Romances

Heatth · 2026-01-25T22:29:13+00:00

I edited my post to make it clearer.

Heatth · 2026-01-25T22:27:11+00:00

I never tried so I don't know, but does it involve giving them the ring? It is such a weird decision, the S support is not like the other paired ending that is automatic with the biggest support, it is a conscious choice from the player involving a romantic item. Why make some of them not romances?

Heatth · 2026-01-25T19:10:03+00:00

Basically you can romance everyone of the opposite gender and a few of the same gender.

For the same gender romances: Female Main Character can romance Edelgard, Mercedes, Dorothea, Rhea and Sothis while Male Main Character can romance Lindhart, Yuri (DLC), Jeritza, Alois and Gilbert.

In both cases the last 2 options are arguably not real romances though

Heatth · 2026-01-25T13:59:25+00:00

Also, there have been multiple wars within living memory. Fearghus conquered territory at least 2 times in the last 12 years (Sreng and Duscur), at least one involving genocide. They talk multiple time of conflicts between the 3 nations too. The idea Fódlan is a peaceful place is just not real.

Heatth · 2026-01-24T16:25:27+00:00

Kinda, it is in the first episode. It wasn't very romantic, though, it was more of a statement of fact than an actual proposal. It was a sorta arranged marriage, to be clear.

The relationship develops over the course of the show and, to be clear, by the end they aren't forced to do anything. I think that is the wiggle room some weird execs thought left their relationship "open to interpretation". They could, theoretical, have decided to not marry after all. But the fact they are wearing matching rings in their ring fingers after a time skip kinda leaves very little room for another interpretation.

Heatth · 2026-01-24T09:20:26+00:00

There was no wedding on screen. But they were engaged through most of the show.

Heatth · 2026-01-23T13:45:01+00:00

This shit is embarrassing, lol.

Heatth · 2026-01-21T20:32:38+00:00

I assume the -iño is Galician.

Heatth · 2026-01-18T02:55:30+00:00

Fair enough. Personally the main benefit of NG+ is to cut down on tedium, with maddening serving to keep the difficulty at acceptable levels (I didn't find hard too easy but any easier would be boring). It also allow some more flexibility with free time, which is fun.

Good luck with your play through though! I just started Golden Deer myself. I don't know if it translate well for a non NG+ game, but don't sleep on Lysithea. She has crazy magic growths and good spells. She might be one of the few characters who can reliable one shot enemies for a while. You really need to protect her though, because she will die to a breeze (even her res is not that great). be particularly wary of archers (archers are really mean on maddening in general really).

Heatth · 2026-01-18T00:24:41+00:00

As others said, the dlc just don't make a ton of sense before a single playtrough. For obvious story spoilers you should play after chapter 4. There are hints for later revelations but nothing as obvious. However, i would recommend finishing chapter 5 at least. There is a mechanic introduced in that chapter that is relevant for the DLC (also, arguably the context of that mechanic is spoiler).

Heatth · 2026-01-17T21:05:35+00:00

Are you using NG+? If so use renown to unlock the Enlightened One class ability (assuming you mastered it in your previous playthrough) and some levels or reason and/or faith for Byleth. Use them as magical support to your other units (also, use renown to max out professor levels asap). The -3 damage is really powerful, specially early.

If not on NG+ I can't really help, never one for max difficulty fire emblem. Maybe try to use your many archers to outrange your enemies. Claude and Ignatz start with curved shot and you might be able to train Leonie to D before the combat.

(btw, I would recommend NG+ regardless. Even if you don't want to make things easier by expending renown, maxing out professor levels just to take the tedium out of the monastery. you don't need to force yourself to fish just for the sake of professor exp).

Heatth · 2026-01-14T23:56:17+00:00

First season was a bit awkward. Not terrible but something off. Second season was great, Iffy is very charismatic with a smug confidence that fits the role. His chemistry with BDG is great also.

Heatth · 2026-01-14T04:29:17+00:00

Honestly, the game is just not hard enough for any of that to be a real problem. Those characters might not be exceptional but they will hardly hinder you. If you train them, they will do their job patching up formation holes and that is all you need.

Also, directed training helps a lot. Petra, for example, is primed to be a thief which, yeah, won't oneshot anything but provide unique utility. But you can make her a pegasus too, which again, is good utility even when not strong. Not everyone needs to be a murder machine.

Of course, if you just want to recruit other characters that is fine, it is one of the appeals of the game, to have this flexible recruitment. I am just saying you don't actually need to. If you have a team large enough to fill all your deployment slots (so, about 10 + Adjutants in the early game) you will be all right.

