Can you beat Fire Emblem Three Houses without committing a war crime?

I fell into a river and have been asleep for the last five years, but worry not, I've now returned to end all Three Houses discourse once and for all.
Music used:
"Boots on the Ground" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Fódlan Winds [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Colorless World" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"The Long Road [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Blood and Iron [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"The Verge of Death [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Between Heaven and Earth [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"The Ashen Demon [Embers]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Abyss [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"The Ashen Demon [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"The Ashen Demon [Finale]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Holy Ground [Embers]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Tearing Through Heaven [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Outskirt Stand" from Pokémon Colosseum
"Roar of Dominion [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Chasing Daybreak [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Paths That Will Never Cross [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Darkness [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Slay or Be Slain [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Like a Flash of Lightning [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Funeral of Flowers (Part I) [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
"Melody of Clarity (Part II) [Inferno]" from Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

[@sebastianooo6910]

is it even still a fire emblem game if nobody commits a single war crime?

[@Echoes-dz2ur]

Engage ?

[@RubyGayming]

@Echoes-dz2ur Child soldiers, Jean is like 10 I believe.

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

​@@RubyGaymingand killing unarmed medics (healers)

[@CharlotteNarukami]

Nope,

[@Toastand_egg]

Ezh4 or l

[@skeletor2907]

Alright time for fire emblem three houses but with as many war crimes as possible challenge

[@viviblue7277]

So as many poison weapons as possible?

[@endikaaspeurrutia1013]

​@@viviblue7277 and fire magic

[@kinga6347]

Excelblem: Allow me to introduce myself

[@skeletor2907]

@@viviblue7277 considering the series in question I think that would be the least "war crimey" thing we can do lmao 💀

[@viviblue7277]

@@kinga6347 sacrificing soldiers for nothing isn’t a war crime it’s just…a unique strategy.

[@codytoeung5089]

The moment when there’s no loopholes to justify attacking rampaging villagers in Remire Village despite how very inhumane the actual experimentation is

[@The_Juice14]

im pretty sure they would be allowed to attack them if i was informed right. (big if in the misinformation age)

[@jwil4286]

If they attack you first, you can easily claim self-defense.

[@EuphemiaRem]

The units are marked as hostiles by the game and will attack you without provocation; I can't think of a more clear-cut case that they are participating in hostilites and therefore no longer civilians. Doesn't matter if they were compelled; It's legal to attack child soldiers, militias, and conscripts in the course of normal warfare.

[@jwil4286]

@@EuphemiaRem exactly! and (unless you respond excessively) self-defense usually wins out

[@boomkruncher325zzshred5]

@@jwil4286I suppose the question of what is “excessive” becomes the split hair, there. Rioters that charge at soldiers with makeshift weaponry are not mercilessly gunned down in an indiscriminate hail of gunfire, for example, but they ARE subdued with nonlethal tactics, weaponry and armor. Does Three Houses allow for nonlethal takedowns of combatants? If not… well shite. Come to think of it, the villagers were clearly coerced into attacking the soldiers (literally being turned “berserk”). In this case, they would be victims of the conflict, and not consciously taking part in the war. Therefore, they would not be combatants by definition, because they did not choose to fight that battle; the ones who turned them berserk would be the actual combatants.

[@Grima1805]

i think of them more of as geneva suggestion

[@Ian46434]

I like to think of it as a Geneva checklist.

[@risacooper]

Guidelines

[@juanjotur114]

You mean the To-do list

[@corentincoupe4997]

We need a Geneva bingo card and see who completes theirs first :D

[@aubarlowe]

i see we found another Chuckles fan here

[@Stormthorn67]

Dorothea and Ferdinand aren't being COMPELLED to battle with the empire as the statute defined the element of compulsion as "coerced one or more persons, by act or threat." They return to service as foreign volunteer forces after having acted as resistance fighters in the time skip. Technically all the former black eagles are foreign volunteer forces.

[@raikaria3090]

Yeah, compulsion is forceing. If they volunteer...

[@matmil5]

Yeah nah it is Compulsion. And especially apparent for Petra, who is there as a political hostage to begin with 💀

[@Stormthorn67]

@matmil5 Petra is compelled to serve the /black eagles/ under their prior leader. You don't force her to return to service when you launch the resistance campaign.

[@AvelineMelena]

Very similar to what the Foreign Legion is in France

[@matmil5]

@@Stormthorn67 So, if someone develops a stockholm syndrome its not compulsion, got it chief

[@ddayshama]

international law student here, that was amazing ! you were more cautious than people usually are when taking the geneva conventions into account so props to you. very impressed

[@thod-thod]

Dimitri using Atrocity: Whaaaaaa nooooooo war crimes? What war crimes? I've never seem a war crime around here!

[@hectorhernandezaleman3836]

As brutal and overkill of an attack as Atrocity is, I don't think it would count as a war crime, since it doesn't prolong pain, quite the contrary in fact. It would be akin to blowing a guy up with a granade.

[@thod-thod]

@@hectorhernandezaleman3836 I’m more thinking about the name

[@hectorhernandezaleman3836]

@@thod-thod Oh, then yes, absolutely.

[@callaidk]

Just to mention the flèche thing isn’t applicable. She joins the war effort directly before the battle and latterly the attack does count as being a combatant.

[@serpifeu5836]

but she's a child soldier, so doesn't she need to be protected even if she's clearly with the enemy? though then still it's just self-defense

[@noelleabc8725]

i think Dimitri would still count as a warcriminal due to the no quarter thing and torturing an enemy genereal (Randolph)

[@ericquiabazza2608]

The "no quarter" is stipulated because it can imply "no prisoners" as is another stipulation. Obiously any sane peron will nevee trial this because is inane to investigate where any person surrender correctly or any other war crime implemented. Its also used to cover civilians, but this is a clear battlefield, so no participant cant be inbetween.

[@direomicron9423]

⁠@@noelleabc8725doesn’t byleth kill Randolph before Dimitri can torture him

[@dragonslibrary9207]

@@serpifeu5836 attacking child soldiers is not a war crime, but making use of them is afaik.

[@QueenAleenaFan]

To be clear the villagers picking up weapons and attacking other villagers probably makes those villagers out of the bounds of the rules of war, since you'd have to let villagers die by inaction (when you could take action) to save them.

[@Quandry1]

Also of important note is that if they pick up weapons and they attack your military force and your military force is caused to defend itself from them to the point of lethality puts them out of bounds of that particular clause as well. So if you defend and they attack you and that results in their injury or death that is not a war crime committed by you.

[@Error403HRD]

Love how Seteth keeps suggesting war crimes. No regret on always marrying him 😂

[@adrianrandom3448]

Wish M Byleth could marry him 😔, sometimes you just want a War Crime committing husband...

