Post-war Meta
In lieu of any well-formed thoughts based on game canon, I'd like to pose a question (probably one that has been asked before, but here goes regardless!):
Which of the FE "worlds" is best left off after their respective final wars? (so, for example, in the case of FE6/7, how would things look like after the end of 6?)
I don't know enough about Archanea of Valencia or Jugdral yet to say anything particularly convincing about them, but as for Elibe, Magvel, Tellius, they each have their particular hurdles.
With Elibe, you have a massive power vacuum left when Zephiel is killed and the remnants of Bern and their dragon allies are crushed. Theoretically Guinevere would become the queen and everything would be hunky dory, but the truth of the matter is that one of the largest (and the most military-minded countries attempted total war and was eventually crushed, and unlike after FE7, where Bern indirectly had a hand in the game's conflicts, after FE6 the Lycian Alliance did stamp down and made sure they couldn't rise again (I've been pondering writing a bit on the parallels between FE6-7 and WWI-I, but my knowledge of modern military history, and in particular WWI, is a bit shaky, and I don't have time to do a lot of in-depth research D:) So you have a thoroughly demoralized and defeated Bern, and while you could hope that Guin/Roy/Lilina/Mildain/King Mordred(?) could keep things together, there's always a question.
Magvel is the only universe where the question of reconstruction is actually addressed in-game (aside from FE10, but I'll get to that :P), and that only because of the massive earthquake. My headcanon says that the power vacuum here and the lack of any sort of order in Grado post-game could lead to a tug-of-war between the remaining countries as to which country's partisan gets installed as governor of the former Grado Empire (because Lyon was the emperor's only issue, and in the absence of any brothers or uncles or influential nobles, there isn't much in the way of people fit to sit the throne) So even without the hanging threat of natural disasters, I could personally see Frelia and Renais having their tensions escalate when each country sends dudes to occupy the fallen capital eventually leading to them building a huge wall and glaring ominously at each other for a half a century. But in a medieval setting where you can't just proliferate nuclear arms and call it a day, where anyone can get randomly stabbed over a flagon of mead, I see the possibility for a hot war there.
(on an unrelated note, if I ever write that post-game Innes-"accidentally"-spears-Ephraim-at-a-joust fic that I've been teasing forever, those political tensions will definitely come into play)
Now as for Tellius, you have the game ending with the omnipotent goddess being unceremoniously punted off her mortal coil. I'm not in any way well-informed about the history of Tellius, but after the end of FE10 we have what seems to be an uneasy truce between beorc and laguz, a bushelful of dead Begnion senators, and a great hero skipped town to go a'travelin' and a'aventurin'. Tellius is interesting because FE10 directly addresses the postwar climate of FE9 (quite well, IMO), and how the power vacuum there (orchestrated by Sephiran though it may have been) made life in Daein go from "bad" to "UTTER CRAP." So because FE10's conflict was the end of a second very bloody war, I don't know how likely it would be for another great conflict to happen so soon afterwards, although the conflict between beast and human is not a problem that would just magically go away, IMO.
So, what do you guys think about the post-game situations? (again, I apologize if this topic's been done before; if it has, I don't remember XD) Which of the FE worlds (including the ones I didn't mention!) is the best off after the end of war, and which is worst off?
Which of the FE "worlds" is best left off after their respective final wars? (so, for example, in the case of FE6/7, how would things look like after the end of 6?)
I don't know enough about Archanea of Valencia or Jugdral yet to say anything particularly convincing about them, but as for Elibe, Magvel, Tellius, they each have their particular hurdles.
With Elibe, you have a massive power vacuum left when Zephiel is killed and the remnants of Bern and their dragon allies are crushed. Theoretically Guinevere would become the queen and everything would be hunky dory, but the truth of the matter is that one of the largest (and the most military-minded countries attempted total war and was eventually crushed, and unlike after FE7, where Bern indirectly had a hand in the game's conflicts, after FE6 the Lycian Alliance did stamp down and made sure they couldn't rise again (I've been pondering writing a bit on the parallels between FE6-7 and WWI-I, but my knowledge of modern military history, and in particular WWI, is a bit shaky, and I don't have time to do a lot of in-depth research D:) So you have a thoroughly demoralized and defeated Bern, and while you could hope that Guin/Roy/Lilina/Mildain/King Mordred(?) could keep things together, there's always a question.
Magvel is the only universe where the question of reconstruction is actually addressed in-game (aside from FE10, but I'll get to that :P), and that only because of the massive earthquake. My headcanon says that the power vacuum here and the lack of any sort of order in Grado post-game could lead to a tug-of-war between the remaining countries as to which country's partisan gets installed as governor of the former Grado Empire (because Lyon was the emperor's only issue, and in the absence of any brothers or uncles or influential nobles, there isn't much in the way of people fit to sit the throne) So even without the hanging threat of natural disasters, I could personally see Frelia and Renais having their tensions escalate when each country sends dudes to occupy the fallen capital eventually leading to them building a huge wall and glaring ominously at each other for a half a century. But in a medieval setting where you can't just proliferate nuclear arms and call it a day, where anyone can get randomly stabbed over a flagon of mead, I see the possibility for a hot war there.
(on an unrelated note, if I ever write that post-game Innes-"accidentally"-spears-Ephraim-at-a-joust fic that I've been teasing forever, those political tensions will definitely come into play)
Now as for Tellius, you have the game ending with the omnipotent goddess being unceremoniously punted off her mortal coil. I'm not in any way well-informed about the history of Tellius, but after the end of FE10 we have what seems to be an uneasy truce between beorc and laguz, a bushelful of dead Begnion senators, and a great hero skipped town to go a'travelin' and a'aventurin'. Tellius is interesting because FE10 directly addresses the postwar climate of FE9 (quite well, IMO), and how the power vacuum there (orchestrated by Sephiran though it may have been) made life in Daein go from "bad" to "UTTER CRAP." So because FE10's conflict was the end of a second very bloody war, I don't know how likely it would be for another great conflict to happen so soon afterwards, although the conflict between beast and human is not a problem that would just magically go away, IMO.
So, what do you guys think about the post-game situations? (again, I apologize if this topic's been done before; if it has, I don't remember XD) Which of the FE worlds (including the ones I didn't mention!) is the best off after the end of war, and which is worst off?