I think these will be the free recruits on the 4 DLC-paths.
Nydine and Io on Anatolia and Talimun, because they have no mounted unit, Noctula on Orchel, since she has no fist-user and Peppe on Bertrand for bows. These 4 also don't appear in the story.

Except for KINDA Peppe, but you get him on BERTRAND's paraloque. The only other canditates who are NOT in the Heroic Games are Nuzzuo, who is a boss in Cai's and Theodora's path and Kiroc, but Kiroc talks about Talimun screwing him over, so I'm guessing he's a boss there.

The reason I'm ordering them like this btw, is because currently the free recruit match the Flame Lord's gender:
Cai - Guzzran
Dietrich - Yang Jie
Theodora - Sofia
Leda - Catania

This could ofc just be a coincidence, so you could say Nydine goes on Talimon's team instead.

Are you big and strong but slow? Do you have 5 speed at level 5? Come to Ornius high!

Upon getting your acceptance letter into ornius high you get

Instant results: All recipients upon entry to Ornius high will be guaranteed to be at at least 11 speed *

Permanent results: All entrants to Ornius high with less than 8 speed will be given speed Permanently that you can keep with you upon promotion to any other department. (serious note, this is the single most important part of ornius high)

Long Lasting improvement: All entrants to Ornius high will gain 10% speed extra per level,

Extra move :Not only will you have 1 additional move, Ornius high will allow you to climb up ledges and move around obstacles you couldn't do on foot!

Weapon access: The Da Mina sword the best ** weapon available can be used while on the ornius, so you won't feel a lack of weapon utility

Ease of advancement : Orinus high grants easy access to Wing Soldier, Armored Ornius, Shiido and Dragoon, the strongest advanced and Specialist programs.

*3 of that speed is owned by ornius high itself and will have to be given back upon graduation, but fear not as upon graduation other units have nearly as good or better instant speed stats.

** Qiankun circles are not available while in ornius rider university, so keep this in mind when looking for 1-2 range, the levin sword, Javelin and Short spear are your friends

I didn't realize there was a difference in the JP and EN script regarding Mediator reproductive capabilities until recently due to discussion about the datamines.

In the English version of Mediators II, the passage about Mediator reproduction goes:

"Furthermore, in anticipation of the possibility that a Mediator is the sole survivor of unforeseen extreme circumstances, they are designed to be capable of a variety of methods of reproduction to ensure the survival of human civilization. This is an important physical feature of all Mediators."

However, the JP version of the same passage goes:

"Furthermore, anticipating that a Mediator may encounter an unforseen event under extreme circumstances and become the sole survivor, in order for them to duplicate themselves and leave possibilities for human civilization's continued existence, they are designed to be capable of parthenogenesis. This is also a major physical characteristic of a Mediator."

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction that some animal species are capable of (including some kinds of reptiles such as salamanders). Contrary to the English script, which is more open to interpretation, the Japanese script is rather specific about only asexual reproduction as an apparent additional function.

Of course, this does nothing to answer questions about some endings like Alexandra's. If anything it raises even more questions.

Like he makes garron look like a loving father, thales like a saint, sombron a tragic puppy, and grima look misunderstood. Like if there was ever a person in the sothisverse that absolutely deserved the treatment balor and zanado got this absolute evil pos. There isn't a redeeming quality to him outside his dragon design.

90% of the 'Hot' posts are just random datamine stuff and most of it really didn't need to be separate threads

Rhea is probably the best fighter in the series. Considering that Nemesis scales with Byleth and Shez.... and Byleth needed help to beat Nemesis. And Rhea beat Nemesis alone

I'm on my last part 1 playthrough and felt inspired to do some art!

I keep saying Leda's "There's a man..." line from the trailer in Buccar's country accent.

Also Olympia running around with a Mace is very fun.

Source

(Seems like most of the gods & Gladius’ profiles are incomplete while Myson & Cleobulus are missing profiles at the moment)

Edit: Myson & Cleobulus’ profiles have been found. Most of the info has been scrubbed however.

