#Saint Macuil

[mantareidraws]

Fishing trip at Rhodos Coast 🎣

I was recently commissioned to draw the cabbage patch family~ 🥹💚 Credits to @enbeeon for Cichol's wife's design!! Thank you so much for the comm, this one was really special~!!

For those who are unfamiliar with my HCs and designs of the Four Saints, from left to right: it's grumpy middle child Macuil, micromanaging baby brother Cichol, best daughter and niece Cethleann (followed by a special guest, her lovely mother), and lastly, timid eldest brother/peacemaker Indech.

[endlydraws]

Lettuce family have a picnic ✨💖🐉

Inspiration taken from the painting “Holyday” by James Tissot

[battry-acid]

fe3h dragons, canon and fanon :3

seteth and flayn dragon designs co-conceptualized by @merlyybird

[mildlyeldritchcats]

(mostly) complete nabatean family tree

this is an improved version of a post i've made before

1 - rhea states that she 'called [herself] Seiros' (teaspoon translations says the same), which implies that it isn't her first (i.e. the first non-dragon-title (i.e. not the immaculate one) name that she went by), but it's also not stated whether rhea is another alias or not

2 - going by both this reddit comment and teaspoon translations, rhea's statement that she is sothis' 'last child' means that she was the youngest nabatean to be born directly from sothis, rather than just the last surviving one

3 - while flayn calls both indech (also in three hopes) and macuil her uncles, they aren't necessarily brothers of seteth or each other; if flayn's mother was a nabatean, they could either both be her maternal uncles or one of them a paternal uncle and the other maternal

4 - as far as i am aware, nothing in three houses, three hopes or heroes states whether indech, macuil & seteth were direct children of sothis or not; the term 'children of the goddess' (which seteth uses to refer to himself and flayn; teaspoon translations translates it as 'kin of the goddess') refers to nabateans as a whole rather than just sothis' direct children, and none of them (indech, macuil or seteth) ever refer to sothis as their mother or to rhea as their sister

5 - as far as i am aware, the species of flayn's mother isn't stated anywhere; all that's stated is that she was flayn's mother, seteth's wife, she met seteth in enbarr, that she liked fishing and the rhodos coast (which is where she was buried), and that she died in a battle (presumably during the war of heroes). i've seen quite a few people say or suggest that she was human, but there doesn't seem to be anything significantly supporting this. it may be implied that she was a nabatean in both the english and japanese versions of flayn and seteth's a support, but it's still not explicitly stated anywhere, and if she is a nabatean her relation to seteth would still be unknown

6 - while rhea does explicitly state that she created sitri and that sitri saw her as a maternal figure, the method by which she created sitri (and her other 11 sothis homunculi, which i probably should've added but oh well) is not specified beyond the fact that she put the crest stone of flames in a body that she created. it is likely that sitri (and, by extension, the other 11) was something of an artificial nabatean going by her green hair and eyes, lack of decay (explicitly stated for sitri, implied as a general nabatean thing by the heroes' relics still existing after 1000+ years and some of them twitching as if they're alive) , and consistently hidden ears (nabatean ears are pointed, as shown in sothis' appearance as well as rhea, seteth and flayn's concept art)

image sourcing:

generic/placeholder portrait from the cutting room floor

rhea, seteth, flayn, jeralt, female byleth and male byleth's three hopes portraits from the fire emblem wiki

indech and macuil's three houses portraits from the fire emblem wiki

sothis artwork from serenesforest

three houses dialogue ui and cutscene artwork ripped by dakress on the spriter's resource, sitri's portrait taken from the image of her with aelfric then edited by me because of the original image's filter

font used is plantin

the 'markers' used for each character (the circles before the lines) are from a three hopes playthrough (didn't pay much attention to who uploaded it, since it was kind of annoying to find a video that showed the between chapter map screens)

[iusedtohavesixtoes]

WIP Wednesday!

For the 5th Anniversary event next week, day five.

I couldn’t exactly figure out what sneak peek to post, so heres several rough paragraphs from the beginning start of the story. (You’re welcome maybe??)

For @kimikaami for (very lightly) peer pressuring me into writing some Seteth shenanigans.

Now wish me luck on getting this completed and edited next week.

. . .

There was light, healing, a blast of white magic. It soothed the burns from the dark spell in this moment of the fall, but not in his chest. Cichol hit the ground, the world turning black.

Let him lay in darkness. Let this war consume him whole.

Let his wife welcome him to the heavens with open arms. Beyond the stars, the visages of his mother and father amid those lost decades before. Maybe Sothis—oh, if she were there!—would bless him in the afterlife, and wouldn't let his sacrifice be for naught.

Cethleann’s face was not among the dead. Cichol awakened with a gasp.

