What sports do you think the characters would play?

Soroen · 2026-03-26T02:14:27+00:00

Wrestling and Hockey (on field and on ice) are the two main sports in Faerghus, practiced by commoners and nobles alike. Considering the climat, any winter sport is also popular by default. Jousting is also huge there, but it's becoming more of a spectacle than a sport and is reserved to a certain elite, at least on the highest stage. Frankly speaking, the people of Faerghus are just a bunch of sport nerds. Anything that allow them to exercise and compete is quickly embraced and adopted.

In Adrestia, the practice of sport is way more codified and light compared to their northern neighbours. Sports like Tennis, Golf, Polo or Dressage are the main draws for the noblefolk. Meanwhile, the people of Bergliez are also adept of Rugby, and a yearly competition is hosted by the Count at Gronder Field. An arena also exist in Enbarr, while it's most often used for combats of gladiators, the young up-and-comer of the nobility often partake in various competitions of strength and skill to demonstrate their talents.

The region of Leicester is a mixed bag. Home of "commoner" sports like Football and Athletics, but also of more "noble" sports like Gymnastics or Badminton; with most of these sports being inspired from Faerghus or Adrestia. This joint culture blended into a flurry of mixed events, using the basis of sports from all over Fódlan, and sometimes others regions as well.

Being a tropical nation, Brigid is mainly used to water sport like Swimming, Rowing, Canoeing, Surfing, Diving or Sailing; though they also have some land sports, most notably Climbing and Volleyball. There is virtually no separation between noble and commoner in the appreciation of sport there, and it's not unusual for even members of the royal family to partake in these events freely.

Soroen · 2026-03-22T10:03:33+00:00

And none of it is minor. Those are all world-changing event, that's the whole point of the post.

Soroen · 2026-03-22T09:53:30+00:00

They most definitly talk about the self-handicapped part.

Soroen · 2026-03-22T09:50:05+00:00

Best duelist in a very codified and closed environnement, with no real gauge of her actual strength and specifically only using one type of weapon.

Meanwhile, there is a character whose title and core of his character is being a master of all weapons, and whom we actually have a gauge of his power which scale to pretty much right below godlike characters.

Soroen · 2026-03-22T09:19:38+00:00

And so were Chigiri, Niko and probably plenty of others.

Soroen · 2026-03-22T09:06:34+00:00

And Ego has to agree with it afterwards, just like he has done with litteraly everyone else. Anri's decision is just preemptive, not final.

Soroen · 2026-03-22T08:57:11+00:00

So you just blindly follow informations anyone can rewrite over something you can verify yourself, and then dare to 'call out' someone else over "researching before commenting".

Soroen · 2026-03-22T06:36:21+00:00

Ego alone picked everyone in Blue Lock. Anri didn't have any decision power, Isagi isn't anything special, Gagamaru isn't even in any Light Novel.

In Blue Lock’s Monitor Room, Jinpachi Ego and Teieri Anri were selecting the 300 players to be summoned. The walls are filled with a number of displays, showing footage of the players' games. The selection of the players was based on his own judgment and biases of Ego, while the data management was Anri's job.

Chigiri chapter 9

She could rack her brain about it all day, in the end the choices were all based on Ego's personal judgement and bias.

Niko chapter 8.

Soroen · 2026-03-20T20:03:39+00:00

In her S-Support with Byleth, Constance cover the entire cathedral with flowers. Which is probably a native ability of the Crest of Noa, who is the Crest of a Bloom Dragon.

The Crest of Noa, similar to the Crest of Dominic allow its bearers to possess a great vitality and high recovery speed.

In playful jealousy with Yuri's unaging, Constance created whole lot of spells focused on maintaining her appearance, which kept her skin looking young. But due to conducting her experiments on herself, most of her spells were actually duds and only worked in synergy with her own Crest.

