#when everything went wrong and her father died in plegia

[iturbide]



oh for sure i can share!! 5k old grima anon again, and honestly i feel like my math might even be off since i based this mostly off the timeline laid out on this wiki page in a single fevered afternoon (https://fireemblemwiki.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Archanea,_Valentia,_and_Jugdral) so if it doesnt make sense uhhhh do take me with a grain of salt x'D ill summarize it down into bare bulletpoints for better reading, and im using the arcahnaen calender for the dates

sometime between -4000 and -2794 (i use -2894(ish) specifically): rough estimate for creation, sinces thabes has to exist to have forneus create him before duma sets the place on fire

-1000: beginning of the dragons decline, naga's war w the earth dragons happens about ~350 years later

607: (yes, no more negatives) alm and celica go into the labyrinth, weakening the seal and thus (to me) being the first instance where grima can Leave the labyrinth and is likely his first contact with real, alive humans besides forneus (rip,,)

(this is more of a heacanon, but i usually put the grimleal faith coming into being sometime around 900-1000, even tho the countries as awakening shows us are said to be founded proper much later bc i like slower developments)

1609: grima is sealed by the first exalt/the mysterious schism is here now in which we know nothing about how anything was created except whoops theres countries now lookit that!!

2585(ish): grima is reborn as/awakens into robin's body!

and because of one more headcanon, i see grima as following lucina to the past in the year 2633, which means the non-amnesiac robin timelines take a bit Longer to "complete" than the awakening we play through, because of all the added grima threat involved and other major events which are changed (emm's death, chrom's injury, there was something about ferox too i think?)

SORRY I DIDNT THINK IT WOULD BE THIS LONG STILL... i hope it was entertaining and makes sense!!

OHOHOHO I HAD NEVER SEEN THIS TIMELINE BREAKDOWN BEFORE I've been trying to puzzle my way around correlating the Valentia and Archanea calendars from the Accordion, this is FANTASTIC!! It looks like your math is pretty much spot on using that timeline as a basis -- plus, I deeply appreciate that you account for Lucina's Doomed Timeline taking more time than the Revised Timeline we see in Awakening, because I hold to the exact same theory.

Even with this timeline, though, the biggest point of logical dissonance for me remains in Naga giving Duma the Falchion before his exile. According to the Wiki's timeline, it states that Naga gave Duma the Kingsfang (aka Falchion) "in the inevitable event that they degenerate into madness" -- but it's not until almost 3,000 years later that degeneration becomes a recognized phenomenon and the Divine Dragon Tribe seal their powers and become manaketes. To my knowledge, Naga's not gifted with precognition -- if she were, I suspect she'd have dealt with Grima a lot earlier than she did. That's not on you! That's on my brain rioting at how the events don't make sense in this order.

If degeneration was a known issue and enough of a risk that Naga gave Duma a weapon that would end his and Mila's suffering should they be afflicted by the condition, that makes me think that they've seen how bad it can be -- which would mean that they've seen the Earth Dragons degenerate and likely gone through the Dragon War. And considering that Naga's death is recorded in the timeline about 500 years after dragon degeneration becomes a known condition and a mere ~250 years after the end of the Dragon War and the sealing of the Earth Dragons at the Dragon's Table, Duma and Mila only making it about a millennium after their exile doesn't seem that unreasonable.

No, I don't know why my brain is like this. I want to be able to take the timeline at face value, but every time I see events ordered with Duma and Mila's exile first and the discovery of degeneration second I start gnashing my teeth.

[sentofighta]

A mother's sacrifice

The events of Grima’s rising and take over of Ylistol had weighed heavily on Rebecca. She had seen her husband’s corpse discarded like a sack of potatoes and then having Grima’s army ransack her once happy home. She had scrambled to get her children. Hiding Lucina in a secret compartment that Chrom had showed her before grabbing Maria and retrieving Lucina to meet up with her father who had Thomas. The castle was being overrun and soon her father gave Lucina his helmet and then hugged them all goodbye. She knew what he was doing and wanted to protest it but there wouldn’t be a way to change his mind.

She had to drag her daughter away even as she protested and it was the first time Rebecca yelled at Lucina. She had to try very hard to not break down. Not now. They still needed to evacuate. She kept her children close with Maria cradled in her arms and they fled through the tunnels far away.

