Seren She kinda accepts it even here in this video. She sees that her actions were not appropriate for the archbishop and steps down. Rhea also seeks forgiveness from Byleth and asks if it is right for her to be alive after what she has done (referring to her experiments)
@@hunted_man4035 it's also notable that as far as I can tell Rhea never uses any term like "take over." Even if in effect that would be what happened, it seemed like she convinced herself it would be a transformation, a merging of minds where neither is destroyed. Rather than being erased, she rationalized it as Byleth "becoming" the progenitor god, hence why through part one of the game she keeps looking for signs that the merging is happening, that Byleth is getting Sothis' memories, etc.
The voice actress for Rhea said that her direction was a young, female version of Albus Dumbledore. And that is a very intriguing comparison; both are capable of powerful magic, both are very secretive and use the hero for a madlad scheme, and both lead a school comprised of multiple rivaling houses. Hell, make that a... complicated relative relationship version of Albus. So... does that mean Seteth is Prof. Snape? Only he doesn't use a magic Shun Goku Satsu on the headmaster this time?
I’d say Snape is more like Aelfric: a professor who specializes in Dark Magic and has an unhealthy fixation on the main character because of his unrequited feelings towards their late mother.
And that is also extremely interesting considering how both of them performed nefarious deeds in the name of their "family". And how they are shown to get horrifying enraged when things don't go to plan (Rhea in CF, Dumbledore in book 5/6)
Seteth is more like a male Minerva McGonagall; the wise number 2 who is, in many ways aside from power, probably better suited for the top job than the current head.
So what I'm seeing is... Rhea is Byleth's grandmother. Rhea created a woman that would become Byleth's mom, married with Jeralt. Jeralt was not related at first, but then Rhea did a blood transfusion in order to save Jeralt. The mom's pregnancy did not go well; The mother and her son / daughter was about to die, but Rhea transferred Seiros's crest stone to Byleth and so he / she is born with the crest stone. Rhea... Ages differently like most manaketes so she doesn't get old? Am I understanding this correctly?
Only thing you forgot to add is Rhea is possessed by Seiros. She did gruesome experiments on people to reincarnate her mother after she couldn't accept her death.
@@Darkyan97 rhea is seiros and yeah she did some messed up stuff, but at least she felt bad meanwhile we have Edelgard literaly murdering everyone "for the greater good*
@@Lieblingsmensch-un1bv If you paid attention you'd knew Edelgard also felt bad about the things she had done. That's why she goes mad in every route where Byleth doesn't go with her because the burden of that choice finally crushes her humanity and becomes a true monster. On her route she wants to finish the war as soon as possible with the least amount of casualties as possible. She accepts the consequences and even intends to step down as ruler once the war is over. She does have extreme methods but she really does out of a genuine want for a better Fódlan with no nobility and need for the abuse of Crests for more status. She is no saint that's for sure. But she has just as much a reason for doing things the way she does than the others *if not more.*
@@Darkyan97 What happens if you go with her? I just started my playthrough with her after finishing the blue lions story and I really can't get warm with her. I'm thinking about just trying the golden deer next instead of her.
Byleth: "Wait Are you my Mother, Grandmother, Sister, or my future Wife?" Rhea: "Yes." Byleth: "Marry me?" 🥺 When Fire Emblem takes Wincest to some Next Level ish. 😏
@@soul6733 It really isn't. All you do is go "How about I don't kill my student and we figure out what is going on?" To which she responds "How about a I murder you and put your heart into someone else?"
TheHappy_P0tat0 for all the peace the Church and Rhea preaches...she never stopped and asked why. Because ironically Rhea probably understands Edelgard’s pain a lot more than anyone...if she cared enough to ask her. It’s doubly ironic that in the paths you don’t choose Edelgard, she imprisons Rhea and doesn’t kill her. This “peaceful” religious leader doesn’t even have the mercy of a “tyrant”.
I mean, mercy? Edelgard just goes in without respecting rhea’s mom, if it was my family Edelgard was disrespecting she would’ve been dead right away. And edel fucked up a lot. I’m tired of people actin like edel isnt the antagonist and rhea is just an evil bitch
Tae Lika Rhea’s mom is dead...for centuries. Her grief is unhealthy and she’s willing to take Byleth’s life to restore her mom, against Sothis’s own wishes. So, ironically Rhea is actually disrespecting her own mother. Additionally the entire Crest System was made on the corpses of the Nabateans...yet she lets it persist despite the genocide it caused and calls it a “blessing” that’s the worst form of disrespect in my opinion. So, what are you getting at? Neither are evil, but Rhea is short-sighted
Seteth: We have no choice but to kill the Immaculate one... to kill Rhea! Azura: I wouldn't be so sure about that. Seteth: Who are you? Azura: Let's just say I have experience with taming rampaging dragons. 🎵You are the ocean's grey waves🎵
I can't help but imagine Byleth's mom kinda like the sort of person who'd be sweet and nice on the outside (as jeralt described her) but like with an undercurrent of sadness. Rhea was probably nice enough to her on a surface level but she must've felt that she was considered a "failure". Kids feel that sort of thing.
@@nickgennady You can still love your kids and fail them. And how I've described my relationship with my own parents (seeing as it could apply here): They loved me for what I could have been, not for who I was.
So is it revealed how she created Byleth's mom? Was it through the traditional method or homunculi? Because if it's the former then her support is even MORE messed up
@Jack Friel Rhea spoke very fondly of Byleth's mother though, it seemed like she was pained when she almost told Byleth about her in one of the earlier chapters.
@@dezlovecraft5247 Actually, that... makes a lot of sense. The whole thing with morphs is that they're emotionless husks, right? Except they tend to gain emotions as they go on living. This would explain why Byleth tends to be... non-expressive a lot of the time.
@@Excalibur5k That's a very common theme in FE, You don't play to be a god; not even Naga can create/destroy life that is a power beyond their reach, using magic to create human life only ends up in disaster (Blazing Blade, Valentia, Awakening, 3H) just like with Nergal, Rhea and Grima, it's antinatural.
