@gg_sam7847 isn't that because it was annexed? It was it's own country before the tragedy of Duscur. But post tragedy, Faerghus lords annexed it for themselves.
The lands labelled as Kleiman territory are Duscur. Faerghus annexed it after the Tragedy. Kleiman was one of the Kingdom's nobles who orchestrated the Tragedy and profited from it by gaining those lands for himself.
@@googleisevil8958 If Host was playable in Three Houses, then the Hero class would have a representative in the Fodlan games and would be relevant to the plot.
Morfis being a thinly veiled reference to Khadein in archanea is funny to me, cuz it feels like the devs said "what if we make khadein again but do nothing with it!"
tbh combined with the Archanea Regalia just randomly being present in Fodlan, i wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to make Fodlan another "Archanea but X years before/after" like Judgral.
Rhea was done dirty in 3 Hopes. She’s a recurring character in the Azure Gleam story, popping in every now and then, and yet she’s relegated to a glorified cameo. She’s playable, but not in a way that actually matters, just an afterthought for replaying certain maps.
Having Rhea, Jeralt and Sothis playable feels like the devs trying to make up that many players found out Rhea, Jeralt and Sothis had fully voiced lines, but were never used as playable units (in Houses) with at best Rhea and Jeralt being Green Units
Kinda felt like Rhea had missed potential that could’ve righted the wrongs of Houses. Especially as the first half, she’s meant to be cryptic and untrustworthy especially as Seteh and Jeralt don’t trust her. Then she’s gone and barely does anything when she finally shows up in VW and SS, practically doesn’t exist in AM and while it had (definitely, you can’t argue with) best ending, the final narration just offscreens her and goes “Oh yeah, Rhea’s fine too btw”, and CF makes her a comically insane villain that rivals Thales, so that siding with Edelgard is justified. I really wanted to her to be the playable Lord in SS, just as Dimitri, Edelgard and Claude did, she should’ve joined pt 2, and not get dragged off because the plot demanded it. I also believe SS’ final boss should’ve been Byleth & Rhea v. Nemesis, instead of the typical “Fire Emblem = Kill A Dragon”, Crimson Flower should’ve been the only one. And yes, I am aware, the writers/devs wanted a lord-less route, so an alternative could’ve been Rhea becomes a Mission Assistance unit, ie a green unit that’s playable for the final map. And Shambhala if you’re generous Hopes didn’t help, because sure she got more screen time, but it’s another case of quantity over quality, when it should’ve been the other way around
Lord-less route could work, if Byleth wasn’t so thinly-designed they can’t work as a protagonist. This is also why the suggestion that Seteth and/or Flayn fit that role, doesn’t work; they’re fundamentally written as supporting characters and can’t be done differently without a massive rewrite. But so is Byleth, in a different way; Rhea could work in that role, but they refuse to ever let her be that and it shows. It really shows…
A lot to cover here for this part of The Info Dump™️: Regarding Almyra: Persia was famed for its archer cavalry though not as much as the mongols, though Almyra seems to be particularly based on the Seljuk Empire. The Seljuks were a nomadic horse riding people who are the forefathers of modern day turkey. The Seljuks migrated into Persia during a period of division called the Iranian Intermezzo. They would conquer all of Iran and conquer a chunk out of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire (this empire has a slight influence on the clothing of Leicester). the Seljuks had a tendency to have the Sultan/Shah’s sons rule over the provinces of the empire, something many dynasties after them would continue to do (similar to how Shahid has authority to call soldiers up and invade Leicester). Almyra is also one of the few nations outside of Fodlan to get a flag (a Golden Horse Archer firing at the sun on a brown banner). we have a somewhat passable of it’s size (at least compared to the little we get from the other non Fodlan nations). Cyril states almyra is larger than Fodlan. To give an idea of scale, the devs have stated that Fodlan is roughly 2/3rds the size of Europe. Thusly, it’s safe to say that almyra is HUGE. Moreover Almyra has several languages, and we know the western most part speaks the language of Fodlan, however we also know contact is so limited that an almyran General from western almyra was utterly shocked to learn that he spoke the same language as Fodlan when he went to fight a battle at the locket. Also; they seem to have white wyverns that can breath more fire than normal. Also, the ship models in three houses show that the almyran ships have CANNONS. (Fodlan ships look more like irl medieval ships) Regarding Albinea: it’s blatantly based on pre Roman Britain. The Greeks called Britain Albion (meaning white hills, from the white cliffs of Dover in south eastern Britain, and from the hopes map eastern Albinea seems to have more detail.) it being cold and miserable also lines up with Roman writing on Britain. Also, hopes mentions they trade with Dominic and Gerth territory. Regarding Brigid, we actually know a name of one of their western most cities (or maybe one of the individual isles): Ginnung. It’s mentioned in a war journal from three hopes that after seizing Brigid, the Adrestian army left from a place called Ginnung, where they would sail off to attack Dagda. (This is from the First Mach War, some decades before faerghus became independent). It’s mentioned that this war ended with Brigid as an Adrestian vassal, yet the Brigid and Dagdan war has Brigid being a dagdan vassal. Furthermore, the name “First Mach War” implies there were several of these, with Brigid changing hands back and forth (although one of these Mach Wars could be in reference to King Banfig conquering the Archduchy of Mach) Regarding Dagda: It is absolutely based on America. Ashe and Ingrid in hopes have a support where they marvel over this plant Ashe read about in a travel log regarding Dagda. What they describe seems to be a potato, which irl is a new world plant, and something that would be immensely beneficial to a land like faerghus, which has poor soil that potatoes famously can grow in. We also have some vague descriptions of the dagdan coast from the earlier mentioned war journal in the Brigid section. It seems that like America, dagda has a tundra like north and humid jungles in the south, and stretches north to south. Duscur: in three hopes, Dimitri seems to actually still have Duscur as part of Faerghus, however, he has restored the old chieftains to power and thus they seem to exist adjacent to the feudal noble system, as an autonomous region of faerghus. Also, Duscur according to Dedue is more fertile than much of faerghus’s land (don’t know how that makes any sense but sure, unless faerghus’ soil is even worse than I imagined). Duscur also apparently has never been properly at war with faerghus, and raids seem to at least be near nonexistent. Duscur also has a lot of good blacksmiths and mines (namely gold mines from the mountain range of sacred gwenhyvar) Regarding Morfis: from what I have heard, there is a possibility that it has influence from Arabic culture. In three houses, Lysithea gets a morfis mage battalion from her paralogue. What’s noteworthy is that I have heard word that Lysithea’s clothing in her post timeskip outfit has Arabic influence that you don’t see in any of the characters, meaning perhaps the morfis mages from her paralogue and her unique design are connected. Also, it does get mentioned in three hopes in an imperial territory document. The Duchy of Aegir, namely it’s capital of Boramas, which is one of the few port cities in Fodlan, has trade with Morfis, and that Aegir is known for abundant import goods and crafts utilizing technology from the east. Regarding Sreng: based on the names we have for Oleg and his son Leif, Sreng is culturally Norse. Furthermore, an offhand comment mentions how Sreng is divided among many clans (though they might have some degree of unity), and that Oleg (and later Leif) ruled the southern most clan. Another thing. Regarding the war between Faerghus and Sreng 15 years ago, that war didn’t actually see any territorial changes, and was only really fought because all of Lambert’s attempts at diplomacy with Sreng had failed (especially with a Sreng raid killing margrave Gautier’s first wife while she was pregnant, leading to him remarrying and Sylvain being born. Yes, Sylvain and Miklan are half brothers, not fully brothers). So lambert spent at least three years training for an invasion before curb stomping them in about a month, before Macuil showed up and fucked everyone up. Oleg gave Leif as a hostage and peace was made. We know of maybe 2 previous wars with Sreng (I say maybe because only one of them is actually directly stated). One of them is described in Partholon’s Military history in three hopes. King Banfig (while fighting the crescent moon war) was suffering from intensifying raids from Sreng, so he had numerous forts built on the border, one of which was Conand Tower, which from what we know in Three Houses, was the sight of a major battle. We also known the precise location of Conand tower. In Golden Wildfire, chapter 11, the invasion of Fraldarius, there is a part on the war map that mentions that Conand tower is there (namely Mid Southern Fraldarius) which is roughly on the same latitude as Fhirdiad, meaning Fhirdiad was very close to the border at the time. This war would see the border be pushed up to its modern state, seeing Fraldarius territory expand, Itha be conquered, and modern Gautier territory be conquered (which was given to Laetitia Zoe Gautier, who distinguished herself during the war and became the first margrave Gautier, and would get the lance of ruin from the church after asking for it). The other war with Sreng is only implied to exist. We know that Sreng used to own the entire peninsula, which would include the lands Fhirdiad is on. This means that at some point, someone must have conquered those lands from Sreng. We don’t know who did it (it could be either Faerghus or Adrestia). Regardless, the two notable outcomes of this war would be that the lands Fhirdiad would be built on would be conquered as well as the Danu River Basin, a part of Fraldarius territory which produces the most food in all of the eastern kingdom as well as low quality but high quantity soldiers (you can see it on the map. It’s a hilly bit in the eastern kingdom where a river begins.) the fact Faerghus might have been the one to conquer it implies that in the past, Faerghus had a different capital. Most likely Camulus. As it was a church holy site in the Tailteann Plains, probably built on top of where nemesis died. And with Loog being crowned by the church, it’s likely they ruled from a city under the influence of the church before a later king would conquer the lands from Sreng. My personal guess is that some king between Loog and Klaus conquered the lands where Fhirdiad would be founded while Klaus actually moved the capital there. Alternatively, some Adrestian emperor did it (there is a book byleth reads in a cutscene that literally rips a quote from one of Julius Caesar’s books, describing how Caesar spoke to representatives of tribes, so if you want to take that as canon, you could say some guy named Caesar did it, but that’s a bit silly). Also, the bit of Sreng the wind caller lives in, the weird desert. It’s possible the region was temperate and farmable originally, namely from almyra across the sea to the east having warm winds blowing there to keep it warmer. However, it’s possible the wind caller, in an attempt to keep people away, used his command of the wind to heat the place up even more until it became a desert, basically destroying one of the few sources of farm land Sreng had. Anyways, it’s been great following you on this series! My worldbuilding addicted heart has adored this series! A quick word about the Agarthans, I just learned this: the three hopes art book has a thing regarding the crown Rufus wears. The translation I got said: “I got it from Cornelia. agarume’s headdress that is strengthening its power” from what I’ve been told, the more precise translation is that it’s basically making Rufus more susceptible to Cornelia’s words.
