Alymra (And Everywhere Else) Is Laughably Irrelevant 

I didn't realise Duscur was literally a part of the kingdom, I thought that unnamed land above it WAS Duscur

The Almyrans aren’t irrelevant, they’re just doing their job of keeping Holst at the border.

Morfis being a thinly veiled reference to Khadein in archanea is funny to me, cuz it feels like the devs said "what if we make khadein again but do nothing with it!"

Rhea was done dirty in 3 Hopes. She’s a recurring character in the Azure Gleam story, popping in every now and then, and yet she’s relegated to a glorified cameo. She’s playable, but not in a way that actually matters, just an afterthought for replaying certain maps.

Personally, I’m ok with not knowing a whole lot about the world outside of Fodlan. While I totally get wanting to learn more, what we know is just as much as the average Fodlan citizen knows, and I think that’s neat.

"Those Who Suck The Life And Joy From Me" absolutely classic.

The Statue under Garreg Mach is a lot more sinister when the lady who mentions it speaking to her was only using it as a placeholder for her own pantheon, and it speaking in a Sinister Tone to her, and following Solons attack on Remire, lead to the Church demanding she leave the Abyss, implies that whatever it was was enough to get exiled from the place FOR exiles. Also on Sreng, it’s attacks on Faerghus for Centuries is what lead to Sylvains female ancestor becoming the defender of the Border thanks to her achievements as a warrior. At the peak of their invasions several centuries ago is why Faerghus built Conand Tower where we fight Sylvains brother.

Okay so the Almyrans are styled like the Persians, do war like the Mongols, and handle their successions like the Ottomans. Got it.

I was not expecting this to end with an argument for the church’s assassin for the position, of actually absolute ruler, but I find myself slightly agreeing.

I’ve actually been kicking around the idea of making an OC for Three Houses for years now-a student from Morfis whose parents are mages but his “canonical” class is Hero. Because how is Intelligent Systems gonna include a “City of Illusion” and it never directly gets mentioned by any of the characters, let alone a chance to actually be visited?

"The Ashen Wolves are the best house and I will die on that hill" TRUE 👏👏

On the topic of Morfis, it is a direct reference to the Khadein region and Thabes in Archanea, which has a similar shape and is also known for being a desert with magic scholars, as well as having its own "City of Illusion." This is likely just a nod to the Archanea games, but it could imply that the Fodlan games take place in the distant future, with the continent in the center North part of the sea between Valentia and Archanea. This would also imply that Brigid and Dagda are in the Rigel region of Valentia, but again this is all conjecture based on one line of text lol

