100 Fun Facts About Fire Emblem

Which studio has developed the Fire Emblem series since 1990?

Its previous notable game was a war-strategy series.

On which console did the first Fire Emblem appear in 1990?

It stayed Japan-only; the West waited until 2003.

Who created Fire Emblem as a dōjin project with three other student developers?

He led every entry until Thracia 776, then left to found his own studio.

What is the notorious gameplay rule that removes a defeated unit from your army for good?

A 2010 DS remake finally let players turn it off via Casual Mode.

Which game introduced Casual Mode, reviving fallen units after each battle?

The DS remake was released only in Japan in 2010.

In the Weapon Triangle, which weapon beats swords?

Swords beat axes and axes beat lances, rock-paper-scissors style.

Which game first introduced the Weapon Triangle?

It also introduced the system where lovers' children inherit stats.

In the magic triangle, fire is stronger than which element?

Wind beats thunder and thunder beats fire.

Which game replaced weapon durability with stat penalties for stronger weapons?

It also added Phoenix Mode and the customizable My Castle hub.

Which 2003 Game Boy Advance game was the first released in the West, simply as 'Fire Emblem'?

Marth and Roy's Melee cameo also helped convince Nintendo to localise it.

Which two Fire Emblem lords appeared in Super Smash Bros. Melee in 2001?

Their inclusion is cited as a reason the series finally went international.

Which turn-based Nintendo series' Western success also prompted Fire Emblem's localisation?

Both series come from the same developer.

Nintendo warned that the series would be cancelled unless its next game sold how many copies?

The 2012 3DS entry was built as a possible finale and instead sold 2.35 million.

Which 2012 3DS game is credited with saving the series from cancellation?

It sold 2.35 million copies and became the best-selling entry in the West at the time.

Who composed the original Fire Emblem's music as the developer's only composer?

She went freelance after scoring Paper Mario but returned for later entries.

Which Ghost in the Shell artist remade the character art for the DS game Shadow Dragon?

In-game portraits were instead by longtime contributor Daisuke Izuka.

Which character designer gave the series a new look for the 2012, 2015 and 2017 games?

Art director Toshiyuki Kusakihara brought him in for the 3DS revival.

Which otome-game artist designed the 'glamorous, aristocratic' cast of Three Houses?

She is best known for Uta no Prince-sama.

Which 1992 entry is known for unusual mechanics such as dungeon exploration?

It was remade in 2017 as Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Which 2005 GameCube game was the first Fire Emblem with 3D graphics and voice acting?

Its late-generation success reaffirmed Nintendo's faith in the series.

Radiant Dawn (2007) was released on which console?

It reached Japan and North America in 2007 and Europe in 2008.

Fates was sold in which two physical versions, plus a downloadable third route?

The DLC route was called Revelation.

Which 2004 game was the last Fire Emblem released for the Game Boy Advance?

It reached North America and Europe in 2005.

Which Fire Emblem entry for Switch 2 was announced in September 2025?

Announced in September 2025 with a September 2026 release date, it follows Three Houses and Engage on Nintendo's hybrid consoles.

Which studio, not the series' usual developer, made the crossover Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE?

It blended Fire Emblem with Shin Megami Tensei on the Wii U in 2015.

Which mobile game, released in February 2017, is the most profitable in the franchise?

It was Nintendo's first mobile game to gross over a billion dollars.

What kind of monetisation system does the mobile game use to hand out characters?

Critics disliked its launch-era stamina system but praised its accessibility.

Fire Emblem Shadows, the second mobile game, is what kind of game?

It launched in September 2025.

The cancelled Fire Emblem 64 was planned for the Nintendo 64 and which add-on?

Its work was folded into The Binding Blade after the 2000 cancellation.

After leaving the series, its creator's studio made which PlayStation game that Nintendo sued over?

It was called Emblem Saga until the lawsuits; Nintendo eventually won ¥76 million.

What was the name of the creator's post-Nintendo studio, sued over a PlayStation strategy game?

Nintendo's first lawsuit against it failed; the second won a cash settlement.

Three Houses is set on which continent?

Three nations at uneasy peace share it, linked by a monastery.

What is the monastery and officer school that serves as Three Houses' hub?

Players teach there, fish in its pond and plant seeds in its greenhouse.

What is the default name of the former mercenary turned professor in Three Houses?

