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Fire Emblem: Three Houses (partially found original Cristina Vee audio from English dub of Nintendo Switch tactical role-playing game; 2018-2019)

Full box artwork of the game. Edelgard, who Vee was original casted for, can be seen to the right.

Status: Partially Found

Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the sixteenth mainline title released worldwide in the long-running Fire Emblem franchise on July 26, 2019, as well as the first home console title since Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for the Wii in 2007. As usual for most games, it takes place in a new continuity separate from previous ones, now being set in the Continent of Fódlan. The player controls Byleth, as they work as a teacher of one of the three classes, with one of them being the Black Eagles, lead by Edelgard, who serves as one of the game's lord characters, alongside Dimitri of the Blue Lions and Claude of the Golden Deer. However, during the timeskip, she becomes the new emperor of Adrestia, and launches a full-scale war on the entire continent. Depending on what class was chosen, Byleth could either side with Edelgard or go up against her, becoming a major antagonist for the rest of the game.

Christina Vee

As seen in the game's first E3 trailer from 2018, while this does not apply to the Japanese dub, Edelgard's English voice in the trailer sounded a lot more different than the final, appearing to sound younger and a bit-higher pitched compared to the slightly mature-sounding one she has. Around the time of the initial announcement, Cristina Vee confirmed that she was casted to be the voice of Edelgard, and is looking forward to the game's launch.^[1]

However, almost a year after the trailer was released, when a user via a now-deleted reply asked her if she is still being casted as Edelgard, Vee later confirmed that she is no longer casted to voice the character.^[2] As a result, she did not voice her in the final game, having been replaced by another actress, Tara Platt, instead, who would also voice the character for her appearance in the Fire Emblem Heroes mobile game just a week before her actual debut. Despite the recasting, Vee was never told or offered to do any reauditions. While it's been widely speculated that she violated the NDA agreement, the exact reason as to why she wasn't given the role of Edelgard is unknown.

Availability

In light of her recasting, the only recordings that are known to exist of Vee's performance as Edelgard can be heard in the first E3 trailer, leaving the rest to never see the light of day. However, due to the music playing in said trailer's background, it may be a little difficult to hear clearly for some people. The amount of recordings she had done for the character prior to recasting has yet to be accounted for, and not a single one has been found within Fire Emblem: Three Houses's files. It is unknown if Nintendo, Intelligent Systems, or even Cup of Tea Productions, the recording studio heavily involved in the game's English Dub, still own the other recordings, or if they have survived in any matter at all.

Gallery

The first E3 trailer of the game that featured Cristina Vee as the voice of Edelgard.

Behelit- 89's video that compares Edelgard's voices. (Cristina Vee's recordings start at 1:09)

External Links

Reference

↑ Cristina Vee on Twitter confirming her role as Edelgard. Retrieved 5 Sept '21
↑ Cristina Vee on Twitter confirming that she no longer voices Edelgard. Retrieved 5 Sept '21

[1] Cristina Vee on Twitter confirming her role as Edelgard. Retrieved 5 Sept '21

[2] Cristina Vee on Twitter confirming that she no longer voices Edelgard. Retrieved 5 Sept '21

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