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[writerawakened]

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

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[mark_asphodel]

Best off: Valencia hands down. The civil war seems to have been minor by the scale of other FE wars, Alm is enthusiastically accepted as the heir to Rigel by Emperor Rudolf's loyalists, Cellica is the legit heir to Sofia, and their marriage unifies the island in a dynasty stated to last for 1,000 years. Now, I'd say providing for food and security are definite issues, but all in all... not so bad, really. No one was crushed. No one was brutalized. The "enemy" are us.

Worst off: Archanea just suffered through two (TWO!) full-scale wars in the space of a decade. The first war is stated to have devastated Grust and Gra and badly damaged Macedon, Altea, and Talys (Aurelis seems to have been mostly OK). The second war confirms Macedon as a "failed state" and results in the annihilation of Altea, plus additional damage to the kingdom of Archanea itself. And let's not get into what the smoking ruins of Dolhr are gonna consist of. The government of every nation save Talys is completely up-ended by this point... and the solution of the gods is to put Marth in charge of it all. Whatever. There's a reason I write dystopias. Also, IMO, it was the darkest (most brutal and corrupt) of the continents to start with.

As for Magvel... that Grado thing is going to be a tremendous mess, and IMO the "downer ending" indicates that reconstruction won't be happy lollipops.

a tug-of-war between the remaining countries as to which country's partisan gets installed as governor of the former Grado Empire

IMO, the ending to the game seems to indicate Renais is going to have the upper hand here. But the balance of power is completely shot now-- landlocked Renais now has a massive seacoast, and Frelia loses some of the leverage they had over Renais to start with. I can see Innes marrying L'Arachel purely to match Ephraim, megastate for megastate. Yeah, we may end up with a Berlin War scenario here...

[writerawakened]

Are you insinuating that somehow Marth isn't capable of single-handedly transforming an entire decimated land into a thriving continent? What manner of blasphemy is this? :P

I've still only played FE11, but there seemed to be a measure of cynicism there butting heads with the starry-eyed idealism, at least from how I remember it.

IMO, the ending to the game seems to indicate Renais is going to have the upper hand here

It does seem that way, especially since Ephraim and Eirika are "Restoration King and Queen" and champions of the reconstruction. But the question is, would they have the manpower to really keep the foot down on Grado? Especially since the surprise attack cut down their soldiers' numbers immensely (although I think Hayden said something to a similar extent about his own men and women in armor.) And there's no guarantee whatever loyal Gradan soldiers still live wouldn't actively try to off the twins...especially after a good year or so of propaganda painting them as the Demon King's whelps XD

Of course, a lot of that stems from my view of Ephraim not really being enthused with expansionism, while Innes I see as loath to pass up any opportunity to build up Frelia bigger and better (especially if it means getting a crack at the time honored tradition of Whack-an-Ephraim.)

I'll definitely take your word for the level of sheer destruction and fuckery of Archanea, but Magvel gets the vote for "Most likely to get into another war" in my yearbook :P

[mark_asphodel]

Are you insinuating that somehow Marth isn't capable of single-handedly transforming an entire decimated land into a thriving continent?

All I know is that there are still definitely battles going on after the Great Victory, 'cause one of the playable characters does Suicide By Cop in said battles. Also, a lot of the smarter characters get the hell outta there and presumably go to Valencia or someplace better.

Also, on a somewhat less petty note, Marth's character ending from FE3 isn't exactly the kind of panegyric that some of the other Lords rate: "As the leader of the unified Kingdom of Akaneia, [he] worked tirelessly to restore the devastated nations." That's it. It's a far cry from Alm's thousand-year dynasty.

ALSO... even assuming everyone loves Marth too much to ever get disenchanted with him personally, there are lots of dispossessed heirs to the other kingdoms kicking around, and if Marth's son or grandson doesn't have enough charisma to hold the archipelago together, the foci for rebellion are pretty numerous.

I've still only played FE11, but there seemed to be a measure of cynicism there butting heads with the starry-eyed idealism, at least from how I remember it.

I liked what FE11 seemed to be doing, but I think FE12 kinda threw it out the window.

But Magvel gets the vote for "Most likely to get into another war" in my yearbook :P

Full-scale war on par with an FE game? Yeah, I'd say Magvel's the candidate. I can agree with that. We need a sequel, don't we? ;P

But IMO... Archanea's got problems. And life there seemed pretty nasty and brutish to start with.