[@GRK_21387]

wait i thought u couldn't marry seteth cause he already is married and has a daughter(even tho his wife died)

[@Error403HRD]

@GRK_21387 Well don't I have news for you! Seteth can only marry F byleth though unfortunately :( and it IS actual romance, not the weird brother/family things some of the others do

[@GRK_21387]

@@Error403HRD arent they related as well? like i think seteth is related to rhea and rhea is kinda the daughter of byleth but also the grandmother of byleth(rhea did "make" sitri) as well. but tbf that isn't as weird as marrying rhea herself

[@Hold_it]

​@@GRK_21387Seteth and Flayn, who both can marry Byleth, are a bit tricky, since blood relation between all of them is a bit ambiguous and from what i have seen, people have different opinions about how much they are all related to each other. Biggest question here is, how much of Sothis is in Byleth. They are not literally her and not even a reincarnation or something similar. In a sense Byleth is still there own person. If we are only looking at DNA, they just got a heart transplation of Sothis and I normally wouldn't count organ or blood donations as reason for incest. Now the whole Byleth and Sothis fusion has also be taken to account. I don't know if there is an official statement about what exactly happened, but I have seen people Interpret it as more as fusion of Sothis's power that she lends Byleth, then them becoming one as a person. Still weird, especially while romancing Rhea, because her whole plan was to make them her mother and in turn she tries to see her in them. With Sethet and Flayn at least, they first of all didn't know about in and secondly they seem to see Byleth as their own identity and not Sothis. On the others site i have seen the argument that people don't see Rhea as her grandmother, since Sitri is not related by blood to her. In my eyes it still counts since she created her and if i for example adopted a child or created a Frankenstein creation, i would see me as a parental role, even If we technically don't share DNA. Which makes romancing Rhea weird for me, but Seteth and Flayn also didn't know about the whole Sitri thing (I think). At least we see Seteth beeing left in the dark by Rhea and not getting answers, after He suspected that she did something to Byleth. He also didn't seem to know Jeralt before he came back to the Academy with Byleth. Which is reason to suspect that he might even never met Sitri. Reason why i personally find this important is, that first while he is blood related to Rhea in a sense, he isn't to Sitri and secondly he also didn't have really a familiar relationship with her. (For example beeing her uncle or however else he is related to Rhea). So yeah, relation between them depends mostly in how you Interpret Byleth as Sothis. Also about Seteth beeing married once, his wife died thousand or more years ago, so him remarring shouldn't be the Problem.

[@bificommander7472]

"We figured they were more like guidelines."

[@mysteriouscartoonlover5674]

Honestly I was surprised that you were able to complete the game without committing any war crimes, great job!

[@viviblue7277]

I mean Seteth did declare no quarter… but no one heard him say that so I guess we ignore it. Agreed MCL a very surprising and impressive run.

[@BluShiGuy]

Aint no way he is being law abiding in war crime simulator 56

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Makes sense that it's War Crime simulator though. It's like the Middle Ages in this game meanwhile the Geneva Convention happened in the Late 19th Century

[@somederp8915]

Okay, Verdant Wind Analysis Time: Chapter 13: Sane as Silver Snow, just different students. Chapter 14: Same as Silver Snow, including blocking the Swordmaster to prevent the War Crime. Chapter 15: Same as Silver Snow. Chapter 16: Same as Silver Snow. It should be noted that Acheron used to be a lesser Alliance Noble before joining the Empire, so it would be the best if Geneva just kills him and his knights to not have countrymen fight fellow countrymen, even if only former. Chapter 17: One unique chapter, shifting every following chapter by 1. There is a Fire Bombing of the central ballista, but it's done by EDELGARD, not Claude. (+1 enemy War Crime) Chapter 18: Same as Chapter 18 from Silver Snow, however in the cutscene it shows Claude with parts of the Army IN YELLOW UNIFORMS! 100% War Crime Free, unless you somehow want to mark the involvement of a foraign power as one somehow... Chapter 19: Same as Chapter 18 of Silver Snow. Chapter 20: Same as Chapter 19 of Silver Snow. Chapter 21: Same as Chapter 20 of Silver Snow. Chapter 22: The other of only 2 chapters that are different between Silver Snow and Golden Deer. You even no longer need to apply any War Crime Rules, as all enemies are Agarthian Remnants and it basically becomes an EASIER final Mission than Silver Snow. Child Soilder Rulings: Golden Deer At the start of the game, Leonie, Hilda and Lorenz are over 18. For the Students that are 17, the birthdays are: 18.5 Raphael (Chapter 2) 24.7 Claude (Chapter 4) 23.11 Marianne (Chapter 8) 14.3 Ignatz (Chapter 12) Lysithea being 15 (turns 16 by chapter 11) means she has to wait till post Timeskip to be used if at all. Edit: I petition to release Claude from War Criminal Jail!

[@michaell8000]

he uses poison unfortunately even if it is as a joke rather than a weapon considering the fact that the monastery is a military location for multiple nations poisoning his fellow students is a warcrime.

[@danelo13]

@@michaell8000 He Jokes about it Just like how Seteth Jokes About Giving no Quarter every chapter.

[@shadoukoa5045]

At the start of the battle for Fort Merceus they may be in yellow, but the nuke scene at the end still contains Byleth with soldiers in Imperial Uniforms that are clearly on Byleths side. And the point still is that Byleth is responsible for everyone. Also, just because we don't see the Alliance Troops in Imperial Uniform doesn't mean they didn't stick to the plan off cam.

[@danelo13]

@@shadoukoa5045 I think that's the same cutscene on both sides. So you could argue that it's an unavoidable crime

[@xRendakx]

​@@danelo13 oh my god do you think they wrote the Alliance using disguises so that cutscene could pull double duty for the routes That'd be SO funny

[@starseeker3002]

16:36 Flayn: but, but im actually over 1,000 years old Lawyer: and it says here the age of majority for manaketes is 5,000. You are legally still a child.

[@Demonboy007]

If we're going by the game code itself, she's actually 17. CHECKMATE, GENEVA!

[@nonamepasserbya6658]

@@Demonboy007 HELL YEAH

[@dnafunnymoments2069]

Arguably, you can beat any path without committing war crimes, if you win in the end, but I guess its good to know you can beat white and yellow routes with a clear-ish conscience.

[@weepingdalek2568]

History is written by the winners after all

[@littlekuribohimposte]

Yellow still kinda questionable because claude still poisoning people

[@ejharris8667]

@@littlekuribohimposte Does he ever deploy poison in combat? I'm not recalling an instance of that.

