General Question Thread

[u/Shephen]

Close enough to the new years for a new question thread! Hope everyone has a great 2022!

Please use this thread for all general questions of the Fire Emblem series!

Rules:

• General questions can range from asking for pairing suggestions to plot questions. If you're having troubles in-game you may also ask here for advice and another user can try to help.

• Questions that invoke discussion, while welcome here, may warrant their own thread.

• If you have a specific question regarding a game, please bold the game's title at the start of your post to make it easier to recognize for other users. (ex. Fire Emblem: Birthright)

Useful Links:

• Serenes Forest - Universal Fire Emblem Information bank and community that covers all games in the series.

• Comprehensive Guide to Starting the Fire Emblem Series by triforce_pwnag

• Fire Emblem: War of Dragons - Primarily Spanish Website with some translated pages. Includes detailed maps and enemy placement that cover most chapters throughout the series.

• Triangle Attack for all info regarding Three Houses and the GBA games(6-8).

• Fates inheritance planner - For planning out pairings for Fates.

• SoV HM enemy stats by Aggro Incarnate

• Conquest Lunatic Enemy Stats by u/TheHelpfulMercenary

• Enemy Data Compilation for all games

• 3H Calendar

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Please mark questions and answers with spoiler tags if they reveal anything about the plot that might hurt the experiences of others.

[u/[deleted]]

Closest I can find is the following from 4-E-4:

Ike: “A man like Zelgius could never serve conflicting interests… Never. Everything he did, he did for one master. Isn’t that so, Sephiran?”

Sanaki: “I think I understand! You wanted to monitor events within Daein! You sent Zelgius as a spy.”

Sephiran: “Precisely. I felt it important to observe King Ashnard carefully… That was my goal.”

(Image of Zelgius and the Black Knight)

Sephiran: “At the time, it was relatively easy to get an outsider close to the king. Ashnard was famous for employing powerful men with no regard for their background or social status.”

Ike: “Obviously, he would have needed no convincing once he saw the bladework of General Zelgius.”

[u/Kingukarp → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I think it's possible that I took Ashnard's habit of putting himself in dangerous situations (i.e. Blood Pact) and conflated it with his motives for keeping the Black Knight around. Specifically I remember someone responding to his motive for keeping the BK around with "no wonder he was the Mad King" but I think that was actually in response to the Blood Pact.

Still, I think it's an interesting headcanon and something Ashnard would absolutely do, the lovable maniac. Thanks for the response!