A lot to cover here for this part of The Info Dump™️: Regarding Almyra: Persia was famed for its archer cavalry though not as much as the mongols, though Almyra seems to be particularly based on the Seljuk Empire. The Seljuks were a nomadic horse riding people who are the forefathers of modern day turkey. The Seljuks migrated into Persia during a period of division called the Iranian Intermezzo. They would conquer all of Iran and conquer a chunk out of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire (this empire has a slight influence on the clothing of Leicester). the Seljuks had a tendency to have the Sultan/Shah’s sons rule over the provinces of the empire, something many dynasties after them would continue to do (similar to how Shahid has authority to call soldiers up and invade Leicester). Almyra is also one of the few nations outside of Fodlan to get a flag (a Golden Horse Archer firing at the sun on a brown banner). we have a somewhat passable of it’s size (at least compared to the little we get from the other non Fodlan nations). Cyril states almyra is larger than Fodlan. To give an idea of scale, the devs have stated that Fodlan is roughly 2/3rds the size of Europe. Thusly, it’s safe to say that almyra is HUGE. Moreover Almyra has several languages, and we know the western most part speaks the language of Fodlan, however we also know contact is so limited that an almyran General from western almyra was utterly shocked to learn that he spoke the same language as Fodlan when he went to fight a battle at the locket. Also; they seem to have white wyverns that can breath more fire than normal. Also, the ship models in three houses show that the almyran ships have CANNONS. (Fodlan ships look more like irl medieval ships) Regarding Albinea: it’s blatantly based on pre Roman Britain. The Greeks called Britain Albion (meaning white hills, from the white cliffs of Dover in south eastern Britain, and from the hopes map eastern Albinea seems to have more detail.) it being cold and miserable also lines up with Roman writing on Britain. Also, hopes mentions they trade with Dominic and Gerth territory. Regarding Brigid, we actually know a name of one of their western most cities (or maybe one of the individual isles): Ginnung. It’s mentioned in a war journal from three hopes that after seizing Brigid, the Adrestian army left from a place called Ginnung, where they would sail off to attack Dagda. (This is from the First Mach War, some decades before faerghus became independent). It’s mentioned that this war ended with Brigid as an Adrestian vassal, yet the Brigid and Dagdan war has Brigid being a dagdan vassal. Furthermore, the name “First Mach War” implies there were several of these, with Brigid changing hands back and forth (although one of these Mach Wars could be in reference to King Banfig conquering the Archduchy of Mach) Regarding Dagda: It is absolutely based on America. Ashe and Ingrid in hopes have a support where they marvel over this plant Ashe read about in a travel log regarding Dagda. What they describe seems to be a potato, which irl is a new world plant, and something that would be immensely beneficial to a land like faerghus, which has poor soil that potatoes famously can grow in. We also have some vague descriptions of the dagdan coast from the earlier mentioned war journal in the Brigid section. It seems that like America, dagda has a tundra like north and humid jungles in the south, and stretches north to south. Duscur: in three hopes, Dimitri seems to actually still have Duscur as part of Faerghus, however, he has restored the old chieftains to power and thus they seem to exist adjacent to the feudal noble system, as an autonomous region of faerghus. Also, Duscur according to Dedue is more fertile than much of faerghus’s land (don’t know how that makes any sense but sure, unless faerghus’ soil is even worse than I imagined). Duscur also apparently has never been properly at war with faerghus, and raids seem to at least be near nonexistent. Duscur also has a lot of good blacksmiths and mines (namely gold mines from the mountain range of sacred gwenhyvar) Regarding Morfis: from what I have heard, there is a possibility that it has influence from Arabic culture. In three houses, Lysithea gets a morfis mage battalion from her paralogue. What’s noteworthy is that I have heard word that Lysithea’s clothing in her post timeskip outfit has Arabic influence that you don’t see in any of the characters, meaning perhaps the morfis mages from her paralogue and her unique design are connected. Also, it does get mentioned in three hopes in an imperial territory document. The Duchy of Aegir, namely it’s capital