Given how 3Nopes is supposed to be released in June...
I have no faith in it, but maybe IS through FE heroes could tease it by releasing their usual batch of units for the “children banner”, but with duo small!Cichol and small!Rhea - Cichol would be tasked to watch over his baby sister while their elders are waging a “terrible war” outside against a Goddess and her servants, seeing other children characters in Askr Cichol thinks they are the servants of that other Goddess, but Rhea befriends them ; end of the mini story could be small!Rhea asking small!Cichol if they can become friends with humans in their world, so maybe they won’t need to fight anymore.
Caponia is the ‘light’ that the Agarthans worshiped before Sothis arrived on Fodlan, and all records of her existence were wiped by the Church shortly after the War of Heroes ended.
We know Sothis was worshipped as a Goddess before the War of Heroes started, Seteth met his wife in a Church, and Nabateans were seen as God/Divinities/Rulers by teh people before Zanado, per the dev’s interview.
To me, it would have make more sense to erase “Caponia” after the end of the first Sothis-Agartha war, not after the War of Heroes since, again, Rhea and the Saints canonically didn’t know who were the guys who were behind Nemesis. Why would they erase the name of this Goddess otherwise?
1/ Because they are intolerant? Seteth and Rhea herself directly contradict this in their Fe Heroes incarnations - and as far as spin off goes, Fe Heroes is as canon as FE16W.
2/ Because they didn’t want people to remember their old enemy? Again, why would they think Caponia is their enemy, if they ignore Agarthans are behind Nemesis? Also, who would still worship Caponia after the end of the Sothis-Agarthan War, bar Agarthans? If Sothis reconstructed/healed the world after the war, are there still traces of her presence temples somewhere? Or Agarthans were trying to keep her cult alive -
-> but it contradicts Thales’s words, if Nabateans banished them to the sewers after the War, how would they still preach about their goddess to the “animals” living on the surface?
IS FE16W trying to retcon Nemesis’s war and the Agarthan War as some sort of War between two religions, and not a war where someone wants to revenge for her genocided race, or how Nemesis never gave a fuck about any religion and only wanted a shiny kickass sword?
If those leaks are true, then FE16W retcons the March 2020 interview, FE16 itself and FE16′s core subplot ! Watch as a traditional “greedy humans fuck over giant lizards and doom the world” plot gets turned in a “moles and lizards had different gods and are fighting while humans are caught in the middle”.
some people might call it a mere cashgrab, or a fangame, but in no way a game that is supposed to explore the canon of FE16 like FE5 did to FE4.
Funny seeing Edelstans really wanting to buy this game (and thus support cheap cash grabs) for their communist queen
It's still a game that stars their favourite character, so it was bound to happen.
Granted, the Zettai Ryouki makes me uncomfortable, Edel wears practical clothes (or what could be practical for a lead waifu) to go to war, but in the cheap spin-off she pulls the schoolgirl suit? She's not pegasi rider, but an armoured lord!
I mean, why not, but you can bet your horse I'd have rioted if Rhea changed her wardrobe for this, or if Dimitri started to wear shorts.
I have the feeling this game will disappoint everyone, no matter their stance on Edel or base!FE16.
So apparently Belly Shaz (wtf) is a member of the Imperial Army or at least one of their allies, can befriend every House Leader, eat donuts with them and their worst enemy is -
Billy
Monica stole Macuil’s Saintly Weapon - but it’s a spell, since Magic Tomes don’t exist in Fodlan, she learnt one of Macuil’s exclusive spells? - Flayn is just there, 0 Rhea footage and Billy is hyped to be new OC, who dual wields bcs rule of cool, ‘s archnemesis?
The game really wants me to be interested in the rivalry between new super special awesome who can befriend everyone OC and Billy ??? Who was the Ashen Demon while not knowing how old they were, what where the 3 different countries in Fodlan or what is even the Church of Seiros?
That Billy??
I’m so not excited.
OTOH, Holst got a reveal so maybe, in some dark corner of the game, hidden under 558 coding lines and datamined but not released in the final product, we’ll have Willy.
