It seems like we might have a role reprisal here.
Sothis
Ten times more powerful than Tiki: The June Direct showed that there's a roughly 270 year time skip between Three Houses and Fortune's Weave, and yet the god-gremlin of 3H is probably much closer to their initial size. Compare that to Tiki, who needed 2000 years (between Shadow Dragon/Mystery/New Mystery and Awakening) to get big.
Are they going to be playable this time? Hope for the best, expect nothing.
English voice actor: Assumed to be Cassandra Lee Morris but it's not official yet.
Prior Fire Emblem VA roles: Clarisse (New Mystery) and Julia (Genealogy of the Holy War) in Heroes, and also the game's resident news owl Feh.
Other Nintendo roles: Sonja in Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp, though her most famous role is totally-not-a-cat Morgana from Persona 5 et al.
Eshmel
Who the heck... They're the people front and center on the box art, leading some to believe that they're the game's avatar character.
Default set to male: The pattern since Awakening has been to switch the primary representation of the created character every game: male Robin, female Corrin, male Byleth, female Alear. Based on that, and their appearance in the art book that comes with the Dagdan Edition which also gave their default name, the switch has flipped back to male.
Weapons of choice: The male is shown wielding a sword, the female a lance (almost a polearm).
English voice actors: Unknown, but let's hope the dude can keep his mouth shut (and not be abusive) until the official reveal this time.