Macuil and Indech were on either side of him in the grass, the stench of decay swarming around them. The memory of violet fire twisting around his body did not keep him from trying to sit up, stomach heaving at the flickering ache. Indech moved a hand to his chest to steady him. “Do not move, little brother,” he said softly, a frown twisting onto his face as a tear left his eye. With the scorching burn eating away at his side, Cichol grasped the arm keeping him tethered.

Ceara, mother, father. “Cethleann, I did not see her—did she, is she alive?” The thought of his only child ran through near where her mother lay dead. It choked him, left him drowning.

There was a grunt that had both looking down at their sibling. “She sleeps.” Macuil wrote another sigil with a finger, casting a chilled white spell over Cichol’s ravaged body. It licked the fire to ice before the spark of pain hastened forth afresh on his leg. Cichol flinched, but didn’t look away. Macuil lifted his face to him, and suddenly he knew. The sting of salt rose to his eyes as fingers tightened still around Indech’s wrist.

Macuil repeated the words, relieving and shattering his hope in the same instance, “she sleeps, Cichol. It is a wonder, maybe a curse, either of you survived.” The fate of his daughter had been sealed.

“And you need a healer.” Indech’s hand firmly pressed into his chest. Cichol’s breath stuttered, catching on a wail. “Macuil.”

“Sleep.” He said once more, but not for Cethleann. Cichol’s eyes closed.

[catspar99]

I've been playing ponytown on and off again. So i just want to show off my Fe3h ponys lol.

So it's the Saints of Serios as ponys lol. I used my pony designs i did for Indech and Macuil. :3

[jaybird144]

*Cichol holding baby Cethleann*

Macuil: Oh God, I can’t believe one of us actually has one of these.

Indech: I know, I still am one of these.

[bbq-hawks-wings]

They're gonna be in my D&D campaign eventually so I have to start thinking about what they look like. Unintentionally got big Bruno Madrigal energy with Indech, but I kind of love it.

Saint Indech and Saint Macuil - albeit outside of their heyday.

[latenitewaffles]

The Wind Caller: ... You. You possess the Crest of Macuil... and my Tome.

Lukas: Your tome...? Wait, are you-

The Wind Caller: Ah, figured it out, have you? You're smart, maybe too smart for your own good. Now, let's see if you're truly worthy of both my Crest and my Magic.

Lukas: You know Macuil?

The Wind Caller:

[almoststedytimetravel]

I hope one day heroes adds characters who we know exist but never see. Like there are so many characters: the twelve crusaders, the human forms of Indech and Macuil, Forneus, Anri. I want faces to these names. I want to know what sweet lore they know.

[randomnameless]

Seeing a GK chibi art on FEH made me wonder what the frick is the name Hresvelgion Whiskers

And then I realised I always pronounced it wrong in my head, which called for a shitpost :

Adrestians love the idea that their Emperors are a strong and, uh, manly, as lions, because Emperor Wilhelm had a lionhead shield (tfw no one knows it used to be Cichol’s) and totally 120% true and legit sources said Saint Seiros called Willy “the Hresvelg Lion” because he was super manly and he had a big - no a giant - white sword, and cats were named in his honour “Hresvelg Lions”.

(This rumour is popular in Adrestia)

Other rumour apparently says Saint Seiros was fond of cats, and one of them scratched Emperor Willy which left him with a scar for a few days ; his friends hid his humiliation by saying he was “scratched by a lion” - which is why, random cats in Enbarr were called “Hresvelg Lions” to mock him

(This rumour is popular in Faerghus)

Both rumours end with “Hresvelg Lion” being changed after Faerghus’s birth as an independant nation - since they “stole/recovered” the Lion imagery, thus the cats were named Hresvelgions.

Only Rhea knows the truth.

[galeforged]

Embrace a Most Engaging Encore (Forwin in Fire Emblem Engage)

One can fit a surprising number of names under the all-encompassing mantle of a bard. Are they but simple musicians by trade, eager to entertain any passing soul willing to lend an ear? Do these poets simply aim to please with silly verses with no proper aim, or are they master storytellers, who not only know how to enthral, but also inform the masses? How many great deeds have they borne witness to as historians, and how many fantastical tales have they passed on as collectors?

Poetically known as the Emblem of Bards, the spirit of Emblem Forwin stood out from among his peers as a sterling example of his trade, with Elyos minstrels in the distant past having learnt the story of a bard well-travelled. Forwin Tyrell natively hails from Fódlan, the same land of origin as the Emblems of the Academy and of Rivals. Born as Wyndell von Gerth, the lutist stepped away from nobility and instead embraced the simpler life of a commoner, though he soon ended up under Garreg Mach Monastery as an Ashen Wolf student in Abyss.

