#and then this year we had no official lizards bcs Flayn is not one

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okay thanks for bringing up that thing about laguz/beorc having kids and laguz losing their “laguzness” because I’ll be honest that was one of the few little details I had heard about regarding the tellius games before playing it recently and I thought “that…..sounds like a super shitty detail to put in a game that is supposed to be criticizing racism???” but I wasn’t seeing much people talk about it then so I always wondered if I was just overthinking it.

This is basically part of the greater plot, aka part of why Lehran/Sephiran became so depressed, to the point of wanting to reset the world and kill everyone living in it.

But we also have Almedha - who suffered from a similar ordeal, and while she's a NPC who keeps on antagonising everyone save for Pelleas, we later learn more about her and her reasons for behaving like she does (like mother like son?).

tbh I'm not surprised it's not talked about that often - because it runs contrary to what Tellius is often depicted as a story of a fight against "racism" and learning how to accept and live with others who are different from you.

Basically, anon, Tellius' story telling regarding the Branded is very wonky and, sadly or hopefully, cannot be resumed with "X BaD thus Y GoOd" - Laguz losing their powers when the procreate with Beorcs isn't an issue that can be solved with this universe's mechanics. It just exists, and there is nothing that can be done.

So yeah... Because of this, I don't think Tellius is supposed to be THE game criticising racism.

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Seirelm anon : not wanting to plagiarize or smthg but what do you think about pre imperial Fodlan?

I noticed I had a tag during quarantine, but like everything i did back then it seems like it has been 5 years when it was just 5 months ago

btw are you the one who wrote that fic where edel is part lizard because lycaon is a hybrid?

Word of God + datamine website happened since last time i posted about it but

Rhea’s books tells us that the land was shitty and chaotic, and randoms, instead of fighing against Nemesis’s “persecution” were actually stealing and murdering. Now, this might be a tad biased, but Flayn (who doesn’t give a fig about the church’s official history) tells Ignatz she lived in seclusion with her dad and mom and lived a quiet life. Maybe because going outside and living with humans was a big no-no, and not just because they could be cut for spare parts? Also, given how Nemesis appears in VW and trashes villages around to look for Seiros, I think he didn’t really care about the randoms in Fodlan, so his “rule” was pretty harsh on randoms living in Fodlan.

We know Enbarr existed, because Seteth met his wife there. There was a church too. When Seiros came down from the mountains, she helped the randoms there to make a canal, so from those tidbits, I suppose Enbarr was a rather large gathering of randoms (for that time?) akin to a city.

Someone also says the city was built around the palace, to protect it. 

Meaning there must have been a king/local lord of Enbarr before Wilhelm became Emperor. 

Given how Fodlan was said, during this era, to be ruled by various tribes, I don’t think Enbarr was the only city/large gathering of randoms, but it was at least large enough to be of note. Was it the only city-state in Fodlan, like what happens when you start a Civ game, you create your first city and pray no barbarians will come to destroy you? 

In 1, Enbarr is chosen as the capital of the Empire bcs of Seiros’s presence, not because it was the only city around. Meaning there are other cities around in Enbarr’s area of influence? 

Was Enbarr only populated by Enbarrites and was the seat of a tribe? Idk. 

Maybe, and that tribe became so wealthy/successful/raised their population with double digits numbers that it stood strong/neutral even when Nemesis’n’Dudes became OP and their tribes became OP with them.

Maurice calls Nemesis “King”, was Fodlan his kingdom, did he have a special kingdom somewhere where he and his pals could do Nemesis things, or was it just a title? What kind of relationships did this Kingdom and the city of Enbarr had, if the Kingdom existed? 

When Willy became Emperor, he waited 32 years before officially fighting against Nemesis, to unify Fodlan. What happened during those years? 

Was Nemesis laughing because “look she pretends to be a prophet of the goddess but the goddess is here in my scabbard” so he didn’t take her seriously? Was he pissed because if Enbarr’s randoms believe in Seiros’s nonsense and it’s just crap, now an idiot calls himself Emperor of a new nation and starts to create an army? Why didn’t the guy just, destroy Enbarr, if it was the bastion of some sort of movement that wanted him dead/wanted clear independance from whatever he was doing?

Ultimately I think Enbarr could be something interesting, like, insert dubious parallels with Rome but it went from a random city in a land with many tribes to the seat of a religous movement seeking to destroy the strongest man alive and his cronies, to the capital of a new Empire, and the continent in 90 years (tfw no dragon jesus in Rome so they took more time)

Southern Fodlan thus is whatever Enbarr is, and in the North... 

I suppose that’s where Nemesis and his Dudes lived? Charon and pals’s descendants live in the North in the modern era, maybe it used to have been their tribe’s land since the Nemesis era? (sucks to be Daphnel then)

We also know Southern Fodlan and Northern Fodlan had the same naming conventions (similar cultures?) given how Wilhelm, if he was really from the South, had a “Faerghus name” Wilhelm “Paul” Hresvelg instead of being Wilhelm “von” Hresvelg, the “von” particle came after the war, or with the first generation of Adrestians.

As for what was happening beyond Fodlan’s borders... I have no idea.

totally free 0% endorsed in-game : I hc pre-imperial Fodlan made use of slaves, bcs if Nemesis’n’Dudes can butcher a village to farm materials, i doubt lives from human/sentient beings was worth much in their eyes. Solon’n’pals found it very funny “look beasts treating each other as chattel when they don’t even know they’re all beasts lel”. The Empire kind of promised that after the war they’d free all slaves, the church pushed for it “you’re both people why are you doing this to those men?” while Enbarr was a bit more reticent “but our workforce and economy :’( ”.

Slavery became abolished during Lycaon II’s reign, but even now some nobles still do some shit like that, like the Gonerils. but they pay their servants with 5 peanuts per day, so it’s totally not slavery they’re free to go if they want