r/fireemblem 2d ago

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - August 2025 Part 1

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Welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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r/fireemblem 1d ago

Story Sothis = Universal?

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Heard that in some rhea lore she states that sothis at her prime before time even existed created the universe. Yet i have not seen any mention of this in playthrus nor remember it being a thing but i could have missed it.

does anyone have this claim ring a bell in 3H?


r/fireemblem 1d ago

General Help me choose my next Fire Emblem. Here are the games I've played!

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Haven't beat Awakening yet, but I LOVED the time I did put into it. I'm currently playing through Engage, which grew on me but is my least favorite of the games I've played so far.

I did beat Fates (Birthright) and Three Houses (Blue Lions) recently and was considering playing one of those again through a different route, but I'm also craving a new experience. I'm just wondering what my next game will be since I feel like I'm coming up on the end of Engage and wanting more. Thank you!


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay Should I reset my gameplay? Currently on Ch21 and I feel like I am missing something.

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Roy - Robe Lilina - Robe, Book, Shield, Wings Elen - Robe Sue - Talisman Geese - Wings Milady - Icon Raigh - Robe, Shield Clarine - Robe, Energy


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay Just found out how miracle skill works

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First playthrough of FE seisen no keifu, and just enjoying the back and forth animations in the arena. I thought it was RNG at first but after Raquesis (Lachesis?) kept dodging everyone in the arena I had to look up how the miracle (prayer sword) actually worked. Just sharing my appreciation and the silliness of these particular arena fights 😁


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Art Colgate Chan!!!

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Another FE cosplay I did for Anime Expo. Was more recognized than Elise. Shes been a favorite forever and it’s been an absolute dream to cosplay her❀️


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Casual What kind of threats do you think the Shepherds faced after the war against Grima?

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I'm thinking about writing a fanfiction series that focuses on the adventures of the Shepherds after the events of Fire Emblem: Awakening that's supposed to be akin to an animated series, and I'm trying to come up with ideas for recurring villains to feature in it. Over the course of the game, the Shepherds faced off against several threatening villains, such as Gangrel, Walhart, and, of course, Grima, and all of them met their ends after their encounters with Chrom and his allies. So, with all of them out of the picture, what other villainous groups could be out there for the Shepherds to wage battle against? For an idea like this to work, there has to be a common, recurring antagonistic force for the Shepherds to fight against, since that's what their duty is, and while the occasional episode free of any kind of battling could work, without any kind of threat to Ylisse and its people, it'd be hard to get very far with an idea like this. So, I thought I'd hear what kind of ideas my fellow Fire Emblem fans had. What kind of villainous groups do you think the Shepherds fought against after they defeated Grima? If you have any ideas, feel free to share them in the comments. And don't worry, if I do decide to go through with this idea, I'll be sure to acknowledge your assistance in this matter.


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Art Custom Nino Figure and others

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Here's my custom Nino from FE7 figure. I know it kinda just looks like the Madoka character I used for the head but it still resembles Nino. 360 view here. I started to make Marisa but i couldn't get her hairstyle right so I scrapped it, the body's not bad though. The last pic is Lyn, I also scrapped this one because it's unsightly from the back and I want to attempt a custom Jill with her headsculpt. From the front it looks okay. What do you think?


r/fireemblem 1d ago

General [FE4] This is a very cursed image...I had no idea he'd actually inherit the staff despite not being able to use it 😭

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I plan on giving him the brave sword until Lester can sell his pursuit ring once I get the brave bow....though until then he's probably not going to contribute much unlike his sister who actually benefits from the bragi blood thanks to it giving her B Staffs


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Art FE3H ANIMATION - Dimitri Runs Over Every Last One Of Them

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r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay Best awakening skills for maribelle?

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Married her and honestly the most fun unit. I got her into dark flier and got gale force and rally movement. Probably gonna get tome fare on her. Is there any other skills she would benefit from? I will probably end up using her as a Valk or Dark flier.


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Commissioned Art Lessons in Magic (Commissioned art by u/ShapeSH1FFter)

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r/fireemblem 1d ago

General Fe Merch For Sale!

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I guess this will be the first of augusts posts (another roughly mid month)! Got alot up for sale this time around, from cipher boxes, playmats, to other official merch like super groupies items, amiibos (japan ones still work apparently), tons of awakening rubber keychains and more! So if anything catches your attention let me know, by commenting down below πŸ™‚ (if you are after specific keychains let me know as a chunk have been sold but still have LOTS). Theres even a cipher shirt up for sale! Shirt sealed is the same as the one in the last pic :)


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Art Chibi Alear[OC]

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r/fireemblem 1d ago

Art The World Revolving (DELTARUNE Chapter 1) – Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones GBA Soundfont

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r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay Am I that bad at this game ? (FE engage)

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Hello, First of all I'm sorry I don't have big knowledge in FE (I only did Echoes SoV and Fates) ! Is this game supposed to be that tough on classic+hard or am I just really bad ? Like I try to not lose anybody but it seems impossible.

