Full Secret Chapter - Fire Emblem Three Hopes 

The full Secret route that only happens when you have Byleth in your party ( this should work in every house? ). After this, the house you chose will continue like normally Make sure to subscribe! I will upload videos of Three Hopes as soon as possible! Three Hopes playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLJ9wktLbh3WnonNKMe8UbRaJ-cAXtTWzM I will be uploading story stuff as well, make sure to stay off of RU-vid if you don't want to see that

Lmao Dimitri being like "you thought making me kill my own reflection would be hard on me, well you missed the crucial fact that I fucking hate myself"

Claude and Edelgard: Wow it feels really weird watching myself die Dimitri: I’ve been waiting my entire life for this.

Edelgard: Trust nobody, not even yourself. Claude: Oh hell no, this is some Persona 4 shit. Fuck you, shadow me! Dimitri: “Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!”

Edelgard and Dimitri: needs a therapist asap Claude: my evil self never bothered me anyways

Can we talk about how Solon gets callously sacrificed for the Spell of Zahras just like he did it to Kronya in Three Houses? Nice bit of poetic justice.

Byleth really should’ve been more involved in this. Especially considering you have to recruit them to even unlock it

Nice little secret route but like others have said, it’s really weird how Byleth and Sothis don’t play a part in this

Kind of a missed opportunity for the final battle. When Dimitri and Claude and Edelgard are fighting their doubles, the doubles should have been designed similar to the three houses design with their personalities from three houses such as phantom Dimitri having that blood thirst.

Probably the only reason why Byleth wasn't included in this mission was because, with Sothis' power, they'd probably be able to escape from Zahras with ease because that's exactly what they did in Three Houses when Solon trapped them there. They may not have the Sword of the Creator but I don't think that would matter since Sothis' own abilities are shown stronger here.

Missed opportunity to have them fight their original time skip designs

Can we all appreciate the fact that it took a SEQUEL/CROSSOVER to get all 3 House leaders to finally cooperate post-timeskip.

It's honestly heart wrenching to see. Because you have to choose between killing your partner and keeping the world from being reset, or kill Byleth and Jeralt and allow Arval to do what they want.

Dimitri’s “there is no one I more desire to end” to himself 😅

Never let Dimitri into the Persona 4 universe; he WILL attempt to kill his shadow on sight.

This feels more like an extra paralogue rather than a route changing moment. Finished Azure Gleam and heard the ending was the same. I wished that after finishing this secret route, Edelgard would actually pretend to be in control, but will turn against Thales and fight alongside everyone.

Three houses Edelgard: Ayo fuck the church Claude: but what if we didn't though... Dimitri: WRRRRYYYYYYY Three hopes Claude: Ayo you wanna go fuck the church? Edelgard: aight but I'm keeping my shit wrapped up Dimitri: can't we all just along??

I know that Shez will make an absolute monster in the fallen banner in FEH

Finally an explanation given to Shez sending the Lords to Zahras and the 4th route rumours, gotta say Byleth should of been more involved in this

Out of all the things, I did not think that Arval would essentially be akin to Lana, with version of them with a longer name existing as their Cia, basically....

Basically, the only way to unlock this secret mission is to recruit Byleth. It doesn't change the endings in anyway but changes the story. Epimenides' goal was to kill Sothis and the way to do that was to destroy her vessel (Byleth). In this mission, you learn that Arval is Epimenides' consciousness passed through generations to achieve the Agarthans' goal so you are pretty much a vessel too. You get to choose who lives and wins, whether Sothis or Epimenides. The interaction and the cutscene with the three lords changes depending on the routes you choose. Scarlet Blaze - Claude and Dimitri are first seen fighting then joined by Edelgard Azure Gleam - Edelgard loses her memories/in a bad mental state due to Thales forcing the power of a crest stone early in the route Golden Wildfire - Same with SB but Claude stops the two lords Endings are still the same whether you kill/recruit Byleth Edit: Endings do change in Scarlet Blaze if you recruit byleth, I forgot about the text in the ending.

Really nice to see Claude and Edelgard acknowledging their goals are not mutually exclusive. It always annoyed the crap out of me in the main game that they never connected in spite of themselves.

I’d like to think that the illusions are actually just the characters from other routes in their Three Houses versions. Dimitri in his Crimson Flower, Edelgard in Verdant Wind, And Claude in Blue Lions.

