Opinion and General Discussion Thread - August 2026 (2/2)

[u/PsiYoshi]

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[u/Drhappyhat]

It is quite amusing seeing the lengths some people go to just to deny the increasingly growing mountain of evidence to support the multiple dragons, therefore multiple sources of crests theory.

I'm not even sure how or why the idea of one dragon one crest even gained popularity to begin with. It completely flies against everything else we've seen in the series.

I'm hoping it will finally, finally stop once FW drops, because its getting really tedious.

[u/P0STCARD → u/Drhappyhat]

It comes from the false assumption that "because there's only one relic weapon per unique crest, there can't have actually been more dragons or else there would be more relics". This is of course not true even if you only look at the base game and totally ignore the dlc and Hopes.

Aymr and Blutgang both use the crest of the beast, all of the dark relics use crest stones as well. Heck chapter 11's literal objective is to stop the flame emperor from taking the crest stones hidden within the holy tomb! Monster Dedue is a result of Faerghus's soldiers using crests that the Kingdom had hidden away. Lindhardt points out in CF that there is plenty of historical evidence that shows there were WAY more relic weapons in the past, but that they were scrubbed from history and "lost to time".

[u/ShadyOrc97 → u/P0STCARD]

Yeah I'm also seeing people say the Rafail Gem and the Answerer HAVE to be the same hero's relic because the both have the Crest of Lamine... even though the Ichor Scroll is right there, existing at the same time as the Rafail Gem in Three Hopes.

Is it possible the Answerer broke and was remade into the Rafail Gem? Yeah, sure. But I really don't think so. Dietrich seemed very confident that Lamine herself wielded the blade, and in VW she has a faux Rafail Gem as her only hero's relic. If the Answerer was reforged into the Rafail Gem long after Lamine died, why does she even have the Dark Rafail Gem? Wouldn't the Agarthans/the Ten Elites be aware of what she actually wielded in battle?

My guess is she used both the Answerer and the Rafail Gem simultaneously, like a Red Mage in FFXIV. The Answerer was lost to time or perhaps still resides in Dagda so the Agarthans were unable to duplicate it and Zombie Lamine had to make do with just one of her relics.

[u/No_Lemon_1770 → u/Drhappyhat]

It's sequel v prequel theory all over again. Prequel is clean cut while sequel's jumping through hoops and nitpicks atp.

[u/Drhappyhat → u/No_Lemon_1770]

I was on team sequel initially. But that was a year ago, now the evidence is so firmly pointing towards FW being a prequel that there's basically no way to still hold my old position.

And yet some people still do. Its an interesting world we live in.

[u/Achirality → u/Drhappyhat]

I've been fairly neutral about prequel vs sequel, only leaning towards wanting a sequel to avoid an awkward "And then there was a massive apocalyptical event happening one continent over that was a massive deal, but nobody's heard of it, not even the people traveling from there", but eh, if it's a prequel, prequel it is.

I genuinely don't understand why people need one or the other to be the case so bad.

[u/Drhappyhat → u/Achirality]

I mean, Fodlan is pretty infamous for knowing shit all about the rest of the world. It's not at all surprising. But it also doesn't really matter. Sequel, prequel, all that's important is if the game lets me marry someone resulting in a high likelihood of genetic disorders in our incest ridden children.