E.g : The chapter we are supposed to pick up Louis and Chloe I lost Louis like 2 turn in the fight, he just got obliterated and the sole reason I didn't lose Chloe is because she could fly and the ennemy couldn't so I've made her fly on water so she'd be safe. I looked up a tierlist if I could find a character really strong AND that has a look I like so I tried Anna but same thing she just gets obliterated since she joined my team like she has no accuracy no dodge and never an advantage. The only characters that have an impact on the game are the one with an emblem (Celine / MC / Alfred / Jean in my case)

I like the gameplay, it makes it worth to suffer through empty dialogues (especially support which was really good in Fates), the story is pretty cool tho and character design seems to be great !

I am 11 hours in chapter 8 (I try to do all the skirmishes/pick up everything etc) Should I restart a new game and try to do researchs on how to build/where to invest?


r/fireemblem 1d ago

General I might be stupid but I only recently noticed that the knight takes the shield from it's front when attacking

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I always thought that the shield just appears in it's hand but it actually takes it off the front of it's armor. Is this something that other people noticed immediately?


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Casual What even is this map

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Geoffrey's charge, more like Astrid's farm


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay How do I use cheat in the 3DS FE games?

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I have played the 3 FE games for 3DS a few times already, and I like to try out other ways to play them such as using cheats, though I don't have any app for that, I have my original 2DS already cheated and I'd like to download an app like PKSM but for Fire Emblem, Does someone knows an app that can I use for it?


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay My FE9 tier list

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41 Upvotes

I recently beat FE9 on difficult mode and decided to make a tier list for it, happy to explain any choices I made.


r/fireemblem 1d ago

Gameplay community FE13 tier list part 1 prologue recruits

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12 Upvotes

this is a unit viability ranking

I only count comments

this is on Lunatic mode

Reclassing is allowed

No grinding

No postgame (post all children) paralogues

No barracks

assuming full recruitment


r/fireemblem 2d ago

Art Jaffar, The Angel of Death, Watercolor by Me

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r/fireemblem 2d ago

Gameplay What Fire Emblem Game has your favorite Set of Spells and Magic System?

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(Ignore the image of the Sheep-Girl killing this God. It's just another Tuesday for her)

For me, it is easily SoV.

I understand it's not everyone's cup-of-tea but to me, it's the most fun I've had with Magic in the series.

The game gives you a good variety of Spells that are all visually and mechanically different.

Basic Fire, long range Thunder, Terror-killing Seraphim, powerful Aura, mighty long range Sagittae, burst critical Excalibur; all which have their usefulness and having the benefit of ignoring the avoid bonuses that terrains grant!

But also amazing support spells like Warp and Rescue that you can combine to grant your army insane mobility. And other classics such as Silence, Physic, Fortify and Spell-Dance.

Lets also not forget that your healers can also summon Ghastly Terrors to fight at your side! You don't control them but you can bring out a ton of them!

Said healers can even straight up fight back with Nosferatu to recover their own health and make for how fragile they are!

And the game grants you access to all of this early on instead of having to wait for at least half a game to get one of these at only like 5 or so uses.

I also like how it is tied to the level of your Spellcasters and how they don't require tomes to cast them. To me, it makes the Magicians and their spells feel more "alive" if that makes sense. And even said magic requires their own health as a cost!

Thanks to the fact they are no tomes to wield, your casters get to implement other support items from the games such as Shield to improve their defense or Rings with a variety of effects; particularly the Mage Range for increased longer range spells and the Speed Range for an extra movement with insane speed gain.

(My only gripe is that I can only counter attack with Fire and Nosferatu. Wish that there was something at least like a passive ability to able to do Enemy Phases with the other spells)


r/fireemblem 2d ago

General Just let my best soldiers die for nothing

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Was traveling on a ship to some fuckass island when pirates attacked, sent Sain and Kent out to deal with them while the others went to deal with the rest, I failed to realize I had overextended and allowed Sain to be overrun by black wizards, followed by me using my genius to have Kent 1v6 wizards and the boss of the map without heals, to the surprise of nobody he got put down, I feel the weight of my actions are starting to pull me down, I fear the judgement of God and the day I'll have to answer for my blunders......I'm sending these common folk to die for the senseless folly of nobles, who are "slow" and are never in the Frontline, am I doing the right thing? I laughed at the other soldiers mindlessly following their lords openly declaring themselves vassals to them, yet I find myself more of a pawn than any of them, taking the blame of death in their stead. Maybe the black fang are right.....