Players pick the character's gender and name at the start.

Which company's Kou Shibusawa studio co-developed Three Houses?

The developer credited the partnership for the game's timely release.

How many years does Three Houses' story skip ahead partway through?

After the time skip the player is locked to their chosen house.

Three Houses won Best Strategy Game and which other prize at The Game Awards 2019?

It has sold over 4 million copies, the most in the series.

Roughly how many copies had Three Houses sold by December 2022?

That makes it the single best-selling game in the franchise.

Three Houses' school system and time skip took inspiration from which earlier entry?

The fourth game also had a generational structure.

The 2012 3DS entry's story centres on Chrom, the prince of which realm?

His personal army is called the Shepherds.

What is the default name of the amnesiac tactician avatar rescued by Chrom?

Name, gender and appearance are all customisable.

What are the undead invaders fought by Chrom's Shepherds called?

They come alongside attacks from the hostile nation of Plegia.

Chrom's adventure is set how many years after the first two games?

The continents of Archanea and Valentia return, much changed.

How long does Alear sleep before the events of Engage?

They wake with amnesia and only vague memories of fighting alongside Emblem Marth.

How many Emblem Rings, each holding a hero from a past game, are there in Engage?

Marth, Celica, Sigurd, Leif, Roy, Lyn, Eirika, Ike, Micaiah, Lucina, Corrin and the Three Houses professor.

Who is the Fell Dragon antagonist of Engage?

Alear turns out to be one of his children.

Engage takes place on which continent?

Its kingdoms include Firene, Brodia, Elusia and the desert queendom of Solm.

What is the floating base-of-operations hub in Engage called?

Players can shop, forge, fish, work out and polish rings there.

Which Engage character, searching for a lost sibling, turns out to be the Fell Dragon's daughter?

She steals the six rings Alear has gathered, and is later revealed as Alear's sister.

A 2007 Japanese public poll named which entry among the country's all-time top 100 games?

Destructoid also picked it among the five best games in the series in 2014.

Which Fire Emblem release reached North America in 1998, five years before any of the games did?

A two-episode anime, adapted from the 1994 game about the hero prince, came out in North America in 1998. No Fire Emblem game was translated for the West until 2003.

In Fire Emblem's original setting of Archanea, the Fire Emblem is which object, inset with five magical gems?

A shield in the first game, the Fire Emblem changes form across the series: later entries make it a gemstone, a bronze medallion and even a sword.

Which Fire Emblem princess travels back from a doomed future, in disguise, to save her father Chrom?

Lucina first appears as a masked swordsman using the name of a legendary hero-king, and only later reveals that she is Chrom's daughter from a timeline in which he was killed.

Which Fire Emblem hero was raised as a mercenary rather than a royal and wields the sword Ragnell?

Ike starts out as a rookie in his father's band of mercenaries, and he later joined Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a playable fighter.

Which Fire Emblem avatar, taken from one royal family and raised by its enemy, must choose between them?

Corrin was taken as a child from one royal family and raised by the other, and siding with one family or the other splits the story into separate campaigns.

Fire Emblem, a Nintendo series since 1990, is often called the seminal series of which game genre?

Tactical role-playing owes much of its template to Fire Emblem, whose makers called it an RPG simulation: the battles of a strategy game with the story and characters of a role-playing one.

Which red-haired merchant, really a family of lookalikes, turns up in nearly every Fire Emblem game?

Anna shares her name and face with countless sisters, which is how she can turn up in so many different worlds; only the second game and its remake leave her out.

In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which hereditary magical marks let nobles wield the Heroes' Relics?

Crests pass down noble family lines and shape who inherits power, and one of them, the Crest of Flames, is this game's form of the Fire Emblem itself.

In Fire Emblem, pegasus knights and other flying units take extra damage from which weapon type?

Bows deal effective damage to fliers, so a single archer can bring down a pegasus knight; the trade-off is that most bows cannot hit an enemy standing in the next square.

Which Fire Emblem class, used by Olivia and Ninian, lets an ally who has already moved act again?

Dancer units refresh an adjacent ally with the Dance command, and the name has become fans' umbrella term for every unit with that power, including the heron singers of other entries.

Which sword, forged from a divine dragon's fang, is the royal blade of Fire Emblem's Chrom?

Falchion was made from a fang of the divine dragon Naga, and a legendary sword of that name was first won by the hero prince of the original 1990 game.

