Fire Emblem DOOMSDAY Scenarios that REALLY Happened. 

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It's crazy to think that a world ending Dragon like Grima took the time to dress up as a werewolf on Halloween

Bro my dad would beat Grima's ass hes so cool - Lucina, thinking of a solution to her problem

In Shadows of Valentia, Grima is on the map. In Awakening, Grima IS THE MAP. Quick growth is underselling it. Part of me can only wonder how long it'll take for him to become a flying CONTINENT rather than a flying castle...

"Babe, wake up, new Faerghast video is out"

Ah yes another reminder of why Grima is nightmare fuel

Elibe's lore actually is really, really interesting. The thought that humans and dragons were concentrating and slinging such powerful magic around during the Scouring that _the world itself_ was thrown so far out of whack and into choas so much that it permanently scarred and greatly diminished the world's magic is a really cool take for FE lore.

...You know, understanding just how bad the fallout of the Scouring was really makes Bramimond's decision to keep the legendary weapons sealed at almost all costs make a *lot* more sense.

Yeah, you can really sense the finality of Awakening with Grima. They made this supremely overwhelming enemy, with tons of background to affirm their world ending power. It’s honestly kinda wonderfully done, despite the gripes some may have with Awakening’s design.

I'm surprised the he didn't go over Lucina's original world as humanity was basically on the edge of extinction, all countries fell with Ylisse being the last to fall, Tiki dead and Naga Dying. Tbh, if Grima didn't follow Lucina, that world would've been 100% Doomed as Naga actually died to send the children back in time. We know humans are still alive on that timeline currently thanks to the Inigo, Severa and Owain's wish to put flowers and vegetation back into their original world with the power of the sane Anankos but still, it's not like Grima's blight went away. There's no doubt still poison and cursed areas all over the world. Plus, it's not clear if the Risen died when Grima went away or died as thanks to Shadow's of Valentina, we know that the Thanatobeetles were originally responsible for the first versions of the Risen and also predate Grima so it might've just turned into a Zombie Apocalypse instead of a Galactus-Level Doomsday Event There's Fire Emblem Fates ancient land of Valla which literally got shattered by Anankos. Also the Fire Emblem Fates: Heir's of Fate where Anankos won, enslaved the souls of everyone, destroyed the world and then shattered the boundaries between worlds to help and summon all the other Anankos on the multiverse is fucking terrifying.

I was not expecting TMS to show up in a Faerghast video let alone this one, the cut to TMS footage knocked me out of my chair

I had no idea that Elibe's history was so incredible. The Ending Winter, a war so powerful that the world itself relented, is such a cool idea to me.

Grima in Awakening: *Unkillable, Strong enough to move continents* Grima in FEH: *BREATHES* 'tink'

"Thracia sucks for anyone, but especially kids." Lmao.

The lore surounding those doomsday scenarios in the franchise makes me want an FE inspired by those catatrophic scenarios. Like some sort of bronze age collapse or the fall of western roman empire.

On the topic of Grima's skull, I wouldn't be surprised if the Grimleal moved it there, given how devout they are

More grima love is approved. He honestly is the most fleshed out villain in the series from awakening to echoes to heroes seeing every side of grima in robin and even by the end feeling sad about Morgan being put to fight her friends as well. Power wise feel lords are cool and size is huge while still having humans to lead Also I had the theory he was a dark dragon from earth to using divine blood back in awakening as he was too powerful to be a simple dark dragon and his fell dragon status is an evolution. Code name steam is funny as robin gets grima as his background shot which just spoils awakening. Also it's robin. That's a bonus.

my personal headcanon of the schism is, that grima first went to the ocean, slowly converting crews of ships to risen, before attacking both valentia and archanea

I am surprised by TMS one. It makes way too much sense. A sidegane based on a bad end is a interesting concept

Wonder if you would ever touch the Tellius region, especially considering that the world was flooded except for Tellius, and yet Priam visits Ylisse in Awakening implying that Tellius still exist somewhere

No matter what happens, Marth's legacy is always destroyed. Be it Medeus again or Grima.

