#[CHROM: SO? IM THE LEADER. I SAID NO.

[convxction]

ooc. appears to think about chrom most likely not acting on his feelings, especially if he found someone because you know, they are going to be bound with him forever with this nation ruling shenanigans and he wouldnt want to flip someone's life upside down so suddenly like this. plus, i feel like 'birthing an heir' is also too a ...hmm pressure he does not want his partner to feel like they must do it. laugh track that is why he might not be that forward if he liked a guy. hear me out, henry can whip a baby and he is working on it via magic, him and tharja, but it is not confirmed at the time of traveling that they were successful so welp. i wrote slightly deeper than this in a previous post but yeah. plus it is a bit trickier for him to fall for a guy than a woman. hear me out dnt kill me. you understand the 'www i admire them' routine of his right? this but double it because like hahaha no way we are friends. wait. friends? wow uh. friiiiends. but he kinda make me feel stuff. hahanoooo.yess??nooooo.im confused. (im confused too chrom.) anyway. give him boyfo now.

[mayordea]

MORGAN HEADCANON POST!!!

so i have posted my elaborate “the robins are separate entities and siblings” headcanons and i think i’ve said too many damn times that i wanna extend a similar headcanon post for morgan and now it is TIME!!

(im also a lot less nervous sharing this time teehee)

more info about the guys under the cut :]

morgan

the girl one

robin’s adopted daughter. parents died after grima goes bananas and robin decided to take her under his wing. i like to think robin held out a little longer than the rest of the shepherds once the apocalypse started so he was able to teach morgan what he knew. plus she self taught herself magic and tactics using his notes even when he’s dead

can be blunt, hates being the butt of the joke, but has a pretty dry and witty sense of humor. sometimes clashes with lucina’s inability to pick up on jokes

since she was a kid when grima goes bad, she is the oldest among the second gen. older than lucina by a few years perhaps

has a close sisterly relationship with lucina. she and lucina sort of reflect robin and chrom’s relationship in the group, with the exalted leader having a wise magic man by their side. given the situation in their family tree (though morgan is adopted, she is still lucina’s cousin) i’d refrain from defining it as anything romantic (besides i hc lucina to be aroace anyway. queerplatonic relationship, perchance)

since morgan was only able to cross paths with lucina and the rest of the second-gen shepherds through her adoption from robin, it is unlikely that she will meet lucina in the good future or at least have the same very close relationship with lucina since she’ll be raised by her bio parents. (one may argue that none of the second-gen shepherds will meet or form a close band without the backdrop of acopalyptic bonding in the good timeline, but the point is that morgan will live a significantly different upbringing if the grima threat is taken care of). lucina sometimes worries about this possibility, but morgan’s conviction to change the future for the better is stronger than this uncertainty. this conviction was also probably inspired by lucina’s drive to change fate

ngl this is all i have unfortunately 😭 but i do wanna work with her more, especially her relationship with lucina

marc

the boy one

chrom and reflect (girl robin)’s son from… a different future. he does not hail from the same doomed timeline as lucina and the rest of the kiddos. instead, he’s from a timeline where grima was vanquished with the falchion (keeping reflect/the vessel alive). he was born shortly after the war ended (though in actuality he’s born after chrom and friends leave smash bros but that’s a whole other can of worms)

the youngest of the future kids

due to his unawareness of the apocalyptic future and grima in general, he has a much more jovial attitude compared to the rest of the kids

brash and a bit of a jock

has a little bit of aptitude in magic from his mom, but he has no interest in actually touching a book

lucina (and the rest of the kids) were confused about this guy’s existence and why he was sent to the past but they embrace him as one of their own anyway (he still doesn’t really know what’s going on)

tbh i have even less going on with him, but i think exploring the silly sibling dynamic he’ll have with lucina should be fun in future projects

his design is kinda messy atm, i do not know if ill fully settle on the one here idk

OH and lastly: his mark of the exalt has not surfaced yet at his age, but i think it’ll appear on either the back of his right hand (like the defile brand) or on his upper back (jojo reference). or maybe even in his right eye like inigo (but that sorta feels like his thing so i don’t wanna rip it off lmao)

anyway that’s it!! i’m kinda pressed for time rn but i wanted to get this out before i forgot lmao!! will edit if needed ough

[youngerfrankenstein]

fire emblem avatars for the character bingo? :> im mostly interested in robin, corrin and byleth but if you want to add kris or alear to that go ahead! i just know nothing about them lel

Ooh! I have not played Shadow Dragon or Engage so not doing them but here!

I… generally don’t have very strong feelings on avatar characters. There are plenty I like but I generally don’t find them super engaging.

