Azure Moon, besides known as the Blueish Lions route of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, has a meaning presence among fans. Considering the popularity of Dimitri, this route's lord character, it's no surprise that many praise the route itself for a dandy number of things. But Azure Moon actually has something of an open secret: information technology's the bad catastrophe of the game.

Before we get into information technology, a bit of clarification - this isn't going to exist making a blanket argument that another route is the "ideal" road. 3 Houses included four branching storylines, and there are fans of all of them. This article is examining why Azure Moon specifically fails to accost issues that led to the game'south five year war, and why that makes its ending wrap-up tragic, despite the fanfare.

Azure Moon Forgot About The Agarthans

The most glaring consequence with Azure Moon is the route's failure to address the Agarthans, referred to more often throughout the other routes equally "Those who slither in the dark". In every other route of the game, these hidden adversaries are revealed to the player past Edelgard or, in the other routes where you side against her, a postmortem letter from Hubert. Azure Moon is unique in that the true nature of the dark forces at play in Fodlan...never quite make information technology to the surface. In fact, in the final battle, a dark mage fifty-fifty retreats from the field implying this won't be the end.

Narratively, this isn't a necessarily a complete failure of the writing. Since much of Dimitri'south character revolves around letting go of his revenge and looking towards the time to come, showing him learning the ugly truth of the Agarthans could complicate that. It would, after all, effect in him realizing they were the actual culprits behind the Tragedy of Duscur that plagued him for so long. Including an extra chapter where he hunted them down, as Claude and Rhea did in their routes, might take seemed contradictory.

However, making information technology into a gameplay chapter wasn't the just path forward. In Reddish Blossom, Edelgard's road (and ostensibly most inseparable from the Agarthans in the plot) it's stated that she and Hubert wiped out the Agarthans in the epilogue. This begs the question: why didn't Dimitri get a letter of the alphabet, as Claude and Rhea did, disclosing the truth? Or, at the very least, why didn't he acquire about the Agarthans some other mode? Anyone who'd played a route other than Azure Moon would know about them, and they'd committed enough of atrocities against characters similar Lysithea. The motivation players have to defeat them is obvious.

Faerghus' Military Culture Has Serious Problems

Faerghus' civilization has a laundry list of problems, and nearly every character from the region is deeply impacted past them. The value placed on Crests in Faerghus appears far more than astringent than elsewhere (see: Ingrid and Sylvain's personal crises), the fashion expiry on the battlefield is glorified via characters like Rodrigue is plenty to make you weep, and Gilbert abandoned a loving wife and daughter for years on end due to a mangled sense of duty and honor.

One might think, being close with so many deeply affected past such things, that Dimitri might advocate for some change. And he is a very kind ruler in his endings. However, the military machine civilization goes unaddressed. In fact, looking at some of the paired endings unique to Azure Moon, it's going strong. In Felix and Leonie's paired catastrophe in all other routes, they work as mercenaries but soon start to run out of piece of work, then become performers. In Azure Moon, there's no demand - mercenary work isn't drying out. This seems to imply much more unrest in the mail service-war world of AM compared to all other routes.

They Decided To Patch A Better Ending In With DLC

There's notwithstanding promise, though. For players who are ride-or-die Blue Lions teachers, simply hate the thought that the cloak-and-dagger society hell bent on resurrecting Nemesis and his goons (while using man children equally lab rats and sparking a genocide) simply got to keep doing their matter, there is one remedy. Dimitri was given a paired catastrophe with Hapi, a DLC character and, more chiefly, i more of the Agarthans' many victims. If she and Dimitri marry, she tells him almost the Agarthans and they defeat them. Probably all of them. Perchance.

image source: fe3h.noobsaigon.com, from the character ending collection.

Information technology doesn't do much for the toxic civilisation of Faerghus and its presumed expanse across the whole continent, but it does a lot more for lasting prosperity in AM than the base of operations game did. For only $25 and the decision to forfeit getting any other paired ending for Dimitri, Azure Moon players can also take steps to prevent the next Tragedy by defeating the Agarthans.

You know, similar what happens in all of the other routes - without the extra cost.

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