The forest on the other side of the bridge was very similar to the forest on the side of the bridge they all started out on. Still an abundance of metal grass against her feet, still an abundance of metal trees for her to look at, still an abundance of an air that felt at odds with what she was used to. Still, Byleth pressed on, just as the rest of her group did, and no one appeared to be worse for it.

"We're getting close to something. I can feel it," the little girl said, floating above them all while rubbing her left temple.

"You've been saying that for the last few minutes. What are we supposed to be getting close to?" Edelgard asked.

"Some thing. I don't know what it is, but we're getting close to it."

"You're consistent with your level of helpfulness, if nothing else." The little girl stuck her tongue out at Edelgard; she didn't appear to be too happy about that.

"Those Shadows we defeated earlier said something about not wanting us to reach a center. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that that's where we're being led right now," Dimitri said. "Whatever's at this 'center' just might give us the answers we've been looking for."

"Either that or just give us a whole new set of headaches," Claude said. Most of the group looked at Claude for reasons Byleth couldn't understand.

"My head feels fine," Byleth said.

"That's what worries me, sometimes," the little girl said, for some reason. "Still, if this mysterious center is where I've decided to lead you, then this mysterious center is where you shall be led! Tallyho, and so forth!" The little girl flew off a little ahead of everyone to take the lead in their search.

"I'm gonna use that line, now," Claude said.

"Please don't," Dimitri said. Byleth didn't care either way if Claude decided to repeat that line at a later point, but she didn't see any point in bringing that up, so they all kept walking with the little girl leading the charge. Everyone kept doing a good job of that until they ended up at some sort of clearing within the forest. The grass spread out in a circle in front of them, with lines of yellow light flashing beneath their feet every few seconds, the lines feeding into the line of trees that completely blocked their path ahead.

"That might be a problem," Byleth said, her vision bouncing back and forth between the trees and the flashing lights.

"Understatement of the year, no doubt," the little girl said. "I just flew up higher to get a better look, and it's nothing but a super thick forest as far as the eye can see. There's not even any room for a little worm to slip through, let alone us."

"Let's burn it down."

"I live here, so no."

"I think that's a moot point," Dimitri said. "In all the battles we've had, these trees have only ever suffered a small amount of collateral damage, so clearing a path through this forest would take time we can't afford to waste."

"I don't suppose you feel like turning into a dragon and flying us ahead," Edelgard said to the little girl.

"Haha, very funny. If I can't turn into a boat, I sure as hell can't turn into a dragon," the little girl said. Edelgard glared harder at the little girl when she said that, but all it accomplished was making the little girl stick her tongue out at her.

"As riveting a conversation as this is, let's try and find something useful here," Claude said; Edelgard started to direct her glare at him when he tried to laugh at whatever it was they were doing.

"There's something useful," Byleth said, walking closer to the trees. She knelt down to get a closer look at the base of the trees and confirmed the presence of what she had seen from a distance: scuff marks, the kind that would be made from repeatedly moving something across a surface.

"Oh, I get it; these trees move apart to open up a pathway! Like when you're in a castle and you find a hidden treasure room behind a rotating bookshelf!" Claude said.

"I don't know if I like how familiar you seem to be with the concept," Dimitri said, "but something like that would serve as a good way of keeping out intruders. Don't see anything that could serve as a mechanism, though."

"Well, we had to beat a Shadow to get that keycard for the bridge, so we probably have to beat a Shadow to get whatever we need to move the trees apart," the little girl said.

"Seems like a good enough pattern, so let's find one," Byleth said.

"Ha! Rather than waste all of our time, we'll come right to you!"

"All the easier for doing away with you intruders like the scum you are!" Naturally, such aggressive voices belonged to no one within the group. Just as naturally, darkness shot onto the scene from seemingly nowhere, and from it came a pair of Shadows; one bore a resemblance to the ones that were guarding the keycard, while the other one had a feminine figure and golden hair that cascaded down her back.

"Give us the thing we need," Byleth said. "Now."

"Impudent human. So arrogant and caught up in her own nonsense that she can't even muster up an ounce of politeness," the male Shadow said.

"Give us the thing we need. Now. Please." The pair of Shadows laughed at Byleth, even though she had done exactly what she was asked to do; it was obvious who was the truly impolite one among them.

"Whatever luck you used to get this far will help you no more, humans and tiny little other thing!" the female Shadow said.

