Chapter 6: Light Inheritors
Player phase music:
I'll be honest, I'm not too fond of this track, at least not after being spoiled by how awesome the music in chapters 2 through 5 were.
Anyway, we get right into the action because this is essentially the Gen 2 prologue, so there's no arena! Time to start seeing the fruits of some of my pairings. Particularly interested in how Delmud fares with Lex as his father, as well as experiencing the power of Lakche and Skasaha (I will probably misspell this guys name constantly) with Noish passing down his skills. Celice will be standard Celice, of course. And the most important thing of all is that the first boss we fight is...HAROLD. Finally, the man all those other portraits take their name from. Oh yeah, I do the save/reset trick to get Celice's leadership starts to work properly.
A few enemies die and then Lester, Delmud and Oifaye show up. Man, Oifaye has grown up a bit. Digging the mustache. Anyway, with Oifaye, Lakche and Skasaha having the critical skill, Lester having the Killer Bow, and Celice having it on his Silver Sword (which is continuing to build up kills as he murders dudes here), there's a lot of sudden death and destruction being wrought here. And we see some more of the "brilliant" FE4 AI as enemies charge into Oifaye as if that's going to lead to anything but their doom. And then Celice goes off to kill a bandit to save a village for later, and Oifaye uses his Armor Cutter to murder Harold and his guards. Alas, poor Harold. I knew him, Horatio. Then we get Julia. Hmm, memory loss, white hair and looks kind of similar to someone we've seen before, a Shaman, the holy blood screen shows major Narga and minor Fala. If the "plot twist" of her identity surprises you, please slap yourself. Lana hands her a Relive staff so she can be useful, and before long she'll have a nice weapon too.
Hooray, time to fight the axe fighters/axe knights. I'm going to recruit Johalva (the axe fighter) this time since I always recruit Johan, might as well try something different. Neither one is particularly important to have around anyway, they're just not nearly as awesome as their uncle Lex was. Then Fee and Arthur join. It's so sad to have Arthur show up and *not* have Holsety. I miss my usual pairing already and I haven't even done anything with him yet. Johan and his group die, Johalva gets recruited, everyone is happy and the mounted units head south while the foot squad waits for me to capture Isaac castle so Lana can start warping them down. Johan and Julia in particular want that warp, because the former wants to grab the Hero Axe and the latter needs to talk with Celice to get the awesome Rezire tome, since the health drain effect will make her arena life much easier (the alternative is Aura, which kind of sucks).
The long march south is not very eventful, Celice softens a lot of axe knights with the Wind Sword, Lester and Oifaye kill some, Delmud mainly just acts as a charisma-bot since having no range against hand axe users is kind of unhelpful. Fee goes bandit hunting and rescues villages, while Arthur heads south to take advantage of Danan being an idiot who didn't bother to pick up a 2 range weapon. Yay easy EXP and eventually easy boss kill! He just has to be careful to not provoke Schmidt, who is returning to the castle to get reinforcements. He comes back out and ends up standing right in the middle of my units, perfectly placed to let me set up a kill for Johalva. Yay!
Arthur keeps softening Danan and Fee eventually gets the kill. Julia grabs one last village, then Celice seizes. Yay, I win.
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Mistake you're making - overlooking the fact that we might not want to be saved.