50 Fun Facts About Fire Emblem: Three Houses

What is the default name of the mercenary-turned-professor that players control in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Byleth can be male or female, but unlike the avatars of earlier games their appearance cannot be customised. Only the name and birthday are the player's to choose.

Where at the heart of the continent do the Church of Seiros and the Officers Academy sit in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Garreg Mach is a monastery, church headquarters and military school in one, and the hub the player returns to between battles. Students from all three nations train there side by side.

Which of the Officers Academy's houses in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is made up of students from the Leicester Alliance?

The Golden Deer are led by the heir to the Alliance's leading family, and teaching them opens the Verdant Wind route. It ends with the continent opening its borders to the outside world.

Under which masked title does Edelgard secretly plot against the Church of Seiros in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

The Flame Emperor is unmasked midway through the story, when Edelgard storms a ceremony at the monastery. Whether the player stands with her at that moment decides which route follows.

Which girl, heard only by the professor in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, is revealed to be the progenitor god?

Sothis was implanted in the professor at birth in a bid to resurrect her, and she wakes with no memory of who she is. She later merges with her host for good to save them from a void.

Which nameless monastery worker in Fire Emblem: Three Houses won a Fire Emblem Heroes fan vote in a landslide?

The Gatekeeper topped the Choose Your Legends ballot in 2021, the first non-combat character ever to win it. He drew nearly twice the votes of series stars Marth and Eirika.

Which pastime from Fire Emblem: Three Houses' monastery was turned into a microgame in WarioWare: Get It Together!?

Tea parties let the professor serve a guest's favourite brew and choose conversation topics to deepen their bond. Pick three topics the guest enjoys and the chat runs on.

Which power, a gift from the goddess, lets players rewind turns in battle in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Divine Pulse works only a set number of times per battle, softening the series' permanent death without removing it. It first appears when the professor leaps in front of a bandit's blow meant for Edelgard.

Which reclusive student in Fire Emblem: Three Houses spends most of her time shut in her room at the monastery?

Bernadetta von Varley fears most people because of her father's cruelty, yet players took her to heart. A Famitsu poll of Japanese players voted her the game's best female character.

Which company, fresh from Fire Emblem Warriors, co-developed Fire Emblem: Three Houses with Intelligent Systems?

Koei Tecmo supplied its Kou Shibusawa team, whose experience with huge battles put crowds of soldiers on screen for the first time in the series. The directors said the game might have been impossible without them.

Which house leader in Fire Emblem: Three Houses was born Khalid, a prince of the neighbouring nation of Almyra?

Claude took a new name to hide his lineage, having faced prejudice on both sides of the border for his mixed heritage. That upbringing drives his wish to end the continent's isolation.

Which archbishop in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is secretly Saint Seiros herself and can take the form of a dragon?

Rhea is a child of the progenitor god and has long tried to revive her mother, implanting her soul in one constructed body after another. The professor's mother was one of those vessels.

Which famed mercenary and former Knight of Seiros is the professor's father in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Jeralt fled the monastery under cover of a fire after his wife died in childbirth, distrusting the archbishop's part in it. He raised his child on the road as a sellsword.

Which Black Eagles student, heir to House Vestra, serves as Edelgard's loyal retainer in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Hubert has been Edelgard's vassal since he was six and she was four, continuing his family's generations of service to hers. He also acts as the Black Eagles' tactician.

Which Blue Lions student from Duscur serves as Dimitri's devoted retainer in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Dedue owes the prince his life: Dimitri saved him when the Kingdom took revenge on his homeland. Despite his gruff appearance, he enjoys cooking and tending flowers.

Which student in Fire Emblem: Three Houses was a star songstress of the Mittelfrank Opera Company before enrolling?

Dorothea grew up as a street urchin before the opera discovered her. She enrols at the academy hoping to find someone who can support her when she grows old.

Which Leicester Alliance prodigy in Fire Emblem: Three Houses bears two Crests that have cut short her lifespan?

