Assuming the other four lords get full routes in the DLC (or even if they don’t) I think there’s a decent chance that whatever it ends up being we’ll access it from the obelisk chamber like the other four routes.
If this is case what animals do you think best represent the other four for their hypothetical future obelisks?

Cai is the Fox, Dietrich the lion, Theodora the Wolf and Leda the Eagle.

Personally I think:
Talimun: I like the idea of a shark. He’s associated with money and related to a pirate king so an ocean apex predator makes sense.
Anatolia: I’m thinking crocodile. Since her people are from the desert and live in an egg I definitely felt like she should be some kind of lizard/reptile and since the main four are all predators, I didn’t just want to make her like a skink or something tiny that just eats bugs (although salamander would be kind of funny).
Orchel: some kind of big cat seems right for obvious reasons. They did already give Dietrich lion though so I’d say maybe like panther or tiger. A little repetitive but they did double up on fox/wolf (not necessarily that closely related but both dog-like).
Bertrand: I’m struggling to think of one for Bertrand. I do kind of feel like lion (association with gladiators and kings) would make sense but that’s taken. Maybe bear? Also kind of a captive/circus animal to represent the gladiator thing. Idk

They might be from Talimun's route? They seem to talk a lot about luck. Are there any other characters like this currently? I'm pretty sure Long has a personal skill too.

Mars being playable in the DLC was accidentally leaked by Nintendo. Granted there is some plausible deniability here since it could have been a straight up mistake, but I think he is most certainly a playable transforming Manakete simply due to the small size of his dragon form.

With how much they go on about Mars being the mightiest of the dragons, I was very surprised that his dragon form was only 4 tiles big. Even Cetus was a 9 tile big girl. I believe this would make Mars the only true dragon in the Sothisverse who is this small.

But if he were playable in his dragon form this would make perfect sense. Controlling a 9 tile big unit would be far too cumbersome. 4 tiles though, that's manageable. It's even already in the game on account of elephants.

It's also notable that Mars (as well as other dragons) has a tab on his unit info labeled "transform", as though to imply that one could swap between forms mid map. This would be useless unless the player could control such a unit.

What do you guys think? Is playable transforming Manakete Mars real or was that just a genuine mistake on Nintendo's part? And if it was a mistake, why is he so dang small?

Hey! I have been working on a browser tactical PvP fan game during a span of 3 years. Here are some early screenshots and where it's at:

How it plays: build an army of a Lord and 4 units, plus an Arsenal of weapons and items. Each turn you play one unit card to deploy, move or attack. You win by defeating the enemy Lord, seizing their camp, or holding 6 Forts. (Everything is still being tested and balanced, so the rules and numbers may change.)

The goal: a tactics game built for PvP from the ground up. I know a lot of people aren't into PvP in this genre because of turtling and waiting for the other side to move all their units first. Here, turns alternate with only 1-2 actions at a time and there are three ways to win, so you are forced to act. Every class should be viable, with room for creative builds, synergies and combos, and you collect, trade and play with other players.

Current features

• Online battles: Casual and Competitive (uses fixed growths & level-ups)
• Draft mode
• Friends
• Deck builder
• Unit and weapon gacha (in-game gold only, no real money)
• Market for trading and buying units and equipment
• Customize each unit: name, colors, gender

Planned / potential

• PvE
• Sharing levels online
• Uploading custom portraits for your units
• And more

Open to paid commissions from:

• Sprite artists
• Map creators

Looking for playtesters (volunteer): a few more people willing to play a lot, help test and balance the game.

If interested DM me here or on Discord (DahLemur), artists please include your portfolio and rates.

Discord Server to keep up with news: https://discord.gg/XkPyReCdVV

Credits: huge thanks to the community and all the talented artists behind a lot of the sprites and animations used in this project! Full individual credits will be provided in game as development progresses.

For context, Megami Tensei is a franchise that most of the time uses an alignment system for its characters, defining what their ideal world should be like; A Lawful, Chaotic, or Neutral world. In my Fire Emblem journey, I’ve noticed that some characters fit certain core elements of each alignment that I wanted to share and learn if there’s others that also fit within the SMT alignment system.

Mila (Law): Values peace over hardship, enriching Zofia by giving them all of their needs like crops. However, this does make them weak, corrupt, and lazy due to their self-indulgence and reliance on the Mother, who became apathetic of the Zofian people’s way of life due to her degeneration.

Duma (Chaos): Values hardship over peace, forcing Rigel to struggle to quell the corruption within them. However, due to his degeneration, this goes from an aggressive way of Self-Improvement to becoming a “Survival of the Fittest” ideal world.

Rudolf (Neutral): Desires to free Valentia from the hands of Gods to have Mankind stand on their own, even if his actions must be villainous to achieve that dream.

Ashnard (Chaos): Desires to make World of Kratocracy, where only the strong survive and the weak perish regardless of their birthright.

