[ Because given what little they do know, it seems prudent to leave the door open for even more possibilities though the very thought of it exhausts him on a level Claude doesn't have the words to describe. He does nod in response to Thancred mentioning slightly different versions since that seems the best way to put it without diving into further and deeper detail than is likely needed.
Instead he absently turns his glass in place where it rests while the other drinks and contemplates what he could say next. There's many options, each of which could shift how the conversation goes depending on what it is that Thancred already knows about the state of Fodlan. What's said next gets Claude to pause, first at the mention of the Summoned seeing memories belonging to someone else - something which sounds like his personal nightmare without accounting for the actual nightmares he'd had after arriving - and then at how the conflict is framed.
It doesn't offer him much information in the way of a date. Was it the day Garreg Mach fell and he stood by a ravine which opened in the earth and watched Teach fall into it? Or something else he hadn't lived? Time for a drink of his own ale before he continues. ]
Yes, it does. It seems one very consistent thing is that in each version of what we've lived, Edelgard always begins the war with the rebellion meant to change the fate of Fodlan. In my time, I ended the war and the Alliance triumphed. In someone else's, Dimitri - the prince of that kingdom - was the one who did. It seems that who Byleth choose to ally with has... some advantages through that.
[ For a lack of anything better to call it; that's his working theory at the moment with all the pieces of their collective histories he's scoured with Sylvain where they've tried to figure out what overlaps and what doesn't. While speaking, his gaze had wandered towards some minor commotion near the front of the tavern, but now Claude turns it back to Thancred. ]
Edelgard isn't alive in my time. Neither is Dimitri.
[ Maybe that also explains some of his initial shock over hearing who had been here before him, anyway. ]
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[ Because given what little they do know, it seems prudent to leave the door open for even more possibilities though the very thought of it exhausts him on a level Claude doesn't have the words to describe. He does nod in response to Thancred mentioning slightly different versions since that seems the best way to put it without diving into further and deeper detail than is likely needed.
Instead he absently turns his glass in place where it rests while the other drinks and contemplates what he could say next. There's many options, each of which could shift how the conversation goes depending on what it is that Thancred already knows about the state of Fodlan. What's said next gets Claude to pause, first at the mention of the Summoned seeing memories belonging to someone else - something which sounds like his personal nightmare without accounting for the actual nightmares he'd had after arriving - and then at how the conflict is framed.
It doesn't offer him much information in the way of a date. Was it the day Garreg Mach fell and he stood by a ravine which opened in the earth and watched Teach fall into it? Or something else he hadn't lived? Time for a drink of his own ale before he continues. ]
Yes, it does. It seems one very consistent thing is that in each version of what we've lived, Edelgard always begins the war with the rebellion meant to change the fate of Fodlan. In my time, I ended the war and the Alliance triumphed. In someone else's, Dimitri - the prince of that kingdom - was the one who did. It seems that who Byleth choose to ally with has... some advantages through that.
[ For a lack of anything better to call it; that's his working theory at the moment with all the pieces of their collective histories he's scoured with Sylvain where they've tried to figure out what overlaps and what doesn't. While speaking, his gaze had wandered towards some minor commotion near the front of the tavern, but now Claude turns it back to Thancred. ]
Edelgard isn't alive in my time. Neither is Dimitri.
[ Maybe that also explains some of his initial shock over hearing who had been here before him, anyway. ]