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zantetsukennn · 3 months
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celica, resplendent priestess✨❤️‍🔥
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FE2 Novelization Translation - Cover and Book Intro Pages
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New year, time for another new FE novelization translation!
2024's novel of focus is that of FE2, the original game Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia was a remake of. Enjoy reading this take on the same exact plot, ~25 years prior!
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Fire Emblem Gaiden
The Zofian Liberation War
Book 1
STORY
The continent of Valentia is divided between the north and the south, as well as their beliefs in War Father Duma and Earth Mother Mila. While the Kingdom of Zofia is ruled with kindness and compassion, the Rigelian Empire believes in raising its citizens to be prepared for war. Their hostility towards each other has finally pulled them into a vicious war. Units from both sides spill each other’s blood, fighting for their god and loyalty to their homeland each and every day, with no end in sight…
The protagonists of this tale are Alm, Celica, and countless other young units. They all wish for Valentia to be unified, but differ in how they want that outcome to be reached. And so, a grand tale of love and hate is about to unfold!
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Written by Katsuyuki Ozaki
Cover Illustration by Ichiro ?*
Cover Design by Kazuo Hiroi (WIDE)**
*T/N: I cannot find the Kanji character in this person’s last name anywhere to confirm its reading.
**T/N: First name could also be ‘Ichio’ or ‘Itsuo.’ I cannot find any record of this person online, so I cannot confirm the correct reading of their name. Their nickname is ‘WIDE’ because their last name, ‘hiroi,’ is the Japanese word for wide.
Published by Futabasha
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Author’s Profile
Katsuyuki Ozaki
An up-and-coming author also working as a copywriter. His major works include “Valkyrie no Densetsu,” “F-Zero,” “Zelda II: The Adventure of Link,” and many more, all published by Futabasha. He has also written for other strategy guide series. His hobbies include golf, cars, and computer games. He is of course also passionate about Fire Emblem, and has completed all of the games so far. He poured all of his love for the series into writing these two books without rest!
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Front:
Alm and Celica each set out on their own journey to forge!
This is the epic adventure of this young man and woman!!
The stage unfolds on a Valentia in chaos in this epic tale of love, blood, and war!
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Back:
Ad for Book 2.
Ad for a Shin Megami Tensei novelization.
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A necrodragon was here. In Zofia. When she realized exactly what that meant, Celica was petrified in horror. Earth Mother Mila had lost all power over Zofia.
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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Deliverance
The Six Resurrection Pills
Alm’s Awakening
The Mysterious Girl Silque
Chapter 2: Mila’s Restoration Army
Celica Embarks on Her Journey
The Ruffian Saber
The Necrodragon’s Trial
Chapter 3: To Zofia Castle
Rescuing Clair
The Night Before Storming Zofia Castle
Cliff’s Gambit
Chapter 4: The Red Haired Woman
The Port Town Tavern
Differing Paths
Chapter 5: To Mila’s Shrine
The Sisters from Archanea
Blake, Wielder of the Shadow Sword
Royal Bloodline
Desert Army
Princess Anthiese
Chapter 6: The Newly Reborn Kingdom of Zofia
His name is Zeke
Cross-Shaped Birthmark
Collapse and Liberation
The Throne Bathed in Light
Epilogue
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Illustrations: Ichiro ?* & Kazuo Hiroi (WIDE)**
*T/N: I cannot find the Kanji character in this person’s last name anywhere to confirm its reading.
**T/N: First name could also be ‘Ichio’ or ‘Itsuo.’ I cannot find any record of this person online, so I cannot confirm the correct reading of their name. Their nickname is ‘WIDE’ because their last name, ‘hiroi,’ is the Japanese word for wide.
Book design: Yusuke Matsuoka (NEXT)
Editing & printing: Rekkasha
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Character Introductions
Alm’s Army
Robin: A Villager who grew up with Alm in Ram Village. He later transcends to become an Archer.
Silque / Shilk: A Cleric in service to the goddess Mila. She specializes in healing magic.
Cliff / Klihs: A Villager from Ram Village. He later transcends to become a Mage, specializing in long range combat magic.
Delthea: A female Mage who has fallen into Rigel’s hands by Tatarrah’s magic. She wields the Aura tome.