"I'm not tiny, I'm just small boned!" the little girl said with a pout. "I hope you turn into something super ugly now!"

"Hmph! Go ahead and try!" The pair of Shadows exploded into dark goo and reformed into new appearances. The male Shadow turned into a bearded old man with butterfly wings wielding a staff and wearing silver and purple armor and a beetle-shaped helmet; the female Shadow, meanwhile, turned into a barefooted winged woman wearing a green dress with gold trimmings and a flower in her golden hair.

"Dammit, she's still good looking! The one time I want a Shadow to turn into something ugly and this happens!"

"You honestly thought that thing looked attractive before?" Dimitri asked.

"Were we not supposed to?" Claude asked.

"Of course not!"

"Why not?" Byleth asked, unsure of why the question was being asked.

"Enough chatter. Time to die!" the bearded Shadow shouted. The little girl flew to the side for safety as the bearded Shadow flew at Byleth with his staff. Byleth summoned Freydis to parry it with her sword, but the force of the bearded Shadow's attack was too much for Freydis to handle and she was knocked into the ground, sending a wave of pain through Byleth's body.

"Ow," was all Byleth had to say about that. Byleth launched a fireball at the bearded Shadow, but the female Shadow flew in its path and kicked it aside, not a single burn making its way to her bare feet. "I could use some assistance."

"We were all just getting to that!" Edelgard said. Edelgard summoned her Brynhildr and Dimitri and Claude Gunnar and Orvar-Oddr. They attacked with fire, water and light, but the Shadows appeared to be barely phased by the onslaught. The pair of Shadows let out a laugh, and the female Shadow fired beams of purple light at the group. Edelgard had Brynhildr cast her defense boosting spell on Byleth the same way she did when they were fighting the giant snowman, but even with that, the only thing afforded to her was not being sent back as far as the rest of the group.

"Dimitri, cover us," Byleth said. Dimitri nodded and charged forward with Gunnar, the two of them going at the Shadows with alternating swings of their weapons. Byleth, meanwhile, switched out Freydis for Stolas and had it fling feathers into her flesh, the feathers melting into pale light and healing some of her injuries. The process was repeated for Edelgard and Claude, and Claude finished recovering just as Dimitri was knocked away by the bearded Shadow—and caught by Edelgard's Brynhildr—without being able to have done much of anything.

"Even with my Crest, I could hardly scratch them. How unsightly. My apologies, everyone," Dimitri said as Edelgard helped him back onto his feet.

"Hey, you kept those guys from killing us for about ten extra seconds, so that's something to be happy about," Claude said as he used Orvar-Oddr to heal Dimitri's injuries.

"Don't count us out just yet, Claude!" Edelgard said as Brynhildr shot a fireball at the bearded Shadow, the attack ultimately having no effect. "Well, that's unfortunate."

"It would have been better if that had hurt him," Byleth stated. Stolas flapped his wings and made a boulder carve itself out of the ground and fly at the female Shadow, only for the attack to barely phase it upon contact. "That, too."

"Foolish humans. You think you can make your way to the center without being strong enough to so much as scratch us? Ha! What a joke!" The bearded Shadow started laughing, even though Byleth didn't know what was supposed to be funny about any of that.

"Don't you dare laugh at us!" Edelgard said, charging at the pair with a swing of her axe. The bearded Shadow blocked it with his staff without breaking a sweat and the female Shadow readied another blast of purple energy her way. Claude fired an arrow at her, but all it managed to do was make him the new target of an attack he only narrowly avoided.

"Jack Ripper," Byleth said, trading out Stolas for the aforementioned Jack Ripper. Jack Ripper fired a blast of dark energy from its mouth at the bearded Shadow, and to Byleth's own surprise, it moved out of the way of the attack—simultaneously getting it away from Edelgard—instead of simply taking the blow like it normally would.

"Insolent little—Die!" It also apparently had the side effect of angering the bearded Shadow, and said Shadow covered his staff in light and thrust it straight through Jack Ripper's abdomen; with it, pain unlike anything else Byleth had experienced in the past two days surged through her.

Oh. Jack Ripper is weak to light magic. That's unfortunate, Byleth thought as blood spilled out of her mouth; it was a miracle that she didn't collapse to the ground right then and there. Just as she started wondering if her internal organs were about to turn into external organs, the pain quickly disappeared and everything before her started moving in reverse until stopping right when the bearded Shadow had dodged Jack Ripper's attack; once again, the little girl had used her time powers to save Byleth.

