Fire Emblem Three Houses

Crucial linkage

Neoseeker guide: https://www.neoseeker.com/fire-emblem-three-houses/

FE3H.com (character guide & analysis, etc): https://fe3h.com/

Alphabetical Lost Items List: https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/8781-fire-emblem-three-houses-lost-items-guide-all-lost-property-by-person-and-item

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NG+ run, Blue Lions "Rael"

Squad Goals

• Rael (M!Byleth) - I'll have fliers (Hilda, Annette, Cathi, Seteth) galore, maybe dual up on Assassin & the native Enlightened One. DONE
  • Classes: Myrmidon (mastery for Swap) -> Thief (no mastery) -> Assassin (mastery for Lethality)
  • Goals: TODO - See what we need to do "faculty" training toward, maybe with an eye toward next game cheesing. (Riding?)
• Dimitri - As the head-of-house, he's got his inherent special, but he's the god of lances so probably something mounted for mobility wouldn't hurt.
  • Classes: Soldier (mastery for Def +2) -> Mercenary (mastery for Vantage optional) -> Cavalier (no mastery) -> Paladin (mastery for Aegis) -> inherent High/Great Lord
  • Goals: TODO - He's in Great Lord mode, check on if just going for S+ on Lance is the best plan, once we can actually do goals-related things, ugh.
• Anna - Can't be a Dancer, so... benched for now really.
• Annette - One of our mages, she's no Lysi or Doro and might in fact (given her axe buffs... Lightning Axe at rank C Axe training??) make a good axe-wielding Wyvern Lord using Bolt Axe+ to go ham on folks.
  • Classes: Monk (mastery for Mag +2) -> Mage (mastery for Fiendish Blow) -> Armored Knight (just unlock and change into once for the stat buffs) -> Pegasus Knight (mastery for Darting Blow) -> Wyvern Rider (mastery for Seal Defense) -> Wyvern Lord
  • Goals: Axe and Flying for Wyvern stuff once she masters Peg Knight
• Ashe - Bow Knight as he's our resident Bernadette-type. Easy call.
  • Classes: Fighter (mastery for Str +2) -> Archer (mastery for Hit +20 hell yes) -> Cavalier (no mastery) -> Bow Knight.
  • Goals: Riding to A+ for movement +1
• Catherine - Falcon Knight FTW
  • Classes: Follow Ingrid's route, basically.
  • Goals: Lance and Flying to get to Falcon Knight
• Dedue - Tanky ground-pounder, almost certainly FortKnight. Of course we lose him for several months (or permanently) so... meh?
  • Classes: Don't care. Work toward FortKnight however, not wasting planning time or effort on this.
• Dorothea - Magic nuke, was thinking Lysithea but without Lorenz (for reasons) to get the Thrysus from his paralogue, there's no point.
  • Classes: Follow Mercy's route. She's already in Monk, excellent.
  • Goals: Reason to get range +1 at S rank.
• Felix - The Internet says Bow Knight or War Master, but he's primed by the devs to be a Mortal Savant, which The Internet says sucks. It might, but I don't like Felix so screw it, Mortal Savant he gets to be. DONE
  • Classes: Myrmidon (mastery for Spd +2) -> Mercenary (mastery for Vantage optional) -> Mage (mastery for Fiendish Blow) -> Assassin (mastery) -> Mortal Savant
  • Goals: Sword for the A+ and S rank benefits.
• Flayn - Dancer, her goals and build are irrelevant.
• Hilda - We will have two other flying axemurderesses. What about a Great Knight?
  • Classes: Fighter (for the mastery) and/or Brigand (for the mastery) -> Armored Knight (Armored Blow mastery) -> Fortress Knight (Pavise mastery) -> Great Knight
    • Main problem might be getting enough Riding up, but fixing that without wasting time in a Lance-using class is tricky. Cavalier at least lets you use an axe, and we don't care about its mastery (Desperation, lawl), so maybe put that into the mix.
  • Goals: Brawl and/or Faith to build toward next run.
• Ignatz - Bow Knight par excellence
  • Classes: Follow Ashe's route. He came already in the Fighter class, which helps.
  • Goals: Riding to A+ for movement +1
• Ingrid - Falcon Knight and that's DONE.
  • Classes: Fighter (mastery for Str +2) -> Brigand (mastery for Death Blow) -> Armored Knight (just unlock and change into once for the stat buffs) -> Pegasus Knight (mastery for Darting Blow) -> Wyvern Rider (mastery for Seal Defense) -> Falcon Knight
  • Goals: Lance for the S rank benefits if possible.
• Mercedes - Gremory, she's the healbot of healbots.
  • Classes: Monk (mastery for Mag +2) -> Mage (mastery for Fiendish Blow) -> Bishop (mastery for Renewal? optional) -> Gremory
    • Note the lack of Priest, which has the terrible mastery among other things. Meh.
  • Goal: Faith for the S rank range buff.
• Petra - Marriage material, going to go Wyvern Lord this time because she's strong in Axe and Flying (?!?!) training as it is. Dang.
  • Classes: Arrived as Myrmidon. Need: Brigand -> Peg Knight -> Wyvern Rider -> Wyvern Lord
  • Goals: Axe for the A+ and S rank benefits.
• Seteth - Another Wyvern Lord, eventually.
  • Goals: Axe and Flying to get to Wyvern Lord from Wyvern Rider some day.
• Shamir - Bow Knight rox
  • Classes: She'll start as a Sniper so will probably need time as a Cav somehow.
  • Goals: Riding for Bow Knight (needs A) (hey let's go for A+ to get the Movement)
• Sylvain - Dark Knight, but this time make sure to master Mage along the way for Fiendish Blow (plus maybe some Mag growth along the way).
  • Classes: Soldier (mastery for Def +2) -> Brigand (mastery for Death Blow optional) -> Mage (mastery for Fiendish Blow) -> Paladin (mastery for Aegis) -> Dark Knight
  • Goals: Reason and Faith to boost spell access and maybe get Reason A+ benefits.

