#tellius headcanons

[enbyleighlines]

Leanne/Naesala. affection

Ooooh, cute suggestion!

I imagine that, in public, Naesala isn’t a very affectionate partner. He has a reputation to uphold, after all. In fact, at times he can appear downright cold.

Leanne doesn’t mind, for two reasons.

Firstly, she knows that he’s secretly a huge clingy cuddlebug in private. Whenever they’re alone, Naesala wants to be touching, whether that means holding hands or snuggling. He loves to hold her and play with her hair, gently combing out the tangles and experimenting with different types of braids.

Secondly, Leanne can read Naesala’s thoughts and feel his emotions, so she knows just how painful it is for him to keep her at arm’s length.

Additionally, while he won’t initiate any sort of affection with her in public, he isn’t going to push her away, either. Leanne can nuzzle up under his arm or teasingly poke him, and while he will complain about it, he never explicitly tells her to stop.

Thank you for the adorable prompt!

[theia-eos]

Recently I have read your story "Foundation of the Empire" and I absolutely loved Zahira! Unlike Dheginsea, she seems to be an approachable person lol

I hope it's not rude of me to ask but do you have any more lore/headcanons about her and her tribe? If you do I would be delighted to hear about them!🤍🤍

Oh! Uh, thank you! <3 I'm very glad you enjoyed the story and her, and I don't think it's rude at all, thank you for asking so politely (and I actually need to edit that story to fix a few details).

Anyway! Everything about her could be (very) generously described as extrapolation from the games, but is basically all made up. No canon material follows the cut.

Since Almedha and Kurth get their dark teal hair color from their father, she has long wavy black hair and dark eyes. She's a black dragon too, but in the art with Ashunera there seems to be a Zunanma that is draconic in nature, and it seems to have a green/blue shade (though it could be just the lighting and my copeium).

So I imagine that there were more types of laguz outside of Tellius than what we saw in the games (I also add in owls to throw in a fourth bird laguz. And perhaps more! That's just all I've got). In particular, I imagine that there were blue dragons in Hatari before the flood, and so Zahira is part blue dragon (like Ena is a red dragon, but has a lighter color scheme because of her white dragon heritage so Zahira had a more midnight/navy color to her). Not enough to effect her children with Dheginsea much visually. She had a younger brother who died in the Flood. I imagine that the blue dragons were known for their intellect over their strength, and it was a blue dragon leading Hatari long before the Flood who first ended the laguz slavery of beorc that Nasir alludes to in Path of Radiance.

I kinda sometimes like to imagine a prequel game, or maybe a few "gaiden" chapters in the Tellius duology that you could unlock, about the war between Ashera's champions and Yune's forces. In that vein, I imagine Zahira served Ashunera before the Flood and when Ashera seeks to destroy Yune, Zahira serves as the last stand for Yune. Zahira doesn't want the conflict, in fact it's very clear that she's distraught about how things have gone, but she's very powerful and she can't let a piece of her precious goddess be destroyed. In a way, she feared either half being the one left standing and losing the spark that made Ashunera so special, as what Yune alludes as what happened to Ashera.

Zahira could be like the Camus, I guess, trying more to force the conflict into a draw than killing unnecessarily, fighting against her own chaotic bloodlust (especially fighting for Yune). Altina is moved by her devotion and spares Zahira when they finally defeat her, and Zahira is relieved when Lehran and Altina convince Ashera not to destroy Yune. It takes a good long while for Dheginsea and Zahira to fall in love (Rajaion isn't born for like at least another 400 years at my best estimates, so they are like mountains growing into each other and evening out their worst characteristics), but she goes to Goldoa to help him with the other dragons to keep them from fighting the other laguz or beorc left standing. She is heartbroken at the significant loss of life, she saw the beautiful large world with her goddess and now it's almost all gone because there was always conflict.

