The MOST OBSCURE Fire Emblem Three Houses TRIVIA You (Probably) Never Heard Of

[@Faerghast]

super casual video for today. Happy October! Be sure to comment down below if you know some random 3H trivia yourself. Or if there are tidbits here that you never heard of before! I know many of you know what the Viskam is lol. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rprJlmObm6yJi5Y

[@dljb7463]

I only knew the viskam once you described it since the wiki mentions it as a sword and the name just clicked as you described its range

[@CAPAE]

The White Dragon Scarf does not need any of those requirements. All you need to do is rescue Flayn the first week of the month. I am looking at my Scarf right now on as the Black Eagles right before we lay siege of Garreg Mach. I am told you can do it on other routes as well and that birthday does not matter. However, I always make Byleth's birthday his actual birthday (9/20) and thus it is skipped every time. I receive the Scarf as soon as the next chapter begins.

[@Faerghast]

@@CAPAE "All you need to do is rescue Flayn the first week of the month." Maybe it was worded vaguely but that is exactly what i said. Its the first and easiest way to get it. The 2nd method is if you wanted one but didn't get one through Flayn. Its just another way to get it, not a prerequisite to get one. But perhaps the 2nd method needs more testing. eh

[@CAPAE]

@@Faerghast Yes, you are right. I apologize for the misunderstanding. First week of the month is correct, but I never heard about the others.

[@silverflamingegg]

@@Faerghast In the video you said "and" which made it sounds more like 2 requirements to get it, rather than 2 different ways to get it.

[@TheDimensionDweller]

Okay, yeah, Seteth not following you after you get his daughter killed and then disappear for 5 years makes sense.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

When you put it that way it makes perfect sense.

[@wouterW24]

I looked at it, and he just balks about Rhea’s order to see Byleth as her replacement specifically. I also thought I read something about the support with him making up for it, but unsure if that does anything at all.

[@timothyaladesanmi4898]

@Kayden McCallum well actually daughter

[@DarknessXER]

@Kayden McCallum someone did not play the whole game attentively.

[@hollystepp3735]

@@timothyaladesanmi4898 Spoiler-free it's sister

[@daz1543]

I wish enemies in the game had fuller inventories, not much reason to get the steal skill when 99% of enemies don't have stealables.

[@charlest3m443]

If you have the Anna quests you can steal extra trade secrets from some side battles. This allows you to finish the quests and thus get the rewards faster.

[@Serena69420]

I wish enemies could use weapons like Silver bow+ Silver sword+ Or any of the weapons that are forged (They should of given enemies forged weapons in maddening)

[@OriginalRaisins]

There are actually loads of good stealables in the game. Magic staff on chapter 6, the rings and seals on the grondor map, the above stat boosters. You just have to keep an eye out for them. Not to mention you can just slot out the steal skill whenever you don't see any, you don't have to keep it equipped.

[@trebmal587]

It is one aspect of the game which show that its developpement was a bit rushed. There is also a lack of special weapons on regular enemies like the ones dealing extra damages on mounted or armored units, making using the skills that prevent such weaknesses kinda worthless. If Three Houses had two or three extra months of developpement, the game wouldn't feel as "cheap" in some areas. Now that Fire Emblem has become such a big name for Nintendo, I wish they would give Intelligent System more time and budget to let them reach the serie's true potential.

[@niedude]

@@trebmal587 Ironically one of the things I'm noticing on my first playthrough of Cindered Shadows: there are a LOT of Cavalry with Horseslayer spears to the point it feels like the only enemies that use spears all carry Horseslayer. Cindered Shadows has a huge problem with overcrowded maps and BUSTED assassin class enemies, but I really enjoyed the addition of Horseslayer enemies even though we only have one single character that is able to reclass into cavalry movement type

[@banbanthebandit4002]

The white dragon scarf is also available if byleth’s birthday is right before you pick a house, this will give you the scarf and if your birthday happens twice in the story then you can get both a white dragon scarf and any of the other 3.

[@Lynn17]

Oh, really? That sounds easier than skipping chapter 6 grinding and picking Silver Snow, lol.

[@banbanthebandit4002]

@@Lynn17 it’s what I always did, I discovered it for myself when I learned that you get an item dependent on your house for byleths borthday so I wondered what would happen if you didn’t have a house.

[@CodyMacArthurFett]

What's the in-game date for that?

[@banbanthebandit4002]

@@CodyMacArthurFett I don’t know the exact dates off the top of my head but I will look into it and get back to you

[@CodyMacArthurFett]

@@banbanthebandit4002 Thank you, sir.

[@ashiya9524]

My favourite random thing that ever happened on a playthrough was a counseling note that stated the character was sad that they couldn't be a pegasus knight and that turned out to be written by Hubert XD.