Non-Twitter link to the Agarthan profiles in case people are having problems opening Twitter

This guys comes at level 20??? All my units are level 11 comon dude, I just wanted to give this guy a solid start now he's my Jaegan

Based on Circana’s estimate, FW was the 4th best selling game in US while Onimusha was 7th by revenue.

Though its only an estimate in one market, this should be sufficient to assume Fortune Weave sold more than Onimusha last quarter.

Capcom just released their Q3 report and Onimusha has sold 1.7M copies by end of Q3’26.

If we assume a 50/50 physical split to account for the higher physical prices, Fortune Weave would have to sell more than 1.6M copies to exceed Onimusha’s revenue.

This is a very conservative estimate for FW and it could very likely exceed 2M sales given they are 3 positions apart on the ranking. Either way its a pretty good omen as we wait for Nintendo’s own report next month.

About a year ago I wanted to finally play all the way through Fire Emblem Shadows of Valentia, but the cartridge is seemingly dead. I have a 3ds XL and a 2ds. Is it worth going through the trouble of jail breaking one to try and save the cartridge or are there other methods I can try to fix it?

So because of the way they are designed, every FE game inevitably has a few unimportant filler bosses. This isn't inherently an issue unless it's all the time, and one area that Fates actually really excels in are these types of chapter bosses. Thanks to Fates incredible character design and the really fun capture mechanic letting you add them to your team, all of them have a good sense of personality and purpose in spite of their scarce lines. 

The result is that these characters who should be one-note nobodies on paper (and more or less still are at the end of the day), I got pretty invested in them. So I made some headcanon backstories, Personal Skills, and extra dialog to put them on par with the main cast.
I aimed to make sure there was a good variety of interesting and fitting backstories that made the world feel more alive and interconnected, while still keeping in mind that at the end of the day they're unimportant sidequest bosses who shouldn't outshine the actual main characters of the chapters. 

Whose your fav Fates capture boss, and what would you do to flesh them out?

Geez Bertrand, why does your army get two of the most dogshit personal skills in the game?

Dante‘s Stage Directions is a skill that grants +10 Dodge to ally within two spaces… at a proc rate of the unit in combat’s Charm divided by 2. In a game where most enemies have a built in -30% crit effect.

Personal Fix: This should not be a proc skill, why is giving +10 Dodge within 2 spaces a proc, Ultand gives +20 Dodge to adjacent ally without a proc chance!

Previous Skills: Blindside+, Celestial Flow, Cannoning Flair, Heavyweight Class

A homebody who lives in seclusion.
You may gain her trust, but good luck
convincing her to come outside.

I beat Routeless Part 3 on Normal. Clocked in at around 10 hours. I know it's not the greatest achievement as others have done it on Hard. I would place Routeless Normal as more difficult than 4 Routes Hard.

Heres my tips. Please share your own below for anyone who wants to try. Really fun challenge. I recommend people try it while they wait for the DLC.

* Early game is hard as you have no money, no world map, no materials, and no weapons. I rushed Dungeons and sold weapons and accessories I wouldn't use to grind my way out of poverty and get Eshmel into Fortress Knight to grind armour ranks. You want Healing Armour as soon as possible to get some sustain, or you will keep running out of HP and be unable to heal. Troy can help with heals. Early weapon recommendation is a maxed out Short Spear. You can find a Pilum in one of the dungeons.

* World Map: dungeons are good early. You want at least 2 Diadem Keys to get Godhand, Avatar, and Trident. The carriages in Arago and near Megaira are really important to get online. The Megaliths are also super helpful as they're good dungeons and free Warp Points. Try to snag some Agarthium to level up Zerberus. Temples are good but optional. They give Warp Points, items, and money, but require rare materials. Credna is the most important since he upgrades the spear

* Characters: Eshmel is cracked. Fortress Knight into Castle Knight with Healing Armour carries most of the game. Lategame I went Trident for White Magic. Troy is absolutely ridiculous and can solo maps. Once you upgrade Zerberus and get Modified Weapon she's good to go. Victory gem helps Troy sustain. Hong Hua really wants White Magic Treatises or Arena to get online, which is really tough since you need to repair towns. I couldn't get this going till much later. In the meanwhile she outputs serious damage with Salamander but needs babying since she is squishy. White Magic is free XP

* Gate Missions: the first few are easy but you must explore the area ahead of time so you don't burn turns trying to unlock the world map routes. Always split into 2 squads. The later gate Missions with 2-3 gates are extremely tight as they're balanced around 4-5 squads and I failed the last one by a few turns and had to retry. You really need the warp points and carriages to make it. For the multi gate ones, I had Hong Hua deal with mobs and miasma and Troy assaulted the gate on her own. For the final, I rushed the top left gate with both, took some hits on Dagsion then circled back to the middle one then bottom. Extremely tight.