When war came to the monastery, the battle saw Forwin falling through a hidden gate in the catacombs and emerging in Nohr, home to Corrin, the Emblem of Fates. He would further hone his talent as a court musician in the service of the kingdom’s royal family, up until the warring lands of Hoshido and Nohr joined arms against their true enemy. Along his long journey home, Forwin also ventured with Celica, the Emblem of Echoes, in her quest to reach Mila’s Temple and free Valentia of Duma’s influence. The bard would finally reach his homeland five years after he vanished, and see to peace returning in Fódlan after the end of the conflict between the Adrestian Empire and the Church of Seiros.

Should the Divine Dragon happen upon the Bracelet of the Wanderer in which Emblem Forwin’s spirit resides, he can be awakened from it with the invocation: “Play on, Emblem of Bards!” Those who don the Bracelet in battle can Engage with Emblem Forwin; when bestowed with his powers, they would also find notable stat boosts in Magic, Dexterity, and Luck.

To obtain the Bracelet of the Wanderer, the player must clear his Divine Paralogue: “The Windborne Songster.” Rumours of bandits raiding the tomb in which the Bracelet is kept have reached the Divine Dragon’s party. Upon hearing of this, the group promptly leaves for the islands south of Firene to investigate, lest they risk the Bracelet falling into the wrong hands and becoming lost forever. While Alear and company would arrive to find that those same bandits thankfully failed and perished, their foolish attempt at stealing the Bracelet nonetheless caused the tomb’s guardian golem to awaken...

The map for this Divine Paralogue replicates that of Chapter 4: Danger in the Dark, from the “Cindered Shadows” side story of Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The map’s theme, in turn, includes a new rendition of “The Shackled Wolves.”

Emblem Forwin’s Skills and Weapons: Bond Lv. 1

Engage Attack: Vigorous Song. Grants an adjacent ally Str/Mag/Def/Res+3 for one turn, and allows them to move again.

Engage Weapon: Wind Caller’s Genesis. A sacred wind tome wielded by Emblem Forwin. Restores 30% of unit’s HP after attacking. Effective: Flying.

Engage Skill: Curtain Call. Boosts Dex/Lck when HP falls below 50%.

Sync Skill: Wind Caller. 40% chance to slightly increase damage dealt by offensive magic. (Cannot inherit)

Inheritable Skill: MagicDexterity +2. Grants Mag/Dex+2.

Emblem Forwin’s Skills and Weapons: Bond Progression

Lv. 2: Magic/Dexterity +3. Grants Mag/Dex+3. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 3: Bowfaire 1. Grants Atk+1 when attacking with a bow. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 4: Influence. Increases range of magic by 1. Sync Skill (Can inherit).

Lv. 5: Skill Inheritance. Unit can inherit this Emblem’s skills. Unlock.

Lv. 6: Tome Prof. Proficiency with tomes. Required for promotion to certain classes. Unlock.

Lv. 7: Bowfaire 2. Grants Atk+2 when attacking with a bow. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 8: Bow Prof. Proficiency with bows. Required for promotion to certain classes. Unlock.

Lv. 10: Violin Bow. A musical bow wielded by Emblem Forwin. Increases adjacent allies’ dexterity for one turn after combat. Engage Weapon.

Lv. 10: Mystic Arrow. Adds (Magic)/3 to Strength when attacking with a bow. Sync Skill (Can inherit).

Lv. 11: Bowfaire 3. Grants Atk+3 when attacking with a bow. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 12: Wind Caller+. 40% chance to moderately increase damage dealt by offensive magic. Sync Skill (Cannot inherit).

Lv. 13: Magic/Dexterity +4. Grants Mag/Dex+4. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 14: Bowfaire 4. Grants Atk+4 when attacking with a bow. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 15: Wind Caller’s Gale. A mighty wind tome wielded by Emblem Forwin. Sends foe staggering back 2 spaces and limits their Mov. to 1 space. Effective: Flying.

Lv. 16: Mystic Arrow+. Adds (Magic)/2 to Strength when attacking with a bow. Sync Skill (Can inherit).

Lv. 17: Bowfaire 5. Grants Atk+5 when attacking with a bow. Inheritable Skill.

Lv. 18: Wind Caller++. 40% chance to greatly increase damage dealt by offensive magic. Sync Skill (Cannot inherit).

Lv. 19: Magic/Dexterity +5. Grants Mag/Dex+5. Inheritable Skill.