With that said, Robin:

I honestly wasn’t sure what to check for Robin. I think they’re the best integrated avatar, and I like how their story plays out. Their dynamic with Chrom and to a lesser extent Lucina is great! I like that they’re probably the snidest and most outspoken of the avatars and I do like them quite a bit but hmm.

Corrin:

Corrin is probably the avatar I care about least. I love their dragon design though, it kicks ass. I will say I find them more interesting in Conquest, since they have more internal conflict there but overall… they’re just there.

And Byleth!

Debated checking daddy issues lol. I actually quite like Byleth’s arc! Going from merc to teacher to leader, increasing how many people they help each time. It’s interesting to me. And I also REALLY like their whole thing of being both human and divine, and a member of both the human and Nabatean races. It’s neat! I love how they become a guiding light and hope for coexistence! …Which is why the people who go “well I like them because HUMANITY” bother the hell out of me.

I uh, kinda wish I had more to say 😅

[toestalucia]

thinking about those seofon vday/white day lines where gran fakecries to fool seofon

[sentofighta]

The Theocracy of Plegia Headcanon post

In this post, I will try to write some headcanons for Plegia, kind of world-building to be a reference for myself and anyone who is interested to read it.

Please remember, these are mere headcanons, they are my own interpretation. If you disagree with something then I don’t mind discussing the points you don’t find accurate. There is no harm in checking other views, but please be polite or keep it to yourself. Suggestions and feedbacks are highly appreciated.

Special shout out to Jee @/stratesia for giving her opinion on some points~

Please don’t Reblog.

Etymology:

Plegia ペレジア, Perezia

I thought at first it might be a play on word (spelling i think) Plegia> Persia

Perezia is the name of a flower just like Iris (Ylisse)

I tried to look for the flower meaning but there is nothing. The only link is stated below in the headcanon of Religion.

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Origin and History

Plegia is originally part of Ylisse, the content before the Schism event when The First Exalt with Naga’s help fought Grima and because of the immense power, the content was divided and thus having the awakening world continent.

After the schism, three counties were formed, Ragna Ferox to the north, Halidom of Ylisse in the middle and the Theocracy of Plegia to the west.

Some of the content here is shared with my previous ylisse headcanon so copy pasting some info here to connect the two posts together.

With the separation of the three counties, each country took a different path from the others. Ferox being in a harsh climate, was more of active of the two countries in terms of manpower and parties. Plegia to the south with its scorching desert life, the development was steadily but not very fast like Ferox and Ylisse in terms of trading business due to the lack of earthly materials like in Ylisse (farm yields and animals), Ferox (Ore, and furs.) Though, there are things that only found in Plegia like certain food spices, herbs, unique clothes textiles and dyes, exquisite make-up, etc.

The Grimleal in Plegia are a minority in Plegia and only grew with time especially in the game events. King Gangrel and his men were not Grimleal but they had to follow the cult for their own safety and the services they will gain from the cult.

After the separation, it was hard for the Plegian to fully operate with how harsh the weather is especially after they became independent from Ferox and Ylisse. Their livelihood was in a tie with Ylisse’s agriculture and meat products. and Ferox’s ore, manpower, and fur. They worked tirelessly to be a fully functional nation on its own that does not rely on its neighboring countries. Being a nation that is known for its dark magic, this enabled this to advance despite the harsh circumstances.

Plegia prospered during the time between their separation until the great war against Ylisse which Plegia suffered a lot. The truth that normal citizens of Plegia were the true victim of the war meanwhile any Grimleal were plotting from the back and escaped the war’s damage. The Grimleal played with its nation’s emotions saying that Ylissean wants them to become their slaves so they can enjoy their lives as their masters. Naga told them to take over Plegia and make it their own as it was once before. People were agitated with these false claims and sought to stop the Ylisseans--Chrom’s Father from invading Plegia. The cost of war was Ylisse’s almost destruction and Plegia while the Grimleal watched in the background this war. The Grimleal used their people to act as a human shield to protect their experiments and projects to revive their fell dragon god.

Reviving Grima was the Grimleal’s wish. As Validar said in the game that his Grandfather and father were failures to be the host of Grima even himself until he had Robin (Avatar) who was of pure blood to host Grima in them. The process of creating a suitable vessel was an ugly and disgusting one. A lot of experiments on subjects, children were torn from their parents. Subject after the other to create the right formula for the final product which was Robin. Whether Validar or Robin’s mother was a close being to Homoncluos (Grima in a way) that made Robin with a high success rate of being able to host Grima. Going by the events of SOV, Grima was made by Forneus and by the description, Grima resembles a homunculus in the way he was created and Forneus is an Alchemist so that kind of allude to that. Wouldn’t be surprised if Robin’s mother was a created being, homunculus to be able to give birth to Robin. Alchemy was lost because there was no mention to it in Awakening world. But surely the knowledge remains in the hidden abodes of the Grimleals.