"Insolent little—Die!" It wouldn't be good if Byleth allowed for things to play out the same way as before, so she recalled Jack Ripper and jumped out of the way of the bearded Shadow's attack, the little girl cheering her on from the sidelines. Edelgard swung at the bearded Shadow again with Orvar-Oddr providing support, and when Byleth closed in on the female Shadow, she summoned Centaur, the same odd-looking horse creature she had fought earlier in the day, and fired a blast of ice at her while Dimitri and Gunnar came at her with their weapons.

All of it failed, of course. The pair of Shadows took the attacks with barely a reaction on their end, and with a heavy swing of the bearded Shadow's staff and a blast of purple energy from the female Shadow, everyone was blown back and feeling double the impact from damage being done to both themselves and their Personas.

"Okay! This looks unwinnable," was all Byleth had to say as she recalled Centaur and struggled back onto her feet.

"Took you long enough to realize your mistake, but the time for you to surrender has long since passed!" the female Shadow said with a haughty laugh. "Now, prepare to burn in the deepest depths of—" The female Shadow was cut off by Claude throwing several small objects from his pocket at her and the bearded Shadow that exploded into a large cloud of smoke, the pair of Shadows coughing as it rolled over them.

"Ha! And you all thought I was stupid for bringing smoke bombs. Who's the real idiot here, huh? Who?" Claude asked.

"Frankly, I'm surprised that you weren't kidding about that," Edelgard said.

"Let's run away now," Byleth said.

"I will gladly lead the way in that regard!" the little girl said, flying back the way they came with great speed. Byleth and the rest of the group followed suit as the pair of Shadows cursed at them through their coughing fits.

It was hardly a graceful exit, but most exits weren't, so that was to be expected.

It wasn't until everyone's fleeing took them back over the bridge that they finally stopped to catch their breath. Healing spells were cast and vulneraries were passed around, but while it all did a good job of allowing everyone to recover physically, most everyone still appeared exhausted, as far as Byleth could tell.

"We did not do well," Byleth said.

"Really? What gave you that idea?" the little girl asked.

"We couldn't kill them and we were forced to run away through use of distraction."

"You're welcome, by the way. Still haven't gotten the proper credit for that, but whatever. No big deal," Claude said.

"I'll thank you properly when you put an arrow between one of those thing's eyes," Dimitri said. Despite looking as exhausted as the rest of the group, he was heading back for the bridge while everyone else stood around to catch their breath.

"And where do you think you're going?" Edelgard asked, stepping in front of him to block his path.

"Back there to face them. Where do you all think you're not going?"

"Back into the same scenario that nearly got us killed, that's for sure. What's your plan, Dimitri? Did I miss the part where your Crest makes you stronger every time you survive just barely not dying? Because last I checked, that's not one of its powers." Byleth didn't know the full capabilities of the Crest of Blaiddyd, so she decided to take Edelgard's word on that.

"Now that we've had a moment to catch our breath and recover, we need to go back and face them."

"Not like this. There's no sense in rushing back into the fight when our attacks can barely even hurt them."

"Then we'll just play it smarter this time! We can spend more time attacking from a distance, and if the kid uses her powers more, then we don't have to worry about—"

"I can't do that." Dimitri's face fell in tandem with the little girl's statement. "After each of the first two times I turned back time, I could feel the energy I'd need to do it slowly build back up inside of me, but I used it a third time to save Byleth back there, and I'm not feeling anything. I don't think it's gone or anything like that, but I think that three times per day is my limit, so if we get into big trouble again, I don't think I can do anything to help. Sorry."

"So one of the few things you could do has such an arbitrary limit to its usefulness. How disappointing," Edelgard said.

"Well excuse me for not being a time machine, by which I mean a machine that controls time in some way!" The little girl stuck her tongue out at Edelgard at the end of her sentence, but that only served to deepen Edelgard's scowl.

"So what if we can't use that cheat anymore? We haven't needed to rely on it before, and we don't need to rely on it going forward!" Dimitri said. "I'm going back there, and none of you have the right to stop me!"