[@littlekuribohimposte]

@@ejharris8667 I’d need to go back and play Three Houses, and given the Academy phase is boring AF, I probably never will

[@FlameQwert]

​@@weepingdalek2568why is it then when anyone says that they're almost always mad their psycho murder empire lost. Seriously it's always used in the context of fucking world war 2 which is about as clear cut of a moral war as you can get, or the american civil war which a) has a losing side whose entire existence was to prolong slavery and b) has a losing side that very much created the most successful post war disinformation PR campaign to make itself sound good and justified

[@coltinsanders4695]

I love the idea that if you included Flayn, you would like have to display a sign in front of her saying “not a war crime she’s a 1000 year old dragon”

[@sleepysera]

I thought we as a society decided that the "I swear, officer, this loli is actually 1000 year old" excuse isn't accepted 😂

[@Estarile]

​@@sleepyseradepends, is there a narrative reason beyond "well shes 1k, lets make her look like a kid for fanservice?"

[@DisplayThisOkay]

@@Estarile Yeah that's the biggest issue with 1000 year loli. Since they're always just fiction people the topic shifts to "why did the creators make this anicent being look like a preteen girl?"

[@Estarile]

@@DisplayThisOkay honestly, I think Dance in the Vampire Bund (+sequels) is the only series that did anything interesting with it. Mainly because it was an actual plot point that she looked so young and when she gets the opportunity to grow up she jumps on that.

[@johncameron1935]

"The reason I'm not a child soldier." 1.) I'm a dragon. 2.) I ate the last prosecutor who asked.

[@calebpetrillo6916]

Um, I think that it should be pointed out the choosing to use any of the blue lions will lead to a problem while still in the academy arc, which is that lord Lonato is a lord of their homeland which isn’t technically a civil uprising until demtri goes to fight him, which only happens in the blue lions route after being told to be the church, which is quite literally compelling a nationals to take part in hostile action against their own country, which means that slyven wouldn’t have been able to take part. It’s a point that you don’t bring in this segment and slyven can be seen here 9:51. I just thought I bring it up since there are multiple cases in which you took a rule that you could have avoided to make things easier such as limiting to 18 years old rather than 15, and not using Flayn since she looks like a child.

[@dannylopez5976]

Would that still apply? I don't recall, but affiliations change if the support is high enough. So Sylvain's banner for Blue lions would turn to the Black eagles banner.

[@ejharris8667]

So, one question here that is never really answered is whether the Church of Seiros is a soveriegn subject of international law, or if the Monastery and the Central Church are legally in a country but treated as semi-autonomous or something. Even leaving that aside, I don't think the prohibition applies - they voluntarily joined the Church's military operations and weren't conscripted to fight, so where's the compulsion?

[@ThePsh07]

What is slyven?

[@jwil4286]

I think Garreg Mach is like Vatican City in our own world

[@joeyb5399]

​@@ThePsh07I think they're trying to say Sylvain lol

[@l_ark8504]

Excellent video! I enjoyed how much you went into detail and explained each instance of a potential violation. This deserves more interaction!!

[@TheOneandAli]

Thank you!

[@danieladamczyk4024]

Souls have no hit Shooters have speedruns Platformers have coin less We tacticians have a convent.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

And true madlads have all of the above AT ONCE

[@honeykrisp16]

Wait hold on fleich isnt a civilian shes an empire soldier,she just disguises herself to avenge her brother

[@Oscar_Milde]

Even if she was a civilian, she's still a would be assassin struck down mid-attempt. Byleth responded with appropriate force to contain an imminent threat to life. The only crimes here are the ones Fleche herself committed.

[@ejharris8667]

@@Oscar_Milde Well, that and executing a prisoner of war.

[@akaSolomon21]

That was an awesome video! I'd love to see this with other FE games too (or at least a "minimum crime counter" for the games where you can't avoid it due to unavoidable story reasons).

[@SuperSayianWarrior]

A better question becomes which FE game has the most War Crimes which being honest and slightly bias I believe to be Awakening or Fates ESPECIALLY Conquest on Fates

[@hillnor6812]

Flayn should be allowed to participate, not because of her age, but because the "child soldier" thing only applies to humans, which she is not.

[@sponge1234ify]

This implies Geneva have let a squad of foals or saplings alike as legal,

[@brolytriplethreat]

I mean, as far as Byleth is told for much of things, she _is_ human. Her being secretly a dragon has no bearing on things if Byleth wasn't made privy to that information _before_ deploying her onto the battlefield.

[@hillnor6812]

@@brolytriplethreat You're right, it wouldn't be a war crime, but she can't be used as Byleth wouldn't know it isn't.

[@sleepysera]

Wait, is it actually stated in the text that it only applies to humans? So we'll have to inevitably rewrite it in the future when sufficiently advanced AI gets recognized as people, or we run into aliens? x)

[@hillnor6812]

@@sleepysera I don't know if it's explicitly stated that it's only humans, but if it's not the case, then you can't use dogs at all in war for example, the few that live to 18 will be too old to be useful.

[@Treebohr]

The post battle conversation event after the Great Bridge of Myrddin shows Byleth suggesting to Seteth that they use disguises to get into Fort Merceus. And while we're excusing the disguises because they're removed before combat, the same thing happens in Verdant Wind.

[@justinokraski3796]

Can’t that be considered espionage

[@viviblue7277]

Flayn being benched despite being hundreds of years old and provably so sure is a decision.

[@zone0ftruth]

we know that, but does byleth? 🤔 not when she’s recruited at least

[@TheWizardMus]

You try telling that government secret to the court

[@SilverHairedFreak25]

"hundreds of years old" is still a child by Manakete/Nabatean standards. They live longer and thus age & mature slower than humans.

[@SapphicSara]

@@SilverHairedFreak25 There are people who have her crest, seems like she passed it on.

[@chamomilejigsaw957]

​@@SapphicSara arguably seteth and flayn were lying to hide their descendants, but I Believe that they didn't have kids, and that those people with their crests are instead descendants of people who were given a blood transfusion, much like with Jeralt and Yuri. We know that the Difference that made Byleth a legitimate Sothis carrier was that they were a combination of a homunculus made from Rhea's blood and a human who had been infused with Rhea's blood. Plus I really Flayn would've married and had kids with her great however many times grandson (linhardt) and great however many times nephew (Ferdinand). I know it's incest emblem but I have to believe. Plus seteth is just SO overprotective of Flayn, who went into a coma while young and only recently awoke, I really doubt she's had kids as she's so enamored by the idea of innocent romance. Plus Seteth is still mourning his wife 1000 years later, and only remarries after the war (outside of his paired ending with Flayn). This says to me that he was focused on raising/protecting her, and didn't want to have another relationship while she was dependent on him.

[@richardlee3679]

I feel that the Blue Lions is still possible! Fleche is an enemy combatant and a card carrying member of the Imperial Army when she attacks Dimitri and while Dimitri technically does give the 'Kill every last one of them' command, I'd argue that at that point, he's more of a (homicidal) figurehead than a leader. Byleth and Gustave are the ones in charge of the actual running of the army at that point, and they can choose to ignore Dimitri - the actual mission objective is to defeat the enemy commanders rather than to rout everyone, suggesting that no one in Faerghus Army who's not insane actually has any intention of giving no quarter. I know Dimitri is the king, but I'd argue that Byleth can't be accountable for the rantings of a crazy person who DOES still listen to her commands regarding not killing everyone if gameplay is taken into account.