After the Great war, Gangrel assumed his role as a King to the nation, a plan woven by Validar to dart everyone’s eyes away from the Grimleal as they plot their scheme to revive Grima from the shadows. When Emmeryn died, a lot of people who were affected by her sacrifice stopped fighting but sadly some were killed by true Grimleals or during the battle against the Ylissean army. Whoever could escape hid away and decided to start a new life.

When Gangrel was defeated, Validar took over as regnant King, making sure that the Grimleals are now the controlling force of the country; making it clear that the Grimleals are in power now. There was no need to hide their motives after finding Robin is still alive so the plan B they had, using the future Robin to assume the role. Validar aided Chrom’s army to defeat Walhart because he knew that Walhart if he reached Plegian, no one will be saved, not even the weakened Future Robin (Grima) from his wrath.

Once Walhart was out of the picture, Validar ought to steal the Fire Emblem and then fuel the Future Robin with power to regain the lost power they lose during their travel (and i assume reviving Validar as well?) even though the plan was to use the current Robin’s body but when they refused time was of essence so they had to move to use the future body (which is odd because they are not older even after they said that they did came with lucina so??? Maybe their aging stopped when they killed chrom or something idk man this game got a lot of ??? for me to think of answers im but i weak moogle.) Validar used the strong faith of the Grimleals to call them over to the Dragon Table to be Grima’s lunch. When confronted by Chrom and the company, these people were brainwashed, only speaking in gibberish

...the appointed...time...

...to the Dragon's...Table...

...our prayers...Grima…

Using these people so Grima can feed on them to be resurrected to its true form, however, the future robin mortal body remained as well. This could mean that the true form is mindless while the mind and conscience remain in the human body thus why Robin could kill Grima and end it. If Grima chose to get rid of the human body, I only assume that Robin would not be able to kill Grima and severe the ties between because his power is not equal to the current Grima so perhaps Robin should accept this current Grima’s powers if they want to destroy the future grima?? 👀

With the defeat of Grima, Plegia was left in shambles with the Grimleals are out of the picture as well. There is no information to what happened to Plegia next but I imagine with Ylisse’s help and Ferox, the people slowly regained the control of their country. Either Robin (Avatar) take their role as King/Queen but i kind of doubt that the people would just ‘yes we accept’ knowing that Avatar is Validar’s kid--the man who killed half of their people for a big ass dragon. This could require a lot on Avatar’s part to reassure the people that they can grant them the peace they want or surprisingly the people will accept avatar after knowing that they are the one who fell the dragon. Or it will be a democracy, they will elect someone to be their leader.

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Geography

Plegia comes between Halidom of Ylisse to the east and Ferox to the north. Plegia is a country in the Ylisse continent that was once one country with its neighbor.

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Topography

Plegia is known to be a desert country evident with a map up there. There are little to no forest areas like its neighbor country, Ylisse. A lot of mountains and sand dunes. Plegia as any desert country, it is bound to have dangerous areas of quicksands often used by bandits to lure helpless merchants and villagers towards them so they can trap them. Unlike Ylisse, Plegia’s bodies of water are more active because the Plegian made a lot of ports to make the trades between them and the Valmesean easier.

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Climate

Because unlike Ylisse, Plegia is pretty much has the same climate all over its land. Very hot humid, even scorching at summer, and slightly cold at winter. In summer, the days are humid and hot while at night, it can get a little chilly and even freezing at certain times. In winter, the days are sometimes cloudy little chances of rain depends on the circumstances and at night extremely cold due to the desert winds and being exposed to the sea. Nearby the sea, the air can be salty and suffocating for newcomers.  

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Flora & Fauna

Since the climate is the same, the flora and fuana are pretty much the same across the land as well. Short plants in the desert area, different types of reptiles, a lot of wild birds like falcon and hawks, wild rabbits, coyotes and gazelles which often found near the border pass between Plegia and ylisse. Between Ferox and Plegia at the border wastes, some giraffes and elephants might be around.

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Government

As the name of the country suggests, it is religion based country, more like a forced one. The government is hereditary from one leader of the Grimleal to another, most likely as Validar said, his grandfather, father then him and possibly Robin (Avatar).

Gangrel, as stated before he was placed to fuel the war between plegia and ylisse because he had the charisma and the drive to get people around him for that purpose--the revenge on the ylissean.