Just wanted to thank you Faz for the speedy uploading of Three Hopes content!

Moral of the story? Ancient conspiracies help nobody.

Strange there is nothing much after this. It feels like there should be more events released to this. Not to mention the sudden removal of Arval is rather strange. Guess we will have to wait until people go through all story arcs with them saving Byleth in each one and figure out how to unlock Arval to be certain.

This feels like the anniversary rider series (Decade, Zi-O) Main character (Shez here) gets all the love. Everyone else that should have been important to the plot gets shafted to various degrees. -I get that Byleth has time powers but that doesn't give him the right to retcon himself out of existence.-

32:24 Dimitri, buddy, you need therapy

Assuming that you don't forgo this route direction which has its own 'interpretation' on any of the three paths, Byleth is treated as 'Lu Bu' but it makes little sense because Byleth was never your ally and only wants you dead if you kill Jeralt. If you do try to recruit Jeralt and therefore Byleth at the same time, your own character becomes a legit 'Lu Bu' albeit only due to being possessed and forced to make actions without their own consent. Being a highly important figure for the allies, only to turn tail and attack them. In Scarlet Blaze, Hubert and Ferdinand somewhat lampshade this and aren't happy with the fact that you might need to die while Monica (who you directly helped save) tries to reason out that resorting to your death is a cruel end considering that the Empire's progress up to this point was also in part, thanks to your presence and contribution. Edelgard herself doesn't know how to make heads or tails of the scenario, she really does like you as a close friend (compared to Byleth who to her was her lover) and when you and the three Lords are forced to work together, again, says that she really wants to believe that you never meant to harm anyone and are telling the truth. Conversely, Dimitri and Claude in SB, despite acting suspicious about you due to your possessed actions, pinpoint the real threat and cause of the chaos the moment 'they' manifest behind you and are all giddy to kill Arval, meanwhile Edelgard just wants everyone to work together so they can all escape alive.

Man, Verdant Wind Claude would likely be horrified by Three Hopes Claude, at least to some extent.

“Ruling over that abominations wretched spawn”. Uhhh he’s implying the people of Fodlan are all descended from Sothis. I guess that explains why Agarthans never use Heroes Relics or Crests themselves. Only artificial ones.

32:27 That sync with the music was awesome

The House Leaders reactions to everything in Chapter 16 is just brilliant if not depressing or funny given how they normally act in Three Houses. Edelgard and Dimitri's dialogue is a callback to Cindered Shadow's DLC conversation between the two. Shez asks Claude (provided you didn't pick the Golden Deer) if he has a brilliant scheme to get them out and he just laughs at the thought. Edelgard and Claude's dialogue conversation shows how the former intended to put a stop to the Church by just capturing Rhea alive and having her just be removed from power. Claude back in Golden Deer's route in Three Houses mentions that he wouldn't mind Rhea just gone for good and he thought that was Edelgard's intention here in Three Hopes. As for the Phantom battles...lol. - Edelgard: Notes that it isn't the real Hubert because the copy is attacking her whereas the real one wouldn't do so. Notes that the Phantom versions death cries sound too real. Declines her own duplicate self's proposal because she doubts everyone, including herself. Really doesn't like seeing her 'own' death. - Dimitri: Berates the copy Dedue for 'insulting' him by saying that the real one would know why he's stuck working with his enemies at this time. Finds the fact of battling his own doubts to the death to be thrilling and is happy to kill 'himself'. Expresses happiness that the mutual enemy that they all face let him experience this one battle. Notes that Shez's clone is going to be the biggest and most powerful opponent ever and tries to get everyone to work together so they can stop your clone. - Claude: Finds it hard to battle copies of those he knows as he doesn't know how to see them as real or fakes. Jokes around with his own copy. Expresses doubts and sadness upon killing said copy stating it felt like killing his own twin brother. As for Shez... - Facing their own clone makes them really hate the whole ordeal because it acts like them. - Facing Byleth's clone has them express sadness because they really can't bring themselves to harm the one they want to be friends with.

"You fool why must you resist me so!" I guess sothis isn't the only villain here now

Nice to see Fleche alive and sane on this version…

Huh. The cutscene with Dimitri, Edelgard, and Claude being stuck in the spell is different from the clip in that I first saw of the secret ending. In it, Edelgard had been subjected to mind control already and had been regressed back to her younger self mentally.