They had recently met up with some other survivors including Lissa and her child. Rebecca was so happy to see her sister-in-law alive but she was so sad as well. They needed to get to the outrealm gates according to Lissa so that they could fix this. Rebecca would follow Lissa and some surviving Ylisse knights. They had some skirmishes with the Risen that had invaded the lands and even had to kill some of the recently turned knights but they survived. That was up until they were ambushed on their travels.

The group was attacked by a large horde of Risen. Thomas and Maria were too young so Rebecca left them with some knights while she, Lucina, and the others engaged the Risen horde. The fighting was long and Rebecca had to use some of the dropped weapons to defend herself and Lucina. While Rebecca had slayed another Risen, one of their previous allies turned Risen was sneaking up on her daughter and she was about to be stabbed when Rebecca jumped in the way.

“Lucina! Look out!” She yelled when she pushed her daughter out of the way and took the sword through her abdomen. 

Another Knight had taken the freshly turned Risen. They had propped Rebecca up against one of the walls in the ruins they were fighting in. S.T.A.R could see Rebecca’s condition and knew that she wouldn’t make it. Rebecca knew it too. She brought Lucina and Thomas close to her during her final moments.

“It looks like I won’t be able to continue on.” She said coughing a little. Weakly she moved her hands to wipe the tears away from her children.

“I love you three so much. It pains me to leave you three but know that I will always be with you in spirit. Auntie Lissa and S.T.A.R will take care of you three. Please listen to what they have to say. You two have grown up so much. I just wish I wasn’t leaving you in such a place.”

With the last of her strength she pulled the two into a hug. It lasted for a couple of seconds before her arms went limp and her head began to slump over. Rebecca died with a smile on her face knowing that her children were safe at the very least.

@pieman1112​

Who would have known one betrayal could destroy the whole world. It ripped and torn families apart, destroyed and reshaped the land...just destruction in every corner. If only things had been different...alas, this future is doomed.

The day Grima decided to attack is the day everything fall apart. Chrom died and was no where to be found at first before they found his dead body tossed for the ravens to eat. It was horrible. Even the mightiest of the shepherds started to fall one by one. Reports came from all sides, Ferox was asking for aid, even Plegia whoever tried to flee to Ylisse regretted their choice. Grima was out for blood, out for the Exalt bloodline then on all humanity. 

Rebecca did her best to protect her children. Lucina was young to perceive everything but she knows that...things are wrong; things are broken and cannot be fixed anymore. Her cries and begging did not to change the situation--heck, her screams were muffled by the battle noise and the cries of the fallen warriors clashed against the risens’ sharp yells. Nothing. She could do nothing. She was helpless and powerless. She could only be protected and watch her people fall one by one. And now it was her mother’s turn. She remembers how hot and disgusting it felt to be covered in blood--her mother’s blood that she bled when she took that blow for her. This is not right. Her mother cannot die...Her mother cannot die!!!!!!! “Mother!!!! No! No!!! Pleas--hee--*hic* mommy!!! No..please...” even her tiny hands cannot stop the bleeding no matter how hard she pressed against her mother’s wound. “No, no no! We gonna be together! all of us! Daddy will come and save us!! He will--*sobs* ....daddy...*sobs*....” meanwhile Thomas was going into a shock. If Lucina was young, Thomas was younger than her and it was too much for him to handle he remained paralyzed the whole time. All he did was cry silently, clinging to his mother. Maria was still a baby...she kept crying due to all the loud noises and sudden stops. She knew her mother was in pain, babies feel that. 

When Rebecca hugged them close to her, Lucina begged her to get up and walk again and Thomas just nodded while crying. “Mother pleaaase...please..please please...Mommy...?” why her mother’s hug...n-no...” Mommy? Mommy??? MOM!!! MOM!! NO!!!” Lucina kept shaking Rebecca thinking she fell asleep but no reaction..they could not even mourn her as the knights who were around quickly seized the three siblings and ran where they promised Rebecca to keep her children safe, where Lissa was. Lucina and Thomas’s pleading voices faded as their mother’s figure faded as they gone far.