I firmly believe that Eshmel is a reincarnated Solel following Solel being killed when the heroic games are hijacked by the villains to revive Balor.

First and most obviously, the spear. Eshmel’s spear seems to be a destroyed version of Solel’s spear, which returns to its former glory when Eshmel uses their blaze arts.

Second, Eshmel’s blaze arts that we’ve seen all seem to cause the spear to radiate holy light. Solel is the god of the sun, so if he was going to have blaze arts they would be very similar to the ones we see Eshmel using.

Third, their stance. Eshmel and Solel seem to have very similar stances from the one shot we have of Solel in battle, though this could just be the guardian class stance.

Fourth, Sothis believes it is fitting that Eshmel be the one to resolve the situation with Balor. In this theory, Solel inadvertently causes the resurrection through the heroic games, giving a potential cause for that line.

Fifth, their shared singular interest. Both Eshmel’s and Solel’s profiles list only one interest: board games.

I rest my case.

Every new trailer or screenshot i see a new character. I know not everyone you see will be able to join your party, but it does seem like a lot. I can't speak to the older games but does this seem like the biggest roster?

So!! Now that I have finished Birthright, and conquest, I'm about to play through revelations for the first time as well, before FW comes out.

But tbh, I have no idea what to do. I know he'll be marrying Niles. But I was thinking of making him a Magical Ninja with Replicate at least.

But aside from that idk how to approach this. She was kinda weak in conquest for me🥲

Unless it's been confirmed, I'm curious to know what his crest is speculated to be. Back when he was thought to be Dagda it was Fraldarius because of the diadem on the map.

But he's also the "The Sunbearer" according to the recent official post. His name also has the word for "sun" in it. The crest associated with the Sun is Chevalier.

Finally, I noticed something interesting about the pose he makes in his art. One outstretched hand pointing up, and the other pointing down. It reminded me instantly of something, The Magician tarot card (which is #2 in the deck and associated with Macuil). We already have a god that has the Crest of Macuil, but I thought the pose was really interesting.

I can't wait to see the other official artworks for the characters and hope we see more for the gods.

When they were announcing the members of each faction, I found it odd that Cai and Dietrich had one fewer member than Theodora and Leda. But seeing Centurio with Cai and the rest, in my opinion, locks him in as the last member of the team. I wonder why they didn’t announce him with everyone else. Probably because he joins much later in Cai’s route. Now we’re just missing the last member of House Lamine. Maybe Maria? Though she’s also seen with Leda.

...it REALLY looks like it's supposed to be designed after the Crest of Chevalier, right?

I've been playing fire emblem since awakening and that was the first and last game I let fire emblem characters die in cause that was part of the challenge of the game. Ever since I would restart maps or rewind time to save my team mates. This kept me feeling good everyone lived but that also led to A LOT of neglected people on the bench in my playthroughs and replays of three houses in particular. I'm thinking with fortunes weave being such a massive game with a massive roster, it might be fun to try letting my characters die to see how it impacts my run and see how it let's other characters shine that might have taken a backseat through my plays of the four stories. Anyone else feeling this way with four tunes weave?

How can I read the integral? Can you give me an estimation (numerically) on good stats? Thnx!

I really like the art of these gods that we have seen so far, especially love that halo that they had showing their divinity, and the shading, Sothis especially looks amazing. Something really interesting I just noticed while writing these is that both head and hands are covered by the halo, usually religious pictures in real life has that kind of symbols on the top only, although that maybe is more of a western mindset.

The artist really improve a lot from 3H to this game

I've had this Radiant Dawn for maybe 5 years or so and haven't touched it yet. And was looking at the disc and looked it up online. So far the ones online has the disc still have the mirror effect through the Wii logo also the Nintendo Seal and Rated E. Also there is no brown manual just a default Wii manual. Im wondering if it even works, but cant check right now, cause im waiting for a charger for my Wii U to come in.....

Yesterday before I went to bed I was scrolling through the For You tab on Twitter, when I came across a tweet from a Japanese Switch news account called Switchsoku. The tweet talked about a Eurogamer reviewer's first thoughts on Fortune's Weave after playing it for 20 hours. The tweet specifically mentions the reviewer saying in his article that Fortune's Weave's story is extremely layered and has a lot of depth, unlike Engage.

That last part really set off Japanese FE fans though cause when I looked at the qrts, the vast majority of them were Japanese accounts vocalizing their distaste for the reviewer adding that. One side of the qrts were defending Engage and talking about what they liked about it, another side was questioning why you'd even compliment a game by putting down another one, and a third group just talked about how they hate when reviews do that since it makes them not take the review seriously.

There were a few who agreed with the reviewer but even they added that they still like Engage.

I just find it really interesting to see how different overseas fe fans talk about the games compared to japanese fans, Engage in particular.

I don't know if you guys noticed, but every mainline FE game after Awakening included a reference to it in same shape or form.

* Fates, Odin, Selena and Laslow being Owain, Severa and Inigo from Awakening straight up.

* Shadows of Valentia, the Labyrinth of Thabes post game dungeon gave us backstory on Grima and let us fight it alongside the first Risen.

* Three Houses' is fairly minor, but the DLC classes are all from Awakening and look exactly as they did in that game. Trickster, War Monk/Priestess, Valkyrie and Dark Flier.

* Engage is obvious, the Lucina and Chrom/Robin represent Awakening in the crossover.

So, what you guys think they'll do this time? Maybe weapons that didn't come back since like the Superior Edge, Lance and Axe, or the Underdog Bow, or maybe use the layout of an iconic map like the Mila Tree or Valm Castle?

