With a Blade of Hammered Sunlight

To be completely honest, I feel like people are too quick to remove the Emblems in Engage rewrites. The game openly advertised itself as a celebration of the franchise, and I honestly think it's a bit too easy to take out the anniversary aspect instead of working with it

My idea would be to emphasize the multiverse aspect of the game. To differentiate it from Askr, which summons other worlds into Zenith, Elyos would be a world that poured into others

Originally an endless void of magic, there existed only two things in the world. A beautiful blue flame that burned like starlight and a lone dragon meant to guard it. Throughout the countless millennia, sparks of this flame would fall into other realms and give birth to new worlds with artifacts and magic that would be named Fire Emblems

Through these flickers, the lone dragon would peer into the other realms and slowly fall into despair watching people interact and form bonds as it remained isolated in an empty void. Unable to cross the divide or cope with its loneliness, it committed the first sin of the world. Harnessing the flame's power, it burned the walls that separated them and brought countless worlds crashing together

As a result of the barrier's collapse, the Primordial Fire created a new world around itself to seal it from the other realms and restore the barrier between them, but trapped the dragon in its new world as a result. All of the little sparks the dragon coveted as windows into other realms crystalized themselves so they could continue existing and from them, reflections of heroes who carried the original spark in their worlds would be born from these jewels

While the dragon was initially pleased with itself for making a world where it was no longer alone, it quickly realized its folly. Humanity's mortality paled in comparison to its immortal life. Once more, it was driven to insanity watching its bonds futilely die over and over again as it lived on. Finally regretting its first sin, it waged war on the new world in hopes that utter obliteration would turn it back to the void and return it to the one thing that could never abandon it

Its new vicious mindset would put it into conflict with the countless settlers dragged into the new world, including one Divine Dragon who sought to provide peace for all. As his madness raged on, he would be declared, the Fell Dragon

And that would be the story behind Elyos's creation as the world closest to the first flame of the universe. The Emblems exist as the only remnants of the flame's existence in the world as shown by bearing its blue fire. Sombron's madness is contextualized as one born from two different versions of isolation happening in uniquely traumatizing methods each time

Fell Dragons being the original dragons of Elyos is why they can call Emblems with incantation. They're inherently tapped into the Primordial Fire. Divine Dragons have to use prayer because they must have faith in a power they've never seen or heard

The original Divine vs. Fell war was between those who wanted to settle in the new world and those who believed they could return home by tearing down Elyos. This information was purposefully hidden out of fear that the new Elyosians would seek the Primordial Fire or tamper with the boundary again

The wishes granted by bringing all the Emblems together is fueled by the tiny sparks of the Primordial Fire they still carry, but even that power pales in comparison to their original source

Alear's eventual transformation into an Emblem now has an added implication of the Primordial Fire itself asking them to finally put Sombron to rest and providing the power to do so

The reason the Emblems fade after crossing into the void between dimensions is because being outside the natural barrier puts them too close the Primordial Fire, causing it to draw their essence back

Alright. We have officially hit the part of the Gemstone Symbolism Discussions where I need a bit of help. The reason why is because after Noctis's Discussion, it will be Prompto to finish out the chocobros. So all of you get to suggest Gemstones for me to research into that would fit Prompto's story the best.

I know all of you are probably wondering, how is this going to work? All of you can comment and reblog this post with your selected gemstone. However the limit is going to be 2 per reblog and comment. so that I can take the time to look through sources and figure out my plan of attack.

If there is more than one stone that ends up fitting Prompto. Then we'll do what I did for Noctis again by polling for the winner.

Gemstones that are Officially off the list for this are:

Alexandrite (Tied to Ardyn) *Technically a variety of Chrysoberyl but eh

Amber (Tied to Gladio)

Emerald (Tied to Ignis)

Gemstone Variety that is off the list:

Black Moonstone (Tied to Noctis)

How can we chose a gemstone? Fairly easy, you can go off eye or hair color for a starting point. Maybe even a major theme. Whatever it is, choose a stone.

Been to Greenland

Been to Denver

Buried treasure in St. Louis (or St. Paul for that matter)

Been to Moscow

Been to Tampa

Been to Boston (only if you went during the fall, though)

Hoisted a mainstay

Swabbed a poop deck

Veered to starboard

You know what just DNI if you've ever sailed at all

Walked a gangplank

Owned a parrot (I shouldn't have to explain this one)