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* There's actually a rather strong possibility the writers of Utawarerumono may have been at least a little influenced by ''IV''--Utawarerumono originally came out as a visual novel series in 2002, and ''IV'' was released in Japan in 2000.
== ''IV'' could be in the same universe as ''[[
Let's review the similarities: [[Evil Empire]] in the west who wants to destroy the protagonist, [[Last of His Kind]] [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|Crystal Dragon Buddha]] sealed away for hundreds of years, set in a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] version of the Japan/China/Korea general area, and a bunch of chosen ones who are linked to specific elements who end up helping out the Crystal Dragon Buddha.
* Of course those two bits of Wild Mass Guessing above only really work if you consider ''IV'' an [[Alternate Universe]], though.
== Myria is the result of Yuna's experiments on making gods being a success. ==
VERY popular [[Fanon]] for folks who take the "[[Breath of Fire]] IV is a [[Non
* At least one variant even posits that Myria is actually ''Elina'' who really ''did'' get turned into an [[Eldritch Abomination]] (and whose being turned into an "artificial Endless" was such a success that even the Dragonslayer couldn't permanently kill her).
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Capcom has had a long history of not really knowing what the hell to do with the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' games in general (hence why it was such a shock when four phone games and a [[Comic Book Adaptation]] came out); most notably, it is probably the ''sole'' remaining Capcom franchise that has not yet been featured in a [[Capcom vs. Whatever]] game. Nobody really knows why.
* One urban legend (inspired by Squaresoft's translation of ''I'') is that the first ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' was actually a Square game that Capcom bought the rights for and the entire franchise is under some considerable restriction on its promotion/development as a result. (This is easily disprovable by the Japanese release being all Capcom's baby; [[Fan Translation]] from the original Japanese game has been very helpful in this regard.)
** More plausible is the idea that there may be residual licensing issues from the ''North American'' release of the first ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' that essentially prevent the franchise from being included in a [[Capcom vs. Whatever]]. Square and Capcom actually share distribution rights in the US for the first game (due to Capcom having farmed out the localisation of ''I'' to Squaresoft) and this explanation does become ''slightly'' more plausible with the news [https://web.archive.org/web/20100501170616/http://www.gofanboy.com/go-fanboy-news/2363-square-enix-bringing-valkyrie-profile-sequel-to-xbox-360-and-more SquareEnix is apparently working on ports of ''I'' and ''II'' to the XBox360 to be formally announced at E3]. (Of note, [[Square Enix]] ''doesn't'' have distro rights for ''II'' unless Capcom is specifically licensing it.)
*** However, this technically wouldn't prevent any cameos from ''III''-''Dragon Quarter'' unless there's other licensing issues we don't know about...
* Another urban legend states that the creators of the series essentially prohibited Capcom from including the series in any [[Capcom vs. Whatever]] games.
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** This is partially proven and partially disproven; there hasn't been an official announcement of a new ''[[Breath of Fire]]'', and there was (comparatively speaking) very little [[Expanded Universe]] material ever made for ''Dragon Quarter'' other than the artbook and the soundtrack. It is known from the developer's blog by the creators of ''Dragon Quarter'' (now offline) that the creators would have liked to do a ''[[Breath of Fire]] VI'' using the same game engine as ''Dragon Quarter''--if this was the case, this was probably ''rapidly'' shelved when Capcom saw just how much of a [[Broken Base]] had developed (there are ''still'' some who refuse to recognise ''Dragon Quarter'' as even being in the franchise).
*** In other words, the official policy of Capcom is not only to deny that ''Dragon Quarter'' ever happened but to deny that the ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' franchise as a whole happened, at least outside of Japan.
*** However, there has been a ''lot'' of promotion of its immediate predecessor ''[[Breath of Fire]] '''IV''''' in Japan (and more recently, in France and China), especially since 2007 (when both three separate Japanese smartphone games--two of which can be considered a [[Non
*** At least some media reports have indicated that developers at ''Capcom'' have a real interest in reviving the franchise (which has actually been backed up by the jettisoned ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' plans) but that the main issue--per the CEO of Capcom at the time--was funding. (The CEO who gave the statement resigned from Capcom effective November 2010, which has in and of itself revived rumours that the series may finally exit its seven years of [[Development Hell]]--the popular perception has been that the CEO (who was responsible for the [[Mega Man (
*** One bit of circumstantial evidence that does give some credence to the "former CEO put the kibosh on any new [[Breath of Fire]]" idea--said CEO was also the primary developer behind the [[
* At least one rumour posits that a major developer for the franchise has either died or left Capcom. No reason why it wouldn't stop development, though...
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