#albinea

My fingers are currently sore as I write this from inside the college. I'm waiting for my second class to begin, but I have like forty minutes before it does. So maybe I can use this time to describe what I want from continuing stories in the world of Fire Emblem: Three Houses. As a disclaimer though, let me just remind people that I've never played There Hopes and I never want to play Three Hopes. My knowledge of Fodlan comes solely from playing Three Houses.

I've already tried to explain why I'd want a sequel to Crimson Flower before, and I don't feel like rehashing all that. But I can explain why I want spin-offs instead of prequels (or at least prequels that double as spin-offs or something). Adrestia, Faerghus and Leicester are all interesting countries. But we've already seen a lot of the sights there. We know Enbarr, Fhirdiad, Arianrhod, Derdriu, etc. We know all the signs in Fodlan. Even seeing them in the past wouldn't be nearly as interesting as fleshing out the other regions on the continent, in my opinion.

Besides the three countries we saw in Three Houses, there's a great many other lands to explore. There's Almyra, where Claude and Cyril and Nader are all from. There's Petra's home, the island nation of Brigid. There's Shamir's home, the far off other continent of Dagda. There's also the far off continent of Albinea, apparently a frigid land where not much grows. There's Sreng, although I don't remember a lot about them. Hell, there's even Agartha! The underground, hidden country of Agartha, which we only ever see in one chapter on some routes of the game.

Of all these continents, I think Almyra is the one most likely to get a spin-off. Almyra already has a decent amount of characters in Three Houses, so it wouldn't be hard to build onto it and create a new game set there. But personally? I think Dagda or Albinea would be interesting. I would love a Fire Emblem game set in a mostly icy terrain, and I think albinea could really deliver on that. I think Dagda also has potential, if only because we know so little about it. I want a game fleshing out the world of three houses, but I don't want to completely retell the same story we told before.

I think setting a new game in Almyra or Dagda or Albinea would be the right way to go. If we want to stay in the world of Three Houses, then let's worldbuild. Let's see the landscapes and political situations of these different continents. Are there different mythologies and gods in different lands? Could we get a game set in a foreign continent that runs concurrently with Three Houses? That would be pretty interesting. There's lots of potential here. That's really all I'm saying. There's lots of potential storylines here, and I'd love to see these things explored.

Il Comando comprendeva un ufficio cartografico, una sede per gli ufficiali superiori della Wehrmacht e un centralino telefonico dotato di cavo per il collegamento diretto con Berlino. Tra gli obiettivi dell’azione c’era anche il generale Kesselring, spesso presente al comando. L’attacco fu un successo, militare e psicologico, tanto che nel giro di poche settimane i nazisti smobilitarono il Comando e lo trasferirono a Cavriago. L’Operazione Tombola continuò poi fino alla Liberazione e fu determinante in questi territori per mettere in difficoltà nazisti e fascisti. Il suono della cornamusa salvò la popolazione civile di Albinea dalla rappresaglia nazista, perché per i tedeschi fu la prova che si trattava di un attacco militare alleato e non di un’azione partigiana, mentre il paracadute di Kirkpatrick è diventato poi un abito da sposa. All’Operazione Tombola è dedicata la canzone Battaglione Alleato dei Modena City Ramblers. "

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There are quite a few foreign countries we know little about, so here’s the information I could find on them and where I intend to base them on in my attempts at world building!

Albinea: very little information; it’s intensely frigid with rare animal and plant species and a very small population of humans; you can get Albinean seeds which can give you root vegetable seeds, yellow flower seeds, carrots, and Albinean berries (tart berries with a hint of sweetness); you can catch and Albinean herring; Albinea has moose; I think I’ll probably use Alaska as a basis for Albinea since it seems like a good fit.

Morfis: a metropolis of magic surrounded by many desserts with an intricate web of trade, names after the Greek god of dreams; morfis seeds can give you turnips, forget-me-nots, and aillel pomegranates; there are also Morifs plums which are just plums infused with magic; I feel like I’ll probably base this off of Egypt. Egypt has cities, deserts, and was a part of the intricate trading web known as the Silk Road

Sreng: it’s a wasteland of rocky deserts and waring tribes near Gautier territory; the southern part has been annexed by the kingdom and that’s about all the knowledge we have, not much to go off so I decided to look into the paralogue; Claude theorizes the Macuil could have ended up there and we know Macuil was an accomplished blacksmith, so maybe the Sreng people are talented blacksmiths? That’s a useful skill for warring tribes. You encounter some Giant Crawlers which could be based on Mongolian death worms so I decided to look into places that had those and what do you know, they’re from the Gobi desert in Mongolia! Crazy, who would’ve thought Mongolian death worms would be in Mongolia? So basically, I’m basing Sreng off Mongolia.

L’audio completo dell’incontro dedicato ad Alessandro Broggi (Flip festival, Pomigliano d’Arco, 21 marzo 2025), con Daniela Allocca in dialogo con MG, si può ascoltare ora su Pod al popolo. Il podcast irregolare, ennesimo fail again fail better dell’occidente postremo. Buon ascolto. 

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