Discussion for Fire Emblem: The Great Divide

Low 100s would make Sonja appear to be around 16 or 17. 300s would make Bastien appear to be in his 30s, though you could stretch it to say early 40s, and explain it as him having a really hard life.

Also, my character would be around the same age as Bastien then... Shared backstory maybe?

If she fights in human form, you could just choose one of the classes. Or, if she flies in human form (can they?), she could be a "Pegasus Knight".

Have everyone say hi in FT, Percifen. 's like a minute to write, tops. So I can continue.

And what would his role in the story be?  How would the revolution happening around him affect him?  Would he run off to seek the rebel army?  Keeping hanging around the beorc mage/chemists he's probably been working with?

Is he a noble or low-borne?  Perhaps he was noble and lost his holdings in a duel?

So it's a bit different from a normal heron, yes? It'll need a slightly different name. Like Heron Warrior instead of Heron Laguz. Then you need to figure out how the stats would be different, make a class description, decide what weapons it'll use, skills, and a promotion class, which'll need all the same.

Man, that sounds like a ton.

To clarify, what happens in Solgen, stays in Solgen.  The dragons in Solgen are entirely distinct from the dragons of the dragon nation.  The dragon king being tossed out had no effect on Dragon Nation.  I should make names for all these nations...

Hm...  Maybe have something like Solgen originally being founded as an experiment centuries ago, with representatives from each of the nations sent to see if they could live together.  And it being super successful.  Uh... let me think about that one a bit more.

ANYWAY.

Dueling.  Duels are official, ceremonious occasions.  A lower-ranked noble may challenge a higher-ranked noble for their position, or challenge an equally-ranked noble to... subjugate them, put them under their influence.  Of course these nobles can try to break out of that rule.  Higher-ranked nobles don't necessarily have to accept every challenge that comes their way, but their reputation will be severely degraded.  It's considered acceptable to refuse a duel from someone far below you on the totem pole, though.  Most of the highest-ranked officials are lions and dragons, with a few hawks and wolves, and only a handful of taguel, phoenixes, and crows.

As (traditionally) non-combatants, herons are exempt from dueling rules, though they also don't occupy the same positions.  Each region of Solgen, duchy or larger, has a heron adviser tied to it.  Replacement of herons is done by making a request of a special council of herons located in the capital city.

Pharmacist as a character background's fine. Someone has to make elixers and whatnot. By the way, presumably blacksmiths double as tome-makers. Basing that entirely on the fact smiths can upgrade tomes, and the smith in RD can produce tomes for you during the Ashera Crisis. Which makes me think merchants probably make items and staves, in which case your tutor wouldn't necessarily have to be a mage. Still more likely a beorc, but I'm... relatively sure Lethe says something about laguz herb-usage at some point. Not 100% on that, not looking it up at this time of night. So feasibly a laguz tutor, most likely beorc, and quite possibly a mage.

Pharmacist as a combat class. Not so fine. Weaponized potions, not really a thing. Except mines. Which are... mines. Not exactly the drop-bombs you seem to be describing. Something like a bow would be better, possibly with poisoned arrows. Or maybe even make him a ballista rider.

Mines are fine as a trap, but not so much as thrown weapon. As for balancing weaponized potions... ugh. Let me think about it more. I can't think of a single precedent. The closest thing I can think of was throwing a bunch of oil on an army walking through a canyon and setting it on fire.

It's more of a "chemical warfare... unnnnngh..." thing than a gameplay/balance thing. One of those things I'm not sure I want to touch with a 10-foot pole.   Sure, throwing a meteor at someone half a mile away's fine because fantasy and magic.But throwing phosphorus gas at them's an entirely different animal.

Heh heh.  Animal.