Meta Month, Day Ten: On Time Goddess Anna

In the unused content for FE1, there is an item called the Time Orb.  We don't know what it would've done in gameplay (as it is, it does nothing), but we can figure that it manipulated time in some way-- moving it back, perhaps, or freezing it, perhaps freezing the enemy a turn.  But that doesn't matter so much as what we might imagine became of that orb.

( Speculation of the cracky variety )

Fic Update: "Lucky Horseshoes," 2 & 3 / Steampunk noodling

Not meta, exactly.  Inspired by the battlefield meta that hooves posted over on fandom, I finally published the second and third installments of "Lucky Horseshoes," the unheroic exploits of Norne in the War of Heroes.

Most of my in-depth knowledge of the day to day workings of an army comes from the American Civil War, which of course postdates the "medieval fantasy" setting by a couple of centuries, but at this point I really don't care, especially with regards to FE12.  It's not like people behaved any better in wartime just because they were living under the feudal system.  If FE12 posits an army consisting of "platoons," we're already talking a post-17th century way of doing business.  So, yeah.  

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Went to the Old Car Festival at the Henry Ford today with the intention of checking out the replica of the "world's first self-propelled vehicle" they had on-site.  Basically, it's a steam-powered dray for military use.  It was cool; they had coal in the boiler and steam coming out, even though it wasn't mobile when I visited.  Gave me ideas for the "tanks" Grust will use in the Steampunk Archanea story.