[@krystalamper4644]

"Despite my appearance, I have long wished to be a Pegasus Knight that I may indulge in the lofty view. Yet that dream has always seemed out of reach. Can you guess why?"

[@dirpycatkittymeowmeow9099]

legendary xd

[@thiago292]

@@krystalamper4644 then we proceed to make Hubert a Wyvern Rider so he can at least partly fulfill his dream

[@JoeEmber776]

One random piece of trivia is if you recruited hilda pre-timeskip on blue lions, then in azure moon on the map where hilda defends claude she's actually replaced with a female warmaster

[@stoopidyoutubehandle]

Found that too. I believe it’s the one mission you have to help Claude to defend alliance capital. So females can be WM after all, but certainly not Hilda, She will remain a brigand unless you recruit her.

[@poisontango]

I've always wondered if that was just a glitch. The class says "War Master," but it just shows a basic myrmidon sprite.

[@johnathanedwards9054]

@@poisontango And it also uses the axe motion animations of the male warrior and war master class rather than the female ones.

[@sekinafi29]

Ahh I was wondering why there was a female War Master. She was kicking. ass on my playthrough

[@allwatchsomeshitpost]

yup I recruited Hilda and saw that

[@wowitsportal5225]

On the chapter you rescue flayn the the death knight you can see her and monika lying in the ground behind the death knight. It’s easier to see in the really zoomed in mode

[@rhettmitchell]

Holy shit you can see it on the actual map??

[@horneaus8362]

Actually found this on accident and was wondering how many people actually knew this

[@johnbutler2505]

I just seen it while i was playing

[@alexzuniga4485]

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the tathlum bow. It's a relic bow linked with mercedes's crest that appears on an enemy that only spawns in if you step on a specific tile in the reclaiming the capital maps

[@Faerghast]

We will include that for part 2!

[@cassandradeiler9158]

Isn't the Tathlum Bow locked into the BL route? I've never seen it otherwise, and I've played all the routes.

[@alexzuniga4485]

@@cassandradeiler9158 Yeah it's locked to the blue lions. It's meant to be for Mercedes as it's linked to her crest.

[@cassandradeiler9158]

@@alexzuniga4485 yeah, I knew that. It's kinda weird it's locked to BL though, since Mercedes can be recruited to any route. But then, so is Felix's sacred weapon, so *shrug*

[@radioactivebeverage]

I accidentally triggered it on one of my runs, it even took a video so i can remember which tile it was next time xD

[@chadstrayer8861]

Not sure if this is a Secret or not but in part 1 if you spend enough time roaming around the monastery it gets dark outside. Dont ask how I figured this out.

[@Kaffelag]

I thought it was normal since I roamed alot around in the first hour playing around xD

[@alexisocasio6739]

If I recall correctly, it happens a while after you’ve used all of your activity points for the day.

[@LMOH529]

I was always too afraid to stick around that long! the sun would start to set and I thought oh no they're trying to kick me out

[@niedude]

@@alexisocasio6739 yup, its related to activity points. I used to spend hours on roaming and would sometimes leave my switch unnattended for 10+ minutes but it never got dark because I always left at least one activity point until the end. Yesterday I switched it around and did all my activities first and roamed around searching for overworld items last, and was very surprised to see the sunset!! I'm actually sad I missed this earlier, I definitely think that the transition into dusk is too pretty a thing for most players to miss. They should have coded it so when we have one activity point left the sun starts to set, and on zero activity points it becomes night, or smth. Would certainly make the hours we waste roaming around Garreg Mach for those Lost Items more entertaining with a change in scenary. I also am very mad that they didn't introduce seasonal variances like the trees and flowers changing over the months, or snowing in winter

[@narzonic192]

I didn't know the scarf was that oddly specific. I actually feel lucky to even have it on my first playthrough of the game

[@Videokirby]

Fun Fact: The Prayer Ring's secret effect also works on *enemies* holding them. Just found that out in Ingrid's Paralogue on Maddening.

[@ThatAzureFluff]

Huh, that explains alot...

[@358Kingdom]

I never knew about the white dragon scarf nor viskam. I might have to try playing 3H again just to see how many i can get just to nuke the every map in the game

[@JoeEmber776]

You can get a ton~ at this point all hackers know about the viskam so pretty much any hacker who can sell viskam, does sell viskam

[@Rainshadowable]

On my first play through, I got the scarf for jumping right to the Flayn rescue mission. I missed out Dorothea’s birthday and two weeks of training. Not worth

[@Howlingcargo]

It's worth noting that the Viskam seems to be a magic weapon, at least from my experience. I've been using it a lot to grind class XP on characters without having to worry about durability, and have noticed that Res-heavy enemies always take two or more rounds to kill, even when I double. The user also loses attack power when using a battalion that lowers magic attack.

[@Happyfoam-lw3yt]

My record is five.