There should have been DLCs that lets either the Black Eagles, Blue Lions, Golden Deer or Ashen Wolves explore the many nations outside of Fodlan’s borders.
no dagda is based off of Ireland because Shamir's name is Celtic Irish and the land god of fortune is inspired by a fae deity even the name dagda is Irish and potatoes were massive there
also duscur is based of Egypt post its fall from power and Brigid is Greece after it lost its power like Egypt the rest you got right i even believe morfis is were the Agarthans originated
an add on Coffee was first introduced to Ireland in the 17th century by merchants and traders who had traveled to the Middle East and brought the beans back with them. Coffee, however, did not become popular in Ireland until the nineteenth century, notably among the aristocratic classes.
The Statue under Garreg Mach is a lot more sinister when the lady who mentions it speaking to her was only using it as a placeholder for her own pantheon, and it speaking in a Sinister Tone to her, and following Solons attack on Remire, lead to the Church demanding she leave the Abyss, implies that whatever it was was enough to get exiled from the place FOR exiles. Also on Sreng, it’s attacks on Faerghus for Centuries is what lead to Sylvains female ancestor becoming the defender of the Border thanks to her achievements as a warrior. At the peak of their invasions several centuries ago is why Faerghus built Conand Tower where we fight Sylvains brother.
Oh there’s also another negative of Brigids insistence on self-sufficiency, Petra makes note with her supports with Ignatz that people who use glasses aren’t a thing in Brigid, with the very clear implication that those with disabilities including bad eyesight effectively are left to die if they can’t survive on their own.
@@scion513 I did the same. The Seljuks were Central Asian Turkic nomads whose way of life and style of warfare were similar to the Mongols. They 'went native' when they conquered Persia, adopting much of the culture. They had already converted to Islam just prior to that.
On the topic of Morfis, it is a direct reference to the Khadein region and Thabes in Archanea, which has a similar shape and is also known for being a desert with magic scholars, as well as having its own "City of Illusion." This is likely just a nod to the Archanea games, but it could imply that the Fodlan games take place in the distant future, with the continent in the center North part of the sea between Valentia and Archanea. This would also imply that Brigid and Dagda are in the Rigel region of Valentia, but again this is all conjecture based on one line of text lol
It's funny how, until Echoes side material, there was never any development about Thabes. It was just a single mention in FE1/11. With Thabes is basically what Agartha was based on. Thabes was destroyed by Duma out of fear that humanity would try to rebel. He had his army destroy the city and everyone in it after a week or so. Naga was super pissed at that.
@@0axis771 Nor just rebel, but use the Knowledge the Divine Dragons gave them against them. And…well…his fears were true. The city already had sealed away beneath it Grima, the half-man half-dragon homunculus who hates humanity and wants them all dead after his creator tried to kill him for being exactly what he made him to be.
I was not expecting this to end with an argument for the church’s assassin for the position, of actually absolute ruler, but I find myself slightly agreeing.
This is why I really wish IS would allow some of these corners of the franchise to get multiple entries like the original Archanea setting, which had six games in all. Five games set across three continents (Archanea, Valentia, and Jugdral) all within a few years of each other and a sixth game, "Awakening", which is a distant sequel to the Archanea and Valentia games. So, it had a pretty fleshed out history as the result. Of course, that would require them to pick one of Three House's endings as canonical, unless they released a series of prequels to flesh out the setting.
Among the other nations, only Duscur, Almyra, and Brigid had any relevance. All of them could have been handled better. But I think that Almyra was handled the worst of them. Claude barely admits that he's an Almyran prince to anyone, which makes the whole country feel irrelevant. Hilda and Cyril tie into Almyra, too, but their relevance to said nation gets dwarfed by the Fodlan war. If only VW was more about Almyra: they could have focused on issues abroad while the other routes focused on the Fodlan war instead.
There weren’t any other characters from Dagda, Shamir’s homeland. There wasn’t a DLC that takes place in Dagda and see what it’s like. It’s been described as either a tropic paradise or a snowy region just like Faerghus.
@megarotom1590 I think the true missed potential is that Claude's route (VW) should have left Edelgard and Fodlan to Dimitri while Claude and the deer handle conflict in Almyra. We could have had a story where Claude trusts Dimitri with saving Fodlan and then he asks the deer for help to win his throne from his half siblings in Almyra.
@@l.n.3372 I think he should have let Dimitri hold off then after securing his position in Almyra, flanking the Empire from the sea. Could even have a map grabbing a stronghold in Brigid
I agree so much on the wolves They have a dysfunctional but loving relationship with eachother and feel the most like a proper family unit. Yuri is by far the most competent of the major leaders in 3h, between running and maintaining a small army's worth of rouges, multiple royal connections, dude is by far the smartest of the main leaders between keeping abyss safe and outing aelfric as a Nut, hes easily got better plans then claude lol Sucks that 2 of the other nations literary get only 1 thing of dialogue, but at least the others get a bit Good bookend to fodlan for now. Congratulations on nearly 2k subs as of when im typing this man and cant wait for the xenoblade stuff!
I too wish i could give Yuri the continent, the Wolves are my favorite house and are the least mentally unstable and problematic individuals in the monastery, that is more than enough for them to deserve better than what they get
Personally, I’m ok with not knowing a whole lot about the world outside of Fodlan. While I totally get wanting to learn more, what we know is just as much as the average Fodlan citizen knows, and I think that’s neat.
Yeah, having to make up your own story is just as satisfying as having a competently written story. It's a good thing Fodlan is essentially a loose string of prompts for headcanons and fanfiction for you to smash your dolls together in.
I’ve actually been kicking around the idea of making an OC for Three Houses for years now-a student from Morfis whose parents are mages but his “canonical” class is Hero. Because how is Intelligent Systems gonna include a “City of Illusion” and it never directly gets mentioned by any of the characters, let alone a chance to actually be visited?
We actually get a morfis Battalion for Lysithea in houses after a paralogue. People also have noted Arabic influence in her post time skip design, which has led to people theorizing that they’re Arabic inspired
i would give yuri control of fódlan but he would probably turn it down. even in the base game war phase, he's moreso the guy who stays in touch with the commoners and helps out the inevitable poor bastards who suffer unjustly from any given regime or situation, which is probably the most down-to-earth position that any fire emblem lord has ever taken
I believe, whole-heartedly, that the other Agarthan Gods ARE the other Children of the Goddess. We have no idea how long Sothis has been on the world, but it could very well have been for longer than humanity itself.
;kjfas;dlkhjfES;FJAS;LHF;SDAlhjf ; OMG Fucking love the idea that Sothis got DRUNK and made those statues at the 10 minute mark! OMG I almost fell out of my chair!
What makes it worse is that all the other games had literally every nation involved to some degree. It's really sad the Warriors Spin Offs actually had more for the other countries than 3 Houses did. (And in my honest opinion, Claude's route in 3 Hopes should have spent half the time taking over Almyra, putting Claude on the newly combined Leicester-Almyra Throne, and then going "Aight, time for you to knock your shit off." to the other 2 houses.) (Also a Route for the Ashen Wolves. And another one involving The Protagonist of 3 Hopes going "Fuck this, doing my own thing." like becoming Big Boss of Fodlan. Or Taking over the Agarthans to stop them from being fantasy WW2 Germany and building a new nation. Or some other thing.). (I guess my point is 3 Hopes really should have had other Routes, even if it require them to be DLC.) 'The Writers hate the Church.' Which is a problem, cause given all the times they tried to make them look bad, they still come out looking not as bad as at least Edelgard.
To be fair, fodlan fleshed out each territory well and gave the internal political situation more room to breathe. If you look at each territory as a nation then we've got 30 nations with history culture and politics we know about. Also I think the dlc really makes rhea worse then edelgard especially with what hapi says about her.
My theory about the dagen god is either its an import god brought by tribes not subjagated by the church as we do see yuri's heroes relic was found in dagad and brought back to fodlan or the church captued the statue during a war and kept it as a bargaining chip for negotiations that never happened as the empire took petra so taking other things from other nation is not unreasonable.
I wish the world pf Fodlan and of course around it got to be fleshed out even more. Also agreed that Abyss is so interesting, would love a game/book centered completely around it.
The unamed place above Duscur and Albinea is CLEARLY Fateslandia. Anankos and Sothis were obviously besties. Abyss is just one inconvenient slip off a bridge away from Valla, where Byleth was chilling in the 5 year timeskip before Arete evicted them for not paying rent on time.
I don’t like being just a lurker and I’ll comment more often! But also, I feel like wanting to actual follow through and do Fire Emblem dnd now because of your Fodlan series
I really don’t mind that we don’t know much about the places outside of Fodlan. The story of 3H is very much relegated to Fodlan’s issues exclusively, and only Almyra gets some relevance just because Claude is trying to fix Fodlan in regards to its foreign policy. Like it wouldn’t make sense for us to fuck off to Sreng or Morfis when the Adrestian emperor is trying to topple the church’s dogma.
Indeed, Boramas, the capital of the Duchy of Aegir and the one of the few port cities in Fodlan has trade ties with Morfis, and uses eastern practices in their artisan work, as per the territories of the empire document in three hopes
Here’s how I imagine the various nations outside of Fodlan’s borders are like Almyra: basically the Fire Emblem version of the Abbasid Caliphate mixed with some of the architecture and villages that look very similar to the Dothraki. Dagda: A frozen tundra in the North, with some 1700s colonial buildings, and a tropic paradise in the South, with some Incan architecture. But everyone is a lot like Shamir in terms of having pale skin. And they all dress like they’re from Ireland in the 1800s. Brigid: A Tropical paradise, but the shamans dress like the Shamans from Warcraft 3. Albinea: A snowy backwater with some Roman British architecture. Duscur: a desert with a Medieval North African theme. Morfis: an Arabic version of Dalaran from World of Warcraft. Sreng: basically the Fire Emblem Version of Skyrim
I don't say this as a Rhea supporter but as someone who hates Silver Snow. Rhea was done dirty without a proper route that explored the reasons why the church had to do so many shady things to keep Foldlan from imploding on itself every 5 minutes.
