory. For all intents and purposes, until it’s directly confirmed, all of those factors can just be coincidence. That’s why it is just a theory. However, some people just enjoy the theoretical explanation that all those factors could stem to him just never having been diagnosed with somewhat poor eyesight and never learning he needed glasses to see properly.
Looking through the growths and boons/burderns there is a few main factors that pop up that really push for why characters are well the way they are. For most of them some are easy to see as it is related to their personality. One could note like you did the concepts of those that lack strong faith like that of petra due to her being an outsider or even sylvain and his poor eyesight. For others it is crest as looking at how some budding talents are for say lysithia I would say that her crest of Charon that she shares with catherine is probably due to a natural calling of the crest which heavily focuses on swords. Another thing that is not mentioned is that skills can actually mean many things. Take anna for example and her weakness in authority. Many see this as wrong as someone like her should have a good authority given her merchant status however I can see it as it being apart of her untrusting business savy. As it is seen in game she trust some and not others meaning that she holds the cards close and picks her friends wisely. Given that she does not want to get burned so she ends up not being the best leader due to that. Other proof that skills can mean more that one thing is how hapi is not weak to faith. It makes sense that she is bad with authority given how her powers work but at the same time she is neutral in faith when it really should be her weakness. The reason for this is faith is not just related to the church but also self faith such as belief in ones self. This can also be seen with other characters like dorothea for which she starts to believe in herself more and other people such as nobles when she hated them before due to past experiences. Reason is similar to that of faith as it can mean thinking reasonably however if that was the only criteria u would think more characters would be bad at it. Another aspect of reason could be battle sense, quick thinking, and flexibility in battle. Many of those weak in reason are also ones that are really dedicated to a particular combat style character wise and when it comes to say felix his question to you about magic where you can tell him it can make you a better swordsman could indicate his push into a mortal savant as he would like to try incorporating his magical talents into his fighting Most others like say caspar and rapheal are more meatheads thus are stuck in their ways when it comes to the way they see battle which is go in, and well punch things which can be seen at least with caspar with his supports with shamir as well as rapheal which often states he can't get his head around specific topics due to it messing with the way he sees fighting as a straight forward encounter. Some can be weak in certain weapons or classes due to body frame, problems with like annette and her father, and upbringing. Some characters was trained from birth to go along a set path despite having some talent for other things. Ingrid has no weakness yet is good at least with magic but has no boons in it as she was trained to use the lance all her life. To her training with a new weapon or concept is not taboo by any means which is why it is neutral but she just is not one to focus on it unless you tell her to.
Caspar's up-close-and-personal preference is why he has boons in axes and brawling, as well as bow weakness, while his reason and authority are banes likely due to him always resorting to breaking fights with his fists rather than words. Which is a shame, cause he would make for a fun brawling dark mage, but unfortunately magic classes can't brawl at all.
I believe all of Anna's boons are references to prior Annas in the series. Swords and Faith link to Awakening. Bows link to Fates and Warriors. Axes link to Heroes (and now Engage). As for her banes and budding talent, I can't help there.
I don't have the DLC so I can only really go by Annas in other games but her authority bane makes sense, she's not a people person, just a smooth talker. In her supports characters that see past her sales pitch really dislike her.
Anna could have poor authority maybe because it would require high empathy and genuine interest in other people to lead them, as well as acknowledging a common end goal. While she recognizes people’s interests and has great communication skills, she could be too individualistic, hence not always having others best interest in mind
I think Seteths weak Faith stat is because he knows the TRUTH about the Sothis and how shes dead, and how the Faith in the Church is more so a peacekeeping force in his eyes
Anna feels less defined by her weaknesses, and more like those weaknesses are formed by her reliance on her strengths... She has no interest in working with batallions or anyone in your army on a closer level, so a weakness in Authority and no supports is easy, but her Reason weakness seem more based on the fact that she has a lot of Faith in her natural abilities, and she needed to at least understand Faith in the church to make money off of them! But with a knack for many weapon types on top of Faith, she has no real reason to study magic outside of Faith, as her weapon abilities are less based on putting in effort and dedicated study and more on practical experience, which also matches her higher than average Luck growth, giving the impression that she is nimble and experienced enough with a weapon to survive just fine, and lucky enough to never encounter situations her basic weapon proficiency couldn't get her out of...
didn't Dorothea also mention that being a songstress made her a target for kidnapping? I guess the swordplay can also be interpreted as self-defense, then
I would say Seteth has a low Faith stat because well, he knows the truth. The 'Goddess' is just a Space Dragon. And his Mom. He thus probably doesn't see himself and the Nabatians as some godlike figures, unlike Rhea whose whole goal with Byleth was to resurrect Sothis to become the ruler of the world. Also while Edelgard MAY be small she is far from frail given her Str growth is second to Dimitri
7:32 Mate I won’t tolerate Lysithea slander😡😂(joking of course) whenever I recruit her I make sure she gets a good ending where she survives. I agree her low HP can be troublesome sometimes but for me she usually just deletes the enemy before they can even attack back.😂 I’m curious though what class other people make her Ialways pick gremory because nothing else seems to work.🤔
if you can get class mastery in Mercenary on her for Vantage, then go Gremory... you end up with Ophelia2 out of her... she does have a budding talent in Swords, after all... I personally like Levin Sword/Mortal Savant on her just because it's different
@@samkeiser9776 I think her Crest of Charon is the one she got from her parents... if that's true, and you remember the relic associated with it is Thunderbrand, then there's the sword connection
To be honest, the only thing that seems slightly out-of-place with regards to boons and banes is Jeritza’s budding talent. I suppose that IS had to make the Death Knight as broken as possible
Dimitri being canonically bad at magic is so ironic considering his personal active ability in Three Hopes lets him cast the best magic attack in the game, enhanced Thoron, earlier than anyone else. Like he's arguably the best mage in the game bc he gets to cast what's already the best spell in the game, in a form usually reserved for the chosen few after mastering Warlock, basically immediately as soon as the real game starts. He's certainly better at this Mage thing than Annette.
