#i'm not expecting anything regarding rivough in FEH

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Since Leif’s major blooded sister is going to be released, time for some musings about some chapters in Project Exile

I guess i sort of understand some reactions that appeared when Project Naga gave us a new FE4 translation, there were things i have taken for granted in the FireLizard script that aren’t here anymore

but after a brief reading i’m finding some odd things that aren’t tied to a specific choice made by the new team (i understand the honorifics and titles used to call Eyvel and Leif were changed to show more familiarity between people who lived together as a mother and child)

In Chapter 5

When Raydrick panicks because Eyvel killed Mareeta and is out for his blood next, in the old translation he asked “someone to do something quick” underlining his own incompetence because the someone who is supposed to give orders to the randoms is, well, Raydrick himself!

In the new translation he orders people “his garrison” to kill Eyvel and it makes him a “little” more competent.

Earlier, when he explains what he did to Mareeta, Eyvel accuses him of wanting him to turn Mareeta into, in the old translation, “a crazed killer” but in the new one he wants to turn her into a “pitfighter” - is it supposed to mean that all pitfighters are completely crazy or that Mareeta is acting like a normal, sane, pitfighter?

But that’s not really important.

In Chapter 6 

August calling Ethlyn a “just maiden” instead of lumping her with Quan in the “tragic hero” label feels a bit strange, Ethlyn was no maiden since she had two children, and why is being “just” the adjective attached to Ethlyn? Is it just as in righteous or something else? We have “loyal Quan” - Loyal because he went to help Siggy, but Etlyn being “just”?

more important though

(is it readable?)

anyways it’s the tidbit of infodump Raydrick gives us on the Rivough situation (what did you expect^^)

in the old translation, Raydrick says that the Kingdom of Rivough was “demolished” - something that is missing in the new translated line, but adding that Galzus is “technically the prince of Rivough” with the death of his kin is kind of misleading

Why adding technically? or is it because Rivough is not a state/duchy/whatever so it can’t have any royalty ? (think of FE4!Finn, he would never call Miranda the Princess of Alster given how Leonster was the only stronghold in northern Thracia/Manster District, you don’t call the daughter of a random mayor who happens to have a castle a princess, do you?)

oh and

was it in OG script or not (google translate told me it wasn’t) but

FireLizard’s Raydrick never said that Rivough betrayed Isaach, we know it from FE4 (rather, Ayra tells us) - and the adding of “home kingdom of Isaach” feels like a unecessary addition. Did JP Raydrick infodump on us about Mananan’s name?

Thing is, I understand most people forgot about Rivough while playing FE5, it’s in a misseable convo between Ayra and Quan and it’s Danan’s castle in the second gen - but info dumping - by Raydrick - that the Rivough betrayed the Kingdom? How could Raydrick be aware that Rivough attacked Darna and it wasn’t something endorsed by King Mananan himself?

If Raydrick knows, then who else? Was Kurth himself aware of it? Or has it become widespread during Arvis’ reign?

And, finally, in the old version, Raydrick says (the most reliable narrator ever) that the Kingdom/whatever of Rivough had been invaded and destroyed.

In the newest translation, only the royal family died. 

So has Mananan killed his daughter and son-in-law and, idk, any siblings Galzus might have had, handwaved to the Rivough randoms with the head of their leader in a bag and rode to meet Reptor?

Or has he lead his army to destroy the kingdom/clan/whatever Rivough was, captured/pillaged randoms (or worse?) and rode to meet Reptor with his son-in-law’s head in a bag?

Why is it important? 

Rivough is the little grain of salt that prevents Isaach from being the land of “good barbarians who have no dirt on them” and, also, Rivough’s story being in FE5 goes with the general trend of the game, showing the greyest tones of Jugdral’s various states.

So no, not everyone and their cats wanted to see House Leonster assume the only, and defacto leading role in the Northern peninsula, and no, Isaach isn’t a safeheaven where barbarians live in harmony, even Isaach has its own share of dirt.

Again, why does it matter? Because it shows that humans can do shit regardless of Loptyr or Naga’s influence. Also, because more grey to Isaach.