#fe3h nader

[cherrypikkins]

@omgkalyppso

nardel! got it! ... that's his name, right????

thank you for the request :333

[feralriverwater]

Tiny baby boy Khalid w/ Nader

I don't see NEARLY enough of baby Claude, and I don't see NEARLY enough of Nader!!!

[momochanners]

King Khalid vs Queen Byleth Eisner. Whoever wins...so do we all...?

It's summer time in Fodlan, babey!

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[risingsunfish]

Sorry for the wait, everyone! Back with an answer to /u/MankuyRLaffy, who has once again inspired some cross-universe hijinks. I could've sworn they'd mentioned Tiana having red hair in canon, but I guess it's just a super common hc.

Bonus panel:

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[denpring]

Almyra worldbuilding, with ideas by @slotumn and art by yours truly!

...And I drew some hats purely for my own amusement(?)

[slotumn]

Some fun tidbits about possible real-life inspirations/motifs for Almyran characters, on given names and class names

Claude

His Almyran name is Khalid; and while that's a pretty popular name with a meaning (undying/immortal) that fits with his character + his country's theme (Persian Immortals, amesha spentas in Zoroastrianism translating to "bounteous immortals," etc), one very famous figure from Middle Eastern history with that name was Khalid ibn al-Walid, a general in early Islamic expansion.

Khalid ibn al-Walid, and early Islam in general, is famous for starting out as underdogs from a region that was beset with constant internal feuds, before unifying and dunking on + conquering two more powerful nations (Byzantines and Sassanids) after they were tired out fighting each other in a long stalemate of a war... sounds kinda familiar huh.

Barbarossa is obv from Hayreddin Barbarossa, an Ottoman corsair (basically pirate) and later admiral who established Ottoman dominance in the Mediterranean and was a great military strategist.

Nader

Another popular name but, that name combined with the title "Undefeated" brings Nader Shah to mind. (Nader Shah gets called Napoleon of Persia, but considering the Napoleon did his stuff after Nader Shah, I think the chronologically accurate term would be that Napoleon was the Nader Shah of France lol)

Nader Shah was two things: a really great general and a really terrible ruler. He was very good at fighting and winning battles but he fucking sucked at actually ruling over the territories he conquered. His son, Reza Qoli, didn't like him and criticized him for being a bad ruler, so Nader Shah had Reza Qoli's eyeballs pulled out after suspecting him of being behind an assassination attempt. Anyway Nader Shah was later successfully assassinated after pissing off too many people and the Afsharid dynasty he founded fell apart straight in his grandson's generation.

Our Nader is a lot nicer as a person and sticks just to the general part lol. Also the only offspring he is explicitly mentioned to have is a daughter in Balthus-Claude paired ending.

Shahid

His name means witness in generic, but in wider Islamic usage (and in other religions that came into frequent contact with Islam) it also means martyr. Our Shahid is... not exactly the kind of upstanding guy that widely revered martyrs are, but from his perspective, his choice to die standing instead of surrendering was probably an act of martyrdom.

What's interesting though, is that his name in Japanese is シャハード; shahado, with ha as middle syllable, not hi. Shahad is also a name and a variant of Shahid, but there's also figure in Persian mythology with a similar name who has a similar character/position as our Shahid: Shaghad.

Shaghad was the half-brother of Rostam, and was jealous of Rostam for his renown, so he plotted to kill Rostam by dropping him into a pit of spears and poison. But before he died, Rostam shot Shaghad with an arrow from the pit and killed him, too. Our Shahid gets both the falling to his death and the noscope by his half-brother rip

His class, Gurgan, appears to be from Gorgan, a city in Iran by the Caspian Sea. The etymology of Gurgan/Gorgan itself comes from gorg, Persian for wolf. Pathetic wolfboy Shahid real??

Gorgan also had had the Great Wall of Gorgan nearby, to defend the Sassanid Empire from from northern nomadic invasions. Much to ponder, re: Fódlan-Almyra relations, the real-life inspirations of Almyra, Claude's goal, and what Shahid tried to do...

Just wild speculation on my part, but I also wonder if Gurgan was meant to be Gurkhan but they mixed up a letter along the way or something? It's a Mongolian title meaning "universal ruler," equivalent to khagan, equivalent to king of kings. Certainly fits Shahid's personality/ego and the cultural inspirations.

Cyril

It's Greek name meaning lordly/masterful, and a character from a place based roughly on the Middle East having this name is actually not out of place, considering the places along the Mediterranean have always interacted with and influenced one another.

