The origins of Agarthium, Aymr, and the artificial relics and crest stones
For those reading I wonder what it takes or anyone who's curious about my theory as to what Agarthium (the Agarthan equivalent of Umbral Steel) actually is. BIG SPOILERS below the cut.
It’s revealed that the Agarthans can create artificial Crest Stones because they do so to create the dark replica weapons used in the climax of Verdant Wind and in Edelgard’s artificial relic Aymr. Aymr is repaired using Agarthium, not Umbral Steel (Nabatean/dragon bone), the material used to repair the Heroes Relics and Sword of the Creator. Aymr also uses the Crest Stone of the Beast, which is obviously not a true Crest Stone because Maurice is fused with it at the time of the weapon’s creation. Many have theorized that there were multiple dragons (Nabateans) with the same Crest, and that the artificial weapons are made with “spare parts” the Agarthans still had. However, I think that in the case that those two things were true, these artificials would still require Umbral Steel for repair, as they’d still be made from dragon pieces.
Aymr (the OC character appearing in Ch 15 of the above fic) is my theorized alternative. The Agarthans got wind of Rhea’s homunculi creations (Sitri and her predecessors) and used similar means in combination with their stockpile of Nabatean blood to farm new materials for Crest Stones and weapons. (We know they had Nabatean blood because of the blood reconstruction surgery experiments on Lysithea, Edelgard, and their siblings.)
Therefore, Agarthium is the bones and the artificial stones are the hearts of these demi-Nabateans. Aymr is literally the person who would be killed to create Edelgard’s legendary axe post-timeskip.
These artificial stones were then used to further experiment upon and empower the Agarthan ranks, as supported in-part by the canon scene in which Solon crushes the stone in Kronya’s chest to cast Byleth into Zahras. (I thought this was a heart, but I went back and watched the cutscene like 5 times after someone on reddit pointed this out, and it’s decidedly not a heart.) In Three Hopes, the scene where Solon is used to open Zahras does not contain a depiction of a stone being destroyed, only him being stabbed. So my conclusion is that any heart-destroying death could be used to power this spell, but Kronya's death required the destruction of her stone, suggesting she, like Sitri and Byleth, is using it as a replacement heart. I posit that this is one of the reasons she's more openly unhinged than her compatriots, who were more likely to be the ones performing the experiments than undertaking them on their own bodies.
if Claude is my fire emblem husband, Edelgard is my fire emblem blorbo. I love her so much and she gives me brainworms 💗
[ID: three crops of the same digital drawing of Edelgard von Hresvelg from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, post-timeskip. Edelgard is floating in front of a large projection of her two Crests, split in half: the Crest of Seiros on the left and the Crest of Flames on the right. She is holding her axe Aymr, and looking over her shoulder at the viewer with an impassive expression. end ID]
added more relics to the double-sided embroidered keychain collection, and also turned them all into patches that can be iron-on or stickers too!! 🗡🛡 working on adding the rest of the hero’s relics! would anyone want the saint’s weapons too?
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