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

i dont think we talk enough how retroactively hilarious it is that claude is the only out of the three house lords (sorry yuri) who met all of the 5 saints since the wind caller/saint macuil paralogue is claudes paralogue, he already met seiros cethlean and cichol in the academy as rhea flayn and seteth respectively, and you could just recruit lindhardt to the golden deer for the immovable/saint indech paralogue

bro casually met them all and only seiros is what ended up registering in his mind while still contemplates if it is actually macuil or not😭😭

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[edelgards]

i had a train of thought about saint seiros and catholic canonization and ended up yapping about how rhea's sainthood isn't a symbol of her divinity but is an allegory of her humanity instead.

sainthood in the catholic church is the recognition of people who performed miracles, did acts of goodwill, etc. in the name of god. these individuals are then canonized by the church who acknowledge their good deeds and are now considered as holy people, the closest we—original sin bearers, according to them—get to divinity i guess and a lot of canonized saints were people who weren't the best nor the ones you'd expect to be saint.

in fe3h, of course we know the church was not exactly what we thought it was and such rules might or might not be in the seiros doctrines. seiros is a self declared saint lol yes, it was a ruse but it made me think and compare that situation to catholic canonizations.

rhea was born a divine being, a child of the goddess. she doesn't need to be elevated to sainthood, she IS divine. you don't need to sanctify what is pure from the very beginning. that's like calling an angel a saint or something and implying that a divine entity had been a sinner/impure and is only holy because of canonization which i think, from a religious fanatic pov, is an insult. anyways seiros, however, is called a saint... which i'd like to think implies the opposite of the catholic church's meaning of sainthood.

rhea/seiros' sainthood is a symbol of her humanity.

of her being flawed, her imperfections. everything that happened after zanado was her, a divine being, becoming human. her vengeance, righteous fury, her grief and most of all, her kindness despite all that's happened are what makes her human.

honestly don't know where i'm going with this but i guess you could look at the tragedy being her rebirth? from "holy" to human. her humanity began the second she lost her mother. it spiraled her grief and drove her to vengeance—her war with nemesis and his 10 elites. and then, there's her church. what started out as damage control and a self-preservation driven lie turned into something genuine that allowed her to learn to love the people that killed her own.

her continued service to the people (albeit morally questionable at times i have to admit) is, to me, her continued acceptance of her humanity–whether conscious, not, or figuratively. as opposed to indech and macuil yeeting out of human affairs the moment the war was over, a refusal of their "humanity" and choosing "divinity" instead.

ok, that's all. my point is rhea's humanity is what makes her holy. her ability to be kind after all that she went through is what makes her a saint and that makes me insane sometimes because can you imagine losing your people and you're the only one that knows, surrounded by the mirror image of the people that took your own?? anyways, talking to empty chairs: thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[mildlyeldritchcats]

rough nabatean family tree

1 - rhea states that she 'called [herself] Seiros' (teaspoon translations says the same), which implies that it isn't her first (i.e. the first non-dragon-title (i.e. not the immaculate one) name that she went by), but it's also not stated whether rhea is another alias or not

2 - going by both this reddit comment and teaspoon translations, rhea's statemtn that she is sothis' 'last child' means that she was the youngest nabatean to be born directly from sothis, rather than just the last surviving one

3 - while flayn calls both indech and macuil her uncles, they aren't necessarily brothers of seteth or each other; if flayn's mother was a nabatean, they could either both be her maternal uncles or one of them a paternal uncle and the other maternal

4 - as far as i am aware, nothing in three houses, three hopes or heroes states whether indech, macuil & seteth were direct children of sothis or not; the term 'children of the goddess' (which seteth uses to refer to himself and flayn; teaspoon translations translates it as 'kin of the goddess') refers to nabateans as a whole rather than just sothis' direct children, and none of them (indech, macuil or seteth) ever refer to sothis as their mother or to rhea as their sister

5 - as far as i am aware, the species of flayn's mother isn't stated anywhere; all that's stated is that she was flayn's mother, seteth's wife, she met seteth in enbarr, that she liked fishing and the rhodos coast (which is where she was buried), and that she died in a battle (presumably during the war of heroes). i've seen quite a few people say or suggest that she was human, but there doesn't seem to be anything significantly supporting this

image sourcing:

three houses placeholder portrait and adult sothis from the cutting room floor

three hopes portraits of seteth, rhea and flayn from the fire emblem wiki

three houses portraits of indech and macuil from the fire emblem wiki

[iusedtohavesixtoes]

In the sands of Sreng. For the June prompt.

“I can only think of one time I saw that happen, the ceasing of the itch.” Macuil stretched out into the sand, Seteth leaning down to sit next to one clawed hand. “You were in Enbarr, but one of our elders had lost his partner unexpectedly.” Seteth could not think clearly of that time, his life so wrapped up into his own life and church.

Macuil leaned his head down, and Seteth could see the pain that always lingered when his brother’s mind went to all they had lost. A pain he shared. “You know that when we lose our other half, it can drive a Child to death itself.” Macuil laughed bitterly, his one golden eye turning to his brother next to him. “Somehow we have lingered through it all, Cichol.”

“Yes, somehow.”