You should look into stat growths and bases in comparison to this video. Anna's skills aren't as confusing when you look at her actual stats for instance. Despite her weakness in Authority, she does have a high Charm base and growth. She is a sweet talker and is good at social skills, just not good at taking the lead in combat. Her Reason rank is still a bit odd, especially because her Magic stat isn't great either. They could have easily had her Reason rank higher with her Magic growth as low as it is. She doesn't have a great combat though really.
The reason Seteth is weak in Faith may well be because while he is a church official, he was there a thousand years ago during the War of Heroes. He knows that the church's teachings are largely fabricated by Rhea, so while he may work for the church, he knows better than to actually believe their teachings.
Catherine and Cyril lacking strength in Faith makes sense when you consider the Pope and Jesus are not the same. The Church of Seiros worships Sothis, Rhea is the leader of said church.
I've been pissed for two decades about Pegasus knights being female exclusive except for Fates where the only male pegasus knight is better as anything else. The pegasus is a symbol of masculine heroism, a horse that can charge through the sky. It's connection to femininity is very recent and only really applies to the fact that little girls likes horses... you know that creature that several men from 3H's both ride and like.
4:52 I've only heard this secondhand, but the scarecrow is supposedly English only, and the original Japanese was... let's say somebody biologically male in woman's clothing, for politeness sake. In 3 hopes something similar where he makes a remarkably provocative flirt at the effeminate Yuri, who lords it over him.
I think Anna doesn’t like battalions bc she has to pay them and that’s revenue loss
True
Oh battalions...I thought he said italians and was so confused
@@TheKingNaesalaAnna really can’t stand the italians
this is pointless nitpicking but it's a loss in profit (the excess of money earned once expenses are subtracted) not revenue (all money earned)
@@TheKingNaesala That's okay I thought he said the Tellians And I'm just sitting here thinking this doesn't take place tellius😂
What’s interesting about Bernadetta’s hidden talent in Riding is that her Brave version in Heroes gave a direct reason for it.
She states, “I realized just a bow isn’t enough to keep me away from other people in fights. So I’ve decided to ride a horse!”
Not only does this fit her character, it also explains the skill she gets from unlocking the talent: Pass.
Makes sense that she’d get a skill that allows for free rein of mobility.
Pass could be a nod to her support with Felix, where she's fast enough to run straight pass him while disarming him
She will do anything to avoid people it goes to show
She also says that on Three houses. When she asks you to change her goals to riding
As pointed out before, this is also her reasoning when she asks you to tutor her in Riding in Three Houses, but also this very much explains her lack of proficiency in armors, even though she very much "holds her position" in regards to her room, on the battlefield wearing an armor would make it harder for her to get away from others.
@@Justic_ And I'd even go so far as to extend it to why she's neutral in both magic skills and has a full spell list despite having a low growth rate and cap for magic as a stat. It's another way to keep her off the front lines, so even if I interpret her as not being naturally good at magic (as her growth rate and cap would suggest), she'll put in the effort regardless. Rescue... doesn't exactly make sense with that in mind, but Rewarp (which would be far more fitting for her) isn't in 3H and they probably wanted *someone* to have potential access to Rescue on Crimson Flower, as the only other base game unit to have that spell in their Faith list is Flayn, who leaves on that route.
Cyril has weaknesses in Faith and Reason because he's illiterate, both their icons are books, they probably need a LOT of study and reading, more than other categories at least
Cyril also mentioned that even though he looks up to Rhea, he is not a believer of the Church.
@gabrielstafford5174 "The Pope? Yes. Her actual church? Meh."
yep, he does indeed need a lot of reading, in order for him to catch up
@@baxterbruce9827 You can like someone without believing in their religion. Especially if that someone saved you from slavery.
Maybe this is why he was scrapped for 3 Hopes since mages in that game literally use tomes like older titles so it wouldn't be lore accurate to reclass him into one.
Seteth knows Rhea/Seiros better than anyone. His lack of "faith" could be interpreted as him not being a religious follower but actual peer of her species who is pretty much the only person who will question her to her face.
Also he doesnt need faith because he literally knows the truth
Anna's proficiencies are those of previous Annas: swords and faith are from "Awakening", bows and riding from "Fates" and axes from "Heroes"
And it's entirely possible that Axes and Bows are likely to be trends for her going forward, as the subsequent Anna has both of those as default proficiencies (with Bows even being her innate proficiency, and as such the one that allows her to use bows one rank higher than normal in some classes)
Its also possible that axes are from the Anna in blazing blade who is married to a pirate, an axe locked class.
This also contradicts her weakness in Authority, since Heroes Anna is the Commander of the Order of Heroes.
The commander of 2 formerly 3 people.
Hilda is one of the few characters to learn bolting; a long-rage attack.
She is very lazy and would rather zap a fool from 10 tiles away rather that walk all those 10 tiles.
the other is manuela, who also has a bane in reason... They really didnt want us to have bolting.
We'll let you call down space rocks, but not thunderstorms
@@Aeivious _laughs in Constance_
@@hooray4paradiddlesOne way to sell the DLC like hotcakes was to give us broken units. We got 4/4
I remember somewhere in the game it's mentioned that Yuri has allergies to animals. Hence, his bane in riding and flying
I think his Hopes support with Marianne goes over it
One of his tea-time questions is about how he likes cats and dogs just fine, but is allergic
@@wolfx8751 he also has hay fever I think
he'd be fine on a wyvern, but I like to hc riding classes involves animal care and he'd get caught by cross-contamination
You could probably double the length of this video if you wanted. There's so much interesting little details to the stats/skills and their story/character connections.
An example I like, is Ferdinand "I am Ferdinand von Aegir" von Aegir's skill preferences.
He lacks any weaknesses and has a preexisting advantage in the weapon triangle and horse riding. This, to me, is a show of Ferdie's identity as a noble and his indomitable work effort, specialising in the 3 most direct forms of martial weaponry and the most classical of mounts. His lack of weaknesses seems to suggest that he also maintains at least some knowledge and ability with all the other skills as well, tying back to his work effort. He does his best to hold up that image of noble perfection.
There's also his hidden skill for armour, which I like to think is him furthering his one-sided rivalry with Edelgard. He's basically trying to one-up her by gaining an advantage in her movement style, as well as his own.
Definitely haven't ruled out a part two for that exact reason!