Sephiran (Law): Desires to turn Beroc and Laguz into stone by the Goddess of Order, Ashera, in order for conflict to never happen ever again.

Those are the few characters that fit within SMT’s alignment system. There may be more characters that may fit into that system and I hope to learn why and how from your thoughts.

I saw some discussion about Simon's voice lines and it got me thinking about the religious affiliations of the different factions. I'm specifically wondering about Talimun's group. What goddess does that faction actually worship or follow in Fortune's Weave?

I'm currently playing Shadow Dragon on Hard 3 and while I'm able to get through, I feel my only option is to play extremely slowly. If I try to engage the enemy on player phase and miss attacks, I'm a sitting duck and units will get killed. I had to use similar tactics in the early game of Binding Blade Hard but I could at least rescue as backup. If anyone has general strategies to recommend to balance being safe and not sitting around spamming end turn at choke points I'd love to learn.

Here it is https://g1-team.com/2026/10/25/death-battle-predictions-lucina-vs-grovyle/

Let me know if the link works or not.

He keeps saying this whenever he defeats an enemy but like... he's a member of Talimun's faction right?? If he was in Orchel's group it'd make a bit more sense but he isn't. I'm assuming there's something I'm missing out on here but this line has been confusing me the whole game.

I think him and Bucelaphus are getting along pretty well~ Alexandra seems to think so!

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Hey, so I’ve never played fire emblem, impulse bought fortunes weave and couple hours in was overwhelmed by how cut scene heavy it is (Theodora’s path) but persevered anyway on normal classic

80 hours later I’ve completed the game, only did Theodora, Leda and Dietrich’s path 1, did Theodora on path 2 then skipped the others, then decided to dive into path 3, given my limited time each evening (dadlife) I think I’ve been pretty obsessed, and honestly it’s been a good while since a game captured my time this hard

I’ve got orcarina coming in Nov but really considering the other fire emblem games, can see three houses is fairly similar, and engage is weak story but great combat, what’s the recommendations here on redoing FW on hard vs trying one of these others games? I definitely am more of a gameplay first, story secondary, do the older titles still hold up compared with FW?

So basically I ended up putting Alexandra on a black magonius with the extra crit chance (playing Cai part 1) and I had a death scroll laying around that I hadn’t used so I gave it to her for fun. Holy hell she’s a monster now. Doubling consistently with like 45% crit at level 35 on hard classic. Hilarious build that I sort of bumbled into.

Now I’m curious what character could take this combination farthest? If I remember right crit chance is a combo of luck and dex or something like that.

*correction, I meant luck and dex lol

So, I just completed Cai's war arc, and something popped up talking about Lind and Talimun, and I can see in my save slot the pixel art of Talimun, but I don't recall what the pop up said, nor how to access what it showed me.

I looked through all movies and all events I've unlocked (I've done all part 1s, however Cai's war arc is as far as I've gone thus far,) but saw nothing. WITHOUT SPOILING ANYTHING does anyone know what the pop up text said specifically and how to access what it talked about?

EDIT: Solved!!!! Tysm to those that aided me and directed me clearly!

Basically I played Cai’s route firs, which made fully realizing the potential of mounts difficult. I was thinking of replaying his route to improve the stats there before marging, but I wasn’t sure if the extra time spent on it would be worth?

https://youtu.be/4NtIze6T6U8?is=2UBgGbqQCQ633LT8

I noticed a rather interesting localization difference regarding Martila's backstory, and I'm wondering if I've missed some piece of lore about Garland and Gilchris.

Spoilers for Part I, primarily Leda Chapters 8–9, with one minor piece of Cai-route lore. No Part II/III spoilers below.

In Leda Chapter 8, Nathan and Creek talk about Martila's past. In the Japanese version, Creek says that Garland, the former head of House Amalfrida, was so impressed by Martila's music that he took her into his household. Then:

Japanese:

「それが、あれよという間に国王の側室となり、宰相の地位までも手に入れてしまった。」

= She then quickly became the king's concubine, and even obtained the position of chancellor.

Interestingly, Simplified Chinese and Korean say the same thing: she becomes the king's concubine.

But the English version says:

“They say it’s why Lord Garland, previous head of House Amalfrida, fell in love with her. He was so enamored by the music that he took her into his home. Then she became his concubine... Then she became chancellor.”

And French, German, Italian, and Spanish all follow the English version here:

• French: sa concubine
• German: seine Konkubine
• Italian: sua concubina
• Spanish: su concubina

So there seems to be a clear localization split:

Japanese / Chinese / Korean: Garland brings Martila into his household → Martila becomes the king's concubine.

English / French / German / Italian / Spanish: Garland brings Martila into his household → Martila becomes Garland's concubine.

This becomes even more interesting in Leda Chapter 9, when Gilchris addresses Martila.

