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Currently thinking about how Flayn has her own unique Crest despite being a second generation Nabataen.
That means any child born of a Nabatean would have their own unique Crest as well.
So… potentially, if Flayn had a child, or any other surviving Nabataen did (Seteth, Rhea, Macuil, Indech, and an argument could be made for Byleth), there'd be a brand new Crest in the world.
The thing about Nabatean timeline in 3H lore is that it's some "Cleopatra lived closer to our time than the construction of the Great Pyramids" stuff. Everything we get about them seems to imply that rather than being "as old as recorded history" old, they're "the majority of their civilization and lifespans came before recorded history" old.
Rhea is sort of the face of the Nabateans so I think it's easy for people to think of Nabatean history by her standard, but she's actually the youngest (at least the ones Sothis directly made, depending on when/how Flayn was born exactly), so you have to add +however many millennia when you're thinking of the other Nabateans.
And according to the latest alt, Rhea was old enough to remember interactions with her mother before she went to sleep, so the absolute youngest she could be is that she was born + grew up while Sothis was restoring the continent after the war with the Agarthans.
Personally what I think this implies for the median Nabatean is that they 1. had direct memories of the old human civilizations before the big war and reset, and 2. spent more of their lives in the pre-reset era than the post-reset era. The second one is important because for the median Nabatean, "human history/civilization" would not be what happened after the reset, it would be what came before that.
To reiterate, this means that Seteth, Macuil, Indech, etc might actually know about skyscrapers and computers and fighter jets firsthand. Also for Rhea, the current day Fódlan humans seems to be the only iteration of humans she's had firsthand interactions with, but for the other Nabateans, it's probably not (which imo would explain a lot about Macuil's cynicism)
Tl;dr Rhea is an outlier among Nabateans because she probably hasn't seen human-built skycrapers
I wrote an old version of this post long ago (like two years ago), but now I want to write it better. So here's an improved, longer version of this note:
At the end of Crimson Flower, Edelgard successfully kills Rhea/Seiros, and then she unites the continent of Fodlan under her rule. The Adrestian Empire rules over all it surveys. Rhea, Dimitri and all the others who stood in Edelgard's way lay dead and buried. But (since this is something you can do in Crimson Flower), a few people got away. Byleth had a weak heart, and Claude, Seteth and Flayn all escaped Edelgard's wrath. Presumably, they fled Fodlan for parts unknown. Either that, or they went into hiding, to await a day when they could have freedom.
Since Edelgard had already dealt with Rhea/Seiros, I can't imagine she'd even bother knowing where to look for the other relatives of Seiros. She seemed busy destroying the church and the crest caste system to care about a bunch of legendary dragons. So we can also assume Saint Indech and Saint Macuil survived and probably went into hiding alongside their kin. That's an assumption I can't prove, however.
Now… I don't need to go into what happened to every character. Because you can make logical assumptions, all based around their ending credit lines and stuff. So we know that Edelgard destroyed the Church. We can assume she got rid of crests. We can even assume she went after the agarthans after dealing with Rhea, successfully driving Thales and his kin even further into hiding (where they might be forced to make a truce with the others in hiding, like Seteth and Flayn). So depending on your view of things, Edelgard achieved a lot of good (or at least a lot of her core objectives). But she did it through extremism. And so nothing is truly stable.
Cut to 100 or 200 years after Edelgard's death. It's now the reign of one of her great grandchildren or descendants, and things aren't going very well. State Athetism has become the lay of the land. Her successors took her lessons and only radicalized them further. If you have a crest and refuse to get it removed, you're shunned from society. If you have any sort of ancestral connection to the nabateans or the agarthans, you're exiled from society. Hells, there's even prejudice against people from Brigid. And it's an empire vassal state! The old caste system of nobles vs commoners has been replaced by a new racial system. Things have stayed the same, only the circumstances have changed.
Into this world would step our protagonist, a newcomer to fodlan who hails from a distant continent. Coming to this land to visit their family, they find their cousins have all been exiled to the slums for their lack of proof as to their heritage. Trying to stand up for their cousins only makes a protagonist a target, and thus they step into a world of racial hatred and mad extremism. In the end, they'd be dragged into becoming the leader of a resistance movement dedicated to liberating the peoples who've been abandoned. The agarthans, nabateans, brigideans, etc.
I feel like the resistance movement might be tied to the old underground sanctuary of abyss, underneath garreg mach. Abyss itself is gone now. But New Abyss exists. An amazing labyrinthine kingdom hidden underneath the empire. A sanctuary for all those who the surface dwellers view as lesser or inferior. A safe place for people to be themselves, to experience faith and religion, to embrace cultures not of adrestian origin, to be different and unique.
Very few characters (beyond Flayn and Seteth and maybe the other nabateans) from the original game show up physically in this story. But their descendants show up. And statues and portraits of Edelgard and Hubert and Byleth and stuff would be likely seem everywhere in empire territory. The extremism has intensified in the centuries since, but the new emperors all claim they're doing as their great ancestor would have had them do. Proof that good intentions with bad means will always lead to bad results in the long term.
Awkward holiday family dinner with Seiros, Macuil, Indech, Cichol, and Cethleann.
