Astral Dragon's Temple

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Welcome to my FE:Fates blog

Fates was a very special game for me specifically

So I decided to make this blog dedicated to all of my thoughts on Fates

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I'm protesting that nosferatu is the only dark tome

Technically, Brynhildr is also dark magic according to Leo, but he's the only one who wields it so basically doesn't count

Summon - Uses half of caster's current HP to summon a faceless with HP equal to HP cost. Stats are based on user's level. The idea here is that a sorcerer is supposed to regain the HP they lost with nosferatu on the following turn

Eclipse - Dark magic with 3-10 range. Dark magic is infantry-locked so it's fair to give them extended range. They cannot follow-up

Shadow Blade - This spells targets foe's def stat instead of res. It still uses the user's mag stat. Consider it Fire Emblem's version of Pokemon's psyshock

Fates needed more dark magic

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I'm gonna be honest. I did not remember Oboro's support with Benny being as a bad as it is

I could've sworn that she was nicer about it in their A support

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I love Shura a lot and wish he had more supports

It's also kind of unfortunate because he has a lot of lore connected to both kingdoms. He has reasons to be bitter with Hoshido because they didn't act when Kohga was destroyed which Ryoma does acknowledge as a mistake. However, while he settled in Nohr, he has no love for it either and experienced that poverty firsthand

Shura would've been useful for calling out both factions for the choices they made during the war especially since he's a neutral unit who is available in all routes

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Cluttering Fates' roster with more 2nd characters because I am unhinged

- Tatsuki, Hinoka's daughter. A sky knight like her mother. While she inherited her mother's hotblooded nature, she also carries Queen Mikoto's air of elegance making her more feminine than Hinoka

-Emilia, Camilla's daughter. A spoiled, but kindhearted fighter. As a result of Camilla coddling her, Emilia can be very demanding and spoiled, but she does mean well with the happiness of her loved ones being one of the things she's "greedy" about

-Haruna, Sakura's daughter. An outspoken confident miko. Haruno was always encouraged to be brave and to never be scared to speak for what matters to her. Despite what others think, her courage comes directly from her mother

-Rosalinde, Elise's daughter. A studious dark mage. She is very much not like her mother at all. Rosie prefers to be introverted and doesn't enjoy crowds or people. Despite this, she tries to follow Elise's example and show compassion to all. Only in more subtle ways

Since all the princes had more princes, I was pretty much strong-armed into giving the princesses more princesses, but I don't mind that

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omg when I read this I just got OBSESSED with the idea so I'm finally posting some art after like a year of nothing! Please excuse the messy lineart, I'm trying to get back into art trhrthgdf

anyways super obsessed with them

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Wow, thank you. I did not think someone would like my OC ideas enough to make art for them. Thank you so much!

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Cluttering Fates' roster with more 2nd characters because I am unhinged

- Tatsuki, Hinoka's daughter. A sky knight like her mother. While she inherited her mother's hotblooded nature, she also carries Queen Mikoto's air of elegance making her more feminine than Hinoka

-Emilia, Camilla's daughter. A spoiled, but kindhearted fighter. As a result of Camilla coddling her, Emilia can be very demanding and spoiled, but she does mean well with the happiness of her loved ones being one of the things she's "greedy" about

-Haruna, Sakura's daughter. An outspoken confident miko. Haruno was always encouraged to be brave and to never be scared to speak for what matters to her. Despite what others think, her courage comes directly from her mother

-Rosalinde, Elise's daughter. A studious dark mage. She is very much not like her mother at all. Rosie prefers to be introverted and doesn't enjoy crowds or people. Despite this, she tries to follow Elise's example and show compassion to all. Only in more subtle ways

Since all the princes had more princes, I was pretty much strong-armed into giving the princesses more princesses, but I don't mind that

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Kinda sad to see the og page deactivated bit i still wanted to share the old designs I made years ago:

This is Hinoka's daughter, i put her on silver hair because the first partner i gave Hinoka was Jakob (called her Etsuko and she couldn't be a rider because she would get dizzy easily)

And this is my design to Sakura's child, hair color because the first partner I gave Sakura was Hayato (I called her Ayaka and her personality was a mix of Hana and Hinata jaja)

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The blog was down because of account problems, but I'm back now

It's nice that your OCs was the first thing I saw when I logged back in

I always love your reblogs and your posts in general

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Cluttering Fates' roster with more 2nd characters because I am unhinged

- Tatsuki, Hinoka's daughter. A sky knight like her mother. While she inherited her mother's hotblooded nature, she also carries Queen Mikoto's air of elegance making her more feminine than Hinoka

-Emilia, Camilla's daughter. A spoiled, but kindhearted fighter. As a result of Camilla coddling her, Emilia can be very demanding and spoiled, but she does mean well with the happiness of her loved ones being one of the things she's "greedy" about

-Haruna, Sakura's daughter. An outspoken confident miko. Haruno was always encouraged to be brave and to never be scared to speak for what matters to her. Despite what others think, her courage comes directly from her mother

-Rosalinde, Elise's daughter. A studious dark mage. She is very much not like her mother at all. Rosie prefers to be introverted and doesn't enjoy crowds or people. Despite this, she tries to follow Elise's example and show compassion to all. Only in more subtle ways

Since all the princes had more princes, I was pretty much strong-armed into giving the princesses more princesses, but I don't mind that

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Why do we rarely talk about how Ryoma, Kagero, and Saizo share the struggle of dealing with family legacies?

