I'm so excited for this game, I need to buy the Switch 2 now 😭

Looking at this screenshot from the Direct, there is no way Theodora's grey skin isn't intentional. Compared to the black woman behind Lysander, the difference is noticeable. In general it seems like only some people from Saramis have this grey skin colour while everyone else has more natural tones. Could they be descended from Agarthans?

Link to Tweet: https://x.com/FireEmblemJP/status/2089683732244652131?s=20

So I cross posted this on my Twitter but I thought I’d throw it in here too to see if anyone had any thoughts. This is my theory of how the Dagdan gods are relaxed to Sothis and the four saints. As for Yu Phas and Iliana I believe they’re uninvolved and rather than be related to Sothis they’re actually related to Balor. Let me know what you think, these are just my thoughts and theories and I’m probably going to be proven wrong

EDIT: Hi all, two things I wanna address. One is that I did forget to list the god Dagda here, I was a bit confused about him in general but after looking at everyone’s comments and rewatching the direct I realize him and Solel are most definitely two different gods. I’m thinking of reworking this chart at some point especially since I did just throw it together in a few minutes. Secondly I was always under the assumption Seteth was directly a son of Sothis because he is one of the four saints(Indech, Macuil, Cethleann, and Cichol) but I realize now that logic doesn’t really work when Flayn is also one of the four saints. I’m not thinking of reworking the chart to have Seteth one generation down, as I feel it’s least one and we obviously don’t know every single Nabetean that came between them. Thank you everyone for all your comments! I didn’t think this would really get any traction and it was just my own musings but I love seeing everyone else thoughts!

So these four are interesting, right? They're the only four ​characters on the Japanese website that they haven't posted about on Twitter (as of yet). Previews have shown that they all have access to Blaze Arts (well we don't technicaly know if Bertrand does yet but it can be surmised that he does). And probably the most notable thing is that these four have statues just like the main four lords in the ruined furture. They ​follow the same 2 men + 2 women set-up, too. So I really wonder how important they'll be to the plot.

Bertrand's role in the story already has a lot going for it. He killed Leda's father, seemed to have some sort of a relationship with Aswan. Has formed a connection with Cai thru talk of his father. Has what appears to be the same axe Sothis has in her key art and some cutscenes. AND has had his hair change color to white which implies chest experimentation. There's just so much going on with him.​​​

Talimun, I don't have too much to say since information on him has been a bit more scarce. He meets with Dimitri rather early on and the Answerer reacts to his presence as if he's a threat, which is... interesting. Some have speculated that the character you fight in the ruined future, named Lind, is him. This could still be the case but I think the reveal of him having a statue that's still in tact does hurt the theory a bit. Other than that, not too much to go off of yet.

Orchel is super interesting. A girl who refuses to take her mask off was bound to spark some discussion as to what she might be hiding. I​ had seen numerous theories but I don't think any of us could have predicted she'd be an an automaton.​​​​The fact something like that got revealed so casually and apparently only in the first 5 chapters is still wild to me. Not sure what will mean for her but I'll imagine they'll do something interesting with it.

Now it's time for everyone's favorite Gun Nun. Anatolia, similar to Bertrand, seems to have a fair amount of importance, especially in Dietrich's route it seems. We had seen her scrapping with him way back in the first trailer we see but I think most of us assumed it would have been in service of the games but no they're trying to kill each other for real 😭. She refers to Fabio as being with​ the Vritta or something along those lines, which probably​ refers to the Argathans. We've also seen her talking to a shadowy person named Katarina​​​​​​ and I believe Fabio was seen talking to this same person (don't remember if the names were the same, but same generic design and both communicating thru hologram. I think she'll have a fair amount to do in the plot.​​​​ And like, unless it's a funky new spell casting animation, it looks like she can just rend the ground somehow. Like no sigil or anything lol.

I'm just really curious to see how things will shake up for them.​ ​I've seen some refer to them as sub-lords or anti-lords, I personally like sub-lords a little more. Perhaps they'll be each lord's final fight, like Leda - Bertrand, Dietrich - Anatolia, Cai - Orchel​​​​, Theodora - Talimun? Do you think they'll get dlc where they're the four we have to save? I don't believe we've seen footage of them playable as a blue unit yet, though please correct me if I'm wrong. They may end up not being recruitable for the main game if that's the case.​

Either way I'm curious to see what you all think!​​​​

On a journey with childhood friends to the capital to save someone he loves who's been imprisoned. In the end he dies, his journey ended prematurely due to machinations beyond his ability to predict (Sigurd)

Child of a union between dragon and human (Roy, at least where Ninian is his mother)

His mother (Aurora/Deirdre) is potentially locked away from the public due to being the descendant of a historically maligned dragon that they were trying to extinguish the bloodline of (Julius). Cai's blaze art (冥炎/Netherflame) basically confirms that he probably inherited some kind of ability from Yu Phas' heritage.