[@natebardwell]

I've got 7 of them on my current playthrough. I'll pick them up whenever I see them and if I'll send the traveler out with any after two for the rest of my playthrough so others can use it. The game is so grindy that frankly I think it's good for players who are trying to get a bunch of abilities or mastery-driven builds faster to actually play them without hundreds of hours.

[@chaoscontroller316]

Viskam really was a busted secret I was never supposed to buy? In my Blue Lion run, I found and bought 7 of those things. Edit: If you find one early game, *GIVE IT TO LYSITHEA.* She will become your ultimate mortar, and combined with Thyrsus, she can win you the game by herself.

[@WingSlash]

One thing that I noticed on my 2nd playthrough of Azure Moon is that if you don't have a support rank with Seteth when the cutscene that kicks off the chapter of the battle of Garreg Mach rolls around, he actually refuses Rhea's request to have him help Byleth on their quest in the scene where he & Flayn promise to fight alongside them. It doesn't change anything, Seteth still joins your party, there's just a bit more of a demoralizing scene with him & Rhea. Not sure if that was known, but it did surprise me when I came across it.

[@MiDuWay]

My favorite obscure Three Houses trivia is that ALL items that ALL of your units have in their inventories will go back to full durability once the timeskip hits, on any route. I always stack my units' pockets with broken and damaged items on Chapter 12 for the mass free repair on Chapter 13. Always worth it.

[@cassandradeiler9158]

Especially ones that require rare elements to repair, like the relics or sacred weapons

[@wesnohathas1993]

It's for this reason that I like to go all-out on chapter 12 using all my strongest weapons and combat arts.

[@moltz4866]

It has been 2 years after its release and it's wild to think people are still finding more stuff about the game. On an unrelated note, I was not prepared for the Hipster Edelgard from the thumbnail.

[@HHopebringer]

That prayer ring application, my gosh. I had Petra use one on Hard Difficulty and Solon went after her; landing a blow that would have left her at like -11 HP. Nope. Petra survives, then buries two arrows in the Savior of None. I had *no idea* it did that until watching this video. Petra didn't learn Miracle from an Adjutant or (shudder) mastering the Priest class, she was saved by her own gear!

[@Ziizoe]

I know that at least a few supports actually affects another support conversation, for example Sylvain and Marianne's B support has Marianne comment about Sylvain teaching her to smile more in her A support with Ashe, which I have seen myself and is the only reason I even knew to look up different ones. I've heard that it happens with Ingrid's B support with Dorothea if you've done Annette's supports with her and if you view Felix and Mercedes C support after Mercedes' paralogue but I have yet to see video or screenshots of either of those. But I have seen a screenshot that if you do not have Ingrid, Sylvain and Felix's B support adds an extra line and changes Sylvain's expression It's hard to find any record on any of most of these and unless you know exactly what to look up, all you can do to find them is Ctrl+F with "(if" to find variations on literally every character/support wiki page, or getting super lucky with random testing, so I'd say that's pretty obscure lol

[@MidnightCapricorn2696]

Although I don't have evidence of it, nor do I have my copy of 3H currently, I can confirm that Ingrid's B with Dorothea does change. When Dorothea makes a remark about makeup, Ingrid says something along the lines of "Annette's been helping me with makeup".

[@phantomslash311]

I also found out about Felix support with bernie. If you see Felix’s A support with lysithea before his A+ support with bernie, his line changes when bernie offers him a candy

[@kacpercicharski4193]

i Got that version, but i didnt realize that one was conditional

[@myplantsaidno]

I found this out by chance, but during tea time, using the one of the two most expensive teas triggers unique dialogue and will treat the tea as if it was their favorite.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

Which teas are the most expensive?

[@myplantsaidno]

@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon I believe it’s the Hresvelg Blend and Leicester Cortania.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

@@myplantsaidno Interesting...I've never seen the Leicester Cortania.

[@johnathanedwards9054]

@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon You get it from the Dark Merchant's stand after you complete the "Clearing the Way" quest from Hubert, Gilbert, Hilda, or Seteth during the war phase and it will cost you 3,000g a bag, which is actually more than any other item in the game including the master seals.

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

@@johnathanedwards9054 Okeydoky! Thanks!

[@B_A-tr]

The flayn thing happened to me once because she fell at the last turn of a survive map and the game didnt allow me to turn back time and i really didnt want to do that again.

[@hollystepp3735]

You let Flayn die? 😢

[@PsychoPenguin1919]

Wow, I had no idea the White Dragon Scarf even existed. That's wild, but it totally makes sense in hindsight.

[@AaronL0905]

I hope one of this days they just drop an alt of any 3 Houses character in Heroes using the Viskam sword

[@MemesToa]

For the cherry on top, give it to the Gatekeeper.