of Boramas, which is one of the few port cities in Fodlan, has trade with Morfis, and that Aegir is known for abundant import goods and crafts utilizing technology from the east. Regarding Sreng: based on the names we have for Oleg and his son Leif, Sreng is culturally Norse. Furthermore, an offhand comment mentions how Sreng is divided among many clans (though they might have some degree of unity), and that Oleg (and later Leif) ruled the southern most clan. Another thing. Regarding the war between Faerghus and Sreng 15 years ago, that war didn’t actually see any territorial changes, and was only really fought because all of Lambert’s attempts at diplomacy with Sreng had failed (especially with a Sreng raid killing margrave Gautier’s first wife while she was pregnant, leading to him remarrying and Sylvain being born. Yes, Sylvain and Miklan are half brothers, not fully brothers). So lambert spent at least three years training for an invasion before curb stomping them in about a month, before Macuil showed up and fucked everyone up. Oleg gave Leif as a hostage and peace was made. We know of maybe 2 previous wars with Sreng (I say maybe because only one of them is actually directly stated). One of them is described in Partholon’s Military history in three hopes. King Banfig (while fighting the crescent moon war) was suffering from intensifying raids from Sreng, so he had numerous forts built on the border, one of which was Conand Tower, which from what we know in Three Houses, was the sight of a major battle. We also known the precise location of Conand tower. In Golden Wildfire, chapter 11, the invasion of Fraldarius, there is a part on the war map that mentions that Conand tower is there (namely Mid Southern Fraldarius) which is roughly on the same latitude as Fhirdiad, meaning Fhirdiad was very close to the border at the time. This war would see the border be pushed up to its modern state, seeing Fraldarius territory expand, Itha be conquered, and modern Gautier territory be conquered (which was given to Laetitia Zoe Gautier, who distinguished herself during the war and became the first margrave Gautier, and would get the lance of ruin from the church after asking for it). The other war with Sreng is only implied to exist. We know that Sreng used to own the entire peninsula, which would include the lands Fhirdiad is on. This means that at some point, someone must have conquered those lands from Sreng. We don’t know who did it (it could be either Faerghus or Adrestia). Regardless, the two notable outcomes of this war would be that the lands Fhirdiad would be built on would be conquered as well as the Danu River Basin, a part of Fraldarius territory which produces the most food in all of the eastern kingdom as well as low quality but high quantity soldiers (you can see it on the map. It’s a hilly bit in the eastern kingdom where a river begins.) the fact Faerghus might have been the one to conquer it implies that in the past, Faerghus had a different capital. Most likely Camulus. As it was a church holy site in the Tailteann Plains, probably built on top of where nemesis died. And with Loog being crowned by the church, it’s likely they ruled from a city under the influence of the church before a later king would conquer the lands from Sreng. My personal guess is that some king between Loog and Klaus conquered the lands where Fhirdiad would be founded while Klaus actually moved the capital there. Alternatively, some Adrestian emperor did it (there is a book byleth reads in a cutscene that literally rips a quote from one of Julius Caesar’s books, describing how Caesar spoke to representatives of tribes, so if you want to take that as canon, you could say some guy named Caesar did it, but that’s a bit silly). Also, the bit of Sreng the wind caller lives in, the weird desert. It’s possible the region was temperate and farmable originally, namely from almyra across the sea to the east having warm winds blowing there to keep it warmer. However, it’s possible the wind caller, in an attempt to keep people away, used his command of the wind to heat the place up even more until it became a desert, basically destroying one of the few sources of farm land Sreng had. Anyways, it’s been great following you on this series! My worldbuilding addicted heart has adored this series! A quick word about the Agarthans, I just learned this: the three hopes art book has a thing regarding the crown Rufus wears. The translation I got said: “I got it from Cornelia. agarume’s headdress that is strengthening its power” from what I’ve been told, the more precise translation is that it’s basically making Rufus more susceptible to Cornelia’s words.