In the end, while she's more personable than Dheginsea, she's so desperate to ensure a world in which Ashunera can come back that she has the same sort of problem in that she hesitates to want to take action in case in causes conflict and more unnecessary death (thus creating more conflict and unnecessary death). Seeing the way her beloved goddess fell, destroyed most of the world, and split in two in grief over war affected™ her. Possibly also feeling like maybe she chose the wrong side and led to a larger loss of life than if she had made the "correct" decision from the start. She's just more open about how much she empathizes with the people outside of Goldoa suffering, which would probably be more frustrating to deal with as she's not doing a lot to make things better at the same time. Soan writes to her because trying to get anything out of Dheginsea is like trying to get blood out of a stone at that time, but he's pretty frustrated with her also doing next to nothing despite her sympathetic words. In essence, she's what the writers of Radiant Dawn tried to convince us Elincia was like (I still do not buy it). If she was around to have a character arc, it would be learning to trust fully in her own convictions again.

Also, Dheginsea mentions seeing her when he dies, so she's obviously dead before the games. Ena's parents also are dead, which is why Nasir feels so responsible for her. Since laguz don't get sick, illness is out. Given Kurthnaga's fear of blood, I imagine there was a conflict of some scale within Goldoa that Kurthnaga saw that traumatized him. At some point in the timeline, there's a point when Begnion is basically fighting every other nation. Dheginsea calls for a truce and has the treaty signed in Goldoa, but doesn't seem to leverage that to end laguz slavery, as slavery continues for nearly another 150 years. If there was any time for there to be conflict in Goldoa, maybe outrage over seeing what was actually going on because there's no way a peace negotiation is held in Goldoa without the Goldoan citizens finding out about that war (assuming the issue of laguz slavery was kept out of the general knowledge of the citizens of Goldoa), I think it would be at that point in time. Ena's parents and Zahira die in this conflict, and Nasir feels responsible for not being able to help save Ena's parents somehow.

Yune says she doesn't bless her forces like Ashera did during the war, so Zahira is left more mortal than Dheginsea. I imagine she dies in front of Kurthnaga, who is very young at the time. It feels a bit too big a thing to happen in the history without every being talked about, but it's what I'm thinking right now. With the way laguz are, I imagine it would have been a smaller, more direct coup than what Ludveck attempts against Elincia in Radiant Dawn so, while bloody, it is over quickly. Dheginsea is the strongest, and still rules. Since he's already lost her over their shared desire to avoid conflict, he double downs on the feeling, where I think at that time she is gearing up more towards trying to make a few waves seeing that things being left as is was only making things worse.

If Zahira is alive closer to when the games happen, she would have gone with Rajaion to rescue Almedha and her grandchild from Ashnard. Seeing Almedha lose her powers and having a Branded child, and wanting to comfort her child, Zahira would have told Almedha the truth about the Branded and would have fought tooth and nail for both Almedha and Almedha's son to be treated fairly, consequences be damned, it's too close to her heart. She loves her children fiercely, perhaps even obsessively, and teaches them to treat all laguz and beorc fairly. She might also be the reason Goldoa backed the founding of Gallia, as that is a thing that happened that seems out of character for Dheginsea in a "maybe there can be peace if they all live separately from each other" kind of way (though Dheghinsea also could have decided that on his own. It just doesn't feel like him from what we see of him. Could also have been Rajaion/Almedha being young, rash, and bold). She absolutely would have adored Ike, especially given how protective he is of her grandson. If she was alive in Radiant Dawn, then she would side with Ike and Micaiah, but would neither attack nor be attacked by Dheginsea, Lehran, or Ashera. She would be more motivated by her desire to preserve life than bow to an incomplete goddess in that instance. The joy she would have talking to Nailah and hearing about what Hatari achieved after the Flood would restore her youth.

In the end, she was sad messy woman for a sad messy world. Thanks for the ask, and hope you found it interesting at the very least!

[loubatas-art]

[gloamvonhrym]

I forgot to share FETransExchange janaff on here. twt post @ my person gakufigure, who requested transmasc janaff trying different hairstyles. you know this fool is high maintenance and indecisive as hell

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Kiran is bald

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[fairytail-whathesays]

Any headcanons for Tibarn/Naesala? Something about them is so fighting to touch each other so it doesn't look gay when we're breathing hard in each others' faces on top of each other.