To a certain extent, you could perhaps also tie his proficiency in the 3 weapon triangle weapons to his Crest, since Seteth similarly has a proficiency in all 3, and there are other examples of Crest-bearers having certain weapon-proficiencies due to their Crest, however Seteth is also bad at Riding, while Ferdinand obviously has a boon in it.
Same for Claude and Balthus. They both are tied for having the highest amount of proficiencies. For Claude, it could be a similar testament to his work ethic, Almyran culture, and martial talents. Almyrans hold martial prowess in high esteem, and place large cultural significance on horsemanship and wyvern riding.
For Balthus, he already attended the Officer's Academy and follows the Seiros faith. In spite of his luck, he's actually pretty insightful, lending to his hidden talent in reason.
@@NagapediaFE I'd love a part 2 to this series! Hell, in my own down time i've thought of redoxes for some these!
Funny thing about Dimitri's lack of magical talent: not only is it advantageous to put Dimitri down the Mage Path in Three Hopes (mostly for the very powerful skills he gets at the end, and only really needing a good Brawnstrike tome for stuff). A second funny fact is explained in the spoilers below.
In the final map of Verdant Wind, his ancestor Blaiddyd is a Dark Knight, which does mean a level of quite good magic proficiency.
I figured that Dorothea's swordplay training as a songstress wasn't so much for FIGHTING as it was for ACTING - I'm sure dramatic fight scenes are fairly common in Fodlan operas, and if you're so clumsy with them that you won't even hold them by the hilt (let alone be clumsy WIELDING them), then you'll look like a fool on stage. That would also explain starting at E+ - she never trained to actually KILL someone with one.
Personally, I think it's both, though I agree it leans more on the latter. Dorothea mentioned in a few of her Supports how she's fought through several attempted kidnappings as a songstress, so I was under the impression she got her claws out of her kidnappers through putting up a decent enough swordfight to defend herself instead of directly ending their life. Like not only is the swordplay for show, but it's so performers can put up a decent fight in an actual dire situation.
Then again, her background as a street urchin who most definitely got into a lot of fights to survive in life must have been the actual reason for that (which is strange because her strength growth is... something.)
Dorothea actually literally explains this in supports... she learned how to sword fight from stage play.
That would explain why Manuela's sword rank is higher than Dorathea's too as she for sure has used it in actual fights.
to this day my favourite budding talent is still Constance with fists.
gotta love how it just implies the Nobel lady has been hanging out with Balthus too much.
I love the idea that she's just naturally good at brawling, but it's too "indignant for a noble of her standing", and so she only does it when the Professor asks
I think it also goes for her double personality. Her soft personality might prefer launching spells that people to keep them away from her.
While her dark personality is probably more vindictive and not afraid to get her hands dirty
I like to think it's because she's sort of the archetypal haughty noblewoman so you can bet that she's second to none at slapping
@@Chronal-RendSunlight Constance thinks she doesn’t deserve clean hands
I like this rabbit hole a lot because you can argue most skill affinities, base stats, growths, and even unique combat arts abilities have story relevant.
A particular interest of mine is stat caps. While usually not reached they don’t match bases/growths completely, and the differences reflect their preferences abilities but in a more abstract long term way.
My favorite detail among them is that Petra has the second highest charm cap among the Eagles in spite of rather average growth, she is very narrowly behind more overtly charismatic or leadership types in the cast. So the gap is that she’s young and identifies as a warrior in the present when the game takes place but in the future she has the makings of a strong queen and leader.
Petra's charm growth could be because she's still learning the fódlan tongue which leaves her with a stunted way of speech. If she was back home her charm growth could be higher than we see it in Fódlan.
@@Moondramon "Do you know how smart I am in Brigid?!" type of situation... I like that
An additional fun detail with Felix is that there's boons that he should normally have. All of his friends and even his father specialize in Lances and Riding. Which makes all of them prefer to go through Cavalier > Paladin line. A class line that can ride to the front lines, save a distant friend in need, got good attack bonuses on lances and good defense abilities. A good all-rounder and a naturally chivalrous class.
Felix likely got trained by his father to be good at these two aspects as well. But it seems very likely that after Glenn's death, Felix got so dislliusioned by the concept of chivalry, that he's half-assing his trained talents. Purposefully training himself in weaponry that are more unbecoming of a knight. A bow is known to be a coward's weapon and brawling is the weapon of an unrefined savage if Balthus is anything to go by.
Another thing I'd like to add about Dorothea is the way she's the only Black Eagle who grows out of their Faith bane (her Budding Talent). In one of the lectures, she comes to learn how being devout to the Goddess isn't exactly needed to develop Faith, but just believing in something hopeful (her professor, in this case)
And much like with Leonie having some shared strengths and weaknesses as Jeralt, so does she with Manuela (like how Dorothea has a Flying weakness and Manuela has a Flying boon, the aforementioned Sword proficiency in the video, Manuela being weak at Reason compared to her apprentice and her esteemed rival Hanneman...)
Leonie doesn't have an Authority bane - she actually doesn't have any.
yeah that was a little odd. She has no weaknesses, only boons or neutral
Ferdinand also does not have any banes.
@@gabrielstafford5174every house has a "no weakness" unit.
Blue Lions has Ingrid
@IscerableHer weakness is being Ingrid.
@ also anything edible
No lore, but an interesting situation: The three house leaders all have banes in one of the other house leaders’ main weapon. Edelgard has a weakness in bows, Dimitri has a weakness in axes, and Claude has a weakness in lances.
yeah, it is interesting... I do wish it worked the other way where Dimitri was weak in bows, Claude was weak in axes, and Edelgard was weak in lances, though... Dimitri's whole thing is that he's got super strength and keeps accidentally breaking his weapons, so being able to use the heavy and more durable weapon but snapping bowstrings by pulling back too far feels more accurate... Claude isn't about overpowering his opponent, but rather striking from afar so the axe bane plays into that, though it does hurt his "standard" going into Wyvern a bit... and I got nothing for Edelgard other than filling the rest of that triangle
Each can become the classic sword Lord class. Yet no one does and none explicitly use a sword. Unless you count a knife...
@@tektonik4616Cyril states that riding a wyvern is a right of passage in almyra and since claude the crown prince he was definitely required to learn how ride one and use a axe which is the signature weapon of wyvern riders.
