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[acompletenonentity]

disapproving dragon daddy

[t0bey]

made me really happy to see people liking my harvest moon x Fe3h au the other day! so here’s an extra rhea and the sprites/saints :]

[starmeleph]

IntSys pls

Give me Macuil and Indech.

Let me know what they look like

Let me know what the other two Nabataen brothers look like

Do they look similar?

Are Indech and Macuil more blond since they can still transform?

Macuil gives heavy middle child, done-with-everyones-shit energy.

Indech feels like the eldest that left to wander around the world because what do you mean that one paralogue is the first time he's ever met Flayn in person? You didn't even see her during the war, my guy?

Seteth is supposed to be like, a 26 year old man from some data mine of 3H. Is he the youngest?

THERE'S SO MUCH I WANT TO KNOW!

[midday-headcanons]

Currently thinking about how Flayn has her own unique Crest despite being a second generation Nabataen.

That means any child born of a Nabatean would have their own unique Crest as well.

So… potentially, if Flayn had a child, or any other surviving Nabataen did (Seteth, Rhea, Macuil, Indech, and an argument could be made for Byleth), there'd be a brand new Crest in the world.

Hanneman is foaming at the mouth rn.

[ask-the-abyss-keeper]

This is not meant to be discourse…

…but it does have to do with Leonie and Linhardt’s paralogue from FE3H. Promise I’m fair and friendly towards all of these characters because I actually love them all. Rant below the cut.

So the paralogue really should have been Bernadetta’s. The Inexhaustible ought to be her bow, not Leonie’s. It is Bernadetta who bears the crest of Indech and it should have been Bernadetta who had a dialogue with The Immovable, not Linhardt or Leonie. This was a missed opportunity for the writers to show actual character development for Bernie in the war phase and not just have her end as essentially the same character, only taller.

Suppose Indech senses that Bernie is his heir and he makes the entire map just a trial for her to overcome her fears? The fog? The phantom soldiers? The crazy shit that a turtle kaiju throws at them? All a trial made just for Bernie. It would have made the whole “Bernie’s unstoppable” line make so much more sense after she overcomes Indech’s trial.

Linhardt is still there as a scholar and as her friend, but Leonie has practically nothing to do with this. Even as a unit in the gameplay, Leonie is better off using a silver bow while Bernadetta can fire a potential four times in one move with The Inexhaustible. That’s why I always give that bow to Bernie.

I say this with genuine love in my heart for all of these characters. I actually ship Bernadetta with Leonie just because I love their supports. It is they who would be the cutest, not forcing Linhardt into the dynamic. I am not a Leonie hater, far from it. You might as well have had her get involved in Mercedes’ paralogue instead of Caspar. Leonie would have wanted to prove herself against the Death Knight as much as Caspar does and she has just as many supports with Mercedes as Caspar, which is zero.

Petra’s paralogue would have benefitted more from having Caspar in it, since most of their supports are about Caspar’s guilt over how the empire treated Brigid. It would have helped Caspar feel as though they were even now. Having that paralogue end with Bernadetta geeking out over carnivorous plants was cute but how much does it really develop her as a character? If anything, her admiration of a plant that waits for food to land in its mouth just makes her seem more passive.

Yes I am picking on one of my favorite games, but I pick on it because these are some of my favorite characters. As Bernie’s professor, I would much rather see her develop into a unit who doesn’t need to be protected, quite the opposite. I want her to be unstoppable!

[slotumn]

The thing about Nabatean timeline in 3H lore is that it's some "Cleopatra lived closer to our time than the construction of the Great Pyramids" stuff. Everything we get about them seems to imply that rather than being "as old as recorded history" old, they're "the majority of their civilization and lifespans came before recorded history" old.

Rhea is sort of the face of the Nabateans so I think it's easy for people to think of Nabatean history by her standard, but she's actually the youngest (at least the ones Sothis directly made, depending on when/how Flayn was born exactly), so you have to add +however many millennia when you're thinking of the other Nabateans.

And according to the latest alt, Rhea was old enough to remember interactions with her mother before she went to sleep, so the absolute youngest she could be is that she was born + grew up while Sothis was restoring the continent after the war with the Agarthans.

Personally what I think this implies for the median Nabatean is that they 1. had direct memories of the old human civilizations before the big war and reset, and 2. spent more of their lives in the pre-reset era than the post-reset era. The second one is important because for the median Nabatean, "human history/civilization" would not be what happened after the reset, it would be what came before that.