* Final Mission: actually pretty difficult. I had try run around and attack gates and then Eshmel and Hong Hua would solo Balor. You need to gun down healers as soon as possible. Hong Hua can block routes with Wandering Wall. The mission dragged so long I almost ran out of Heals. But you do need to take it slow and not overcommit. For the last phase, Hong Hua can Bolting a gate if you can't reach it by movement.

Good luck anyone who tries this!

Splitting off and deciding teams while your other units remain defending at home base was some of the most fun decision making I had with the game. Then the gate sections make it even more interesting. Sometimes your best team won’t make it in time to finish one of the main maps, so you have to make do with what you have. You can’t shove all your best units into a single team because of that, which makes decision making interesting

Cai and Theodora also have important gimmicks to help boost your team with mounts and battalions, so they should always split off to make the most of both boons from their routes

It does have some problems though. The second half of Part 3 has pretty lenient time windows, so you’ll usually have time to get your best units to the main maps on time. The final section for me had the map all cleared even before it started. 5 Teams don’t even feel impactful when everything is already done. I just waited for Lyrah and Balor to start the final dungeon/boss. Maybe make the time limits a little more strict but not too much as game overs from time outs are really frustrating

Overall this still feels like Fire Emblem to me as a unique overworld before the main maps. This is the most an MC has ever felt like a commander in the series and I hope it doesn’t get abandoned because it has a lot of potential

While the prospect of getting to play as Man (Myson) are certainly exciting enough on their own, I feel like we'll be missing half the point if he doesn't come with Bohr.

Do you think they'll do it? It's DLC so surely balance isn't THAT big of a factor right? And I mean, this type of 1 HP siege spell has been playable in the past.

Basically if they don't give us the ability to instantly cheese the final boss down to 1 HP (at least for a couple health bars) we riot.

So one of the key themes of Ursula's characterization is that she's afraid and resentful of her blood curse which is implied to eventually turn her into a crest beast (Obviously). This is even emphasized in her paired Eshmel ending where she entrusts them with ending her life, seemingly at the moment before she feels like she's gonna turn.

So my question then is why is this not mentioned at ALL in any of her other paired endings? Like not even hinted at or addressed in the slightest. If you were to just view the paired endings in isolation you'd think that she somehow only suffers this fate if she doesn't hook up with someone else. Hell, in Talimun's datamined ending for her they have FIVE kids. So you're telling me there's gonna be FIVE future crest beast cursed kids running around if they chance to inherit her bloodmark? At least in her other endings like Gaitz and Simon I could read it as "She just doesn't have children because really why would she want to force that fate onto anyone else after her." but lol CLEARLY not a problem for her.

I'm going to keep some of these vague to avoid spoilers, since I wanted this to be open to people who haven't finished the whole game yet.

Of the elements/features Fortune's Weave has, what would you most like to see come back in a future game, either in the same form or modified in some way? I have three of my own:

1. Experimenting with the setting's aesthetics. I know some people don't like the sci-fi aspects, but that's not what I'm talking about here (even though I do like them myself). I mean the Roman/Northern African setting. The architecture, the diversity, the clothes, a slightly different array of classes (some of which are just given flavorful new names, but others are actually new), a lack of steel weapons because it's the Iron Age, chariots and elephant riders, all of that. I like medieval fantasy as much as the next guy, but these very different aesthetics are a lot of fun. (I'd say the same thing about Fates, too--I enjoy Conquest more as a game, but the Hoshidan classes and their aesthetics are really cool.)
2. Orniuses! I love these stupid ostriches. They're a ton of fun to use, with their half-flyer movement letting them bound over some obstacles, and that movement also makes them fairly threatening enemies (especially when they're reinforcements on maps with a lot of terrain). If anything they might overshadow horses a bit too much: if they do come back (or something like them), maybe horses need a new feature of some sort so they can be as fun and unique as the chickens.
3. Part 3's structure. I'll be vague here, and I know this one's going to be controversial. But I think with less focus on RNG resource gathering and more focus on the tackling multiple maps with multiple squads while also defending your base aspect, this could be a lot of fun in a future Fire Emblem. The way part 3 is structured really portrays the scale of things. It's got some big issues with implementation in Fortune's Weave, but that just makes me want to see them learn from that and give it another try sometime.

What are some of your own things you'd like to see come back or be revisited at some point?

I will admit, I am absolutely guilty of this. I hated Raphael in 3H because of his too tight shirt and ugly face. I still don't like him to this day lol. Maybe it's petty. but I have to actually like a character for me to want to to use them, and design plays a part in that. Hortensia in Engage was another one, doesn't help she sounded annoying too. Maybe she's good but idc I couldn't stand her.

The 2nd round of discussions will be Ultand(Done) -> Loretta(done) -> Mikalea -> Nezha -> Lilian -> Simon -> Mu -> Dante

Mikaela is an ex-mercenary who came to Dagsion to fund her only daughter’s education. She was once a formidable warrior known as “Mikaela the Redblade”. She retired from being a mercenary to raise Mu, but left to find work to pay for an apprenticeship for Mu. However, after getting scammed she hung around Dagsion looking for work and encountered Dietrich who hired her to assist them in the heroic games.

Recruitment

Automatically joins Dietrich in chapter 3

Negotiation: Money

Growths

Base stats

Boons: Axes, Bows

Banes: Reason, Faith, Riding

Unique Abilities

Learned Abilities and Combat Arts

*Does not include universal skills and abilities

**Only includes known abilities

Supports

What do you think of Mikaela's character?

How do they perform as a unit in any of the routes?

How do you think they perform on Dietrich's route?

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It's not on the big master spell list, etc. spreadsheet.

The ones I know of from my playthrough are:

Lulu's spear from viewing Ludia & Seteth's B support.

Cai gets a ton of gauntlet skill rank from his A support with Anatolia, and Anatolia gets spear rank from the same.

Are there more?

I feel like Gaitz should have gotten a special mount from his support with Ursula. I wanted Fleabag the Horse

Hi ! As you have already seen, the game is getting datamined and without getting into details it looks like the 4 new paths will look like a lot the 4 paths in the base game with the free time segment. While I do like some of the free time stuff like exploring the world map I don't really want to grind support again with characters I already recruited in other paths and it seems like I am not the only one to feel the same.

So when the DLC was announced 2 weeks ago I was thinking about how the support levels are saved accross all parts even if you restart one path from scratch and how you can already grind supports with the DLC characters and potential recruitable characters. You can do it the old fashionned way with the theather and the meals but I think there is a better method in part 3. I tried it and it was actaully really fast, here's how I did it :

1) Go to part 3 and restart chapter 5 or 6 from scratch, you can do it for other chapters but these two chapters are better for that because you can sent out 5 teams of 8 characters for a total of 40.

2) Go to the world map and make 5 teams including the dlc characters of course and all the characters you want to grind support with.

3) Go to the closest feast spot in the map with all teams, it's really close, south west of dagsion.

4) With one team go to the closest dungeon north and just go fight some random dudes.

5) Get as close as possible to low HP and then retreat.

6) Go back to the feast spot with the injured team and start feasting with all five teams in the feast spot. But be stingy, only one ginji for everyone per feast so you can grind support for a lot of turns.

7) Repeat until everyone is fully healed. Redo from step 1 if you want to grind it further or with other characters.

With this method I got level 3 support with almost every characters in like 10 or 15 minutes without paying too much attention and doing something else like watching a youtube video. I am pretty sure this method is well known but I thought that maybe some people didn't think about already grinding supports with the DLC lords so here it is and hope this helps.