Actually isn't Eldegard weakness faith I think she's neutral to lances.😅
I look it up on my game her 2 weaknesses are Bows and Faith she also has a buddy talent for Reason and is neutral to Lances.
@@tektonik4616it’s more about the Lord’s ideological differences. Edelgard thinks Claude is annoying, Claude thinks Dimitri is a stick in the mud, but agrees with Edelgard in some level so has a talent for Axes, and Dimitri obviously has major issues with Edelgard
My favourite is Cyril having a weakness in the two book icons (Reason and Faith) since he can't read
(He also doesn't actually believe in the Church's religion anyway, but stays loyal to Rhea after she freed him from slavery and gave him a home)
I mean petra is similar with that given she finds the language hard to speak and study.
I think Seteth's lack of faith is due to the fact that he doesn't worship the goddess Sothis considering yknow... thats his mom probably? lol. I think its more accurate to say the opposite regarding Flayn, Flayn doesn't worhip sothis BUT she does have healing magic, so that's shown through a fath boon
her crest is all about healing... those who have her blood are more dedicated to healing... in a sense, you could say that Linhardt's Faith boon comes from that, since he's also not a devout worshipper, but he does have a natural affinity to healing... which makes it even funnier when I make him my Dark Mage
@@tektonik4616why stop there. Lindhart is one of the bulkiest units in the game with his personal bases and growths ( only balthus is bulkier) so make him a general so you can have a unit that takes nothing from mages and physical enemies. And give him a bolt axe to swing while you are at it.
Seteth Is a descendant of the first generation of Natabeans. He is not Sothis Son.
Funny enough seteth is not directly related to Rhea. As mentioned she is the only survivor from the red cannon meaning that it is possible that others like sothis are on the earth or whatever it is called. A good indication of this is three hopes as the evil sothis like person in there is a different unrelated creature yet similar. If I had to guess flayn and seteth are similar to rhea but might not be dragons but similar creatures. This can be seen as there is a few indications of flayn being a cat with her love of fish. The reason some can take from seteth and flayn is flayn is strong in faith due to her growing up around the church more while seteth is more warry of Rhea given she is not always the most honest with him given how many times he is skeptical of her motives.
@@nathanmcclung3564 yeah because there are 2 other creatures bird and turtle so u are right probably
If Manuela wasn't recruited in Azure Moon she reclass into Assasin
Honestly could've seen her reclassed into Trickster in that chapter if it wasn't a DLC class.
Something that I feel is noteable is that, to a certain extent, proficiencies just like character-traits are tied to certain Crests. For example Bernadettas and Hannemans bow-proficiency is most likely directly tied to their Crest of Indech, with Indech himself seemingly having been a Bow Knight.
Edelgard has a hidden proficiency in Reason-magic, which can be interpreted as her hiding her disdain for religion, and I guess you could say her ties to TWSITD, although there doesn't seem to be a problem with someone using Dark Magic, since Hubert can do so openly, and it doesn't seem like Lysithea is getting questioned about her magic either.
For Petra, you could also point out how her main strength, swords(probably including knives) and bows are somewhat typical tools for hunters... making axes somewhat stand out, I guess you could extrapolate that woodcutting seems to be a common aspect of life in Brigid. Flying seems like a somewhat weird proficiency to have for her as well, until you consider Huberts fear of heights being the reason he's bad at it, in which case you could tie her proficiency to her being adept at climbing, something that can for example be seen in her supports with Claude, and would also tie into her axe-skill at further cementing Brigid as being a quite forested island (which can also be seen in her Paralogue, but I'm honestly not sure if I consider that a proper look at Brigid, since it just seems like asset-reuse to me, instead of actually showing off Brigid culture).
Linhardt is also somewhat interesting, since he has a boon in Faith, despite not really being a faithful person. You could just trace it back to him being a scholar... however Hanneman, his fellow scholar and pretty much mentor, DOESN'T have a proficiency in Faith. Which seemingly just leaves his Crest as main justification for why Linhardt may have a proficiency in this field.
As for Seteth lacking proficiency in Faith, I feel you could argue it's not due to balancing OR a lack of faith in the goddess... but due to lack of faith in Seiros as a saint, and the church she built.
Something I consider funny about Bernadetta is that she is terrible in the field of armor, despite being a very... stationary person, so to say. Even in Heroes, they made a joke about how the armor knights around the Order of Heroes misunderstood and looked up to her as a "siege expert" due to how long she's staying in her room all the time. However, once you start thinking of her on the battlefield, as her suggestion to train her hidden proficiency in Riding basically points out, the reason she wants to get good at riding is to move away from others more quickly, meanwhile an armored unit would be the opposite and have trouble getting away from others.
Dimitri saying he and his family lack any kind of magical prowess is somewhat funny when you consider that their ancestor, Blaiddyd, was a Dark Knight, a class that you can only reach with a sufficient degree of knowledge in Reason-magic. Meanwhile Dimitri is actually neutral in regards to Faith-magic, which you could perhaps tie to him being very faithful, balancing out his weakness in the magical field.
Never thought about Sylvain potentially actually having issues with his eyesight, but something else about him is that, just like Felix, he has a hidden proficiency in Reason, which makes sense as they both seem like muscleheads, or at least like very one-track minds, but if steered in the right direction they both are actually quite smart.
As for Lysithea, yes she is very bad in the 3 main melee-weapon types (although ironically not in archery, which realistically requires quite a bit of muscle to draw a bow, or in brawling, which... also very muscle-dependant), but she also DOES have a hidden proficiency in swords, potentially linked to her Crest of Charon, but also, if you unlock her proficiency in swords, she learns the Combat Art Soul Blade... which you could say might imply that the reason she starts to get the hang of swords in the first place is because she learns to enchant them with her magic.
Dimitri's lack of a faith bane could be due to the kingdom's connection with the church.