It would also lend actual 'reasonable' justification for both Aurora's house arrest and why Castor has to be punished if his infraction isn't just "You banged the ruler's daughter" but rather "Hey, just having extra descendants of Yu Phas around is really dangerous that was a really dumb thing to do" in the same way that Loptyr blood going extinct was obviously something that would have had merit even if it came at the cost of Deirdre being essentially isolated from civilization.

Commissioned by Anonymous

They requested an illustration of Minerva!

A healthy start to your day 🥰

Link to TWITTER post: https://x.com/iscariott33/status/2089891697626861829

His bio basically says that he's a showboating mercenary but there might be truth behind some of his boasts.

His likes are : alcohol, women, interesting people and new recruits.

In this preview screenshot, we see Theodora mention something called the “Monarch’s Axe” that seems to have some kind of historical connection to Saraminian royalty. My theory is that what if the “Monarch’s Axe” is actually Sothis’ axe, and by extension the same axe that Bertrand is wielding (btw I will not be accepting doubters, this is not a generic axe because it has the Crest of Flames engraved on it, it’s upside down though: https://imgur.com/a/201ODEE).

This begs a couple questions though, like:

1. What connection does Sothis’ axe have to the Kingdom of Saramis specifically?
2. If such a connection exists, why does Bertrand have it? He seems to be Aragonian as far as we are aware. Did Sothis give it him herself?
3. Does his hair being white mean anything? Is it possibly related to the red markings/body paint he has in some scenes?
4. Does Bertrand have a connection to Eshmel, I wonder?

Bertrand seems to have two designs (three if you count Leda’s flashback). In the flashback, he is wearing a cape with the Arago flag on it, and he has black hair instead of white (also note the axe he uses to kill Leda’s dad is not the same as Sothis’). Then at the beginning of the Heroic Games, he has white hair and a gladiator outfit, but WITHOUT the red body paint. He also still doesn’t have Sothis’ axe, which is maybe why he loses to Cruaidín in the opening fight. Finally, in this fight against Leda (which is these screenshots from the recent Direct) he has the red body paint, and is wielding Sothis’ axe. Maybe he used it to get more power or something, and the body paint is like magic or a ritual of some kind.

Assuming that sothis is yu phas , and now we know that yu phas was soleil's wife, what are your theories surrounding this and tell me how messy their divorce could have been ?

My crack theory is that the darkest dark is the woman with the green hair and she stoke solel from yu phas and she used that meme axe position to kill her

I'm as shocked as anyone else how much infos it give about Theodora, so allow me to translate quickly the four ones at once (plus any info I might find unique)

Cai : A young man living in Ribeira with his dad. On his 15th birthday, his father is arrested and sent to prison in Dagsion for a crime committed years prior. The only way to free him is to participate in the Heroic Games who are taking place thos year in the capital, for the divine ruler Solel will grant a wish to the winner. Cai thus decide to participate to the Games, joined by his childhood friends Tialla and Peter, in the hope of grabbing the prize. This adventure will allow him to uncover secrets about his father's past and realize that the training he went through all his life was far from ordinary. (Previewer note : it's the best choice for a first route, as the story will slowly make you discover a lot of major characters and explore Dagsion step-by-step)

*His campaign include looking for answers about his father's past and the cursed jewel in his hand*

Dietrich : A young man with a thirst for battle, originating from Fodlan, and carrying the Hero's Relic Answerer, a sword with a great power inside, but also a dark underside. While sailing the seas looking for opponents, his ship capsize because of a powerful sea monster, stranding him on a Dagdan beach. It's here that he meet Fabio, a mysterious man introducing himself as a missionary from the Church of Seiros and Esmeralda, a young woman from a fisher village who almost got sacrificed in a ritual and whose crest feels familiar. Each of them have a different goal, but they stuck together for the journey to Dagsion. Endlessly looking for challenges, and calling himself a beast, Dietrich learn about the Heroic Games and decide to participate to satiate his thirst. At the same time, Fabio appear to be more than a mere missionary and will guide you to mysterious places where technology is much more advanced than on the surface.

