#tfw Noa taught a hair dye spell to her children

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I know this is just connecting 2 points bcs 10k years of lore and whatnot but

JP!Constance's wording is more explicit - House Nuvelle has been "passing down the bloodline of Saint Noa" through the ages, and this was especially hidden from the Empire (and not only hidden in general - the script could have said it was kept hidden without adding any mention about the Empire, JP wording, imo, emphasises that their tie to Noa was purposedly kept a secret from Enbarr!) -

Why was this hidden from the Empire from the beginning, if Noa was a Saint aka chummy with Seiros, and Willy + Lycaon were Nabatean pals?

honeypotting and headcanon tainted glasses reads "bloodline of Saint Noa" as not only talking about Noa's crust, but being a direct descendant of Noa.

(hc ramblings under the cut)

Adding that Constance's dad - let it be in JP or in the localised versions - called the Chalice something the "Progenitor God" crafted, when this title is almost exclusively used by Nabateans... It'd make a compelling argument that Noa (and the other 3 apostles) were Nabateans, and House Nuvelle's members are actually part lizard themselves, but through generations, they lost most of their nabatean traits, save for their crests.

-> House Nuvelle was apparently Ionius'd (rather, Thales'd) for losing some battles during the Dagdan invasion - where Shamir fought and lost her og!partner, but Shamir herself has a line during an explore section, I think, where she calls Fodlan strange because long-lived people exist : what if she wasn't talking about Jerry (or the Nabateans, since Rhea's tenure as the Archbishop for several years + her lack of apparent aging is never mentionned!), but some elusive members of House Nuvelle who inherited part of Noa's longer lifespan?

But where would Noa be then, if she was a lizard? Did she left Fodlan, or died from old age like Aubin ? What about her own hybrid kids - would their lifespan mean they could still be around during Constance's time ? Or they had to hide and "fake their death" much like Archbishop Rheond to avoid suspicions, especially if they are hiding their bloodline from the Emperor himself?

In the "pincushion'd Lycaon AU", maybe Noa's kids initially welcome Lycaon on the throne and swear to help him because he's a nice dude, but also, their cousin ? And then he "falls down some stairs", Willy bails out, Rhea immediately tries to find way for Sothis to return, which might alert Noa that Lycaon didn't really fell down from some stairs but was killed, and if he was killed because he was not human, then it means her own children aren't safe either.

Would it be an incentive to participate in the first Rite of Rising - if Sothis returns, surely the world won't hunt Nabateans or their children anymore.

It fails, thus Noa's only solution to protect her family from humans - especially the Enbarrites who already killed her nephew - is to pretend her children and their own children are humans themselves, thus hide their Nabatean traits (crest + long lives + pointy ears + hair) and maybe fake their deaths at some point.

1k years later, the members of House Nuvelle mostly forgot why they have to hide their crests and abilities from the Empire, but remember that they have to do so + some knowledge is still passed down about legends from the CoS (Sothis being the Progenitor God and the Chalice's existence).

Now, Constance's dad was most likely trying to arrange a wedding to Emile before shit hit the fan - would that mean Constance would have left for House Bartels, or Emile would have joined House Nuvelle? If they still want to hide their crest of Noa, it would make more sense for Emile to join House Nuvelle, and the potential Noa crested kids would still be kept "safe and hidden" from Enbarr?

Also...

Constance mentions how she lost everything and she's the "only one left" from House Nuvelle - I understand this as her family was killed and her house fell (even if she wasn't married on spot, but managed to be sent to Firdhiad to enroll in the Magic School of Sorcery and later enroll in GM? What made Constance different from Mama Martritz and newborn!Mercie?) in 1175.

The Insurrection happened in 1171, Supreme Leader returned to Adrestia in 1174 with Arun-Thales and we know, despite Aegir being the nominal head of the Empire, that Thales was running the show through his meatsuit, acting as "the regent".

Science experiments started in 1174, House Nuvelle fell in 1175 - maybe Constance was away, but I wonder what if Solon/Chilon/Ananximandros or even Cleo wanted to perform new experiments on the elusive members of House Nuvelle, especially if word got out that they might be more "bestial than they pretended to be"?

Nothing was conclusive, which could justify why Constance wasn't hunted herself, bcs Solon would need a "purer" form of beast, but will only catch Flayn later.

Oh well, this is just honeypotting and crafting hcs out of thin air but, House Nuvelle being - in the holding hands sense - Nabatean blooded in an Adrestia that was supposed to welcome them, only to, at inception (rather, 97 years later) violently reject their kin fascinates me, in the sense that they too, are hiding and acting "strange" but in order to not be persecuted/hunted/pincushion'd. the cruelest thing would be that Rhea would have gladly offered them help and assistance, but since Enbarr knows she's not human, her intervention might out the Nuvelles as, well, not human themselves.

Constance personal arc against Supreme Leader - opposing her or joining her - would be even more, uh, steeped in dark irony than Lysithea joining the BESF because, in this situation, Constance sides with the people who ended her house and might have butchered her family, but also supports the ascension of someone who would most likely cast her away if she knew she had a lizard in her ancestry.