I hope that cover art means we'll get a full version of Song of the Nabeteans! It's still my personal opinion that like Galdr in POR and Lost in Thoughts All Alone in Fates that should have been the theme instead of Edge of Dawn since it actually ties to the story unlike EOD and like the other two. But gotta sell Edelgard am I right?
Man the Nabateans need al the good stuff they can get. It burns me like a toaster oven that the genocide and “well they’re weapons now lol” was treated as an infodump and a “mystery” and the overall horror of “Hey, your entire way of life is built on the corpses of my brethren” never really feels... horrifying.
It’s yet another reason why “Crests R Sooo Bad And Oppressive” just makes me roll my eyes. Crests R Sooo Bad because they’re made from murdered individuals and yet that’s... never really a focal point for the characters who have Crests. There’s never really any reconciliation between the remaining Nabateans and Fodlan at large - Seteth, Flayn, and Rhea still have to “disguise” themselves and pretend. There’s never anything.
And we won’t even touch a wee little part of fandom that frame it as “Humanity rising up” and That’s a Good Thing.


