Hmm...King in the North cuts down white haired/purple eyed queen who wants to violently change the world, who happens to secretly be related to him. All this despite probably being at least a little in love with her. ...Nah, I don’t see it.
this is what is screwed up about all the hate people have for Rhea. She implanted Sothis into Byleth primarily because Byleth would have died without the crest stone. Yes she wanted to revive Sothis, but it's pretty clear that Rhea isn't as fucked up as people make her out to be.
Super late here, but she really is. The experiments themselves aren’t quite as bad as those who slither in the dark, but it’s still messing with life. She also lied about the entire religion and used it to gain authority over all of fodlan. Then when things didn’t go here way (eg black eagles play through) she flips out and is willing to murder anyone and everyone claiming they are heretics. This is essentially the good ending for her where she realizes she been a bit of a bitch and wants to step down as archbishop. I do still think edlegard attempting to unite all of Fodlan by mass murder and power were worse though.
But what if Sothis wanted to rest in piece? To have her heart Frankenstein-ed over and over in different live forms must not have been peaceful while in limbo.
@@andrielisilien exactly. I agree that Rhea isn’t really evil and gets more hate than she really deserves. She’s kind of like Edelgard, like her she has a motivation that makes her actions understandable, also like Edelgard she has flaws that make it easy to see why people would view her in a negative light. Her need to bring back her mother, again whilst understandable, started to become unhealthy and dare I say obsessive, especially in the Crimson Flower route, and even if she saved baby Byleth life at the request of Sitri her goal remained the same. She still intended to use him/her to bring back Sothis like she did so with all the others, including his/her mother. Hell, considering the fact she disappeared after she merged with Byleth, even Sothis didn’t want her to do any of it and I’m glad she sees that by the end of the Silver Snow route. So yeah, Rhea might not be a monster or even deserve death but I think it’d be justifiable for Byleth to be angry at her.
0:39 Me: let’s see, my mom was a human experiment made by Rhea, you incrusted a crest in my heart, and you kept me alive to be the mom you lost? Hell no, count me out!
@@Ana-lj9jb to be fair Claude and Edelgard also attempt to use and manipulate you granted they later form an actual friendship but all in all Byleth gets treated like an asset a lot
To be honest, I sympathize more with Rhea than Edelgard. Not that I don’t feel bad for what Edelgard went through, but Rhea is more understandable at least.
@@johnclopez96 Claude's got a good head on his shoulders. Edelgard and Dimitri need Byleth to keep them on the morally correct path, but I feel like even Dimitri was better off with Byleth than Edelgard is.
@@TheChildofAuraReborn Way better i dare to say, after he recovered from that PTSD thanks to Byleth (and the whole House helping) he becomes kinda the nicest person on earth, while Edelgard still lies to her guys telling them "the church did that" after the Fort was destroyed by Those Who Slither, and went all "Dimitri i tried my best to help you" while absolutely doing nothing to reach an understanding, except invading and killing to end the conflict as fast as possible...
I would if it wasn't for the fact that despite basically acting downright motherly towards you she was more than happy to resort to murdering you the moment you decide not to side with her. No remorse, no attempt at reasoning with you or anything, just a full micro second to make peace with ripping you apart. To me, it never seemed like Rhea actually cared at all.
@@HappyPotat To be fair, you just sided with the girl who willingly worked with the descendants of the people who slaughtered her family and wants her dead. Not excusing how quickly she turns on you, but it's a perspective.
I.... the more I know, the more I know I DON'T know... I just finished my first Blue Lions run and was left with so many unanswered questions. Now that I watch this, I have even MORE questions.
Ummm...ok I’m confused. Lady, are you my other mother or my great great aunt or something? Cause you and your “birthing” process made my head spin in frustration =A= Rhea: Yes, my dear child... That doesn’t answer my question =__=;;
She created Byleth's mom, so technically she's Byleth's grandma but also the reincarnation of Sothis' daughter and Byleth is merged with Sothis so like Byleth's 1/2 daughter
So who exactly would the true antagonist of Fire Emblem 3 houses could be? Seiros itself? It seems pretty confusing when you have 3 different paths with 3 different antagonists. ALong with facing other students and classmates in a timeskip war.
@@skynikan They became the main enemy after the Edelgard path. They still exist and because of that; The main antagonists are Seiros, Those Who Slither In The Dark and Nemesis.
There is no true antagonist. That's the beauty of this game: there is no absolutely right path as there is none in real life. Your enemy and your friend is who you make your enemy or your friend. The antagonist changes depending on the path you chose.
Nope. I did Claude route, church route and had the option to save her first. Once I saved her, I did not have to fight her and she made a healthy recovery. She was healthy enough to become archbishop and do her shady shit once more.
@@aldosantin1485 The only way you can save Rhea in the church route is if you have an A or S support with Rhea. If you only have an A support, the only confirmation that you get that Rhea is alive is Catherine's solo Guardian of Zanado ending, where Rhea steps down from her position as archbishop and Catherine follows her. The only way she becomes archbishop again is if you S support her. She most certainly does not do "shady shit" in either case.
@@aldosantin1485 uh... no... she doesnt do shady shit in either route... she hands over the role to either Byleth or Claude and even if you S support her and become Archbishop once more, Byleth is in full control.
“The truth about Byleth” a.k.a. “We withheld this information in Verdant Wind, as it was the only way we could actually justify and get people to go play through the Silver Snow route!”
Silver Snow was THE route originally. The Warriors/Tokyo-Mirage-Sessions team was left to make the other three routes, and screwed up so royally with Verdant Wind and Crimson Flower because they had no time even after a delay.
Nah, It look at the game of throne while drunk and said: "Child please, hold my beer. Let me show you how to write conveluting plot line that people just ignore it"
Is this the BE route where you choose to kill Edelgard rather than side with her? I've done all 3 and I have yet to encounter this scene. Well, looks like it's time for my 4th run
If you go down the BE route it’ll split into two different routes when Edlegard tries to steal the crest stones. You have to choose to either side with Edelgard or with the church. This is the last chapter of the church route.