"Those who hit the Yoinky Sloinky" perfectly encapsulates how much of a glorified meme the agarthans are.

This is why I really wish IS would allow some of these corners of the franchise to get multiple entries like the original Archanea setting, which had six games in all. Five games set across three continents (Archanea, Valentia, and Jugdral) all within a few years of each other and a sixth game, "Awakening", which is a distant sequel to the Archanea and Valentia games. So, it had a pretty fleshed out history as the result. Of course, that would require them to pick one of Three House's endings as canonical, unless they released a series of prequels to flesh out the setting.

i would give yuri control of fódlan but he would probably turn it down. even in the base game war phase, he's moreso the guy who stays in touch with the commoners and helps out the inevitable poor bastards who suffer unjustly from any given regime or situation, which is probably the most down-to-earth position that any fire emblem lord has ever taken

I would not be surprised if the gods of the other nations were other Children of the Goddess OR the Agarthan Gods

The unamed place above Duscur and Albinea is CLEARLY Fateslandia. Anankos and Sothis were obviously besties. Abyss is just one inconvenient slip off a bridge away from Valla, where Byleth was chilling in the 5 year timeskip before Arete evicted them for not paying rent on time.

What makes it worse is that all the other games had literally every nation involved to some degree. It's really sad the Warriors Spin Offs actually had more for the other countries than 3 Houses did. (And in my honest opinion, Claude's route in 3 Hopes should have spent half the time taking over Almyra, putting Claude on the newly combined Leicester-Almyra Throne, and then going "Aight, time for you to knock your shit off." to the other 2 houses.) (Also a Route for the Ashen Wolves. And another one involving The Protagonist of 3 Hopes going "Fuck this, doing my own thing." like becoming Big Boss of Fodlan. Or Taking over the Agarthans to stop them from being fantasy WW2 Germany and building a new nation. Or some other thing.). (I guess my point is 3 Hopes really should have had other Routes, even if it require them to be DLC.) 'The Writers hate the Church.' Which is a problem, cause given all the times they tried to make them look bad, they still come out looking not as bad as at least Edelgard.

18:57 "Kohi Techo hates Rhea with a greater passion than Martin Luther hates the Catholic Church" Justice for Rhea and the Nabateans!

I don't say this as a Rhea supporter but as someone who hates Silver Snow. Rhea was done dirty without a proper route that explored the reasons why the church had to do so many shady things to keep Foldlan from imploding on itself every 5 minutes.

You said that the Dagdan statue in abyss is a plot hole but I don’t think it is. Abyss is the place where the church puts things that would be inconvenient or contradictory to their narrative and considering this game is set in what is basically the dark ages I don’t think its a big leap that a statue to a figure of a foreign religion would only exist in a place the church hides away from the rest of Fodlan. Also I never heard Petra explain the origins of Brigid from her people’s perspective before, it almost sounds like Brigid’s origin myth might coincide with Sothis flooding ancient Agartha in a way.

I agree so much on the wolves They have a dysfunctional but loving relationship with eachother and feel the most like a proper family unit. Yuri is by far the most competent of the major leaders in 3h, between running and maintaining a small army's worth of rouges, multiple royal connections, dude is by far the smartest of the main leaders between keeping abyss safe and outing aelfric as a Nut, hes easily got better plans then claude lol Sucks that 2 of the other nations literary get only 1 thing of dialogue, but at least the others get a bit Good bookend to fodlan for now. Congratulations on nearly 2k subs as of when im typing this man and cant wait for the xenoblade stuff!

Today, we say goodbye to Fodlan and say hello to...somehow, an even stranger land

I really want an Expanded Three Houses Universe that dives into the neighboring nations and the ancient history of Fodlan. There is so much potential to tap into and I am beyond excited to one day see it all explored

Among the other nations, only Duscur, Almyra, and Brigid had any relevance. All of them could have been handled better. But I think that Almyra was handled the worst of them. Claude barely admits that he's an Almyran prince to anyone, which makes the whole country feel irrelevant. Hilda and Cyril tie into Almyra, too, but their relevance to said nation gets dwarfed by the Fodlan war. If only VW was more about Almyra: they could have focused on issues abroad while the other routes focused on the Fodlan war instead.

I too wish i could give Yuri the continent, the Wolves are my favorite house and are the least mentally unstable and problematic individuals in the monastery, that is more than enough for them to deserve better than what they get

At least we got to see more of Almyra for 5 minutes in Three Hopes? I feel that game did a lot for the worldbuilding overall.

Here’s how I imagine the various nations outside of Fodlan’s borders are like Almyra: basically the Fire Emblem version of the Abbasid Caliphate mixed with some of the architecture and villages that look very similar to the Dothraki. Dagda: A frozen tundra in the North, with some 1700s colonial buildings, and a tropic paradise in the South, with some Incan architecture. But everyone is a lot like Shamir in terms of having pale skin. And they all dress like they’re from Ireland in the 1800s. Brigid: A Tropical paradise, but the shamans dress like the Shamans from Warcraft 3. Albinea: A snowy backwater with some Roman British architecture. Duscur: a desert with a Medieval North African theme. Morfis: an Arabic version of Dalaran from World of Warcraft. Sreng: basically the Fire Emblem Version of Skyrim

I really don’t mind that we don’t know much about the places outside of Fodlan. The story of 3H is very much relegated to Fodlan’s issues exclusively, and only Almyra gets some relevance just because Claude is trying to fix Fodlan in regards to its foreign policy. Like it wouldn’t make sense for us to fuck off to Sreng or Morfis when the Adrestian emperor is trying to topple the church’s dogma.