They're getting together for the first time in hundreds of years. Seiros walks in with her Archbishop garb on, and Macuil immediately makes a snide comment about her "weird human uniform".
"Excuse me? I'm wearing the robes of the institution that I founded all by myself to honor our dear departed mother! Unlike some people, I haven't forgotten her!"
Cichol quickly hurries Cethleann into the kitchen and help Indech prepare the food. Indech is making the food, but also hears the arguing in the other room and is quickly working on downing a bottle of wine and praying he can get through this ordeal.
Cichol seems like the desperate peace-keeper who gets stuck in the middle here. He will have an absolutely miserable time and will leave with everyone angry at him even though he didn't start anything.
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Saints, Gods and Dragons in the murals of Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a large game that has subtle world building and thematic details hidden all over and in this post I want to point a few out, mainly concerning the depictions of Seiros, Sothis and the four Saints, as well as some related things. Major spoilers for Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes after the cut.
The hooded Saint
Saint Seiros is the identity Archbishop Rhea of the Church of Seiros originally went under during the War of Heroes, which ended with the Adrestrian Empire and Church of Seiros coming to rule over Fódlan. The war ended in the Imperial year 98, but Seiros stuck around for at least a century more until the completion of Garreg Mach Monastery in Imperial year 195.
Some time after this, Seiros would "die" and the Church of Seiros went on to be led by Archbishops, of whom at least a substantial portion were alternate identities of Seiros. This is made most apparent in Sylvain and Ignatz's support line in Three Hopes, where they discuss a painting of an Archbishop who ruled around the Imperial Year 961. During the support line, the painting is noted to bear a resemblance to Rhea and it also looks the part.
Saint Seiros meanwhile is a religious figure revered throughout Fódlan, but she is never noted to look like Rhea despite them being the same person, so why is that? The answer lies in a piece of promotional art for Three Houses that depicts an in-universe mural. Near the bottom of the mural, a hooded figure can be seen that is the Saint Seiros. This is evident from the clothing she wears under her robe being the garb Seiros wears, as well as the wavy Sword of Seiros she holds.
This is further driven home by the murals shown at the start of each chapter in Three Houses, some of which depict the hooded Seiros as well. The one for Chapter 10, Where the Goddess Dwells, for example, shows a variation of the promotional mural. This variation also depicts the Immaculate One, Seiros's Nabatean form, which are thought to be separate beings in the religion of the Church of Seiros.
The mural at the start of Chapter 2, Familiar Scenery, meanwhile shows a statue of the hooded Seiros defeating Nemesis. The familiar Sword of Seiros can once again be seen wielded by the hooded figure.
In-universe, it seems the face of Saint Seiros isn't known, likely a deliberate choice so that Rhea could continue to lead the Church of Seiros as its various Archbishops even after the 'death' of Saint Seiros.
The depiction of the Goddess and the Saints
While she appears as a child throughout Three Houses and Three Hopes, in the murals of the Church of Seiros, Sothis is depicted as a grown woman. In the large promotional mural, she seems to be the winged woman that takes up the bulk of the mural, as Seiros is depicted near the mural's bottom. Whether the mural depicts an idealized version of Sothis or the actual form she took prior to her murder by Nemesis is something I am not sure of yet. This depiction of Sothis can also be seen in the murals at the start of Chapters 9 (The Cause of Sorrow) and 4 (The Goddess's Rite of Rebirth). Of note is that Sothis is often depicted alongside a star symbol, likely representing the Blue Sea Star, her place of origin.
The mural at the start of Chapter 4 shows several other figures alongside Sothis, which are Seiros in her usual hooded depiction and the Four Saints that fought alongside her in the War of Heroes. The Saints in the mural resemble the statues that were built of them, not necessarily their true appearance (as is the case with Cethleann/Flayn).
The Saints, who are in truth Nabateans, also seem to appear elsewhere, specifically in their Nabatean forms. The crest of the Church of Seiros has a dragon depicts a white dragon that one at first may assume to be the Immaculate One (aka Seiros). However, this dragon lacks some key features of Immaculate One, most notable the Immaculate One's curled horns. Its head shape is also subtly different.
Instead, this may be the otherwise unseen Nabatean form of Saint Cichol/Seteth, which is indicated by the rest of the symbol of the Church of Seiros. Atop the symbol rests a mitre resembling the one worn by Cichol in his statue. In Three Hopes, it was revealed the name of this Nabatean form is the "Hammer of Judgment".
The flags of Knights of Seiros, as well as the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, depict a Griffon-like creature on their flags. This may be the Wind Caller, Macuil's Nabatean form, though there are some differences in their designs, most notably the tail, hind legs and head horns. They could just be generic Griffons, which have appeared in Fire Emblem: Awakening and Fire Emblem: Engage, but those settings are distinct from the setting of Three Houses/Three Hopes and generic Griffons do not appear in Fódlan. Thematically at least it would make sense for Macuil to be depicted on the Knights of Seiros's flag, given Macuil made weapons for Seiros and the other Saints during the War of Heroes and the Knights of Seiros act as the protectors and metaphorical weapons of the church. The design differences remain notable however.