Personally, I think Rhea is lying to cover her ass when she says byleths mother asked her to Implant the crest stone into the baby. I mean think about it, she said she would do anything to see Sothis again, so it is completely in character for her to have just taken matters into her own hands, after all she had literally a dozen failures before this. I don't think human life has much weight in Rheas eyes, hundreds of years of trauma and the perspective of an immortal being will do that to someone; she only saves people directly if it benefits her. If that much is true about how she feels for humans, imagine how she thinks of her experiments. Their lives are a means to an end, nothing more. Even playing as Byleth, on every route it always seemed like she just didn't consider you to actually be a person, the way she speaks to you if you take the crimson flower route, she instantly refers to you as "just another failure," not to mention the fact that she didn't even intend for you to leave the holy tomb. This ending is really the only one where it feels like she actually came to regret her actions, but the clarity of knowing your life will end soon can tend to do that to anyone. Especially if she now feels some guilt over what she had done, of COURSE she would cover up the one detail that would be literally impossible to disprove, if nothing else for the sake of seteth and flayn not thinking differently of her.
@@theanonymousme6015 I think they're referring to the fact that Rhea artificially created Byleth's mother with the same blood as Rhea which was also the same blood that was transfused in Jeralt. Since Byleth's mother and Jeralt technically have the same blood now and they had a child, Byleth is a product of incest. So Sweet Home Alabama.
@@riderwolfseeker5066 yes but technically no, I don't see it by blood. I file it insest if it's by genetics, basically by DNA as that's how it's actually supposed to be like in the real world
...Hold on. So, Byleth has the Crest of Flames from Sothis that was in his mom that Rhea created, along with her blood and the blood of Jeralt. Wait, so Byleth is both internally her mother and externally her... nephew?
Brother, the Crimson Flower route only a portion of the full Lore; Verdant Wind covers the most followed by Silver Snow. Even Azure Moon has some pretty important clues as to what is going on, that you don't find in the other routes. It's literally impossible to get the entire lore by just playing a single route in the game. That's the whole point of 3H, to get to play everyone's perspective to have a clear idea about what the heck is going on.
I'm starting to think that the only path with a happy ending is the Golden Deer's one (it's the only one I've finished so far). Everything else I've heard or seen from the other 3 paths is giving me crippling depression...
It's definitely the most stable ending compared to the other routes, because they deal with MOST of the issues being presented. They deal with "Those that slither in the dark," they make Fodlan open to the world, and everyone mostly is happy under the new system. With Edelgard and Dimitri's routes, we see that there are some loose ends that need to be dealt with.
@@brandoncherry6264 actually Claude fucks off and leaves Byleth to mismanage the country, probably getting Fodlan conquered by Almyra in the process, while Rhea keeps the Church (because Claude fucked off) and some of the Slitherers survive.
So...She implanted a Crest Stone inside Byleth’s mother...Does that technically make her your grandmother, or what? Was the mother of Byleth related to Rhea? Does a transfusion of Rhea’s blood to Jeralt mean blood relation...? Does being the reincarnate of someone’s mother make you their mother, too?? The logistics here was weird...
It's disturbing how little people seem to pay attention. Rhea is NOT Byleth' mother. She is also not his/her daughter, because Byleth is NOT Sothis. Byleth also isn't Sothis' reincarnation. Byleth is nothing more than a random child of one of Rheas experiments. So she isn't even Byleth' grandmother. Byleth got Sothis' heart by implantation, nothing more. Rhea could've implanted the heart in other children and she did that in the past. That's why she called Byleth "just another failure" when he/she sided with Edelgard. Most of the people in this comment section only see what they want to see.
Fire Emblem is the only series where your mother is also your grandmother but is also your daughter, but you're also your own dad and your own mom thereby making you your own grandfather and your own grandmother, and you're also your own son/daughter.
@@julesop3866 Basically Seiros has long gone mad since she couldn't accept her mother dying, and Rhea is a pseudo-reincarnation of her meaning she possessed her as time went on because she wanted to reincarnate her mother.
How did Rhea create the 12 failed attempts at bringing her mother back? Did she birth all 12, or use some kind of magic to create them and place the crest stone within? Flayn has a mother, so it's not like Seteth was able to create a child on his own, so I'm guessing she birthed all 12? And Rhea is your grandma?
@@lizzyleea Since you can S support with Rhea, I'm going to go ahead and assume that she created these 12 failed clones with magic.. I know Fire Emblem has had cousin marriages in the past, but being able to marry your literal grandma is even pushing the line for the medieval setting haha.
when the family tree looks more like a spider web
Gettin reaaaaaal sick of this family tree shit nintendo
MegaseanX4
Weird ass family trees have existed since Genealogy
It’s never going to stop until FE is cancelled or something else
When u want to like but don't want to ruin the 420 likes
TheBajan King88 thank you
trippy keegan which frankly is just like the real world medieval nobility hello hasburg lip
"He was like a father to me. I loved him like a son."
Assassin San rip watersheep
Family circle not a tree 😅. "My mom is my dad's mom" -inbred yoshi
So is Rhea our mom?
“Well yes, but actually no”
And Daughter
and you can Marry her
@@manuellara9644 how is she our daughter? 🤔 Sothis and Byleth are two different people. Sothis soul is trapped in Byleths heart
Grandma daughter thing ??
@Azurehopes uwu
It’s FE, weird ass shit happens all the time
Wouldn't be Fire Emblem without incestual undertones.
God Damn it Arvis.
ah, I see Arvis's legacy still continue to live on
Don’t forget Lucina & Owain’s S support.
@@GenshinLover283 their s support is platonic
Whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy.
Incest, holy blood, and a timeskip it seems like they're trying to see if the world is ready for a fe4 remake
You forgot female semi-Hitler and child slaughter, but yes, Judgral stuff.
medieval ages.
Add cheating and bastard children into the mix and FE4 it is
Yup
Yeah the more I played 3 Houses, the more it reminded me of FE Genealogy.