Looking at how big Grima is, flying from one country to the next probably doesn't take that long. I doubt the First Exalt could just "retreat" from a goliath that flies faster than a horse and could literally sit on an army or fortress to destroy it.

If I understand correctly, Marth’s descendants ruled all of the continent from the Empire’s capital Pales, altea was just a region of the new greater country and the first exalt simply returned to is home in Pales/Yilessetol

I still love Grima, he/she has a sick design I even named my competitive Naganadel after him/her uwu

Another couple apocalyptic scenarios you didn't mention are the Great Flood in Tellius and the war between the Agarthans and the Nabateans in Fódlan.

As someone who's really into lore stuff and hasn't finished neither New Mystery nor the first 2 gba games, this was a very interesting video.

Yall gotta play tokyo mirage sessions. It's story isnt exactly great but the sidequests are really good, the gameplay is pretty flashy and fun, and the music absolutely slaps. I know this isn't connected to the video but I just love the game lol.

Ghast: "There is no being in Fire Emblem that even comes close to Grima's power." Ashunera(Yune & Ashera) & Anankos: What?! On a more serious note, this was a cool video; good work Ghast.

I figure that the first Exalt choose to live there because Grima's corpse rendered that area something of a wasteland, though it might go a ways to explain the chip on Plegia's shoulder, in light of what else was mentioned (Like Chrom's father was fond of doing crusades against Plegia) The hypohetical connection between FE3/12's bad ending and #FE raises more questions such as how such takes on awakening characters came about with such a different timeline.

Thracia kinda gets completely screwed after the first unification attempt after the Belhalla BBQ and Travant seizing Leonster, now everyone is poor and starving and sad for a long time.

Great video, Ghast. Didn't know that TMS Tiki is from a timeline where Marth and co. failed. That's really sad. Have to play that game some time, since it is the only Fire Emblem associated property I haven't got to yet.

I feel like you forgot, that the schism was an event that not only ended Archanea, but also Valentia

If you ever do a sequel you should touch on some of the stuff in Radiant Dawn. Iirc there was a giant flood that only left tellius and a few other locations.

Here's my theory about what happened with Grima and the first exalt, just for fun: After discovering Camus new and happy life in Valentia, Nyna returned to Archaneia and found the labyrinth and Grima. It manipulated her and seemed like a good, benevolent dragon, leading to her forming the first Grimleal. Years later, Nyna found out about the truth of Grima, it was too late. She was only able to write it in a diary before passing away. Now that Grima had a following cult, it used it to manipulate a war between Archaneia and Valentia (both not in their best shape), so no one could stop it in its path of destruction. During their first confrontation, both the exalt and the king of Valentia faced off, but the clash of their Falchions ended in the destruction of both. In the afthermath, the exalt found the labyrinth and, inside of it, Nyna's diary. With this information he revealed the truth to Valentia and formed and alliance, and also a friendship with the king and his sister. They went out to find the jewels, form the Fire Emblem and make a pact with Naga. Meanwhile, Grima did the same with a loyal follower. Eventually, the exalt made the pact but nothing happened. But Grima was approaching, so he and his friends fought it. Sadly, the king died defending his friend and sister. This act unlocked the Awakening and created a new Falchion from the remanents of the other two. The exalt and the king's sister joined as a unit (the first pair-up ever) and together sealed Grima. While Grima was defeated, not everything was alright: his follower (Validar and Robin's ancestor) escaped, Archaneia was divided in three countries (eventuals Ylisse, Plegia and Ferox), and Valentia lost its king and was compleatly fragmented (the 1000 years lineage mentioned in Alm and Celica's ending). The exalt married the king's sister and both decided that it was best to not reunify both continents, since it was better for the habitants of those regions to decide for themselves. And as for Valentia, it was renamed Valm and the old king's advisor took charge of a now small kingdom.