After the battle with Grima, the line of Validar--the Grimleals is over. The people either pick their own leader or accept Robin (Avatar) as their King/Queen if they wanted to serve their country alongside their friend Chrom being the Exalt of Ylisse.

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The Law

The Law in Plegia is simple, Worship Grima, and hate Naga. The same rules that the previous Exalt had to not trade with Plegian or marry into them applied in Plegia as well. Who is caught to be trading with a Ylissean was immediately killed on the spot.

This to be changed slightly when Gangrel ruled because he wanted to use Ylisse for his revenge to he allowed some sort of trading to happen but with a lot of restrictions.

After the end of Grima, the laws are loose to let both trading and wedding from both countries without any sort of restrictions following after Chrom’s Laws.

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Hierarchy

The Hierarchy is simpler than Ylisse because it is simply:

The Hierophant (Grima)

The Grimleal leader and the country Leader, the King (Validar)

Right hand and trusted advisor (Aversa)

The Grimleals is definitely set to ranks but for my sake, they are three levels according to what the enemies we have seen.

High ranked Grimleal: Priests & Dark Mages & Scholars (Chalard & Algol)

Middle ranked Grimleal: Loyal Military Soldiers & Spies (Campari)

Lowest ranked Grimleal: Believers and worshipers of Grima

Military Commander (Mustafa etc)

The commoners

After the Grimleals ranks, who comes next kind of does not have any authority nor power except on those who are around them. Mustafa being the commander of the army that fought Chrom, it should be apparent that his loyalty to his people not the religion should be known by the Grimleal so I doubt he has any power except on the men around him.

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Religion

The forced religion is worshiping the fell dragon Grima even though there are many around Plegia who do not worship Grima at all. The Religion was founded when the first fathers saw the destruction that Grima caused in his first war with the First Exalt. They sought his power for their own misguided ends. They wanted to obtain that power knowing that Grima had a pact with a human, they thought they could control this ‘God’ to do what they want. When Plegia was founded, I imagine it was their goal; to revive Grima so they can use him. Naga helped humans on her own, they wanted their God to be same; to help them realize their dreams and wishes; their own God that they don’t have to share with anyone else. These wishes developed and reshaped to be wanting destruction about everyone so no one can be better than them; total damnation to all even if the in the process they died at least their selfish wishes that no one be happy happen. Validar was revered among the Grimleal because in a way he was the host or almost was going to for their God. If Robin remained in Plegia, they would be worshipped as the Human that has the pact with Grima, their own God, their messenger for their God.

Note to Grima’s design, which is just my own opinion again but look at the picture

The true form of Grima resembles Perezia, the flower that the nation is called after in the Japanese release. I don’t know if this was intentional or just me diving deep where it is not necessary. The right images are from here if you like to look at the other Perezia’s types because they are A LOT, i picked these two because they looked close enough to grima’s design imo. Just like Ylisse (Iris) the symbol is the flower itself, I think Plegia is the same. Ferox (Felia) on the other hand, their symbol is two wolves(?) animal motif instead of plant perhaps to represent the fierce nature of Ferox.

Holidays & Celebratory Days

The day when Grima was fell the first time, is a day that all Grimleal spend it mourning their God’s long slumber and prepare a lot of sacrifices in hope for the day Grima is revived come closer.

If Robin remained in Plegia, I am sure their birthday would be a day to be celebrated because the messenger of their God, his vessel was born on this day.

With how Plegia is under the Grimleal, there are a lot fo celebratory events unlike Ylisse and Ferox but common folks do enjoy summer festival and such in their cast away villages.

Customs

Grimleal’s customs

To get into the Grimleal is not an easy as it sounds like. Test of loyalty and such would be asked for the recruiters to do. Often raiding and killing people, offer sacrifices, be ready for any job whatever it is to be done. Who can’t fight, must assist in a way or another. Scholars and Scientists were expected to keep experimenting on different projects, more strong Risens and whatnot.

Commoner’s customs

Plegians are like the Ylissean in terms of upbringing. Respect is a must to teach their children, they might be little more strict with that than the Ylissean. The family may hold the Grandparents, the parents, their kids, and their kids. The extended family may live in the same house with how the living in Plegia in the years are getting harder with previous war and the current one, it is hard to save up money to live in your own.

It is not a custom but perhaps an explanation to why most Plegian are seen devoted of emotions or if they had them they are considered cold and distant. Basing the information on the real world, desert people are affected by the heat and being constantly under the sun thus they are more hot-tempered and emotionally distant (of course this does not apply to ALL desert living.) The heat damped their emotions but they are there but only visible to really close knit of people, for example, Mustafa and his company. They were moved by Emmeryn which does not necessarily they are cold but to the outsiders they seem like it.