Support Rank Goals

• Rael (M!Byleth) and Petra
• Dimitri and Mercedes
• Annette and Ashe
• Ingrid and Ignatz
• Felix and Sylvain
• Hilda and Seteth
• Dedue and Shamir

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Future NG+ run, Cathedral, "Tsovayne"

Subtitle: "and the Harem House"

Squad Goals

Tsovayne was originally going to be a BK but what if... Holy Knight? For the ultimate lulz.

Shamir is wife goals, and yes we're keeping her as Bow Knight (we're going to run "the couple" as the shooters of the team). But... what if flying shooter? Put her on a Pegasus? Investigate this.

Catherine... could be an Assassin. Let's try for that. It's at least different.

Doro as Mortal Savant seems... broken and wrong, so obviously needs trying.

Annette with the Bolt Axe+ (forge from Steel Axe, remember this) as a Dark Flier? YES PLZ.

Marianne also probably Dark Flier with her Frozen Lance, after she unlocks Silence and can play as off-healer besides.

Manuela as Trickster (which is a sort of EO-adjacent distaff-Mortal-Sav thing)? Seems doable.

WL Petra is probably the game plan. Note that SPD is really her best stat, and build accordingly. She... also has a boon in Bows. Which just seems broken honestly.

Bernie-Bear is... going to be a mounted lancer. Because Vengeance and Pass from the "budding" of Riding, etc, as well as if she is damaged at all she gets +5 ATK. (Also there's nothing stopping her from continuing to shoot people from peggie-back.)

Ingrid as Dark Flier? Because we can't have enough of those? And she's... actually a viable mage? Well then.

Lysithea has to be a Dark Flier. Vyx has been raving about that combo for days.

Mercy because she's always the best healer. 'Nuff said.