I know that this is "D-Day scenarios" but i have another potential keyword here being potential D-Day Scenario and this is from the most recent game in the Series The D-Day scenario i see is During Chapt 21 of Silver Snow My personal scenario follows the defeat of the players army now as we know during the penultimate chapter of silver snow Rhea essentially gives into madness and transforms into the Immaculate one along with creating the white beast that share her blood After the defeat and death of the players Army Rhea Driven mad with grief Rhea could continue to Massacre creating a desolate foeland sparing nothing but the red Canyon the birthplace of her mother Sothis

FE8: after Fomortiis is defeated, monsters still roam the world, even previously populated places, despite rebuilding efforts. Wut. I know it's not a goddamn doomsday, but doesn't that mean Magvel *constantly* lives in fear? "What the f Sacred Stones?" - GhastStation

My best guess with the location of Grimas skull would be: The first Exalt fought Grima where future Plegia would be. But as he already levelled Archaneia the Exalt went back to a Land that hasn't been annihilated yet, founding Ylisse. Plegia isn't a very hospitable land, so founding a country there wouldn't be the smartest choice if you have perfectly good soil a bit further away. The Plegians probably founded Plegia around their dead gods skull in order to be as close as possible to him, taking in account the uninhabitality of the land.

"There is no being in Fire Emblem that even comes close to Grima's power." Ashunera would like a word. Loved the video, though! Some great lore here. And the Ending Winter hypothesis is a quite innovative one.

As a TMS fan I have never felt so seen.

Not gonna lie, I always had this idea for an FE game with Lucina as the main lord where they didn't go back in time. Given how dark and apocalyptic she describes it, I feel like it could have an interesting turn of events and could provide a fun challenge. You'd have the main crew (the new shepards), and maybe some new characters to join (who they may have met had they not went back to the past), etc.

The Future Past felt almost hopeless. They're the last light of Ylisse and Lucina herself is all that remains of the Ylissesn bloodline to seal him. They fought every day knowing they might die from the overwhelming amount of Risen. If not for Chrom and friends interfering with Grima, Lucina would never have won.

Ok, Fire emblem Lore has some huge potential to be as big and complicated as Zelda lore. Gotta show this to my friends who like zelda and fe lore.

You’re ending winter theory sounds like a less bad version of what happened to Earth in NieR

History Channels new series, Ancient Divine Dragons.

I like to think I know a lot of fire emblem lore, but you always find a way to either bring up new information or make old information more enjoyable

Really great video as always. I never had a clue about the TMS links to the bad end since I've never played the original Archanea games, and your theories about The Schism and Ylisse were really interesting to hear

Genealogy is kinda a series of bad endings where many of the characters die and bad end leading to Tokyo mirage makes sense. Guess tharja somehow found her way around. Yeah I loved seeing how these endings go and honestly a lot of the fe games kinda have bad ends aside party members dying. Awakening grima won and that's huge and with all the timelines one of them is grima winning as awakening has many timelines. He was even stronger than the valentia final boss showing it was much harder to beat grima in general than most in story logic. Marths first game bad end is if his wife dies so it's always gonna be A bad wnd

This was genuinely fascinating to listen to! I'd never noticed almost any of this before, but that connection from New Mystery to TMS is INSANE to me! Thank you for all of the time researching and theorizing - it thoroughly entertained me, and got my own worldbuilding gears going

Super great video! I’ve always loved the connections between Marth’s games, FE Echoes, and FE Awakening, such a cool plan, even if things like The Schism weren’t entirely fleshed out lol

Loved the vid! I was expecting you to touch on the Great Flood in PoR / RD, but I found out even more.

These kind of videos are my favourites from you!

This video reminds me that I want a game about The First Exalt! Splendid job

Speculation or not, this was a fantastic video! Really nice to have the plot laid out. A refreshing video indeed!