[@Jacksonthehedgehog9]

Give it to gatekeeper, then have him meme even harder in his animations using it.

[@misseternal777]

Regarding SS deployment slots: Because you lose out on that slot, combined with how Seteth doesn't function like the other 3 Lords (he'll still be a major character but he's susceptible to permadeath), Silver Snow is the only route where you can genuinely solo as Byleth, and only Byleth. In turn, it's the one route where you won't be able to teach, take units out for meals, sing in the choir, etc etc. Generics will replace dead students in cutscenes on the other routes, but SS's case is the most damning because of that loss of a slot. Regarding Support Point losses: The three Lords all share one instance of the same dialogue where Byleth can lose a Support point with them, and it's telling them that you forgot about the Battle of the Eagle and Lion (mock version). Meanwhile, Edelgard has the most instances, by a country mile, where you can lose Support points through dialogue. Claude has two instances, and Dimitri only has ONE. Rhea also has several, but they're restricted to her Supports (she does have two in the main story, however). You can also lose a couple with Seteth, but only on Silver Snow. Regarding Hegemony: The title of hegemon is pretty liberally applied to Edelgard in the Japanese version...two major examples are her personal battallion (the Supreme Armor Co., which was originally the Hegemony Armor Co.) and the title of her theme on the OST (Localized as "The Leader's Path," it was originally "The Hegemon's Path.")

[@strwberylemonade]

I remember how confused I was when I first got Viskam from a liaison

[@bryanrosario859]

Same I was thinking the game bugged or something

[@chaoscontroller316]

I thought it was some DLC item from late game. You have no idea how *BUSTED* Lysithea becomes when paired with a Viskam.

[@TheChoZenOneNJ]

WOAH!! My video made it in?! That's crazy!! Wow, what an honor!! Haha Thanks man!! Yeah I was so confused when Seteth didn't join lmao 3:46

[@niedude]

There is at least one other instance of difficulty changing the script that I can think of. During the first end of month event of the story, in the very first mock battle where you can only field half of your house to fight the other two houses, Hanneman and Manuela will NOT join the battle in Normal difficulty but will join it in Hard (and I assume Maddening). I know this because I played my first two runs on Normal and was kind of upset that the other teachers said they'd "go easy on me because I'm new" (their dialogue reasoning for not joining the battle). This week I started my first Hard run and was VERY pleasently surprised to see Hanneman and Manuela take to the field.

[@everettwhitaker7829]

I must admit I'd heard about the Viskam, but I didn't know the fact that it's coded as three separate entities. That's really fascinating

[@OriginalRaisins]

Edelgard not letting you attend her coronation if you don't have enough support points is a big point in the CF speedrun. Nothing like having a good time, talking to her, and realizing you never got the support points with her and so your great run is dead :(

[@aliveisuppose]

Well that certainly explains the 5 minute timesave

[@Sylvainjose-satoyumiyato]

I mean, you can just fight with her?

[@PseudoUematsu]

Wait… Prayer ring gives the Prayer skill!? I had no idea. That would’ve been great to know for my maddening runs lol

[@serpent2776]

Well when have you really banked on miracle working out

[@Neogears1312]

The irony of a Finn pfp being shocked about something both involving rings and the miracle skill is hilarious to me.

[@TheEllord33]

@@serpent2776 It can save 1 divine pulse for innatentive mistake, or you know random ambush reinforcement or frog of war.

[@serpent2776]

@@TheEllord33 Still, there are so many better rings to give that will help you much more.

[@TheEllord33]

@@serpent2776 Nah. they're all worth about the same.

[@icards7986]

I came real close to getting that white dragon scarf on my first playthrough then. I hopped right into the mission, but I used a different birthday. Also, that Viskem glitch is hilarious!

[@beebles08]

i really enjoyed some of the background visuals; seeing flayn using gauntlets was hilarious to me

[@radiantherooftellius1138]

Thanks for the videos as always Faerghast. I appreciate your unique and fun videos. They always bring me joy. Keep up the good work.

[@lyteupthelyfe5573]

I had no idea that the scarf even existed lmao. And I was also confused in my current run when units would suddenly proc miracle for seemingly no reason-guess they were holding the prayer ring lol

[@Michael-yf6bl]

Me: about to do silver snow as my second playthrough This video: silver snow is hardest Me still before the choice: there has been a change of plans

[@RubyChiang]

I knew the Prayer Ring had Miracle built cause the description will say that “it might just the dying user” or something along the lines of that. But I always prefer using the Goddess Ring cause the chances of Miracle activating is just not worth equipping but it’s always to heal some HP back with it.