My theory about the dagen god is either its an import god brought by tribes not subjagated by the church as we do see yuri's heroes relic was found in dagad and brought back to fodlan or the church captued the statue during a war and kept it as a bargaining chip for negotiations that never happened as the empire took petra so taking other things from other nation is not unreasonable.

The fact that you're going to tackle the Xenoblades; I tip my hat to you. The Xenoblade games are _dense_ with lore and characterization. You could probably make a dozen videos across all the games of the series, if not more. I glad I came to watch your channel. I learned interesting tidbits.

Continent is upside even

If Ashen Wolves are what constitutes the better option between all the protag factions, then perhaps I was too hard on Those Who Verb in the Noun.

18:13 Few? Seems like a gross underestimation

You are great at discussing these topics. I hope your channel flourishes.

15:44 THRACIA REFERENCE?!?!? Edit: also this has been a pretty fun series, glad to have been able to catch them as they came out

I don’t like being just a lurker and I’ll comment more often! But also, I feel like wanting to actual follow through and do Fire Emblem dnd now because of your Fodlan series

Let’s give Yuri power, glad we can agree

I wish the world pf Fodlan and of course around it got to be fleshed out even more. Also agreed that Abyss is so interesting, would love a game/book centered completely around it.

Your fodlan videos are all incredibly well done and fun to watch so I am insanely excited for the xenoblade videos (these both are my favorite series)

Considering the shape of Fodlan and it's surroundings is vaguely based on Europe, I'd imagine that unamed land north of Duscur would connect to Sreng somewhere, if it's not an island.

It`s always weird to me is that Yuri is like a purple Byleth.

I really like Almyra. For all we know of it it seems like a cool country. For the path rewrites, will you be doing part 1 as well? Parallouges ? Ashen wolves?

I am grateful for this videos. It has helped me understand the entire plot and setting of 3 Houses/Hopes so much better.

Whens the video on the Ashen Wolves Also I believe that the sheer existence of Albinea and Morfis enhances the worldbuilding. It shows theres more to this world than what the plot strictly requires.

If I had a the patience to learn coding and to write an actual story I'd totally make a rom hack based off that Dagda goddess headcanon.

I've been putting your World Tour videos on in the background ever since my friend shared your video on the wasted potential of "Those who Hoedown in the Alley." Your comments about Koei hating Rhea reminded me of something: I'm actually very curious, how much do we know about behind-the-scenes for the development of 3H/3H's story? I've always heard hearsay that IS wrote and developed Silver Snow, then passed it off to Koei to make Verdant Wind and Azure Moon with notes. I think I recall from an interview I did read that Crimson Flower came from the dev team wanting to give an Edelgard perspective because they wanted to, essentially. That CF essentially wasn't part of the initial vision. But I'm not certain on the validity of these interpretations, or of my memory for that matter. And then I've heard nothing on the background for writing and development interviews for 3 Hopes altogether. And no DLC! Musou has a long enough history of expanded versions and DLC while FE is no stranger to DLC now, but between the ending discourse and the lack of updates/dlc and unused characters it feels like 3 Hopes was just phoned in to fill in a slot, at least on the "realities of game development" side of things. If you have any interviews to share or notes on the subject, that would be great. If you read all this, thank you for your time!

gotta be my favourite new channel to have discovered completely on a whim keep it up

Iirc didnt Morfis get mentioned in Three Hopes? I seem to recall a text or NPC somewhere saying an Aegir territory port traded with Morfis

"Snrk" Those who hit the yoinky sploinky, Lol XD

You should analyze Valkyria chronicles series world building.

