#fe9 meta

[lieserli]

yknow after all this time youd think id have noticed the rajaion/ike parallel there but i did not. anywho if ur bf forgets who you are, watch out bc you might secretly be a really cool dragon.

[lieserli]

soren sensing the calm and happiness among the people in the village vs. kurthnaga sensing the enmity among the people fighting on the battlefield

[lieserli]

I believe Sephiran’s magic that sealed Ike’s memories helped him avoid the trauma only so much because it explains exactly why he’s so stoic with a temper at the start of POR instead of acting more like the kids his age around him. He has more in common with Soren than his peers and we all know what happened to Soren.

[lieserli]

dragons is the s ame

[lieserli]

scenes where ppl drew conclusions that the hero "got the girl" (which is such a sexist reading btw) when really theyre just friends and men and women can hold hands without it ending in romance and all hes doing is leading her to where she should be and thats not the face of a guy in love. also his love interest is a boy

[lieserli]

my son who hates everyone <3

[lieserli]

im so sorry elincia but this is the funniest shit ever im wheezing

[theia-eos]

So uuuhhh, was this the cover story for the Serenes Massacre?

Tanith: You see, a plague had struck the capital, spreading out to affect the surrounding region of Nevassa and beyond. Ashnard was crowned the year after that great tragedy finally subsided. In the entire history of Tellius, no calamity has claimed the lives of so many beorc and laguz--not since the great flood. Two years before, it struck Begnion, and the entire population of Serenes was nearly obliterated. The year after that, close to a thousand beorc--nobles and peasants alike--perished in Daein.

Found this while looking through base conversations, and is this a localization error, or a legitimate piece of world building that was never expanded upon. I consult the local Tellius Lore Master!

Hi! Thank you so much the ask!

I think, if anything, it was a localization gaffe. @docidoci did some work on an informative analysis of the script differences between the original Japanese script and the English script. I highly recommend reading through their posts and taking a peek at their analysis for Chapter 18, where the line you're asking about comes from.

It's important to keep in mind that the scripts for these games were translated piecemeal by the translation team, and they often didn't have an idea of the bigger picture, so they were trying to make heads and tails of the bit they were given to work on out of context, which likely led to the issue docidoci mentioned.

That base conversation wouldn't reasonably contain a "cover-up" for the massacre. We just had a whole arc for the last 4 chapters exploring laguz slavery and the senate's crimes against the herons, including the extreme guilt the citizens of Begnion feel for the massacre. It'd be extremely silly for Tanith to be trying to hide what happened to Ike, who was there, working for Sanaki to help make peace with the herons for the massacre the entire time ("Yes, Ike, I did watch you learn that Begnion burned down Serenes Forest and commit genocide of the herons after falsely accusing them of assassinating the prior apostle from Apostle Sanaki herself, but let me sell you a lie about it now." See how silly that sounds?).

It's more the feeling of just lamenting the huge tragedies happening so close together. So, maybe something to the effect of "In the entire history of Tellius, nothing has claimed the lives of so many beorc and laguz outside of war--not since the great flood. Then, twenty years ago, the entire population of Serenes was nearly lost when the forest burned down. The year after that, close to a thousand beorc--nobles and peasants alike--perished in Daein" would have been a little better.

The translation team didn't have that context and were trying to just make the conversation make sense here (so linking them together makes sense if you're just looking at it on its own), but it now doesn't make so much sense in context.

I do think the original script is still a little flippant (though I rely entirely on Google Translate and vibes or fan translations/analysis, as I cannot read Japanese, and I have not found a fan translation of this so GT it is), as it's "oh what a tragedy that the herons were almost all lost 20 years ago" and likening it to a natural disaster (the plague), since it was a genocide and closer to an act of war than a calamity no one could have prevented, but I wouldn't say she's trying to lie about the cause outright, just play down the severity of Begnion's actions (which does make sense, countries that do a genocide don't often admit how heinous it was).

I'll share the original script from PegasusKnight here for anyone more knowledgeable about Japanese to judge any flippancy for themselves.

[タニス] ……アシュナードが即位したのは、 確か…１８年前のはずだ。▼ デイン王都ネヴァサ周辺で ひどい流行り病があって… 人が大勢死んだ翌年だったと記憶している。▼ テリウス大陸史においても、▼ 戦以外で、あれほど多く 立て続けにベオクやラグズが死んだのは…… 創始の大洪水以来だったろうな。▼ ２０年前のベグニオンでは、 セリノス王国の民がほぼ失われ…▼ １９年前のデインでは、 王族を含め１０００に届く数の ベオクが死んだと言うのだからな。▼ Path of Radiance, Chapter 18, "Tanith"