Aldhelm sounded like a powerful, heavenly relic used by a god, but in reality, it was not a Divine Regalia, neither was it the lost possession of a hero. It was actually a weapon that was mass-produced, like the 'Switch Blades' or the 'Lances of Claw', despite sounding more mouthful and dramatic than "swords" and "lances".
This was why no weapon or history experts worth a dime would ever make such a ridiculous distinction as "the real Aldhelm" and "counterfeit Aldhelms". If a staff bore a pointy tip fashioned from a large Cobalt Crystal, a body made from the alloy, Agarthium Steel, which is known for its high endurance, and possessed a sort of functionality-swapping gimmick that allowed the staff to change into something akin to a nunchaku or a flail, then it would automatically be classified as an Aldhelm.
After several hundred hours on Fire Emblem Three Houses (230++ hours to be exact. Not even was grinding, yet I’ve only finished Verdant Wind//GD route AND Azure Moon//BL route. Crimson Flower? Silver Snow? Haven’t even started that!), I found myself accidentally calling Baiyi as Byleth several times and actually relied on spellcheck to get them right (Apparently, Microsoft Word does not recognize the word Byleth; Guess Microsoft isn’t satanic enough to introduce every single demon lord to their applications, huh? /winks).
Now, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I have such a robust and vivid imagination that I “see” rather than “read” fictions (sometimes even non-fiction), and I kid you not, even though Baiyi’s a goddamned set of armor with “an ugly yellow scarf draping over his face”, I kept seeing him as Bylad/Male Byleth. I mean, they are both highly-respected professors! Though a lot of the students are mostly as NPC as, well, NPCs (most of them have even less personality than Gatekeeper-kun himself), Baiyi’s Angels and the Voidwalkers were more like playable characters, aren’t they? I would not buy THIS game if MIA is the Lord character, but I do think the rest of the cast, like Vidomina and Tisdale, could make for pretty good playable side-characters. I would love to beat the crap out of Mordred, too, and especially since she’s a dragon and you know you GOTTA’ fight a dragon to make the game worthy of being called Fire Emblem. Ohhhh, I will so love to snap her head off her neck and hang it by the gates of Enbarr! Hahahahhaha… No. Too excessive.
Oh, anyway, this chapter is brought to you by me listening to the game’s ridiculously awesome soundtrack. Fire Emblem music is award-baiting, man…