First Grima war

  The Events of the [First Grima war] against the First Exalt with Naga VS. Grima and the human he pact with was the first war in ages the people faced their first trial. There are no records of the war but a point to note that the whole continent was against Grima unlike the 2000 years later where The Halidom of Ylisse was against Grima alone, mostly. Another thing to note, that the human that had a pact with Grima was known, however, these little details ‘human pact’ was not known for anyone outside the Grimleal in the game (during Awakening) timeline. Evidence that everyone was shocked to hear of Avatar’s relationship to Grima and the whole plot to use them as a vessel. A lot of Grima’s secret was swept away when the three nations were made, means that the Grimleal in their early days, made sure to cover up Grima’s tracks to make sure that his next revival would be the last and no one can interrupt him.

The Grimleals made sure only to keep who will hold their tongue from blurting any information that could threaten their plan to revive Grima. Who was suspected to leak anything was murdered on the spot. It might have shaken them in numbers but that made the new generation even more stronger and loyal to the cause.

Ylisse-Plegian situation

  It is no secret that these two countries have always had troubles and skirmishes. Ylisse worshiping the divine dragon and Plegia worshiping the Fell Dragon. Both contrasting counties of faith and beliefs. Ylisse wished for more peaceful negotiations, but Plegia saw it as a way to silence them--it agitated them because they thought Ylissean are simply provoking them due to their past.

  Pre the previous Exalt’s time, the relationships were already on a thin ice. The Grimleal experimenting with everything they got to get the results they hope for-- a perfect vessel for their master. What kept the relationship at bay was on both sides, Ylisse’s Exalt was still going for the peaceful route and the Grimleal trying to maintain a low profile until they finish their experiments.  

  In the previous Exalt’s time, the situation got worse when Validar who had hopes that he will be the perfect vessel for Grima, was provoked by the Exalt who got a whiff of the situation tried to pursuit Validar to explain what is he doing but Validar did his best to conceal it that until Validar had Avatar who was, by all means, THE perfect vessel then it all hells went loose. With Avatar’s mother escaping, all spies who were around Plegia and the borders reported back of the scheme that plegia is making which made the first Exalt more determined to wage war against Plegia in name of Naga and peace. Thus the war 15 years pre awakening happened. It was a mean to stop Validar from making the vessel but it failed. The only success was that the vessel, Avatar was lost and their whereabouts were unknown. Sadly, this information was only shared by the Exalt and the Clergy and his personal knights so the news of vessel and Validar’s scheme died when the Exalt fell in battle.

  During the game situation was the follow up of the previous war. Plegia did not forget the war even though 15 years have passed. The wounds did not heal and the people wanted a revenge, an end to their pain, a closure that no more of that cruel war is going to happen. With Emmeryn’s sacrifice, it showed that even Plegian were not sure of their emotions and deep down they want an end to all the fighting and when Gangrel was defeated, the situation calmed a little bit until Validar came back into the scene. Fueling the people against Ylisse and using every possible opening to rekindle the hatred. Who followed him were mostly long rooted Grimleal who would gladly give up their lives for Grima. Anyone else was fighting for other reasons, some because they fear for their families who were captured, some for glory, some for money, etc.

A lot of problems emerged after the first war, a lot of dead plegian, poverty, lack of funding. These were somehow fixed by the Grimleal in order to shut the people up and use that anger and direct it at the Ylissean. Some of course, knew that the Grimleal at fault too but couldn’t speak about it or death will be their end. People were living in horror from the Grimleal and from the Ylissean to strike again.

Plegia and Valm situation

Validar understood that Walhart was smart for his own good and decided to do something about Plegia when Ylisse failed to act, he used Chrom and his company to take Walhart down so there will be fewer people at his doorstep asking him to stop resurrecting Grima. If Walhart was not stopped, all what Validar planned with Future Robin (Grima) would have been under threat.

The Last Grima war, Avatar’s ending

  In the second Grima war in game, there are three outcomes for the battle. 1) the shepherds lose to grima, 2) chrom’s ending where he delivers the last strike sending grima into another 1000 of slumber, 3) or avatar’s ending where they sacrifice their life. Since this is the true ending of the game, it is the best outcome of the three endings. The world was saved from Grima and history wrote about its savior. Naga did tell Avatar that if they have strong bonds they are to fight and come back to this world. During the time the avatar went missing, everyone continued to grow and develop in their name. The scars of the last battle did not heal quickly but they are surely coming along. There is no set of time to when Avatar came back but it is not that long taking that from the game ending where there are no visible changes on both Chrom nor Lissa; between a year and two max. The duration is a controversial topic so it is not that of important at this point. Meanwhile, Plegia is gathering itself after losing so many of its citizen for being Grima’s food and in the war itself.

