Fate has a way of playing tricks on people even as it brings them together. Some of Foldan's legends say that when calamity comes, the goddess binds the souls of champions to ensure they fight at each other's side, onward to victory. Less spiritually-inclined individuals say that conflict makes friends, allies and more out of strange bedfellows.
Or, in which Dimitri punches out a racist and history is changed as a result. A merging of the Blue Lions and Golden Deer storylines.