I feel like I'm spoiling myself on important Crossbell stuff just by being here! I just met Dieter Crois and his daughter in Zero, and they're talking about the Crois family and their alchemy activating this tower two years ago, so I guess I should expect a heel turn at some point! Also, uh, it didn't seem like Elie had giant knockers in Trails From Zero to me, and yet...! I also kinda wondered if her name was pronounced "ee-lee" since there was only one L, but I guess not!
Hey there, Claire. It's so wild seeing all these subseries intermingling like this. Oh nice, a reference to Weissman there by Black Alberich, or Alberich of the Black Demise as he's known now, apparently! Oh hey, there's a humongous spoiler for Crossbell, LOL. Mariabell Crois is the Third Anguis of Ouroboros and took Weissman's place, huh? I knew about KeA Bannings, the Zero Child, from Cold Steel III, but this is a new one! If they mentioned her in CS3 at all, it wouldn't have registered, I guess.
(spoilers for Ao no Kiseki and CS4 but you're fine to read if you've only gotten to where Leon is in CS4) To be fair, I'm pretty sure most of this is spoiled in past games also! Just in ways that only really stand out if you already know the characters. I think you can read about Dieter Crois in newspapers in Cold Steel 2 and I remember some detail on things other than KeA being given in CS3 also. Not sure if Mariabell's name is ever mentioned, but yeah.
Also in you want a bit more context on the thing in the second paragraph I quoted then click the following, but if you don't want any extra information on Ao then don't. (Ao no Kiseki spoilers) Bell is actually not in Ouroboros during the events of the Crossbell arc--there is scheming going but she's not a part of the organization. She's basically invited to join the society at the end of Azure.
Anyway uh I really liked the prologue. Renne was a bit underwhelming which was unfortunate because I was excited for her. It was great to play as Lloyd, Estelle, and Joshua again though. Also I have absolutely no idea why these 3 specific antagonists were gathered at the top of this tower just waiting for us but whatever it was a really cool boss fight. ---
I didn't do guru this year but azuarc can be in my sig anyways.