#fates resources

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DRAGONS! This really makes me want to finish that Kamui design breakdown. I'm loving all the different directions here.

e: note that the bottom two are Hydra!!! Not sure right now if they're just concept art or actual forms. At the very least the one on the left looks like the funeral mask version. That's the dawn dragon at the top left.

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Couple other random notes from skimming profiles:

Asama has an older brother

Sumeragi and Fuuga corresponded up until Sumeragi’s death

Did the Ice Tribe have a proper name before? It does now: フリージア, which could be Freeza, Freezia, Fleigia--it’s an ice pun, that’s the important part. Decide how literally you wanna read it.

Garon sent for Nyx after hearing of her massacre and she went into hiding to keep from being discovered by him.

Kazahana’s family is distantly related to the royals

I can’t remember if the game specifies it, but Setsuna is also of noble blood. Hinoka recruited Asama first, and he was so useless at combat that she went looking for someone to pick up the slack. Setsuna apparently has an incredible record at the garrison and Hinoka "fell in love with" her cool, dispassionate shooting and impressive results and offered to take her on on the spot.

Gunther’s scar is from when Garon killed his family. He attempted to stand up to him and was soundly thrashed.

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Cute generics. There's female designs for every class (except the gender-locked ones, natch), probably because you could reclass into them so the designs all needed to be there even if they didn't use the female model for most enemies.

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Hey, hey, look closer! The Hydra you fight in the final stage is the desecrated corpse version of the concept art! It looks like...kind of a blend between the two designs? You can see the mouth-eye a bit in one. Hard to tell, but look how the head and tail has all those stumps. He was torn open, sawed apart, and bound.

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I almost wonder if the writer for the Invisible History DLC was a different one from the main writing stable, because almost nothing from it is acknowledged here. Nothing about Hydra and Mikoto's past, nothing about Lilith's heritage aside from that family chart.

That's Lilith's profile on the left. You don't even need to be able to read Japanese--do you see the word ハイドラ anywhere in there? It ain't present. The closest thing to new information in there is the offhand mention that celestial dragons are a subtype of the Divine Dragons which created the world and they can move between dimensions. And something about them being unable to physically speak and communicating through telepathy, but I honestly can't tell if that only applies to Lilith or all of them because there's so little information.

This book feels like it was written by several different people who weren't speaking to one another.

I have absolutely nothing factual to support this, but I kind of suspect that the Lilith in the final game is the result of two different characters folded together. The fairy who's fond of MC and gives up their human form to protect them is a decently common trope on its own, and everything about Lilith in the main game exists only to justify the pocket dimensions of the Deeprealms and My Castle, meta concepts which are so divorced from the main story I'm pretty sure they're not even canon. You don't need a heavily-invested backstory to explain some ancillary gameplay mechanic.

Invisible History Lilith, however, portrays a totally different type of character who's woven into the backstory of the main conflict in a critical way. This is completely at odds with how the main story treats her. Nobody would write like this on purpose. Was it a retcon? A character cut and retooled into Lilith? I can't tell you, but something is off here.

Incidentally, I wanted to point out that that center concept actually isn't Lilith! It's labeled Celestial Dragon in the general sense. So they all look like koi, I guess?

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Random highlights:

Ashura's profile: "It is hard to say that he is a good person, but his true nature is gentle."

Adventurer design comment: "The big ribbon that both men and women have tied in the back is lovely."

Zero holds "great compassion and love" for Leon for taking him in.

Zero's profile retains the oblique implication of prostitution ("sold everything that could be sold") and also the evocative line "dyed his hands with every crime that could be committed"

Notably, Leon's profile makes no mention of his Camilla lust

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First-gen large portraits

Second-gen large portraits

NPC large portraits

Not all of them reveal more body, but most do. It looks like some were slightly sized up, so maybe try shrinking to 75-50% to get a sharper image if you want to use these for graphics.

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Fire Emblem Fates Unique Classes

I haven’t worked on sorting or collecting images for it for a while, but I started an album of the unique class model/palettes in Fates.

Gee, Odin, how come Hydra lets you have FOUR unique models?