Which two childhood friends lead separate campaigns in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia?

Alm and Celica want the same peace by opposite means: he fights his way through the war at the head of an army, while she travels to seek the guidance of a goddess.

Which princess of Renais, twin sister of Ephraim, shares the lead in Fire Emblem's last GBA game?

Eirika escapes to a neighbouring kingdom with the general Seth when the Grado Empire overruns her home, while her brother goes underground to lead a resistance.

Which Fire Emblem lord is murdered midway through his game, leaving his son Seliph to avenge him?

Sigurd is framed for a royal murder, forced into exile and finally killed by Arvis, so the second half of the story jumps a generation to his son.

Which silver-haired heroine leads the Dawn Brigade rebels at the start of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn?

Micaiah and her band of vigilantes resist an occupying army in the game's first part, and her deeds there win her the title of Silver-Haired Maiden.

Which armoured Fire Emblem villain kills the mercenary leader Greil in single combat?

The Black Knight cuts down Greil early in the 2005 GameCube story, giving the dead man's son a rival to hunt for the rest of the game and a duel to settle near its end.

In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, which goddess appears as a young girl only the professor can hear?

Sothis is the progenitor god of the land, placed inside the professor at birth in an attempt to bring her back to life, and she begins the story with no memory of who she is.

Which house leader in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is heir to the throne of the Adrestian Empire?

Edelgard arrives at the academy as an imperial princess, and is later revealed as the Flame Emperor, the enigmatic figure plotting to overthrow the church.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and the GameCube game before it are set on which continent?

Tellius is shared uneasily by humans and shapeshifting beast tribes, and the long resentment between the two peoples drives the plot of both games set there.

Which 1999 Fire Emblem game was the last its creator made before leaving the studio?

Thracia 776 arrived at the very end of the 16-bit era, sold first as a download onto rewritable cartridges, and its designer left afterwards to found a studio of his own.

The 1997 episodic prequel BS Fire Emblem was delivered through which Super NES add-on service?

Satellaview sent short games to subscribers by satellite at set times of day, so the four BS Fire Emblem episodes could be played only when they aired and became very rare afterwards.

Which studio behind Dynasty Warriors made Fire Emblem Warriors together with Team Ninja?

Omega Force traded the series' turn-based grids for crowds of enemies cut down in real time, while carrying over Fire Emblem's weapon and relationship mechanics.

Which Fire Emblem trading card game launched in 2015 and was discontinued in late 2020?

Cipher, numbered Fire Emblem 0, ran for twenty-two expansion sets before it ended, and it was the franchise's second card game after one sold from 2001 to 2006.

Which customisable base, added to Fire Emblem in 2015, lets players run shops and chat with allies?

My Castle was suggested by the game's director, Kouhei Maeda, as something to do away from combat, a place to get to know the main cast between battles.

Which Fire Emblem item promotes a unit that has reached level 10 into a stronger advanced class?

Master Seal promotions raise a unit's stats and open up new weapons or abilities, whereas the similar Second Seal moves a unit sideways into a different class.

In Fire Emblem Engage and several entries before it, optional side missions go by which name?

Paralogues sit outside the main chapters and often reward the detour: in the 2012 game, twenty-one of the forty-nine recruitable characters could be found only in them.

Which Fire Emblem feature ranks bonds between allies from C up to S, where S can mean marriage?

Supports build up both in and out of battle and raise the two units' fighting abilities; in the 2012 game, an S rank means the two fall in love, marry and have children.

Which kingdom, styled on Japanese culture, is at war with Nohr in Fire Emblem's 2015 games for 3DS?

Hoshido's royals were drawn with real history in mind: the warrior Ryoma wears clothing modelled on samurai such as the warlord Takeda Shingen.

Which Fell Dragon, worshipped in the kingdom of Plegia, threatens the world of Fire Emblem's Chrom?

Grima was sent into a long slumber by the first ruler of Chrom's homeland, and on its return it tries to possess the army's own tactician.

Which Shadow Dragon, allied with the sorcerer Gharnef, is the first Fire Emblem game's final enemy?

Medeus led an empire's first invasion and was beaten by a youth with a divine sword; a century later he rises again, and a young prince must repeat the feat with the same blade.

Which vengeful mercenary is the playable lead of the spin-off Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes?