[@mysticwater9056]

Miracle came in clutch for me on AM reunion at dawn maddening because I was basically banking on the off chance that Mercedes would proc miracle ether from her skill or the prayer ring and it worked and which was good because I was out of divine pulse

[@meltingweisscube]

babe wake up new faerghast three houses video

[@rockypockypuff]

I didn't know the scarf was difficult to get, I've gotten it i all my playthroughs and I thought it was an autogiven item lmao

[@Yokokazuo]

I just beat my Blue Lions maddening run, and managed to steal the stat boosters on the paralogue. Giving Ashe defiant speed as well as using rally skills was essential to steal from war masters though.

[@LFPman]

I always was confused why the Dark Mage commander wasn’t speaking before the map began. I thought it was just a bug

[@YingofDarkness]

Same. I noticed his animation was a bit weird when starting the map but he doesn't say anything. I wish they would patch that in but IS is probably done with 3H's at this point

[@scitails]

6:11 I wonder if they did this because they knew using him to defeat the DK on harder difficulty is very difficult, esp. if you haven't been prepping him for it/using Caspar, and didn't want the player feeling obligated to do something they couldn't realistically pull off.

[@melancholymercury]

The Edelgard interaction happened to me when I first went Black Eagles and was confused when I didn't seem to get a choice between CF and SS.

[@RubyChiang]

I’ve recently revisited Claude’s paralogue and I completed forgot the stat boosters, I was already half way through the map when I realized and my Yuri didn’t have Steal equipped. 🙃🙃🙃

[@papaya6095]

Years later, I’m still learning more about this game

[@wouterW24]

The thing is that if you want to go with Byleth’s canon birthday, I’m pretty sure your house trinklet is skipped if you enter the mission, since afterwards it uses the next calendar. Talk about choices.

[@bomberryjones5949]

All of these things I've never seen before. Kinda makes me want to play the game again

[@barry_does_va]

What was new to me: "New Stat Boosters", Seteth Refusing to Join, and SS -1 Unit. I didn't know that Seteth and Flayn had special dialogue in Enbarr though, I thought it was just for the Opra. And I knew about the Vistum since a friend found it while we were doing a Challenge Run

[@Alex1jag]

One thing I learned the hard way, was that if you playing church of Seiros route, but killed all the black eagle students the only unit that you will have access besides Byleth in Chapter 13 is Seteth. Having to do that map with only 2 units is insanely hard.

[@rchaelk2319]

H- how did you kill all students of your own house??

[@Alex1jag]

@@rchaelk2319 basically I didn't let them get any experience in the first few levels, then I just send them in to get killed by enemy troops. They don't actually die, but you can bring them into any battles, or do monastery things with them.

[@josuefiallos9575]

I got a viskam and thought i had somehow cheated the game and my byleth held onto it for fear that if I transferred it, then it would fix itself and the durability would come back so I kept it on her for many chapters before buying another one online and realizing that it was broken from the beginning so I try to use it sparingly to deal with troublesome units.

[@sewnmind1786]

I got the scythe by suprise on a random playthrough when I decided on a whim to train Capsar for it. I never actually used him, I just scummed exhaustive strike till it OHKOd the Death Knight.

[@manaketespirit]

I recently discovered a obscure FETH trivia: discussions before and after Gilbert and Annette's paralogue change depending on their support. I made it with them at C-rank and A-rank and the dialogues weren't the same

[@gangles1505]

I remember getting the scarf because I picked silver snow and set my Birthday to my actual March birthday

[@balsamon69]

Huh... Never thought the White Scarf was so easy to miss, but apparently it is...

[@Sammy-tw6zv]

I love how 3 houses still has stuff we dont know after all this time

[@MidnightCapricorn2696]

I knew a lot of these, except the detail about the Viskam, Edelgard's dialogue and the White Dragon Scarf, mainly because of seeing Delthea not get killed while holding a prayer ring during my Echoes playthrough. I still don't use Prayer Rings though.

[@cherrytonshawty9120]

I imagine Viskam's description would be sorta like this:"A sword shrouded in mystery and legend, nobody knows where it really came from. It's said the sword is very simple to use, but has very strange properties. Who created this weapon and why is entirely unknown." ((This is just a silly description I came up with real quick. Lol.)

[@chipbannatyne]

The design would have to be completely updated too then. Probably turning it into some very high tech design from TWSITD

[@nepsit219]

Never knew any of this except the prayer ring. Great video!

[@keldeo05]

I got a viskam on my maddening run, I tried beating hunting by daybreak with it, I sniped pallardo with claude and then finished him off with viskam

[@AzureGreatheart]

I watched this after the follow-up, and I’m surprised, because I actually knew *less* about the trivia in this than the trivia in that. The only one I completely knew about was the Dragon Scarf, which I think I actually got in my first playthrough, because I did Silver Snow, and my habit of checking the entire monastery on the first day of each month meant that I would’ve had to actively ignore the obvious plot thread to do anything else that month. I rushed to rescue Flayn, and all I got was this nifty scarf. I also knew that you could get the Scythe of Sariel, but I haven’t played that specific paralogue quite yet, so I didn’t know about the removal of dialogue on hard and maddening difficulties, which is honestly kinda BS.

