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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Jealousy system
Credits: Pegasus Knight, Pikaroom
Introduction
There exists a hidden jealousy system, which affects love
growth in
this game.
The Jealousy system comes into play whenever a second female waits
adjacent to the female in a male-female pair.
If
the second female (B) has a higher priority for the male than the
original female
(A), then the
second female will snatch the adjacent lover's bonus from the original
(the uniform +5 bonus).
Jealousy stacks for multiple "secondary" females and even for multiple
males. I'll just describe the
two simplest formations that utilise stacking.
T-shape formation
In this case, Tiltyu (the Thunder Mage) has the highest priority
for Claude (the High Priest) and will snatch the adjacent bonus from
Sylvia (the Dancer) first. Since Sylvia no longer has a
bonus, Fury (the Pegasus Knight) will not be able to snatch anything.
Putting Fury there is
basically fairly useless.
Square formation
In
this formation, Tiltyu (the Thunder Mage) will get both Sylvia (the
Dancer) and Fury's (the Pegasus Knight) adjacent lover bonus (gaining a
total
bonus of +10). This is a method of greatly speeding up love growth
(since instead of the normal +5 bonus, you can get +10), which may be
useful
in ranked playthroughs or simply just to get couples earlier.
Character priority lists
1st Generation (If you've reset the
game at least once)
Male(s)
|
Priority
|
Midayle
|
Ethlin > Other girls |
| Dew/Jamka |
Adean > Ira > Ethlin >
Other girls |
| Holyn/Beowolf/Levin |
Lachesis > Diadora > Adean
> Ira >
Ethlin > Other girls |
Claude
|
Tiltyu > Briggid > Fury
> Sylvia > Lachesis >
Diadora > Adean > Ira > Ethlin |
Others
|
All girls equal |
1st Generation (If you've never
reset
the game)
Male(s)
|
Priority
|
| Lex/Azel/Jamka/Holyn |
Ira > Lachesis > Briggid > Other
girls |
| Midayle |
Ethlin > Adean > Fury >
Ira > Lachesis >
Briggid > Other girls |
| Fin/Dew/Beowolf/Levin |
Adean > Fury > Ira >
Lachesis >
Briggid > Other girls |
| Claude |
Tiltyu > Sylvia > Diadora
> Ethlin > Adean >
Fury > Ira > Lachesis > Briggid |
| Others |
All girls equal |
(">" means is "has higher priority than")
Note: "Reset the game" means closing the game and then loading a
saved game file. If you're playing on emulator, chances are you won't
ever have to reset the game (since you can just load savestates, which
are snapshots).
2nd Generation
The lists are a bit limited here, but then again pairing is less
important in the 2nd Generation.
One
important consequence is that, as long as the game hasn't been reset
since starting the 2nd Generation, CelicexYuria will have higher
priority than both CelicexRana and CelicexLakche. Therefore the
CelicexYuria pairing can eventually be achieved by manipulating the
Jealousy sytem (although it appears
the initial love points for CelicexYuria is set to 0 instead of 490).
Otherwise, if you reset, all the girls have equal priority with Celice.
External links
If you can understand Japanese or Chinese, these links on the Jealousy
system might be interesting:
- Pegasus Knight (seems to be one of the original
sources)
- Pikaroom
(has some nice pictures - very helpful even if you can't read anything)
- ChinaFE (references Pegasus Knight)
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