Honestly you kinda clocked it

Did you know that absolutely nothing comes up on the gif search when looking up Naesala's and Tibarn's names? In light of that, I'll just use whatever gif I find that feels like it works.

Yeah sure, that'll work.

Tibarn is absolutely covered in scars from numerous battles, but what people don't tell you is that Naesala gave him half of them. Naesala has never won a fight with Tibarn--but he's never been easy prey, either.

Fucking with Tibarn's head is exactly the kind of nonsense Naesala would get off on, like, he doesn't necessarily enjoy being a bastard...but by god, if it doesn't tickle him a little to see Tibarn pissed off and flexing his fingers, always testing his patience.

Naesala has always slightly resented that he has to be the king of Kilvas. Yes, he does love his country, but as he makes clear, he's not all that interested in fighting or strength, despite being a fearsome warrior himself. He would much prefer the role of diplomat--it would free up his time a lot and put his conniving skills to much better use.

Tibarn has managed to hide his attraction to Naesala behind a mostly-genuine layer of impatience and righteous anger for a long time, so Reyson's cheating ability to read hearts means he's basically the only one who knows. He judges Tibarn ceaselessly for it.

If you've seen Tibarn's convo with Nailah, you'll know Tibarn loves a good fight a little too much now and again. And Naesala has the kind of silver tongue that makes him very dangerous in this regard. Even if Tibarn knew how to quit Naesala, he probably wouldn't. On some level, he has as much fun with Naesala's interpersonal fuckery as Naesala does.

Naesala's caring style is "I know someone who knows someone who has an antidote for your poisoning." and then going to get it, but then making Tibarn say something demeaning and ridiculous before he'll let him have any. He imperils them both this way but it's funny as shit.

Honestly? Naesala can be a little bit of a uhh, jealous bitch. I mean he makes it look smooth and he's entertaining with it but oh, let him catch Tibarn having been eyeing someone with any seriousness. Those sly comments he's always making get a little prickly for the next few weeks.

It's an "i licked it so it's mine" kind of thing, except it's "I put those scars on your body, no one else gets to claim them". Tibarn may not be his, but he was his before he was anyone else's.

Naesala and Tibarn will both marry other people, if only because both as kings are expected to produce heirs and that's basically it, but they're never going to quite be able to let go of the other. They will be exchanging glances across the room no matter where their royal duties take them.

Tibarn once called Naesala his wife to try and take the piss out of him. Naesala just responded that Tibarn is the one with the tits and the kids, so sources tell a different story, eh? And that's their whole style of banter for 300 years.

Look, if you haven't heard Naesala speaking the heron language, you should know that nobody, not even the Hawk King, is immune to having it spoken in their ear. Crazy stuff. Sly manipulative bastard.

[vellatra]

Get thee a friend or sibling you can do fandom roleplay with!

Seriously. It's awesome. I used to live with a bunch of siblings who were (usually) into the same fandoms as I was, and truly did not know what I had until it was gone. The FUN. The DRAMA. The RIDICULOUS HEAD CANONS. The UTTER SILLINESS that was had. I miss it so much. So I'm reminiscing, and thought y'all might enjoy a peek into some of the tidbits from those old stories, specifically the Tellius ones.... (spoilers possible)

One time Izuka basically invented a time machine potion and the senators tested it on Jarod. He promptly went back to pre-PoR Daein and adopted smol street urchin Petrine, and got into mischief with several members of what would later be the Dawn Brigade, and also went back to the flood era and played around with the Three Heroes, and got into all kinds of other shenanigans

Ulki stalks Naesala mercilessly

Nealuchi is, for reasons unknown, highly suspicious of anybody with green hair whose name starts with "S". Soren, Sothe, Stefan, all of them are untrustworthy. But also Kurthnaga, because for some reason Nealuchi believes his true identity is the long-lost Princess Sarsaparilla

Leonardo swears like a sailor

Rajaion repeatedly Darth Mauled his way out of the grave and got into hijinks, mostly with Bertram/Renning. One time he got Ashera to un-stone everybody by literally just asking politely

Oliver has asked Naesala how much he'd charge for Ena's baby

Jarod had a crush on Lyre once

Volke and Petrine were secretly married and had a few kids. Sothe was their long-lost firstborn.

