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There's been a lot of bangers that have dropped this year and only more great stuff to come, so what are you guys' favorite song released in 2026? (I'm not counting singles released last year for albums that count this year)

For me, it's gotta be Steel Toe Truth by Ingested. Denigration in general is one of the best albums we got this year bit Steel Toe Truth is so amazing holy hell. If I counted 2025 singles for 2026 albums I think I'd give it to Evermore by Ov Sulfur but I'm not even sure Steel Toe Truth is peak. AOTY so far for me is Endless I think

Multiple different spoilers here so ill spoiler text them individually. Why the hell does Falcom do this? It would be one thing if every bonding event was doable cause then it makes sense you only get the lore if you do everything you can but you can't. If you don't do Ash's bonding event before fighting Arianrhod in CS4, you never learn that >!Miguel is the person who saved him from Hamel.!< If you don't do anything with Jusis in the Summer Festival in CS3 then you never learn that >!Rufus purposely didn't stop Hercules from infiltrating Heimdallr.!< It's even worse with Final Bonding events. If you don't choose Wazy as your one final bond in Azure you never learn his backstory. I understand that Falcom wants to make the bonding events actually meaningful and important but you can do that without revealing key aspects of a character's backstory. For example, if you don't do either event with Emma in CS4 you never see >!her astral projection form!<, which is perfect for this. Emma's >!astral projection form!< isn't relevant to her plot or story in any way, so it's great for this role.

Assuming CS4 doesn't introduce any new members in Act 3, here's my knowledge so far

Grandmaster: Unknown Female

Anguis 1: Unknown Male

Anguis 2: Vita Clotilde

Anguis 3: Weismann Mariabell

Anguis 4: "Thousand Oathbreaker" (Male)

Anguis 5: Unknown Male

Anguis 6: Professor Novartis

Anguis 7: Arianrhod

Enforcer 0: Campanella

Enforcer 1: McBurn

Enforcer 2: Loewe

Enforcer 3: "Golden Butterfly"

Enforcer 4:

Enforcer 5:

Enforcer 6: Luciola

Enforcer 7:

Enforcer 8: Walter

Enforcer 9: Kreuger

Enforcer 10: Bleublanc

Enforcer 11:

Enforcer 12:

Enforcer 13: Joshua (Defected)

Enforcer 14:

Enforcer 15: Renne (Defected)

Enforcer 16:

Enforcer 17: Shirley

17 is a weird number but presumbaly 17 is how many enforcers there are since Shirley just joined. Enforcer numbers don't get replaced when a member dies but Anguises (Angui?) do. Therefore, I'm gonna try and predict the general personality and design and such of each member unknown to me. For the ones that get revealed later, don't tell me please. I just wanna put this somewhere.

Grandmaster: Aidios or an avatar of Aidios. Dios means God in Spanish, and it would explain why the society wants all the sept-terrions, possibly because Aidios wants to reset the world or something

Anguis 1: For the Anguises, I'll go off the vibes from their voices, which we know from Star Door 14 in Sky 3rd. Anguis 1 is a calm cool and collected scientist guy, basically like Novartis but less batshit insane, maybe instead of running the 13 factories he's like Aidios's right hand man, possibly also a dominion and could have helped create Campanella. Avoids fighting or even being seen.

Anguis 4: Leader of Sharon's old gang called "Thousand Oathbreaker". Originates from East Zemuria and invented a bunch of the crazy weapons Ouroboros uses. Weapon of choice is some orbal nunchuks that can warp spacetime or some bullshit

Anguis 5: Very serious old gruff man with a shit ton of muscles and scars and either an ex jaeger or just Sigmund. Weapon of choice is some crazy ass jaeger weapon that inflicts delay and his fight is bullshit without grail lockets

Enforcer 3: Sharon's old associate called "Golden Butterfly". Weapon of choice is a katana

Enforcer 4: Seductive twink akin to Wazy. Weapon of choice is some elden ring perfume bottle bullshittery

Enforcer 5: The final girl archetype who wields an orbal glock

Enforcer 7: Literally Elsa. Girl with ice powers who has mood swings and is a tsundere for McBurn

Enforcer 11: At the end of Calvard 3, the tertiary character Professor John Normalmann is revealed to be Enforcer 11, who does experiments on monsters and has a pet creepy sheepmonkey that he uses in place of a weapon

Enforcer 12: Falcom loves anime tropes, so a fat pervert. Weapon of choice is an orbal bazooka

Enforcer 14: A timid deaf girl who has no emotions and is also Novartis's great grand niece by technicality because Falcom loves making every character related. Wields a big ass roman pilum twice the size of her body

Enforcer 16: Either Carna or Grant, revealed to have joined sometime after the events of Sky 3rd during the Leman Arc. Or one of the Liberl guild receptionists not named Kilika, probably the Grancel one. Wields a basic bitch weapon

Enforcer 18: I'm also predicting we'll get members who join after CS4, maybe like 3 to give us 20 enforcer numbers. I predict that two will be characters met after CS4, and the other with be Ines. After Arianrhod gets de-immortalized when the rivalries end, Duvalie joins the heroes and stays eternally a tsundere for Rean with no romance plot until the very last game, Ennea joins Duvalie and becomes a good guy, whereas Ines becomes Enforcer 18

Now of course my predictions may seem batshit insane, but Ouroboros houses the guy who could level all of Arteria in a few hours and terminator level technology so batshit insane fits Ouroboros perfectly. I'm gonna now go to bed and get my 3 hours of sleep before my ap test tomorrow because I spent like an hour writing this.

Patrick and Elise dating? Come CS3 and 4, Patrick has proven over and over again to genuinely care for Elise and be a virtuous person, so why is Rean so vehement? In CS1 and 2 it made sense because Patrick was a snobbish asshat but in 3 and 4 he and Rean are good friends and Patrick has helped Rean out multiple times. Patrick seems like the one person Rean actually should trust with Elise, what am I missing here?