Anna's bane in reason and authority might be better explained with her job, she doesnt study at garreg mach to become an officer, she hasnt been in any prominent leadership position, commanded a battalion, or have any family that would have placed an emphasis on that during her upbringing. She's a commoner, and most characters proficient in authority are nobles or aspiring commanders, neither of which applies to her. As you hinted at with Hildas high charm stat (relating to her manipulative/persuasive and social side) its the only direct stat that would help Anna sell wares, barter for lower prices, convince people to buy and overall make running her business much smoother. Reason could be related to the metaphor that magic is a bit otherworldy and esoteric while a money-hungery walking definition of being materialistic would be the very opposite of that, dealing onnly in the physical goods. When you think on how magic is trained and learned in FE3H it wouldn make any sense for her to sit behind musty tomes and study spells when she could be balancing the medieval equivalent of a checkbook to make sure the numbers are as positive as they can be, aquire more materials or run a stall selling goods.
0:13 I misread tutoring as torturing which is basically the same thing
Re: Felix's weakness and talent in magic: I think it's mentioned in Hopes that Rodrigue is strong in magic because he studied to compensate for Lambert's Blaiddyd-brand magic ineptitude. So it could also be an element of Felix's "I hate my dad" thing that he is also talented in magic but refuses to be like his father (similar to the reasoning behind Annette's weakness in heavy armor). Though there is still a difference because Rodrigue's talent is in faith while Felix leans toward reason
On the topic of felix reason bane, but talent. There is one professor question that has him asking why he would need magic. The best answer is that it makes him a better warrior
I picked up on a lot of these too. I do genuinely believe a lot of the correlatione are intentional and that it speaks to the meticulous design of the game and it's world.
I don’t know about Anna weaknesses, but her strengths are all references to her past playable roles
Awakening Anna was a trickster who uses swords and staves, so that swords and faith
Heroes Anna was an axe user
And fates Anna was an outlaw so that’s where the bows come from
I love these details in 3h I noticed some.of them but obviously there is stuff I miss another nice detail if I remember correctly Manuela amd hanneman have almost opposite talents to reflect that they're total opposites of each other
I don't see anyone mentioning this, but Yuri is allergic to horses and wyverns which is why he has a bad growth for both.
I assumed Anna had a weakness in authority because her business maybe wasn’t completely legal.
Reason why seteth may have faith bane could be that he knows some secret of the religion
Dorothea only having E+ in swords makes sense when you consider that she's learned stage-fighting: a style designed to look flashy but not cause actual injury. So she can hold a sword convincingly, but she doesn't actually know how to hurt someone with it.
The reason Edelgard is so adept at using heavy armor and weapons is because of her two crests, which give her insane amounts of power. Her strength growth rate is one of the highest in the game, second only to Dimitri (who is canonically a pseudo-superhuman that can’t handle fragile objects cause using even the slightest amount of strength causes them to shatter). Edie’s way stronger than a lot of people give her credit for lol
makes you wonder how heavy male byleth is LMAO
Funny enough Rhea and Edelgard are basically one and the same when you look at them comparatively. Both of them are stubborn and unwilling to give up no matter what for the ideals they have no matter how twisted. The will even do whatever it takes to convince themselves that what they are doing is right despite people directly telling them that this was a bad idea. I feel the biggest difference between the two is how they treat byleth. For Rhea byleth is not a person but a vessel needing to be protected so her mother will return and will do anything it takes for that to happen even if it meant sacrificing others in order to do it. This can be seen with her making pretty much clones in order to house the soul with the only notiable one she cared even a little for was byleth's mom but that was more on the fact that she probably already saw her as a lost cause by that time. Lets be honest the real reason byleth's mom was not in a grave was most likely because Rhea was still trying to find a way to use the corpse to reserect her mom and did not want it to decay so she put a spell on it to slow down the process. For edlegard tho it is different as to her byleth is more than a person. She is unstable in a different way going through hell and back similar to lysithea but worse. To her byleth is her and the worlds salvation, her way out of a hellish world stuck in a constant evil practice that allows the weak to be used and exploited for personal gain. To her, the title of emperor is nearly worthless, only used to push for her dream so she can destroy the status quo even if it means she must gain the ire of everyone in the process, a real martyr is any. Truth be told I do not hate anyone in this game as all of them are right in their own ways but it is how they go about it that is wrong. One question for all her tho is why is the religion called the church of serios and not sothis? My idea for this is that Rhea is not actually wanting her mother back like she states but wants her mother's power. Her mother was the light of the world and once gone Rhea had to take up that rein. However as strong as she is she wants her mother back for the power she has which is why she is fine with having byleth around and not doing any experiments on them in order to force her mother's presence which makes sense given every experiment has failed so far and if she was to try again it could end with her loosing the one chance she has left. It could also explain why those who slither in the dark are popping up.
I think Seteth isn’t good at faith because he sees himself more as child of sothis than a follower. Idk it’s been awhile since I played fe3h
he never really shows any sense of "buying into the bullshit" because...Well you know...he even basically says it a few times in game that he views the church as purely pragmatic, like Edelgard he can see all too well how fragile the current "peace" is but they differ in what the see in The Church. where she see's oppression, he see's stability.
This video sums up my feelings perfectly on why 3H and W3H are my favourite games in the series, and just in general. The amount of thought and love behind all these little details is incredible. Wouldn't it have just been amazing to see the brainstorming sessions at Koei Techmo as this amazing little world was given life. And all the little details were planned, and how they'd all tie into gameplay.
I find myself forgetting characters in Fire Emblem games prior to 3H and even in Engage I need to be reminded certain characters exist. (Like even now I'm struggling to remember the names of some) But I don't imagine I'll forget anyone from this game or it's sequel/ retelling any time soon.
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Authority is more than working with others. You have to tell them what to do and guide them. You have to be pushing to a degree. Anna is a salesman. Anyone in the sales field can tell you the worst thing a salesman can be is pushy.
My opinion on some of these takes :
- For Catherine's low Faith : let's not forget the stat isn't only about the belief, but also about your practice of it. It has been portrayed a little that Catherine isn't very good at praying, traditions, and other things.
- For Seteth's low Faith : he may be a member of the Church, but he is a very methodical and sceptical person (which actually has surprised a lot of characters in game). Also, due to some story reasons (I won't spoil), he knows the truth about religion and myths and Fodlan. And ESPECIALLY, he also know the true identity of some of the religious figures. Knowing this truth, of course, can only undermine one's faith...
