Took care of those paralogues I mentioned, but that's it. Stopped on the mission day.
Paralogue (Marianne): This took an inordinate amount of time that surprised even me, entirely because of my self-imposed objective - as always - of defeating every enemy and breaking all monster armor. The latter actually required some thought at times because my team is getting too strong! There were like a billion monsters on this stage too so you can't just rely on Gambits to do it. For real though there was probably like... 15ish monsters + the boss? It's fog of war too so that's why the count isn't exact. At least my thoroughness was rewarded because there were two of them hanging in the upper left corner and one had a stat booster. This paralogue also set the unintentional theme of the day of "talking monsters" and the intriguing "Children of the Goddess" faction that the phantom soldiers belonged to. The boss monster was the "11th" Elite who was blacklisted from history after he turned into a monster and killed a lot of people and the origin of Marianne's crest. Had Marianne finish him for character reasons and she got a relic sword out of it.
Paralogue (Petra/Bernadetta): Huh, with the church as the enemy here I wonder if this isn't available if you side with them way back when or if the paralogue simply changes the enemy (presumably to the Empire.) This was a pretty simple mission but it had the added fun of having a bunch of reinforcements, including Catherine, pop up when Petra got near the destination point. I wonder if they still come if you rout without her nearing it. I only had her near there because I was executing a strategy that had Wyvern Rider Edelgard fly in there to handle the sole archer so she could wreck the rest of them by herself, but bringing Petra to dance was close enough apparently. Unfortunately Catherine didn't have any unique dialogue with Byleth, Edelgard, or Shamir which struck me as odd but oh well.
Paralogue (Leonie/Linhardt): the student debt crisis comes to fodlan. Odd pairing but it made sense in the end. Really interesting though was how Edelgard and Hubert were unavailable for deployment here because Linhardt said not to tell them about this mission because it involved a place related to the church. But I mean... we were basically looting so I think they'd have been onboard! Our opponent was another talking monster in fog of war. Split the party and advanced. This boss was the tankiest one yet. I thought he could regen his barriers even after they were destroyed but I think what happened was I was dumb and because he's a 3x3 unit I didn't fully break the central one the first time. Armor broke him the second time (all on his final health bar because this dude is a tank) and got items so yeah. Got a sacred bow from him and Linhardt all but stated he was one of the Saints of the church. Wonder how that happened, at least with Hero Relics you can make the case that there's precedent (although the guy had a Crest so who knows) but here? idk. This also was the site of my first "true" Fire Emblem experience with Felix getting killed by a 1% crit (off a 50% hit.) At least there's Divine Pulse in this game. >_> ---
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