Luthier: He decides to join forces with Alm to lead his younger sister Delthea’s fate down a righteous path. A mage with a tragic past.
Mycen: A former unit of the Knights of Zofia, transcended to one of the highest level classes, Gold Knight.
Python: An Archer prodigy whose short-temper is as great as his skills with a bow.
Clair: A Pegasus Knight who was granted the ability to fly a pegasus by the two gods. Clive’s younger sister.
Forsyth: A soldier who’s greatest skill is his ability to calmly make decisions in the heat of battle.
Mathilda: An exceptionally talented female Cavalier. She possesses both a brave soul and bewitching beauty.
Tatiana: A Saint captured by Nuibaba. Zeke’s beloved.
Clive: A Cavalier and the leader of the young surviving units of the Knights of Zofia.
Zeke: A mysterious Gold Knight who has lost his memory. He serves Alm under Emperor Rudolf’s orders.
Lukas: A hot-blooded soldier who wields his lance like lightning.
Alm: A fighter raised by Zofia’s hero Mycen, and the protagonist of this story. He is a boy with a grand fate!
Gray: A Villager from Ram Village. He later transcends into a Cavalier.
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zefirart · 1 year
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Celica i drew to practice coloring!
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kanomitri · 1 year
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“He has a hero’s blood in him.”
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“... and clearly a hero’s fire.”
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Five years ago, today, I met the most wonderful man, Luthier. I was doing a personal art project with markers, and was finding FE characters (via the Fire Emblem Wiki) with the same cherry red hair as my marker, when I came across… him. It was Gaiden Luthier, with his bright red hair and deep red eyes. I didn't even care that he was feminine-looking; he was handsome and cute, and his eyes spoke something! I saw SoV Luthier as well, and felt that there was going to be something special about this guy in particular.
About a week later, I was looking at Luthier's status screen portrait from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, when I felt a warm yet comforting feeling in my heart. I had this… sense that Luthier is the guy for me and that, again, he was going to be special. It's like my soul had lit up, like I was home; I didn't feel nervous one bit. I remember wanting to pull Luthier's body close to mine in a hug, with our hearts touching, and not let go. Despite him being fictional, he was my soulmate, I could feel.
However, it was still going to take a couple years of understanding myself and my heart to get where we are today…
Anyways, I love you, Luthier, and I always will. The red markers are a physical representation of the red string of fate. And while I found you by marker, we're bound by soul as lovers. ❤️
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Celica you were done so dirty. My sweet summer child you deserved so much better.
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cosmicnovaflare · 7 months
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Mila from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
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one-in-lemillion · 1 year
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Fire Emblem games have two settings: incredible writing and gorgeous character designs with mid gameplay, or terrible writing and ugly character designs with amazing gameplay. They can never complete the writing + design + gameplay triangle for it will spell the end of the world.
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Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !
Round 1 Poll R
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Solanaceae : family of nightshades : includes vines, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, petunia, belladonna, etc.
Many nightshades are toxic either for us or other animals
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(Forsythia)
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hwangdahlia · 1 year
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mila
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FE2 Novelization Translation - Chapter 2 Part 3
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Chapter 2 - Mila’s Restoration Army
Part 3 - The Necrodragon's Trial
"Necrodragon Shrine" was just a name, or so Celica thought. The land of Zofia was under Mila's divine protection. Meaning it should have been unthinkable that one of Duma's guardian beasts could step foot in this country. 
However, that was all her wishful thinking. As Saber maneuvered the ship through the strait, still locked up in the helm room with Genny as his hostage; the waves were gradually becoming so high and violent that it felt as if the calm waters before now were all a lie, and dark clouds even moved in and covered the skies. Yet the ship moved straight ahead as if it was being pulled forward. 
Celica and the others all stood at the bow of the ship to confirm the path before them. They saw a small but tall black island, which appeared to be only the top of a steep mountain peeking out from the sea.
The island, shaped like the horn of a unicorn, was at the very center of the high waves and dark clouds. It was as if the island pierced through the skies and opened a hole from which the dark clouds and storm poured forth.
The ship reached land, and when Saber emerged from the helm room with Genny, hands tied behind her back, everyone else had no choice but to follow him. There was no flat land on the island for him to land the boat on. His only option was a steep cliff that rubbed against the side of the ship, which led to a single cave at the exact height of the deck.
