True--I think it's just a little bonus for those who played FE7--but it would still have been super neat if the two tacticians were one and the same. :'D Elibe is also a completely separate timeline from the Archanea/Valentia/Jugdral/Ylisse timeline, but I guess the whole outrealms thing--assuming it's "canon"--has pretty much managed to render that fact kind of moot.