So I saw someone point out that you kill Judith even when she’s retreating in CF during Chapter 13. Someone else called them a liar, coming to Edelgard’s defense; Judith quote “refused to surrender or retreat.”

Well, first off, that’s wrong. If you kill Leonie and Acheron before Judith, she says this

Edelgard responds with this

Why do they need Daphnel territory? She explains herself with this

Oh, so they need it in order to cross the Alliance with as little resistance as possible? It would get in the way of Claude, whom if they take down they take the Alliance in one swoop? Well, crack a few eggs to make an omelette, right?

Except, take a look at the map of Fodlan

You see where Daphnel is? To the west of Riegan, all the way across Leicester? Control of its territory 1) is debatable Edelgard even has, considering the distance between her and it - it could very easily just merge with Riegan after the lost of its head, considering they’re both against the Empire, its already a dying house even with Judith’s sterling reputation, and the two houses have already been shown to be close, and/or 2) would only let them “safely march through the Alliance” if they plan on going through Ailiel to get to the Kingdom.

Look at these

The game itself shows and tells you that Edelgard doesn’t use this to get to Claude safer. It makes no mention of going through Daphnel territory at all, and in fact does this shit

It even makes you think you are until you literally stop and turn away from Daphnel. 

But does she utilize Daphnel’s proximity to Fhirdiad relative to Garreg Mach to launch a direct attack with her newly acquired Alliance force? Does she go around the Kingdom with one part of the army and use this idea with another part and launch a two sided attack, separating their already divided forces?

Nope. She instead goes through Arianrhod (Chapter 16), then the Tailtean Plains (Chapter 17), then Fhirdiad (Chapter 18). She literally never uses Daphnel. Her “reason” for killing a retreating Judith is either a poorly made tactical decision on her part, or a flat out lie.

So yeah. That’s cool.

Wait she didn’t do the two sided attack either? God CF writting is dumb. Like Edelgard saying Claude had plans to join the war? Yet Lorenz shoots this down entirely as the empire conquered Ordelia years ago with no consequences and Lorenz dad wouldn’t make a move unless the bridge gets taken out. Which he sides with Edelgard on cF for some reason. Along with Edmund for no reason.

No, she makes a full frontal attack at Tailtean. It’s actually Dimitri and Rhea that use the Kingdom knights and the Knights of Seiros to form a pincer attack against Edelgard’s army. 

Honest to god Edelgard lies or is flat out wrong about so much in CF. Claude had plans to join the war so they had to “get them out of the way” she says - except he went out of his way to remain neutral for the express purpose of staying out the war, knowing the fractured Alliance stood no chance. Gloucester always sides with the Empire unless it’s VW (that’s why you have to fight Lorenz on AM and SS, and don’t encounter him in CF if he’s not recruited) and always stands against Riegan anyway regardless (even in VW it’s said he is the cause of much of the infighting due to leading the pro-Imperialist faction of the Alliance), Ordelia is so weak it’s barely a house, Goneril is always too busy defending the border to give substantial help, and Edmund is an opportunist who sides with whoever he thinks is winning. Claude knows overall it just can’t handle being in the war outright while being so divided. Apparently Edelgard doesn’t figure that out tho

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Fire Emblem Awakening Theory: The Truth about A Future Past

Hey guys, it been a awhile since I’ve done a post discussing Fire Emblem, so I figured it would be fun to directly talk about my favorite Fire Emblem Awakening theory. While I am sure this is old news to a lot of you, I still think it is valuable to talk about it in detail here given how often I allude to it.

This theory, is as the title suggests, explores how the Future Past timeline featured in the DLC of the same name fits into the overall narrative of the game. While the timeline at first glance simply seems to be the doomed future Lucina and all the other 2ed gens come from, there are some very large differences between that timeline and the one seen in the DLC. But more importantly, there are some details that hint at the deeper connection between this DLC and the main game, in particular how it may shed some light on the origins of the most mysterious of the time traveling children.

As alluded to above, while a Future Past seems to simply be a retelling of the doomed future, there are a lot of details that don’t match the account of events the 2ed gens give in the main game. In fact, during the DLC our versions of those very characters make note of how this timeline isn’t right, how events seem to be playing out quite different from how they remembered it.

Of note, the following things are different in A Future Past

On top of those details, there is one other big piece of evidence to bring up. But before I do that, for reasons that will soon become very apparent, I would like to discuss a moment in one of the other DLCs. That being the conversation F!Morgan and Cynthia have during the Hotspring Scramble DLC map.