You said that the Dagdan statue in abyss is a plot hole but I don’t think it is. Abyss is the place where the church puts things that would be inconvenient or contradictory to their narrative and considering this game is set in what is basically the dark ages I don’t think its a big leap that a statue to a figure of a foreign religion would only exist in a place the church hides away from the rest of Fodlan. Also I never heard Petra explain the origins of Brigid from her people’s perspective before, it almost sounds like Brigid’s origin myth might coincide with Sothis flooding ancient Agartha in a way.
I've always enjoyed the idea of a community like Brigid, where warriors are farmers and farmers are warriors. But this only works to a certain extent. Someone that spends time in the field growing crops, or as carpenters, or in husbandry, or any other skilled work would be hard pressed to find the time to master weaponry, combat, or military tactics. A full-time soldier must be a full-time soldier lest their skills suffer. The opposite is also true. This has been explored in so many books and movies but probably none more so to a borish degree of detail, than The Republic by Plato. Still, I always enjoy this fantasy and Petra from Brigid is in my top five favorite characters from FETH
I mean I think that goes without saying, but among the 3 lords it should say something when Yuri has a support with Dimitri in Hopes that he really is the next best candidate if Yuri isn't around.
Glad one of the games routes agrees that Yuri and a semi-sane Dimitri are the best overall choices to rule foldlan. I'd say they'd likely create the most stable versions of fodlan
7:20 Brigid sounds like a wonderful place to visit and learn its culutre/history.........what do you mean I'm just talking about my waifu Petra? (Ok seriously though she is pretty and I love her broken english).
The fact that you're going to tackle the Xenoblades; I tip my hat to you. The Xenoblade games are _dense_ with lore and characterization. You could probably make a dozen videos across all the games of the series, if not more. I glad I came to watch your channel. I learned interesting tidbits.
I really want an Expanded Three Houses Universe that dives into the neighboring nations and the ancient history of Fodlan. There is so much potential to tap into and I am beyond excited to one day see it all explored
A game set in Brighid depicting the struggles it faces fighting for independence between Dagda and Adrestia, a game set in Foldan's ancient past that depicts the nature of Sothis's reign and the flaws that gave rise to the Agarthans, and the mistakes that led to people like Thales gaining more and more influence within them and corrupting them into a more Fascist and incompetent ethnostate, so many periods throughout Fodlan's history that could be fleshed out, and followups to each of the routes that explore the potential fallout of their routes, show how each outcome fails to solve some problems and creates others while also acknowledging where things improved and showing a path to overcoming those new challenges created by the initial fallout of the routes, as a series of games, preferably as standalone titles with more room to flesh things out better, and so much more.
Considering the shape of Fodlan and it's surroundings is vaguely based on Europe, I'd imagine that unamed land north of Duscur would connect to Sreng somewhere, if it's not an island.
I am looking forward to your fixing the individual routes videos of three houses. An idea for verdant wind, why, not before the events of the story, have members of the Leicester alliance specifically count, Gloucester, kill Claud’s, mother Teanna
Yeah big congrats on the channel growth. Video essays are commonly a big break, sort of, video that helps small creators’ audience increase a lot. I cam across your channel when the Kingdom lore video ended up in my recommended, and that thumbnail initially had me furiously clicking the video with my mind conjuring every counter argument, only to read the title and go “yeah, he not’s wrong”. Just keep in mind, that these videos/topics are what most of your audience will want, so be aware of that in case if you branch into new content, and it doesn’t analytically perform as well. But if that’s no problem for you, then hold your head up high man
Whens the video on the Ashen Wolves Also I believe that the sheer existence of Albinea and Morfis enhances the worldbuilding. It shows theres more to this world than what the plot strictly requires.
I've been putting your World Tour videos on in the background ever since my friend shared your video on the wasted potential of "Those who Hoedown in the Alley." Your comments about Koei hating Rhea reminded me of something: I'm actually very curious, how much do we know about behind-the-scenes for the development of 3H/3H's story? I've always heard hearsay that IS wrote and developed Silver Snow, then passed it off to Koei to make Verdant Wind and Azure Moon with notes. I think I recall from an interview I did read that Crimson Flower came from the dev team wanting to give an Edelgard perspective because they wanted to, essentially. That CF essentially wasn't part of the initial vision. But I'm not certain on the validity of these interpretations, or of my memory for that matter. And then I've heard nothing on the background for writing and development interviews for 3 Hopes altogether. And no DLC! Musou has a long enough history of expanded versions and DLC while FE is no stranger to DLC now, but between the ending discourse and the lack of updates/dlc and unused characters it feels like 3 Hopes was just phoned in to fill in a slot, at least on the "realities of game development" side of things. If you have any interviews to share or notes on the subject, that would be great. If you read all this, thank you for your time!
I did read it and I found it interesting. Most of what I have heard is hearsay generally, mostly stuff about IS seeing Rhea as more sympathetic and seeing Edelgard as an antagonist, which KT writers tended to lean against Rhea and saw Edelgard as a sort of "Hero in another story". Thank your friend for me for introducing you to my work.
Correction: Almyra is more analogous to the Arab World than Persia, specifically Syria. Almyra is named after the Palmyran region within Syria. Shahid, Khalid, and Nader are all Arabic names, which is an entirely diff language than Persian/Farsi.
I just wish we knew something, ANYTHING about albinea. I don’t k ow why it intrigues me so much. We’re just given almost no information about it or its culture and history
Fodlan is too. There is also a river in faerghus called the Taranus river, which is a major Gaulish god, which is connected to lake Teutates, another Celtic god. We also have the Danu River in eastern faerghus, another Irish god. We also have the Airmid river, named for another Irish god. Northern Fodlan is drowning in Celtic influence.
I'd be down to see you dig into other FE games. I'm not the biggest fan of 3H specifically, but if you've played other FE games, the Tellius and Jugdral games have plenty of well fleshed out countries and lore for you to peruse and dive into.
There is this insane theory I’ve heard that the geographic similarities between Fodlan and our earth are not just the devs taking inspiration from real life, but rather than Fodlan is earth after it got fucked up by Sothis and the Agarthans. I didn’t go into detail on this theory in the other videos, but I might as well now (I’d recommend you open a tab with the three hopes map of the noble territories of Fodlan (so long as it’s not that one that invents a bunch to city names) To start, western Adrestia is quite blatantly northern France. The peninsula in Gerth territory (which used to be Nuevelle territory) is very much like Brittany, and the rest is similar to Normandy. Albinea is blatantly britian in geography and name. As Albion is an old name for Britain and it’s shaped like a distorted England. Brigid’d western most island is similar to Portugal with the island above it being similar to Galicia, with Brigid over all being a shattered Iberia. The area of western most faerghus is very similar to the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Duscur and those islands next to it is Denmark, Hearthlandia to the north is basically Norway, and most of faerghus is Germany. The peninsula Sreng is on is, according to the theory, Sothis pulling the Baltic states out of the ground and slamming it back into the earth. Modern Sreng is supposed to be Estonia and Gautier territory is the southern half of Latvia (or it’s Sweden and it linked to Germany according to another lunatic I spent time listening to) Leicester is Poland, with Deirdru equating to either Gdańsk or Kaliningrad (Edmund territory is comparable to early Ducal Prussia, which initially tried to be a naval power). The Airmid river is the Danube river; with Hrym territory being southern Romania, it’s northern mountains being the remnants of the carpathians which got squished into Leicester (Poland) to make a border with Almyra, which equates geographically to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. There is a land in the northern corner of the map in three hopes that might equate to finland/ The island right on Almyra’s southern coast is crimea, with the longer island to its south west being the Bulgarian and Romanian coast. The other islands south of that is part of Albania as well as the remnants of the Peloponnesian Peninsula and the Attican Peninsula. The islands closer to Morfis are the Aegean islands. Morfis is turkey. With the part of the sea above it being the Black Sea. The peninsula Enbarr is on is the Italian peninsula, with the island to its south or the pointy bit on the western side of the peninsula being Sicily (if the latter then the other two pointy bits of the peninsula are the boot of Italy) There is a land mass just south of morfis in the hopes map with equates to part of the Middle East or Africa. There is a bit of land south of the Brigid islands in the hopes map which equates to either Tunisia or Morocco. Dagda, being a land mass which stretches north to south with northern tundras and southern jungle is north and South America. While the inspirations are all there, I think it’s a bit much to say that Fodlan IS earth after Sothis and the Agarthans wrecked it.
Well, it is not much of a theory in-narrative. The noncanon(but still lore revealing) mobile game you may have heard about has the avatar actually be a human from our world isekai-ed into its world. And guess what? They make a point of how even compared to other fully human FE characters, said avatar is the most similar to the agarthans. Fodlan IS an alternate version of earth that was seemingly wrecked by us(before being taken over by a random invasive dragon god), which is why the meme exists that the giant missles are magical nukes.
you did it, you put xenoblade, and I can get hype. tho in all seriousness, you are great, I am honest I hate watching videos longer than 5 or 8 minutes (exception for Nintendo music bc I draw and I need it) but for your video from your first of three houses to this, I find enjoyement, and I want to listen more, not only for the content you choose and put, but also for the way you use word, you are humble and I feel good vibes, like really natural. I wish your channel will grow from time to time!!! I will do evene if little, try to support by watching, but keep it like this!!! you are doing great ✨
Almyra's weird treatment and presentation in these games isn't the main reason I'm basing the setting of my romhack on the Persian Empires, but it's also... not NOT a reason lmao
I really like Almyra. For all we know of it it seems like a cool country. For the path rewrites, will you be doing part 1 as well? Parallouges ? Ashen wolves?
I'd assumed Almyra was a mix of Ottoman and Persian empires. I also found it weird that Judith and Catherine have dark skin, and no one comments on it. I legit thought Judith was Claude's aunt for a long time.
One sad element of the world of Fodlan is that you can find the Archanean Regalia in it by reworking rusted weapons, implying that Fodlan is in the same world as Archanea... but perhaps ridiculously far into the future. Discount Khaedin might actually be Khaedin.