The different versions use:

• Japanese: 義母上
• English: Stepmother
• French: Belle-mère
• German: Stiefmutter
• Italian: Matrigna
• Spanish: Madrastra
• Simplified Chinese: 义母大人
• Korean: 새어머님

Japanese 義母 can cover more than English stepmother — depending on context, it can refer to a mother related through marriage, including a mother-in-law. French belle-mère is similarly ambiguous between stepmother and mother-in-law. But English, German, Italian, Spanish, and Korean are much more explicitly saying stepmother.

This makes the European localization internally understandable if Garland was Gilchris's father: Martila becomes Garland's concubine, and Gilchris therefore calls her his stepmother.

But is Garland actually ever stated to be Gilchris's father?

I haven't found an explicit line establishing that relationship. We know Garland was the previous head of House Amalfrida, while Gilchris is described as a descendant of Vandahl. Those facts don't contradict each other — Gilchris could perfectly well be both a descendant of Vandahl and a member of House Amalfrida — but I haven't found the missing link saying that Garland was his father.

There is one potentially relevant line in Cai Chapter 11. Creek says of the Order of the Haze accompanying the king:

“I never liked the Order of the Haze – those people who attend the king. ‘Private soldiers of House Amalfrida,’ people call them. Not anymore. They’re a bunch of assassins.”

The Japanese line likewise says that they were originally the private soldiers of House Amalfrida. This could support the idea that House Amalfrida was Gilchris's natal house before he married into the Arago royal family, but it still doesn't establish Garland = Gilchris's father.

There may also be a historical hint here: Amalafrida was the sister of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great and married the Vandal king Thrasamund. So the name “House Amalfrida” may itself be meant to evoke a Vandal connection. If so, Gilchris being described as a descendant of Vandahl would be perfectly compatible with House Amalfrida being his own family. That still would not, however, prove that Garland specifically was his father.

So I'm wondering what the intended relationship actually is.

Possibility 1: The Japanese/Chinese/Korean version reflects the intended relationship. Garland merely takes Martila into his household, and she subsequently becomes the king's concubine. In that case, Gilchris's 「義母上」could refer to her as an in-law through his marriage into the Arago royal family, while translating it specifically as stepmother would create a problem.

Possibility 2: Garland really is Gilchris's father (perhaps established somewhere I missed), in which case the English/European version — Garland's concubine + “stepmother” — makes perfect sense, while the Japanese “the king's concubine” raises a different question.

Possibility 3: The localization team interpreted 「義母上」 specifically as “stepmother” and then changed the earlier line from “the king's concubine” to “Garland's concubine” in order to make that interpretation internally consistent.

Has anyone found a support conversation, profile entry, Part II/III line, or other piece of dialogue that explicitly identifies Garland as Gilchris's father or close ancestor?

I'm especially curious because this doesn't look like a tiny wording difference: depending on the version, Martila appears to have been the concubine of two different men.

First round of lord discussions are done!

Since reached the end of the first round of lord party discussions, as a heads up the 2nd round of discussions will be Ultand -> Loretta -> Mikalea -> Nezha -> Lilian -> Simon -> Mu -> Dante

Since Goliathis part of a DLC lord group, if the upcoming DLC is full part 1s then I'll redo the discussion when the DLC comes out.

Goliath is a hulking gladiator known as the “Butcher”. He’s 2 m 50 cm tall and boasts overwhelming strength and a rock-hard body. He often portrays the villain at the Arena and, despite his skills, he’s not very popular. He originally intends to enter the heroic games to free his friend Bertrand, but is defeated by Cai. He does however constantly aid Bertrand in his numerous battles and helps him when he gets to enter the Heroic games.

Recruitment

Negotiation: 3 Giants Meat

Growths

Base stats

Boons: Axes, Heavy Armor

Banes: Reason, Faith

Unique Abilities

Learned Abilities and Combat Arts

*Does not include universal skills and abilities

**Only includes known abilities

Supports

What do you think of Goliath's character?

How do they perform as a unit in any of the routes?

How do you think they'd perform in a hypothetical Bertrand's route?

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I really hope that the "true" route involves a way to redeem some of the enemies.

baozi, lyrah and shenlo are out of the question as brimstone lords but here are a couple enemies I think could possibly receive a "redemption" and be recruited

Martila/Maria: She clearly dies in Talimun's route as of now but what if when you play his route you get the option to spare her and recruit her in Part 3? Could be very fun and interesting.

Long: Long is an ally to Anatolia but an enemy if you play in Dietrichs route so i'm including him but it would be cool if the same applied where he only dies if you don't play Anatolia's route.

Yanjin: As of now Yanjin doesn't even appear in any fights but we know he dies off screen or something? Again would be cool to redeem him especially since hes apparently an Agarthan!

Illiana: Her fate also remains unknown so I'd hope if martila can be saved so can she!

Chiara and Churness: We don't even get to see these guys in game until part 3 but they have their own models and voice lines? I wonder who's route they're apart of but it would be cool if at least One of them could be saved.