It must suck to be a peasant in Hrym territory
- 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
u/Unacceptable_Goose — 4 days ago
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The way the main cast is presented on the box art is interesting
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?
u/Unacceptable_Goose — 26 days ago