They did as Saber ordered, and crossed the deck towards the cave, then gingerly followed each other one after the other across the rickety bridge leading to the cave, jostled by the violent seas. Celica took the lead, followed by Valbar holding his lance out at his hip, then Leo, Kamui, Boey, and Mae. Last was Genny and Saber, holding his knife against her back.
Then, Celica saw it. It appeared all too suddenly. It blocked her path, as if to say, 'Your fear is not caused by the power I will exert over you. Just standing here before you is enough to send you into pure terror.'
'It' was a massive necrodragon. Its body was like that of a lizard, its wings a bat, its tail a poisonous serpent, and its head a dragon. The rock wall of the mountain had been smashed in a way that allowed its body to fit perfectly inside the cave, meaning that this cave was its birthplace. The sacred light that radiated from within it was as bright as a burning fire.
A necrodragon was here. In Zofia. When she realized exactly what that meant, Celica was petrified in horror. Earth Mother Mila had lost all power over Zofia. And its presence also meant that Duma, the violent god of war, had to be the one who stole it from her. 
The first lesson drilled into the heads of the clergy was that of the Divine Accord between Mila and Duma. Until now, it has been as essential to their world as the air they breathed.
'This means that the Divine Accord is no more. Duma has broken it.'
Celica thought. That was the one certain truth at this moment. Yet knowing the truth did not mean she knew what would come of it. What would become of a world where the Divine Accord was broken? Not being able to guess made her feel pure terror.
'We must restore Mila to her rightful place, and reinstate the Divine Accord!' Her determination to go to the Mila Shrine was greater than ever, as if she had dropped an anchor in the seas of her heart.
"You go to the rear, Celica. Assume white swan formation!" Valbar shouted before the necrodragon's might.
Valbar was the vanguard, with Leo nocking an arrow behind him, and Kamui standing at a slight diagonal behind them, ready to support either the front or rear lines. The slightly curved line they created looked like the soft neck of a white swan. Boey and Mae stood next to each other, making up the wings, and protecting Celica in the back.
Now was not the time for them to feel threatened by Saber and make their moves based on that. Their current reality was nowhere near that soft. 
The fierce gust of wind the necrodragon blew in their direction was so great that it made even the fully armored Valbar shake.
He thrust his iron lance, twice as long as he was tall, into the wind, but it did not cause the necrodragon to flinch as it bared its fangs at him, fangs that bit through even his steel armor.
The beast flicked Valbar's body backwards, and he crashed to the ground. Genny tried to run up and heal him, but Saber strengthened his grip around the rope he was keeping her tied up with, preventing her from doing so.
Leo shot his nocked steel arrow. The arrow flew in vain past the necrodragon's neck, and smashed the rock behind it to pieces. The necrodragon immediately turned in the direction of the bow and stretched out its tail, which it swayed to unleash an attack in front of Leo.
Leo was knocked back and rolled across the ground until he stopped at Saber's feet. Genny tried to bend down to assess his wounds, but Saber would not allow even that.
"Thunder! Cut down my enemy!" Boey and Mae both cast thunder spells at the same time. 
Two bolts of lightning came crashing down from the heavens, through a hole that formed in the cave ceiling, scattering the light surrounding the necrodragon everywhere.
Amid the light and stormy winds, only one person stood, swaying with it.
It was Kamui. With both Valbar and Leo injured, it was clear to him what he must do.
Prepared for battle, Kamui shouted, "Saber, can you hear me?!"
Even in the great gusts of wind around them, Saber heard Kamui's voice loud and clear.
"I don't care if you can hear me or not. But I can't die until I say just one thing!" Kamui readied his sword at his torso, and the two ends of the fabric wrapped around his neck fluttered straight sideways in the wind. He always had it wrapped around his neck, anticipating that his arms may be injured. It was a sad custom among mercenaries. "I was no great mercenary. I just did what was my duty, and I have no memory of ever losing to anyone. I entrusted my life to Valbar. The money he paid me was enough to pay for my funeral. I can die in peace any time."
Kamui judged the distance between him and the necrodragon, then slowly stepped his worn out combat boots forward, one after the other.
It was only for a brief moment, but the memory of their fight against Darth's men, standing back to back, flashed through Saber's mind. He remembered Kamui's behavior then. 