So, let's see if I'm understanding this right: 1. The game has 3 routes and only 3 routes. 2. There are 2 endings for each route and they center around killing or recruiting Byleth. 3. Killing Byleth gets you to go through the route normally. 4. Recruiting Byleth gets you this secret extra mission and then you continue with the route and get a different variation of their ending. I got this right?

If only Byleth could fight with Shez in this route. It would've resolved their rivalry without bloodshed

This one, of course, differs a little regarding the route you chose. I played it on Azure Gleam and wondered how talkative Edelgard suddenly was, lol. I also preferred Dimitri and Claude joining forces and not that chasing thing. It always pains me to fight Dimitri...

Are you planning to do this "secret route" for all the routes? From my understanding, AG is somewhat different.

27:29 Well that puts the confusion whether Arval/Epimenides is a he or she to rest. Man he says. Regressed to a boy, kinda like how Sothis regressed to a girl

The hypothetical voice for Epimenides (because he says he's 'an ordinary man') in my eyes would be Adam Driver

Seriously what is the point of having byleth on the front of the box and giving us this secret route/ending if they aren't even apart of the ending like am I the only one who wishes byleth and shez tag teamed against arval here and at the end when they are dying Sothis goes along with him as she just wishes to move on and allow byleth and shez with the lord's/humanity to walk their own path now that a massive threat is taken care of is that just me

Byleth is now the protagonist

Watch how 38:11 shatters like glas. May this be the time loop moment where Shez releases Arval in the past, considering space/time are often linked?

"how can we tell the difference between our double" well i mean edelgard came in as a great knight and now shes an emperor... kinda fishy

Isn’t this kind of…underwhelming? Like I expected byleth to have a bigger role

“I like to think that this game is just whoever gets Claude just wins” -a member of the golden deer(me)

It is interesting that edelgard let's Dimitri live after this. They never go into what happened after. Ingrid and sylvain are potentially the only blue lion members who end up dying. Because felix runs away and Gilbert saves Annette and dies in her place. And then dedue just leaves out

This is nice, I wish byleth was more involved though

Claude and Edelgard conversation Edelgard and Dimitri conversation Where's Dimitri and Claude conversation in Zahras 😢

26:41 *Dennis Dyack cries in the background at the mention of the game he can’t crowdfund a sequel to*

It kind of odd to see Claude the bloodthirsty one for no reason that is justifiable. Dimitri being the voice of reason and doing what is truly right. Eldagard being the one to unity Foland and doing so in a measure and least casualty then needed. Honestly, I know Shez is suppose to be the main focus, but it feel like we are going backwards here.

Sorry, I'm confused. This happens in the middle of the story and then everything after happens how it does normally? Even the endings are the same?

Man, I really do wish Byleth actually played a bigger part in this game considering who they are. Fact of the matter is that they've NEVER been a lifeless character, just emotionally stunted in no small part due to the whole Crest of Flames situation, but a personality can be seen provided that you look hard enough past the Eternal Poker Face. 3Hopes makes it a bit more obvious what with Byleth actually being voiced this time, but for having built Byleth up so much, it truly is a shame that their role in the story is as small as it is. You either kill them (and Sothis by extension) or recruit them and that's basically it. Weird considering how both Byleth and Sothis take up an entire side of the cover art.

This is more a secrete mission instead of a secrete route since it does not seem to have any impact on the story ... if it changes the story in any way then it is a route ... otherwise just a secret level ...

26:46 Claude: I vote we kill this thing and see what happens. Who's with me?

12:12 Dimitri: Relatable

I could still call this secret route a golden route.

A lot of people talking about byleth... keep in mind in this game, byleth never meets the 3 princes when they were looking for jeralt, they instead meet shez making everything we know about byleth in 3 houses not occur. So thats why he has a minimal role in this game as just a mercenary for war.

It's so fucking satisfying to watch that bastard die. It might just be me, but the game utterly failed to make me care about Arval. From the beginning, I did not trust him. Hell, I straight up despised him. There were several times where one of my options in dialogue were specifically chosen because Arval suggested the opposite.