Of course the in-universe lore is that Fódlan has been isolationist for the past 1000 years, but at the same time, Cyril is from a village close to the border, and it's noted in Hopes that western Almyra and eastern Fódlan share a language. Whether Cyril is a "Fódlani" name or an "Almyran" name in-universe, it still fits.

It's also a very Church-y name. There were lots of popes and patriarchs named Cyril, many being popes or patriarchs of Alexandria/Jerusalem/Constantinople. Our Cyril does have an ending (with Petra) where he becomes a priest, maybe that's a shoutout to this?

Among the Cyrils, maybe one of the most famous is Cyril the Philosopher, who is the namesake behind the Cyrilic alphabet and an evangelizer to Slavs alongside his brother Methodius. Again, interesting considering our Cyril starts out iliterate. (Methodius is also the namesake for Metodey but uhhh I don't think that means too much wrt our Cyril)

(Also I'm not saying all of the above + Leicester-Almyra relationship means that Leicester is the parallel of Balkans/Eastern Europe in the 3H world. But I'm saying Leicester is the parallel of Balkans/Eastern Europe in the 3H world.)

So yeah who knows how much of this was intentional but it certainly is fun to rotate in your head if you are a deranged person like me

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Considering her namesake, Judith has probably beheaded a guy at least once. Hopefully an Agarthan because she and Nader are really cute together and I don't want that ruining their relationship.

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[nightshadedawn]

Alright, alright! That's what I'm talkin' about! We are now at the end of the musical journey, after a (very rough) stretch where I had continuous difficulties with Guns and Ships and One Day More. But now it's all put together, in an acceptable manner I think.

Anyway, what we've got this time is:

Clean up time after Edelgard's death (pretending that the timeline adds up, shh)

Discovering "oh shit, there's and even bigger baddie" and taking care of bussiness.

Claudeth S Rank (people can fight me, this is peak Claudeth song, especially after all the star imagery I assigned Claude, and the game did on its own)

And the credits! (I found most of the name, I think acucrately)

[theeeveetamer]

Sadly Leicester is in a national shortage of Dads, so have this poll instead

I don't want the one you like the most. I want the one you'd fuck.

[cherrypikkins]

Thank you everyone who participated in the fe3h portrait request this year, whether by making requests, liking, reblogging or leaving nice comments :3

Here is the full compilation of all the works I managed to finish! For certain characters I went back and did some very minor touch-ups, just so they look a bit more consistent. That said, you can see how my style changed quite over time :3;;; Which is fine! I wanted to experiment with the soft texture brushes and try to come up with a style that would look crisp when zoomed out, but also look interesting close up. I hope I managed to achieve that, and that it looks good!!

Don't forget to vote for the final character portrait here!

Hope I can get a chance to do this again one day, it was super fun!!! And, I hope you guys had fun too~

[quillfulwriter]

Nader appreciation post 💖

[fefuckability]

Quarterfinals: Battle of the men who really don't know how to protect their face in a fight

Remember, I don't want the one you like the most. I want the one you'd fuck.

Feel free to post your justifications in the tags/comments!

[zevfern]

Happy Hispanic Heritage month, Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! While the country Claude hails from, Almyra, is supposed to reference Al-Andalus (Muslim controlled Spain), I think his background, parentage as well as the often contentious relationship between Fodlan and its neighbor country is very LATAM coded. Because of this, I headcanon Almyra as a Spanish speaking country, and Claude, Cyril and Nader as mixed Arab and Hispanic. I'll share some more specific headcanons for Claude and Almyra in a series of posts I'll title:

¡Viva Almyra!

[denpring]

Some kind of modern AU Almyra... Also an excuse to practice lasso art some more ahaha.

Why does Shahid look so naked without his headband...

(Idea by @slotumn)

[omgkalyppso]

Cyril for thé character ask (:

Thank you for the ask! 💚

First impression: Did they just give me a displaced, re-educated indentured servant child slave?

Impression now: Cyril is a little boy who went from being a mistreated commoner to a prisoner of war to a servant child soldier. His story is complicated and there are people who hate different aspects of it for extremely personal reasons related to real world racism, colonialism and disconnect from home cultures. I am very considerate of what people hate about these things, but when people hate Cyril or imply he's one note with his affection for Rhea (especially from people who still LIKE RHEA but not Cyril?!) then I get so mad. I think there's room in his worldview for being a convert and for honoring the practices of his homeland, and I completely respect when people choose one or the other for their characterization of him, but it bothers me so much when people hate this trait of his. I wish he had supports with more characters. I'm his defence lawyer. He's under appreciated, but maybe that's for the best because I can only imagine people's opinions would just be more insufferable if he was more popular.