"You'll die, though," Byleth said. "Pretty sure we'll all die, but you'll die faster if you go by yourself. Do you want us to go with you so it'll take less time for you to die?" Dimitri slammed the tip of his spear into the ground; a bit of an overreaction to a simple yes or no question, Byleth supposed.

"Look, here's how I'm looking at this whole thing," Claude said. "We got our asses handed to us, and if we run on back there, it's just going to happen again, so taking that into account, along with how we're all probably feeling a little tired right now, we should call it a day and try to strategize tomorrow. I get that you want to get this done as fast as possible, but these guys have been at this for decades, right? Waiting one more day to save the world or whatever won't make a difference."

Dimitri started squeezing his spear with enough force that the wood appeared to be splintering at the seams, but he stopped before it could go any further than that and picked his spear back up with a sigh.

"You're right; you're all right. A part of me knew that, and yet I was still so willing to get carried away as I did," Dimitri said. "Okay, so we're done for the day and we're going to use tomorrow to come up with a plan. I can live with that."

"You should try living, in general," Edelgard said. Dimitri stammered out something unintelligible before saying, "Regardless, thank you, Edelgard. I truly appreciate it."

"Okay?" Edelgard asked for some reason.

"Asbru." Without thinking much about what was going on, Byleth summoned the Bifrost in front of them and told everyone to go through. The little girl told them to not even think about leaving her hanging, and with that, they were on their way.

Once the rainbow light of the Bifrost faded from Byleth's vision, she and the rest of the group had returned to the back of Garreg Mach's dining hall. Everything was exactly as they had left it earlier in the day, with even the empty plates she had left on a bench remaining untouched, much to her disappointment. The only things that were different were the day having progressed to evening from all of the time they spent in Yggdrasil and the same intricate symbol from the other day being burned into the ground beneath their feet, even making its way through the pavement.

"Whoa, they really did show up out of nowhere!" Another thing that was different from when they left was the large crowd of people surrounding them, something that, after conferring with the others, Byleth knew was not part of the scenery when they left.

"All that stuff people have been saying is true! Some giant rainbow snatches them up to another world and then spits them back out!"

"Hey, are you really fighting monsters in that other world? What do they look like?"

"You with the blue hair! You're gonna be a teacher here, right? Are we gonna learn how to fight monsters, too?"

"Is fighting monsters the secret to being as good-looking as you guys?"

"How much do you lift, teach?"

"Personal space." That was all Byleth had to say in response to the barrage of questions by people who were getting far too close for comfort. With some soft mumbling and swooning, the crowd backed off and let her breathe a little; only a little, though, since they kept going on with their nonsensical words from a distance.

"Well, looks like we all just got a whole lot more popular. Bet this is what Featherman Green felt after he became Featherman White," Claude said.

""As if he would be the kind of person to get a big head from a little praise,"" Edelgard and Dimitri said in unison; while the two of them seemed confused by their synchronicity, Byleth just wanted to know what a Featherman was supposed to be.

"You! You've got a lot of nerve, you know!" In the middle of all of the random voices and talks of Featherman, the only thing that was familiar to Byleth was Lysithea, the girl cutting through the crowd to make herself known.

"Don't all people have a lot of nerves?" Byleth asked.

"Don't play dumb with me!" Byleth didn't think she was playing anything. "To think that you would drag Edelgard into all of this otherworldly nonsense two days in a row; that's unforgivable, you know!"

"Your fearless leader got roped into it, too, you know. Feel like caring about that? No? Okay, then," Claude said. Lysithea didn't even so much as look in his direction.

"Lysithea, I assure you that the Professor didn't force my hand. Everything I did today was of my own free will," Edelgard said.

"That's not the point, Edelgard," Lysithea said.

"Then what is the point?"

"The point is that you didn't include me in any of this, even though I wanted to help! You didn't even tell me you were going back there today! I had to hear about it from Hubert. Hubert! That's not fair, at all!"

"I'm sorry?"

"Are you asking her or telling her?" Byleth asked.

"Exactly! And now you even have me agreeing with someone like her! It's not fair!" Lysithea cried.

Is my opinion a bad one? Byleth thought. As Lysithea pouted and Edelgard patted her on the head, Edelgard only doing so after Lysithea rebuked Claude's attempt at doing the same, Seteth stepped into view and told everyone to go back to their rooms and get some sleep before the first day of classes began; a tad unexpected, but not entirely unwelcome as far as Byleth was concerned.