This might be the worst theoretical outcome for a blood donor drive done by one person honestly
Divine incest baby and everyome else turns into monsters.
That is the greatest thing I've seen so far today haha.
People turn into dragons in this story, none of this makes sense.
I wonder how she'd react if she knew that Sothis had no interest in taking over the MC's body
She already knows that later in the story
@@alexgamer1556 i'm kinda interested since she didn't survive in my run, could you explain it to me ? or at least tell me when it happens?
Seren She kinda accepts it even here in this video. She sees that her actions were not appropriate for the archbishop and steps down.
Rhea also seeks forgiveness from Byleth and asks if it is right for her to be alive after what she has done (referring to her experiments)
@@hunted_man4035 it's also notable that as far as I can tell Rhea never uses any term like "take over." Even if in effect that would be what happened, it seemed like she convinced herself it would be a transformation, a merging of minds where neither is destroyed. Rather than being erased, she rationalized it as Byleth "becoming" the progenitor god, hence why through part one of the game she keeps looking for signs that the merging is happening, that Byleth is getting Sothis' memories, etc.
i mean, she did say that sothis was just like "fuck it, use my powers im done here lol"
So she missed her mommy? I get that. It's weird, but I get that.
esco Tanner Her mommy and her racekin was slaughtered by Nemesis :/
yeah her means are extreme but moms are great
Yeah, but the thing is, she can marry her mommy??????
@@tiffanyh629 Well, Moms are great.
She missed her mom and she also thought bringing Sothis back would fix everything
Sadly this still made more sense than kingdom hearts.
Oh god don't even implant the idea of incest AND Nortification in my head
Kingdom hearts isnt that confusing
@@vickywachen3547 no but its definitely nonsensical even in comparison to this plot reveal
@dragon heaven who here supports projared? Who were you talking to
@dragon heaven how do you know they support projared
Knowing that Jeralt carried Rhea's blood, imagine if he came back to life like Nemesis did when Rhea lost control.
Please no, the game can be depressing enough as is.
he would make a far more interesting final boss tbh
@@riyadislam3441 The story makes no sense. I've played Blue lions and nope,my mind is blank with the story.
@@joseanrosado3892
That’s because blue lions drops the story almost entirely to focus on 1 character (who dies in every other route).
@@maxrichards3881 I've played other stories and the story is trash.
Genealogy of the holy war would be proud
yes
The voice actress for Rhea said that her direction was a young, female version of Albus Dumbledore. And that is a very intriguing comparison; both are capable of powerful magic, both are very secretive and use the hero for a madlad scheme, and both lead a school comprised of multiple rivaling houses. Hell, make that a... complicated relative relationship version of Albus. So... does that mean Seteth is Prof. Snape? Only he doesn't use a magic Shun Goku Satsu on the headmaster this time?
I wonder how all of the Voice actors reacted when they realized that the characters belong to a fucked up family web
I’d say Snape is more like Aelfric: a professor who specializes in Dark Magic and has an unhealthy fixation on the main character because of his unrequited feelings towards their late mother.
Hubert has Snape looks lol
And that is also extremely interesting considering how both of them performed nefarious deeds in the name of their "family". And how they are shown to get horrifying enraged when things don't go to plan (Rhea in CF, Dumbledore in book 5/6)
Seteth is more like a male Minerva McGonagall; the wise number 2 who is, in many ways aside from power, probably better suited for the top job than the current head.
So if Jeralt were to still be alive, he would have turned into White Beast as well ,wouldn't he? Since he had Rhea's blood.
Unfortunately, yes. And somehow, that fate seems even worse that happens to him earlier.
@@roguegirl29 yeah, cause his own kid would have to kick his ass
@@kosmic100 Now THATS Tragedy -notRobin!
It was either that, or let him die from his wounds. Good thing she saved him.
Just asked this question looks like I'm 2 years too late
Arvis: no one has a more incetuous relationship than me.
Rhea: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
So what I'm seeing is... Rhea is Byleth's grandmother. Rhea created a woman that would become Byleth's mom, married with Jeralt. Jeralt was not related at first, but then Rhea did a blood transfusion in order to save Jeralt. The mom's pregnancy did not go well; The mother and her son / daughter was about to die, but Rhea transferred Seiros's crest stone to Byleth and so he / she is born with the crest stone. Rhea... Ages differently like most manaketes so she doesn't get old? Am I understanding this correctly?
Only thing you forgot to add is Rhea is possessed by Seiros. She did gruesome experiments on people to reincarnate her mother after she couldn't accept her death.
@@Darkyan97 rhea is seiros and yeah she did some messed up stuff, but at least she felt bad meanwhile we have Edelgard literaly murdering everyone "for the greater good*
@@Lieblingsmensch-un1bv
If you paid attention you'd knew Edelgard also felt bad about the things she had done. That's why she goes mad in every route where Byleth doesn't go with her because the burden of that choice finally crushes her humanity and becomes a true monster.
On her route she wants to finish the war as soon as possible with the least amount of casualties as possible.
She accepts the consequences and even intends to step down as ruler once the war is over. She does have extreme methods but she really does out of a genuine want for a better Fódlan with no nobility and need for the abuse of Crests for more status.
She is no saint that's for sure. But she has just as much a reason for doing things the way she does than the others *if not more.*
@@Darkyan97 i still personally hate her the most but I can understand why she does what she does
@@Darkyan97 What happens if you go with her? I just started my playthrough with her after finishing the blue lions story and I really can't get warm with her. I'm thinking about just trying the golden deer next instead of her.
Huh, this'll be weird S rank to deal with
Byleth: "Wait Are you my Mother, Grandmother, Sister, or my future Wife?"
Rhea: "Yes."
Byleth: "Marry me?" 🥺
When Fire Emblem takes Wincest to some Next Level ish. 😏
Lol you can marry sothis too wich is like marrying yourself, the goddess, a Loli, and your great grandmother all in one
idk, i went after Edelgard.
Dylan J
So would Byleth maturating after marrying Sothis be considered sex or incest?
