but the heaven/hell references seem to all be at the level of personal character beliefs (IMO, where it should be).
I was going to bring that up, but I think there are two things that scotch that. I've been trying to remember and x-ref the Archanea "smoking gun," but the Jugdral one (and, really-- same universe, same gods, generally the same rules) is where Celice has a chat with the ghosts of his parents, which IIRC is played straight and seems to mean exactly what it appears to be.
OTOH, when Gotoh congratulates Marth at the end of FE11, he does say (in translation, anyway) "Your family would be proud" and not "Your family is proud" or anything else to indicate continued being. So... I'm not 100% certain of how we're meant to take the afterlife thing. But, souls do appear to hang out somewhere from which they can be recalled intact. Maybe they just kind of go dormant.
What evidence is this? *curious*
Well, if you couldn't resurrect the canon sacrifice, either 1) the game was just evil, 2) dissipating life force meant you couldn't recall someone who'd been dead that long or 3) they weren't dead. Little bit of column 1, lot of column 3.
what are the chances that daddy Cornelius wants to come back to take care of this dragon shit when his son could do that for him?
Hah. Still, you can recall every playable character who is actually dead, regardless of motivation, personality, or likely, er, status after death.
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Date: 2011-09-10 04:44 am (UTC)I was going to bring that up, but I think there are two things that scotch that. I've been trying to remember and x-ref the Archanea "smoking gun," but the Jugdral one (and, really-- same universe, same gods, generally the same rules) is where Celice has a chat with the ghosts of his parents, which IIRC is played straight and seems to mean exactly what it appears to be.
OTOH, when Gotoh congratulates Marth at the end of FE11, he does say (in translation, anyway) "Your family would be proud" and not "Your family is proud" or anything else to indicate continued being. So... I'm not 100% certain of how we're meant to take the afterlife thing. But, souls do appear to hang out somewhere from which they can be recalled intact. Maybe they just kind of go dormant.
What evidence is this? *curious*
Well, if you couldn't resurrect the canon sacrifice, either 1) the game was just evil, 2) dissipating life force meant you couldn't recall someone who'd been dead that long or 3) they weren't dead. Little bit of column 1, lot of column 3.
what are the chances that daddy Cornelius wants to come back to take care of this dragon shit when his son could do that for him?
Hah. Still, you can recall every playable character who is actually dead, regardless of motivation, personality, or likely, er, status after death.