[@regulusking4299]

Never knew about that 2nd condition for the White Dragon scarf

[@Foxiiglove]

Cool video actually full of facts I mostly didn't know! I thought the title was gonna be clickbait but legit the only ones I knew were the Prayer Ring and Enbarr ones. I figured out the Prayer Ring one in game when my Ingrid survived with "Miracle" even though she didn't have the skill at all, I searched up if it was related to the ring and learned about the japanese name and all. How weird that they wouldn't just name it "Miracle Ring". I don't recall if it happened on maddening or not but I do play on classic so that small surprise saved me a divine pulse ^^

[@Salron_]

The only one I didn't know about was the Scythe hints, but I'm surprised you omitted the Essar Research group battalion received from doing four 4 man recon missions online. Very few people seem to even be aware of it's existence let alone how it's obtained, I feel like that would've been more interesting trivia than the statboosters in the lord paralogues. Still a great video though 👍

[@Faerghast]

Hah! I just looked it up and yeah I had no idea that existed either.

[@Salron_]

​@@Faerghast Heres to more knowledge 🍷

[@Faerghast]

@@Salron_ lemme know if you know anymore. We're planning a follow-up video if there are enough things to mention.

[@Salron_]

@@Faerghast ​ Off the top of my head theres two things that comes to mind. This first one I saw rengor1997 mention somewhere At a certain point, the lords + hubert will get their personal battalions when rejoining the party. For Edelgard and Hubert on CF, they receive theirs at the start of ch 12, for Dimitri and Claude, they receive theirs at the start of ch 13. The game will autolevel their auth rank to C to ensure they can equip it, but due to an oversight this also can potentially cost you auth rank exp. If the character in question has a C or higher auth rank and any progress towards their next auth rank, they will lose that progress and be reset back to the base of their current rank. So for example: Dimitri has D+ rank auth at the end of ch12, the game will then autolevel his auth to C so he can come with his battalion equipped, thats working as intended. Other scenario: Dimitri ends ch 12 with A rank auth and has made progress towards A+, Since he is above C rank he doesn't need any autoleveling to his auth, however he will be stripped of all progress he made towards A+ and will be back at the base value of A, and that can really suck if you're especially close to the next rank only to lose it. The other thing that comes to mind is that the pegasi in chapter 7 have their AI programmed to prioritize Byleth over all other targets, just like Kostas in prologue. This is VERY useful knowledge to have on maddening as it allows you to put other units in their range with impunity while Byleth draws aggro. I'm not sure if this applies to Ingrid because I always ask her for mission assistance that month to ensure I don't have to deal with her as an enemy unit if shes not recruited. I learned that from elitemode's CF Maddening LTC, you can see that in action here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6eTcnZtfK6dobc If anything else comes to mind i'll post another reply to this later.

[@Faerghast]

yeah the authority level reset was something I mentioned in the glitches/oversights video from a few weeks ago haha. I'll look into the AI prioritizing though. sounds interesting

[@MilkenGamer42]

Towards the end of my first playthrough, I thought to myself "I have an unbreakable sword that does hella damage and could attack several spaces away... where the hell did I get this?" I guess at some point I accidentally bought the Viskam and I felt a little too OP. Cool sword tho

[@XochiCh]

Didn’t knew about Seteth not joining and the Siege of Embarr trivia, and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable when it comes to Fe3h trivia as I scoured the internet for secrets and hidden things multiple times after my 1st play trough. Makes sense I didn’t knew about those secrets, though, as I never use Church character, always stick with the students.

[@munchthemunchkin65]

I like short and simple videos

[@harrisonberkhout1005]

Funny enough I actually have the viskam on my current (first maddening) golden deer playthrough immediately have it to Byleth. Sad to see that it will leave me by endgame. Though I'm gonna sell it on the final chapter for the next person to get the legendary weapon.

[@oranbluethorn3956]

I KNEW something was up with the Viskam! Never realized that 1 gold opaf weapon that carried me hard through the first playthrough was a hacked item, I just thought it was an end game item that was bugged in the sales due to never being considered for the online systems

[@kylone1]

Pretty sure you can also get the white dragon scarf on silver snow route. My birthdays in April and I got it after it skipped that month

[@dubsteppa8339]

I'm Proud to say the only one I didn't know about the enbar map secret. So go me.

[@illialidur8244]

This was great! I really enjoyed it

[@kopaka4137]

Is there any risk of corrupting my file by using the viskam?

[@radiantherooftellius1138]

I think you are good. I used viskam in many of my 3h play throughs and my files were never corrupted. So i think you are safe and good to go.