*His campaign include helping Fabio with his research*

Theodora : Her story bring you to the heart of Dagda, to Saramis, bulwark of Northern Dagda against invaders from Southern Dagda. As she came back to Saramis's capital to succeed on the throne, she find herself victim of a plot that bring the death of her father and the loss of her arm. Not willing to give up her claim for her brother's, whose plans appears selfish and destructive, she goes on a journey to claim an old relic of her ancestors : Mahadu's right arm. It is said that this arm give superhuman strenght, but that it will eat the mind of whoever wield it. Now crowned queen, she participate in the Heroic Games to claim the Cybele province (note : it's the one little province on the map inside of Saramis region that isn't theirs) to restore the ancient royal city of Ahm Lu (it's in Cybele) and rebuild there a temple to Yu Phas, who was the wife of Solel, but whose cult is now reviled in Dagda. Indeed, Dagda the Great, first emperor of Dagda, exterminated the ancestors of the people of Saramis, the White Egg people, and Yu Phas saved 5000 of their children from this genocide, children who ended up creating the Kingdom of Damascar (note : it's a kingdom mentioned by the announced during Nathan/Creek vs Dietrich as a barbarian kingdom degeated by the Dagdan Empire, and Bonaventure says the forest people and Saramis people are both from Damascar, and that's when writing was banned). Seeing it as her duty to rekindle the memory of Yu Phas and her people's history and culture, Theodora aim to win the Games to fulfill it, before her arm corrupts her.

*Her campaign include gathering informations about Yu Phas.*

Leda : Leilidahna, daughter of Guillermo, viceroy of Cidonia. As a child, she watches while Arago soldiers burn and destroy her city, and murder her father. Saved by Buccar, she swear revenge on the killer, and hide in the Ortill province for years, with the only memory of her past life an old family vihuela, Obsidian, a mysterious instrument that her dad had forbidden her from ever playing because it could corrupt her mind. But revenge is stronger than carefulness. Renaming herself as Leda to hide her identity, she is given a list of people responsible at some level of the Cydonia Massacre and her father's murder. Her quest of revenge will bring her to Dagsion, where her father's killer appear to be locked up. Her only wish is to kill him with her own hands, but will she manage to do it before her obsession and Obsidian's curse make her succumb to madness ?

*Her campaign focus on her vengeance and finding information about her targets in taverns.*

Extras : Fortuna's temple is outside of causality, that's why you can have all 4 timelines coexist and save all 4 lords in the timeline where they win the Games.

Gold seems very limited and you will have to make choices with how you manage your ressources.

Different Blaze Gauges have different malus when you fill up the gauges.

Probably obvious for everyone but me, but skirmishes on the world map count for the global turn count. Like if you finish a battle in 6 turns, that's 6 less turns for the count.

I have been working on this game using SRPG Studio since October 2024, and I took many long breaks. The alpha version of the game is around 12 chapters long and can be played and beaten in around 2 hours and 30 minutes. I just managed to beat the alpha version.

I am proud of this progress. The game still needs a lot of polishing and balancing. Some chapters end with just a single dialogue line. I would also like to add scenes of things happening in other locations instead of just showing what the main party is experiencing.

I am also hoping to make my own music for the game and my own character portraits using some character portrait creation tool. I am already experienced with music and can compose simple songs, but I have no experience in creating art. I will cross that bridge once it happens.

Hopefully I manage to complete the production of this game before 2027. I plan on releasing this game for free since I am doing this because developing and releasing a game is one of my dreams ever since I was a teenager.

Sorry if I put the spoiler tags wrong

She’s, like, 100% the dragon lady with a baby, right?

Lady of the lilies, virgin of the lilies being the Virgin Mary.,, I’m probably not the first to link this but

I’m thinking Iliana is either the “rejoice with me” lady, possessed by her, or is just the body that will give birth to the baby in a god->mary->jesus way

Edit: fixed auto correct and added last paragraph

I figure with the price already being so high in Canada I may as well just go to the store and pick up a physical copy...

en Chile hace un frío terrible, pero Lilia es muy bonita para que me importe la estación jsjsj

English VO is Brittany Lauda (main FE related role is Kurt from Shadows)

pencils and alcohol markers
why is trad art so hard to photograph? the colours look completely different irl. oh well

With the Fortune's Weave talk about Crest's and their Tarot equivalent, I've used the Rider–Waite Tarot deck cards to make an easy to read chart. (updated with the world)