Fic Update and Notes: Focus
Feb. 19th, 2011 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodel Awright. Now that I've purged the crack from my system, offloading an ages-old WIP in the process, it's time for the thing I was actually planning to post today.
Focus.
Pre-war story + attempt at depicting magic as unique to Archanea + sum total of some of the meta we've been batting around. Also, if that anon who wanted a story about little kid!Marth is still out there, I hope they find this. Anyway,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raphien andxirysa were especially helpful in inspiring this.
A couple of notes on the front end:
1) FE12 indicates that Altean nobles don't really gravitate to magic, making Merric something of an oddity.
2) That said, nobody seems to have a problem with Elice and her super-special staff powers, so staff magic/recovery magic must be more mainstream. People need healers a lot more than they need to cut peg knights to ribbons with blades made of wind, anyway.
3) I assume Elice's magical bent came from her mother. I'd like to go outside the mainstream and portray Liza as a peg knight or a swordmistress, or maybe an archer, but the course of least resistance says her "class" would likely be Sage or Bishop, and in consideration of point #1 above, most likely Bishop. Note: Bishops in Archanea can use any kind of magic, not just light magic.
4) There really isn't a formal breakdown of light/dark/anima in the Archanea games, as the magic triangle hadn't been invented yet and the remakes didn't retcon it. The sorceror you get in the remakes, Etzel, comes packing a Blizzard tome in FE12, which is the same thing Wendell uses. Katarina comes with Nosferatu in FE12, but Nosferatu/Resire was considered to be female-only light magic in FE3, and I think that's the same case here.
Focus.
Pre-war story + attempt at depicting magic as unique to Archanea + sum total of some of the meta we've been batting around. Also, if that anon who wanted a story about little kid!Marth is still out there, I hope they find this. Anyway,
raphien andxirysa were especially helpful in inspiring this.A couple of notes on the front end:
1) FE12 indicates that Altean nobles don't really gravitate to magic, making Merric something of an oddity.
2) That said, nobody seems to have a problem with Elice and her super-special staff powers, so staff magic/recovery magic must be more mainstream. People need healers a lot more than they need to cut peg knights to ribbons with blades made of wind, anyway.
3) I assume Elice's magical bent came from her mother. I'd like to go outside the mainstream and portray Liza as a peg knight or a swordmistress, or maybe an archer, but the course of least resistance says her "class" would likely be Sage or Bishop, and in consideration of point #1 above, most likely Bishop. Note: Bishops in Archanea can use any kind of magic, not just light magic.
4) There really isn't a formal breakdown of light/dark/anima in the Archanea games, as the magic triangle hadn't been invented yet and the remakes didn't retcon it. The sorceror you get in the remakes, Etzel, comes packing a Blizzard tome in FE12, which is the same thing Wendell uses. Katarina comes with Nosferatu in FE12, but Nosferatu/Resire was considered to be female-only light magic in FE3, and I think that's the same case here.