Chrom’s ending

Avatar has the choice to return to Plegia and rule it as King/Queen.

Ruined Future ending (Future Kids timeline)

Plegia prospered even further to become the land of the Fell Dragon, the land of the risens. A lot of plegian escaped to Valm or Ferox leaving the country in fear for their lives. Who remained were the loyal Grimleals and commanders.

  In Fate, Anakos asks Owain, Severa, and Inigo if they had a request after helping him and they asked to revive their families and friends but he could not do that so they asked to make revive their original world that was tainted by Grima and in the process make graves for their fallen families and friends. I assume that fixed Plegia too.

Ruined Present ending

If The Shepherds failed to take down Grima, an ending close to the future that the kids escaped from will happen. However, this time, Falchion and the Fire Emblem might be either lost or be confiscated by Grima’s puppets. A worse ending than the future they escaped from. The Grimleals will take over command of everything and the new place people will start pilgrim to is Plegia’s castle to worship their new God, Grima.

Military

Plegia units are [Barbarians, Dark Mages, Wyvern Riders, Myrmidons and Thieve] a balanced army. Plegian considers having a better strategic approach to battle so they can be hard to deal with especially with the wyvern riders who can travel a long distance and have a decent defense to close ranged and magical attacks. Though, with proper planning and using the archers they can be an easy target. Their advantage is only if they are fighting on their land where the movement is quite restricted to everyone but the mages and riders.

Education

Same with Ylisse, education was for people who could afford it. Priests, Dark Mages, and scholars are the highest people in rank of education, of course after the Grimleal leader themself.

Because of how the Grimleal is, a lot of experiments and projects are involved, thus why scholars are important in the country for their continuous experiments and researches.  

Unlike Ylisse, we did not get to see official letters for Plegian nor any other nation (correct if im wrong please). Looking at the in-game sprites, you can see the spells are identical so I couldn’t get anything out of them to link to plegia.

All the spells have the same writing so it did not give away anything special. Weak spells and the powerful spells; all alike.

One could headcanon that the writing is the same what is different is how each nation pronounce them? Because of all magic stem from one place??? Idk.

The warp spell pattern is different

The letters are kind of, slightly, different to the above one. Maybe because they are skewed they look different. But for me, they kind of resemble the arabic script because it looks cursive at the first part to me and we saw that ylissean counts on the symbol and they are not cursive. I will bite the bullet and say that Plegian script resembles the Arabic script, written from right to left to be just different from the ylissean. Out of spite lolololol

Health & Services

Due to the aftermath of the first way, poverty struck the country and famine. People died because of the heat and lack of food and clean water. It was a lot of work to provide food and water across the country and health services. Healers are not common around plegia that is why scholars work on more effective medicines to replace the lack of the able arms to cure and heal with items that can be used by the laymen. Of course, it is not because they ‘care’ because every soul is important in order to revive Grima. Plus, they are the human shield that the Grimleal will use to provoke the new war to happen. War can’t happen if there is no one to fight back.

Art & Entertainment

Architecture

The overlook looks similar to how Persian castle looked like, no color a lot of castle towers. I imagine that small villagers only have somewhat colors in their building because they are further away from the Plegian Castle and the Grimleal.

The inner design, however, has dark colors. The windows are above only assuming because to avoid having the heat of the sun come through them so they are strategically built to only let cool air in during the day and night and only enough of the sunlight depending on the position of each window and the sun circle.

Music

I imagine the music would be, all poetry of praising Grima and the soon fated hour of his return. Commoners might sing about their daily life struggle and whatnot, somehow melancholy fill all their songs. little when you find happy songs.

Painting / Statues

I looked all over the castle for any hint of painting like in Ylisse’s castle but nope. Nothing. I think Plegia is more famed for statues more than painting with how they build their houses from stones.

Writings

The same as their music, all written art is based on imaginary days of Grima’s arrival. Recording the feat of the Grimleal, and the history against the Naga worshipers.

