i'm replaying it now but i haven't gotten to any of that stuff yet. i remember it being mostly good, and edelgard is definitely portrayed as mostly good for her violent revolution against the church and status quo. but like half the fandom hates her with a burning passion, so maybe she's less good than i remember. i doubt it, but maybe i've just been poisoned by the fandom into thinking she's cooler than she is.
it might depend on the route you pick too, since i only ever picked the route where you get to attack and dethrone the pope. I know she does some fucked up shit without the player character on her team, but that's true of 2 of the other 3 leaders, and the game cares about claude so much less than rhea edelgard and dimitri, and they don't have the same excuses.
also i haven't played it since 2019, and i was way more of a lib back then, so take everything i just said with a grain of salt.
People believe Crests are blessings from the Goddess, that they are necessary to maintain order in Fódlan. But the people are wrong. Crests are to blame for this brutal, irrational world we live in.
If Crests are a metaphor for Divine Right, or better yet Capitalism, I'm fucking sold. Give me anime girl Robespierre.
crests are basically exclusive to nobility, they're mostly (though not exclusively) hereditary, and having them determines inheritance laws in many cases. like half the cast has trauma directly related to them, for reasons i'm sure you can figure out. she also wants to abolish the nobility iirc
i think that was how they designed edelgard
Interesting. How is the class politics in that game?
Fucking great.
i have reactivated edelgard :meow-bounce:
i'm replaying it now but i haven't gotten to any of that stuff yet. i remember it being mostly good, and edelgard is definitely portrayed as mostly good for her violent revolution against the church and status quo. but like half the fandom hates her with a burning passion, so maybe she's less good than i remember. i doubt it, but maybe i've just been poisoned by the fandom into thinking she's cooler than she is.
it might depend on the route you pick too, since i only ever picked the route where you get to attack and dethrone the pope. I know she does some fucked up shit without the player character on her team, but that's true of 2 of the other 3 leaders, and the game cares about claude so much less than rhea edelgard and dimitri, and they don't have the same excuses.
also i haven't played it since 2019, and i was way more of a lib back then, so take everything i just said with a grain of salt.
Yup, nailed it.
Her quote on the Fire Emblem wiki:
If Crests are a metaphor for Divine Right, or better yet Capitalism, I'm fucking sold. Give me anime girl Robespierre.
crests are basically exclusive to nobility, they're mostly (though not exclusively) hereditary, and having them determines inheritance laws in many cases. like half the cast has trauma directly related to them, for reasons i'm sure you can figure out. she also wants to abolish the nobility iirc