- [Narrator] Hey everybody, it's back-to-school season.
That means suiting up with your favorite teen professor,
taking Wyvern riding class, and traveling to Garreg Mach
as we get into the game with all the sword guys from Smash.
Just kidding, Marth's not here.
Fire Emblem, the Three Houses, let's begin.
Byleth is the teen son of hot, dead, and mercenary Jeralt.
Out doing some general mercenary stuff one night,
they encounter three students
from the Officers Academy at Garreg Mach.
After saving the kids, Jeralt and Byleth head
to the monastery, where Jeralt can retake his position
in the Holy Knights of Seiros,
while Byleth becomes a professor!
With no interview, Byleth gets his pick of three houses,
Blue Lions, Black Eagles, or Golden Deer,
AKA jocks, nerds, and goofballs.
He also meets some true weirdos:
horny opera singer turned teacher Manuela,
big dork Hanneman, distantly aged
brother and sister Seteth and Flayn,
and the ominous lady Rhea, leader of the Church.
Months pass training, fighting other students,
resolving national level disputes,
with groups of teenagers led by
a teenager with no teaching experience.
Then things get weird.
Flayn is kidnapped by the Death Knight.
She is rescued, and a girl named Monica is also there.
Weird.
Everyone in a town goes insane.
Byleth acquires a magical sword with
ranged attack capability and historical significance.
Then the Flame Emperor shows up,
and they're up to some nasty shit.
Monica turns out to be in cahoots with them
and kills Jeralt,
that's Byleth's hot dad if you forgot.
Which sets up a showdown between Byleth
and the Flame Emperor, who turns out to be Edelgard,
the leader of nerd house.
Before their confrontation, Byleth gets stuck
in some sort of negative zone.
He gets freed by the voice inside his head,
the goddess of everything, Sothis,
who turns his hair green, and gives him new class bonuses.
The battle culminates with Rhea turning into a dragon,
and Byleth falling off a cliff, and landing in a cave
for a five-year power nap.
Let's rewind to Byleth's first day at Garreg Mach:
he becomes a professor and can choose
any of the three houses to lead.
Based on what he chooses, things play out differently.
If Byleth joins Golden Deer, he teams up with Claude
and his gang of rascals to unite the noble alliance
against Edelgard and her empire.
After some battles, he loses another
power play.
The surely chill, those who slither below ground.
Tuttlesnakes rule!
Byleth and co defeat them but awaken
Nemesis, the original owner of Byleth's cool sword.
Rhea turns into a dragon again and dives.
The gang takes down Nemesis,
unites the kingdoms,
brings about a new era of peace and even
opens up relations with Fogland's rival nation Almyra.
Calude and Byleth rule together and things are great.
Another rewind:
Byleth mentors the Blue Lions' house
led by Dimitri, heir to the kingdom of
Faerghus whose whole family was murdered in an uprising.
After Edelgard's rebellion,
Faerghus is thrown into chaos and taken over by
the villainous Cornellia.
There's more!
Dimitri was childhood friends with Edelgard
and takes her betrayal badly becoming
a revolutionary psycho.
He tries killing everyone to avenge
everything he's lost.
Unsurprisingly he has an eyepatch now.
Dimitri and Byleth reunite the Blue Lions.
They start fighting the Empire but
Dimitri stays crazy until his friend Rodrigue
dies saving Dimitri's life from
a young baby with a good reason to kill him.
Re-inspired, Dimitri and Byleth take back
Faerghus and kill Cornellia.
They also learn that Cornelia worked
with the Empire Dimitri's stepmom to kill his family.
Yikes.
Revenge time!
The gang heads out to take down Edelgard
and it works.
She dies.
They save Rhea, Dimitri is king.
Apparently this timeline the underground
dudes don't matter.
Everyone seems happy.
Rewind again:
Byleth joins Edelgard to lead the Black Eagle house.
Everything goes basically the same except
Edelgard be schemin'.
Byleth is met with another turning point,
a fork stuck in the road.
Side with the Edelgard revolution or
side with the church as it defends itself.
With Edelgard, Byleth sees the greatest hits
compilation of all his old friends
and owns them with violence.
Edelgard and Byleth force Rhea to take
desperate actions to stop them.
She burns a city full of people
and turns into a dragon.
It's not enough.
Rhea gets killed, Edelgard wins.
Byleth loses his connection to the goddess
and becomes a normal guy.
Bad trade I imagine.
OR Byleth can join the church and
do almost the same thing as in the Golden Deer
story only with fewer interesting friends.
He fights, takes down Edelgard and
even deals with the underground people.
Rhea tells Byleth that she made
him a receptacle for the goddess
which is why his heart doesn't beat - normal!
If Byleth hasn't already chosen to marry Rhea -
- [lower voice] You could do worse than a dragon.
- She goes crazy and tries to kill him.
Really normal stuff happening here.
He kills her, takes her to the Church
and gets things on track.
Well that was a lot but it was also
Fire Emblem, the Three Houses in three minutes.
And yeah we didn't hit everything.
We know Seteth is Flayn's Dad.
But it took a hundred or something hours in the game to get here
so here we are.
I hope you guys enjoyed the interview.
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I'm sure I got all the names wrong,
it's very important to get the names right
with these fictional characters you know.
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