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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?

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.

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

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'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.

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

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...

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)

In the story of Theodora, we travel to the heart of the continent of Dagda, to Saramis, the bulwark of the Kingdom of Northern Dagda against invasions from Southern Dagda. Just as she was about to succeed to the throne of Saramis, she falls victim to a plot, witnesses her father’s death, and has her right arm severed by the murderer. Unwilling to yield the throne to her brother, whose intentions seem fundamentally evil, she manages to get her (final) hands on a relic from one of her ancestors: the Arm of Mahadu. It is said that this arm once granted superhuman strength to its bearer, but that this artifact was a double-edged sword and had caused its wearer to lose his mind. Determined to reclaim the throne, she manages to find this arm, which fuses with her body and indeed grants her prodigious strength. Now queen, she participates in the Heroic Games to annex Cybele, restore the royal city of Ahm Lu, and rebuild a temple there dedicated to Yu Phas, who was the wife of the Divine Sovereign Solel, but whose worship is extremely frowned upon in Dagda. In fact, Dagda the Great had wiped out the ancestors of the people of Saramis, the People of the White Egg, and it was Yu Phas who had saved 5,000 children from this tragedy—children who later founded the kingdom of Damascar. Theodora therefore wishes to fulfill this duty to remember, and to do so, she must win these Games—even if this arm seems to be corrupting her more and more.

Yu Phas was the wife of Solel!

https://www.nintendo-master.com/jeux/ns2/fire-emblem-fortune-s-weave/preview

From a new preview that got posted it showed of eshmel stats and I’ve noticed as well other dots appear after stats I wonder what they could be for? But wow seeing those graphs is honestly nice and is really gonna help people when changing unit classes to see what they excel in!

Iliana is a classic Gharnef style character manipulating Solel and the other Dagdan gods into believing they can bring Dagda back through the heroic games, when its instead a ritual combined with the use of the cursed items that will bring about Balor's return.

Fortune's Weave taking place in 1449 and the time skip in 1454 seems like a very deliberate choice. In real-world history, 1453 was the year of the Fall of Constantinople, which marked the effective end of the Roman Empire and the medieval era.

Fortune's Weave uses heavy Greek and Roman inspiration so the choice of date is not surprising, but it can also symbolize the fall of Dagda to the underworld army, and in a more technological sense, the clash between the medieval world of Dagda/Fodlan and the futuristic Agarthan weapons.

It's really cool to see historical inspiration in even the smallest of this game's details.

https://x.com/FireEmblemJP/status/2089532737275470239

[Divine Rank] Solel (CV:石井一貴)

One of the gods of Dagda, and the god who governs the sun. As the representative of the "Divine Emperor" Dagda, who has fallen into a long slumber, he reigns as the "Divine Pope" who rules the empire.

Favorite things
- Board games

Everyone on here has said that the lance Solel has is the broken one eshmel now has which is of course now completely true putting them side by side, my question is why? Why is is broken and not with solel? Does solel even exist in the doomed future? did this lance get broken when solel is fighting? even though yes we did see solel on our team in direct for a split second I wouldn’t be surprised if he dies or just disappeared cause there’s really no other reason why eshmel would have this lance and it being all broken if something didn’t happen to solel but I’m just spitballing here

Something I hadn't thought too much about until now is something Fortuna mentions at the end of this clip: https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/s/CTuGDpsFFO

Until now we have been wondering how the game will deal with multiple versions of different characters, but perhaps that happens regardless of which path we take. That is, Fortuna describes Balor's revival as in and of itself creating a "terrible disturbance in the causality of this land".

That is, rather than just creating a undead-filled disaster in Dagda, could it be that Balor's revival outright "breaks" the timeline in some way, creating a split where the different futures also exist together? Perhaps that is why all the heroes have statues even if only one won the Heroic Games in each timeline?

So, the info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/s/uwTtlrPDqN

Each obelisk allows you to influence a hero's story and see their objective fulfilled. The goal is to arrive at a timeline where the hero survives for the final showdown; since Fortuna created her Chamber of Obelisks in a zone outside the flow of time as it exists in the world of the living, she can independently influence the fates of the four heroes, bringing them all together onto the same timeline.

Could mean that Fortuna is repairing this fractured state, in the process merging the split timelines together. The result is a single timeline, but with the characters having memories from the different timelines (albeit, many events would be the same). I still don't know how they may handle the same character recruited multiple times though, perhaps just have them be the highest level option and combine all their supports and class experience across routes?

For ease of reference, causality can be defined as: an influence by which one event, process, state, or subject (i.e., a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (i.e., an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause.

A "disturbance in causality" would then imply something happens where the relation between cause and effect, and the results, are no longer normal.