Correction: Almyra is more analogous to the Arab World than Persia, specifically Syria. Almyra is named after the Palmyran region within Syria. Shahid, Khalid, and Nader are all Arabic names, which is an entirely diff language than Persian/Farsi.

There is this insane theory I’ve heard that the geographic similarities between Fodlan and our earth are not just the devs taking inspiration from real life, but rather than Fodlan is earth after it got fucked up by Sothis and the Agarthans. I didn’t go into detail on this theory in the other videos, but I might as well now (I’d recommend you open a tab with the three hopes map of the noble territories of Fodlan (so long as it’s not that one that invents a bunch to city names) To start, western Adrestia is quite blatantly northern France. The peninsula in Gerth territory (which used to be Nuevelle territory) is very much like Brittany, and the rest is similar to Normandy. Albinea is blatantly britian in geography and name. As Albion is an old name for Britain and it’s shaped like a distorted England. Brigid’d western most island is similar to Portugal with the island above it being similar to Galicia, with Brigid over all being a shattered Iberia. The area of western most faerghus is very similar to the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Duscur and those islands next to it is Denmark, Hearthlandia to the north is basically Norway, and most of faerghus is Germany. The peninsula Sreng is on is, according to the theory, Sothis pulling the Baltic states out of the ground and slamming it back into the earth. Modern Sreng is supposed to be Estonia and Gautier territory is the southern half of Latvia (or it’s Sweden and it linked to Germany according to another lunatic I spent time listening to) Leicester is Poland, with Deirdru equating to either Gdańsk or Kaliningrad (Edmund territory is comparable to early Ducal Prussia, which initially tried to be a naval power). The Airmid river is the Danube river; with Hrym territory being southern Romania, it’s northern mountains being the remnants of the carpathians which got squished into Leicester (Poland) to make a border with Almyra, which equates geographically to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. There is a land in the northern corner of the map in three hopes that might equate to finland/ The island right on Almyra’s southern coast is crimea, with the longer island to its south west being the Bulgarian and Romanian coast. The other islands south of that is part of Albania as well as the remnants of the Peloponnesian Peninsula and the Attican Peninsula. The islands closer to Morfis are the Aegean islands. Morfis is turkey. With the part of the sea above it being the Black Sea. The peninsula Enbarr is on is the Italian peninsula, with the island to its south or the pointy bit on the western side of the peninsula being Sicily (if the latter then the other two pointy bits of the peninsula are the boot of Italy) There is a land mass just south of morfis in the hopes map with equates to part of the Middle East or Africa. There is a bit of land south of the Brigid islands in the hopes map which equates to either Tunisia or Morocco. Dagda, being a land mass which stretches north to south with northern tundras and southern jungle is north and South America. While the inspirations are all there, I think it’s a bit much to say that Fodlan IS earth after Sothis and the Agarthans wrecked it.

Yeah big congrats on the channel growth. Video essays are commonly a big break, sort of, video that helps small creators’ audience increase a lot. I cam across your channel when the Kingdom lore video ended up in my recommended, and that thumbnail initially had me furiously clicking the video with my mind conjuring every counter argument, only to read the title and go “yeah, he not’s wrong”. Just keep in mind, that these videos/topics are what most of your audience will want, so be aware of that in case if you branch into new content, and it doesn’t analytically perform as well. But if that’s no problem for you, then hold your head up high man

I'm really happy the algorithm randomly send me to your channel I've watched pretty much all your fire emblem videos can't wait for your next stuff

I am looking forward to your fixing the individual routes videos of three houses. An idea for verdant wind, why, not before the events of the story, have members of the Leicester alliance specifically count, Gloucester, kill Claud’s, mother Teanna

;kjfas;dlkhjfES;FJAS;LHF;SDAlhjf ; OMG Fucking love the idea that Sothis got DRUNK and made those statues at the 10 minute mark! OMG I almost fell out of my chair!