[@Nitosa]

What about what he did to Rudolph (aka torture).

[@ericquiabazza2608]

Any civilian entering in combat with soldiers, withouth soldier inciting the interaction, become clacified as a rougue unit. This can join a faction oficially. Until so they are concider soldier WITHOUTH ANY RIGHTS. As they are not with a faction surremder is not concider as long anything else I know as it come up while talking about ukrain and civilian joining forces in the field withouth being enlisted.

[@calebpetrillo6916]

And the fact you can’t use any of them against lord lonato, and even then they are actively told to fight him by the church, which as so mind you includes the adopted son of said lord, Ash. (Adding on after the fact, I guess you could potentially get Ash killed before this point so that your byleth doesn’t have that talk with him.)

[@onboro7707]

If Dimitri is under Byleth's lead, then certainly as the king of a nation Byleth would have to be held responsible for his declaration, regardless of his mental state. Regardless, Blue Lions should still be impossible because Dimitri mentions torturing several enemy soldiers of the Empire after the timeskip, and he then goes on to torture Randolph, an enemy general, which are both war crimes. This is followed up by Byleth then beheading Randolph, which is killing a Prisoner of War, which is also a war crime.

[@thediethrower1803]

Following a homocidal figurehead who casually talks about warcrimes because "he's not really a leader" is not exactly going to fly in the war tribunal mate. It's "just following orders" level not gunna fly even. Additonally Dimitri ADMITS to you about his constant warcrimin during your nap. A truely warcrimeless Byleth would send him to jail, not support him in rebuilding his Kingdom.

[@Tolly7249]

I really liked this video! You explained everything in a very easy to understand way and put a huge amount of thought into how you'd work around the story trying to stop you.

[@radiobee2876]

So glad I found this! Great editing, writing, and an interesting challenge! Hope you get more visibility, you did a great job!

[@MamaTrixxieAsmr]

the one villager ending his turn standing in fire is just my mental state in the middle of a challenge run

[@megandeng25]

Thank you for making this! I really enjoyed watching it and I also learned a lot about military law

[@GildasDraconis]

I can't imagine the amount of time, energy and dedication that this video took, but boy did it pay off! What a fantastic run concept, brilliantly researched and so informative. Would love to see more of this kind of run in future. Thank you for all the effort!

[@Tslayer00]

A top notch video, good editing, this deserves more view with the work put in.

[@denjidenji9162]

I have never played a Fire Emblem before (clicked cause I'm a fan of videogame challenges) and honestly the way the video presents information is so clear and concise I felt like I understood everything I needed to. Great vid

[@viviblue7277]

Prohibiting skirmishes feels silly when it’s almost strictly more advantageous to spend your weekend growing stat boosters.

[@jvever4904]

I love this idea! It's a miracle you could complete this challenge, so hats off to you!

[@waddledeeart6019]

This video is a work of ART, and a challenge to not nick myself cutting oranges while listening to it, and running on zero hours of sleep- Had a weekend that could have been nicer. As they say, laughter is the best medicine, and this had me cackling. Props to you! This should be a speedrun- 😂 I wonder if the other routes can also be categories, just with the clarification of..."As little war crimes as possible". Since it doesn't seem doable to do none at all.

[@MysteryMedia2001]

This was a wonderful video. I thoroughly enjoyed it

[@WaiGee_]

Happy to see 3houses still being played and getting views on KZbin, been hungry for more 3h content

[@jessicahampton6646]

Dude keep up the good work. This was a good video and I'm hopeful for future videos being as good!

[@nigini6092]

Excellent video! Its a war crime that you don't have more subs

[@lefthandedscout9923]

35:15 Edelgard (well, probably Hubert, actually, considering he's the one that handles the nasty parts of the work and would probably make a decent lawyer) could actually realistically defend this accusation at tribunal saying the Kingdom Army which allies itself with the Church of Seiros through thick and thin uses Crest Stones in their vaults in the Tailtean Plains map on Crimson Flower to voluntarily transform into Demonic Beasts, which is both a war crime and a tactic of war, meaning she could be in the right to destroy or remove the Crest Stones from them to ensure this doesn't happen. When it turns out the Crest Stones are actually the hearts of a sacred race of divine dragons, things get muddied a bit, and I think it could also be argued that she's pillaging a sacred place, which is definitely a no-no, but just thought I'd add that.

[@nataliecoronado4206]

I personally consider the Empire's raid to be graverobbing, since the tomb's primary function is to be a resting place for the dragons who were robbed of their hearts to create the Crest Stones. It's called the Holy Tomb, not the Holy Weapon's Vault.

[@RichardOnADragon]

@@nataliecoronado4206 And yet Rhea is using those same stones to feed to Cardinals and power her Church Golems. Honestly the Nabteans just seem to have this weird cultural thing where they treat graves as their weapon stashes when convenient for them, while demanding humans keep their hands off; see the SotC, Seteth's wife, the Holy Tomb.

[@nataliecoronado4206]

@@RichardOnADragon Rhea wasn't using the crest stones to give to the Cardinals or power the Golems, she was using her own blood. She only let Byleth have the Sword of the Creator because them being able to use it meant they were Sothis's host. And the spear Seteth gets after visiting his wife's grave is literally just the weapon he used during the war, no blood magic or anything.

[@RichardOnADragon]

@@nataliecoronado4206 Seteth says the Cardinals were given power both through Rhea's blood and through consuming fragments of Crest Stones; "White beasts... Are they the ones Rhea shared her blood and stones with?"/"In this rite, one pledges to serve the goddess and in return, receives a Crest Stone fragment and blood." The Church Golems are also all shown to be powered by a Crest Stone at the center once their armour is broken, and there's only one place Rhea would have had the dozen-odd Crest Stones to create all those golems. The spear doesn't have to be blood magic, the mere fact that Seteth sees no problem opening the grave to take the weapons stored there means that it is, effectively, a supply dump for him.

[@nataliecoronado4206]

@@RichardOnADragon I actually didn't know that the Golems have a crest stone in them if you break their armor. They appear so rarely that I guess I never noticed it. Though, it is possible the Golems are actually Agarthan in origin and the Church simply repurposed them. As for Seteth, I would hardly call him taking the spear he buried with his wife as treating her grave like a supply depot. The point of that paralogue was to remind him that he can't keep clinging to the past forever, and that blaming himself for his wife's death and his daughter's injury won't change anything. Him taking the spear was supposed to represent him finally moving forward. Calling the location of that paralogue "Seteth's supply dump" is in really bad faith.