Lysithea alone survived the experiments that killed the other children of House Ordelia. The academy's youngest student, she hates being treated like a child.

Which student in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a friend of Raphael, is a skilled artist who dreams of becoming a painter?

Ignatz is the second son of a merchant family. He carries guilt over the deaths of Raphael's parents, who were killed on a trading trip that his own parents could not make.

Which fencing instructor at the Officers Academy in Fire Emblem: Three Houses is secretly the Death Knight?

Jeritza is the younger half-brother of Mercedes, separated from her at a young age. The masked killer is a split personality that few at the monastery suspect.

Seteth introduces Flayn as his younger sister in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but what is she to him really?

His daughter spent many years in a dormant state to recover after a great battle, which is why she seems so naive. The pair are really the saints Cichol and Cethleann, hiding for their own safety.

Winning the White Heron Cup in Fire Emblem: Three Houses unlocks which class for the student chosen to compete?

Dancer is open to only one unit per playthrough, and for the first time in the series that unit can be male. The contest is decided by the entrant's Charm, and losing it locks the class away for good.

Which class, exclusive to the professor in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, is unlocked by merging with the goddess?

Enlightened One is unlocked when a villain's spell traps the professor in a void and the goddess gives up her separate self to free them. The merging turns the professor's hair and eyes light green.

Despite a career as a sellsword, the professor in Fire Emblem: Three Houses begins the game in which class?

Commoner is one of two starter classes, the other being Noble for students of high birth. It works like a trainee class, offering no growth bonuses while a unit builds toward its first exam.

Which female-only top-tier class in Fire Emblem: Three Houses excels at both black and white magic?

Gremory doubles the uses of every kind of spell, which makes up for hitting less hard than a Warlock and healing less than a Bishop. Its exam recommends A ranks in both Reason and Faith.

Which male-only class sits in the top tier of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and specialises in fighting with the fists?

War Master earns the Quick Riposte ability on mastery: above half health, its user always strikes twice when attacked on the enemy's turn. That rescues slow bruisers such as Raphael and Balthus.

Which top-tier class in Fire Emblem: Three Houses pairs swordplay with Reason magic and is open to any unit?

Mortal Savant can hit armoured foes with spells and magic-resistant ones with steel, though it pays for that range with slower Speed growth. Its armour is modelled on that of early samurai.

Edelgard's unique classes in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, from Armored Lord onward, specialise in which weapon type?

Axes define her fighting style so firmly that her signature weapon, Aymr, turns up in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as part of the professor's moveset.

What name does Fire Emblem: Three Houses give to the special moves that hired battalions can perform in battle?

Gambits range from healing several allies to stunning powerful enemies. Battalions themselves were new to the series, and players can zoom in to watch the hired troops fight.

Which long-running series mechanic did Fire Emblem: Three Houses drop because its makers found it too stylised?

The Weapon Triangle, a rock-paper-scissors rule between the main melee arms, gave way to Combat Arts: learnable skills meant to feel more realistic and widen the player's choices.

In which mode of Fire Emblem: Three Houses are units who fall in battle lost for good rather than revived afterwards?

Classic keeps the permanent death the series is known for, while Casual revives fallen units once the battle ends. The rewind power gives Classic players a limited safety net.

Which Fire Emblem: Three Houses route has the professor lead the Church and Black Eagles students against Edelgard?

Silver Snow is the only route in which the professor, rather than a house leader, is the main protagonist. It ends with the continent united under the Church, with the professor at its head.

What is the name of the hidden town beneath the monastery in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, home to the Ashen Wolves?

Abyss shelters outcasts from shunned nobles to merchants, under a treaty in which the Church and the townsfolk leave each other alone. Its unofficial fourth house has no standing at the academy.

Which downloadable side story for Fire Emblem: Three Houses introduced a secret fourth house?