It's looking like we'll need to do at least enough DLC to nab Hapi, which should round out the ranks.

Hilda can't be recruited until Chapter 12, but we want her to try being the War Cleric, so we'll need a bunch of Brawl and Faith. (C gets her last Faith spell, C+ for the WC cert.) We'll cheese what we can before the end of the Blue Lions run.

Ignoring E because we're going church not state.

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NG+ run, Golden Deer "Ellie"

Squad Goals

• Ellie (Byleth) - Falcon Knight. And maybe or maybe not bother with unlocking the Talent.
  • Requirements - Pegasus Knight: Lance at C, Flying at D. Falcon Knight: Sword at C, Lance at A, Flying at B+.
  • Faculty Training in Lance comes from Jeralt, Gilbert, Seteth, and Shamir.
• Catherine - Our only other sword-user at the moment, and she comes with her own Relic weapon. Future plans...?
  • Possibly Falcon Knight like Ellie. Lance C and Flying D to get her airborne to start.
• Claude - Wyvern Lord-or-whatever. Will need to make sure Authority stays up. Don't aim for horses, aim for Wyverns.
  • Requirements - Wyvern Rider: Axe at B, Flying at C. Wyvern Lord: Lance at C, Axe at A, Flying at A.
  • He eventually ends up Wyvern Master -> Barbarossa, which is a flying sniper-from-hell anyway. DANG.
  • Talent is in Axe, which we'll need for the Wyvern stuff anyway.
• Dorothea - Another Gremory, I guess? We got her, after all.
• Flayn - She's the easiest pick for Dancer but also the skeeviest so... meh.
  • We got Mercedes so Flayn can just be a PegKnight, baby Hilda as it were.
• Hilda - Wyvern Lord.
  • Requirements - Wyvern stuff, see Claude.
• Ignatz - Bow Knight by way of Sniper. There's no other choice.
  • Maybe unlock his Reason hidden Talent, maybe.
  • Requirements - Bow Knight: Lance at C, Bow and Riding at A.
• Leonie - Bow Knight. See above req's.
• Lorenz - Dark Mage, then eventually Dark Knight.
  • Requirements - Dark Knight: Lance at C, Reason at B+, Riding at A.
  • Make sure we get enough Lance (C+) to unlock Frozen Lance (Combat Art).
• Lysithea - Gremory. Totally.
  • Requirements - Gremory: Reason and Faith at A.
  • Lorenz's Paralogue mission might get us Thyrsus, a range-buffing item for Lysithea? Guess we're doing that, yeah, holycrap.
    • Magic range +2, and "chance" to halve incoming damage. WELL THEN.
• Marianne - Holy Knight.
  • There's no such thing as a flying mage w/o the DLC, so she stays grounded. Guess she's becoming this run's Ferdie.
    • Especially since her Hidden Talent in Lance unlocks Frozen Lance so yeah, I think we have a winner.
  • Requirements - Holy Knight: Lance at B, Faith at B+, Riding at A.
• Mercedes - Dancer is the goal, need to make sure CHA is up enough. In the meantime, Gremory is the side-goal.
  • Also S level support, obvs.
• Raphael - Grappler then War Master, almost assuredly.
  • If Grappler then War Master, with Authority at B, give him the Leicester Mercs.
  • Requirements - Brawler: Unarmed at C rank. Grappler: Unarmed at A rank. War Master: Axe and Unarmed both at A rank.
• Shamir - Starts as a Sniper, not sure what to do with her just yet. Bow Knight, probably. She just needs Riding at A, she already has the other two req's.
  • Or Falcon Knight w/ a bow, which is a thing you can do, well then.
• Sylvain - Our other Dark Knight (see Lorenz).

Recruiting

• Manuela - Chapter 8 or later, Ellie needs to be lvl 15+. Still want her for Warp and Levin Sword and such, off-healer while Mercedes dances around?