I don't care how bad Peter's early game archer growths are, he is getting as many energy drops as he needs to do well. Ain't none of the original childhood friend squad getting left behind on Cai's route.
Looking at this screenshot from the Direct, there is no way Theodora's grey skin isn't intentional. Compared to the black woman behind Lysander, the difference is noticeable. In general it seems like only some people from Saramis have this grey skin colour while everyone else has more natural tones. Could they be descended from Agarthans?
In Hapi and Shamir's C support in Three Hopes, they discuss the pagan statue in Abyss. Shamir reveals it's actually the Dagdan God of Fate.
This statue is most likely the Pale Raven, the god that Eshmel serves as a herald as shown in the snippet of the artbook in one of the trailers. With his hood on, Eshmel also looks very similar to the statue.
Also, the statue has probably been in Abyss "forever" according to Hapi. This would mean that the Dagdan gods used to have a presence in Fódlan, and might explain why Eshmel seems to also have a connection to Sothis.
An interesting detail from the Twitter footage of Leda. When she's selected you can see she has 3 support points with Buccaneer and 3 with Sirocco. But she also seems to have 2 support points with Theodora, a green unit. Dietrich is there as well but she has no support with him.
Since it's looking like we'll have at least one commoner protagonist in Fortune's Weave, I thought I'd have a look at past FE protagonists and how high they rank on a scale of nobility. Spoilers for many FE games, for obvious reasons. This list includes inheritance (adoption included) and their actual titles.
Literally everything:
God:
Empire:
Kingdom:
Ruling house of an alliance:
Noble:
Commoner:
Every character in Fortune's Weave seems to have a flag next to them that represents which faction they're allied to, similar to Three Houses. I went through the gameplay footage to get all the different factions we've seen so far, and there are surprisingly a lot of them.
These are all the ones I could find. Let me know if I missed any!
Felix is one of the few characters in the game who possesses a major Crest, and the only student at the academy who inherited it naturally.
Out of all the known characters, there are only six who have natural major crests. Those are Felix, Catherine, Balthus, Constance, Hapi, and Count Bergliez. Everyone else either had their Crest given to them artificially, or is the original saint who bore it. Anna also has one, but we don't know how she got it.
Basically, Felix's Crest is kind of a big deal. And yet I've always thought it was odd how Crests play much more of a role in the lives of characters like Sylvain, despite him only possessing a minor Crest.
Is there a support conversation I missed where anyone actually brings it up?
- Try to defect to the Alliance to avoid the emperor consolidating power
- Get destroyed by imperial forces, they murder the entire Hrym house
- Imperial princess installs a homicidal maniac as heir to the house as a puppet
- The comically corrupt Duke Aegir takes control of the area and immediately begins taxing you to hell
- Can't even run to Ordelia territory because they're occupying that too (and also doing Crest experiments on children)
- 14 years of this
- The emperor's daughter takes the throne, deposing Duke Aegir, declaring war on the church and promising change
- New emperor puts the even more corrupt (and secretly a cultist mole person) Lord Arundel in charge
- Even higher taxes, forced labor and conscription for the imperial war machine, new lord kills anyone who opposes
- 6 more years of this
- Either the church forces finally kill Lord Arundel and the emperor, or the emperor wins and starts a silent war against Arundel's cultists with no end in sight
We can already see that the Promised One takes up the middle space here (playable character? Byleth 2?) but the way the other characters are presented is more interesting to me.
Leda and Dietrich are both smiling and looking radiant in the sun. They're very clearly being presented in a "heroic" way.
Cai and Theodora are the exact opposite. Theodora is giving us a downright villainous side-eye, while Cai looks absolutely flabbergasted. The harsh lighting and the darker backgrounds give them both a "darker" feel.
Foreshadowing for their roles in the story maybe?