User blog:Worldracer99/Drace Liveblogs Fire Emblem: Awakening (Paralogue One: Sickle to Sword/Chapter Seven: Incursion)

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I can already here you guys asking "But Drace, what's a Paralogue?" That's a very good question. I didn't know myself, at first. I looked it up on the wiki, and it turns out that "Paralogue" is just Nintendo's really pretentious-sounding way to say optional sidequest.

Anyways, the first Paralogue starts with Chrom and the team coming across a small farming village on an island off the southeast coast of Ylisse. The first thing they run into is a farm boy named Donnel, whose farm is being attacked by bandits. So basically 95% of the Ranger's Apprentice books condensed into one sidequest.



Donnel explains what's going on and starts taking the team to the bandit camp, and the bandits make plans to capture and/or kill the Shepherds.

Chrom asks Donnel to join the fight if he can, and the little guy accepts.

Now, here's where things get tough. If I want Donnel to join our team, he has to level up at least once in battle. If he doesn't, he's lost forever. Or until I restart the battle.

So to make sure that Donnie had a way to protect himself in battle, I paired him up with Kellam. Hurray for overkill defense. :P

The battle ends, Donnel's reunited with his mother, Donnel leaves the village to join the Shepherds, the Paralogue ends, and Kellam and Donnel have a Support where they bond over farming. Apparently Kellam worked on a farm too before he joined the Shepherds. Robin also had a C-Support with Sumia, where they bonded over the ridiculous amounts of books Sumia picked up from a villager who was about to throw them out.

I can relate to Sumia already. You should hear my friends when I get back from the library. "How are you going to read all that, Drace?" :P

Chapter Seven begins when the team's escorting Emmeryn to the eastern palace. And the team gets ambushed by Plegians. And they want the Fire Emblem. Wonderful.

A few turns later, a newcomer joins the battle- a Pegasus Knight named Cordelia. She was part of the border guard, but they were all apparently slaughtered by the Plegians, so she ran to get word to the Shepherds.



At the end of the battle, Cordelia explains more about her squad being destroyed- Gangrel himself lead the charge, and there are more Plegians only 12 hours' march behind the Shepherds. The poor girl saw her entire squadron slaughtered, and she still feels guilty for fleeing, even though that's what her squadron told her to do.

Emmeryn makes the decision to entrust the Fire Emblem to Chrom, and leaves for Ylisstol. Chrom and Lissa obviously hate this idea, and there's a sad farewell scene.

The team travels back to Regna Ferox, and there's a meeting in the arena as the Khans begin to gather soldiers for the upcoming battles. Poor Chrom's still mulling over Emmeryn leaving, and Sumia decides to get him to stop being all dark and brooding.

By slapping him in the face.

With her fist.

It was exactly as hilarious as it sounds, especially since Sumia was actually only trying to slap him, not punch him. Holy crap, Sumia is adorkable.

Flavia turns up, letting the team know that the Feroxi army is mobilized, and she's taking Basilio along too.

Then Basilio shows up with bad news.

Like, really bad. I was actually mouthing to myself "Nonononononononono..." when this happened.

Ylisstol has fallen, Emmeryn has been captured, and Gangrel's ordered her execution.

Obviously it's a trap, but Chrom's still planning to save her. And it's up to Robin to plan the strategy.

Ohhhh boy.

There's then a Support between Sully and Kellam, and a Support between Chrom and Robin (B-level attained! :D). Sully gets cranky with Kellam because it seemed he was watching her back specifically in battle ("I can protect myself! I don't need some tiny dude pulling a Samus, strapping on a giant suit of armor, and saving my butt all the time!"). Chrom, meanwhile, was apparently attacked by some random guy behind the mess tent. Chrom scared him off when he drawed his sword, but Robin's still worried about Chrom and wants him to take more care. These two are best bros, and Robin is a huge dork who wants to keep Chrom safe. Honestly, I wish the two of these could have an S-Support. I'm starting to ship Robin and Chrom. :P

My Thoughts
This is the first time I've had a genuine Oh Crap moment that didn't happen in battle. I am going to be hit HARD if Emmeryn dies, as will everybody else.

It's good to have another Pegasus Knight on the team. I've been pairing Cordelia up with Kellam. It's kinda sad, though... apparently she has a giant crush on Chrom, but she feels that it'll never work out. And there are no supports between them.

It was also this level when I got a sense of how ruthless the Plegians are. I'm worried about Emmeryn a whole lot.

Also, Donnel. I haven't used him much in battle, but I'm probably going to use my Second Seal to change his class from a Villager to something else. IDK what yet.

Current Party
Next time: Chapter 9 and Paralogue 2...
 * Chrom (Level 13 Lord, C-level Supports with Lissa and Sumia, B-level Support with Robin)
 * Sully (Level 7 Cavalier, C-level Supports with Robin, Stahl, and Kellam)
 * Robin (Level 14 Tactician, C-level Supports with Frederick, Sully, Sumia, and Panne, B-level Support with Chrom)
 * Ricken (Level 10 Mage)
 * Maribelle (Level 5 Troubadour)
 * Kellam (Level 10 Knight, C-level Supports with Sully and Donnel)
 * Panne (Level 9 Taguel, C-level Support with Robin)
 * Cordelia (Level 8 Pegasus Knight)
 * Sumia (Level 4 Pegasus Knight, C-level Supports with Robin and Chrom)
 * Lon'qu (Level 4 Myrmidon)
 * Nowi (Level 3 Manakete)
 * Gregor (Level 10 Mercenary)
 * Gaius (Level 9 Thief)
 * Virion (Level 4 Archer)
 * Frederick (Level 2 Great Knight, C-level Support with Robin)
 * Miriel (Level 1 Mage)
 * Vaike (Level 4 Fighter)
 * Donnel (Level 2 Villager, C-level Support with Kellam)
 * Stahl (Level 4 Cavalier, C-level Support with Sully)
 * Lissa (Level 3 Cleric, C-level Support with Chrom)