It has been a great run through Fodlan with you. Each of your videos has been enjoyable thanks to your mostly impartial stance. It's rare among 3H fans to be able to have that kind of stance for long. So you earned a sub from me because of that, and I look forward to more of your content. Now onto how the video is. --- It kinda makes sense why we simply can never truly know about the other nations, and only get small bits and pieces about it. Fodlan's own isolationist stance and rejection of any and all outsiders only result in a strong form of ignorance about how the other nations operate. Even Cyril wouldn't know all the ins and outs of Almyra because he was already so young. He's a kid who never learned to read, so how would he even known the history, religion, politics, etc. of his nation? And Shamir and Dedue, likewise, are not that much in favor of talking about their nation that often. Only Petra is, and that's cause her friendship with Edelgard lets her have the freedom to feel like she doesn't need to feel isolated as a result. So she's more open to the other characters of her religion and culture should they ever express any intent to learn. But I think after learning in 3Hopes about how massive Almyra's forces can end up being, as well as how powerful their ships have become, it's kinda clear that if something didn't change Fodlan's isolationist stance, Fodlan was going to be destroyed. People have argued that Fodlan is justified, but the problem those people don't get is that no matter how angry they might be, the long-term case is that Fodlan will get destroyed if one of the powerful outside nations finally has enough and decides to raze Fodlan to the ground. If someone like Shahid were to take the throne and wanted to grind Fodlan to the ground, they have the military and resources to clearly do just that. Hell, it was shocking to learn that Duke Gerth from the Empire was actually trying to form a friendship with Dagda, but makes sense given how the Empire is not pro-Church, so they wouldn't strictly be following the isolationist policies. And Fodlan needed to give up the isolationist policies by the time the game starts or else it might be too late.
I've been glad you stuck around. I have enjoyed reading your comments under each video and I'm glad I was able to remain as impartial as possible, I've seen the worst of the Three Houses discourse and wanted to avoid any of that while still speaking my mind and its nice to hear that was successful. I hope you stick around for my future work, and for my eventual return to FE content.
I mean Cyril gives a pretty good view of what he does know. Orphans are forced to be involved in fighting, they don’t get fed EXCEPT after a battle, and are treated as mere workers with nothing done to help them. His and Claude’s support even goes over his issues with Almyra and how it treats those at the bottom like him. He was literally taken captive after one of those battles and as an orphan Almyra never cared to retrieve him. You can gleam a lot about how you treat those at the very bottom of society like orphans. As for the “isolationism” that’s ehhh…the game doesn’t do a good job with that as a concept. Fact is too many items for cooking and such that are traded from other nations be it fruits, teas, ports that trade outside of Fodlan, etc that they didn’t really think it through how isolated Fodlan would truly have to be to work as intended. Faerghus has Dominic whose ports trade with Albinea despite being the nation with the closest ties, yet it’s clear the writers forgot this because Claude acts like this isn’t a thing in his Zahras support with Dimitri. Nevermind he has even more dumb and baffling ideas like having the extremely racist and vocally isolationist Western Church as a “good” replacement for the Central Church. Hopes also reveals that Brigid has ties to the Central Church as well, which Petra makes more of and why Duke Gerth was able to use his position to have her go there.
@@BlackfangDragon Problem is that Cyril is but one kid who doesn’t know the strict geopolitics of Almyra. Yes, his support with Claude exposes an issue in Almyra, but Cyril himself is not end all be all proof about how Almyra is. Had Rhea not taken in Cyril, his life in Fodlan was no better, given he was made into a literal slave by House Goneril. As for items used for cooking, bear in mind that it isn’t strictly open trade. As proven by a 3H side quest, merchants from other nations sneak in for black market deals, so those fruits and such that you get from others might be procured from the black market. Also, you’re gonna need to tell me where it was stated that House Dominic has open trade with Albinea. If anything, the support in Zahras having Dimitri not deny Claude’s assertions highlight how correct he is. And mixed with what I said about the black market, there’s good chance that Albinea’s trade with House Dominic is more through the black market channel, not an open trade. And not sure when Claude said he’s in support of the Western Church, but assume he is for a second. The Western Church does not hold more power than the Kingdom’s royal family. As shown several times, a nation’s own church does not hold enough authority to control or influence the nation’s leadership, something that is not the same with the Central Church, which DOES uphold racist and isolationist beliefs where Rhea is strictly in support of them or not, as proven by how several church people during 3H made certain racist remarks. And no, Brigid itself doesn’t hold actual relations with the Central Church, but that Duke Gerth has due to being an imperial noble. The empire still holds relations with the Central Church.
@@0axis771while the western church does not have enough power to control the royal family, it does have influence over western nobles. Furthermore, the western church is the only branch church to retain its own order of knights. The western church’s xenophobic beliefs would simply stifle Dimitri’s attempts at reform, and would either quietly stifle his reforms while preaching against them and Dimitri, which would likely lead to rebellion.
@@scion513 The Western Church already lost most of its influence in 3Hopes after Dimitri launched a thorough investigation into the Tragedy of Duscur, resulting in most of the western lords losing power, if not executed. Especially if they hadn’t already instigated a rebellion as they did in AG and implied in SB. So arguing of Dimitri using the Western Church following the Central Church being dismantled means that Dimitri can institute reforms, especially if he makes similar political moves like Edelgard has done.
I know your going to look at some other settings and I think you absolutely should but it would be cool to hear you do these kind of videos for some of the other fire emblem games and get you opinions on them
The most annoying thing for me is that Fodlan has the best technology in the world. Almyra is a bunch of chucklefucks, Dagda and Brigid haven't been technologically relevant for a few hundred years, and so on. Their isolation has done WONDERS for them! They DO NOT NEED anyone else! They've somehow been ahead ever since the Church of Seiros was founded! And what is this bullshit allusion in Cindered Shadows of Seteth holding back technology? What, technology that he already knew about from the days of Agartha? Now sure, maybe Discount Khaedin has better technology, but Discount Khaedin is irrelevant.
Almyra is so irrelevant I have no idea why they are participating in raids against Fodlan (no depiction of them shows them taking slaves or loot (IIRC, the 'Almyran bandits' in the Alois paralogue are just bandits calling themselves that), they have no stated racial or national animosity against Fodlani (and, while Fodlani say bad things about Almyrans, that might stem more from them being raiders than any particular racial or national animosity, especially since Claude looks Almyran or half-Almyran and never experiences adversity on screen that can be correlated to his race). Also, to put it clearly, if his race was an issue, he would not be allowed to have any claim to the Leicester alliance, he would be (most likely) quietly put out to pasture in one fashion or another (a blade in the back or exile, for example). But seriously, why do Almyrans raid Fodlan? Wouldn't it make more sense to raid easier targets if there isn't a reason to attack them specifically? They built a fort to keep you out, and one of the legendary heroes of the setting guards it 90% of the time. It'd be like us giving Audie Murphy an M2 browning, giving him an armory's worth of ammo and permission to shoot on sight, and setting him up on the southern border. You wouldn't be crossing that border voluntarily.
I think they use Fodlan as proving grounds for their soldiers cause iirc either in a support or paralogue‚ Almyrans celebrate after a battle at the Locket. They also probably raid other neighbouring countries (or conquer them) since we only see them in Fodlan but never know why they attack Fodlan (coupled with Lorenz telling Nader to not loot the Kingdom in GW). Also, I believe in GW (in chapter 3?)‚ Nader said something about Fodlan people being cowards for hiding behind the Locket. I have nothing to close out this comment except for the thought that just popped up and it's that Almyra is only relevant if it relates to Alliance territory. And it gives the Alliance something (Adrestia with Brigid and Dagda‚ Kingdom with Duscar and Sreng [Morfis and Albania trade with the nations respectively‚ but to me they are irrelevant]).
They attack the locket as a matter of prestige. After all, if you actually take the thing, who are you supposed to fight in order to show off your prowess in battle. Almyra is probably deliberately keeping some of its enemies around due to how powerful its military is. If they lacked for external enemies, it’s likely the empire would turn on itself, more than it seems to have already with the various princes vying for power
I didn't realise Duscur was literally a part of the kingdom, I thought that unnamed land above it WAS Duscur
@gg_sam7847 isn't that because it was annexed? It was it's own country before the tragedy of Duscur. But post tragedy, Faerghus lords annexed it for themselves.
The lands labelled as Kleiman territory are Duscur.
Faerghus annexed it after the Tragedy. Kleiman was one of the Kingdom's nobles who orchestrated the Tragedy and profited from it by gaining those lands for himself.
The Almyrans aren’t irrelevant, they’re just doing their job of keeping Holst at the border.
Imagine if he was a Golden Deer exclusive character in Three Houses. He'd be even more broken than the Death Knight.
@@googleisevil8958 If not Holst, there is 0 reason Judith isn't a GD exclusive character you can deploy once she shows up
@@googleisevil8958 If Host was playable in Three Houses, then the Hero class would have a representative in the Fodlan games and would be relevant to the plot.
Morfis being a thinly veiled reference to Khadein in archanea is funny to me, cuz it feels like the devs said "what if we make khadein again but do nothing with it!"
tbh combined with the Archanea Regalia just randomly being present in Fodlan, i wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to make Fodlan another "Archanea but X years before/after" like Judgral.
@@CosmicToad5000 but Judgral and Archenea are two different places? I mean they take place in the same world but they're different places.
@@frostbite_1244 I think he meant that Jugdral was originally supposed to just be Akaneia before becoming its own thing.
Rhea was done dirty in 3 Hopes. She’s a recurring character in the Azure Gleam story, popping in every now and then, and yet she’s relegated to a glorified cameo. She’s playable, but not in a way that actually matters, just an afterthought for replaying certain maps.
Just like in three houses
@@PsychSoldier756 100% agree, but we had hindsight going into 3 hopes, so its essentially meaningless that she’s playable if she still doesn’t matter.
Having Rhea, Jeralt and Sothis playable feels like the devs trying to make up that many players found out Rhea, Jeralt and Sothis had fully voiced lines, but were never used as playable units (in Houses) with at best Rhea and Jeralt being Green Units
Kinda felt like Rhea had missed potential that could’ve righted the wrongs of Houses. Especially as the first half, she’s meant to be cryptic and untrustworthy especially as Seteh and Jeralt don’t trust her. Then she’s gone and barely does anything when she finally shows up in VW and SS, practically doesn’t exist in AM and while it had (definitely, you can’t argue with) best ending, the final narration just offscreens her and goes “Oh yeah, Rhea’s fine too btw”, and CF makes her a comically insane villain that rivals Thales, so that siding with Edelgard is justified.
