RD Chapter 4-5 Preparations: About time you showed up

Welcome to the Salmo region! The fact the region is highlighted here is why I suspect the seventh Senator is from Salmo. That Senator would either be Numida or the unnamed fellow I've been calling Seliora, and we're not fighting either today.

Well, that's very nice, but Tibarn/Elincia doesn't seem like a pairing to worry about that. I guess Reyson, probably, but the Daeins would be impressive.

The Daein in this army isn't impressed. World peace isn't that easy.

Pelleas's thought is detached, since he's killable, but he's also worried about things other than what Almedha is worried about. Or maybe they are worried about the same things. Definitely in different ways.

All right, who do we know that is completely unforgivable...

RD Chapter 4-4 Battle: Defining the Good Guy

Today's map is an indoor map, going up through a house with treasure chests. Remind me, how many treasure chests and doors have we bumped into in this game? I really feel like they've been at a premium.

...You've gotta be kidding me.

How? This is some cosmic joke on the writer's part. I wondered who was filling his seat, though.

Oh, and just next to him is Hetzel.

He doesn't look like he'll be here long.

RD Chapter 4-4 Preparations: A rainy day

Ike's still chewing on the massive bombshells the last few chapters have been throwing at him. He's got more to go coming up. There's a reason he's not a King.

If nothing else, they'll be there because that's where the final boss is.

This isn't setting up for a "Ike does something rash" thing. We don't really have the room in the story for a character arc in Part 4, it's almost all plot here.

Near the capital? Now I'm positive the map the narrator is looking at is not the same as the one we are.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn to bring you Fire Emblem: Fates!

RD Chapter 4-3 Battle: No deserting in the desert

Well, no real surprises here. Just us, a rather large quantity of Disciples of Order, and miles and miles of sand. Apart from the cliffs, there's nothing here but deep dirt. If you're not familiar with desert maps in Fire Emblem, they slow infantry to a limp and cavalry to a crawl, but permit fliers and mages soar freely. The explanation of this gimmick goes unmentioned, maybe because they felt PoR 15 was enough for an RD player, and maybe because the chance to actually do something about this advice passed the player by back in the Intermission. Hope you stuck some good fliers and mages on this team! The game gave you Micaiah, Sanaki, Sigrun, and Naesala!

Oh, hello, it's so wonderful to see you here! Who is this guy?

Why, it's Senator Numida, the man who ran the Imperial Occupation of Daein! Seems like such small potatoes now. He's about as good at leading an army now as he was back then (not at all), and he's good for 5 Purge shots before he's just another bishop to whack with anything that attacks Defence.

Lekain accompanies him, and I refuse to believe that canonising under duress counts. Considering he is holding a Rewarp staff only (a Rewarp staff that is in full repair and not dented by his showing off), he doesn't seem long for this map. Pity. We'll see if we can't entertain him nonetheless.

RD Chapter 4-3 Preparations: The greatest lie never told

It's implied here that the Disciples of Order attack each group more than twice* each. They know they're stretching themselves to fit six battles in total, best not to burden us with more.

Now that Yune can act more openly, Farsight is back in full force.

...Who's dying? I was told there would be no generics.

I wonder why they chose to go through Grann at all. Perhaps Sanaki thought she could check in on Tormod.

Judgment Day didn't make the desert any nicer of a place.

Today, we're going to be looking at some distortions of the truth, which is what this is referring to.

RD Chapter 4-2 Battle: Soliloquy of a madman

Just us muddling our way through a thicketed forest, seems simple enough. At least we're letting Tibarn have fun, at least on a normal run.

Well now that's a surprise!

Valtome and his zero authority stars will be our opponent today. Which means we finally get to stick Amiti where the sun don't shine!

Despite obstensibly being Good enough to use Light magic at all, the Senate's grubby corrupted hands have not left Light magic uncorrupted. This is indeed the second-most powerful Light spell we can get our hands on short of the ultimate Light magic, and it's... Venin, for some reason. The poison will not be helpful. By the way, yes, the fact that it starts with "Val" is an intentional reference to Valtome (the Japanese names for both being "バルオーラ" and "バルテロメ").

RD Chapter 4-2 Preparations: Stay Positive

I think at some point, they say outright that they give Tibarn the longest route because "it's Tibarn".

King Daein and Queen Crimea, in the same team at last.

Well, that's... fortunate. I presume that's about to stop soon, though.

This is a very fitting name for the content of the opening of this mission.