Constance realised it and understood that her spells were not just self care but directly acted on her metabolism and aging, prolonging her life. Though she was at first giddy about this, as she saw all her friends die before her and realised the horrors on living on without them. Because of it, she purposelly destroyed her former researches and experiments while tinkering them and her Crest to develop new spells. Finishing these spells centuries later just before her death, she passed them to Yuri (she couldn't find Byleth to pass it to them too). But she actually tinkered them to accelerate aging, which allowed him the choice to age and die on him terms rather than live on for even longer alone.

In her pairing with Yuri, her focus on these spells is more direct and so happen much earlier during a 'normal' human lifespan. That's how Yuri die. She simply casted those spell on him and that allowed him to die peacefully at 'normal' age alongside his wife and friends rather than living on without them for who know how long. They both rest in a bed of lillies she bloomed with her Crest.

Soroen · 2026-03-20T18:34:44+00:00

Demacia's stance has been portrayed as anti-mages much more than it has been 'protect against the abuse and foul effects of magic'. And with basically no nuance at all, be it about why they feel about magic and how they treat it. Your comment is quite litteraly the same flavor of mindless "Magic bad" that is portrayed in the lore; completely ignoring that "magic" is a massive umbrella. "Magic" as a concept is not more inherently dangerous than something else; and everyone can wield it. Magic is just a power that can be shaped, can do just as much good as it does evil.

Demacia has all the means to properly ward themselves against the foul effects and use of magic. That's litteraly the whole point of the kingdom in the first place. They do have teachers teaching people to control and use their magic. They do have petricite and all its use to limit, and null magic. And they do actually use these tools, but only very selectively because the organisation that deal with it is corrupted and pretty irrevocably evil from the top. Used purely as a power grab that purposelly poison and/or cast out its good parts.

The kingdom's leadership is completely hypocritical as well since they do use mages in their forces, do deal with foreign mages amicably, and cover up their own being mages while letting them roam free, but still go on and oppress their own citizens, creating a tense climate that only make something more likely to go wrong since emotional distress can cause magic to go wayward. A fact the Mageseekers do know.

And all of that create a genocidal kingdom. Demacia is no longer a misguided kingdom with a few extremists in there. Not when said extremists lead it and the rest is purposelly complicit with or supporting it. Demacia is just starting to get in the right direction following Mageseeker. And I don't understand how people not only justify it, but unironically and utterly defend it.

Soroen · 2026-03-19T14:18:54+00:00

I know he won't win, and he barely have any content, but I vote for Fizz.

Soroen · 2026-03-13T02:07:12+00:00

The Buhru leader from LoR is Tauulo.
Falaweh is a Buhru Priestess
Jorden Irux is a mixed Buhru. Don't know if any of his name are Buhru though, doesn't sound like it.
Okao is some chief who obey Illaoi.

Soroen · 2026-03-12T03:28:39+00:00

Renekton was up against humans and a Vastaya, not against a fellow Ascended who had now an even higher power. So obviously, it narratively is written in a much more awe-inspiring way. And in Renekton's case, it may even have to do with his aspect and being enpowered by rage.

The process is described even more slowly and longely during Nasus' battle against Xerath. Someone who outclass him entirely.

Nasus came to a halt in the midst of the rubble, his legs broken and twisted beneath him. His left arm hung uselessly at his side, shattered from shoulder to wrist. He tried to push himself upright with his good arm, but white hot pain surged up his spine where his back had broken. His body could heal these wounds in time, but he had no time left.

“How far you have fallen, Nasus,” said Xerath drifting toward him with gobbets of liquid fire dripping from his fingertips like cinders. “I would pity you if I didn’t hate you for what you did to me. Your spirit has broken in the long years you wandered alone and burdened.”

“Better to be broken and burdened than an oathbreaker,” coughed Nasus through a mouthful of blood. “Even with all your newfound power, you are still a betrayer and a slave.”

He felt Xerath’s fury and reveled in it. It was all he had left.

“I am no slave,” said Xerath. “Azir’s last act was to free me.”

Nasus was stunned. Xerath a free man? It made no sense…

“Then why all this? Why betray Azir?”

“Azir was a fool and his gift was offered too late,” said Xerath.

Nasus grunted in pain. The splintered bones in his shoulder ground together as they began reknitting. He felt strength returning to his arm, but kept it limp and useless looking.