[acecombatmutual]

long micaiah essay under the cut. might seem a little laced with malice but thats because im fucking mad

anyway when people analyze lords like chrom, robin, corrin, etc and call them 'stupid,' they tend to compartmentalize these characters as 'lovable oafs,' or, like, theyre quite flat as characters but because of their dumbassery we can love them. but these same people, when looking at lords like, say, micaiah, call her stupid and a mary sue for having to make genuinely hard and moving decisions that may just seem 'stupid.' none of micaiahs decisions are actually stupid- shes just put under lots of pressure to do the right thing (see literally all of part 3). and i guess people cant accept that micaiah does make bad decisions sometimes, and good ones other times, and accept the fact that shes morally gray and honestly was just trying to do what she thinks is right. people often overlook micaiah for ike, but honestly, ike is pretty much a cut out lord- hes got good convictions, a good moral compass, a lot of good and solid character development, among other things (not to say i dont like ike, i love him, but for the sake of my argument im leaving that as it is). but micaiah on the other hand is presented as morally gray and has to make a lot of tough decisions that arent necessarily morally right- and she gets plenty of time to solidify her convictions (part 1), moral compass (part 1 and 3), and development (part 3 and 4). but people just tend to sleep on her for other lords- and thats what annoys me. shes one of the best written characters in the series, but even people who have played radiant dawn just dont acknowledge that her character is complex. and thats when i see people fawning over chrom, robin, corrin, fe14 royals, fe13 characters, etc... even when i could choose just about any character from fateswakening barring, say, lucina, and they would just be a few tropes thrown onto a blank canvas. when people call her a mary sue is especially what gets me mad since a mary sue is just supposed to be a sort of cookie cutter protagonist with some sort of special power or whatever else. and sure, micaiah has future sight, and she can be possessed by yune, and shes branded- but chrom has the mark of naga and is a cookie cutter lord (chivalrous, kind and strong leader) with nearly all the traits of a 'mary sue' (and like i said hes pretty much a cookie cutter lord) and people STILL fawn over him over, you know. well written characters. like micaiah, ike, marth, seliph, just to give some examples. the way the fandom treats micaiah just really makes me angry you know? i know shes a fictional character but she means a LOT to me, so it just makes me disproportionately angry when i see people bashing on her for being a 'stupid mary sue.'

[sweetest-thief]

Confess: Worst thing you've done post-Shepherds. Killing enemies on a battlefield doesn't count.

Gaius turned grim almost immediately. “First thing, Jigsaw. This does NOT leave this room, okay?” He sighed, looking away slightly. “You said killing enemies on the battlefield don’t count… But what if it wasn’t on the battlefield?”

“It was my turn to patrol camp with Sourpuss, when we got accosted by brigands. Fred took down most of ‘em, but it was up to me to chase down one slippery fellow who got away. I tracked ‘im down and managed to wound him pretty badly. But that’s when he cracked.”

A sigh as he ran his fingers through his hair with the memory of it all. “He… confessed that he an his buddies were actually hired by the Grimleal to come and try to sabotage our camp late at night. The plan was to wait until most of us were asleep, take out whoever had sentry duty, and then slit our throats. Guess they just didn’t expect to have to deal with someone like Frederick, hah.”

“Anyways, he told me he surrendered and would be willing to exchange any information he knew for his life. He fed me some nice bullshit about how he’d heard what a fair and kind leader Chrom was, and told me that he was just a father trying to support his kid the only way he knew how. He said he wasn’t really a bad person – just someone who’d ended up on the wrong side. He begged me for another chance.”

“But I… didn’t give it to him,” he admitted quietly. “I tried to press him for information – any I could possibly glean – and when he refused, asking for a private audience with Chrom, I cut him down where he stood. It sounds terrible… Killing a defenseless person who’d already given up and was begging to be taken prisoner. Hell, it WAS terrible. But I did it anyway. And I’d do it again.”

“Chrom is… an amazing person. I honestly love him like a brother. His ability to connect with people is outmatched, as is his capacity for trust. But it’s those sorts of personality traits that get great men like him killed. Just look at ME. I was roaming with the dastards who wanted to off his sister, but it hardly took any convincing at all for him to welcome me to his side. Gods, imagine if I’d been a turncoat all along? I know he’s aware of the risk of intrinsically trusting people like that, but no amount of persuading would ever get him to change.”

“All I could think about as that guy spilled his guts in front of me was the sort of information he could relay back to enemy forces if we let him go. Chrom’s such a saint… I got a free pass on trying to off his sister because of my fucking sweet tooth. If this man came with his pretty little sob story, talking about his fucking daughter who was the only way he could remember his dead wife, there’d be no talking him out of letting the guy go. I couldn’t risk it. So I did what had to be done. And Frederick… He didn’t even ask about him once I came back alone. He’s seen the world at its most inhospitable, too. He knows what it’s like.”

A sigh as the man looked back up at the ceiling. “… Sometimes, though… I do wonder… if he was telling the truth. If I made a huge mistake just out of fear. If that little girl misses her papa.”