@@Rebel_Friend you already know the answer. Yes. Yes it would be
@@Dstag hey there ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of self-love
you are my mom (you're my mom)
boogie-woogie-woogie
soma. vine references out of control
soma. LOL
Rhea so far is one of my favourite characters.
This is the kind of madness and crazyness I expect from almost eternal dragon-gods.
True. It's not fire emblem without dragons going mad
"I am so sorry"
*Meanwhile in an alternate timeline*
"How dare you not do what I say, I'll kill you!"
More like "How dare you betray me?" It's a bit more justified.
@@soul6733 It really isn't.
All you do is go "How about I don't kill my student and we figure out what is going on?"
To which she responds "How about a I murder you and put your heart into someone else?"
TheHappy_P0tat0 for all the peace the Church and Rhea preaches...she never stopped and asked why. Because ironically Rhea probably understands Edelgard’s pain a lot more than anyone...if she cared enough to ask her. It’s doubly ironic that in the paths you don’t choose Edelgard, she imprisons Rhea and doesn’t kill her. This “peaceful” religious leader doesn’t even have the mercy of a “tyrant”.
I mean, mercy? Edelgard just goes in without respecting rhea’s mom, if it was my family Edelgard was disrespecting she would’ve been dead right away. And edel fucked up a lot. I’m tired of people actin like edel isnt the antagonist and rhea is just an evil bitch
Tae Lika Rhea’s mom is dead...for centuries. Her grief is unhealthy and she’s willing to take Byleth’s life to restore her mom, against Sothis’s own wishes. So, ironically Rhea is actually disrespecting her own mother. Additionally the entire Crest System was made on the corpses of the Nabateans...yet she lets it persist despite the genocide it caused and calls it a “blessing” that’s the worst form of disrespect in my opinion. So, what are you getting at? Neither are evil, but Rhea is short-sighted
to hear the anguish and pain in Seteth's voice, to live so long, to kill a member of his remaining family. It just fucking hurts.
You can literally marry your own mother before you can have a single decent gay S support LOL
Good
@@slaytanictyphlosion2006 if you seriously believe incest is a better route, there is nothing I can do to change your mind
@@wrylucifer Resetera Bay bay
Who gives a shit? Just play as a girl.
You do know Rhea can S Rank female Byleth as well right?
Our genealogy of the holy war remake everybody.
But cranked up to Eleven
10/10
"One life surrendered so yours could begin"
Jotaro Kujo
Tfw Echoes makes sense even in another FE game
It was planned from the start
Sitri was dying anyway. Heart transplant or not, she wouldn't have made it.
So there’s the “confusing plot twist that’s some how relevant to the plot” moment
Sadly yes man it's confusing
Seteth: We have no choice but to kill the Immaculate one... to kill Rhea!
Azura: I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Seteth: Who are you?
Azura: Let's just say I have experience with taming rampaging dragons.
🎵You are the ocean's grey waves🎵
Yeah, but the one Azura helps is a colossal idiot
I can't help but imagine Byleth's mom kinda like the sort of person who'd be sweet and nice on the outside (as jeralt described her) but like with an undercurrent of sadness.
Rhea was probably nice enough to her on a surface level but she must've felt that she was considered a "failure". Kids feel that sort of thing.
Yea but in Cindered Shadows you see Rhea loved her.
@@nickgennady You can still love your kids and fail them. And how I've described my relationship with my own parents (seeing as it could apply here): They loved me for what I could have been, not for who I was.
It's not over until you kill a dragon
Barbara Gagner yo do that in three out of four storylines
Fire emblem in a nutshell.
Either a dragon another dragon or edgy old man with a evil sword or someone using evil powers
@@kirbo8595 or a demon King
@@dominiquemendy6307 or a mix of them
I was just joking that she was my mom and it is actually true lolololol
So is it revealed how she created Byleth's mom? Was it through the traditional method or homunculi? Because if it's the former then her support is even MORE messed up
@Jack Friel Rhea spoke very fondly of Byleth's mother though, it seemed like she was pained when she almost told Byleth about her in one of the earlier chapters.
Nergal form of doing it
@@dezlovecraft5247 Actually, that... makes a lot of sense. The whole thing with morphs is that they're emotionless husks, right? Except they tend to gain emotions as they go on living. This would explain why Byleth tends to be... non-expressive a lot of the time.
she committed alchemy's greatest sin, human transmutation
@@Excalibur5k That's a very common theme in FE, You don't play to be a god; not even Naga can create/destroy life that is a power beyond their reach, using magic to create human life only ends up in disaster (Blazing Blade, Valentia, Awakening, 3H) just like with Nergal, Rhea and Grima, it's antinatural.
So...
You are my grandma, but at the same time i am your mother.
*Incest has gone beyond the limits*
I find it hilarious that sothis constantly said she didn't trust Rhea
Its kinda tragic really.
@@KendrixTermina Does she feel differently about Rhea in Three Hopes?
@@Ergeniz Sothis is even LESS utilized in that.
@@auraguard0212 Yeah, I saw. Sothis is just sort of reduced to being the excuse for Byleth having a power up mode.
oh look, now you gotta kill Rhea out of nowhere. The only one who is actually alive anymore is Claude. Yay.
It's getting awfully Game Of Thrones in here.
I wander if GOT was the inspiration for this game
@@ladynikkie No, FE4, Geneology of the Holy War was the main inspiration for this game
Hmm...King in the North cuts down white haired/purple eyed queen who wants to violently change the world, who happens to secretly be related to him. All this despite probably being at least a little in love with her.
...Nah, I don’t see it.
Hiti67 there’s many GoT undertones, yet better written. even ASOIAF
More like aSoIaF if anything, Edelgard is a true Targaryen in many ways, more than show Daenerys by far.
THIS IS SOME STEVEN UNIVERSE LEVEL WEIRDNESS.
Or wait, no, that's a severe understatement. This is SO MUCH WEIRDER.
Steven universe is not weird IMO. I would say it is Regular Show wackyness
Omg it's like rose and steven I'm crying
@@glitteringgabriel It's weirder then that though. Byleth is Rhea's child AND her mom.