I really wanted to her to be the playable Lord in SS, just as Dimitri, Edelgard and Claude did, she should’ve joined pt 2, and not get dragged off because the plot demanded it. I also believe SS’ final boss should’ve been Byleth & Rhea v. Nemesis, instead of the typical “Fire Emblem = Kill A Dragon”, Crimson Flower should’ve been the only one. And yes, I am aware, the writers/devs wanted a lord-less route, so an alternative could’ve been Rhea becomes a Mission Assistance unit, ie a green unit that’s playable for the final map. And Shambhala if you’re generous
Hopes didn’t help, because sure she got more screen time, but it’s another case of quantity over quality, when it should’ve been the other way around
Lord-less route could work, if Byleth wasn’t so thinly-designed they can’t work as a protagonist. This is also why the suggestion that Seteth and/or Flayn fit that role, doesn’t work; they’re fundamentally written as supporting characters and can’t be done differently without a massive rewrite. But so is Byleth, in a different way; Rhea could work in that role, but they refuse to ever let her be that and it shows. It really shows…
"Those Who Suck The Life And Joy From Me" absolutely classic.
A lot to cover here for this part of The Info Dump™️:
Regarding Almyra: Persia was famed for its archer cavalry though not as much as the mongols, though Almyra seems to be particularly based on the Seljuk Empire. The Seljuks were a nomadic horse riding people who are the forefathers of modern day turkey. The Seljuks migrated into Persia during a period of division called the Iranian Intermezzo. They would conquer all of Iran and conquer a chunk out of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire (this empire has a slight influence on the clothing of Leicester). the Seljuks had a tendency to have the Sultan/Shah’s sons rule over the provinces of the empire, something many dynasties after them would continue to do (similar to how Shahid has authority to call soldiers up and invade Leicester). Almyra is also one of the few nations outside of Fodlan to get a flag (a Golden Horse Archer firing at the sun on a brown banner).
we have a somewhat passable of it’s size (at least compared to the little we get from the other non Fodlan nations). Cyril states almyra is larger than Fodlan. To give an idea of scale, the devs have stated that Fodlan is roughly 2/3rds the size of Europe. Thusly, it’s safe to say that almyra is HUGE. Moreover Almyra has several languages, and we know the western most part speaks the language of Fodlan, however we also know contact is so limited that an almyran General from western almyra was utterly shocked to learn that he spoke the same language as Fodlan when he went to fight a battle at the locket. Also; they seem to have white wyverns that can breath more fire than normal. Also, the ship models in three houses show that the almyran ships have CANNONS. (Fodlan ships look more like irl medieval ships)
Regarding Albinea: it’s blatantly based on pre Roman Britain. The Greeks called Britain Albion (meaning white hills, from the white cliffs of Dover in south eastern Britain, and from the hopes map eastern Albinea seems to have more detail.) it being cold and miserable also lines up with Roman writing on Britain. Also, hopes mentions they trade with Dominic and Gerth territory.
Regarding Brigid, we actually know a name of one of their western most cities (or maybe one of the individual isles): Ginnung. It’s mentioned in a war journal from three hopes that after seizing Brigid, the Adrestian army left from a place called Ginnung, where they would sail off to attack Dagda. (This is from the First Mach War, some decades before faerghus became independent). It’s mentioned that this war ended with Brigid as an Adrestian vassal, yet the Brigid and Dagdan war has Brigid being a dagdan vassal. Furthermore, the name “First Mach War” implies there were several of these, with Brigid changing hands back and forth (although one of these Mach Wars could be in reference to King Banfig conquering the Archduchy of Mach)
Regarding Dagda: It is absolutely based on America. Ashe and Ingrid in hopes have a support where they marvel over this plant Ashe read about in a travel log regarding Dagda. What they describe seems to be a potato, which irl is a new world plant, and something that would be immensely beneficial to a land like faerghus, which has poor soil that potatoes famously can grow in. We also have some vague descriptions of the dagdan coast from the earlier mentioned war journal in the Brigid section. It seems that like America, dagda has a tundra like north and humid jungles in the south, and stretches north to south.
Duscur: in three hopes, Dimitri seems to actually still have Duscur as part of Faerghus, however, he has restored the old chieftains to power and thus they seem to exist adjacent to the feudal noble system, as an autonomous region of faerghus. Also, Duscur according to Dedue is more fertile than much of faerghus’s land (don’t know how that makes any sense but sure, unless faerghus’ soil is even worse than I imagined). Duscur also apparently has never been properly at war with faerghus, and raids seem to at least be near nonexistent. Duscur also has a lot of good blacksmiths and mines (namely gold mines from the mountain range of sacred gwenhyvar)
Regarding Morfis: from what I have heard, there is a possibility that it has influence from Arabic culture. In three houses, Lysithea gets a morfis mage battalion from her paralogue. What’s noteworthy is that I have heard word that Lysithea’s clothing in her post timeskip outfit has Arabic influence that you don’t see in any of the characters, meaning perhaps the morfis mages from her paralogue and her unique design are connected. Also, it does get mentioned in three hopes in an imperial territory document. The Duchy of Aegir, namely it’s capital of Boramas, which is one of the few port cities in Fodlan, has trade with Morfis, and that Aegir is known for abundant import goods and crafts utilizing technology from the east.
Regarding Sreng: based on the names we have for Oleg and his son Leif, Sreng is culturally Norse. Furthermore, an offhand comment mentions how Sreng is divided among many clans (though they might have some degree of unity), and that Oleg (and later Leif) ruled the southern most clan.
Another thing. Regarding the war between Faerghus and Sreng 15 years ago, that war didn’t actually see any territorial changes, and was only really fought because all of Lambert’s attempts at diplomacy with Sreng had failed (especially with a Sreng raid killing margrave Gautier’s first wife while she was pregnant, leading to him remarrying and Sylvain being born. Yes, Sylvain and Miklan are half brothers, not fully brothers). So lambert spent at least three years training for an invasion before curb stomping them in about a month, before Macuil showed up and fucked everyone up. Oleg gave Leif as a hostage and peace was made.
We know of maybe 2 previous wars with Sreng (I say maybe because only one of them is actually directly stated). One of them is described in Partholon’s Military history in three hopes. King Banfig (while fighting the crescent moon war) was suffering from intensifying raids from Sreng, so he had numerous forts built on the border, one of which was Conand Tower, which from what we know in Three Houses, was the sight of a major battle. We also known the precise location of Conand tower. In Golden Wildfire, chapter 11, the invasion of Fraldarius, there is a part on the war map that mentions that Conand tower is there (namely Mid Southern Fraldarius) which is roughly on the same latitude as Fhirdiad, meaning Fhirdiad was very close to the border at the time. This war would see the border be pushed up to its modern state, seeing Fraldarius territory expand, Itha be conquered, and modern Gautier territory be conquered (which was given to Laetitia Zoe Gautier, who distinguished herself during the war and became the first margrave Gautier, and would get the lance of ruin from the church after asking for it).
The other war with Sreng is only implied to exist. We know that Sreng used to own the entire peninsula, which would include the lands Fhirdiad is on. This means that at some point, someone must have conquered those lands from Sreng. We don’t know who did it (it could be either Faerghus or Adrestia). Regardless, the two notable outcomes of this war would be that the lands Fhirdiad would be built on would be conquered as well as the Danu River Basin, a part of Fraldarius territory which produces the most food in all of the eastern kingdom as well as low quality but high quantity soldiers (you can see it on the map. It’s a hilly bit in the eastern kingdom where a river begins.) the fact Faerghus might have been the one to conquer it implies that in the past, Faerghus had a different capital. Most likely Camulus. As it was a church holy site in the Tailteann Plains, probably built on top of where nemesis died. And with Loog being crowned by the church, it’s likely they ruled from a city under the influence of the church before a later king would conquer the lands from Sreng. My personal guess is that some king between Loog and Klaus conquered the lands where Fhirdiad would be founded while Klaus actually moved the capital there. Alternatively, some Adrestian emperor did it (there is a book byleth reads in a cutscene that literally rips a quote from one of Julius Caesar’s books, describing how Caesar spoke to representatives of tribes, so if you want to take that as canon, you could say some guy named Caesar did it, but that’s a bit silly).
Also, the bit of Sreng the wind caller lives in, the weird desert. It’s possible the region was temperate and farmable originally, namely from almyra across the sea to the east having warm winds blowing there to keep it warmer. However, it’s possible the wind caller, in an attempt to keep people away, used his command of the wind to heat the place up even more until it became a desert, basically destroying one of the few sources of farm land Sreng had.
Anyways, it’s been great following you on this series! My worldbuilding addicted heart has adored this series!
A quick word about the Agarthans, I just learned this: the three hopes art book has a thing regarding the crown Rufus wears. The translation I got said: “I got it from Cornelia. agarume’s headdress that is strengthening its power” from what I’ve been told, the more precise translation is that it’s basically making Rufus more susceptible to Cornelia’s words.
Except that coffee is also from Dagda, where as IRL its place of origin is Ethiopia. So make of that what you will.
There should have been DLCs that lets either the Black Eagles, Blue Lions, Golden Deer or Ashen Wolves explore the many nations outside of Fodlan’s borders.
no dagda is based off of Ireland because Shamir's name is Celtic Irish and the land god of fortune is inspired by a fae deity even the name dagda is Irish and potatoes were massive there
also duscur is based of Egypt post its fall from power and Brigid is Greece after it lost its power like Egypt the rest you got right i even believe morfis is were the Agarthans originated
an add on Coffee was first introduced to Ireland in the 17th century by merchants and traders who had traveled to the Middle East and brought the beans back with them. Coffee, however, did not become popular in Ireland until the nineteenth century, notably among the aristocratic classes.
"The Ashen Wolves are the best house and I will die on that hill" TRUE 👏👏
The Statue under Garreg Mach is a lot more sinister when the lady who mentions it speaking to her was only using it as a placeholder for her own pantheon, and it speaking in a Sinister Tone to her, and following Solons attack on Remire, lead to the Church demanding she leave the Abyss, implies that whatever it was was enough to get exiled from the place FOR exiles.
Also on Sreng, it’s attacks on Faerghus for Centuries is what lead to Sylvains female ancestor becoming the defender of the Border thanks to her achievements as a warrior. At the peak of their invasions several centuries ago is why Faerghus built Conand Tower where we fight Sylvains brother.
Oh there’s also another negative of Brigids insistence on self-sufficiency, Petra makes note with her supports with Ignatz that people who use glasses aren’t a thing in Brigid, with the very clear implication that those with disabilities including bad eyesight effectively are left to die if they can’t survive on their own.
Okay so the Almyrans are styled like the Persians, do war like the Mongols, and handle their successions like the Ottomans. Got it.