Didn’t even know you had to go out of your way to recruit byleth. I killed her and went “wait what, how am I gonna recruit her now.”

How can I keep EVERYONE In one route like Dimitri and his whole party and edelgard and Claude same way PLEASEE

I don't know if the eye twitching is a detail they added or they're just bad at animating eyes 😅

The music is nice and I didn’t know about this secret route. Thanks for the video I might try to persuade the ashen demon.

Hey Metaton, I think we need to rework our Byleth/Shez combined powers AU

Let's be honest when we heard Arvals voice from Shez we all started screaming "WTF NOOOOOO BYLETH BEBE RUNNNN" No? Just me?

you know, I really wish this did more for the story I guess it's just me wanting a good ending, but having the 3 work together even momentarily should have had a larger impact on the ending of each route.

No Arval you are the monster but of course you would think Sothis is since you are an Argathan creation, you were also probably told lies about Sothis and Her Children

So... the so awaited 4th route/golden route/happy ending with the 3 houses, the church, and even the wolves maybe, Byleth and Shez......was just a fucking secret level in the middle of all route and is just bcuz Byleth was recruited only for him/her and Sothis not being involved in all this Sahras shit? And Arval ended up being evil as many theorized since her first appearance in the artworks, she's the goddess of the Agarthans/TWSITD, Sothis' enemy, for what? to be killed and the story continues like nothing happened? Shez has his/her powers even if Arval/Epimenedes is dead, and....wtf, Byleth doesnt even affect that much the story after being recruited except for this secret chapter, so, in the 3 routes, Claude is the new Nemesis, Dimitri faces Thales and Edelgard just like in 3H, heck even Fallen Edelgard (Hegemon Husk) is in W3H, and in the SB route Edelgard faces Rhea like in 3H but also Thales, but is that all? War will still roam Fodlan and everyone will remain as enemies or some characters die? Like... IS and Koei shouldve made a FE10 thing in this game, in that game if u do NG+ with other things made like FE9 Ike and Soren max support transfered to FE10, u can get certain events to happen different for the player to reach the true ending of the game. Srsly, this isnt the golden route we wanted.... Fuck.. now I dont know if I should really buy the game. I wanted this to be a real route, like a real reward after beating the 3 main routes, I wanted the empire, kingdom, alliance, abyss, and the church to join forces against the true evil in Fodlan, TWSITD/Agarthans leaded by Arval, I wanted all characters to be present in the final battle, and to have not only Shez and the house leaders but also Byleth and Sothis and maybe Rhea too facing Epimenedes in a hard af battle that will decide the fate of Fodlan.

Honestly, this whole thing with Arval felt like the story stumbled over the finish line. Like I was all for Arval being a baddie but this was way too quickly introduced and concluded. Also for it being hard-linked with Byleth being recruited, it's disappointing to see that they and/or Sothis do not take part in the fight against Arval (I'm not gonna bother calling him by his true name). Also, I felt like the part of the fight where all 3 lords fight their phantoms should have had a bigger impact than it did. I know, war isn't easy to just stop but I honestly thought that beating the Phantoms would have given the lords a reality check that the war needs to stop. I played through Azure Gleam's version and got completely whiplashed when Claude started saying the same thing that Edelgarde was fighting for right before fighting Arval. So you mean to tell me that even if you beat the Empire, the Alliance has then taken the same stance and wants the church gone as well....so Azure Gleam is essentially worthless because nothing gets resolved other than the Silthers getting killed? I even thought Dimitri was gonna try to offer peace to Edelgarde at the end of AG but instead she's just left looking guilty in the final cutscene and then the epilogue says the Kingdom went and continued onto the ruins (metaphorical) of the Empire. I truly hope a 4th route gets added as DLC that can iron out some of these issues I have because I feel like I was left with wanting more conclusion.

I really, really love this. Everything about it. I love how Arval's death is the key to the escape, just as Sothis' was. I love how it's a secret unlockable chapter in the middle of the story that provides a great deal of closure for the lords, without being a sickly sweet golden ending that undercuts the central conflict and themes. I love that the total resolution of Shez' character takes place without Byleth stealing the show - and allowing Sothis to exist purely as a villain in this narrative, a role she plays shockingly well. Perhaps most of all, I love Dimitri's reaction to his phantom.