GFDI I wasn’t playing on buying the game, nor was super interested in it with the old (fake) leaks, but from what we had there... I’m even less interested.
I hope FEH will release the Church Banner before 3 Nopes, because I honestly don’t want the Church pals to be shafted for Shaz and his “cool (tm) factor”.
I swear it, the Imperial Army are the heroes of this story, they’re just, uh sacking the seat of the Central Chuch, but to sack a city isn’t inherently negative, it’s just about reclaiming what was lost
Like remember, Supreme Leader said Rhea BaD because she steals money from brave Adrestians all around, so now the Empire is just recovering all this money and valuable and adds it to its Treasury.
Worst Mom, Agarthan woobification and the Lords supporting each other, is this really the golden route everyone wanted?
Golden as it will make a lot of money, anon.
I don't know if this leak is true, or if everything will happen this way, but I never hid that FE16 in itself... or the plot points it tried to tackle never interested me.
Even ignoring Flamey's hit on her classmates, the second the Lonato Chapter came up a lot of people knew a Golden Route wasn't meant to be, because Flamey and Dimitri's ideals and visions of the world are completely irreconciliable.
@nilsh13 already pointed it out regarding the Church - this has never been a war of "muh ideals" or technological progress over stagnation or whatever, Rhea and the Church do not oppose Flamey because of her ideals, but because of the means to reach those ideals - if her "reforming the world to put in place a muhritocracy" is the only taken into account and not the "pointy ears should be obliterated because they are not humans" - something that actually echoes a certain other country - who always allies with said Church.
If Edel doesn't want to conquer Fodlan to get rid of Lizards, MAGA and put her "reforms" in place, is she still Edel?
And if this Edel is really in FE16W, will the "blonde dude by her side" really agree with her ideas, or will Dimitri oppose her and her "ideals"?
Do you need to twist in a pretzel every character in FE16 to make FE16W's golden route function?
Thales apparently received leather pants, so we have a clue about the answer.
What truly interested me in FE16 was not the story the plot focused on, but the rest. The latest FEH FB with Niime and Fa lampshaded it, what is the place of dragons in a world ruled by humans? How are dragons and humans supposed to interact?
Can it work like Elibe, where coexistence will be sought after even after a war and people will be able to live together in a village? Or like Archanea, where 2000 years later a dragon is still seen as an Oracle and gets to interact and make friends with people?
Will the Nabateans have a place in Fodlan ? Can they?
Instead of dealing with this question, afaik, FE16W brings a new conflict between two deities, and sidelines Nabateans, or worse, wants to compare them to the people who ordered a genocide and used humans as guinea pigs.
Nabateans have been nothing (again, afaik) but kind to humans and tried to live peacefully with them, and were genocided by said humans. Nonetheless, they still try to help them.
Agarthans... manipulated humans to wage war on Fodlan, sow chaos and desolation, are responsible for a genocide more than 1000 years ago and behind the duscurian one in the modern times, they used children as tests subjects to the point of making some lose their mind, they routinely transform people, against their wills, in Demonic Beasts... Agarthans showed nothing but hatred and contempt at humans and Nabateans -
And while I always appreciate lore, the new game gives them leather pants? We will focus on Worst Mom (my thoughts about Sothis sadly never evolved) and her Agarthan alter ego and her followers, and not on the "trying to do their best" Nabateans who were already shafted in the base game?
I wonder, will this game try to push for the "peaceful coexsitence" angle from an agarthan point of view, and not from the genocided tribe of nabateans who still try to live with human and do not turn them in demonic beasts for funsies every saturday?
FE16 is already a mess because it tried to woobify Flamey, as a result its messages aren't understood and it feels flat (something FEH tries to correct).
Worst mom is opposed to someone else, maybe another alien from her og planet, or the og "God like" entity that Thales'n'co worshipped before she landed?
F!Billy's going to fight against that thing's avatar? Why F!Billy though...
And yep, Edel doesn't have her bone club, methinks Agarthans aren't going to be carpets on this spin off...
Bar this first analysis, I can't muster any interest about FE16W, since it's made clear Edel is still in the forefront so certain things from the game will still be eluded.