That’s why i compare them to the Seljuks
@@scion513"Its the seljuk Turks"
@@scion513 I did the same. The Seljuks were Central Asian Turkic nomads whose way of life and style of warfare were similar to the Mongols. They 'went native' when they conquered Persia, adopting much of the culture. They had already converted to Islam just prior to that.
On the topic of Morfis, it is a direct reference to the Khadein region and Thabes in Archanea, which has a similar shape and is also known for being a desert with magic scholars, as well as having its own "City of Illusion." This is likely just a nod to the Archanea games, but it could imply that the Fodlan games take place in the distant future, with the continent in the center North part of the sea between Valentia and Archanea. This would also imply that Brigid and Dagda are in the Rigel region of Valentia, but again this is all conjecture based on one line of text lol
interesting
It could also be like fe6 Arcadia
It's funny how, until Echoes side material, there was never any development about Thabes. It was just a single mention in FE1/11.
With Thabes is basically what Agartha was based on. Thabes was destroyed by Duma out of fear that humanity would try to rebel. He had his army destroy the city and everyone in it after a week or so. Naga was super pissed at that.
Really the God of Fate statue fits the description of a Mila statue.
@@0axis771 Nor just rebel, but use the Knowledge the Divine Dragons gave them against them.
And…well…his fears were true. The city already had sealed away beneath it Grima, the half-man half-dragon homunculus who hates humanity and wants them all dead after his creator tried to kill him for being exactly what he made him to be.
"Those who hit the Yoinky Sloinky" perfectly encapsulates how much of a glorified meme the agarthans are.
I was not expecting this to end with an argument for the church’s assassin for the position, of actually absolute ruler, but I find myself slightly agreeing.
This is why I really wish IS would allow some of these corners of the franchise to get multiple entries like the original Archanea setting, which had six games in all. Five games set across three continents (Archanea, Valentia, and Jugdral) all within a few years of each other and a sixth game, "Awakening", which is a distant sequel to the Archanea and Valentia games. So, it had a pretty fleshed out history as the result.
Of course, that would require them to pick one of Three House's endings as canonical, unless they released a series of prequels to flesh out the setting.
I would kill for a rhea wilhelm war of heroes game where it's a tragedy.
@@saintlugia Ditto. That would be dope.
Among the other nations, only Duscur, Almyra, and Brigid had any relevance. All of them could have been handled better. But I think that Almyra was handled the worst of them. Claude barely admits that he's an Almyran prince to anyone, which makes the whole country feel irrelevant. Hilda and Cyril tie into Almyra, too, but their relevance to said nation gets dwarfed by the Fodlan war. If only VW was more about Almyra: they could have focused on issues abroad while the other routes focused on the Fodlan war instead.
yah missed potential making Claude's route to be about recruiting allies and making connections with other countries
There weren’t any other characters from Dagda, Shamir’s homeland. There wasn’t a DLC that takes place in Dagda and see what it’s like. It’s been described as either a tropic paradise or a snowy region just like Faerghus.
@megarotom1590 I think the true missed potential is that Claude's route (VW) should have left Edelgard and Fodlan to Dimitri while Claude and the deer handle conflict in Almyra. We could have had a story where Claude trusts Dimitri with saving Fodlan and then he asks the deer for help to win his throne from his half siblings in Almyra.
@samflood5631 we didn't really need anything more from Dagda tho. It's not really important like Duscur, Almyra or Brigid are to the game.
@@l.n.3372 I think he should have let Dimitri hold off then after securing his position in Almyra, flanking the Empire from the sea. Could even have a map grabbing a stronghold in Brigid
I agree so much on the wolves
They have a dysfunctional but loving relationship with eachother and feel the most like a proper family unit. Yuri is by far the most competent of the major leaders in 3h, between running and maintaining a small army's worth of rouges, multiple royal connections, dude is by far the smartest of the main leaders between keeping abyss safe and outing aelfric as a Nut, hes easily got better plans then claude lol
Sucks that 2 of the other nations literary get only 1 thing of dialogue, but at least the others get a bit
Good bookend to fodlan for now. Congratulations on nearly 2k subs as of when im typing this man and cant wait for the xenoblade stuff!
18:57 "Kohi Techo hates Rhea with a greater passion than Martin Luther hates the Catholic Church"
Justice for Rhea and the Nabateans!
I too wish i could give Yuri the continent, the Wolves are my favorite house and are the least mentally unstable and problematic individuals in the monastery, that is more than enough for them to deserve better than what they get
Personally, I’m ok with not knowing a whole lot about the world outside of Fodlan. While I totally get wanting to learn more, what we know is just as much as the average Fodlan citizen knows, and I think that’s neat.
Yeah, having to make up your own story is just as satisfying as having a competently written story. It's a good thing Fodlan is essentially a loose string of prompts for headcanons and fanfiction for you to smash your dolls together in.
I’ve actually been kicking around the idea of making an OC for Three Houses for years now-a student from Morfis whose parents are mages but his “canonical” class is Hero.
Because how is Intelligent Systems gonna include a “City of Illusion” and it never directly gets mentioned by any of the characters, let alone a chance to actually be visited?
We actually get a morfis Battalion for Lysithea in houses after a paralogue. People also have noted Arabic influence in her post time skip design, which has led to people theorizing that they’re Arabic inspired
i would give yuri control of fódlan but he would probably turn it down. even in the base game war phase, he's moreso the guy who stays in touch with the commoners and helps out the inevitable poor bastards who suffer unjustly from any given regime or situation, which is probably the most down-to-earth position that any fire emblem lord has ever taken
I would not be surprised if the gods of the other nations were other Children of the Goddess OR the Agarthan Gods
I think it’s mentioned the Sreng people worship the wind caller (macuil)
I believe, whole-heartedly, that the other Agarthan Gods ARE the other Children of the Goddess. We have no idea how long Sothis has been on the world, but it could very well have been for longer than humanity itself.
;kjfas;dlkhjfES;FJAS;LHF;SDAlhjf ; OMG Fucking love the idea that Sothis got DRUNK and made those statues at the 10 minute mark! OMG I almost fell out of my chair!
What makes it worse is that all the other games had literally every nation involved to some degree.
It's really sad the Warriors Spin Offs actually had more for the other countries than 3 Houses did.
(And in my honest opinion, Claude's route in 3 Hopes should have spent half the time taking over Almyra, putting Claude on the newly combined Leicester-Almyra Throne, and then going "Aight, time for you to knock your shit off." to the other 2 houses.) (Also a Route for the Ashen Wolves. And another one involving The Protagonist of 3 Hopes going "Fuck this, doing my own thing." like becoming Big Boss of Fodlan. Or Taking over the Agarthans to stop them from being fantasy WW2 Germany and building a new nation. Or some other thing.).
(I guess my point is 3 Hopes really should have had other Routes, even if it require them to be DLC.)
'The Writers hate the Church.'
Which is a problem, cause given all the times they tried to make them look bad, they still come out looking not as bad as at least Edelgard.
To be fair, fodlan fleshed out each territory well and gave the internal political situation more room to breathe. If you look at each territory as a nation then we've got 30 nations with history culture and politics we know about.
Also I think the dlc really makes rhea worse then edelgard especially with what hapi says about her.
Forever insane to me that they made 3 Hopes and the story is still somehow the worst aspect of it and 3 Houses.
My theory about the dagen god is either its an import god brought by tribes not subjagated by the church as we do see yuri's heroes relic was found in dagad and brought back to fodlan or the church captued the statue during a war and kept it as a bargaining chip for negotiations that never happened as the empire took petra so taking other things from other nation is not unreasonable.
Today, we say goodbye to Fodlan and say hello to...somehow, an even stranger land
I wish the world pf Fodlan and of course around it got to be fleshed out even more. Also agreed that Abyss is so interesting, would love a game/book centered completely around it.
I am grateful for this videos. It has helped me understand the entire plot and setting of 3 Houses/Hopes so much better.
The unamed place above Duscur and Albinea is CLEARLY Fateslandia. Anankos and Sothis were obviously besties. Abyss is just one inconvenient slip off a bridge away from Valla, where Byleth was chilling in the 5 year timeskip before Arete evicted them for not paying rent on time.
I don’t like being just a lurker and I’ll comment more often! But also, I feel like wanting to actual follow through and do Fire Emblem dnd now because of your Fodlan series
I'm glad to hear it, it sounds like a fun idea.
"Snrk" Those who hit the yoinky sploinky, Lol XD
Continent is upside even
I really don’t mind that we don’t know much about the places outside of Fodlan. The story of 3H is very much relegated to Fodlan’s issues exclusively, and only Almyra gets some relevance just because Claude is trying to fix Fodlan in regards to its foreign policy. Like it wouldn’t make sense for us to fuck off to Sreng or Morfis when the Adrestian emperor is trying to topple the church’s dogma.
Except that Sreng is on the border of Faerghus too. It should have been conquered already, or it should be bigger than it actually is.
Iirc didnt Morfis get mentioned in Three Hopes? I seem to recall a text or NPC somewhere saying an Aegir territory port traded with Morfis
Indeed, Boramas, the capital of the Duchy of Aegir and the one of the few port cities in Fodlan has trade ties with Morfis, and uses eastern practices in their artisan work, as per the territories of the empire document in three hopes
Boramas, that's the one.Thank you Fodlan friend :)
At least we got to see more of Almyra for 5 minutes in Three Hopes? I feel that game did a lot for the worldbuilding overall.
Here’s how I imagine the various nations outside of Fodlan’s borders are like
Almyra: basically the Fire Emblem version of the Abbasid Caliphate mixed with some of the architecture and villages that look very similar to the Dothraki.
Dagda: A frozen tundra in the North, with some 1700s colonial buildings, and a tropic paradise in the South, with some Incan architecture. But everyone is a lot like Shamir in terms of having pale skin. And they all dress like they’re from Ireland in the 1800s.
Brigid: A Tropical paradise, but the shamans dress like the Shamans from Warcraft 3.
Albinea: A snowy backwater with some Roman British architecture.
Duscur: a desert with a Medieval North African theme.
Morfis: an Arabic version of Dalaran from World of Warcraft.
Sreng: basically the Fire Emblem Version of Skyrim
I don't say this as a Rhea supporter but as someone who hates Silver Snow.
Rhea was done dirty without a proper route that explored the reasons why the church had to do so many shady things to keep Foldlan from imploding on itself every 5 minutes.
gotta be my favourite new channel to have discovered completely on a whim keep it up
You are great at discussing these topics. I hope your channel flourishes.