This was amazing and gave me alot of ideas for story telling

finally, the translated script footage matches with the video script :D really tho, the whole thing with the ending winter and the planet shifting was really cool

Hope you do a sequel to this. It was very informative and entertaining. The TMS part was hilarious. Also this just goes to show how much lore is actually right in front of us but you can barely see/learn any of it if you don’t look super hard. Waiting for the day they make an FE lore book or something lol.

My understanding was that the First Exalt was driven out of Altea to Dolhr where the first Awakening occured, he made his final stand and put Grima to rest, but Grima's blood spilling over the continent of Dolhr kills all life there, turning it into a barren wasteland, and with Altea in ruins the first Exalt climbs the mountains back to Archanea and settles there instead

I can't imagine what the result could bring if the fight Grima with the Legendary Weapons.

Was not expecting the TMS connection. wild is right!

5:13 If TMS follows a timeline where Archanea was destroyed and Tiki was sent to the Idolasphere, how come is it possible to have a Mirage of Chrom and Awakening characters?

Woah I didn't know about the Ending Winter. That was very interesting. Keep up the good work👍

I'm glad other people also support the fan theory that TMS follows FE3's bad ending. I think a cool video or series of videos to do in future would be to try and piece together a unified Fire Emblem timeline. Elibe, Magvel, Tellius, and Fodlan would probably be the most difficult to parse together into it but it could be a fun thought experiment.

Please more videos like this? This was really good. Really interesting. I want more Please?

Timed perfectly with the new banner! Ghast, is there something you're not telling us?

Really cool video!

I really want a game about the Lost Future from Awakening. Most of the cast is already filled out: Lucina is the main lord, the other child units make up most of the army, Grima!Robin as the main villain, the Evil!Morgans as minor villains. The player would have to balance fending off Risen attacks, protecting what's left of the kingdom, and working towards finding the Gemstones to travel back in time. With the big finale being Lucina and Co making a mad dash to get to the past while Grima does everything to stop them. I think it would be a really good game.

I had a feeling TMS was based off a branched timeline of new mystery but was thrown off by the awakening characters also being there. Glad to see a more in depth look on it

Ooh this was good! I enjoyed this very much 😁

Great video!

this video got me thinking of how little we know about the bad timeline of Awakening that Lucina and the other kids are from. It would be interesting to see a video detailing exactly how it went down, or as good as an idea of it as we can get, given what we do know. I mean really. All we know is that the events in the games timeline are sped up compred to the future, and "more than ten years in the future, Grima is revived, the shepherds tried to stop this, but failed and many died, leaving the world with none to defend it except for the kids, who did surprisingly well considering they are literal kids for the most part by the time they join the game timelines shepherds." I just think it would be interesting to try and construct a clearer timeline of events leading up to the fall of Chrom and resurrection of Grima.

Wait, I thought Archanaea had been united after Mystery of the Emblem, and Marth and his descendants ruled from Pales? Is that wrong? Also, you missed what might have happened in Valm, since I'm fairly certain that Alm and Celica's ending states that their dynasty ruled for 1000 years... Also, the Schism happened 1000 years post-FE3, and Awakening was 1000 years after that.

You know what else is funny? There’s an interesting theory out there that Elibe is part of the same planet as Archanea/Ylisse, Valentina/Valm, and Jugdral. No need for an “Outrealm” gate. ^ The evidence is surprisingly solid, and if true, means that the Ending Winter _might’ve_ had some part in affecting the change in Archanea’s geography before it was renamed Ylisse. Well… that, or it’s just a [meager] explanation for why certain characters from Elibe’s Sacae region seem to heavily reference characters from _Isaach_ (northeastern Jugdral) in their design. :P

8:10 The answer I came up with is that to possibly remove Archanea as a threat, Grima leveled that area first. Then after Altea was leveled, the First Exalt retreated to the Archanea territory which was already leveled, and founded Ylisse as a kind of beacon to draw people who would stand and fight before invading Dolhr/Plegia.

