Vid below highlighting shit that may have been missed by casual onlookers. I think it's actually pretty good grounded speculation. I'd actually say that it might sort of be good enough to be approaching spoiler territory if you're good at extrapolating storyline narratives based off of scant info lol.
So it seems like it's very likely this is a sequel instead of a prequel, with at least three characters being confirmed to have crests of previous characters with one of them (guy pictured with the sword) having the most clear connection to three houses with his sword, appearance, and in-game abilities tying him directly to one of the story's previous characters.
What has me excited the most is the very distinct direction the story is going with how it seems to aiming for expanding the 3 houses world from Irishy heavy with kraut-roman seasoning worldbuilding to seemingly a more direct connection to Roman and Carthaginian / North African influinced worldbuilding. It's really making me hope the writers not only go out of their comfort zone of only making euro-japanese fantasy games into the wider grand world but also really stick the landing and breath new life into the genre alltogether.
Also I'm super fucking curious about why there's a gun in fire emblem now. Personally I'm betting on Agarthians but who the hell knows, its a whole new world now.
I also remeber that Almyra was described as a big empire of it own with deserts, prairies and forests so it makes sense its a diverse continent like fodlan, also since it borders Fodlan it makes since they have both Nabatea and Agarthan influences.
Also its posible the Almyra continet is divided and not unified like Fodlan and the game takes place in that continent but not the same almyran empire.
also i agree with the video that the guy with the orange sword is probably from fodlan
All very valid points. honestly at this point it feels like the tough of speculation's pretty empty since we're quite literally only days after the trailer release and there's a whole year for Intelligent Systems to dribble feed more sweet feed into our hungry mouths.
That said, I'm curious whether or not there's gonna be an Avatar of sorts or whether or not that's being ditched in favor of focusing purely on making four interwoven stories based off of the depicted most likely main characters.