[@xacmashe3852]

Man it feels weird to be watching three houses footage again. It's only been a couple years but it makes me feel "nostalgic" for when the game first came out. Sitting in my college dorm and watching a playthrough of Edelgard's route that someone who got the game early posted.

[@jordanhough8790]

I have watched a lot of challenge videos over the years and this one is by far the most compelling and interesting.

[@illialidur8244]

The best 3 Houses war crimes video imo. Very well done!

[@Blackacre438]

49:00 does those mean Claude’s actually in the clear?

[@TheOneandAli]

Of the three house leaders, he's definitely got the best argument for it, yeah!

[@Blackacre438]

@@TheOneandAli just get him out of his poison fixation and we’re solid!

[@foureyesisafish7968]

@@Blackacre438 i mean I don't think he ever actually uses it so we're good all around.

[@vivil2533]

​​@@foureyesisafish7968yeah, just like how Seteth was talking about using fire on the invading force, but he was just joking about that ... right, random green swordmaster?

[@solomonpnq]

Your martial prowess is as informed as it is respectable, soldier! Another day another war crime avoided! o7 o7 o7

[@tsk5328]

this was a great watch! thanks, game back and watched it again.

[@nbkarkat]

this is such a fantastic video, it's insane that you have so few subscribers! youve gained one more with me, this is great

[@eendsofthearth]

Hoh boy that Remire Village chapter was tense, huge kudos for getting through it!

[@the_ark_king]

This is a very well made video!

[@aleisterleopold6229]

Wouldn't chapter 8 be considered a riot? Also the ashen wolves would have helped out a lot as they are not really affiliated and are all over 18

[@brolytriplethreat]

I feel like some of their backstories might complicate things. Hapi comes to mind in particular with the whole "lied to by the church" thing. Not a Geneva expert, so have no idea if that would matter

[@CheesyLizzy]

Thanks for making this video, it was fun 😄

[@turtle_goddess9522]

I appreciate the hard work u put into this video, it’s great😂

[@quechl2508]

wow what a gem of a youtuber ive stumbled across. fantastic challenge and incredibly well done video! i expected way more subs... guess when you become famous i get to say i was an early viewer!!

[@colfdralegend]

Objection! In the cutscene following the battle at the fort, you can see Byleth being followed by her soldiers in Adrestian colors. You are guilty my good sir, guilty!

[@matthewbullion7935]

The cutscene seems to just be reused from another route so I chalk that up to lazy programming

[@yukaiyami]

I loved this video, and it’s a 10/10! If there’s one little thing that bothers me (and it might be that English isn’t my main language) is that sometimes you drop your volume at the end of certain sentences/words and it’s hard to hear what you said. When you mentioned “my heart sunk” in the Remire village section, I had to rewind three times cause I had no idea what your last word was. But again, that might just be me. Aside from those instances, everything else was a fun and educating watch!

[@ojyochan]

This cracks me up so much

[@Sane_Bro_Sheo]

This is the kind of challenge run I’ve been waiting for! Very impressed by the research, that bit about the Germans changing uniform before attacking was particularly interesting.

[@JosephHk743]

As I finished watching (as of posting), I’ve learned about the Geneva Conventions and all the intricacies about what’s considered a war crime while watching Three Houses. Entertaining, but certainly an interesting way to go about playing.

[@BeardedKenyan]

Oh wow, Watched the whole thing and was gonna watch some more only to find out you only had 278 subs and like 6 vids? With this quality i was certain it was round 200k minimum lol, well you earned yourself a sub from me at least. Keep up the good work!

[@WillowPlaysGames]

Nive video! Good run! You have a great speaking voice and your editing is solid!

[@Chaos0f7ife]

This is a brilliant and unique concept. I never thought about the Geneva Convention when playing a Fire Emblem game.

[@ranger24ff]

Question: how culpable would we be in Rhea’s academy phase war crimes such as the execution of prisoners of war? Do we get an attempted war crime for trying to kill Edelgard in the holy tomb? Is Rhea likewise committing an illegal order by ordering us to execute Edelgard in the tomb? Does the logic applied to absolve the Edelgard execution apply to the optional executing of Dimitri on Crimson Flower as it was pretty unambiguous that if he could he would keep fighting and trying to kill us?

[@fandemusique4693]

Edelgard was not a prisoner, as she didn't surrendered nor was captured. And people should stop criticizing the order because Edelgard was the aggressor.

[@ranger24ff]

@@fandemusique4693 right so she just volunteered to be thrown in a dungeon tortured and experimented on and then spend the rest of life surrounded by everyone who did it? I am also sure that that incident during crimson flower where Thales nuked a city after she killed Cornelia was just a happy accident and not a warning shot. Just because she was the aggressor doesn’t change the situation at least as far as the Geneva convention which is what matters in regard to this video.

[@fandemusique4693]

@@ranger24ff are you an idiot? It have no bearing on the situation, I didn't speak of the Agarthans. Edelgard invaded the holy tomb, so rhea was entitled to demand her execution since Edelgard did not intend to surrender and did this invasion without a prior declaration of war.

[@fandemusique4693]

@@ranger24ff that's utterly stupid, it have nothing to do with the matter. Why the hell are you bringing the Agarthans? I was talking of what happened in the Holy tomb. Edelgard wasn't a prisoner of Rhea, so ordering her execution wasn't "ordering to kill a prisoner of war" or something

[@ranger24ff]

@@fandemusique4693 oh wrong part sorry, got confused because it wasn’t very specific and thought you were referring to something else. As for the situation itself, it seems to be implied from the context that Edelgard has been beaten and is in theory at least at the mercy of Rhea and Byleth. Mind you Edelgard escaped but the context still feels shaky to me from a legal standpoint given the framing of the scene.

[@golemgolden4670]

I dont know where you came from lad but if you'll make more of these ill be sticking around!

[@Lakefront_Khan]

Fantastic video.

[@christopherbueno5866]

Couple things I kinda am unclear on. I understand the compelling nationals of a hostile party to take part in combat against their home country war crime but only up to a point. But the time skip when your Adrestian companions rejoin ready to take the fight to Edelgard with their allegiance firmly no longer to the Empire wouldn't they be allowed to deploy against imperial forces? Especially since you're not compelling them at that point, it's a choice they've made. Also do we think that dark magic with all it's debuffs should perhaps count as biological weapons?

[@tsuntsunsweetie]

Great vid!

[@FluuuffInari]

I appreciate that you continued to animate Claude on the harmonica even when he was mostly off-screen

[@Alastra98]

Three Houses (great video!)

[@phill2065]

There’s so many reasons why this video is simply incredible

[@jedimasterpickle3]

Surprised you went with Silver Snow honestly as it features the same disguise plan as Verdant Wind which disqualified that route in the beginning. In Crimson Flower, Edelgard doesn't follow up on any of the war crimes she commits during White Clouds: no more demonic beasts, no more disguises, no more raids on civilian targets....

