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in my heart this is what alliance politics is like. doesn't matter if canonverse or modern au this is what it's like

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fódlan doesn't have the geneva conventions but i like to think that seiros actually did make some basic "even if it's a war don't cross these lines" guide back in the war of heroes

the catch being that it wasn't 100% kept back then and isn't kept afterwards either

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happy birthday to claude von riegan i hope somebody (not me) eventually writes an au fic starring you that leans heavily into ottomans for almyra's relationship to fódlan

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leonie might be a commoner but she actually has a lot of potential to get involved in political intrigue over the timeskip. and by that i mean she can intimidate, kill, and terrorize her friends' political opponents for them with plausible deniability

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quick summary of how the war of eagle and lion probably went

this is kinda fun maybe i should do a "mapping fódlan history" series or smth

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a visual for what the situation in fódlan might be like in the last few months of silver snow

aka "the purge: medieval fantasy edition"

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on the size of fódlan and whether trying to suddenly place the three countries under a single centralized rule where one of the factions call the shots would go well

(i don't think it would)

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more on the geographical logistics(?) of the war of eagle and lion and how the imperial troops even managed to make their way up to tailtean for the big battle in the first place

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you guys ever think about the implications behind nabateans softening the legacy of the people who swung around their families' corpses. i do

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in fire emblem three houses, you investigate riveting political scenarios such as "what if the vatican could give you nukes so you converted to catholicism and made it state religion"

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"wake up losers! we're going wrestling on horseback today"

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my hot take is that fódlan should either be treated as

1. shitty barbaric backwater with nothing good coming out of it or
2. some sort of exotic fantasy land

by the rest of the 3h world because that is objectively the funniest outcome of them being isolationist for 1000 years

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twsitd lying by omission rather than outright making shit up is a good idea i think

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personal hc about ethnic relations within almyra, which i hc is a multiethnic/multifaith country

i don't think it's a nice perfect pluralistic paradise, like there are still animosities and petty beef and especially bullying of newcomer groups by more established groups

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headcanons about duscur + pondering about the fact that pre-tragedy, they were apparently a visibly culturally distinct minority community who retained their autonomy and stayed on decent terms with the majority despite the military disadvantage (=no crests or relics)

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some say the new king of fódlan is still a demon from their mercenary days, but this is said mostly by the old nobility. commoner children and students in schools say the king smiles plenty when they come to visit and teach

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hc that in byleth's formal coronation ceremony, it's not a church official or a member of the nobility they kneel in front of to have the crown placed on their head, but rather a commoner child who was orphaned from the war

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hot take: saying "silver snow is status quo" basically assumes byleth has no power or agency or their own ideas about how to rule and will cave to pressures of the institution they allied with, yet the lords are somehow assumed to be immune from that

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fanwork for king fbyleth often put her in a white dress like rhea's or the enlightened one outfit, but i think it would go hard if her default monarch outfit was dress uniform style like these in the black/dark gray/pink scheme. and she still has the booty shorts+crazy pantyhose

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edelgard: stop taking all our best brightest minds we need them here not in the mountains. and stop sending them to help our biggest rival (faerghus)
rhea: instructions unclear helped another adrestian find a job in faerghus
edelgard: i'm declaring war

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alignment chart that perhaps explains why my fics are Like That

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favorite part of plotting for my Longfick™ is coming up with exactly how awful things get during the war tbh. there's no glory for any side, it's just opportunistic savagery and cruelty and backstabbing all the way down

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all my house dynamics are like heartwarming: these war criminals are genuinely friends even outside of their politically motivated partnerships

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leicester having proto-parliament = i get to do analysis like this

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like yeah lysithea is prickly because she has a lot of problems and little time. but also house ordelia always tended to raise their heirs to be aggressive and alert anyway because there is a big ass empire right across the river

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headcanon that ordelia was a house that rose to prominence through brutal warlord shit during crescent moon war, and that ordelia's leaders historically tended to hold fairly aggressive/militant attitudes because they are a border territory like daphnel and goneril

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plus leicester, whose titles are based on vibes

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headcanons on how titles work within each nation: adrestia and faerghus, whose titles are fairly easy to understand even if they're not one to one equivalents with another

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"they're talking about changing the political structure of leicester? what's going on"
"we call the knez the kral now and some commoners close to him get to attend roundtable meetings and have a say"
"ok so absolutely nothing changed"

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headcanon about leicester going from alliance to federation in gw: they change the name in standard fódlani but in their own language (approx equivalent of an irl south slavic language) it's actually the exact same word (zveza)