Cindered Shadows follows the Ashen Wolves in the hunt for the Chalice of Beginnings, the key to a failed ancient ritual to resurrect the goddess. Its four students descend from the apostles who performed it.

Which city, home to the Mittelfrank Opera Company, is the capital of the Adrestian Empire in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Enbarr is the largest city on the continent. Legend says Saint Seiros first appeared nearby, which is why the Empire's founder chose it as his capital.

Where do the three houses of Fire Emblem: Three Houses fight the mock Battle of the Eagle and Lion each year?

Gronder Field is known as the continent's breadbasket. Five years after the mock battle, the same house leaders return there at the head of real armies.

Petra, a Black Eagles student in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, is heir to the throne of which western archipelago?

Brigid is a vassal state of the Empire, and Petra was raised on the mainland as a hostage. She is still learning the local language at the academy and grows fluent over the years.

Which ancient King of Liberation in Fire Emblem: Three Houses once wielded the Sword of the Creator against Seiros?

Nemesis was no hero but a bandit, handed his power by the cult that later stalks the monastery. On the Verdant Wind route he is raised from his tomb for one last battle.

What family tie, unknown to Dimitri for years, links him to Edelgard in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Step-siblings through a royal marriage, the two made friends as children, and the boy gave her a dagger as a parting gift. He learned who she really was only years afterwards.

Which agent of Those Who Slither in the Dark poses as the student Monica in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Kronya uses the disguise to get close enough to murder the professor's father. The real Monica had been kidnapped so that her identity could be borrowed.

Which difficulty, a step above Hard, was patched into Fire Emblem: Three Houses weeks after launch?

Maddening arrived in a free update in September 2019, alongside the second wave of downloadable content. It was pitched at players who wanted a stiffer challenge than Hard.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses was the first home-console entry in the series since which game, twelve years earlier?

Radiant Dawn was followed by a run of handheld games. It took the surprise success of Awakening on the 3DS, which saved the series from cancellation, to bring it back to the television.

Which earlier entry, the fourth in the series, inspired the school setting and time skip of Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Genealogy of the Holy War also supplied the central tragedy of friends from youth who meet again as enemies. The designers even weighed reviving its second generation of child characters, then dropped the idea.

Which Nintendo series inspired the time limits that ration each day at the monastery in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Pikmin was on director Toshiyuki Kusakihara's mind when he proposed the limits. Each day offers more activities than there are points to spend, so players must choose what to skip.

Which illustrator, known for Uta no Prince-sama, was the lead character designer of Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Chinatsu Kurahana was chosen because the directors felt her style could best capture a glamorous, aristocratic society. Her touch shows most in the hairstyles, unlike those of earlier leads.

The Japanese subtitle of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fūkasetsugetsu, is an idiom evoking which natural set of four?

The seasons stand for the story's four branching paths. The phrase translated awkwardly, so the game went abroad under a plainer subtitle instead.

Which downloadable class in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a favourite for Yuri, mixes swords with Faith magic?

Trickster's Lucky Seven ability raises one of seven stats at random each turn. Only units who already hold the Thief certification may sit its exam.

Which Hero's Relic in Fire Emblem: Three Houses turns the disowned thief Miklan into a monstrous beast?

The Lance of Ruin is the heirloom of House Gautier, and it turns on Miklan because he has no Crest. He stole it after being disowned in favour of his younger brother Sylvain, who did inherit one.

Which actor re-recorded the English voice of the male professor in Fire Emblem: Three Houses shortly after launch?

Zach Aguilar took over the part in a patch released alongside the second wave of downloadable content. He went on to voice the character again in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Which woman, the professor's late mother, does Aelfric try to bring back to life in Fire Emblem: Three Houses?

Sitri gave her own crest stone to her stillborn child so that it might live, at the cost of her life. Aelfric, who loved her in secret, hopes the Chalice of Beginnings can undo that.

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

Shez meets the three house leaders in the professor's place, in a timeline where the professor never teaches at the academy and instead becomes a rival on the battlefield.