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[[File:fireemblemelibecases_9691.png|frame|[[Running Gag|Hey]] [[Memetic Mutation|look]], [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros|it actually IS Roy]].]]
{{quote|''Once, dragons and men coexisted. They shared a peace forged in wisdom, a peace that lasted many generations. All that was lost when mankind disrupted this balance in a sudden onslaught.
Man fought dragon in a savage war that shook the foundations of their world. This war was called The Scouring.
Defeated and humbled, dragons vanished from the realm. In time, man rebuilt and spread his dominion across the land and on to the islands beyond.
[[Time Skip|A thousand years have passed]] since those dark days ended.''
|Opening of ''Blazing Sword''}}
The sixth and seventh games in the ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' series, comprising its third canon and timeline, and being the first to be completely separate from its predecessors. It was this canon which was both responsible for sparking interest among western gamers, then actually following through by being the franchise's international debut. It was also the first set of games to come following the departure of series creator Shouzou Kaga.
* '''''Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals'''''<ref>also
* '''''Fire Emblem: The Blazing
Rounding out the Elibe canon was a 12-volumes manga adaptation, ''Fire Emblem: Champion's Sword''<ref>commonly known just by its untranslated Japanese name, ''Hasha no Tsurugi''</ref>. It revisits and slightly modifies the plot of ''Sword of Seals'' through the point of view of four original characters exclusive to this manga, Al, Tiena, Gant and Kilmar. They help Roy and his troops in the war against Bern, while on their own quest: searching for the [[McGuffin|Fire]] [[Title Drop|Emblem]].
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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: {{spoiler|King Zephiel}}, to a lesser extent Murdock.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Fa, also known as [[Fan Nickname|Fazilla]]. Her dragon form is ridiculously cute, and she attacks by sneezing flame breath on her enemies. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GieU2L0qmRM&feature=related So cute!]
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* [[Black Magician Girl|Black Magician Boy]]: Lugh is a walking firestorm with a juvenile smile.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Saul.
* [[Civil Warcraft]]: Roy must fight a ''lot'' of rebellions so the plot can showcase each country's unique unit preferences. This reaches a point four times as many levels have Roy fighting someone other than his nominal enemy of Bern.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The first thing Zephiel does when he reaches Lycia is lead a direct assault on Lycia's main army, going ''personally'' with two of his best generals to make sure Hector doesn't make it out alive. The result being that Lycia is very nearly defeated by Bern days after the two go to war.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Rei and Sophia.
* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Rei and Lugh, respectively. The former sports a snarky grin and has a reputation for being cold and heartless, whereas the latter is kind and cheery. Both are potent [[Black Mage|magic users]] though.
* [[Expy]]: [http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x198/pvpnk8/FE6and11comparison.png This is a rather good example], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130917140411/http://www.serenesforest.net/general/relation.html as is this].
* [[Faking the Dead]]: It is revealed that {{spoiler|Zephiel}} did this after a failed assassination attempt in order to turn the tables on his would-be murderer, {{spoiler|King Desmond}}. This event is alluded to in the epilogue of ''Blazing Sword''. {{spoiler|Prince Mildain of Etruria did likewise.}}
* [[The Grotesque]]: Years of mistreatment had led Gonzales to genuinely think he's a monster, as he'd been rejected by villagers and used by his lord as a mindless pile of muscles only good for spreading havoc, until Lilina saw through his [[Gentle Giant|scary exterior]]. A rare [[Subverted Trope|subversion]] of [[Beauty Equals Goodness]] in the series.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Subverted with Erik. After helping his father's attempt to start a war in Lycia and kill Eliwood and Hector in ''Blazing Sword'', he apparently [[Civilian Villain|"reforms"]] and becomes the Marquess of Laus after his father's death. Years later he betrays Lycia ''[[Too Dumb to Live|again]]'', but this only leads to him getting killed by Roy.
* [[Last of His Kind]]: Yahn claims to be the last dragon, even his battle theme is named after that fact. Technically, there are other dragons around, but Idoun is not a "true" dragon since she became a Dark Dragon and the war dragons she created are not real dragons, either. There are other dragons on the other side of the dragon's gate, though. Plus a few in Arcadia.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: The art style, sprites and battle animations when compared to all of the previous games in the series, especially the [[Darker and Edgier|Jugdral Series]].
** However, colourwise, this was actually justified because by the time these two games came out, the original Game Boy Advance (The one without backlit screens) was still commonplace - it made it easier to see. You can spot a change in Sacred Stones gaining a more brown tone compared to these games, while still retaining the artstyle though.
* [[The Load]]: Roy receives his promotion via story event very late in the game. It's not hard for him to ram level 20 ''long'' before this, so he can't fight or else the rest of the party loses experience.
* [[The Unpronounceable]]: In Fa's B support with Elphin:
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'''Fa''': No, Fa's real name is verrry long. But they say that it's a sound that humans can't hear. Fa's the only part that you can. }}
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Hard Mode. The early chapters can be terminated easily, if you don't like having your characters dead.