[@hilgigas09]

The alliance with TWSITD still counts since Adrestia funds their experiments, a la Hubert Paralogue.

[@vivil2533]

The story tries to blame all the war crimes to those who slither in the dark, in order to ensure none of the paths are truly evil. Which ironically makes Edelgard the most ethical if you side with her. Since she stops using them. Meanwhile the other groups have to use a warcrime or two in order to overcome the slitherers. Well that and Dimitri is kinda nuts for a bit.

[@nightscout9979]

Hubert's paralogue reveals that Adrestia is still helping Agartha do Crest beast experiments on unwilling civilians, so that's a war crime, along with having to fight Flayn. Edelgard also knows that the javelins of light already exist and the Agarthans are willing to use them, so she knows that Arianrhod will be destroyed and lets the civilians be killed then lies to her own forces followed by blaming the bombing on the church. Furthermore, Edelgard will murder Dimitri when he clearly can't fight anymore unless the alternate cutscene was unlocked by defeating Dedue before he can transform. Crimson Flower still has a number of war crimes even if Edelgard's prior actions are blamed solely on the Agarthans.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

@@nightscout9979 Flayn is a combatant, why is fighting her a war crime? I refute what you said about Arianrhod. Edelgard suppressed information about the javelins once they were deployed, yes, but there was no evidence suggesting that she knew about those weapons previously or that she knew Thales was going to deploy them against Arianrhod. When Tales tells Edelgard he doesn't want the Empire to become "another Arianrhod", she has no idea what she's talking about, and Hubert struggles to maintain his composure when giving her the report. Likewise, Hubert's paralogue doesn't suggest Adrestia is actively helping Agartha with its Demonic Beast experiments. Thales comes and "requests" Hubert help clean up an experiment gone wrong. That's it. As for Dimitri, I also don't know why that's a war crime either. He was defeated, but he wasn't surrendering. Plus, the Kingdom army definitely wouldn't surrender with Dimitri still alive. This wouldn't be a case of no quarter as the Kingdom army retreats after Dimitri's death. Edelgard has to take responsibility for her actions as the Flame Emperor, but I maintain that she commits nothing further in Crimson Flower beyond associating with Agartha.

[@nightscout9979]

@@jedimasterpickle3 Flayn is a child, and one that people like Byleth can easily spare, so ending her life is unnecessary too. Edelgard also comments that no Nabatean can be allowed to have any power over the public, and with her own allies' fears that she'd innately want to kill Indech, Edelgard likely has a racial prejudice against Flayn to boot. The only way Flayn can survive is if she enters perpetual hiding lest the Adrestian government kills her over her ethnicity. Edelgard had to have known about the javelins of light previously, otherwise she wouldn't have been leveraging every bit of control and influence she had to make sure she was Rhea's jailer. Hubert's note speaks of the importance of taking Rhea along in the attack on Shambhala, thus recognizing that she could fly and try to intercept the missiles. Furthermore, in the Fort Merceus mission, the Death Knight, an Edelgard loyalist, knows that the javelins of light are coming well in advance despite none ever being deployed before in the war. If it was entirely left up to the Agarthans as to who would be Rhea's jailer, they'd have likely never assigned Edelgard to oversee one of their most hated enemies who could mitigate or perhaps even counter some of their greatest weapons. Edelgard has been Rhea's jailer throughout the war too, so Edelgard would have to arrange for that very soon after Byleth entered a coma. There's ample evidence that Edelgard and her closest allies have known what the javelins of light were since before the time skip, even if they strive to hide that from Byleth. As for Hubert's paralogue, the fact that the Agarthans are allowed to continue those experiments by Adrestia makes Adrestia liable for war crimes. Edelgard currently isn't fielding Crest beasts in her personal vanguard, but she is in fact allowing them to still be made and likely used in battle, and the experimental site is in the Sealed Forest to boot, a place quite close to her base of operations. Dimitri was clearly incapable of fighting anymore, he doesn't have to surrender for Edelgard to have conducted a war crime. The man was very visibly wounded, even without accounting for the several arrows stuck in his body. Dimitri also can't teleport, so there's no possible argument that he could have warped out of any prison and had to be killed. Killing a leader like that can additionally risk emboldening a nation to continue fighting, whereas capturing the leader is a better negotiation tactic (and if Edelgard cared to do so, she could have tried to share knowledge of her ancestors' records and Fodlan's history with any prisoners to persuade them to work alongside her). Also, based on how Edelgard has the title of "Flame Emperor" in Crimson Flower's ending, she is potentially trying to glorify her actions as the Flame Emperor before the war arc instead of acknowledging and atoning for them. Ultimately, Edelgard is comitting a number of war crimes in Crimson Flower.

[@heavyc4450]

Question. About child soldiers. People are usually considered as adults at the age of 15 in medieval ages. These students might be legal soldiers.

[@Ryno2498]

Great video~!

[@tylerbarth3113]

This is fascinating...

[@elconejofunco]

Very interesting and well done run. Since you went with Black Eagles, it has me thinking about Petra's status in all this. I understand why you didn't use her out of caution, but she's not really an Adrestian national. From a very pedantic perspective, her entire status as a political hostage could be considered a violation of the Geneva Convention by Adrestia. An enduring war crime from the previous war.

[@nightscout9979]