Up next: All the issues with the toothpaste crew and their cheap wedding rings.

Ashen Wolves is the best house! Finally, the truth was spoken!

I just wish we knew something, ANYTHING about albinea. I don’t k ow why it intrigues me so much. We’re just given almost no information about it or its culture and history

Oh my god I just realised that Dagda and Brighid are named after the Irish gods. How did this take me this long I feel like an idiot

So... persian vikings

Almyra's weird treatment and presentation in these games isn't the main reason I'm basing the setting of my romhack on the Persian Empires, but it's also... not NOT a reason lmao

I'd be down to see you dig into other FE games. I'm not the biggest fan of 3H specifically, but if you've played other FE games, the Tellius and Jugdral games have plenty of well fleshed out countries and lore for you to peruse and dive into.

7:20 Brigid sounds like a wonderful place to visit and learn its culutre/history.........what do you mean I'm just talking about my waifu Petra? (Ok seriously though she is pretty and I love her broken english).

Bro's been cooking 🍳some great videos lately!

Need more Sreng lore

I'd assumed Almyra was a mix of Ottoman and Persian empires. I also found it weird that Judith and Catherine have dark skin, and no one comments on it. I legit thought Judith was Claude's aunt for a long time.

It has been a great run through Fodlan with you. Each of your videos has been enjoyable thanks to your mostly impartial stance. It's rare among 3H fans to be able to have that kind of stance for long. So you earned a sub from me because of that, and I look forward to more of your content. Now onto how the video is. --- It kinda makes sense why we simply can never truly know about the other nations, and only get small bits and pieces about it. Fodlan's own isolationist stance and rejection of any and all outsiders only result in a strong form of ignorance about how the other nations operate. Even Cyril wouldn't know all the ins and outs of Almyra because he was already so young. He's a kid who never learned to read, so how would he even known the history, religion, politics, etc. of his nation? And Shamir and Dedue, likewise, are not that much in favor of talking about their nation that often. Only Petra is, and that's cause her friendship with Edelgard lets her have the freedom to feel like she doesn't need to feel isolated as a result. So she's more open to the other characters of her religion and culture should they ever express any intent to learn. But I think after learning in 3Hopes about how massive Almyra's forces can end up being, as well as how powerful their ships have become, it's kinda clear that if something didn't change Fodlan's isolationist stance, Fodlan was going to be destroyed. People have argued that Fodlan is justified, but the problem those people don't get is that no matter how angry they might be, the long-term case is that Fodlan will get destroyed if one of the powerful outside nations finally has enough and decides to raze Fodlan to the ground. If someone like Shahid were to take the throne and wanted to grind Fodlan to the ground, they have the military and resources to clearly do just that. Hell, it was shocking to learn that Duke Gerth from the Empire was actually trying to form a friendship with Dagda, but makes sense given how the Empire is not pro-Church, so they wouldn't strictly be following the isolationist policies. And Fodlan needed to give up the isolationist policies by the time the game starts or else it might be too late.

You can tell the hectic development cycle of this game impacted the world building aspect of the writing. It's a shame, really.

HYPED FOR XENOBLADE 1 ANALYSIS

Well, thanks to you, I might actually be interested in playing Fire Emblem.

I forgot that there other places in the game 😅

ngl, could be interesting to write a what-if-ish routes for Fodlan.

you did it, you put xenoblade, and I can get hype. tho in all seriousness, you are great, I am honest I hate watching videos longer than 5 or 8 minutes (exception for Nintendo music bc I draw and I need it) but for your video from your first of three houses to this, I find enjoyement, and I want to listen more, not only for the content you choose and put, but also for the way you use word, you are humble and I feel good vibes, like really natural. I wish your channel will grow from time to time!!! I will do evene if little, try to support by watching, but keep it like this!!! you are doing great ✨

