Time skips aid make any video game story amp up the intensity, drama, and excitement. Burn down Keepsake has done that withMystery of the Keepsake, Genealogy of the Holy War, Awakening, and recently, Iii Houses. When the trailer for the fourth dimension skip was shown, specifically at E3, fans were in awe at how the main lords looked v years afterwards, with Dimitri being the most shocking every bit he was seen wearing an centre patch and telling his army to kill every last 1 of them.

3 Houses' time skip shows that things are getting serious and the choices storywise you lot make really do matter. This will include some serious and non-and so-serious spoilers, so exist wary of going in if you take not played all of Three Houses. Here is everything you lot demand to know about the time skip in Burn down Emblem: Three Houses.

ten This Fourth dimension, Non Everyone Volition Be Spared

As the time skip heads straight into war after five years of Byleth beingness in a sleeping state, things have changed for the better and worse. You will reunite with one of the house leaders in the ruined Garreg Mach Monastery with a smile, or with disdain. Aslope that, the characters in the specific house will also reunite in battle (or in the monastery if Ruby Flower becomes the route).

Don't expect the time skip to be similar Fire Emblem Fates: Revelations where almost everyone survives. If you don't have characters from other houses recruited, they will be killed off when fighting against them.

9 One Route Is A Bit Shorter

Crimson Flower takes an incredibly interesting approach to differentiate itself from other routes. We meet a perspective of Edelgard that justifies her reasons for wanting to brand Fódlan free from a system of nobility and condone the use of crests.

Nevertheless, the road has been criticized for being shorter compared to the other routes and in that location are little-to-no cutscenes, just CG art for when a specific moment happens. By having three less chapters, exist sure to grind as much as you tin can to bargain with the terminal chapter, especially on Maddening.

eight More Paralogues Will Exist Added

Some characters take paralogues pre-fourth dimension skip, while others unlock theirs if they are recruited before the time skip. For case, Petra and Bernadetta's paralogue tin can only be completed in the time skip. Marianne'due south paralogue is too available if she is recruited or you lot picked the Aureate Deer business firm. Sometimes yous will have to go students exterior of your chosen business firm to get the paralogue, like Mercedes and Caspar, who will face the Decease Knight, and Linhardt with Leonie, who are looking for a treasured weapon.

For the beginning time in Fire Emblem games, the results in immigration a specific paralogue will determine the fate of that character. This is just in the Blue Lions house, but more than on that afterward. Clearing the time skip paralogues are really worth information technology every bit y'all can go strong weapons, grind for more than levels, and come across special dialogue from whose paralogue you're playing.

7 Sothis Will Be Gone, Except When...

Due to merging with Sothis to go out of the void from the pre-time skip, she can just be heard when Byleth awakens five years afterwards, merely that will be the last of her unless yous decided to take her manus in spousal relationship. As you are able to gain support points from her from dialogue choices, Intelligent Systems sneaked their way in.

Before going onto the last boxing in either route, an option for Due south-ranking will accept Sothis appear with "???" and her faded image. Information technology is rather foreign to go for someone who basically lives inside your head, merely more power to yous since she is an interesting character.

6 If Yous Don't Recruit The Ashen Wolves Beforehand, Information technology'southward Too Late

DLC is not necessarily needed for the complete Three Houses experience, but if you lot actually love this game, then it is a must-buy to gain another story chosen Cindered Shadows, recruit the Ashen Wolves after beating the extra story, and unlock supports with them and in-game characters. By the time you get to the second affiliate, y'all will be able to head into the Abyss and recruit them immediately. Fifty-fifty if they will not have any relevance in the main story, they still have unique dialogue of what occurs in the affiliate you are in depending on the road.

If you desire extra units to train up and apply later on in the fourth dimension skip, be sure to recruit them before the 12th chapter. If yous do non recruit them, they will not appear in the time skip and their fates will be unknown.

5 It's Where A-Rank Supports Are Unlocked

Iii Houses takes a different approach to how supports are unlocked. Similarly to Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, supports take time to be available. C and B-rank supports are quick to get out of the style with the help of gift-giving, lost items, or tea parties. A-rank supports are simply obtainable during the fourth dimension skip, giving characters closure on the events they went through and being i step closer to become an S-rank on who you choose to marry.

Dimitri's support to A-rank for those he tin can interact with particularly takes fourth dimension every bit he is not able to support anyone or have anything during his dark and stubborn state. Just as long equally you have taken many meals with him and another support partner and taught him during the pre-time skip, he will come around once you lot reach the chapter his back up is available again.

4 Dedue Might Not Announced In The Time Skip

Dedue's role is very crucial in Azure Moon, as he is not only exclusive to that route, but in the pre-fourth dimension skip, he has a paralogue, called War for the Weak, that volition take consequences if not done. Past merely not doing it, Dedue will sacrifice himself to spare Dimitri from existence executed.

If you have invested into Dedue, then information technology is essential to consummate his paralogue to spare the defensive tank's life. During his absenteeism, Gilbert volition accept over with decent stats, but whenever Dedue comes back, Gilbert can act equally a defensive adjutant for someone who is squishy.

three You Can Recruit Certain Students Subsequently The Time Skip

Fret not if you missed some characters in one case the time skip rolls over. Depending on the routes y'all picked, except for Silver Snow, you volition get a chance to have a graphic symbol to add to your squad. Due to story scenarios, the characters Lysithea, Lorenz, and Ashe tin can be recruited even if you lot had not gained supports or had no intention of getting them. However, they must be defeated by Byleth in boxing, since any other unit will issue in them dying.

Past playing Black Eagle, you will be able to recruit Lysithea. Just by defeating her, she volition have a unique dialogue and enquire to join y'all by sparing her. The same goes for Lorenz and Ashe in Blue Lions and Golden Deer respectively. As long as Byleth is the one who takes them out, you will gain an extra unit to employ every bit adjutants.

2 Verdant Air current And Silvery Snowfall Are Nearly Identical

It can be hard to figure out which house to starting time with, just if you exercise not want to experience déjà vu, exist sure non to play Verdant Air current and Silver Snow dorsum to dorsum. One of the game'southward major drawbacks is how eerily similar Claude and Rhea's routes are. Given, information technology does not play entirely the aforementioned, equally the routes take different final maps and cutscenes. Just for what is similar, it tin can be disappointing depending on which route you have chosen commencement.

They share one map that has to do with Those Who Slither in the Nighttime and a cutscene that occurs after clearing the said map. Verdant Wind has more than exposition regarding Fódlan's history, while Silver Snow focuses more on Rhea. Whatever route you would prefer to have on outset, only be sure not to do both consecutively.

1 Non Every Student Will Appear

FE16 Marianne

If y'all want a happier ending in Iii Houses, practice your best to recruit every student possible, unless Hilda, Hubert, or Dedue are not bachelor on certain routes. If some students do not take a required support rank or not have reached a level in the weapon, stat, or movement, they will eventually face their demise in the chapter Blood of the Eagle and Lion in Azure Moon, Verdant Air current, and Silver Snow (offscreen).

Not counting DLC, the merely character that does non announced in the time skip, unless recruited or in the respective house, is Marianne.

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