- For Dorothea's low Sword level : I have practiced swordplay a little, for drama/theatre course. And there is one big nuance : they do not teach you how to fight, but how to fake a fight. The purpose of swordplay is not to hurt or kill your partner, but to give a show. So of course, you will not learn actual moves, but methods to make believe. Dorothea does know how to wield a sword, but she doesn't know how to use it for fighting, only for pretending.
As for Manuela, she is of course recruited later, but she also has been at the academy for longer and is older.
Another thing sbout the Blaiddyd bloodline is that the 10 elite, who they are descended from, is a dark knight. Suggesting the family got worse at magic over the years.
Anna being bad in Reason could be because, at least until recently, her main business strategy has been the "Secret Shop". Not only hidden, but inaccessible from anyone without the Member Card! Can't exactly call that a "Reasonable" move!
I love stuff like this and i have a lot of headcanons for things like budding talents:
- Constance with brawling: she is extremely haughty so you know she probably is great at slapping
- Balthus i like to ship with Lysithea, so it's cute to imagine her giving him endless lore dumps about the latest magic she's learned, hence his budding talent in reason
- Claude with axes: i ship him with Hilda and it's not hard to imagine her batting her eyelashes at him and getting him to do her axe work for her on a regular basis
- hilda with heavy armor: a skill that lets her just stand around? that would absolutely appeal to her, even if she might come to regret it later once she starts doing it in actual battles
- Byleth with faith: this one's more of a given; they start out knowing nothing about Sothis or the church and end up being the enlightened one
- hapi? classic butch lesbian. budding talent in axe because she's from the middle of nowhere so she'd probably fit right in as a flannel-wearing lumberjane
Really thankful for this, as I'm doing my first maddening run, and need all the help I can get. Thanks!
From Seteths point of view (also massive spoiler warning for like everything):
He witnessed the genocide of his race leaving only Rhea, Flayn, the saints and himself. His wife died. He almost lost Flayn in the great battles, she was in a oma for centuries. Flayn has been a target of so many dangers (mostly TWSITD aka Agarthans) and to top it all off, he knows how crazy Rhea got after like a thousand years, how much suffering there truely is and he can't even transform into a dragon anymore. The fucking legendary weapons are made of the bones of his fellow kin, maybe even his wifes. Some folks loose faith when ONE of thise things happen in their life.
Bernadetta lacking a weakness in authority could be because her father is the minister of religious affairs.
Manuela also shows up as an assassin as an enemy if you don’t recruit her post time skip.
(2:03) I can explain why she does not have a weakness in authority. In her ending with Raphael, it states that Bernie got over her fear of the world and became an influential figure in Fodlan after the war. She does has what it takes to be a great leader, but her fear weigh her down.
I had a theory that characters with a boon in a reason were the same characters that had artistic hobbies, not sure how accurate that is though lol. It’s still fun to make theories about the correlations between the characters personalities and stats though!
Anna usually operates businesses alone or with other Anna so maybe that has to do with her authority bane. I can't think of a reason for her lack of skill in reason
I feel like Dimitri’s weakness in reason is also a nod to him not thinking clearly. He is driven by emotion, not reason. That’s especially clear during the beginning of the war phase, but even during the academy phase there are moments were he’s shown to not use reason in his decision making.
Another thing to note about Manuela, in Blue Lions during the Silver Maiden paralouge. If she isn't recruited pre time skip she will actually appear as an enemy assassin during the map. Which makes her more assassin like stats make a bit more sense.
4:50 pretty sure in the Japanese it was a drag queen, not a scarecrow. But that could be taken so wrong, do they changed it in English
My guess with Anna is that she is good at persuading and tricking people, but not in actually working with them being a sneaky mostly solo worker in general
I think we need to look less at the boons and banes literally. a bane in authority doesn't mean, doesnt like people, it means they have a hard time commanding or the ineptitude to command. Bernidetta likley doesnt have a bane because as a noble it was likley part of her training to lead/command despite her inclination to do otherwise. Faith is more in the church/religion than it is in people, both cyril and catherine have extremely strong ties to rhea, but never express much faith in the religion itself.
In my Blue Lions run, I put a lot of effort into training Sylvain in archery and flying. He was an absolute power-house as an Wyvern riding archer.
Lindhart is the only one to know faith because he’s the only one who likes to study crests and cause it’s the safest from the frontline.
“You will be a dragon rider, you will like it.” -Byleth 2021
Interesting things I've noticed: the characters tend to look more "out of place" design-wise when put into classes which work on their weaknesses. Lysithea looks out of place as an armored/fortress knight, Linhardt in axe/brawling classes, Dedue as a cavalry class, etc.
Something to not about Sylvain to is that in the Japanese version, when talking with Ingrid, the "scarecrow" is actually a cross-dresser (which is less frowned upon on Japanese society than in the West) and so the translators made it a scarecrow instead.
The thing about 3H that I find so interesting
Is that Engage exists, we've had a whole game
And yet 3H is still the one people talk about
I mentioned that I didn't think Engage was a good game, not because I played it, but because I didn't hear anyone talking about it
Engage is not bad. It’s just simple. The world and the story are not that complex as you spend most of the story walking around in a circle gathering allies and fighting mindless zombies commanded by purely evil antagonists until right before thier defeated when they try to turn in to more complex characters and get immediately killed for it.
In Engages the story drives to world
In 3h the world is telling us one of it’s stories
people are still talking about 3H because there's much to talk about, like the story, the characters, the worldbuilding... even boon and banes in talents are interesting and bound to the different characters' personalities and stories. maybe it's not got the best gameplay in the series but it excels in every other aspect in my opinion
Tbh I see more Fates discussion than Engage
Engage is fun gameplay but bad story and if you feel like the story is important then the game is bad.
@@mvjbass9561fates is 3 games with more characters and more replay-ability imo due to how reclassing and second gen units work.
The story is also bad it’s just not as bland a world I feel.
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Being a great talker is more in line with Charm than with Authority, which Anna absolutely isn't lacking in despite her weakness in Authority. Authority is more taking command of troops, after all. They can be related, but in the sense of jobs, and skill in one can *at times* help with the other, they are still completely different. A politician or commander and a salesperson or celebrity have completely different roles, after all, and while they are not mutually exclusive by any means, the fact that someone is a great talker in one sense doesn't mean at all that they'd fit in a different sense.