Izuka will never forgive Bertram for stealing his nachos

People would frequently walk in on Sephiran and catch him listening to "If I Die Young" by The Band Perry

Greil is obsessed with goats. Also he is the GOAT.

Jarod haunts the Merc's laundry room

...And so much more

Ahhh, the nostalgia! XD

[chaosisdying]

sooooo I saw that there's fe trans week...

I wanted to draw something everyday but I'm slow as fuck sooo

take this celebratory Soren!

[telliusisgay]

The Greil Mercenaries go to Costco AU

(Be warned, this is very dumb lol.)

Soren: Alright everyone, I’m going to lay out it out for you one more time, so please for the love of Ashera, stick to the plan.

-We are here ONLY for food. Please try to pick items that are in the sale booklet.

-Fill up on samples as much as you can. You each get only one hotdog from the food counter.

Rhys: But I’m vegetarian!

Soren: Fine. There is one extra hotdog for Ike.

-Stick with a buddy so that you don’t get distracted or lost. We’ll meet at the checkout in one hour. Everyone clear?

Everyone: Roger that!

****

Mist: *Heads for the bread section but gets distracted by the Christmas decorations*

Boyd: *Goes to find where Mist went and also gets distracted by the decorations*

Titania: *Can’t quite reach a big bag of rice from a high shelf, so she uses an axe to pull it down, ripping it in the process and spilling rice all over the aisle*

Oscar: *Tries to convince Soren that truffle oil is a necessity for cooking their meals and that it’s a steal at $28 a bottle*

Gatrie: *Spends the whole time trying to hit on a sample girl and making her super uncomfortable*

Shinon: *Tries to sneak several bottles of booze into the cart even though he was only allowed 2*

Rolf: *Gets lost somehow and climbs to the top of a shelving unit to find his friends, only to get stuck up there panicking until one of the poor, exasperated employees brings a ladder*

Rhys: *Peruses the vitamin section and then starts feeling faint, so he goes to lay down on some pillows in the bedding section*

Ike: *Keeps circling back to the same sample counter for another chicken nugget, causing the sample person the glare at him after the 6th time*

*****

*After they pay and everyone is happily munching on their hotdogs while walking through the parking lot (Rhys was allowed a cheese pizza slice lol)*

Soren: Ike, from now on we’re leaving them all at home and doing the shopping by ourselves.

[glowingbadger]

Volke………. Omg that’s my favorite nicotine addict fr, can I get C L and U for him? :3 Congrats on 2k, you deserve it and more!

Ahhh Volke, what an absolute man, always a pleasure the rare chances I get to write about him~

Alphabet prompts - Volke (FE 9/10)

C (cum), L (location), U (unfair)

NSFW 18+

Cum: it all depends on the situation for Volke. He's a practical sort, so while he does enjoy the sight of his cum dripping down your thighs or pooled on your chest, he's very cognizant of time and place. If you've secreted away in some alley or the back of a bar, he'll groan and remind you that you had better be ready to take it down your throat or deep inside of you if you don't want to look a mess when you return to your allies. He's not particularly expressive and doesn't make a big production of it when he cums, but you'll notice the way his muscles tense, his cock pulses, and his eyes lock on you with an intense heated stare.

Location: Volke is a man who's used to "making things work," as it were, so he's fairly flexible and not picky when it comes to where he gets to indulge in your body. One plus side to the military march is that you two can get lost in the crowd at night, and no one will be any the wiser if you set up a tent a little ways from the main body of troops so he can fuck you dizzy before bed. But if there's no real privacy to be had, he's an expert in finding hidden nooks and crannies, so you'll have no trouble secreting away somewhere so he can press you against the wall and smother your moans with his lips.

Unfair: once again, it really depends on the circumstances; Volke certainly does enjoy a measure of control, so seeing you helplessly whimpering and pleading for him is definitely a thrill- but getting to overwhelm and completely satisfy you is delicious in its own right. Ultimately, he likes to mix things up, and ensure that you're never quite certain of his moves until he has you wrapped around his incredibly skillful fingers. Either way, he wants it to be fun. Volke doesn't want his sex life to ever become stressful or involve baggage, so as long as there's ultimately a sort of relief about it all, he'll try anything.