I'm amazed you didn't go over the literal world ending flood that left only Tellius as the last remaining continent on the planet :o

Even though not every game seems to take place in the same world, the dragon lore is weirdly consistent...? I might be remembering wrong, but I swear I remember Medeus and Loptos' backstories coming from the same event? Or at least the same sort of event?

Just to give some scale to The Ending Winter, if anyone is interested (some spoilers for FE3H lore)… at 13:33 the map shows an area named Nabata, which is a similar shape to Fodlan. That land mass is also near Caledonia, which is referenced in FE3H. Assuming that Nabata is an ancient version of Fodlan, the continent shown on the map is many times the size of Fodlan. The magic wielded by and against dragons that can fit inside a moderately sized castle caused a magical imbalance that affected a world many times larger than just that continent. Further, the ancient civilization in Fodlan were called the Nabateans, lending credence to the idea that Nabata is in fact Fodlan.

my personal theory for why the first exalt and their descendants moved to the east is that grima’s remains littered all over the western part of the continent made the land less fertile/harder to grow crops on or something, since grima’s vibes have kinda always been rancid. but that’s just speculation

Damn, that new Faerghast video really do be hindering my ability to focus on studying for finals

I always theorized that the Ending Winter caused the pandemic among dragons that ended up driving them crazy on FE3/12

15:11 The Scouring was started by the humans. The fe7 intro flat out tells us that. You even included a clip of the fe7 intro telling us that LOL

Here's another one that's admittedly smaller in scale, but still just as devastating: the Javelins of Light from Three Houses. They turned Ailell from a forest to a volcanic wasteland that people henceforth referred to as the Valley of Torment, and can even reduce famous fortified cities like the Silver Maiden and Stubborn Old General to ruin.

The cost of preparedness measured now in gold, later in blood

I really love the Future Past! The feh fallen morgans are really fantastic lore wise IMO

It would be cool if one of the Fire Emblem games took place in one of these doomsday scenarios.

Regarding the location of Grima's skull, I always assumed that Grima's massive body requires a ridiculous amount of magical energy to sustain which is why he wants to devour everything. I think he went to the Dragon's Table in order to eat the sealed Earth Dragons and that is where the First Exalt fought him. After defeating him the Exalt returned to Archanea due to the western half of the continent being reduced to a barren wasteland.

It's crazy to think alot of the games if not all between shadow/new mystery to awakening is just an era where grima isn't around, makes me wonder if we'll get another game with Grima as an antagonist if we get a game where it's based on chrom sealing grima and not Robin killing him

After the good ending of FE 3 book 2 and FE 12 Marth becomes the King of a Unified Archanea, and rules from the Archanean palace, which would help explain why Ylisse is in Archnaea as the first exalt was already there

Good video.

the ending winter sounds like the planet was knocked out of orbit or something.

Huh didn't know that Fire Emblem was a Multi Continental power Scaled Franchise

Huh, my take on the geological differences between FE1 and FE3 was differences in cartography. In the age these games refer to, map making wasn't always perfect, and the differences in maps may be reflective of differing opinions among early cartographers.

I did not expect a TMS cameo.

9:38 Ashunera: Am I a joke to you?

I honestly thought that this was a video of real-world comparisons to Fire Emblem. I was very concerned.

On the topic of Grima, can we talk about the weird human face underneath his dragon face that shows up after he takes damage in the final battle? It's so weird and I wanna know people's thoughts on it.

So this has nothing to do with the video but me realizing Chrom is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita (va of Gintoki, Kyon, Escanor and many others) in TMS is probably the biggest discovery I've made here.

I did not expect TMS to be important to the lore.

Now I have to play TMS. Dammit!!!!

That moment when Elibe literally experienced the apocalypse, both the event and the tome

I'm not really seeing the New Mystery Bad Ending TMS connection. Like obviously TMS is based off of Archanean lore. That's not a revelation. You'd need something like a reference to Kris or the lost Binding Shield for it to connect to the New Mystery Bad Ending. There's also a bunch of Awakening characters in the game that make absolutely no sense in this theory without copious amounts of fan fiction justifying their existence.