* [[The Ojou]]: Clarine, the daughter of an Etrurian noble, is haughty and pretty loud about her sense of refined beauty and how none of those uncouth plebeians could hope to compete with her marvelous brother.
* [[Rebellious Prisoner}}: Clarine is introduced flat out ''laughing'' at her captor's lack of grace and fashion sense, seemingly unconcerned with her imprisonment. She's only saved from a horrendous fate because the arrival of Roy's army delays her captor's retaliation ''and'' a mercenary in her captor's service opens her cell due to rejecting his employer's plan to side with Bern.
** If the Ilia route is played (which almost everyone does given [[Scrappy Level|the nature of the Sacae route]]) [[Widow Witch|Niime]] is first seen taken prisoner by Bern and ordered to use a spell tome for them. She repeatedly warns her captor she can't guarantee what it will do, and when he insists the spell she's forced to cast winds up backfiring, freezing the rivers that were slowing the advance of Roy's army instead of causing a rainstorm that would slow their advance even further. When threatened over this, she notes that she ''did'' warn him this could happen. When Roy's forces slay her captor, it's implied she did this on purpose.
* [[Roar Before Beating]]: A Brigand class character will let out a deafening roar before landing a critical blow. As they usually tend to be monstrous powerhouses only kept in check by their [[Unskilled but Strong|notorious inaccuracy]], you know [[Oh Crap|this is not going to be pretty]].
* [[Royal Rapier]]: [[
=== ''Blazing
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Hector's collection of awesome axes.
* [[Another Side, Another Story]]: Hector Mode
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: An example where it's actually exploitable by the player. The enemies are programmed to pick on weaker foes - so during the chapters where you have a set of third-party allies on the map who're ''always'' weaker than your characters (and usually unable to do more than simply [[Cherry Tapping|cherry tap]] the enemies at best) the AI will prioritize them.
* [[Badass]]:
** Hector, with a side of [[Boisterous Bruiser]]. [[Word of God]] says he was the basis for Ike in the Tellius series.
** Pent, who can completely destroy the enemy forces in "The Living Legend" and entirely by himself if left alone.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The S-rank weapons in the final chapter are too heavy to use compared to their effect. {{spoiler|Athos}} using Luna will outdamage him using his legendary tome.
** Plus, you get them in the final chapter with almost no enemies worth using them on.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Canas in particular, although most mages qualify.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Raven and Linus (Heroes), and Lloyd (Swordmaster). Both are custom sprites, by the way. Because they're ''that'' awesome.
* [[Badass Preacher]]: His poor stats aside, {{spoiler|Renault used to be a highly skilled fighter, and is implied to have gathered many bodies for Nergal's morph experiments. He became a bishop in an attempt to atone for his past actions.}}
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: {{spoiler|His poor magic stat stems from the fact that he spent most of his life as a weapon-user. Units with both a "Strength" stat and a "Magic" stat don't exist in the GBA games, but if they did, his Strength would probably be abnormally high for his class. This also explains why his Defense is almost as high as his Resistance.}}
* [[BFS]]: Durandal is about the same length as Eliwood's horse. And he holds it with ''one hand''.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Legault...probably.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Reading the epilogue about all the characters after the final level really feels this way if you let a lot of them die...
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*** What about {{spoiler|Canas? His ending is "Canas returned to his family in Ilia. Some years later, he and his wife died trying to stop a snowstorm. His child was raised by his old mother. "}} [[Sarcasm Mode|That sure is uplifting!]]
* [[Boss Rush]]: Nergal resurrects and super charges 8 Bosses, releasing them one per round. You must defeat them all before you can challenge Nergal. [[Visible Silence|Their death quotes]] [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|imply you are]] [[And I Must Scream|putting them out of their misery.]]
** [[Dual Boss]]: Lloyd and Linus are super pumped during the [[Boss Rush]] and challenge you simultaneously. Also [[That One Boss]] due to their insane equipment and their A-level support with one another. Ursula and Jerme are also Dual Bosses, albeit not nearly as frustrating since Jerme doesn't come at you wielding anything unusual.
** Interestingly, two of the bosses you fight during this [[Boss Rush]] (Jerme and Kenneth) are mutually exclusive, so for the first playthrough, you'll most likely think "Wait... who's ''that'' guy?"
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Less blatant than the 4th game, but present.
* [[Broken Record]]: Denning is a [[Golem|Morph]] made to repeat the message "This is a message from Lord Nergal. "I await you on the Dread Isle"". This makes him [[Ensemble Darkhorse|one of the more popular characters]] [[Memetic Mutation|for some reason.]])
* [[Call Forward]]: Plenty of them exist in ''Blazing Sword'', they tend not to make sense to overseas players, as ''Sword of Seals'' [[No Export for You|never got released outside of Japan]].
