#cormag

[jisuto]

[trunswicked]

Choose your style!

[sacredstarlordpi]

fire emblem the sacred stones chapter 15 (colorised)

[if you want the context, it's based on a question i asked on bsky, which ended up being unanimous]

[hidgey]

Style study with Cormag (and Genarog :3c)

I'm really happy with how this turned out! ☺️

[fe8meta]

"I watched Eirika run her blade right through his chest and then flee": EN vs. JP

Eirika Mode Chapter 13, Hamill Canyon, begins with Valter delivering Glen's mangled corpse to Cormag.

Valter: Glen's last orders were to find and subdue Eirika. 'Tis a pity I was delayed. I arrived to witness the final blow myself. I watched Eirika run her blade right through his chest and then flee.

As it turns out, the English script changed Valter's line. Perhaps because they thought the Japanese script made a mistake, or because the line seemed a little too unbelievable to the audience, because what the original text said was...

グレンは陛下の命を受けエイリーク一行の討伐に向かった。(At His Majesty's command, Glen went to subjugate Eirika and her forces.) 俺が追いついた時には決着はついていた。(It was over by the time I caught up.) エイリークは槍でグレンの胸を貫きその場から逃げ去った。(Eirika ran her spear through Glen's chest and then fled.)

In the official FE8 Novelization (specifically, Chapter 12), this discrepancy in Eirika's weapon of choice is one of the clues which convinces Cormag that Eirika isn't lying to him, and that Valter was the one who did the deed.

While looking through some Japanese FE8 guides/resources, I found that for several reasons -- this scene among them -- Valter is considered a joke character (dare I say, "a fraud"?) among JP players, since he actively works in ways which sabotage Grado's cause and then is a chump of a boss on top of that.

(EN Valter is buffed from his JP version. Along with increases in HP, Speed, and DEF, EN added a fort underneath him and Caellach to improve their evasion and provide them healing. Despite wielding a Killer Lance when killing Glen earlier in the story, JP Valter had a Silver Lance as a boss. EN subbed it for a Killer Lance.)

[tei-ahn]

An old wip that was sitting around and decided to finish it!

[catnipsmoker]

Cormag for FE Sacred Stone 20th Anniversary

[luce-speaks]

please yap as you please about joshua and artur and cormag. maybe even cormag n joshua together what would that look like 👀

ohhhhhh hermit i'm using my entire brain for this one

i really love artur's relationships with both cormag and joshua. i hadn't really thought about it before you sent me this, but i think they actually contrast each other in a really interesting way. putting this under a readmore because it got LONG

in the artur/cormag support, artur seeks cormag out. explicitly this is because of an interest in wyverns, but i think it also shows that cormag is the kind of person artur seeks out. artur uses his respectful title (sir) despite the fact that 1) nobody asked him to do that and 2) cormag was knighted in the enemy country. artur sees cormag as a true knight—straightforward, upstanding, and honorable—even when cormag himself feels like he's losing sight of those things in his quest for revenge.

in the artur/joshua support, on the other hand... joshua seeks artur out. (my interpretation of this is that joshua thinks artur is cute + sees it as an opportunity to get better at fighting mages.) but artur isn't interested in him. artur doesn't even want to gamble with him, and he only does so because he gets tricked into it. but, as they continue to fight together in battle, things change. joshua becomes more aware of artur and starts going out of his way to keep him safe, and artur sees this new side of him: someone who takes things seriously, someone he can rely on. and that is what matters to him. and now joshua is the one getting scared, because being relied on is scary and he's been avoiding it for actual years. to me, the endpoint of this arc comes after their a support and requires joshua coming back and stepping up to follow through on what he started—to finally commit to something.

to sum it up i think the cormag supports show artur very intentionally deciding to befriend his cool coworker and then successfully executing on that. while the joshua supports show artur getting looney tuned into a friendship with the worst guy he can imagine and he doesn't even know how it happened. and they're both great! my personal fave to write is artur/joshua but i like both pairings (romantically as well as platonically. and queerplatonically if you want to get funky with it!)

but hey, why stop there? you asked about joshua and cormag. i can see them interacting a little bit because of artur, but we can go further. maybe they've been assigned on the front lines together. maybe i just locked them in a box and shook it until they started talking.

i think joshua and cormag would make for interesting interactions because they're both very defined by their relationship with their country (notably unlike artur, who seems to be happy anywhere as long as he's helping people). cormag's role in the war and the story is inextricable from his loyalty to grado; joshua's character is completely redefined when you find out about his responsibilities as the prince of jehanna. and this leaves both of them grappling with things throughout the story; cormag has to square his loyalty with his opposition to grado's actions, while joshua has to accept the consequences of shirking his duties. (oh, and they both end up fighting to avenge family members, huh.) joshua ran away too soon, while cormag was willing to go down with a sinking ship until glen's death changed his priorities.

in terms of their actual interactions, i think cormag would make joshua really uneasy. like... how do you stand proud next to someone who had the loyalty you never did. (also he has no interest in gambling so fleecing him is off the table. rip joshua.) but as cormag turns his focus toward helping grado by breaking its tyranny and contributing to the rebuilding effort, joshua also finds a path forward in taking up the responsibility he abandoned instead of letting old mistakes fester. in that, i think they might both find a new respect for the other.