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Friday, 14 January 2022

Despair and Judgment: The Weeping Heron

Radiant Dawn Endgame Part 4: Despair

Today, we're going to be having a deep dive into genocide. Strap yourselves in, and if you've got experience with being in the midst of so much murder you'd rather not relive, there's a part you might want to skip.

Neutrality and Obfuscation: The Black Dragon King

A man who has lived a thousand years bows to the next generation. All in all, Deghinsea doesn't seem like all that bad a fellow, but his actions have well and truly carved a dark path for his people to follow. But first, of course, his boss conversations:

Radiant Dawn Endgame Part 3.2: Peacekeeper

We have to fight roughly double our army's size in dragons. Remember those guys from 4-5? Now there are all of them.

Oh, by the way, while I'm looking around, these tiles that lead apparently to the endless abyss of "below the tower"? Those are Hades tiles. Mechanically, they're uninteresting, but that's a choice of word.

Here's the King of Dragons himself, not standing on any exciting terrain (thank Yune), but with more than enough ways to mess us up. 75 Atk, hitting Defence, means even our bulkiest unit is taking about 35 damage a hit- well, 30 with the Blessing, small comfort. 242 Hit, which means we're probably not avoiding it (imagine if he actually did hit his Skill cap!). And those Defences... Again, good thing he's not on terrain and not interested in finding some.

Now that's a class description that also tells us a bit about the man.

Here are his Skills. Shove, Formshift and Night Tide are of little interest to us, but Mantle and Ire are new.

Mantle nullifies all damage unless it's coming from one of Yune's Blessed weapons. Without that Blessing, we'd be defenceless against this guy. Imbue-for-Luck means Deghinsea heals 30 HP a turn- we've got to outdamage that if we want to overturn his 100 HP. Not mentioned: This thing is also Nihil and Fortune.

Ire is just a crit. The dragons got off bad in Masteries. But it is something we very much do not want to be hit by.

Deghinsea is also a five star commander. Good thing Ike's in command, or else we just lost 25 Hit/Avoid across the board. We're still down 10.

Nasir and Gareth are standing behind Deghinsea, transformed. It is outright in our interest to not attack them. This also leaves us with fewer options for dealing with the man himself.

Oh, not all dragons have the Tide Skills. All the better for us, in all honesty.

Radiant Dawn Endgame Part 3.1: The Blessed Ones

Yune decides to exposit because she's bored. Because expositions are how you entertain people!

"Well, except you, Kurth, your dad is pretty old."

Chivalry and Rivalry: The Black Knight of Kadohl

And so the Black Knight has at last been vanquished. He lived an obstacle for Ike to face and died a tragedy of lost souls. Unfortunately, his choice to duel Ike and Ike alone means we won't have much to discuss from him, but Levail has some lines to sit through.