Fire Emblem: Awakening/WMG

"Liz's Cleric class is going to be a seperate "Lord" class this time around".

 * Jossed

"Travis Touchdown is going to be a DLC character".
Think about it. Yusuke Kozaki is designing the characters, they've already announced that there will be DLC scenarios, No More Heroes enjoyed a lot of popularity on the Wii... They'd be utterly mad not to do it.

"The Identity of the Masked Man from the trailers".
Okay, so the guy obviously looks like Marth with a Paper-Thin Disguise on. The most widely circulated theory is that it's Marth time/dimension hopping into another version of Akaneia to save his own. But admittedly that's a tad predictable so here's a few other ideas:
 * It's someone pretending to be Marth. Either to fufill some sort of prophecy or personal gain. Or he's just a big fan of the hero from lore.
 * It's some sort of guardian spirit masquerading as A Form You Are Comfortable With.
 * It's the spirit of Krom's Falchion testing Krom's worth as a wielder.
 * It's actually a girl. Not likely, but would be a fun twist.
 * Looks a bit more likely with "Marth" being Yuu Kobayashi (who admittedly does male voices as well, though that is pretty handy if you are faking maleness) instead of Hikaru Midorikawa as he is in the OVA and Super Smash Bros..
 * One needs to take into consideration his original VAs age (forty), and the fact he last VA-ed Marth in Melee. His Brawl voice is reused. He hasn't done Marth in 11 years.
 * Take A Fifth Option. Marth defeated Medeus but failed in his duties as a ruler after that; leading to his Akaneia being embroiled in chaos and war. His Falchion is somehow destroyed in the process. Hoping to end the chaos by finding a hero who won't fail, he reforges the Falchion into a new form that also serves as his Soul Jar (hence: "the Binding Blade Falchion") that Krom ultimately receives. When he does, he reawakens the dormant spirit of Marth inside.
 * Is an Identical Descendant, some previously unknown relative of Krom's, who is claiming to be the real deal for some reason. Can overlap with the girl suggestion and the one below.
 * Is using Marth's Falchion while Krom's is actually Alm's (hence the "sealing" in Krom's). Can overlap with any of the above
 * Well, according to this page, it ain't him. Actual Marth confirmed for DLC.
 * Combining two theories: DLC Marth is from an alternate universe where the world didn't go to shit after he was crowned.
 * As it turns out,
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"The Masked Man is a Hero Antagonist".
Because, if it is Marth, seeing a clash between two heroes with noble goals would be an awesomely good way to spice up Akaneia's Black and White Morality.

"The new world setting for this game is a Crossover universe where all the previous Fire Emblem games exist on the same world.
Thus leading to Alternate Continuity versions of classic Fire Emblem characters that will pop up with only a few being playable during the main game.

The dragon-mark-bearing hero tied to Naga, who is widely presumed to be Krom, is also a descendant of Heim, and that's where the mark comes from.
Upon consideration of the fact that the world of the game is practically identical to Archanea/Valencia, and that Jugdral is set in the ancient history of those worlds, that got me thinking, if working under the assumption that the world is indeed "future" Archanea. First, to refer to an excerpt from the logo text:

"Two heroes marked with the symbols of dragons."

With Naga confirmed to be one of the dragons, this reminded me strongly of the Twelve Crusaders and their bloodlines, the descendents of which have identifying marks on their bodies. Naga bonded with one of the Crusaders, Heim, who proceeded to have quite a few descendants carrying the blood themselves. So from here, what I'm thinking is this: Somehow, in the thousands of years since Monshou and Seisen's events, a descendant of the Heim line came to whatever the Kakusei continent is now called and had children with someone, whose eventual descendant is one of the prophecised heroes. Given that he has a dragonlike mark on his shoulder, combined with the standard trends for FE heroes, that could well be Krom and his family, and I guess that's the assumption I'm working under here: the royal family of Iris carries the Heim bloodline, aka the Naga bloodline, and that is the cause behind the dragon mark.

Consider also that there are only thee options for Heim ancestors here: Yuria, Linoan and Celice, the latter of whom may be used as a way to tie yet another main character into this world (assuming you buy the Masked Marth thing); on the other hand, Celice only had minor Heim and thus, without him or his descendants marrying Yuria, Linoan or their descendants, may not be able to sustain the line.


 * Take a Third Option. Krom could be descended from Yuria and Lester or Finn?
 * OP here: Linoan isn't an option, or at least is a very unlikely one, as her ending says she never married; obviously a child out of wedlock isn't out of the question, but it doesn't seem all that likely.
 * Celice marrying Yuria isn't an impossiblity- far from it. Given that would also tie them to Anri and Marth, however...

"Marth" will have his name localized as "Mars".
For the sole purpose of screwing with fan theories.

My Unit will be able to Change Proofs to enter any class
Which would give a way for MU to be flexible yet start with a single class.
 * Confirmed! My Unit can use the Change Seal to change into any class barring special ones like Manakete or Taguel.
 * My Unit can marry a Manakete or Taguel... and then Mark can change into one of those two. (And n_n or Chambray will get all other classes too)

My Unit and Marth are two parts of the same being
Marth looks more like an anti-hero here. My Unit is the lighter part of his personality, with the tactical genius included.

My Unit is Perezian royalty.
Saw this on Serenes, thought I'd post it here. The basis of the theory is that My Unit is dressed very similarly to the evil sorcerer in the trailer, who is assumed to be the ruler of the enemy nation. Additionally, if MU and Krom are indeed the two marked heroes in the logo, it would be natural for Iris's prince to be the marked of Naga and for Perezia's hier to be the marked of Gimle. Makes you wonder if their meeting accidentally unleashed that Lovecraftian dragon...

The children from the Marriage option are from the future.
It's confirmed married couples can have children that fight alongside them, but, barring a long timeskip, the timeframe of the game doesn't seem like it spans an extremely long drawn out conflict. Also it doesn't look like Sumia aged a day in her scenes with her daughter (granted it would be taxing to have to redraw older versions of everyone). It could be that the children are recruited from the mysterious Dimension Gate after the parents have bonded.

Same  name, the two characters start their games in similar circumstances, and they serve the same plot purpose in their respective games.
 * But what if you made a female Mark? Making it non-canon seems unfair.
 * To be fair, ever see an enemy unit tactician? Or a Player Unit Tactician? Or Purple-guys Tactician? Each changes the hair color. All "Other Units" (Green) have Brown Hair... even if they're canonically... Purple-haired or something like that, unless it's a Mage (Female) (Green Hair) or Lord (Eliwood) (Red Hair). So, there actually nothing known about Mark of FE7, outside of him/her being really skilled. (Ala, the "Brilliant Mind" ending needs to happen for background of FE6)
 * Actually the first CG makes it pretty clear that s/he has brown hair. It's not even the sepia filter, either, since the unfiltered prototype version CG has hir with brown hair also.
 * To be fair, ever see an enemy unit tactician? Or a Player Unit Tactician? Or Purple-guys Tactician? Each changes the hair color. All "Other Units" (Green) have Brown Hair... even if they're canonically... Purple-haired or something like that, unless it's a Mage (Female) (Green Hair) or Lord (Eliwood) (Red Hair). So, there actually nothing known about Mark of FE7, outside of him/her being really skilled. (Ala, the "Brilliant Mind" ending needs to happen for background of FE6)
 * Actually the first CG makes it pretty clear that s/he has brown hair. It's not even the sepia filter, either, since the unfiltered prototype version CG has hir with brown hair also.

Secret Character Support conversations
Will involve MU confronting them with the mistakes they made in the main plot.