"Oh how I've waited for this day..." Oh yeah, what day is that? "The day that I kill you!" ...Top tier writing, Fire Emblem. Really making me shake in my boots at that one. God, does this series' method of storytelling hurt me at times.

If the roles were reversed I'm sure this is the exact same thing would have gone down with Byleth and Sothis. This Sothis actually has all her memories from the get go, thus is more arrogant than she was previously. One wrong move, and she would would have end up like Arval or rather Epimendes.

Arval: *Dies* Me: You we’re my brother Arval… I love you… *Cries*

A silly interlude which explains little to nothing about Arval and his motives. Even Arval's prelude itself doesn't say much. I loved the gameplay a lot (one of the best musou games I've played), but while the storyline isn't completely terrible, it lacks context and proper conclusion. I would also have imagined the Agartharians would have more screen time since their backstory have always been confusing/unclear, but leave it to the game devs for leaving that out. p.s I'm not even mad that Byleth didn't have much role here since it's quite obvious Shez is the MC in this alternative timeline, but again there was a lack of interaction/conclusion between the two; like Sothis duking it out with Arval himself (using Byleth/Shez as their medium to speak to one another etc). He purely exists there the placate fans whom might have been mad about his absence. I'd rather he not be in this game at all considering how small a role he played in this timeline.

1:12 Arval Threat

So I’m lost here. Does this happen on every route and by doing this does this mean you’ll have everyone at the very end of the game?

Everybody knows that the secret ending is the true ending in this game😏.

Are people really getting mad at this route? This storyline is cool af

Claude character was completely assassinated.

the story goes on as usual after this even after saving byleth? This game is disappointing. Are they trying to save the good stuff for fire emblem four houses, three houses+1hope or whatever the remake will be called if they make one?

Kinda disappointing that this isn’t its own route. Weird

60$ for the Golden Route

Ah Jeralt we knew you were a big softie lol

7:20 Zahras incantation

Random to say, but Monica is so beautiful in this one

I freaking new it BIGGEST TWIST

So my question regarding the Phantoms of Shez and Byleth-in Azure Gleam, I fought Phantoms of Shez and Bernadetta, not Byleth; Scarlet Blaze had me fight Phantom Byleth. Is there any reason for that?

I can see why people are upset at the lack of a Byleth interaction here or there, but in my opinion that would only make the story worse. All the interactions leading up to this show you getting your ass constantly handed to by her every move when facing such a beast in direct combat. While Byleth had a stoic look, theres not much personality. In my view they did them right for all what this game could be considered. I was fine with them not showing up because they were basically scared off and possibly injured enough to rather avoid that fight. If they made Byleth more relevant they’d likely upstage the true protagonist to the point of it being worse than itd already be considered.

How does it choose what characters to take for the phantoms? I was playing this and had the first wave be Huber dedue and Lorenz and the third wave be Hilda as the extra?

I guess Claude is now an actual schemer, and I don’t like it it’s odd…

Does anyone know what the name of the song that plays on the final map of this route?

Alr but I found the first mission the hour of vengeance one to be ridiculously hard to beat with level 60 units for me

I'm genuinely confused on why people are so mad about this game not having some 4D chess story, I mean it's a warriors game where it prefers hack and slash instead of some big ol story

Being honest, if this doesn't affect the ending, I feel I'm not going to do this, unless there's a good reason to do it. I'd hate to cut down Arval, he was my favourite character from the game, and even though he was created first by Epimenides, he evolved, he became sentient and became a person of his own, and honestly, I really had a blast with him, I just can't get myself to kill him, even if it means that I don't get Byleth, I prefer that over hurting Arval (even though in this game, I like byleth more than in three houses.).

(SPOILERS) . . . . . . . . . . Is the scene in Zahras different in AG or does Edelgard snap back to her usual self?

Yeah, this all seems like a Huge waste of Time when it’s all said and done.

Yep, Inaba’s goddess right there 1:45

Being honest Shez and Byleth didn't need to be in this game at all and they were just there for marketing purposes The whole Arval and Sothis plot line seems pointless and facts don't barely make any difference to any route main story is just a waste of time to unlock The Arval and Sothis plot leaves me with questions without answers Honesty it would had be better if they took Shez and Byleth out and have Dimitri, Claude, and Edelgard be the main protagonists on their own routes