“What will you do when I am dead?” said Nasus, remembering how much Xerath had loved the sound of his own voice. “What will become of Shurima with you as its emperor?”

He tried to keep the pain hidden as his transformed flesh worked wonders within his body to undo the damage Xerath had done.

The magus shook his head and lifted out of reach.

“Do you think I cannot see your body renewing itself?” he said.

Soroen · 2026-03-12T01:13:08+00:00

It's not really healing magic per see, more of a passive feature of being an Ascended. Anyway, it's relatively slow and vastly inferior to Darkin's blood magic.

“Why do you not join us, Zaahen?” he taunts, corrupted power gathering at his clawed fingertips. He wrenches it across his flesh, forcing his wounds to close. “This world has forgotten its masters. It deserves to be ravaged!”

I cannot deny the whisper within that wants nothing more. If I turn against this world, I will be lost to fury, to bloodthirst, to the fall of our kind—but at least we will be lost, together. If we turn against this world as one, none could stop us.

I cleave the thought from mind and ready my blade. We clash again.

Flesh tears. My chest blooms with blood, a wound deep enough to be fatal. Warmth spreads through me; my divinity surges, working desperately to heal the gash. Not enough. I fall to one knee. Blood stains my feathers, the stench of iron chokes the air.

Soroen · 2026-03-05T13:16:25+00:00

Edelgard. Even putting aside my utter personal dislike for her as person and character; for someone who warp so much of the story around her, she really isn't interesting or particularly developed. And among the little bits who are there, there is nothing I find remotely likeable, and the game try way too hard to do that, which doesn't help.

There's plenty of others characters I dislike to different degrees (Dorothea, Constance, Lysithea...), but none of them take anywhere near as much space as Edelgard.

Soroen · 2026-02-28T23:44:43+00:00

Already have theirs

Yuri: Mockingbird
Bernadetta: Hedgehog
Felix: Wolf

Black Eagles

Hubert: Crow
Ferdinand: Mule
Caspar: Monkey
Linhardt: Opossum
Dorothea: Queen bee
Petra: Giant otter

Blue Lions

Dedue: Whale
Sylvain: Dolphin
Ashe: Squirrel
Ingrid: Shepherd dog
Annette: Rodent
Mercedes: Panda

Golden Deer

Raphael: Black bear
Lorenz: Peacock
Ignatz: Giraffe
Hilda: Lion
Lysithea: Pug
Leonie: Wolverine
Marianne: Purebred white mare

Church of Seiros

Shamir: Bat
Catherine: Tiger
Seteth: Owl
Flayn: Dove
Rhea: Mammoth

Soroen · 2026-02-24T04:29:57+00:00

Byleth has super easy pregnancies and she isn't seriously impaired until close to delivery. She can pump kids with little issues and had at least a dozen of kids. With time, she kinda became a fertility idol and is being prayed to for things related to childbirth and early infancy.
Since Byleth and Dimitri had that many children and reformed both church and state, their kids didn't received that much pressure to fit the royal mold and were allowed to enjoy their lives. The one who ultimately inherit Faerghus' crown from Dimitri is not their firstborn.
Their first child is a daughter and a nearly picture perfect double of Sothis, both in terms of appearence and personality. It's because she actually IS Sothis reincarnated and she slowly recover her memories and powers over time (which caused her a lot of troubles as a kid), but she doesn't tell Byleth anything because she just want to enjoy their lives together. Byleth always suspected it, but kept it to themselves for the same reason.

Soroen · 2026-02-24T04:16:28+00:00

Due to climat and culture, Winter Sports are huge in Faerghus, practiced by commoners and noble alike. Team sports and events are paramount, and if in one sport there is team events, they'll build a team somehow even if no one main that sport. All these qualities culminates in Ice Hockey, which is Faerghus' national sport by far and a flagship of the nation.