[randomnameless]

Goddamn, the jump to a fully-3D game fucked over 3H hard when it came to it's boss variety; out of 27 paralogues across all the routes, 9 of them have unique bosses that aren't used elsewhere in the game, with the other 18 paralogues having Jeritza, Hubert or Catherine, generic fodder with slightly-amped stats pretending to be bosses, or no bosses at all.

Honestly, the Jeritza and Hubert inclusions may be my least favorite method of the three; it puts them in stories they have nothing to do with character-wise just for the sake of not making it too obvious that the side content is severely lacking in unique bosses, while also needlessly increasing Jeritza's already-comically-high amount of fights from 7 to 8 and Hubert's actually-reasonable amount of fights (post-route split at least, but i don't think it's too fair to count the prologue sparring matches as proper mini-boss encounters) from 3 to 5.

LOL

Bar the boss variety, what seriously pissed me is the lack if special battle convos with the bosses.

Flayn'n'Seteth have no lines against Maurice or worse, Nemesis himself!!!!

Heck, you could even make lines between Kostas and Leonie, Kostas going all uwu "you noble brats don't know what it is to be born a commoner !" and Leonie rekting him, because she wasn't born a noble, and yet, she's not killing children because someone paid her to do so (tfw jerry is a mercenary who kills people for money :()

Granted, I'll give credit where it's due, Tru Piss has the most battle convos, and reading them is a blast.

I'd have prefered for Flayn to have more convos against her classmates (maybe a special one with Linhardt who might have guessed who she is!), but it's Tru Piss for you.

But for the paralogue, ultimately, yes. Jeritza, or Hubert, or a random NPC. Man, imagine having to fight Leopold or Whodislava in a paralogue, like Grégoire was sent to "negotiate" with the Brigid people, or Leopold is the one rounding up the "imperial militia" in Hrym when Ferdie and Lysithea visit for their paralogue...

But no, we don't have any side or NPC character, and imo, it also participates in making Fodlan so bland - no NPCs, only the same two guys for some reason...

At least in the Yuri paralogue, we have Myson!

But he doesn't have a sprite :(

[enbyleighlines]

Ike/Soren, festivals?

Ooooh, nice prompt!

Normally, neither Ike or Soren are one to seek out festivals. They’re both introverted, and don’t really care for the things that festivals offer. However, they are often invited along to festivals, by friends or family members, and while Ike’s initial reaction is to be like “Hmm, sounds like too much trouble,” Soren is actually the one who convinces Ike to go.

And that’s not because Soren wants to go. Rather, he knows that Ike will always end up genuinely enjoying himself.

Ike is a serious man, who tends to take on a lot of responsibility, so he’s not very inclined towards activities like festivals. When he does want to relax, he prefers to stick with quiet, isolated activities, like going hiking, camping, or fishing.

That being said, Ike also really loves people, especially the common folk. He loves both how complex and how simple they are. He loves seeing how diverse humanity can be, and yet how they are bound together by ties of friendship, community, and love. Though excessive social interaction tends to drain him, he enjoys being surrounded by people, watching them, and feeling like a part of something bigger. He especially loves seeing his friends and family enjoying themselves. So while attending a festival is not his preferred means of relaxation, and while he wind up exhausted by the end of it, he does genuinely find the experience fulfilling. It helps to renew his appreciation for life and the people who inhabit the world.

Soren understands all this, which is why he will push Ike to attend all sorts of festivities whenever the opportunity arrises.

Soren himself finds people watching cognitively stimulating, if for very different reasons. It helps him to understand other people better, when they were such a mystery to him before. Additionally, he feels obligated to tag along, because someone needs to keep track of the time, remind people to take much needed water breaks, and dissuade everybody else from spending too much money on overpriced garbage.

So they go, and Ike enjoys himself, and Soren finds satisfaction in Ike’s enjoyment, and they have a good time.