Ryoma has Sumeragi's shadow following him at all times

Kagero is taking over for her brother because he can't fulfill his duties

Saizo's identity is built around his failure to protect his father and the weight that comes with carrying his name

How did I miss the similarities staring me right in the face?

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Giving Azura class promotions for her birthday

To make things easier for class promotion, I would add Azura-specific exp items. The child seals auto-upgrade the 2nd gen characters, so Azura could get her own seals after completing certain chapters

Songtress: Keeps Luck +4 and Inspiring Song

Dawn Songtress: Birthright promotion - Voice of Light: Enemies within two spaces inflict -2 damage with their magical attacks - Hoshidan Ballad: Use "Sing" to grant an ally Def/Res +3 for one turn

Dusk Songtress: Conquest promotion - Voice of Darkness: Enemies within two spaces inflict -2 damage with their physical attacks - Nohrian Anthem: Use "Sing" to grant an ally Str/Mag +3 for one turn

Maiden of Waves: Revelations promotion - Unburdened Voice: Use "Sing" to grant an ally Mov +2 for one turn - Requiem of Tides: Use "Warp" to move next to an ally that has already acted and use "Sing" (Broken? Yes! Do I care? No!)

I wasn't sure if I should give her a Mov+ skill, but I figured since Rally Movement got DLC-locked, why not?

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Hinoka prefers to rush ahead because she hates the idea of letting others risk their safety

Setsuna is an archer who needs to stay on the back lines. Azama is also a healer and needs to be constantly protected before he promotes

Is this subtle character building? I think it is

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It's interesting that other characters usually criticize Charlotte's gold-digging because they think it's bad for Charlotte rather than the men

At first, they may say that she's being underhanded, but once they learn more about her, they question if she's really happy appealing to men the way she does and how it's damaging her self-esteem

Her most popular ships are the ones that openly encourage her to be herself for a reason. While gold-digging is usually considered exploitative, in Charlotte's case, it's also self-destructive and there are characters who point that out for her sake

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Valentine's the perfect time to say, the quadruple Royal Family ship people came up with is still peak comedy

Ryoma and Xander stocks skyrocketed after the game released

Hinoka and Camilla is decently popular and remains popular

Takumi and Leo is still flooding the yaoi space

Sakura and Elise are half and half in being a ship and being the best of friends, but I still see wholesome ship art for them

And Corrin and Azura are just standing there with their new blended family that was united through dating each other

I guess it's accurate to actual royalty

And the ships themselves are cute even if having all of them at the same time is kinda ridiculous

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Is it too much of a stretch to say Hoshido represents the sky and Nohr represents the land in comparison to Valla representing the water?

What? I like sky, land, and sea trios

Sky and earth have a rivalry and the tides serve as the balance between them. Or in this case, lack of balance

Adding in the theme wouldn't be that hard

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If Nohr had its own trainee unit, and I'm thinking about this because I'm also working on a post about giving the female units child units, my first choice is bringing back journeyman

Since Mozu already uses lances, it just makes sense to me to bring back an axe trainee

If new classes on the table, I say journeyman gets warrior and berserker, and we switch outlaw to getting warrior instead of bow knight

If we stick with already existing classes, wyvern lord instead of warrior because wyverns are awesome

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Causing controversy because I apparently need drama in my life

In my opinion, AmaLee did a better job of translating Hitori Omou

"Join in our prayer, in our song" -That goes hard

"Ocean of waves" is actually more accurate to the song's original meaning. In the original Japanese, the same lyric's exact translation is "Swayed and being swayed" so Ama using "Ocean of waves" actually fits Corrin better

Corrin is an ocean of waves. Swaying up and down with all of their conflicted emotions regarding their two families. I think that says more about the weight of their decision than using gray waves

For the record, this isn't Fates criticism, but translator criticism

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What if Beruka's a wyvern rider because Camilla taught her the beauty of compassion by showing her the bond between a woman and her wyvern

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If Nohr had a dagger base class, I think it should be a servant that promotes to maid/butler and a new class called spy

Spy uses daggers and tomes with an A-rank in daggers because there's an A-rank Nohrian dagger that can't even be used by Nohrians

Hoshido has 9 base classes, so it's only fair to give Nohr just one more

I did see a mod for a Nohrian dagger class, but I forget where