I appreciate the thorough pains you took in attempting this, and the articles being presented on the screen along with some historical precedents really elevated the run! Your style of humor was implemented nicely too. I believe that a true no war crimes run might not be feasible though, whether due to Seteth's occasional no quarter lines or key events and conditions during or after certain missions, as follows: * In Silver Snow's final mission, the enemy combatants have all gone insane, Rhea included, and thus they might be fighting against their own will. This is further complicated by the source of the madness being Agarthan missiles, which might be designed to have similar effects as prior Agarthan technologies/sorceries, like those used to engineer the Remire incident. Even if being insane offers no protection, it's possible that the insane Rhea is controlling every other enemy, thus only she could be targeted, making the mission miserable, if even possible. * In Verdant Wind's final mission *spoilers if you've never played that route period* , nine major enemy commanders are arguably forced to fight against their will a la the Remire incident, even though they're more like stoic automatons as far as their physical appearance and demeanor are concerned. To counter claims that they're just recreations, their leader is the genuine article and thus the commanders are probably the real persons too. While their leader is consistent in his behavior, it can't be guaranteed what the commanders would do with their free will, particularly against certain persons. -- Without defeating these commanders, the boss is so absurdly resilient that it would take a hyper-optimized strategy to defeat him, and it might hinge on the DLC or being on NG+. Furthermore, I believe Lysithea is mandatory for that strategy, and because she can't be fielded until the war arc, she might not be able to become strong enough in time. Even if the strategy would be possible, there's the fact that the necessary spells/weapons might themselves be considered war crimes. * For the Lonato mission, Catherine is, IIRC, a national of Faerghus, yet she's mandatory for the mission, thereby being in a conflict against people from her own country. Additionally, you wound up using Sylvain for that mission. * In the Holy Tomb mission for the Black Eagles, the fact that you raised Edelgard's support level enough to change the text for the Silver Snow option possibly trapped you in a double war crime scenario. Because Edelgard is the leader of a sovereign nation and is defeated at the time, Rhea's order to have her killed would violate the Geneva Conventions. Edelgard would have to be captured and given a trial instead, and even though she can apparently teleport, one could argue that Edelgard was unable to teleport at the time and required Hubert's assistance. -- However, provided that you don't have a high enough rank with Edelgard or don't attend her coronation, there will be an option that says "..." instead of having to kill Edelgard. This ellipsis thereby lets you refuse Rhea's order without abetting Edelgard's war crimes. Now, while refusing to reprimand Rhea afterward might be considered enabling the ordering of a war crime, perhaps you could argue that the imminent Adrestian attack forces you to delay any such reprimand. If the lack (or any delay) of a reprimand is a war crime though, you might be found guilty. * Should you have hypothetically sided with Edelgard and tried to place the blame for her prior war crimes on the Agarthans, several key moments would still result in a guilty verdict at The Hague: -- First, a paralogue confirms that Adrestia is still working with Agartha to turn unwilling, possibly even kidnapped civilians into Crest beasts. -- Second, fighting Flayn is mandatory. Even if Byleth/Geneva spares Flayn, Geneva will have still harmed a child soldier. -- Third, the Arianrhod mission has Edelgard uniquely cause massive civilian casualties. Edelgard is already aware that Agartha's missiles exist and that they're willing to use them, hence why she works to become Rhea's jailer in every other route in case a freed Rhea will be an emergency anti-air defense. Upon killing the fake Cornelia, Edelgard knows that Arianrhod is liable to be bombed into dust, but she does nothing to evacuate the civilian population or even the battalion securing the city, thus resulting in their subsequent deaths. -- Fourth, Edelgard and Hubert then try to deny any knowledge that they knew of the missiles and Agartha's willingness to use them. -- Fifth, Edelgard and Hubert eventually agree to wrongfully blame the bombing on the church. -- Finally, the Tailtean Plains mission features Edelgard murdering Dimitri, the leader of a sovereign nation, on the battlefield after he's clearly unable to fight any longer and has several arrows sticking out of him. The only way to avoid this might be to defeat Dedue before he transforms and thus unlock an alternate cutscene. * Fort Merceus can provide a very puzzling situation regarding the cutscene of Geneva's forces reacting to the missiles. Because the troops are seen wearing red cloth with their armor, they appear to have never stopped wearing Adrestian uniforms, thereby violating the Geneva Convention. If this were a Verdant Wind route, you'd be up a creek. However, from what I recall, the church/rebel army uniforms seem to be naturally identical to Adrestia's uniforms. -- This means that Silver Snow might be in a nebulous area where it could be committing a war crime in every mission, Fodlan legally accepts these shared uniforms, or the people of Fodlan somehow can actually tell these uniforms apart. However, with the comments about having to dress in enemy uniforms, this sounds like a visual oversight instead, rather than everyone hypothetically joking or going insane for that mission only. Also, if they've gone insane, that means you fielding them could itself be a war crime. * Finally, as a possible Geneva Conventions violation in every route, Crest beasts are humans who have been turned into monsters. With the exception of Dedue and his forces in Crimson Flower's Tailtean Plains mission, none of them wanted to be Crest beasts, and this seems to be true even for Marianne's ancestor, Maurice. Furthermore, every Crest beast other than those mentioned in the prior sentence appear to be civilians who had procedures forced upon them and are now enslaved to fight against their will. -- What this means is that the mission where Kronya orchestrates a Crest beast outbreak might be impossible to complete without committing a war crime, and you might have also violated the Geneva Convention by doing Sothis' paralogue. Crest beasts were fought in the Holy Tomb mission and at Enbarr too. That list wound up being much more extensive than I expected it would be! Man, Three Houses can really be rife with war crimes, even if some routes greatly outnumber others in that regard. I had a great time watching this video, so thank you, Ali!

[@tirex3673]

-The holy tomb is in a weird place, as, because of the nature of crest stones it could be argued to be a weapon depot. -Not all Demonic beasts are people, most are just wild beasts roaming fodlan. -Killing a child soldier in battle isn‘t a war crime. Also, flayn is physically 16, old enough to be a volunteer. -There is nothing suggesting, that Edelgard knew of TwSitD‘s missiles beforehand. -Since when is holding things under wraps a war crime. It‘s not even, like she lets TwSitD get away with it in the long run. -One event you forgot, is, „keep none of the enemy commanders alive“ could be argued to be „no quarters“. -I‘m not completely convinced, that Dimitri‘s death wasn‘t in battle, i know he was badly injured, but this is Dimitri we are talking about. Also, he spends his last moments just ranting delusional at Edelgard.

[@nightscout9979]

@@tirex3673 Rhea treated the Holy Tomb as a genuine burial ground, the only Crest Stone shards she ever seemed to distribute came from herself. A lot of demonic beasts are akin to giant birds, but some do have the models of the people who were turned into Crest beasts. Flayn was also in a coma for nearly a thousand years, so even if she was physically 16 for a Nabatean, she mentally might not be. Edelgard has been Rhea's jailer the entire time after Garreg Mach's fall, meaning she pressed hard to ensure she'd be the jailer from the same day Byleth fell into a coma. Hubert's letter ultimately reveals that keeping Rhea nearby is essential to having a means for stopping the javelins of light. The Death Knight, Edelgard's loyal servant, already knows that the javelins exist in the Fort Merceus mission despite them never being used in the war until that point, so Edelgard almost certainly knows they exist too. Blaming the annihilation of a city on an unrelated party unnecessarily enflames severe violence and hatred toward them and is liable to keep grudges boiling for years after the war. Dimitri was so thoroughly injured that he couldn't even stand, complete with several arrows in his body. Edelgard is already prepared to swing Aymr and kill him before he even begins speaking, and from the perspective of almost anyone in Fodlan other than Edelgard herself, the things Dimitri speaks of all sound like logical deductions based on the available information.