Afterwards, however, comes the burnout. Ike and Soren generally need a full day to recover, restricting social interactions to the bare minimum, even with one another. Thankfully, they require few words in order to understand each other. So they will just hang out, not talking, just existing next to one another while they wait for their social batteries to recharge.

Thanks again for the prompt!! I love my introverted boys.

[theia-eos]

Hello!

small question about "shadows of the crimean liberation"

in chapter 11 how come Janaff and Ulki didn't recognize Soren as a black dragon branded? I understand for story reasons but you mention specifically that they don't know even after meeting Deghinsea and Kurthnaga in Goldoa so I was wondering if there was another reason too?

Ah, thank you for asking! I do plan to go into it more in other stories, but since it would be from the point of view of characters who don't have the whole picture, I'm happy to provide a top down view.

There a few components to consider.

The first being that Micaiah and Soren recognize that there is something powerful and ancient within each other respectively during Radiant Dawn.

Soren: The Maiden of Dawn… What are you? One of the Branded, that’s for sure. But there is something else about you… Power. Yes, I can feel it in you. You possess great power. Micaiah: Yes, and you would know. There’s something very different about you, too. Your energy feels so…ancient. You and I seem to have so much in common. Radiant Dawn, "Blood Contract," Chapter 3-13

So there is some ancient energy within Soren, this is clear foreshadowing to Soren being descended from the Ancient Black Dragon King himself. Micaiah having some unique great power is a likely reference to her being the apostle and having inherited Lehran's ability to hear the Voice of the Goddess and awaken the goddesses.

The other, and most important, component is that Tibarn, Naesala, Reyson, and Caineghis all go to the meeting with Deghinsea and Kurthnaga, and presumably Ranulf, Janaff, Ulki, and Nealuchi all accompany their kings. Many of them speak to, with, and are around Soren, and none of them notice in the game. This despite Tibarn saying later on in Radiant Dawn that:

Tibarn: That Almedha is a formidable woman. At first I doubted her claim that she was the daughter of that useless old lizard. But even I had trouble holding her down. Me! She’s no ordinary beorc woman, that’s for sure. Elincia: I agree. Lady Almedha and Prince Kurthnaga share a striking resemblance, as well. Not just their faces, but their mannerisms, too. Tibarn: Is that how beorc spot blood relations? We laguz use scent, mainly. Speaking of which, something has been bothering me about Almedha. She has no distinct scent. It’s as if she is neither beorc nor laguz. Elincia: She actually told me something that I wanted to ask you about. She said that she lost her power when she became pregnant with King Pelleas. Radiant Dawn, "Unforgivable Sin," Chapter 4-5

The Extended Scripts expand on it a bit more

[ティバーン] そうか…ベオク�� そうやって判断するのか。▼ [エリンシア] ラグズは、どうなさるんですか？▼ [ティバーン] 主に匂いだな。▼ ラグズとベオクは大きく違うし、 ラグズの中でも種に応じて違う。 …俺たちはそうやって個体を見分ける。▼ が、あのアムリタという女は…… どこかおかしい。▼ Radiant Dawn, "Unforgivable Sin," Chapter 4-5

The basic gist being that each type of laguz has its own unique type of scent in addition to the major difference in scent between laguz and beorc. You can read a fan translation by the always lovely amielleon here.

Tibarn also remarks a few sentences later (fan translation, again, provided by amielleon) that "Parentless" have a scent closer to a beorc.

[ティバーン] 黒竜王がベオクと交わったとでも？ それは、天地がひっくりかえっても ありえねえ話だろうぜ。▼ ”親無し”は、むしろ ベオクに近い匂いがするって話だ。 それでもないから…分からん。▼ Radiant Dawn, "Unforgivable Sin," Chapter 4-5

But that clearly means they have elements of both laguz and beorc in their scent, just more beorc than laguz. (This makes it clear why laguz who aren't in the know, like Skrimir or Vika, could mistake a Branded for a beorc, but Tibarn is clearly in the know and can pick up on however small that differentiation is).