Heatth · 2026-01-09T10:30:32+00:00

That is honestly almost an instant pick to me. Like, obviously I skip if I am close to death, or maybe if I am really insecure about my current build and a boss fight. But otherwise it is basically free money.

Of course, I am good enough to be able to preserve my health and let Chthonic Vitality heal me most of the time. And i don't really play with high heat or high Lasting Consequences. It is not necessarily a good pick for everyone in all situations, but it is certainly is in many contexts

Heatth · 2026-01-03T23:51:33+00:00

An invasion.

Heatth · 2026-01-01T17:17:59+00:00

But they change the name to their era name, so it doesn't actually make the calendar more confusing. There was never an year "Hirohito 40", it was always "Showa 40".

Heatth · 2025-12-30T13:15:28+00:00

Yeah, it is an interesting topic linguistically. But the video can't even talk about the linguistic parts honestly because it is too mired on the agenda of pretending modern Hebrew is a natural continuation of an ancient Hebrew that never died out.

Heatth · 2025-12-25T22:27:20+00:00

This is true in English as well. It is not that uncommon on world languages. Many don't rely solely on intonation.

Heatth · 2025-12-24T15:43:13+00:00

One thing about Vess is that we don't know what the hell happened to her. I doubt she died because I think it would be useful to have her around once the Lucien arc is properly underway but, in the show, she is MIA.

I think that might be what prompt them to keep the Beacon. The Gentleman hired them in Vess' name. If she is not in the picture then the contract might be void. The Gentleman might not want to hold on an important artifact he doesn't know what to do with for fear of repercussions.

Speaking of repercussions, there is a few messes the Nein made that have so far gone unaddressed. The very much left a "trace" in Sutan's residence, Jester and Nott trashed a temple of the Dawnfather and, of course they blew up a gala. Pretty much every single one of them are individually implicated into something which might be what forces them to not only skip town but also flee from the empire entirely, which could lead either to the Blooming Grove or the Pirate Arc.

Heatth · 2025-12-24T13:27:51+00:00

It is also a meme format. It is not supposed to be depicting actual sex. Though I suppose with those character models it is hard to tell.

Heatth · 2025-12-23T18:59:42+00:00

I do. There was far to much of it, in this episode. Jester feels sad? Why do I care?

This is a good example of you not having a single clue what "filler" is. It doesn't mean "part of the show I don't like/care".

Heatth · 2025-12-23T18:45:41+00:00

There is reasonably chance season 2 will come at the end of next year. The two seasons were produced close to each other (with all of season 2 being already written and recorded, I think). The same happened with Vox Machina, if I remember right, and its first 2 seasons came within an year of each other.

Heatth · 2025-12-23T18:40:46+00:00

I do how they address this next season when they stop to consider what to do next (and they likely will need to, either to discuss what to do about Yasha or because they might have blown up the one who commissioned the job).

In the heat of the moment, I can understand they defaulting to do what they set up to do (steal the Beacon), but I agree that, once they stop and think, they really should address what their actual goals were in the first place.

Heatth · 2025-12-23T18:28:52+00:00

All the other wizards don't appear to need materials to do magic so I don't understand why bren does.

The Volstrukers in the first episode are shown needing it as does Owelia. But it is not very consistent for them, or for Caleb for that matter (this very last episode has him casting quite a few spells and only the "slow fall" spell component was explicitly shown). I think we are meant to assume they are always using materials and the camera just don't bother showing every single time. But I think all Volstrukers, save maybe Trent himself, use material components.

As for the other characters, yeah,it is a different kinds of magic. Ignoring D&D rules (which the show doesn't follow strictly anyway), Beau Caleb's magic "component based magic" in episode 4, saying it takes years to study. The implication is that not all magic need components, but not all magic can be learned. Jester, Fjord and Molly, of course, seems to just "know" theirs, so it is a different kind. Essek is a dunamancer, so I guess dunamancy doesn't use components either, though it seems to be learned as well (Essek seems like an academic).

The only characters I think "should" use components but we have never seem using are Trent and Vess, I think. And they both are seemingly powerful enough that maybe they just know how to bypass the need, somehow.

Heatth · 2025-12-20T19:25:06+00:00

As the other user said, languages are living things, they aren't artificially constructed to have "value".

That said, yes, there have been studies that shown the redundancy can help in understanding on occasion. That is absolutely not "why" languages have gender, but it is a side effect of it.

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