"So, Professor, I take it that you had time to decide on a house to teach in the middle of all of your galavanting, yes?" That comment from Seteth was less welcoming, as it reminded Byleth of how she had willingly ignored that duty of hers to the point of completely forgetting about it.

"Yes," was the lie Byleth threw out to cover up that fact.

"Excellent. Please make your way to the Archbishop's chamber within the next ten minutes to tell her your decision. Try not to be late," Seteth said. With that, Seteth joined the crowd in dispersing from the area, although he did so while yelling at various pairs of students who he thought were going into rooms together rather than separate rooms; thinking back on her interaction with Manuela, it appeared that the adults at Garreg Mach had a wide assortment of opinions on how acceptable sexual intercourse was.

"Well, I guess we'll have to talk again after class. See ya then, Teach!" Claude said.

"I would rather eat a salad than have her as our teacher," Lysithea said in a grumbling tone of voice.

"Salad is good for you. You should eat more salad," Byleth said.

"The last thing I need is for you to be on that list!" Lysithea stormed off from the scene and Claude ran after her with a laugh. Byleth didn't know what was so funny, but it was certainly possible that people in the Leicester Alliance had their own inside jokes about salads. Byleth had nothing against inside jokes; if anything, she hoped to be part of one someday.

"I'll see you both tomorrow, then. Byleth, it won't be the end of the world if I don't see you in class but—No, forget I said anything. Goodbye," Dimitri said, giving a quick bow before taking off.

"Are you going to say goodbye now?" Byleth asked Edelgard, the only person who was still around her.

"I, well, I was actually going to see you off. That was my original plan, at least," Edelgard said.

"The dorms aren't over here."

"I know, but I just—No, it's silly. Forget it. I'll just go back."

"Okay." Byleth was asked to forget about it, and she was fine with doing that, but the process of forgetting about it was interrupted by the soft meow of a cat. Byleth wasn't surprised to see a brown cat walking about, as the little time she had spent at Garreg Mach informed her that there were dozens of cats and dogs walking freely about the campus grounds, much to her pleasure.

What was surprising, however, was the cat very quickly rubbing itself against Edelgard's leg and Edelgard reaching down to pet it.

"His name is Zula. He's a fierce warrior who demands respect from everyone and likes it when you scratch behind his ear just right," Edelgard said, red in the face and not skipping a beat. "He likes to take walks at night, and I've grown to like meeting up with him when his travels take him here. I'm sorry. You must think this is so childish, and yet—"

"I want to scratch him," Byleth interjected. Edelgard made some sort of hiccup-type sound before giving Byleth the go-ahead, and with that, she went ahead and started scratching behind Zula's ears. Zula let out a long purr and stretched out his back before rubbing his head across Byleth's leg. She enjoyed that a lot. "This is a good cat."

"Yes. They all are."

"Why didn't you want me to know about him?"

"I don't know. I just thought you'd find it silly, I suppose."

"Your Persona is a cat." Edelgard stared at Byleth for a moment before letting out a small laugh; there was an odd sense of comfort and familiarity in the sound of her laugh.

"That's right, I guess that side of me has already been exposed. Still, for my Persona to manifest in such a way—I must like them even more than I realized."

"Liking cats is good."

"Yes. Cats are proud creatures who understand the ways of the world, and they look good doing it, too. Not to mention how they eat rats." Edelgard said the last sentence without hesitation, but her voice didn't sound the same as it did a moment ago, nor did her face look as bright.

"I'm sorry you had to keep fighting rats." Edelgard nodded her head while petting Zula; it appeared that Byleth was right to guess that Edelgard was feeling upset.

"I can live with that, I think. I can live with that because I have the power to do something about it, and I have you to thank for it, Professor." Edelgard rubbed a hand across Zula's back and let him walk off to chase some fireflies around. "This isn't good enough, though. I'm still too weak to do what I need to do, but if I keep going forward with this, I think I can get to where I need to be."

"Where is that?" Edelgard shook her head.

"I'm sorry, but I can't talk about it right now, and I don't know when I would be able to." Edelgard stood back up and turned towards Byleth. "I don't know when I'll reach that point, but would you be able to help me with that? I will do whatever I can to help you with that other world, so in turn, can you help me become strong, as well? Strong enough to accomplish my goals, strong enough put my full trust in you, is that something you can do for me?"