"The odds are not in our favor!" He'd said.
"You got that right!" Kamui answered.
The memory made Saber feel that he'd found someone just like him.
"But us mercenaries don't have to act just out of our sense of duty! The deeper our sense of duty, the stronger our human emotions are. Saber! I can't truly say that I don't understand at all how you feel. I just can't say that I understand all too well, either. But I'm going to defeat this monster for you! I don't know where the Blessed Sword is, but you can search its corpse and find it."
The necrodragon twisted its long neck and looked down at Kamui. "How dare you laugh at me, monster!" He grumbled. "Saber! It is the one wish of all mercenaries that Rudolf would bow before them! You be that mercenary, or else I'll come back and haunt your ass!"
Those were Kamui's last words before it happened all too quickly. He swung his sword, and headwind to the great gusts of wind, he jumped into its chest. His body disappeared in the raging light emanating from the dragon.
"Kamui!"
Everyone heard a howl so loud it echoed through the shrine, even over the howling of the storm. Celica, Boey, and Mae all turned to see that it was Saber.
It was then that Saber realized it. Kamui was a true Mercenary. He was a true unit that faced the fate decided for him when he was born, and tried his hardest to fulfill that role.
His contracts were an afterthought. Dying for another was what it truly meant to be a Mercenary. It was the reason why Mercenaries were so proud of their freedom.
And what about the person Kamui sacrificed his own life for in the very end?
"Why would you do this for the likes of me?!" Saber released his grip on Genny and leapt forward. 
The necrodragon spit Kamui's corpse out at his feet.
Saber screamed so hard the blood flowing around his feet may have very well come from his own throat. "I killed Kamui! I killed my only friend with my own hands!"
His chest felt like it was about to burst with feelings that would never again be reciprocated, and he lost all his strength in his sword hand.
"You beast!" Saber shouted and challenged the necrodragon, already without even a chance at victory. He wished only for death.
The dragon flapped its wings, and Saber's body danced around in the wind. Then suddenly, the dragon became quiet, as if time inside the shrine had stopped completely.
A miraculous scene began to unfold. A red light like that of a newly ignited fire floated downwards, as if it were chasing after Saber.
This was not from the light the necrodragon emitted. Perhaps it was the light of Saber's soul as it exited his body? Or maybe a sign of Saber's divine punishment for his wicked plot?
It was neither. The red light lightly grazed Saber's body as it slammed to the ground, then flew past him, before finally moving in towards its true target, Celica.
For a brief moment, Celica saw a figure within the light. It had several sets of small wings that shined brightly. Then, a split second later, it disappeared.
"It's an angel!" Genny cried from beside Celica, clasped her hands together, and bent down on her knees. She had seen the true form of the figure within the red light that entered Celica's body.
"Heavens, cut down my enemies!' Celica shouted, the words coming out of her subconsciously from the very center of her mind. In her desperate mental state facing death, she had mastered Seraphim, the powerful magic spell that could defeat the necrodragon.
The spell conjured up countless rings that surrounded the necrodragon. Within each of those rings was an angel just like the one that had appeared before Celica.
The necrodragon split into a million pieces that vanished.
Seraphim. Celica mastering this spell was certain proof that even now as Earth Mother Milia was trembling under Duma's threat to her power, she was still everywhere in Zofia, and continuing to protect Celica.
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Peace returned to the shrine. The dark clouds parted, and it was not the mystical glow emanating from the necrodragon, but now the sun's rays illuminating the shrine, returning it to its rightful state.
Saber was grieving. The only words he could manage to utter were those that expressed his remorse and how sorry he felt.
As he was crying with his face against the ground, someone walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
It was Genny.
With her left hand still on his shoulder, she raised her left hand towards the heavens and said, "This man is Saber. Judging by his current will and strength, he does not know if he is worthy of Mila and Duma's blessing to complete the transcendence ritual to become a Myrmidon."
Saber looked up. His face, covered in Kamui's blood and the dirt kicked up during the battle, twisted in pain, even more so than it already was from wrongfully taking the life of his friend.
'Me, a Myrmidon? I allowed my friend to be killed. I have been stained forever as divine punishment for my wicked deeds. Why me? I should not be forgiven. No… for Kamui's tragic death, I know I will never be forgiven.'
