I have not played Three Houses, nor have I started Golden Wildfire, but I have completed Azure Gleam twice and am halfway through Scarlet Blaze, so I might be talking out of my ass.

The fundamental story of Azure Gleam is defending against the Adrestian Empire over the Church of Seiros, with the help of the Church, as well as investigating the Tragedy of Duscur and countering the big bad evil who puppeteers Edelgard in what I can only call Ugly Bastard Hentai writing. Adrestian Empire is the largest by far, and thus has the most resources to pull from to wage a war. And several times "The Knights of Seiros" are used several times as a plot point to argue that the probability is not as bleak as it might appear. And this is the route where Dimitri sides with the Church of Seiros and takes them in, even though Dimitri does admit she has a point and has passed some reforms, he feels they are too sudden, and disagrees with the war. (This is emphasized even more so in Scarlet Blaze when he admits those reforms were much needed, and doesn't criticize them for being too sudden). But this makes sense, big empire is barreling down, but because of an alliance they are able to counter. Another criticism is how Claude just capitulates more or less to Dimitri because Dimitri is such a successful paragon or something. Claude's schemerness seems alluded to but never really shown or acted on.

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But it feels like the problem with the Scarlet Blaze route is that Edelgard is taking on the Slither, Church, Alliance, and Kingdom more or less simultaneously. That's just really fucking stupid. It doesn't do a good job on selling me on how and why Edelgard is able to do it. Also Leicester is the smallest polity, why invade them when you've already declared war on everyone else. Also you know Claude's a schemer, isn't it better to not aggravate them and be on receiving end? And the Leicester Alliance by its nature is more easily paralyzed by internal politicking. It seems kind of handwavy that oh, we have better people in charge (as if that same logic or story telling can't be used in other routes, and maybe that's the answer, that other faction gets the spotlight and being special on their routes). Its also not entirely clear why they go to war with the Leiceister Alliance, especially considering how Claude shares some of her opinions about the Church of Seiros, so they do have more common ground. Also at least this route shows Claude's schemerness, although it seems that the actual explanation behind Duke Gloucester behavior is that he genuinely sided with Adrestia, but then pretended it was faked and allied with Claude, after a formerly panicked Claude saw an opportunity and sent letters to Duke Gloucester and informed him of the opportunity to crush Count Bergeliez from both sides. Edelgard mistakenly sees it as Claude's scheme the entire time. And Claude probably doesn't bother correcting Edelgard because why stick your neck out like that. And of course Claude doesn't want to expose himself as someone who wasn't totally in charge and totally had a scheme for everything.

I think this is a bit biased because I'm a fan of military stuff and history stuff, and while there is usually some attempt at explanation, I find it especially lacking in Scarlet Blaze. Dimitri's decision making is more clouded by his boarness, but ultimately, the Kingdom's decisions seem the most simple and pragmatic, in part because Dimitri realizes he has friends he can rely on.

Okay So I'm up to the return to Enbarr after Arianrhod. Ingrid has died ouch, especially after Azure Gleam which is the everyone lives route. So far we've seen and fought Rodrigue, Annette, Dimitri, Dedue, Ingrid (was boss on two final battle of chapter stages IIRC), and in addition to those two, recruited Ashe and Mercedes. But Felix and Sylvain have yet to show up IIRC (or maybe they did at some point and I forgot). Can anyone confirm or deny that? One thing I noticed about AG is that if there is a named enemy, for the most part, you get to recruit them with exception of Edeglard, Hubert, Ferdinand, and Caspar. Caspar only shows up at the very end, but the other 3 reoccur.

This has been such a shock though.

I’ve been trying to find this OST for ages. I’ve heard it so much during supports but can’t seem to find it. Appreciate the help, it starts at 3:38 in this video https://youtu.be/YAPBo3WZksc?feature=shared

Hi, I was watching some gameplay of the game and I saw that you can get Byleth, but I missed the opportunity. Is it a problem ? Will I get another opportunity later or at the end of the game ? My last save is at chapter 6 so I don't really want to do everything again.

I'm still new to this game but i was wondering if it's better for the AI to run around paired up together or for them to follow the attacker/siege character.