"Possibly." It was as definitive an answer as Byleth could muster, and it wasn't much to speak of in that regard.

"Thank you. I'm happy to be in your care, Professor." Fortunately, Edelgard seemed to be fine with it, so Byleth could be okay with it.

I am thou, thou art I. Thou hast acquired a new vow. It shall use the turmoils of the past to gather strength in the present for moving forward into the future. Such is the gift the Jester Arcana bestows upon there.

Byleth Eisner has established the Jester Confidant with Edelgard von Hresvelg. Byleth will receive an Arcana Burst when fusing Personas of the Jester Arcana.

Oh. Okay, then, was all Byleth could think about that. Even when she was left alone after Edelgard told her to hurry to the Archbishop's chamber, she still couldn't think about it any further than that.

To Byleth's own surprise, she wasn't late getting to the Archbishop's chamber, although she was apparently the last one to arrive. Seteth was scowling the same way he had been since she first met him, and Hanneman and Manuela were probably still thinking about what happened the previous day, what with how Hanneman was mumbling random things under his breath about Crests whenever he turned to Byleth and how Manuela couldn't look at Byleth for more than two seconds before turning away from her. All in all, only Rhea appeared happy to see Byleth, and Byleth didn't know how she felt about that.

"I hope you have found our halls brimming with the vitality of well-intentioned souls. You certainly must have gotten lost in it, considering how long it took for you to return here," Rhea said.

"Sorry," Byleth said, largely a formality.

"Worry not, Byleth. After all, you spent most of your day carrying out a sacred duty with your Persona, so you cannot be blamed for that."

"I don't know if I agree with that," Seteth said.

"Duly noted, Seteth. In the meantime, please tell us which house you wish to lead; since you are new here, Manuela and Hanneman have decided to give you first pick, so whichever house you truly want is yours."

"Neat." Shit. Even after having time to herself on the walk over, Byleth had still neglected to decide on a house to teach, and not even the stress of having to do something at the last minute was helping her make a decision. If she had known something like this was going to happen, she might have used that hour to talk to some people, or at the very least given it slightly more consideration.

"Well? We're waiting," Seteth said.

"I know." Shit. The only people she had interacted with from the three houses were the Nibelungs and Lysithea, so that was all she had to go on. Lysithea seemed to yell at Byleth whenever they were together, so having to deal with that could be tiresome, but probably not so tiresome that she wouldn't want to lead Claude and the Golden Deer. It was the same with Dimitri; nothing about him or the things surrounding him felt big enough that they would sway her one way or another in regards to leading the Blue Lions. That just left Edelgard, and there was no reason to think about it any differently.

Except for how she formed a Confidant with Edelgard. That was something she had with Edelgard that she didn't have with Dimitri and Claude. Igor and Adam said that Confidants were proof of her forming a bond with someone, one that would allow for both herself and the other person to grow as people over time. Did Byleth having a Confidant with Edelgard mean that she had a stronger bond with her that Dimitri and Claude? That being with Edelgard was helping her grow as a person more than being with other people did? There was the possibility that it was a timing issue, that it could have happened with anyone she was talking to at the time, but Byleth had no way of knowing that for sure; all she knew was that she had a Confidant with Edelgard and no one else as an individual.

"I knew you were lying. If you're not going to take this seriously, you should just—"

"I choose the Black Eagles." It was a decision Byleth knew she had to make and ride out for as long as possible.

Confidants:

Fool: The Nibelungs 1/10

Jester: Edelgard von Hresvelg ⅕

Persona Compendium

Name: Brynhildr

Arcana: Jester

Bio: A valkyrie and shieldmaiden of Norse lore. In the Volsunga Saga she was ordered to fight for one of two kings, choosing the younger king Agnar instead of Odin's preferred king. She was condemned to live life as a mortal woman. He then imprisoned her in a castle behind a wall of shields in the Alps, where she shall sleep surrounded by a ring of fire until a man saves and weds her.

Name: Centaur

Arcana: Temperance

Bio: A half-man, half-horse creature of Greek lore. The top half is human and the bottom half is a horse. They are often depicted as wise and noble mentors of heroes. A common theory about their origin is that a non-riding culture saw men from another civilization mounted on horses and thought them to be half-horse.

Byleth's Roster:

Freydis

Cait Sith

Apsaras

Sanzo

Heqet

Jack Ripper

Stolas

Centaur

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