@@aquaperi4848 AND grandma. Remember, she created his mom.
And you can have a S support with her
this is what is screwed up about all the hate people have for Rhea. She implanted Sothis into Byleth primarily because Byleth would have died without the crest stone. Yes she wanted to revive Sothis, but it's pretty clear that Rhea isn't as fucked up as people make her out to be.
Super late here, but she really is. The experiments themselves aren’t quite as bad as those who slither in the dark, but it’s still messing with life. She also lied about the entire religion and used it to gain authority over all of fodlan. Then when things didn’t go here way (eg black eagles play through) she flips out and is willing to murder anyone and everyone claiming they are heretics.
This is essentially the good ending for her where she realizes she been a bit of a bitch and wants to step down as archbishop. I do still think edlegard attempting to unite all of Fodlan by mass murder and power were worse though.
But what if Sothis wanted to rest in piece? To have her heart Frankenstein-ed over and over in different live forms must not have been peaceful while in limbo.
@@andrielisilien exactly. I agree that Rhea isn’t really evil and gets more hate than she really deserves. She’s kind of like Edelgard, like her she has a motivation that makes her actions understandable, also like Edelgard she has flaws that make it easy to see why people would view her in a negative light. Her need to bring back her mother, again whilst understandable, started to become unhealthy and dare I say obsessive, especially in the Crimson Flower route, and even if she saved baby Byleth life at the request of Sitri her goal remained the same. She still intended to use him/her to bring back Sothis like she did so with all the others, including his/her mother. Hell, considering the fact she disappeared after she merged with Byleth, even Sothis didn’t want her to do any of it and I’m glad she sees that by the end of the Silver Snow route. So yeah, Rhea might not be a monster or even deserve death but I think it’d be justifiable for Byleth to be angry at her.
Rhea was straight up experimenting on human beings to bring back someone who, perhaps, wanted to rest in piece
I mean..that part wasn't fucked up. But plenty of other stuff was pretty fucked up.
Didn't this mean Jeralt could of had a worse fate?
Yup! He would have gone "white beast" mode.
I guess him dying was a blessing in disguise in this route at least.
Yeah I kinda wish we could’ve fought jeralt because I feel like that would’ve been interesting for byleth as a character
0:39
Me: let’s see, my mom was a human experiment made by Rhea, you incrusted a crest in my heart, and you kept me alive to be the mom you lost? Hell no, count me out!
Your mother beg rhea to save you and she accepted, you hypocrite.
TheAdorelis yeah, she still manipulated us though
@@Ana-lj9jb to be fair Claude and Edelgard also attempt to use and manipulate you granted they later form an actual friendship but all in all Byleth gets treated like an asset a lot
Considering her mother was a god, I would be fine with it. Godhood is nice.
@@TheAdorelis And Rhea tried to sacrifice you in a ritual, you hypocrite. Walking all over Sitri's wishes in the end
She has done an azura trick
I swear every character that Cherami Leigh plays is the character that i want to romance, first Makoto in P5, now Rhea
the thumbnail looks like rhea’s about to cancel byleth on her youtube channel
So it was like
"I'm not upset my dream went unfulfilled, haha, whew...." BRIGHT LIGHT
To be honest, I sympathize more with Rhea than Edelgard.
Not that I don’t feel bad for what Edelgard went through, but Rhea is more understandable at least.
In my opinion after playing all the 4 route I can only see Claude as a good guy in my opinion
@@johnclopez96 Claude's got a good head on his shoulders.
Edelgard and Dimitri need Byleth to keep them on the morally correct path, but I feel like even Dimitri was better off with Byleth than Edelgard is.
@@TheChildofAuraReborn Way better i dare to say, after he recovered from that PTSD thanks to Byleth (and the whole House helping) he becomes kinda the nicest person on earth, while Edelgard still lies to her guys telling them "the church did that" after the Fort was destroyed by Those Who Slither, and went all "Dimitri i tried my best to help you" while absolutely doing nothing to reach an understanding, except invading and killing to end the conflict as fast as possible...
I would if it wasn't for the fact that despite basically acting downright motherly towards you she was more than happy to resort to murdering you the moment you decide not to side with her.
No remorse, no attempt at reasoning with you or anything, just a full micro second to make peace with ripping you apart.
To me, it never seemed like Rhea actually cared at all.
@@HappyPotat To be fair, you just sided with the girl who willingly worked with the descendants of the people who slaughtered her family and wants her dead. Not excusing how quickly she turns on you, but it's a perspective.
So I just finished the blue lions route but never got this cutscene....is this only available on the Black Eagles if you decide to “kill” Edelgard ?
Obviously
@@nykita427 it wasn't obvious to them, they genuinely was asking 🤨
i dont see any comments talking about rhea's scream at 3:46 apparently
damn i love church route
I trust seteth and flayn more then Rhea lol 😅
Rhea is Lisa Lisa and Byleth is Joseph? And the two can actually hook up!? Nice!
Be naming the avatar Joseph then! Lol.
I.... the more I know, the more I know I DON'T know... I just finished my first Blue Lions run and was left with so many unanswered questions. Now that I watch this, I have even MORE questions.
Ummm...ok I’m confused. Lady, are you my other mother or my great great aunt or something? Cause you and your “birthing” process made my head spin in frustration =A=
Rhea: Yes, my dear child...
That doesn’t answer my question =__=;;
She created Byleth's mom, so technically she's Byleth's grandma but also the reincarnation of Sothis' daughter and Byleth is merged with Sothis so like Byleth's 1/2 daughter
Clare Hidalgo mmmm....that's a f***ed up family tree ^^;;
@@curepanda2646 but oddly straight forward since only like 5 people are involved
@@clarehidalgo She isn't reincarnation. Rhea IS Seiros.
So who exactly would the true antagonist of Fire Emblem 3 houses could be? Seiros itself? It seems pretty confusing when you have 3 different paths with 3 different antagonists. ALong with facing other students and classmates in a timeskip war.
those who slither in the dark is the true main antagonist. They manipulate stuff behind the scene in every route you take
@@dieptrieu6564 well, but only in the beginning. They are (at least in blue lions) already gone before the time skip, so..