Shez wants revenge on the professor who was the hero of the original game, and after joining the same military academy must pick one of three nations to fight for.

Which illustrator, already a fan of the series, was lead character designer on Fire Emblem Engage?

Mika Pikazo began with the hero Alear, her favourite of the cast to draw, and the team rebuilt her detailed designs so fully in 3D that the game uses almost no 2D artwork.

Which manga writer behind The Kindaichi Case Files wrote the story for Fire Emblem's 2015 games?

Shin Kibayashi meant to turn the job down because of a tight schedule, then changed his mind after he and his daughter played through the previous game in the series.

In Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, which feature lets players rewind a battle to undo errors?

Mila's Turnwheel was new to the series in 2017, with limited uses per battle, and it can take play back by a single move or all the way to the first turn.

Which house in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is led by Claude, heir of the Leicester Alliance?

Golden Deer students come from the alliance in the east, one of three rival nations at peace when the story opens; the class a player chooses to teach decides whose story they follow.

Which kingdom is home to the exiled prince who stars in the very first Fire Emblem game?

Altea falls while its king is away at war, and its young prince spends the first game forming alliances with neighbouring kingdoms to win back his throne.

Fire Emblem's developer also makes Paper Mario and which Nintendo series of minigame collections?

WarioWare, Paper Mario and Fire Emblem all come from one studio, whose first paper adventure shipped in 2000, the same year its long-planned Fire Emblem for the Nintendo 64 was cancelled.

In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, free calendar days can go on teaching, gardening or which pastime?

Fishing in the pond is one of the ways to use the free days between story battles, alongside teaching classes, field exercises and planting seeds in the greenhouse.

Which nation, ruled by King Ashnard, invades Crimea to open Fire Emblem's 2005 GameCube game?

Daein strikes so suddenly that Crimea's royal family is all but wiped out, and the one princess who escapes is rescued by a band of mercenaries who help her win the country back.

Which sorcerer in Fire Emblem's first Western release feeds on a life energy called quintessence?

Nergal secretly steers a guild of assassins to provoke an all-out war, because every warrior who falls in it adds to the store of power he is gathering.

Which elder sister of Fire Emblem's Chrom rules as Exalt and gives her life to deny an enemy king?

Emmeryn is captured by the enemy, and when her brother is about to trade the Fire Emblem for her life she throws herself from a cliff, a martyr to both warring nations.

Which twin heirs of Aytolis are the original lead characters of the spin-off Fire Emblem Warriors?

Rowan and Lianna must defend their realm when the king of a neighbouring land starts summoning an evil dragon and monsters pour in through a gate between worlds.

Which Fire Emblem race, Tiki among them, lives in human form with its dragon power kept in a stone?

Manaketes are dragons by nature who take a human shape for everyday life, and because that form leaves them weak they turn back into dragons to fight.

Which basic Fire Emblem healing item takes its name from an old word for a remedy for wounds?

Vulnerary goes back to the Latin for wound, and the in-game version is a pocket remedy that most games let a unit use three times before it runs out.

In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, which goddess of chaos does a spreading world war threaten to rouse?

Yune had long been feared as the destroyer of the world, yet once roused she sides with humanity and guides the heroes against the goddess of order.

Which Fire Emblem prince of Grado, closest friend to the twins of Renais, secretly starts their war?

Lyon feared he could not rule after his father the emperor died of illness, so he brought him back as a resurrected puppet, and the invasion was launched in a dead man's name.

Which king of Bern sets out to conquer the continent of Elibe in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade?

Zephiel has already crushed two other nations when the story opens, and his own sister flees the kingdom with its royal treasure, the Fire Emblem, to oppose his war.

Which Divine Dragon, mother of Alear, is killed early in the story of Fire Emblem Engage?

Lumera once led the war against the Fell Dragon, and her death leaves followers surprised to learn that their supposedly childless ruler had an heir at all.

Which Fire Emblem songstress, kidnapped as a princess by a rival kingdom, weakens King Garon?

Azura was taken during an attempt to win back the game's own kidnapped avatar, and her singing saps an enemy's strength at a cost to herself.

Which downloadable third story of Fire Emblem's 2015 games has the avatar rally both kingdoms?

Revelation has the avatar refuse both families and unite them against the war's hidden mastermind, a dragon who has usurped the throne of a third kingdom.