While playing through FE13 again last night I had a thought regarding the widely criticized Valm arc. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone has suggested this before, but could this game’s disjointed three-part structure be a deliberate attempt to mirror the first three games in the series? Both FE2 and the Valm arc are side stories only tangentially related to what comes both before and after, and furthermore they’re set on the same continent. If only I knew more about Archanea verse so that I could make more in-depth comparisons….
It would still be a bad narrative decision, but at least there would be a meta-narrative reason for it.
Gascon-en-exil: Gallophilic Cultural Posturing 