@@skynikan They became the main enemy after the Edelgard path. They still exist and because of that; The main antagonists are Seiros, Those Who Slither In The Dark and Nemesis.
@@skynikan In hiding, not gone.
There is no true antagonist. That's the beauty of this game: there is no absolutely right path as there is none in real life. Your enemy and your friend is who you make your enemy or your friend. The antagonist changes depending on the path you chose.
Jesus man that hits me right in the feels.
This game has the best confusing plot twists
*Joseph on the boat in part 2 face*
😂
OH MY GOD...!!!
So if you side with the Church you kill Rhea and if you side with Edelgard you kill her, that’s kinda messed up
She lives in this route if you S support her
Nope. I did Claude route, church route and had the option to save her first. Once I saved her, I did not have to fight her and she made a healthy recovery. She was healthy enough to become archbishop and do her shady shit once more.
@@aldosantin1485 The only way you can save Rhea in the church route is if you have an A or S support with Rhea. If you only have an A support, the only confirmation that you get that Rhea is alive is Catherine's solo Guardian of Zanado ending, where Rhea steps down from her position as archbishop and Catherine follows her.
The only way she becomes archbishop again is if you S support her. She most certainly does not do "shady shit" in either case.
@@aldosantin1485 uh... no... she doesnt do shady shit in either route... she hands over the role to either Byleth or Claude and even if you S support her and become Archbishop once more, Byleth is in full control.
“The truth about Byleth” a.k.a. “We withheld this information in Verdant Wind, as it was the only way we could actually justify and get people to go play through the Silver Snow route!”
Silver Snow was THE route originally. The Warriors/Tokyo-Mirage-Sessions team was left to make the other three routes, and screwed up so royally with Verdant Wind and Crimson Flower because they had no time even after a delay.
Watch there’s gonna be videos saying “THE BYLETH PLOT TWIST IS THE WORST PART OF FE3H?!?”
Nah, It look at the game of throne while drunk and said: "Child please, hold my beer. Let me show you how to write conveluting plot line that people just ignore it"
Basically we were once a loli in a past life...neat
Can't touch me now FBI for I was a loli!
@@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec They'd still have to arrest your spouse though.
Byleth was born crestless. After the heart transplant, Sothis and Byleth were both in the same body.
I gotta say, from seeing the gameplay, Three Houses seems a lot more complex compared to the 3DS titles.
Demonic beasts are interesting but if you want a true challenge with great map design, I recommend FE Conquest
@@mobiusloop339 Yeah just skip all dialog in the game. I know birthright is worse but Fates is Fates nonetheless
Is this the BE route where you choose to kill Edelgard rather than side with her? I've done all 3 and I have yet to encounter this scene. Well, looks like it's time for my 4th run
So. Is this one of the Black Eagles endings? Because I've finished GD and BL and it wasn't either one of those.
If you go down the BE route it’ll split into two different routes when Edlegard tries to steal the crest stones. You have to choose to either side with Edelgard or with the church.
This is the last chapter of the church route.
What’s the soundtrack at 3:58? That shit’s fire
„A vow remembered“
4:55 you can hear the dial-up noise in Byleth's head as he tries to process the last 5 minutes
She could have use Diarahan to save Blytheh at his birth
Won't work on those that weren't alive when they were born.
@@Jarock316 then fuckin' use recarm you filthy casual
@@nickelakon5369 Wow calm down, infant
Wrong series, homie. Actually, TMS exists, so maybe not?
Such an underrated Route
It's quite ironic how in both paths in Black Eagles... you end up having to do the same thing-- killing the Immaculate One and all that.
@Pack -A- Punch the game seems to want her to pass on though.
Byleth looked so sad at the end of the cutscene with Lady Rhea, Seteth and Flayn.
Personally, I think Rhea is lying to cover her ass when she says byleths mother asked her to Implant the crest stone into the baby. I mean think about it, she said she would do anything to see Sothis again, so it is completely in character for her to have just taken matters into her own hands, after all she had literally a dozen failures before this. I don't think human life has much weight in Rheas eyes, hundreds of years of trauma and the perspective of an immortal being will do that to someone; she only saves people directly if it benefits her. If that much is true about how she feels for humans, imagine how she thinks of her experiments. Their lives are a means to an end, nothing more. Even playing as Byleth, on every route it always seemed like she just didn't consider you to actually be a person, the way she speaks to you if you take the crimson flower route, she instantly refers to you as "just another failure," not to mention the fact that she didn't even intend for you to leave the holy tomb.
This ending is really the only one where it feels like she actually came to regret her actions, but the clarity of knowing your life will end soon can tend to do that to anyone.
Especially if she now feels some guilt over what she had done, of COURSE she would cover up the one detail that would be literally impossible to disprove, if nothing else for the sake of seteth and flayn not thinking differently of her.
Bingo you hit the nail on the head.
This was my sole thought during Silver Snow: “Explain, game! Explain!”
Does she really count as B's grandma if she "created" B's mother?
Not really
B's mom can be considered an adoptive daughter.
Its basically an adopted scenario she was your moms mother in all but blood
Byleth: Is she my mother?
Rhea: No. You’re my mother.
This is exactly what makes Rhea 200% waifu material.
I never knew that you could check out the Roster card of the enemies! That's pretty cool!
Goddamnit Fodlanbama...
Incest was EXTREME on this one, but we let it slide due to it being a game that takes place in old fantasy times
I cannot believe I chose Edelgard over her.
GOD DAMN IT HUBERT
Wait wait, hold up. How is this his fault? 😅
I can, and I'm glad!!
No regrets. None!!
Glad I did. Rhea is a manipulative bitch.
What is your best dinosaur noise? 3:56
...Sweet home Alabama?