[@tirex3673]

@@nightscout9979 -I agree with the Holy Tomb, I just wanted to note, that there is some basis for considering it a legitimate target. Also, does edelgard actually know of the origin of crest stones, (I‘m pretty sure she does, but I can‘t currently find prove). -I meant CF, there she never captured Rhea and clearly didn‘t know that TWSitD would attack Arianrhod with missiles. Especially, as they did it, to threaten her. Should have been more specific. -I wasn‘t talking about the blaming the church, I was talking about the keeping it under wraps for a while, to be able to deal with TWSitD later and not start a two front war. I do agree that it at least was morally wrong to blame the church, though I can‘t find anything, that suggests this being a war crime, could you say which treaty it violates? EDIT: -this depends on, if Dimitri needed to stand to fight. We basically see one frame of an entire scene of what could either be a death in battle, an execution or a coup de grace. Dimitri clearly didn‘t surrender. EDIT2: - about the demonic beasts, again, I forgot to mention I meant CF, where the closest thing to demonic beasts being used on your side, is Huberts paralogue, where you have to deal with TWSitD‘s birds. (And even then TWSitD≠Empire).

[@hilgigas09]

@@tirex3673 I think something that never gets mentioned is what Edelgard will do with TWSitD after the war. Do they all get summarily executed, will there be a civil war, do they get tried for treason and locked away? Option 1 is genocide, option 2 will be bloody and have no justification because of the cover-up, option 3 gets messy, depending on the Adrestian court system.

[@tirex3673]

@@hilgigas09 We know, it is Option 2, kinda, a shadow war against TWSitD is mentioned in like half of all character endings of CF and you raid Shambala in Jeritza‘s S-support. Also, it‘s not like this one event was all they did. They experimented on civilians and children on multiple occasions, most notably for Edelgard, they killed all of her 10 halfsiblings, they were behind the atrocity of Duscur, and they killed and replaced Lord Arundel and through this were a major driver of the Insurrection of the Seven.

[@mobgabriel1767]

48:47 wait does that mean that claude doesn't actually commit a warcrime?

[@septic_cipher]

Great video! This actually makes Silver Snow entertaining and not incredibly painful to watch.

[@smergthedargon8974]

9:20 "Italians are unlocked throughout the game"

[@Trikzilla]

So... did we just skip over Rhea executing the surrendered priests without trial during the academy phase?

[@Nevercomestoday]

I may be remembering wrong, but I think you can object to their execution at the least. Rhea firmly overrules your objection, but you can at least argue that Byleth/Geneva does not directly take part, and attempts to prevent the act. Flimsy perhaps, but it’s something.

[@hilgigas09]

That assumes none of the Mausoleum guards were killed and the execution was performed immediately after the sentence. Being members of the Church means they are subject to the laws of Garreg Mach, since they committed the crime in Rhea's territory they can be executed if Garreg Mach laws dictates that is the established punishment for said offense.

[@Trikzilla]

@@Nevercomestoday You don't get to talk. but according to the run's own explained rules Byleth is culpable for crimes of his faction, being in this case the Church of Seiros.

[@Trikzilla]

@@hilgigas09 local laws don't affect what the Geneva convention classifies as a war crime. Even if sentenced to Death under local law, immediate execution would still qualify.

[@hilgigas09]

@@Trikzilla Geneva convention applies to international conflict. The clergy were either at Garreg Mach illegally, or they were invited for the festival then attempted to murder the Sovereign. In the former case it's treason because they crossed the border illegally, which means they can be prosecuted unless there is an extradition treaty in effect. If they were returned to the Kingdom they would still be executed. The latter means they are present at the behest of the government of that specific territory therefore are subject to the laws. They were accused of banditry, which is punishable by death, and attempted regicide, same punishment since they found the letter on Lonato implicating them. The Conventions do not apply in either case because Garreg Mach is not at war with Faerghast.

[@tezereth]

As the time of writing this you have 776 subscribers and that's pretty funny

[@SleeperJauffre]

Hilarious premise, great production

[@velvetbutterfly]

I have to stop 2/3 through to avoid spoilers. This was fun though. I hope I remember to come back

[@Pystoria]

I love this community sm

[@rodrigobolanosgarcia9004]

As pedantic as this may be for a first time viewer, I can't feel anything but respect for going through such ridiculous means to prevent any and all war crimes in 3H. If I was to twist your premise, though, the fact you had to go to such comedic lengths surprisingly highlights the laughable nature of the real life Geneva Convetion. Nobody in the history of war has actually respected it, because it would be ridiculous to go through such pains, when you're already committed to the slaughter of fellow human beings which happen to believe in a different cosmology. Harming a person should be wrong even if they wield arms against you, but ofcourse nobody in the midst of a war has ever stopped to think what the Geneva Convention cared about. Either you respect all life with equal fervor, or you may as well be ok with committing war crimes; any mid point would reek of hyprocrisy. Greetings, Edelgard simp

[@endikaaspeurrutia1013]

The rules are for the leaders and comanders, ok, maybe you cant tale decisions in the middle of the battle bur purchasing químical weapons or proced with torture are things that those in chage do with a cleae mind

[@aidankeys8534]

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear noble, happy birthday to you. Now, off to WAR!

[@ToxicIdeaStorage]

I like this Challenge. Finally a Reason to get Three Houses next Month.

[@katier9725]

I would love to see this format done with more games of the series. Awakening would be the obvious choice next due to its popularity and a fairly unique situation later on that brings up the question 'Can you even employ any of these characters at all?' Also whether characters like Nowi fall under the same restrictions due to being much much older than they look and/or act.

[@mastertadakatsu]

36:26 sorry this is a fail. Mercedes is a former Imperial noble. By your rules this would constitute a failure

[@LuckySevenSamson]

Justice and mercy are never easy paths to tread. Both at once, though...? Well done.

[@docmercy3660]

The red canyon is my favourite map, it gives you a short perspective on how each of the students deals with unaliving others

[@ThePsh07]

I’m a simple man. I see Ferdinand in a birthday hat + Claude playing harmonica in prison & I click like. 😄

[@DedicatedTryhard]

I’d like to see other games completed without war crimes, not anytime soon, but eventually a return to this theme would be fun.

[@shreddedcheese8604]

love this game

[@colt1903]

33:59 Claude on the damn harmonica KILLS ME😂

[@CheesyLizzy]

5:46 Heck yeah! Happy birthday to the best boy 😄

[@illusive-mike]

Considering the classification of Relics as prohibited weapons, I would extend the set of questionable incidents to include the Immaculate One's beam attack in the Ch.12 cutscene, particularly since it's clearly shown dealing collateral damage to a civilian settlement. There's an open question about the chain of command there, and VW can further insulate the player by having them associate more with the Alliance than the Church when Rhea, a Church leader, busts out her danger-close WMD support.

[@HyperJohnua]

fun game mechanic fact, every single class certification is predetermined at the beginning of each day, so you can save scum each class upgrade, save dont get one load and try another.

[@DrakonLameth]

This almost makes me want, once I finish my general second pass of Silver Snow (I did all the routes, started with Snow so now I'm getting the NG+ enhanced clear of it), to see about a Golden Deer/Verdant Wind with that kind of restriction -- I need an excuse to not try and level "basically the entire roster of all three houses at once", XD