Almyra is so irrelevant I have no idea why they are participating in raids against Fodlan (no depiction of them shows them taking slaves or loot (IIRC, the 'Almyran bandits' in the Alois paralogue are just bandits calling themselves that), they have no stated racial or national animosity against Fodlani (and, while Fodlani say bad things about Almyrans, that might stem more from them being raiders than any particular racial or national animosity, especially since Claude looks Almyran or half-Almyran and never experiences adversity on screen that can be correlated to his race). Also, to put it clearly, if his race was an issue, he would not be allowed to have any claim to the Leicester alliance, he would be (most likely) quietly put out to pasture in one fashion or another (a blade in the back or exile, for example). But seriously, why do Almyrans raid Fodlan? Wouldn't it make more sense to raid easier targets if there isn't a reason to attack them specifically? They built a fort to keep you out, and one of the legendary heroes of the setting guards it 90% of the time. It'd be like us giving Audie Murphy an M2 browning, giving him an armory's worth of ammo and permission to shoot on sight, and setting him up on the southern border. You wouldn't be crossing that border voluntarily.

I know NOTHING of this game…..But you are VERY entertaining!

XENOBLADE TIME BABYYYYYYY (bro your vids are insane)

XENOBLADE!!!

Character analysis vids? Example Shamir and Manuela. Maybe a few ships here and there.

I know your going to look at some other settings and I think you absolutely should but it would be cool to hear you do these kind of videos for some of the other fire emblem games and get you opinions on them

Your vids are always cool you know, anyway good luck have fun

Would've loved to see more from Almyra and Brigid.

Something I find interesting is that Fódlan’s “xenophobia” is kind of justified by the actions that foreign nations have taken. -Almyra routinely leads invasions into Alliance territory seemingly for the fun of it, and their culture begets a lot of orphans, child soldiers, and death. They portray themselves as barbarians and so that’s how Fódlan sees them. -Dagda (and a compelled Brigid) led an invasion into empire territory, and thus the Empire is justified in retaliating. -If I recall correctly, Sreng was the aggressor in the war that led to the Kingdom acquiring much of their territory, or at the very least, conflict between the two nations has been going on for a long time. -Duscur was literally framed by the dubstep people so the Kingdom, whose culture honored chivalry and their king, were supposed to view Duscur as responsible for regicide. However unjustified the genocide of Duscur was, the Kingdom was acting based on what limited and false information that they had. The anger at those responsible for regicide was understandable, but their actions were absolutely not. I don’t think the common consensus is that Fódlan is uniquely bad in the grand scheme of things, but I still think it’s important understand different sides of these conflicts.

Guess Lysithia was right!

I’m so excited for xenoblade. It’s my favorite series ever!!!

Sreng was annexed though because they were already raiding Faerghus before.

minor spelling mistake in title, argument invalid and death penalty applied

All the other continents needed dlc, but nah...

Man I love you talking about fodland and it's lore to bad this is kinda it maybe you can talk about individual houses but yeah great series

Thanks for the video.

I just Subbed to you!

Yo I'm New here and I'm kinda quiet see you around Hearth.

you're thinking the Turks

Almyra, hell, the Leicester Alliance as a whole could've been cut from the game. Put Lysithea in BE, Marianne in BL, have Leonie as a mid-semester paralogue recruit for whatwver class Byleth teaches, and we'd have more time and resources to focus on the actual plot.

You wanted the bloated 3H to have enough content for 40 chapters on each route? Are you mad… ;-P More seriously, having more of the outside would have fixed so many things. Like, Edie’s “I want to conquer everything in my continent but nothing else; I will support the independence of anybody who in my mind, doesn’t rightly belong to the Adrestian Empire that the Church technically made but let’s not dwell on those particular details” ^.^

I didn't know you had more in you, goddamn

Isn't Almyra the mistress of the dark?

why not talk about the lore of pther fire emblem games it would be a good way to keep up the momentum you have gotten