[@dubsteppa8339]

Mine hasn't yet and I've had it for a while before finishing that run.

[@Tempest193]

@@radiantherooftellius1138 what are the stats of the Viskam?

[@moltz4866]

@@Tempest193 20 might, 9 range, infinite durability and it's E rank.

[@malluk3065]

@@moltz4866 what the hell that's busted.

[@Yokokazuo]

I was aware of most things in some way aside from the white dragon scarf though. If it is post time skip when you receive it though, how does Rhea give it to you? Or would it be if Flayn dies? Also I only recently came across the Viskam when on my Maddening route.

[@LunaticFullMoon]

Presumably Flayn gives it to you since in Silver Snow, both her and Seteth have plot armor so even if you get them killed in combat they'll still be hanging around until the route ends since they essentially take over the role of the lord for it. This is why it's only possible to miss out on Seteth in Verdant Wind and Azure Moon too.

[@TanukiG]

I always thought getting the white dragons scarf was a weird event. Especially since I only got it on some playthroughs but didn’t change anything. I also love seeing the secreta behind the viskam

[@tationotaliaferro8418]

I got the Viskam. I thought it was cursed and got rid of it. And I was wondering why Shamir survived a lethal hit (she had a prayer ring). It was bothering me so much, thanks for the explanation.

[@sympathism]

If you combine nosferatu and lethality procs, you still get the health return effect. Its a funny gamble on monster type units.

[@Jacksonthehedgehog9]

... that is so evil of a combination that would require heavy RNG... I love it

[@tonyusb7632]

I ended up with two Viskam on my last play through with the Eagles. I actually thought I had unlock it or something after beating the game with Blue, Yellow and White (DLC). Lol

[@Hebleh]

Had no idea White Dragon scarf was so rare, I get it all time as I set it to my birthday within March every single time. I learned something new after all!

[@el_zinga]

Ahh, the Viskam.

[@CAPAE]

The White Dragon Scarf does not need any of those requirements. All you need to do is rescue Flayn the first week of the month. I am looking at my Scarf right now on as the Black Eagles right before we lay siege of Garreg Mach. I am told you can do it on other routes as well and that birthday does not matter. However, I always make Byleth's birthday his actual birthday (9/20) and thus it is skipped every time. I receive the Scarf as soon as the next chapter begins.

[@fe_fanby2278]

Byleth has a canonical birthday?

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

@@fe_fanby2278 Yes.

[@fe_fanby2278]

@@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon Where does it say that out of curiosity?

[@dhisufiroafrozenseraphimdragon]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've gotten the white dragon scarf before even though I always make Byleth's birthday June 8th (my birthday) or September 20th.

[@CAPAE]

@@fe_fanby2278 -ish; When you read Jeralt's diary after he dies, Day 20 of the Horsebow Moon in the Imperial Year 1159, he mentions how his wife died and his newborn baby seems off.

[@gg_sam7847]

I recently stole from Arianrohd War Master with Dancer Dimitri

[@PeanutTechno]

Edelgard with glasses wasn't something I knew I needed unti now

[@Metal6078]

I was not aware of the White Dragon Scarf prior to this video.

[@squatch1565]

Well, I didn't know anything on this list. But I do have a secret: Felix is the best unit combat-wise. No, seriously. The only skill he shouldn't bother learning is Authority. Training him in his proficiencies is obvious, axes help him gain access to classes like Warrior and War Master, and lances get him to the Wyvern classes. Reason, as his budding talent, is good for the extra crit, and if you're making him a magic unit why not raise his faith too? Finally, heavy armor gets Weight -3 and eventually -5, which can help a Strength-screwed Felix still double, especially with the Aegis shield equipped, flying gives extra avoid, helping him on enemy phase, and riding gives him 4 extra dexterity and an extra point of movement. Of course, you'll need either NG+ or use of the infinite month glitch to get all of this, but if you do, then you don't even need stat boosters to make Felix your most broken unit.

[@Aurirang]

It's funny how nearly all characters that are supposedly 'good' end up absolutely dogshit in any of my Fire Emblem runs. Hector? Noodlearms. Ephraim? Slower than a snail and no def. Vanessa? Also noodlearms. Ike? What are stats again? Morgan? She somehow had flipping worse levels than Ricken! (Dad one time Chrom, Mom one time Cordelia and one time Tiki. No Morgan turned out anywhere decent somehow) Ryoma? A paper was more durable. Like.. am i cursed? Felix turned out to be the snail in my army (i went through the sword-route and then went with the Sword/reason-class, but.. i took him out the last few chapters as about everybody outsped him, besides Mercedes and Dedue). I know these characters are all good to godlike, i know their growths and how busted they can be. But RNG is never nice to me about 'good' characters. :/ On the other hand, Units, which are supposedly horrible, turn out incredibly blessed. My Lyn maxed strength without getting boosters/drops. Rebecca was the speed queen, Lute decided to have ALL the def, Tormod somehow became my strongest mage...

