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When you spend months researching the long term effects of traumatic and hypoxic brain injuries, and electrical and chemic burns for your fanfiction because you're not satisfied with how Fates covered those topics (by, y'know... ignoring their possibility)...

For all my fellow Fire Emblem fanfiction writers, if you need some help detailing those fight sequences, might I suggest this site? Now, it won't teach you the proper stance a medieval lancer would have used while attacking a mage, but it WILL help you better understand what would've been left of that mage after the player phase. For a series who's concept is that in war, all your actions have consequences, Fire Emblem does a pretty poor job of actually SHOWING those consequences. Earlier games had the excuse of simple graphics, but fully rendered 3d games just prove they want their story of the tragedy of war to be as pretty as possible. "Look at all these dead characters with no blood or bruising anywhere on them and also perfect hair and clothes despite them being stabbed to death... what a tragedy..." (lookin' at you, Elise...) Healing magic might exist in the FE universe, but getting julliened by a swordmaster using Astra is going to result in more than a few hit points being lost. It seems almost redundant for me to have to say this, but there are some rather graphic images on this site. It's several paragraphs detailing the various types of injuries and the likelihood of survival from specific types of weapons. It's not a shock site, it's a learning resource, and it's a great one. So yeah, if you want a touch of realism in your fics but aren't sure what the survival rate of a character being smashed over the head by a Steel Club would be, this might prove useful (hint- it's not very high)