For those who don’t know, the conversation in question basically follows Morgan and Cynthia trying to come up with a plan to prank everyone following being scolded for having a splash fight in one of the hotsprings. While amusing, most of this conversation is unimportant for our discussion. What is important, however, is the specific detail where Morgan has two identical copies of Robin’s favorite annotated book on tactics, with her possessing no memory of having acquired the second copy. Now, the obvious explanation would be that the game’s Robin simply gave her his copy after she came to the past, and she didn’t remember having already been given a copy from the Robin of her own timeline. This would work, except for one issue. Robin couldn’t have given her that copy, as he already gave it away… in A Future Past.

See, during A Future Past, Robin can talk to Future Past Morgan. During this conversation Robin, feeling something familiar about her, will give Morgan his copy of that very same book. After he leaves, Morgan notes how she already has that same book, the Robin of her timeline having already given it to her lone ago.

So we have two Morgans, both with two identical copies of Robin’s favorite book on tactics, down to the dog ears and annotations. We have a Morgan in our game who regardless of who her parents are, always comes from a third timeline. A Morgan who, if they have a sibling, has their sibling mention that it is likely they come from a different future. A Morgan who non of the other future characters seem to know, with most treating them with outright suspicion. On the other hand we have a Morgan who, regardless of who their parents are, shows up in A Future Past. even if their parents are a time travel themselves.

All of this leads to a startling conclusion: these aren’t two separate Morgans. They are in fact the same Morgan. A Future Past is the timeline the Morgan we meet in the game comes from. She has two copies of that book because our Robin gave her his during the Future Past DLC, an event she doesn’t recall because of her amnesia. The other 2ed gens don’t recognize her because she wasn’t part of their timeline, let alone their group.

This however, raises another question. If the Morgan we meet in the main game comes from this timeline, then what if Morgan’s mother/father is a 2ed gen? Well, as it turns out, the answer to this question is where we come to the crux of this theory. I believe that A Future Past isn’t simply a version of the doomed future: it is essentially the bad ending for the timeline we play during Awakening itself.

Basically put, A Future Past is what happens when Lucina and the other future kids travel to the past… and Grima ends up winning regardless. In this timeline Grima ends up taking control of Robin one again, with all of the time travelers being killed along with the 1st gens, leaving only their younger selves alive. This not only allows for all of Morgan’s possible parents to work for this timeline, but it also explains all of the differences in this timeline.

The reason the groups trying to recover the gemstones have so much more trouble? Grima has already been through these events once before, so he knows exactly where they will be and when, sending his forces to kill them this time around. The gemstone not being destroyed? The meddling of the time travelers shifted events enough so that all five gemstones where still around. Tiki being still alive? Same with the previous detail: the time travelers still changed events enough to prevent Tiki from dying earlier like she did in their own timeline. Grima being stronger? A combination of having some of his power from his original timeline merge with the Grima of this timeline. Robin resisting? This Robin is like the game’s Robin, where he had amnesia and thus forged stronger bonds with his friends. As a result this Robin hasn’t been completely broken like the Future Robin has, and is thus still resisting Grima.

So in summery, this results in there being four interconnected timelines making up the narrative of Fire Emblem Awakening, which go as follows.

Timeline 1: Bad future timeline. Lucina and other 2ed gens travel to the past, ending up in Timeline 2.

Timeline 2: A Future Past. 2ed gens arrive from Timeline 1. Events are changed, but Grima ends up winning in the end. Morgan is born in this timeline, and eventually encounters the Robin from Timeline 4 before traveling to Timeline 4 herself.

Timeline 3: Bad future timeline. Identical to Timeline 1, only here the 2ed gens end up in Timeline 4. These are the 2ed gens we encounter in the main game

Timeline 4: The game’s timeline. We meet the 2ed gens from Timeline 3 and the Morgan from Timeline 2.

So that’s about it. I hope you enjoyed this exploration of my favorite theory for Fire Emblem Awakening. I’d love to hear your guys’ thoughts on this and would be thrilled to discuss this theory more with anyone.

Oh, before I go, one last thing. If you liked this theory and want to know more, then I would like to take the opportunity to shamelessly promote my fanfiction, A Future Disowned, which is a retelling of the A Future Past DLC that explores this theory in more detail.  There, shameless plug done. Take care everyone!

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