[@yoso378]

@@Aurirang that's just how RNG will get you lol. At least you got to mess around with units people usually bench?

[@squatch1565]

@@Aurirang what Yoso said. Besides, unless you really want to beat a high difficulty or an Iron Man, it’s always fun to use characters most people normally don’t use. For example, I’m playing through RD and plan on bringing Ilyana for Endgame.

[@squatch1565]

@@Aurirang Also, one time I had an Ike in PoR who would’ve had 9 Strength before promotion if I hadn’t given him an Energy Drop. Rng sucks

[@BlazinVoid59]

@@Aurirang Yeah I'm in the same boat with ya. Somehow I had Niemi just outclassing Ephraim and Eirika, or Path of Radiance Sothe managing to hold his own even until the final map (meanwhile Jill suffered greatly)

[@derpybubblez7746]

I've never played this game, so this is all new information!

[@zackybrown8694]

I just started golden deer route for my 6th playthrough. Mayb I can use some of these

[@YingofDarkness]

6th playthrough? Damn man! Are you playing consecutively or do you take breaks in between? I did AM->CF->SS->VW (yes I know stupid order), and only picked it up again to play the DLC. I keep wanting to do another AM run but with the Wolves now coming along but I really burnt myself out.

[@zackybrown8694]

@@YingofDarkness Breaks of course , I can't possibly do it back to back

[@megs150]

I've played this game for hundreds of hours and I did not know about the white dragon scarf. That kinda blew my mind.

[@carlociotola7137]

Because of my birthday, and love for the character of Flayn, I always got only the white dragon scarf until my last run, where I got the brooch from Dimitri

[@nevets2371]

I found out about the prayer ring’s miracle skill when the warrior that was holding it didn’t die when I tried to kill him.

[@alexmoore3732]

my birthday is in march, so I hadn't even considered the idea of the white dragon scarf being missable

[@gyletre675]

i don't think i knew a single one of these things

[@wubberson4450]

It seems I only knew as much as you. I actually got a Viskam on my first playthrough (didn’t use it cause it was cheap, though). And the Enbarr invasion stuff was a no brainer, since you have all the time in the world to do it.

[@ItsBofu]

In Silver Snow, I believe that if you modify a Classic Mode save to make any of the Empire students not recruited (not dead), I believe they show up in the same spots as enemy units where they would in the Golden Deer route. The same thing happens with Felix and Annette having potential enemy spawns in the Blue Lions route, which is more well-known.

[@saintlugia]

Hi I was wondering if you be willing to do a video on silver snow vs crimson flower. Since these routes are so closely linked an analysis on them would be great to hear about your perspective on these routes. One of the things I love about these route are that the black eagles have crests that only belong to the saints it's a cool parallel that the saints of old are doing battle against a thing of your their own making.

[@GGMK2002]

I didn’t know Viskam even existed until I started my Crimson Flower route

[@MapleRose9]

I remember stumbling upon the Opera Co Volunteers battalion by accident on my 3rd playthrough. I randomly decided to have Manuella wait on that tile because she had nothing else to do, and there was some dialog! One of the most fun Battalions, esp in NG+ where you can chain dancer battalions (and Stride) to clear maps in 1 turn =D

[@ensislucis2395]

4 years ago I obtained the viskam and no one knew what I was talking about and this is the first time I'm ever seeing someone else talk about it omg I thought it was just me

[@recino2]

I didn't know any of these XD Thanks for the info

[@JustAnotherHaiku]

The only ones I knew were the lesser deployment slots in Silver Snow and the Enbarr secrets. How interesting!

[@TheBrutalSax]

The viskam absolutely breaks the game, that thing unlocks the easy mode. I kinda wanna try it on maddening

[@chaoscontroller316]

There is a catch to Viskam, an obvious but frustrating one: you need seriously good luck and a prayer from God to let a player spawn in from online and sell one to you. I once got 3 Viskams from 1 group, but no matter what run I did, I always had at least 1 before losing Jeralt.

[@TheBrutalSax]

@@chaoscontroller316 I started a regular hard mode playthrough not too long ago and got like 3 before reaching Jeralts death.

[@kotonakaishi]

I just got past the time skip in Silver Snow, this video would’ve been useful for this play through 😭😭😭

[@jedimasterpickle3]

...does the white scarf need to be so specific? You get something from Flayn on your birthday anyway in SS don't you? Or did I accidentally stumble into it. I feel like I got something in my SS playthrough, and probably set my birthday to be as early as possible.....my first playthrough I just used my real birthday, but for subsequent ones I try to get the brooch as early as I can.