"No, stop!" Saber wailed, but when he tried to squirm out of Genny's grasp and run away, she put all of her strength into her left hand, and kept his shoulder down.
As Genny prayed, the white light that fell over the quiet shrine looked like a single strand dangling from the web of a spider living on the rock ceiling above. The light moved until it finally enveloped Saber and created a cocoon. When it vanished, Saber had transcended to become a Myrmidon, the unit class above Mercenary.
Mila had forgiven him.
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They found the Blessed Sword lodged deep in the necrodragon's throat. Saber knew there was only one thing he could do with it. He gave it to Celica, and vowed his eternal loyalty to her.
The group arranged a heartwarming funeral service for Kamui. Saber requested everyone that he be allowed to remove the cloth Kamui wore around his neck in a moment of silence, and wrap it around his own neck. When Boey and Mae saw what he was doing, they allowed it. Leo did not speak a word, but slapped his hand on Saber's shoulder, and Genny prayed for Kamui's soul to find peace.
Zofia Harbor was in their sights. Still unable to shed a single tear, the Myrmidon Saber stared not at the waves, but beyond the undulating seas. He focused all his energy on maneuvering the rudder.
Their cargo ship had now officially become the warship for Mila's restoration army. On its bow stood Valbar and Celica, so different in size they looked like a parent and child pair.
"That's strange." Valbar said something concerning. "I can see a light coming from the southern fort. It has fallen to Desaix, and he is already no longer using it. It should be locked up tight."
The southern fort Valbar referenced, atop the Zofian shore's cliff wall that had finally come into sight, soared high into the sky. Celica also saw with her own eyes that there was indeed a light lit on its steeple.
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zefirart · 11 months
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Silque as a late birthday gift for the sweet @aurora-boring-alis!
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frickingnerd · 8 months
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cuddling with genny
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pairing: genny x gn!reader
tags: fluff, established relationship
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genny loves to cuddle with you, which often ends with the two of you falling asleep together
she loves it when you hold her in your arms and she gets to rest her head on your chest
she usually falls asleep right away, feelings so relaxed when she's listening to your heartbeat
however, she does enjoy it the other way around as well, with your head on her chest or lap, while she plays with your hair
on days where she doesn't want to fall asleep right away, she'll sit up, your head on her lap as she softly sings you to sleep
once you're drifted away, she continued to hum while usually reading something, until she eventually puts her book away and cuddles up against you as well
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echoes celica is an excellent character and i’m tired of acting like she’s not. she is a pious teenager who got traumatized into keeping her burdens to herself because of the instability of her childhood years with being forced to evacuate to ram then again to novis, because of the burden of being the crown princess and being in danger of being kidnapped sold assassinated etc. she trusts the evil purple priest guy will sacrifice her for the right reasons because as zofia’s new ruler she now has responsibility to make sure that valentia won’t continue in its sorry state and AS A PRIESTESS bringing her god (or even *a* god) back to their usual is a more direct/effective means of change than just going to war until something changes. that and she really would sooner die than send her beloved and rigel’s new ruler to his doom. remember when she had that prophecy of him dying to rudolf? even if that’s not how it went down that doesn’t mean he’s out of danger considering jedah made her watch him killing his dad and freaking out in the aftermath. she said she would start relying on her friends more after conrad made his dramatic reveal but really it is not that easy to just kill bad habits you’ve been holding onto for years. even after jedah starts teleporting her friends to the evil basement and lies about just sending them outside what is she supposed to do? say no thanks to a guy who is ridiculously tanky bc of cheat magic and could evaporate them all? now i still have several problems with how that whole series of events goes down and it IS more misogynistic than how it was in gaiden but celica’s decision on its own is the least of them and i think it makes perfect sense for the character they’ve been setting up until this point.
in fact it’s a rationale that also applies to what she says at the end of act 2! it’s deeper than “violence bad and yet celica kills pirates?? 🤨🤨” it’s because what she’s done as a priestess cleaning up the water of some pirates is on a lesser scale than waging war on the neighboring kingdom and more importantly she’s just trying to keep alm from getting skewered on rudolf’s lance and he just happens to say the exact things that hit her where it hurts so she gets riled up
I will defend Celica on the internet.
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