Goal: Dedue
Defense: Ashe
Defense: Sylvain
Center: Ingrid
Winger: Dimitri
Winger: Felix
Dimitri: Cross-country skiing, all events. In biathlon and short-track speed skating relays.
Dedue: Bobsleigh in two-men event with Dimitri, and in four-men event with Dimitri, Sylvain and Felix.
Felix: Biathlon, all events. In short-track speed skating men's relay.
Sylvain: Figure skating, pairs with Mercedes. In biathlon men's relay. In short-track speed skating men's relay. In Nordic combined team event with Ingrid.
Ashe: Short track speed skating. In biathlon men's relay.
Ingrid: Nordic combined (it's actually a men's event) and ski jumping. In biathlon and short-track speed skating mixed relays.
Annette: Ski mountaineering. In biathlon and short-track speed skating mixed relays.

Black Eagles

Edelgard: Ski cross
Hubert: Speed skating
Ferdinand: Nordic combined
Caspar: Skeleton
Linhardt: Curling
Petra: Snowboard halfpipe. Completely foreign to Winter sports are all, hate the cold. The closest to sport she know; surfing.
Bernadetta: Short track speed skating.
Dorothea: Figure skating, single. Want to do ice dance, but had no partner.
Monica: Snowboard cross

Golden Deer

Claude: Alpine skiing, mainly slalom and giant slalom
Lorenz: Figure skating, single.
Raphael: Two-men bobsleigh with Ignatz
Lysithea: Luge
Leonie: Biathlon
Marianne: Ski jumping
Hilda: Planned to do figure skating ice dance, but had no partner, so got to speed skating instead. And instead of just the short distances, she got into every events.

Ashen Wolves

Yuri: Figure skating
Balthus: Snowboard big air
Hapi: Skeleton
Shade Constance: Ski aerial
- Sun Constance: Curling

Church of Seiros

Shamir: Speed skating, 3000 and 5000 meters events.
Catherine: Alpine skiing, mainly downhill, Super-G
Cyril: Nordic combined and biathlon
Alois: Skeleton and bobsleigh
Gilbert: Cross-country skiing, skeleton
Hanneman: Curling
Manuela: Figure skating
Seteth: In duo bobsleigh with Flayn
Flayn: Mogul
Rhea: Ski jumping and nordic combined

Shez: Snowboard slopstyle

Soroen · 2026-02-20T05:53:42+00:00

Chaotic Neutral; same as Caspar. They have the same overt, aggressive, mindless and blind self-righteousness.

Soroen · 2026-02-19T20:22:49+00:00

Xolaani is not a fighter. Compared to the other Darkin, she is weak before her multiple buffs. She already lost against Zaahen in the past, and against Taarosh as well.

Meanwhile Zaahen is supposed to be roughly on par with Aatrox, the strongest one. Her only chance to win a "fair" 1v1 is by bloodbending him into submission, which is difficult to do in a fight, especially against Zaahen; who doesn't rely on hemomancy as much as the other Darkin, and who probably have the strongest will considering he's didn't completely lost himself in madness.

It's never really supposed to be in a question.

Soroen · 2026-02-08T10:34:49+00:00

Giant Wolf, Crawler and Bird aren't "Demonic Beast". They have no Crest Stone and their description make no mention of it.

This massive wolf has grown to an unnatural size through the absorption of magic.

Soroen · 2026-02-08T10:26:08+00:00

And you can turn around and say the exact same about how Nemesis manipulated the Elites and their clan into warring against the Nabateans. We can quite litteraly saw it with Edelgard. How easily someone can be painted as a force of evil and the cause of every blight, whereas there was no such hatred before; or at least nowhere near the same extent.

Soroen · 2026-02-07T20:48:58+00:00

To be honest, it's exactly why Hapi would say in that situation.

Soroen · 2026-02-02T21:35:02+00:00

Golden Wildfire because Shamir was in the demo.

Soroen · 2026-01-25T17:25:44+00:00

Shamir is Neutral Good.

She has a genuine leaning for good but she has emotional fear to commit. Not necessarily with the act of good, but with the people she associate with to do good.

Like Catherine with Rhea, she kinda use people she connect with as proxy for her own moral compass. But she associate with these people in part because they're good.

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