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...What do you mean it's not self-explanatory?
Tellius Recollection tells us that Gallia is a nation “without written law or political institutions” and then chooses to not elaborate much further, leaving the reader perhaps even more confused about how Gallia works than they were when they started that sentence.
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When Ike asks why Caineghis isn't leading Gallia's part of the Laguz Alliance, Ranulf says: "It’s not an option. We aren’t mobile like the bird tribes. Once we leave our lands, it isn’t easy for us to get back. We can’t take our king away from his domain."
This makes sense, right?
As satisfying as it is when a character you've been aware of for a very long time finally joins your party (some Gotohs, Elincia, etc.), putting the sovereign of a nation on the battlefield is a massive risk because replacing your sovereign tends to be a very difficult, annoying, and time consuming process (assuming they can even be replaced!).
With that in mind, the fact that Skrimir is allowed to be in a position of potential peril as someone fighting on the front lines as general means that to a certain degree his death is regarded as 'acceptable', right? i don't mean that it was something anyone wanted, but the benefits of being general (experience and chances for exposure/networking) outweighed the risk of having to replace him should the worst come to pass. The game even accounts for this possibility by letting Skrimir die without giving you a game over once you're past 3-P and giving Caineghis a different ending where he isn't allowed to retire until a new successor is picked. That second part (the risks of being general being 'acceptable') is mostly what I'm hung up on, though it's consistent with Giffca (and, through him, Caineghis) not really making a big deal of how many Gallians died when he checks in with Skrimir near the end of Part 3*, so i don't really worry about it too much.
If Skrimir does survive, however, he ends up patrolling Gallia's borders as king which...? He's not leaving Gallia, sure, but he's still putting himself into harm's way, so i have to wonder: if Skrimir is allowed to Do Stuff, how hard and fast of a rule is 'Gallia's King Can't Do Stuff' really?
Now, of course, we don't really know that Skrimir is being allowed to do this and it's not him just doing it because nobody is able to make it have consequences, but if Skrimir is able to ignore whoever is telling him he shouldn't be running around, Caineghis would certainly be able to ignore them if he really wanted to as well, right? The fact that he doesn't then must mean that he was convinced that keeping himself safe was what was best, which makes sense for the person he is at this stage in his life, but when he was younger? I'm not convinced he was doing much listening back then.
We could easily assume this is just the result of him maturing as a person over the past 100+ years, but even in the present he ignores this 'rule' plenty of times. The meeting in Goldoa in the middle of Path of Radiance had no real risks, and at the end of RD there was very little reason to sit around and expect the situation to fix itself, but what about when he meets up with us near the end of PoR? What about when he heads over to Gebal in the middle of the night to greet Greil, knowing that Daein is but a stone's throw away? The explanation Ranulf gave makes sense, but Caineghis only seems to adhere to it when he feels like it.
Tellius Recollection's timeline mentions that Goldoa backed the founding of Gallia. It doesn't say what that support was, but I think Dheginsea may have taught Solhaut how to obtain Formshift.
At that point Goldoa and Begnion were the only two independent states in Tellius; Phoenicis and Crimea came relatively shortly after so it's likely that they already existed as ideas people wanted to bring into reality, but Gallia was the first state to successfully appear in Tellius after Begnion transitioned to a theocracy. There's no mention of Begnion ever aggressing Goldoa despite it's general beorc-supremacist stance; given that Begnion society was able to reverse its entire social structure because a beorc was able to claim a connection to Ashera, it seems likely that one of the reasons why Goldoa was left alone (in addition to its geographic and political isolation, of course) was because Dheginsea was besties* with Ashera. If Gallia could also claim divine justification for its presence, Begnion would have less justification for trying to get rid of it and even if someone doesn't approve of laguz they would have to try to reconcile that with their spiritual beliefs (which would likely prevent more moderate beorc from acting against Gallia and at least delay the more radical beorc as they try to sort through all of that).
I've talked about Formshift possibly being a blessing from Ashera before** but it doesn't really matter if that's actually the case because either way Dheginsea (as someone who has it) likely knows how to get it if there is a way to directly obtain it. He effectively has full control over the narrative; we only see Formshift on one person per state at any given a time in RD so if we extrapolate backwards we can pretty safely assume that at this point Dheginsea is the only person who has it. If it looks like a blessing and he says it's a blessing, could anyone really say otherwise?
Blazing Blade removes a unit's active supports from other units when they die but doesn't remove those supports from the support log. This means that you can get more than one A support per unit per playthrough, and, with proper planning and adequate disregard for the wellbeing of your units, you can fully fill the support log in just four full playthroughs.
fun fact about myself that i just realized: that isadora/harken piece is probably the piece of fanart (and likely even art in general) that i have looked at the most