Ashe's bane's are pretty straightforward
but I wonder why his secondary boon is axes, considering he's a self admitted scrawny/weak boy, whose growth stats reflect it
Axes can also be used as tools, so being a commoner, Ashe probably knows how to use one even if he's on the smaller side.
@@emilygillock3803 oh true, he had to pick up the parents reigns as a kid too, so maybe he's meant to be a jack of all trades type
Anna strikes me as someone who really isn't social at all outside of the prospect of making money since she has 0 support conversations.
She also has the Ernest crest, which is "a crest long lost to history" which imo really is something you cannot achieve unless your entire clan hates socializing with others.
I also assume she can't really sell anything to battalions since I believe their cost also includes their weapons so it makes sense she doesn't like them.
I always thought the reason why Felix isn't good at reason or faith was because he's trying to distance himself from his dad, who's a Holy Knight, as much as possible
Seteth has weak faith because he knows its all actually bullshit because he was there. He's just loyal to Rhea herself.
Anna is a lone wolf. She's a smooth talker and highly skilled at what she does, but she only really knows how to look out for herself, not really forming deep connections with others. Hence the weakness in authority.
I always thought Anna wouldn't be taken seriously by batallions because she'd try to sell them armour and weapons instead of providing them, like I don't know a batallion leader?
I now feel bad for forcing Anette to be an armored unit despite her begging me to be trained into the magic field
This is a really interesting topic. Stats-character relationship could be talked about in many FE games, but I don't see it that often.
I'd like to add that, similar to Balthus, Dimitri also has bad luck, which probably relates to his life being really tragic and to the fact he dies in every route that's not his.
About Sylvain, I don't quite see (heh) his low dexterity as potentially bad eyesight. The way I interpret the Leonie and Ingrid supports, it's the game joking about his flirtatious / womanizer attitude. With Leonie it shows he's only courteous with women he finds attractive in a way that's conventionally feminine. With Ingrid, it's poking fun at the fact he's always been that way. This support was also changed slightly in Eng. In the JP version, instead of flirting with a scarecrow, he flirted with a "boy dressed as a girl", and he immediately says that was a misunderstanding when people start whispering. The localization probably wanted to avoid a queerphobic joke.
In any case, alternatively, Sylvain's low dex could be a nod to the fact that he skips training often to go out into town, unlike the diligent Felix, Ingrid or Dimitri. So his lack of training eventually catches up to him gameplay-wise when he can't wield weapons as accurately as his peers.
An additional contributor to the “Sylvain has bad eyesight” theory that didn’t get addressed in the video is also in regards to his budding talent in Reason, and how it ties into his support with Annette.
In Annette’s support with Sylvain, he sees her reading through a magic textbook and quips about how difficult it is for him to read. Iirc, he says things along the lines of the script in the textbook being small enough that he has to take extra effort to read it. Then, when Annette talks him through what she was studying, he reveals that he can actually grasp what the textbook is saying really well, with Annette saying something along the lines of him being some secret genius which he tries to play off as just random luck.
Then, if you look at his proficiencies, you see that Sylvain is shown to have poor ability to study Reason magic unless Byleth makes some effort to personally instruct him first. After which, he develops a talent in it. This not only parallels his support with Annette, but supports the theory if one assumes Reason to be the most text-heavy topic to study, as it could suggest his difficulties with Reason come moreso due to difficulty reading and understanding the text itself than failing to understand what it means. Theoretically, one could even apply that to Ignatz, who similarly has a Budding talent in the topic, and canonically has bad eyesight and requires glasses, further supporting the “Poor eyesight can lead to difficulty learning Reason” angle.
Of course, you don’t have to agree with the theory. For all intents and purposes, until it’s directly confirmed, all of those factors can just be coincidence. That’s why it is just a theory. However, some people just enjoy the theoretical explanation that all those factors could stem to him just never having been diagnosed with somewhat poor eyesight and never learning he needed glasses to see properly.
Looking through the growths and boons/burderns there is a few main factors that pop up that really push for why characters are well the way they are. For most of them some are easy to see as it is related to their personality. One could note like you did the concepts of those that lack strong faith like that of petra due to her being an outsider or even sylvain and his poor eyesight. For others it is crest as looking at how some budding talents are for say lysithia I would say that her crest of Charon that she shares with catherine is probably due to a natural calling of the crest which heavily focuses on swords. Another thing that is not mentioned is that skills can actually mean many things. Take anna for example and her weakness in authority. Many see this as wrong as someone like her should have a good authority given her merchant status however I can see it as it being apart of her untrusting business savy. As it is seen in game she trust some and not others meaning that she holds the cards close and picks her friends wisely. Given that she does not want to get burned so she ends up not being the best leader due to that. Other proof that skills can mean more that one thing is how hapi is not weak to faith. It makes sense that she is bad with authority given how her powers work but at the same time she is neutral in faith when it really should be her weakness. The reason for this is faith is not just related to the church but also self faith such as belief in ones self. This can also be seen with other characters like dorothea for which she starts to believe in herself more and other people such as nobles when she hated them before due to past experiences. Reason is similar to that of faith as it can mean thinking reasonably however if that was the only criteria u would think more characters would be bad at it. Another aspect of reason could be battle sense, quick thinking, and flexibility in battle. Many of those weak in reason are also ones that are really dedicated to a particular combat style character wise and when it comes to say felix his question to you about magic where you can tell him it can make you a better swordsman could indicate his push into a mortal savant as he would like to try incorporating his magical talents into his fighting Most others like say caspar and rapheal are more meatheads thus are stuck in their ways when it comes to the way they see battle which is go in, and well punch things which can be seen at least with caspar with his supports with shamir as well as rapheal which often states he can't get his head around specific topics due to it messing with the way he sees fighting as a straight forward encounter. Some can be weak in certain weapons or classes due to body frame, problems with like annette and her father, and upbringing. Some characters was trained from birth to go along a set path despite having some talent for other things. Ingrid has no weakness yet is good at least with magic but has no boons in it as she was trained to use the lance all her life. To her training with a new weapon or concept is not taboo by any means which is why it is neutral but she just is not one to focus on it unless you tell her to.