To reiterate, this means that Seteth, Macuil, Indech, etc might actually know about skyscrapers and computers and fighter jets firsthand. Also for Rhea, the current day Fódlan humans seems to be the only iteration of humans she's had firsthand interactions with, but for the other Nabateans, it's probably not (which imo would explain a lot about Macuil's cynicism)

Tl;dr Rhea is an outlier among Nabateans because she probably hasn't seen human-built skycrapers

[wanderingmind867]

I wrote an old version of this post long ago (like two years ago), but now I want to write it better. So here's an improved, longer version of this note:

At the end of Crimson Flower, Edelgard successfully kills Rhea/Seiros, and then she unites the continent of Fodlan under her rule. The Adrestian Empire rules over all it surveys. Rhea, Dimitri and all the others who stood in Edelgard's way lay dead and buried. But (since this is something you can do in Crimson Flower), a few people got away. Byleth had a weak heart, and Claude, Seteth and Flayn all escaped Edelgard's wrath. Presumably, they fled Fodlan for parts unknown. Either that, or they went into hiding, to await a day when they could have freedom.

Since Edelgard had already dealt with Rhea/Seiros, I can't imagine she'd even bother knowing where to look for the other relatives of Seiros. She seemed busy destroying the church and the crest caste system to care about a bunch of legendary dragons. So we can also assume Saint Indech and Saint Macuil survived and probably went into hiding alongside their kin. That's an assumption I can't prove, however.

Now… I don't need to go into what happened to every character. Because you can make logical assumptions, all based around their ending credit lines and stuff. So we know that Edelgard destroyed the Church. We can assume she got rid of crests. We can even assume she went after the agarthans after dealing with Rhea, successfully driving Thales and his kin even further into hiding (where they might be forced to make a truce with the others in hiding, like Seteth and Flayn). So depending on your view of things, Edelgard achieved a lot of good (or at least a lot of her core objectives). But she did it through extremism. And so nothing is truly stable.

Cut to 100 or 200 years after Edelgard's death. It's now the reign of one of her great grandchildren or descendants, and things aren't going very well. State Athetism has become the lay of the land. Her successors took her lessons and only radicalized them further. If you have a crest and refuse to get it removed, you're shunned from society. If you have any sort of ancestral connection to the nabateans or the agarthans, you're exiled from society. Hells, there's even prejudice against people from Brigid. And it's an empire vassal state! The old caste system of nobles vs commoners has been replaced by a new racial system. Things have stayed the same, only the circumstances have changed.

Into this world would step our protagonist, a newcomer to fodlan who hails from a distant continent. Coming to this land to visit their family, they find their cousins have all been exiled to the slums for their lack of proof as to their heritage. Trying to stand up for their cousins only makes a protagonist a target, and thus they step into a world of racial hatred and mad extremism. In the end, they'd be dragged into becoming the leader of a resistance movement dedicated to liberating the peoples who've been abandoned. The agarthans, nabateans, brigideans, etc.

I feel like the resistance movement might be tied to the old underground sanctuary of abyss, underneath garreg mach. Abyss itself is gone now. But New Abyss exists. An amazing labyrinthine kingdom hidden underneath the empire. A sanctuary for all those who the surface dwellers view as lesser or inferior. A safe place for people to be themselves, to experience faith and religion, to embrace cultures not of adrestian origin, to be different and unique.

Very few characters (beyond Flayn and Seteth and maybe the other nabateans) from the original game show up physically in this story. But their descendants show up. And statues and portraits of Edelgard and Hubert and Byleth and stuff would be likely seem everywhere in empire territory. The extremism has intensified in the centuries since, but the new emperors all claim they're doing as their great ancestor would have had them do. Proof that good intentions with bad means will always lead to bad results in the long term.

[taramimeme-blog-blog]

Story idea:

Awkward holiday family dinner with Seiros, Macuil, Indech, Cichol, and Cethleann.

They're getting together for the first time in hundreds of years. Seiros walks in with her Archbishop garb on, and Macuil immediately makes a snide comment about her "weird human uniform".

"Excuse me? I'm wearing the robes of the institution that I founded all by myself to honor our dear departed mother! Unlike some people, I haven't forgotten her!"

Cichol quickly hurries Cethleann into the kitchen and help Indech prepare the food. Indech is making the food, but also hears the arguing in the other room and is quickly working on downing a bottle of wine and praying he can get through this ordeal.

Cichol seems like the desperate peace-keeper who gets stuck in the middle here. He will have an absolutely miserable time and will leave with everyone angry at him even though he didn't start anything.