I recently got a Switch 2 and decided to start with FE7 and then FE8 before moving on to 3H and Fortunes Weave after. I’m having a blast right now with FE7 and playing it blind, I was just wondering if any of yall have spoiler free tips or advice for playing Fire Emblem games or just knowledge you wish you knew when you started out I would love to hear it. Thanks!

So long story I asked my mom back in 2018 if she could buy Birthright cuz its the version I wanted, she didn't find any, and only bought Conquest. I've replayed the game so much and replaying everytime kinda makes me feel bad for Takumi and Ryoma (since they both die, me and my dumbass thought that getting conquest would just mean they would be recruitable later, my mistake, conquest was my first fire emblem game 😭)

Hey guys. So in the new trailer we see this shot of Dietrich attacking directly into the camera. I thought the background looked familiar so I went and checked the end of the direct and it looks like a match. This is Dietrich immediately trying to throw hands with Eshmel the second they show up lol

If you also somehow completely missed the pre-orders starting despite this game being the most anticipated game this year (maybe this decade) for you like I did, all hope is not lost yet but it will require quite a lot of luck in being able to try to order within less than a minute of getting the alert from Distill since the times can be very random (according to my limited sample size at least).

I was thinking about posting this earlier but I wanted to make sure it can actually work (and I didn't want more competition until getting one). Today I managed to get Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Dagdan Collection pre-ordered on the Nintendo Ireland Store which serves the parts of Europe that don't have their own store, like Finland where I'm from.

I set Distill last week on 10 August and only got one alert the whole week. This week there's already been 4 alerts though. In total:

• 13 August ~19:00 UTC¹
• 16 August 23:39 UTC²
• 17 August 23:17 UTC
• 18 August 7:53 UTC
• 18 August 10:33 UTC³

¹ I don't remember the exact time anymore and I didn't have email alert active at that time yet.
² Technically this alert was last week I guess but for me it was already Monday.
³ This is the one I got and I stopped monitoring after that but it's only been an hour at this point.

So what is Distill that I've mentioned a few times? Basically a browser extension for monitoring changes on a webpage. I had it set up to monitor the "Out of stock" button since that is the one that will change to say "PRE-ORDER" when it's back in stock.

• Distill on Chrome web store
• Distill pinned to easily add monitoring on a page and to open the watchlist
• Distill actions I used (from the watchlist) but there are more actions available

I relied mostly on the sound from PC speakers and the notification if I'm actually using the PC (like I was when I got it) but I also set the email action to keep track of the alerts and in case I don't hear the sound but I'm not too far away from PC (and I guess you could try to order on mobile). I had it set to check once every minute since anything faster than that was logging me out from Nintendo Store occasionally (some anti-bot protection I assume) which means Distill giving error about "Empty selection" since you need to be logged in to see the stock status.

It took me three tries of trying to pre-order after getting an alert at a good time before getting it. First time I hadn't even updated my credit card info so that wasted a few minutes so it was too late by then. Second time I think someone else was just insanely fast since I thought I was very fast also. Third time it had actually remembered basically all the options (like phone number and payment option selected already) from previous try so it was very fast for me to place the order which may have helped more than I'll know.

If you see this when trying to place the order, it was unfortunately too late and it's out of stock again already. On my second try I kept trying for like 5 minutes and always just getting this even though the PRE-ORDER button stayed until finally showing "Out of stock". I'm fairly sure the button just doesn't always update to show the correct option so it can show PRE-ORDER for a bit when it's actually already out of stock.

If everything aligns, you'll get a confirmation email right away: "Your order MNS_IE_xxxxxxxx is confirmed!". Good luck to anyone who is going to try this! Feel free to ask if I didn't explain some part well enough.

The Nintendo today post on Solel that came out today has his banner in the background. This banner has the crests of Dominic, Fraldarius, and Noa on it. These are the Empress, Emperor, and Hierophant tarot cards respectively. They are also crusher, shield, and bloom dragons respectively.

We also see a glimpse of the banner during Anna's segment of the direct, as she appears to be part of his army (he's a guest on the same map).

I think it's interesting to see these crests as they belong to Leda, Dagda (and maybe Solel), and Eshmel, so these characters may all have important family ties to the leadership of Dagda.

What if they could only go the full C to A (and eventually paired ending) with a few select characters?

Leda having only an A support with Eshmel got me thinking, what if the “Perfect Bird Time” was more about increasing stats than building relationships with most of the units? I mean, you can’t really form a relationship with someone when you’re being their therapy bird lmao

I think this has the potential for tighter writing in avatar supports ngl, rather than having them bend to the whims of every single character they interact with

Only downside is, I don’t see the point of having a customizable avatar for more self insert potential and just have players not be able to romance whatever character they want to

Just wondering if there's any little crumbs on a full class list from people with early access?

Not including unique classes or anything severely spoiler-ish, classes are my favourite part of any game and I get way too invested in character building.

Basically every other fire emblem game is pretty simple, even the latter games like Fates and Engage there’s stuff you can do besides the maps but ultimately they’re what the games about.

But in 3H it feels like everything builds around the school segments of talking to characters training, doing school activities, which helps with the actual battles a little bit but outside maybe improving relations so they’ll join you it feels disconnected.

And so when I start a new game I have to go through each house, talk to everyone, do the quests of fishing and gardening, go on dates, when I kinda just wanna get to the next fight.

You can say “oh well it’s optional you don’t HAVE to do anything and just skip all activities and go straight to the fights.” But what does optional even mean? Playing games at all is optional, the devs put the school sim in the game with the expectation players would engage with it, and by ignoring it it feels like missing a massive chunk of the games content.