Caspar's up-close-and-personal preference is why he has boons in axes and brawling, as well as bow weakness, while his reason and authority are banes likely due to him always resorting to breaking fights with his fists rather than words. Which is a shame, cause he would make for a fun brawling dark mage, but unfortunately magic classes can't brawl at all.
With Anna, the only thing I can think of is that she runs the secret shop in most all of the games, so working with lots of people isn't her forte
I believe all of Anna's boons are references to prior Annas in the series. Swords and Faith link to Awakening. Bows link to Fates and Warriors. Axes link to Heroes (and now Engage). As for her banes and budding talent, I can't help there.
Very cool details!
I don't have the DLC so I can only really go by Annas in other games but her authority bane makes sense, she's not a people person, just a smooth talker. In her supports characters that see past her sales pitch really dislike her.
Anna could have poor authority maybe because it would require high empathy and genuine interest in other people to lead them, as well as acknowledging a common end goal. While she recognizes people’s interests and has great communication skills, she could be too individualistic, hence not always having others best interest in mind
I think Seteths weak Faith stat is because he knows the TRUTH about the Sothis and how shes dead, and how the Faith in the Church is more so a peacekeeping force in his eyes
Anna feels less defined by her weaknesses, and more like those weaknesses are formed by her reliance on her strengths... She has no interest in working with batallions or anyone in your army on a closer level, so a weakness in Authority and no supports is easy, but her Reason weakness seem more based on the fact that she has a lot of Faith in her natural abilities, and she needed to at least understand Faith in the church to make money off of them!
But with a knack for many weapon types on top of Faith, she has no real reason to study magic outside of Faith, as her weapon abilities are less based on putting in effort and dedicated study and more on practical experience, which also matches her higher than average Luck growth, giving the impression that she is nimble and experienced enough with a weapon to survive just fine, and lucky enough to never encounter situations her basic weapon proficiency couldn't get her out of...
didn't Dorothea also mention that being a songstress made her a target for kidnapping? I guess the swordplay can also be interpreted as self-defense, then
Seteth not having faith boon is because he knows serios is
I would say Seteth has a low Faith stat because well, he knows the truth. The 'Goddess' is just a Space Dragon. And his Mom. He thus probably doesn't see himself and the Nabatians as some godlike figures, unlike Rhea whose whole goal with Byleth was to resurrect Sothis to become the ruler of the world.
Also while Edelgard MAY be small she is far from frail given her Str growth is second to Dimitri
Felix has a Reason hidden talent and electric spells because he's voiced by a robot boy who exploded to kill a cosplayer.
7:32 Mate I won’t tolerate Lysithea slander😡😂(joking of course) whenever I recruit her I make sure she gets a good ending where she survives.
I agree her low HP can be troublesome sometimes but for me she usually just deletes the enemy before they can even attack back.😂
I’m curious though what class other people make her Ialways pick gremory because nothing else seems to work.🤔
if you can get class mastery in Mercenary on her for Vantage, then go Gremory... you end up with Ophelia2 out of her... she does have a budding talent in Swords, after all... I personally like Levin Sword/Mortal Savant on her just because it's different
It’s weird that he doesn’t mention her hidden talent in swords.
It’s either just because her combat art proc crest or it’s something else.
@@samkeiser9776 I think her Crest of Charon is the one she got from her parents... if that's true, and you remember the relic associated with it is Thunderbrand, then there's the sword connection
Yeah this game is over 5 years old now. It's a shame they didn't make a Fire Emblem Three Houses 2
To be honest, the only thing that seems slightly out-of-place with regards to boons and banes is Jeritza’s budding talent. I suppose that IS had to make the Death Knight as broken as possible
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I think its because Cyril can't read.
You have to read for using magic book.
Dimitri being canonically bad at magic is so ironic considering his personal active ability in Three Hopes lets him cast the best magic attack in the game, enhanced Thoron, earlier than anyone else. Like he's arguably the best mage in the game bc he gets to cast what's already the best spell in the game, in a form usually reserved for the chosen few after mastering Warlock, basically immediately as soon as the real game starts. He's certainly better at this Mage thing than Annette.
You should look into stat growths and bases in comparison to this video.
Anna's skills aren't as confusing when you look at her actual stats for instance. Despite her weakness in Authority, she does have a high Charm base and growth. She is a sweet talker and is good at social skills, just not good at taking the lead in combat.
Her Reason rank is still a bit odd, especially because her Magic stat isn't great either. They could have easily had her Reason rank higher with her Magic growth as low as it is. She doesn't have a great combat though really.
The reason Seteth is weak in Faith may well be because while he is a church official, he was there a thousand years ago during the War of Heroes. He knows that the church's teachings are largely fabricated by Rhea, so while he may work for the church, he knows better than to actually believe their teachings.
Anna has high charm but low authority. Can talk your ear off but isn’t the most convincing with her ridiculous prices
Catherine and Cyril lacking strength in Faith makes sense when you consider the Pope and Jesus are not the same. The Church of Seiros worships Sothis, Rhea is the leader of said church.
I've been pissed for two decades about Pegasus knights being female exclusive except for Fates where the only male pegasus knight is better as anything else. The pegasus is a symbol of masculine heroism, a horse that can charge through the sky. It's connection to femininity is very recent and only really applies to the fact that little girls likes horses... you know that creature that several men from 3H's both ride and like.
4:52 I've only heard this secondhand, but the scarecrow is supposedly English only, and the original Japanese was... let's say somebody biologically male in woman's clothing, for politeness sake. In 3 hopes something similar where he makes a remarkably provocative flirt at the effeminate Yuri, who lords it over him.
About the scarecrow line, apparently that was a mistranslation, and was actually supposed to be a cross dresser that Sylvain flirted with
Seteth and flayn are bad at horse riding because dragons eat horses
Neat video
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Three houses > Engage
It’s been a year dude this argument is so outdated 😭
@@browserjunior4707 not only outdated, but done to death and not even a mildly spicy take since just about everyone seems to agree
To me
Three houses 🤝 engage
Scathing Cold take.
Pretty much everyone who’s playing for a general experience thinks this.
I made my felix join my class then forced him to be a mage just because