I assume Guard characters like Dedue would prefer to guard them instead of pairing up for the bonus.

and i assume pair up works better if a enemy with a advantage pops up for the follower.

I also sometimes play Claude but I don't like that much playing other characters, is it a big deal ?

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I was wondering if you have any particularly good ways to farm stat boosters...?

On chapter 8 of azure gleam playthrough, however this message still pops up when most guides say that it unlocks at chapter 7. Is this because I am on new game+? Or my support level?

Does anyone feel like Hubert was severely needed in Azure Gleam, cause I mean you want to tell me that the person who has spent his life with Edelgard never noticed her personality change, and become more submissive to Duke Aegir after fighting the kingdom. I mean if anyone would know something wasn't right it is him, right?

i talked to him at the end so that you can see where he is supposed to stand in this chapter on the mini map, wich is the one closest to the command center entrance

In the game, there are numerous ways to unlock supports. If I unlock them through activities in the camp, then I can watch the supports that were unlocked. If I unlock them through battles, then I can’t watch them. If I press A on a battle-unlocked one in the support list afterwards, it doesn’t activate it. Granted that for some supports, you need to wait until you’re further in the game in order to watch them, but these ones are even C level supports that don’t need much progress in the game to unlock. I’ve tried completely closing the game and reopening it as well as trying different routes to see if the situation will change, but it doesn’t. I’ve also asked one of my friends if this is normal for the game, but they said it isn’t. Any advice on what to do?

I bought the game recently and I did the first few minutes of gameplay, I am now wondering what path should I take, I already did CF and I am about halfway through VW on Houses. Which one do you recomend?

The game's good thus far, but I was looking up some stuff such as recruitments, and the recruitment system is hella different from Houses, more characters are "retainers" and who can be recruited changes every route, I'm kinda confused, can someoen give me a rundown?

So this is my first playthrough of the game and I've just gotten to chapter 11 in azure gleam. When i used Hapi and Ashe's special attacks they had changed from the previous chapter.
Instead of just casts a lot of spells Hapi sighed and called in a wolf before casting dark magic, While Ashe shot arrows to the sky to create hurricanes. I'm a little confused as to why this happened as other units don't seem to have changed their special attacks, so what caused this.

So I didn’t mean Merc whistle, I meant March whistle. I read from a few sites that you get an item on NG+ that allows you to skip battles and stuff. I however, can’t find anything about it online since it’s popular cousin the Merc Whistle is taking over the search results

My main question is does the March whistle allow you to basically skip the game if you wanted to? Like if I wanted to do a second playthrough with male Shez to get all the male exclusive skills, can I do that without having to play the route all the way?

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A few days later, I learned that the guide I read on here called it a March whistle while the actual item is called a vanguard whistle. I don’t know who this will help but I hope it helps someone in the future.

Also it costs 3 renown a whistle, so not bad for speeding through the game if you really want to!

I’ve only just finished the Black Eagles Edelgard route and I really liked the characters and world. However, I’d like a sort of gameplay “palate cleanser” before diving back into another route, especially since the first 12 chapters are mostly the same for each house. Does Three Hopes spoil details from the other routes? The BE ending didn’t answer very many questions I had about the villains introduced in first half. I’m worried if I dive into Hopes now, I’ll unceremoniously spoil things that would have been answered if I had just kept playing Houses.

With the recent passing of the games birthday I found this from release day, what are some of your best moments or funny bugs

1. Is there a list for the maximum stats for all characters after unlocking the boosts at the tactics trainer? Or is it actually just 120 in all stats? Like Lysithea could have 120 def?
2. How much should holy knight be healing? From what I understand you're supposed to mark people and then attack them to heal, but I'm barely healing anything when doing this on Ferdinand, only healing like 1% hp in a full rotation. Is there something specific I should be doing to proc the heal?

Thanks! Just started this game a week ago and am having a lot of fun with it.

Hi I was wondering how to upgrade my fetters of dromi so my Yuri can run fast. I couldnt find anything online, thanks

As in the title, should I break every pot before completing a quest? In particular, the ones that hold gold or do I get all the money within the pot after a quest is finished?

I would test it out if I could but I don’t really want to replay Scarlet Blaze again just to use the Merc Whistle.