If Ashen Wolves are what constitutes the better option between all the protag factions, then perhaps I was too hard on Those Who Verb in the Noun.
18:13 Few? Seems like a gross underestimation
I'm really happy the algorithm randomly send me to your channel I've watched pretty much all your fire emblem videos can't wait for your next stuff
You said that the Dagdan statue in abyss is a plot hole but I don’t think it is. Abyss is the place where the church puts things that would be inconvenient or contradictory to their narrative and considering this game is set in what is basically the dark ages I don’t think its a big leap that a statue to a figure of a foreign religion would only exist in a place the church hides away from the rest of Fodlan. Also I never heard Petra explain the origins of Brigid from her people’s perspective before, it almost sounds like Brigid’s origin myth might coincide with Sothis flooding ancient Agartha in a way.
I've always enjoyed the idea of a community like Brigid, where warriors are farmers and farmers are warriors. But this only works to a certain extent. Someone that spends time in the field growing crops, or as carpenters, or in husbandry, or any other skilled work would be hard pressed to find the time to master weaponry, combat, or military tactics. A full-time soldier must be a full-time soldier lest their skills suffer. The opposite is also true. This has been explored in so many books and movies but probably none more so to a borish degree of detail, than The Republic by Plato. Still, I always enjoy this fantasy and Petra from Brigid is in my top five favorite characters from FETH
Let’s give Yuri power, glad we can agree
I mean I think that goes without saying, but among the 3 lords it should say something when Yuri has a support with Dimitri in Hopes that he really is the next best candidate if Yuri isn't around.
@@SonicLegends agreed
Glad one of the games routes agrees that Yuri and a semi-sane Dimitri are the best overall choices to rule foldlan. I'd say they'd likely create the most stable versions of fodlan
@@blitz4779 agreed
7:20 Brigid sounds like a wonderful place to visit and learn its culutre/history.........what do you mean I'm just talking about my waifu Petra? (Ok seriously though she is pretty and I love her broken english).
The fact that you're going to tackle the Xenoblades; I tip my hat to you. The Xenoblade games are _dense_ with lore and characterization. You could probably make a dozen videos across all the games of the series, if not more.
I glad I came to watch your channel. I learned interesting tidbits.
I really want an Expanded Three Houses Universe that dives into the neighboring nations and the ancient history of Fodlan. There is so much potential to tap into and I am beyond excited to one day see it all explored
A game set in Brighid depicting the struggles it faces fighting for independence between Dagda and Adrestia, a game set in Foldan's ancient past that depicts the nature of Sothis's reign and the flaws that gave rise to the Agarthans, and the mistakes that led to people like Thales gaining more and more influence within them and corrupting them into a more Fascist and incompetent ethnostate, so many periods throughout Fodlan's history that could be fleshed out, and followups to each of the routes that explore the potential fallout of their routes, show how each outcome fails to solve some problems and creates others while also acknowledging where things improved and showing a path to overcoming those new challenges created by the initial fallout of the routes, as a series of games, preferably as standalone titles with more room to flesh things out better, and so much more.
Your fodlan videos are all incredibly well done and fun to watch so I am insanely excited for the xenoblade videos (these both are my favorite series)
Considering the shape of Fodlan and it's surroundings is vaguely based on Europe, I'd imagine that unamed land north of Duscur would connect to Sreng somewhere, if it's not an island.
You should analyze Valkyria chronicles series world building.
Haven't played it, but it looks interesting.
15:44 THRACIA REFERENCE?!?!?
Edit: also this has been a pretty fun series, glad to have been able to catch them as they came out
I am looking forward to your fixing the individual routes videos of three houses. An idea for verdant wind, why, not before the events of the story, have members of the Leicester alliance specifically count, Gloucester, kill Claud’s, mother Teanna
im watching this video a second time and while reding comments underneath the video.
Yeah big congrats on the channel growth. Video essays are commonly a big break, sort of, video that helps small creators’ audience increase a lot. I cam across your channel when the Kingdom lore video ended up in my recommended, and that thumbnail initially had me furiously clicking the video with my mind conjuring every counter argument, only to read the title and go “yeah, he not’s wrong”. Just keep in mind, that these videos/topics are what most of your audience will want, so be aware of that in case if you branch into new content, and it doesn’t analytically perform as well. But if that’s no problem for you, then hold your head up high man
Whens the video on the Ashen Wolves
Also I believe that the sheer existence of Albinea and Morfis enhances the worldbuilding. It shows theres more to this world than what the plot strictly requires.
Ashen Wolves is the best house! Finally, the truth was spoken!
Definitely the most stable as far as the main casts go, which is hilarious
It`s always weird to me is that Yuri is like a purple Byleth.
I've been putting your World Tour videos on in the background ever since my friend shared your video on the wasted potential of "Those who Hoedown in the Alley." Your comments about Koei hating Rhea reminded me of something:
I'm actually very curious, how much do we know about behind-the-scenes for the development of 3H/3H's story? I've always heard hearsay that IS wrote and developed Silver Snow, then passed it off to Koei to make Verdant Wind and Azure Moon with notes.
I think I recall from an interview I did read that Crimson Flower came from the dev team wanting to give an Edelgard perspective because they wanted to, essentially. That CF essentially wasn't part of the initial vision. But I'm not certain on the validity of these interpretations, or of my memory for that matter.
And then I've heard nothing on the background for writing and development interviews for 3 Hopes altogether. And no DLC! Musou has a long enough history of expanded versions and DLC while FE is no stranger to DLC now, but between the ending discourse and the lack of updates/dlc and unused characters it feels like 3 Hopes was just phoned in to fill in a slot, at least on the "realities of game development" side of things.
If you have any interviews to share or notes on the subject, that would be great. If you read all this, thank you for your time!
I did read it and I found it interesting. Most of what I have heard is hearsay generally, mostly stuff about IS seeing Rhea as more sympathetic and seeing Edelgard as an antagonist, which KT writers tended to lean against Rhea and saw Edelgard as a sort of "Hero in another story".
Thank your friend for me for introducing you to my work.
holy hashish, those who hoedown in the alley is insane, but also, based friend
If I had a the patience to learn coding and to write an actual story I'd totally make a rom hack based off that Dagda goddess headcanon.
So... persian vikings
Oh boy, sounds like another video for Koifish to make about Jarl Haesteinn.
Correction: Almyra is more analogous to the Arab World than Persia, specifically Syria. Almyra is named after the Palmyran region within Syria. Shahid, Khalid, and Nader are all Arabic names, which is an entirely diff language than Persian/Farsi.
ngl, could be interesting to write a what-if-ish routes for Fodlan.
XENOBLADE TIME BABYYYYYYY (bro your vids are insane)
I just wish we knew something, ANYTHING about albinea. I don’t k ow why it intrigues me so much. We’re just given almost no information about it or its culture and history
Oh my god I just realised that Dagda and Brighid are named after the Irish gods. How did this take me this long I feel like an idiot
Fodlan is too. There is also a river in faerghus called the Taranus river, which is a major Gaulish god, which is connected to lake Teutates, another Celtic god. We also have the Danu River in eastern faerghus, another Irish god. We also have the Airmid river, named for another Irish god.
Northern Fodlan is drowning in Celtic influence.
I'd be down to see you dig into other FE games. I'm not the biggest fan of 3H specifically, but if you've played other FE games, the Tellius and Jugdral games have plenty of well fleshed out countries and lore for you to peruse and dive into.
There is this insane theory I’ve heard that the geographic similarities between Fodlan and our earth are not just the devs taking inspiration from real life, but rather than Fodlan is earth after it got fucked up by Sothis and the Agarthans.
I didn’t go into detail on this theory in the other videos, but I might as well now (I’d recommend you open a tab with the three hopes map of the noble territories of Fodlan (so long as it’s not that one that invents a bunch to city names)
To start, western Adrestia is quite blatantly northern France. The peninsula in Gerth territory (which used to be Nuevelle territory) is very much like Brittany, and the rest is similar to Normandy. Albinea is blatantly britian in geography and name. As Albion is an old name for Britain and it’s shaped like a distorted England. Brigid’d western most island is similar to Portugal with the island above it being similar to Galicia, with Brigid over all being a shattered Iberia. The area of western most faerghus is very similar to the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Duscur and those islands next to it is Denmark, Hearthlandia to the north is basically Norway, and most of faerghus is Germany. The peninsula Sreng is on is, according to the theory, Sothis pulling the Baltic states out of the ground and slamming it back into the earth. Modern Sreng is supposed to be Estonia and Gautier territory is the southern half of Latvia (or it’s Sweden and it linked to Germany according to another lunatic I spent time listening to) Leicester is Poland, with Deirdru equating to either Gdańsk or Kaliningrad (Edmund territory is comparable to early Ducal Prussia, which initially tried to be a naval power). The Airmid river is the Danube river; with Hrym territory being southern Romania, it’s northern mountains being the remnants of the carpathians which got squished into Leicester (Poland) to make a border with Almyra, which equates geographically to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. There is a land in the northern corner of the map in three hopes that might equate to finland/ The island right on Almyra’s southern coast is crimea, with the longer island to its south west being the Bulgarian and Romanian coast. The other islands south of that is part of Albania as well as the remnants of the Peloponnesian Peninsula and the Attican Peninsula. The islands closer to Morfis are the Aegean islands.
Morfis is turkey. With the part of the sea above it being the Black Sea.
The peninsula Enbarr is on is the Italian peninsula, with the island to its south or the pointy bit on the western side of the peninsula being Sicily (if the latter then the other two pointy bits of the peninsula are the boot of Italy)
There is a land mass just south of morfis in the hopes map with equates to part of the Middle East or Africa.
There is a bit of land south of the Brigid islands in the hopes map which equates to either Tunisia or Morocco.
Dagda, being a land mass which stretches north to south with northern tundras and southern jungle is north and South America.
While the inspirations are all there, I think it’s a bit much to say that Fodlan IS earth after Sothis and the Agarthans wrecked it.
Well, it is not much of a theory in-narrative. The noncanon(but still lore revealing) mobile game you may have heard about has the avatar actually be a human from our world isekai-ed into its world. And guess what? They make a point of how even compared to other fully human FE characters, said avatar is the most similar to the agarthans.
Fodlan IS an alternate version of earth that was seemingly wrecked by us(before being taken over by a random invasive dragon god), which is why the meme exists that the giant missles are magical nukes.