And yet no one, not even he-who-spoils-the-Black-Knight-reveal-almost-certainly-based-on-scent-alone Ranulf, notices that Soren is dragon branded, let alone related to Dheginsea or Kurthnaga. Or if they do, they are weirdly and uncharacteristically quiet about it. Which some of them would be quiet (Ranulf is more of a quiet investigator, but even he has moments of cheek "I know what your secret is" [though maybe he's just trying not to upset Soren by keeping quiet]), and others (especially Tibarn) would never be quiet about that tidbit of information ("You'd let your own grandson die by sending us back to the Kauku Caves?" [I love Tibarn, but if he knew, he'd say something for certain when they're in Goldoa in Radiant Dawn, despite the fact that the revelation would kill Soren on the spot(of mortification)]).

So, why does Pelleas have to figure it out? Kurthnaga travels with the Greil Mercenaries in Part 4 and can fight alongside Soren in the Tower, and yet, nothing??? His own nephew is right there, and nothing???

I have nothing, no really good info from the games, so I have to come up with my own answers based on what little we do get.

So back to why can't anyone recognize what Soren's scent is. If the games don't give me the info I want, then I'll make it up.

Well. as Tibarn says, Almedha has no scent that is distinctive of either beorc or laguz. Beorc and laguz have different scents, and the different tribes have their own unique notes as well.

I've decided that the "beorc scent" is of different varities of metals (copper, gold, silver, tin, etc.) and the "laguz scent" is more earthy. Beast tribes being herbal (I reference lions having a basil note later on in that story), bird tribes being more air/water (herons smelling of petrichor, ravens like a storm, etc.), and dragons being stony (black dragons having a subtle clay scent, etc.). Soren mostly gains the metallic scent of beorc, as Tibarn describes, and since laguz have difficulty smelling anything beyond metal scents, the more subtle earthen smell is lost, they just know it's not all beorc if they're more aware than the average laguz.

In addition to that, he has an ancient power from his maternal grandfather within him that Micaiah can sense., and Reyson can also sense to a smaller degree. Maybe it alters Soren's scent a little, maybe not. I'm undecided as of right now.

So Soren just sits there, being a little enigma, because you would have to get up close and personal and smell him to get the obscured notes of his dragon scent, and no laguz is doing that. (Would be funny if the dragon laguz scent notes were stronger in his breath since he's a dragon. Like he just sighs very heavily because of someone annoying him and Ranulf or someone else with a sensitve sense of smell sitting next to him is like "!!!").

And that's why no one can tell he's black dragon for the moment.

[fiery-emblems]

i think you would enjoy my absurd headcanon that tellius' black dragons (like lobsters) just Continue To Get Larger and Gain More Fuck Power as they age. legend has it that if a black dragon gets beyond a certain size then the energy expended in the transformation/the sheer weight of their Huge Form will kill them but no one really knows due to the fact that it takes FOREVER to get that BIG

THIS IS MY HEADCANON TOO!

They just grow suuuuper slow which is why Dheginsea is so much larger than everyone else. It makes sense 😂

Also who knows what they're upper limit is or what the maximum lifespan of a black dragon actually is. Dheginsea was the oldest one and he didn't even get close to dying of old age 🤔

[aloneditee]

Sephiran and Zelgius Timeline UPDATED

Instead of just having a jumbled idea of the timeline of sephiran and zelgius's relationship I decided I was going to spend my day off writing up my idea of how their timeline works based on cannon information with my own little headcannon flair because i can and you can't stop me.

*THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO @theia-eos FOR COMMENTING WITH THE RADIANT DAWN ARTBOOK TIMELINE I HAVE USED IT TO UPDATE THIS TIMELINE WITH MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION* I also had to remove some sentences because tumblr gave me a fuckin character limit while editing this for some reason

Key:

Bold = explicit canon

unbold = rough estimate canon/ guess

italics = headcanon

urple = sephzelg highlight reel (gay thoughts)

red = year

Complete timeline after the keep reading thing:

625: Misaha’s assassination and the serenes massacre → lehran villain arc. Lehran presents the medallion to ashnard and enters daeins service under the guise of a “wise man”

626: “daeins sudden change” → this is likely when the bloodpact began its effects and the deaths of the daein royal family. I THINK THIS IS WHEN SEPHIRAN AND ZELGIUS MET

Zelgius was serving in the Daein army under general Gawain for a few years. While sephiran is serving as a wise man under ashnard's father he meets zelgius and zelgius confides in him and they agree to be with each other when zelgius eventually leaves the daien army.

