Talk:List of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon characters

Needs editing and rewriting
Many of the character descriptions are vague and confusing or just poorly written in general. Somebody needs to go through and clean out the language a bit, providing a bit more detail and clarity. For example, Nagi's entry mentions what the player should do in order to get her, but it's practically incomprehensible. Also, I'm not sure what it means when characters "go crazy."


 * Nagi's description lists that she can be gotten without killing Tiki...twice. Once in brackets, then in the rest of the description.
 * The part about characters "going crazy" should be removed, as it concernes the story of another game (Monshou no Nazo Book 2) and it just makes the whole thing confusing.
 * Lastly, in Jagen description, Seth and Titania are listed as "jeigan characters", while they are not, since they're both very good in their games instead of weak units like Jagen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.36.15.146 (talk) 12:16, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

The page needs official names
These are unofficial names that fans made, and do not belong in an encyclopedia, therefore we need to get the actual Japanese names in place. I never played the game, so I have no idea what their real names are. Newspaper98 (talk) 22:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * cheer up
 * I think it would be preferable to wait until the English release of Shadow Dragon before altering names. I guess you could change the non-Shadow Dragon character names in the meantime. Aveyn Knight (talk) 20:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * After I get the Prima guide I'll probably update the names with the guide as a source, similar to what I did with the retranslated names in Dragon Quest IV's DS remake. But that's depending on how lazy I am when I get it. --Evice (talk) 02:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

PAL translation
Is there a source that can be used for the names in the PAL region version that differ from in the North American version? Until I noticed the addition of names from that version (such as Caeda/Shiida and Navarre/Nabarl) I was unaware that the translation used in the PAL region version was different from the one used in the North American version (the names generally matched what I've seen from the North American version, so I assumed that the North American and European branches of Nintendo didn't do independent translations as with Trace Memory/Another Code, among other games). --Evice (talk) 11:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Is this page suitable? Aveyn Knight (talk) 00:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't see why not. --Evice (talk) 05:03, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Localization has been different between the NA and PAL-region Fire Emblem games in every single one with an English translation, mainly to remove clear references to religion (by using more obscure religious terms) in the NA version. This is the first one where the PAL release predates the NA release, and the first one where the changes were more blatantly obvious. The names used in the PAL release are generally closer to that of romanizations used in Brawl as well as various fan translations. kelvSYC (talk) 03:56, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Recurring characters in the Fire Emblem series
I have started a discussion on the Fire Emblem talk page. Aether7 (talk) 18:22, 14 September 2009 (UTC)