Pretty much
Alabama, Shelbyville and ancient Greek and Egypt combined
You should also take into consideration that you aren't Sothis, it's just that Sothis lives within you so not really insest
@@theanonymousme6015 I think they're referring to the fact that Rhea artificially created Byleth's mother with the same blood as Rhea which was also the same blood that was transfused in Jeralt. Since Byleth's mother and Jeralt technically have the same blood now and they had a child, Byleth is a product of incest. So Sweet Home Alabama.
@@riderwolfseeker5066 yes but technically no, I don't see it by blood. I file it insest if it's by genetics, basically by DNA as that's how it's actually supposed to be like in the real world
4:02 I agree with Seteth I still don’t get how Rhea turns into a dragon here in SS…
But not against her will in VW 🤨
best route just because of that last chapter, change my goddamn mind. that battle is epic...and difficult.
That fight was wild for sure!
Fire Emblem basically just tells us that Dragons go mad with Age.
18 games treading out the same "power corrupts with age" story. All of them have this nonsense, except for 4 and 5 somehow.
Rhea is NOT Byleth's mother. She created Siti, Byleth's mother.
So basically her grandmother though lol :/
So Byleth is her mother but also not, and is her child but also not, and is her niece/nephew but also not.
*I am confusion*
Nemesis should have been the final boss in this route
...Hold on. So, Byleth has the Crest of Flames from Sothis that was in his mom that Rhea created, along with her blood and the blood of Jeralt. Wait, so Byleth is both internally her mother and externally her... nephew?
Rhea: Gives sad backstory
Me after playing Crimson Flower and learning the full lore: I feel manipulated
Brother, the Crimson Flower route only a portion of the full Lore; Verdant Wind covers the most followed by Silver Snow. Even Azure Moon has some pretty important clues as to what is going on, that you don't find in the other routes.
It's literally impossible to get the entire lore by just playing a single route in the game. That's the whole point of 3H, to get to play everyone's perspective to have a clear idea about what the heck is going on.
I'm starting to think that the only path with a happy ending is the Golden Deer's one (it's the only one I've finished so far). Everything else I've heard or seen from the other 3 paths is giving me crippling depression...
It's definitely the most stable ending compared to the other routes, because they deal with MOST of the issues being presented. They deal with "Those that slither in the dark," they make Fodlan open to the world, and everyone mostly is happy under the new system. With Edelgard and Dimitri's routes, we see that there are some loose ends that need to be dealt with.
Only if you don't care about the other house characters because default no recruitment Black Eagles and Blue Lions die.
@@brandoncherry6264 actually Claude fucks off and leaves Byleth to mismanage the country, probably getting Fodlan conquered by Almyra in the process, while Rhea keeps the Church (because Claude fucked off) and some of the Slitherers survive.
So...She implanted a Crest Stone inside Byleth’s mother...Does that technically make her your grandmother, or what? Was the mother of Byleth related to Rhea? Does a transfusion of Rhea’s blood to Jeralt mean blood relation...? Does being the reincarnate of someone’s mother make you their mother, too??
The logistics here was weird...
Craig DelliCarpini
She created Byleth’s mother, which I think means she is some sort of clone with Rhea’s DNA. So she is the grandmother in a way.
Ambur Price No, what she did was simply put the Crest Stone in a woman, just like Byleth. That’s why she says “created”.
5:00 is the best moment Byleth solemnly looks to sky wondering if theres another way
It's disturbing how little people seem to pay attention. Rhea is NOT Byleth' mother. She is also not his/her daughter, because Byleth is NOT Sothis. Byleth also isn't Sothis' reincarnation. Byleth is nothing more than a random child of one of Rheas experiments. So she isn't even Byleth' grandmother. Byleth got Sothis' heart by implantation, nothing more. Rhea could've implanted the heart in other children and she did that in the past. That's why she called Byleth "just another failure" when he/she sided with Edelgard. Most of the people in this comment section only see what they want to see.
ikr.
So does this mean Jeralt would have turned into a white beast on this route if Kronya didn't knife him?
The game is great and awesome but couldn't they have at least worked on facial expressions?
Well now we got Rhea's fallen version on FEH
Wow that's a big dragon
Fire Emblem is the only series where your mother is also your grandmother but is also your daughter, but you're also your own dad and your own mom thereby making you your own grandfather and your own grandmother, and you're also your own son/daughter.
What about uncle/aunt?
Can you be your own uncle/aunt?
Fun fact: Rhea is actually the reincarnation of Seiros and Seiros was actually possessing Rhea the whole time.
So the whole time Rhea just doesn’t know it or Seiros regrets her decision and wants her body back?
@@julesop3866 Basically Seiros has long gone mad since she couldn't accept her mother dying, and Rhea is a pseudo-reincarnation of her meaning she possessed her as time went on because she wanted to reincarnate her mother.
Actually, Rhea *IS* Seiros! Not a possession, not a reincarnation, but the very being!
@@Darkyan97 Explained like that, it sounds more like a split personality disorder than a pseudo-reincarnation
Jarock316 is that why her body was missing?
take a shot of water, everytime rhea says progenitor god
How did Rhea create the 12 failed attempts at bringing her mother back? Did she birth all 12, or use some kind of magic to create them and place the crest stone within? Flayn has a mother, so it's not like Seteth was able to create a child on his own, so I'm guessing she birthed all 12? And Rhea is your grandma?
My question, exactly. Hope the game will deepen that subject more. Maybe a dlc or something? Because all this, explanation only raises more questions.
@@lizzyleea Since you can S support with Rhea, I'm going to go ahead and assume that she created these 12 failed clones with magic.. I know Fire Emblem has had cousin marriages in the past, but being able to marry your literal grandma is even pushing the line for the medieval setting haha.
Seteth probably isn't a direct child of Sothis.
That's a Kingdom Hearts level of storytelling
so hello beat the blue lions route where is this?
Black Eagle route (but you have to side with the Church instead of Edelgard.)
roguegirl29 don't they refer to that route as the sliver something? also thanks
@@gabbychan6609 I believe the Church Route is called 'Silver Snow.' Edelgard's route is called 'Crimson Flower.'
roguegirl29 thanks i haven't had the time to get into all this with recent games
That fucking GRAARGH sounded like Reptar lol