Favorite moment: Cyril's line in his C support with Claude, "If the king of Almyra was like you, maybe things would've been better." While the belated context is kind of humorous, and might bring to mind Claude's pride and ambitions; I think this line is so important out of context, where Cyril is just this young man little boy telling a stranger who's been nice to him, as just a servant to his noble studies, that there's hope in the world, even if not for him and his generation. Maybe things could have been better if better people were in power, as if reminiscing about people lost or dignity trampled; but still with the implication that maybe things would have been the same. Cyril is unmoved by whether people are from Fodlan or Almyra, as shown in his Paralogue with Hilda, and has to go through his supports with his friends to cast off how jaded he's (objectively, rightfully) become.

Idea for a story: I want to write a modern au of my Almyran sibling oc's bothering Claude in some way. Shahid needing shelter and having no other options. I think I could find a good place in such a story for Cyril to fit in as almost-adopted.

Unpopular opinion: He's just a little boy!

Favorite relationship: I love his friendships with Claude, Hilda and Mercedes. His mentee relationship to Seteth. His admiration of Shamir. And I like interpreting his possible romance with Lysithea.

Favorite headcanon: I'm going to bother you all with my recruitable Nader and Cyril support from a post long past. Below the cut for being kind of long.

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C Support, Nader asks Cyril where he was taken from? Cyril asks him why it matters. Nader instead asks if there are other Almyrans working in the monastery? Cyril says it’s none of his business. Nader is surprised, and comments upon whatever laborous task they have Cyril performing, and Cyril will reply that he’s strong enough to do his work. Nader says he didn’t mean to suggest otherwise, he was just trying to - but Cyril will cut him off, saying he’s known men like him, he’s lived under men like him, that he might think he can show up and make demands of him just because he’s an Almyran, but that he works for Lady Rhea now, and his time is accounted for, he doesn’t owe Nader anything. Cue some version of Nader being left alone to observe that “that could’ve gone better.”

B Support, starts in a black screen with the sound of breaking wood. Cyril is in the training grounds and his last three arrows missed their target. “Your left arm is too low,” Nader observes. Cyril jumps and scowls. “I have a teacher.” Nader raises his hands in surrender, “Then by all means.” The sound of a bow being pulled taut, and then being straightened. Cyril comments, “Don’t you have somewhere to be?” “Is this part of your duties?” “I need to be prepared to defend Lady Rhea.” A missed shot. “From what?” asks Nader. “From anything,” Cyril answers. “That’s a lot to ask of anyone,” Nader observes. He continues, “But alright. Strong enough to defend one person? That’s a simple goal. It’s not as though you need to be strong enough to defend all of Garreg Mach, all of Fodlan, all of Almyra.” Cyril is catching his breath, “There’s a lot of people in Almyra.” “There is. Do you think they’re all like me?” “No,” Cyril answers, and explains, “no I know ya’ a bit now. There are men worse than you.” Nader chuckles sadly, “That’s true. Why don’t you try again?” “Yeah, alright. And then I should get back to work.” “Back to work?” “I’m supposed to be - err - I still need to clean the fireplace in the back.” Nader steps forward with a sigh. Cyril objects, “Hey what are you-?” “Your arm,” Nader repeats, “it’s too low. I thought it was your posture-” “What else would it be?” “You’re exhausted.” “Am not! I could go for hours yet.” “I don’t think your teacher would appreciate you practicing under these conditions.” Cyril makes the shot. Stares down Nader, walks off muttering, “Shows what you know.”

A Support HAS TO FEATURE an apology from Nader that they were unable to defend Lady Rhea. Cyril insists it’s fine, because they’re going to get her back. Nader does not fight him on this point. He compliments what a fine fighter he’s become, and Cyril concedes that Nader’s been honorable too. That it isn’t the will of the Goddess for him to be arguing all the time, and that he shouldn’t have been so quick to distrust him. Nader thanks him, but isn’t smiling about it. He asks Cyril what his goals are for after Lady Rhea returns, and Cyril says he’ll defend her, as he always intended to, so that nothing like this happens ever again. Nader suggests that he consider that, rather than showing his devotion at Garreg Mach, that he could always emulate those virtues he sees in Lady Rhea at the border, where there are people and children like he was, who will need help navigating both Fodlan and Almyra when the war is done, and that he would be glad to support him, if he should ever find himself out that way. Cyril says he’d have to think about it, but that … he does appreciate what Nader’s trying to do.