He lapsed into a brief silence, before shaking his head. “But at the end of the day… it doesn’t matter. What’s one man’s conscience compared to world peace? It was worth it, if it meant keeping him safe.”

[toestalucia]

🌟 lay it on me wars

meme.

OH CHROM IS VERY INTERESTING CUZ,,,,,he has a leader position & is a prince & has to think of so many people, but he also is very friendly and makes mistakes and does dumb things and despite all that he is so respected and the shepherds listen to him, and i think that’s ?? very good for gran to see too? a majority of gran’s canon interactions of people with leader of groups are strict military or law enforcer ones or short meetings with mayor’s of towns, so gran mostly see the Very Proper Leader-type. Which is good and all, but while gran is very friendly with their own crew and the like they still harbor insecurities regarding it all. they want to be able to be on good terms with their crew, and want them to lean on them, and want to fool around with them, but since a lot of organizations has such strict leader-ship it throws them off sometimes. (is that how they’re supposed to act?? is this what leaders are supposed to be like?? should gran become more like this?? etc.)

so being able to spend time with chrom and see how the two has some similarities in dealing with the people they lead is a huge relief for gran, and they definitely admire chrom a lot for doing so. it’s not something i imagine they’d necessarily talk about??? it’s just….very comforting for gran to see it happen.

also i think the potential interaction of gran going ‘im looking for a bluehaired girl:(’ and chrom going oh? my daughter? and gran just ‘no thats the wrong one’ and chrom, as a father, going ‘What Do You MEAN The WRONG One’ is just so funny ajsbdkbasjkd

ALSO……….like…the whole aspect of chrom fighting a war? gran’d fight risen no problem, they’d be VERY weirded out at first, but since they’re not people or living beings gran’d do it. the whole,,,war aspect of fighting people is something they’re still not comfy with though (even if they’ve been around war/rebellion before). they’re very aware sometimes violence is the only way, having had to forcefully quell a revolution and all, but it doesn’t Sit Right with them. so even when they don’t know how chrom feels towards it all, they’re very likely to feel for him through it all (since he’s a prince and Responsible for a country, unlike gran who’s only responsible for their crew). actually seeing villages get destroyed is very humbling, and gran, as a skyfarer, has helped with fights in countries, but they’ve never been there to Rebuild it. so, going through it all they just gain more and more respect for him as a leader for carrying all of it on his shoulders.

GRAN JUST REALLY REALLY RESPECTS CHROM A LOT FOR EVERYTHING HE DOES & GOES THROUGH their age diff isn’t That big but gran wants to become an Adult like chrom

also also let gran babysit chroms kiddos, they’d be a great babysitter and Would Not create a mess. definitely.

that said gran kinda genuinely likes kids, and they’re very childish too, so they’d def take the opportunity to chase the kids around.

[convxction]

If Chrom were to meet other leaders in the world of heroes would he try to adopt some of their leadership techniques?

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/ / of course! for example, so far he is going through culture shock and conflict of opinions with Alm (@jasperlion) for what had happened in the sea battle with the Valm army. chrom totally respects alm’s straightforwardness and honesty. since im slow to respond i can’t add more but definitely chrom will be influenced by the saint-king somehow. 

i highly doubt he will like what r/yoma and x/ander work with. for r/yoma, it feels like...hm..how to describe it, too rigid. as for x/ander, too detached from the people around him. though he will commend their individual strengths. yes, i know he had support convo with ryoma, but training is something and leading is something else. i dont think he would adopt something directly. this could probably change if we had proper interactions with said characters.

uuh...he is going to probably give more to alfonse than take..i guess? try to persuade him not to give up on his bonds. 

hm..chrom and hector probably on the same page. not because ‘oooh brute force boho dumb brain cells booho’ no. because these two share more than that, similar situation; hector and uther, chrom and emmeryn, both kind of not well trusted to take over from their older siblings, people mistake them only for show of strength when they can offer more than that etc etc...listen. i welcome a hector any day time to interact with. is this my list of please bobo interact with me? idk. maybe.

i’m not gonna talk off my butt about the other lords because i dont know beyond rekka no ken so welp. if they have something to offer chrom with, he would take it gladly and make it his own with his own chromway. so yeah, he will eagerly seek their guidance and advice when possible. it’s his kind of own creed "A leader must never rest, never surrender, and most of all never stop learning..." chrom does not feel embarrassed to learn something from anyone, literally anyone no problem. i bet he could learn something from roy, too. age, status whatever, do not bother him. you give him a solid advice, you are good in his book.