Your vids are always cool you know, anyway good luck have fun
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you did it, you put xenoblade, and I can get hype. tho in all seriousness, you are great, I am honest I hate watching videos longer than 5 or 8 minutes (exception for Nintendo music bc I draw and I need it) but for your video from your first of three houses to this, I find enjoyement, and I want to listen more, not only for the content you choose and put, but also for the way you use word, you are humble and I feel good vibes, like really natural. I wish your channel will grow from time to time!!! I will do evene if little, try to support by watching, but keep it like this!!! you are doing great ✨
Well, thanks to you, I might actually be interested in playing Fire Emblem.
Thanks for the video.
Almyra's weird treatment and presentation in these games isn't the main reason I'm basing the setting of my romhack on the Persian Empires, but it's also... not NOT a reason lmao
I really like Almyra.
For all we know of it it seems like a cool country.
For the path rewrites, will you be doing part 1 as well?
Parallouges ? Ashen wolves?
Almyra is fascinating, but I would certainly never want to live their. It’s like faerghus but the warrior culture is less out of necessity.
XENOBLADE!!!
I'd assumed Almyra was a mix of Ottoman and Persian empires. I also found it weird that Judith and Catherine have dark skin, and no one comments on it. I legit thought Judith was Claude's aunt for a long time.
I forgot that there other places in the game 😅
One sad element of the world of Fodlan is that you can find the Archanean Regalia in it by reworking rusted weapons, implying that Fodlan is in the same world as Archanea... but perhaps ridiculously far into the future.
Discount Khaedin might actually be Khaedin.
Character analysis vids? Example Shamir and Manuela. Maybe a few ships here and there.
Would've loved to see more from Almyra and Brigid.
It has been a great run through Fodlan with you. Each of your videos has been enjoyable thanks to your mostly impartial stance. It's rare among 3H fans to be able to have that kind of stance for long. So you earned a sub from me because of that, and I look forward to more of your content.
Now onto how the video is.
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It kinda makes sense why we simply can never truly know about the other nations, and only get small bits and pieces about it. Fodlan's own isolationist stance and rejection of any and all outsiders only result in a strong form of ignorance about how the other nations operate.
Even Cyril wouldn't know all the ins and outs of Almyra because he was already so young. He's a kid who never learned to read, so how would he even known the history, religion, politics, etc. of his nation? And Shamir and Dedue, likewise, are not that much in favor of talking about their nation that often.
Only Petra is, and that's cause her friendship with Edelgard lets her have the freedom to feel like she doesn't need to feel isolated as a result. So she's more open to the other characters of her religion and culture should they ever express any intent to learn.
But I think after learning in 3Hopes about how massive Almyra's forces can end up being, as well as how powerful their ships have become, it's kinda clear that if something didn't change Fodlan's isolationist stance, Fodlan was going to be destroyed. People have argued that Fodlan is justified, but the problem those people don't get is that no matter how angry they might be, the long-term case is that Fodlan will get destroyed if one of the powerful outside nations finally has enough and decides to raze Fodlan to the ground. If someone like Shahid were to take the throne and wanted to grind Fodlan to the ground, they have the military and resources to clearly do just that.
Hell, it was shocking to learn that Duke Gerth from the Empire was actually trying to form a friendship with Dagda, but makes sense given how the Empire is not pro-Church, so they wouldn't strictly be following the isolationist policies.
And Fodlan needed to give up the isolationist policies by the time the game starts or else it might be too late.
I've been glad you stuck around. I have enjoyed reading your comments under each video and I'm glad I was able to remain as impartial as possible, I've seen the worst of the Three Houses discourse and wanted to avoid any of that while still speaking my mind and its nice to hear that was successful.
I hope you stick around for my future work, and for my eventual return to FE content.
I mean Cyril gives a pretty good view of what he does know. Orphans are forced to be involved in fighting, they don’t get fed EXCEPT after a battle, and are treated as mere workers with nothing done to help them. His and Claude’s support even goes over his issues with Almyra and how it treats those at the bottom like him. He was literally taken captive after one of those battles and as an orphan Almyra never cared to retrieve him. You can gleam a lot about how you treat those at the very bottom of society like orphans.
As for the “isolationism” that’s ehhh…the game doesn’t do a good job with that as a concept. Fact is too many items for cooking and such that are traded from other nations be it fruits, teas, ports that trade outside of Fodlan, etc that they didn’t really think it through how isolated Fodlan would truly have to be to work as intended. Faerghus has Dominic whose ports trade with Albinea despite being the nation with the closest ties, yet it’s clear the writers forgot this because Claude acts like this isn’t a thing in his Zahras support with Dimitri. Nevermind he has even more dumb and baffling ideas like having the extremely racist and vocally isolationist Western Church as a “good” replacement for the Central Church.
Hopes also reveals that Brigid has ties to the Central Church as well, which Petra makes more of and why Duke Gerth was able to use his position to have her go there.
@@BlackfangDragon Problem is that Cyril is but one kid who doesn’t know the strict geopolitics of Almyra. Yes, his support with Claude exposes an issue in Almyra, but Cyril himself is not end all be all proof about how Almyra is. Had Rhea not taken in Cyril, his life in Fodlan was no better, given he was made into a literal slave by House Goneril.
As for items used for cooking, bear in mind that it isn’t strictly open trade. As proven by a 3H side quest, merchants from other nations sneak in for black market deals, so those fruits and such that you get from others might be procured from the black market. Also, you’re gonna need to tell me where it was stated that House Dominic has open trade with Albinea. If anything, the support in Zahras having Dimitri not deny Claude’s assertions highlight how correct he is. And mixed with what I said about the black market, there’s good chance that Albinea’s trade with House Dominic is more through the black market channel, not an open trade. And not sure when Claude said he’s in support of the Western Church, but assume he is for a second. The Western Church does not hold more power than the Kingdom’s royal family. As shown several times, a nation’s own church does not hold enough authority to control or influence the nation’s leadership, something that is not the same with the Central Church, which DOES uphold racist and isolationist beliefs where Rhea is strictly in support of them or not, as proven by how several church people during 3H made certain racist remarks.
And no, Brigid itself doesn’t hold actual relations with the Central Church, but that Duke Gerth has due to being an imperial noble. The empire still holds relations with the Central Church.
@@0axis771while the western church does not have enough power to control the royal family, it does have influence over western nobles. Furthermore, the western church is the only branch church to retain its own order of knights. The western church’s xenophobic beliefs would simply stifle Dimitri’s attempts at reform, and would either quietly stifle his reforms while preaching against them and Dimitri, which would likely lead to rebellion.
@@scion513 The Western Church already lost most of its influence in 3Hopes after Dimitri launched a thorough investigation into the Tragedy of Duscur, resulting in most of the western lords losing power, if not executed. Especially if they hadn’t already instigated a rebellion as they did in AG and implied in SB.
So arguing of Dimitri using the Western Church following the Central Church being dismantled means that Dimitri can institute reforms, especially if he makes similar political moves like Edelgard has done.
I’m so excited for xenoblade. It’s my favorite series ever!!!
Bro's been cooking 🍳some great videos lately!
I know your going to look at some other settings and I think you absolutely should but it would be cool to hear you do these kind of videos for some of the other fire emblem games and get you opinions on them
The most annoying thing for me is that Fodlan has the best technology in the world. Almyra is a bunch of chucklefucks, Dagda and Brigid haven't been technologically relevant for a few hundred years, and so on.
Their isolation has done WONDERS for them! They DO NOT NEED anyone else! They've somehow been ahead ever since the Church of Seiros was founded! And what is this bullshit allusion in Cindered Shadows of Seteth holding back technology? What, technology that he already knew about from the days of Agartha?
Now sure, maybe Discount Khaedin has better technology, but Discount Khaedin is irrelevant.
I know NOTHING of this game…..But you are VERY entertaining!
Up next: All the issues with the toothpaste crew and their cheap wedding rings.
Yo I'm New here and I'm kinda quiet see you around Hearth.
I just Subbed to you!
Need more Sreng lore
Man I love you talking about fodland and it's lore to bad this is kinda it maybe you can talk about individual houses but yeah great series
You can tell the hectic development cycle of this game impacted the world building aspect of the writing. It's a shame, really.
Almyra is so irrelevant I have no idea why they are participating in raids against Fodlan (no depiction of them shows them taking slaves or loot (IIRC, the 'Almyran bandits' in the Alois paralogue are just bandits calling themselves that), they have no stated racial or national animosity against Fodlani (and, while Fodlani say bad things about Almyrans, that might stem more from them being raiders than any particular racial or national animosity, especially since Claude looks Almyran or half-Almyran and never experiences adversity on screen that can be correlated to his race). Also, to put it clearly, if his race was an issue, he would not be allowed to have any claim to the Leicester alliance, he would be (most likely) quietly put out to pasture in one fashion or another (a blade in the back or exile, for example).
But seriously, why do Almyrans raid Fodlan? Wouldn't it make more sense to raid easier targets if there isn't a reason to attack them specifically? They built a fort to keep you out, and one of the legendary heroes of the setting guards it 90% of the time. It'd be like us giving Audie Murphy an M2 browning, giving him an armory's worth of ammo and permission to shoot on sight, and setting him up on the southern border. You wouldn't be crossing that border voluntarily.
I think they use Fodlan as proving grounds for their soldiers cause iirc either in a support or paralogue‚ Almyrans celebrate after a battle at the Locket. They also probably raid other neighbouring countries (or conquer them) since we only see them in Fodlan but never know why they attack Fodlan (coupled with Lorenz telling Nader to not loot the Kingdom in GW). Also, I believe in GW (in chapter 3?)‚ Nader said something about Fodlan people being cowards for hiding behind the Locket.
I have nothing to close out this comment except for the thought that just popped up and it's that Almyra is only relevant if it relates to Alliance territory. And it gives the Alliance something (Adrestia with Brigid and Dagda‚ Kingdom with Duscar and Sreng [Morfis and Albania trade with the nations respectively‚ but to me they are irrelevant]).
They attack the locket as a matter of prestige. After all, if you actually take the thing, who are you supposed to fight in order to show off your prowess in battle. Almyra is probably deliberately keeping some of its enemies around due to how powerful its military is. If they lacked for external enemies, it’s likely the empire would turn on itself, more than it seems to have already with the various princes vying for power
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Guess Lysithia was right!
Ill subscribe
you're thinking the Turks
why not talk about the lore of pther fire emblem games it would be a good way to keep up the momentum you have gotten
Isn't Almyra the mistress of the dark?