FANTSY CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT MEME // OPEN
@lightfated asked: 🐉 💗
🐉 = Of the fantastical elements in their world what does your character actually find strange, or hard to believe? 💗 = Any unique traditions where your character is from that wouldn’t work or apply in the real world?
If Arvis thinks anything is strange, it’s dragons. They serve as a pretty massive part of the pantheon of gods in Jugdral’s theology, but the way they are described --- particularly, the way that they are described as transforming to and fro from a humanlike appearance to a more draconic one at will --- is a little farfetched to him, especially since Jugdral is one of the only continents where we never really see any dragons outside of Loptyr’s brief appearance at the end of the game. To put it shortly, Arvis doesn’t believe in true dragons. Not really, anyway; he does believe in the power of the crusaders and in the gods that descended from the heavens to grant them their strength in Darna, especially since he as a Major Fjalar blood carrier is living proof of that pact, but he thinks that they’re just that --- gods --- and that if anything they might be general shapeshifters that could take on whatever fantastical forms they please. It makes much more sense to him for such powerful deities to be able to do whatever they like with their appearances.
So colour him surprised in any crossover setting when he happens upon any actual dragons and is introduced to the concept of manaketes. Dragons? In my fire emblem game?? It’s more likely than you think.
As for traditions, there aren’t many shown within canon. The only one that comes to mind is the obvious annual witch hunt purges in Agustria, which he’d be more than happy to see fall to the wayside in the real world. When it comes to personal headcanon I take to the headcanon that most of the traditions in Jugdral are comparable to those of ancient Scandinavia since so much of the contents of the game are based on old Norse mythos, so most of the issues he’d find would just be in time period as a magical viking coming into the year 2020. There’s magic in this world, though! You can’t tell me there aren’t traditions and customs specific to Velthomer involving fire magic, dances and ceremonies, rites of passage and holidays centered around the sun and meteors and the summer solstice. Any of that would be gone.