Later that year Gawain dips out of Daein with Elena. Zelgius despairs that his Master left him. Zelgius would then enter sephirans service.

627: Ashnard becomes the king of daein, (This was originally when I thought zelgius joins sephiran but I found out Gawain actually left BEFORE Ashnard became king according to the radiant dawn artbook).

I assume Sephiran leaves Ashnards service after Ashnard gets what he wants. Seph doesnt fuck with his bad vibes.

627~635: Sephiran and Zelgius do a bit of travelling and make plans for big evil or something. Sephiran still being a travelling sage and zelgius being a knight not connected to any army until he joins the Begnion military perhaps a decade later

During this time sephiran scaffolds information about himself and his past to zelgius. I do genuinely think that sephiran eventually opens up about everything to zelgius (and vice versa) including him being lehran and the origin of the branded.

634: assuming ike is around 7 when his mom died, this would be around the time point where Gawain touched the medallion and lehran and zelgius saw the aftermath. 

The reason why I think ike is 7 years old here (*he's born in 628*) is because that is how old soren would have been too according to his own timeline (based on his support convos), and those two met the day before the gawain medallion shenanigan occurred

Idrk when seph and zel join begnion as dukes. Based off of the artbook zelgius was actually born into a begnion family before fleeing to daein so maybe he reclaimed the cador family name or something. Sephiran claimed to be from a long line of mages (Persis) and somehow become a noble through this so called mage lineage.

637: sephzelg 10 yr anniversary

635: Sanaki is born. Sephiran may or may not be a senator at this stage

Sephiran begins to rise up the senate ranks through rizz and zelgius rises up the army ranks

At some point between 635-640: sanakis parents are killed by the senate probably

640: sanaki (5 years old) becomes the empress of begnion and sephiran becomes the “senate leader” aka prime minister 

the event lekain talks about when sanaki would stfu during formal proceedings and they discover sephiran has insane babysitting skills occurs right after sanaki becomes the empress i think

645: beginning of mad kings war. At this point in time sephiran and zelgius would have been together for around 18-19 years

Black knight shenanigans. Sephiran travels tellius and gathers intel

Sepiran gets captured in crimea by daein military, probably waited for zelgius to go save him hence why he wouldnt fucking move when ike rescued him lmao

Black knight scraps ranulf, sephiran steps in and tells black knight to stand down

Sephiran eventually returns to begnion, tells everyone to get their fucking shit together, sends zelgius to go help ike (black knight still be existing). Zelgius’ group stays in daein while ikes group goes to crimea. BK does multiple warcrimes in the meant

646: Nados castle falls on the black knight. Sephiran rescues him and uses is epic healing skills to get zelgius to recover before the battle between ikes team and ashnard in the final chapter

646: End mad kings war. Sephiran annoys the shit out of ike by laughing at him for no reason. The black knight is “defeated”. Sephzelg 20 year anniversary aww

646-648: new evil world ending plan just launched

648: war part 2 electric boogaloo

Summer 648: Black knight return arc, sephiran is set to go to daein and tell jarod to stop being a cunt or something but gets thrown in jail before he got the chance to????

Autumn 648: Sephiran captured by the senate while zelgius is at war doing war stuff

Zelgius saves sephiran from jail part 2 electric boogaloo and the two of them start a cheeky uprising in bengion.

Zelgius and sephiran made a pact to die together in the tower. I think they made this agreement way in advance and they knew that was the end goal no matter what happens.

Winter 648: zelgius vs ike gay on gay violence. Zelgius dies. Sephiran either also dies or lives. pain and suffering

~1848: Ashunera returns. Lehran may or may not be there to greet her. Hope he dies soon

[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Personal headcanon is that since the Fates games never name the continent the game takes place on, it's on Tellius to the far east. Hatari is near Nohr and Wolfkins are some offshoot of Wolf Laguz.

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