** If you have Lyn attack Uhai, he mentions Nergal sending "That woman". He means {{spoiler|Sonia}}.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: The basis of [[Shrinking Violet|Florina]]'s support conversations with Hector.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Sain.
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Hector meets Florina, one of his possible love interests, when she plummets out of the sky and he winds up breaking her fall... and that of her pegasus.
* [[Crouching Scholar Hidden Badass]]: Don't let the monocle fool you, Canas will be nearly unstoppable once he reaches Druid form.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: [[Artificial Stupidity]] aside, the AI of these games became ''highly'' pronounced as simply not caring about whether or not they won...so much as they kill ''one'' of your units and make you [[Rage Quit]] and restart the chapter.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Canas will remind people that Shamans study ''ancient'' magic, not ''dark'' magic, but he also knows firsthand that the forces he's handling are extremely dangerous and must be treated with caution. {{spoiler|His three brothers succumbed to it, and ended up as [[Empty Shell|Empty Shells]].}}
** [[Good Powers, Bad People|Kenneth is]] [[Light Is Not Good|not Good.]]
** [[Big Bad|Nergal]] understood this at first, [[All There in the Manual|but when he needed a massive power boost to rescue his family]], he gave in to the Dark Side.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Assassins and their daggers. However; they weild swords instead.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Lucius actually [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|confused Serra]] and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Sain]].
* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: Chapter 19 of ''Blazing Sword''. The whole first half of the game leads up to a showdown with Ephidel, {{spoiler|who then gets [[The Unfought|unceremoniously slaughtered by a dragon]] when the ''real'' [[Big Bad]] makes his intentions and ability known}}.
* [[Doomed by Canon]]: {{spoiler|Nino, Jaffar, and possibly Erk are killed by bounty hunters or are in hiding. Roy's mother is implied to have died giving birth to Roy, meaning this can either be Fiora, Ninian, or Lyndis. Karla dies of illness some time after giving birth to Fir. Canas dies trying to stop a blizzard, and his son is raised by his grandmother - both appear in Fire Emblem 6. Not to mention, the Black Fang. Hector dies onscreen in Fire Emblem 6, and he's actually told that he'll die a violent death for taking Armands. Athos and Bramminond don't make it to 6.}} This has a lesser impact on western players who [[No Export for You|never got Fire Emblem 6]].
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Hector makes a short, plot-unrelated appearance in Lyndis' story.
** Ursula also makes a short appearance in Lyndis' story, as does Renault towards the middle of the main story. (You don't recruit Renault until very late in the game.)
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* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: Lyndis' Legion. Granted, it was Wil who came up with the name.
* [[Elopement]]: Lyndis's parents did this in the backstory to ''Blazing Sword''. Her mother, Lady Madelyn, was the daughter of the Marquis of Caelin. Her father, Hassar, was the leader of the Lorca Tribe, one of the three tribes of Sacae, a group of nomadic people. In order to stay together, Madelyn left Caelin to live with her lover on the Sacaen plains.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Uhai holds Lyn hostage, but only to deliver a message to the enemy so they won't shoot him, and to make himself look like a more vicious opponent. Even though he could have easily killed her, he lets her go because he says it is shameful to hold hostages during battle. When he dies, he tells the party the way to Dragon's Gate.
** The Ganelon Bandits are disgusted by the way the Taliver bandits work. And they are even offended when you ask if they belong to them.
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Almost every critical animation does this.
* [[Face Palm]]: Kent when Sain introduces himself to Florina, [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/VincentASM/Site/FE7/04.png as shown here].
* [[Five-Bad Band]]:
{{quote|
[[Co-Dragons]]: Limstella & Jaffar
[[The Evil Genius]]: Sonia
[[The Corrupter]]: Ephidel
[[The Dark Chick]]: Kishuna
[[The Brute]]: Denning
[[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: {{spoiler|Jaffar}} }}
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Several (with [[Hello, Insert Name Here|Mark (The Tactician)]] as [[Mission Control]]), depending on which route you're on (the following are probably the clearest examples):
% Lyn's Story ("Lyndis' Legion") -
{{quote|
[[The Lancer]]: Kent
[[The Big Guy]]: Sain
[[The Smart Guy]]: Wil
[[The Chick]]: Florina and Serra
[[The Sixth Ranger]]: Matthew
The [[Tagalong Kid]]s: Nils & Ninian }}
% Eliwood's Story -
{{quote|
[[The Lancer]]: Hector
[[The Smart Girl]]: Lyn
[[The Big Guy]]: Marcus
[[The Chick]]: Ninian
[[Tagalong Kid]]: Nils
[[The Sixth Ranger]]: {{spoiler|Athos}} }}
% Hector's Story -
{{quote|
[[The Lancer]]:
[[The Heart]]: Eliwood
[[The Big Guy]]: Oswin
[[The Smart Girl]]: Lyn
[[The Chick]]: Ninian
[[Tagalong Kid]]: Nils
[[The Sixth Ranger]]: {{spoiler|Athos}} }}
* [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: A few turns after your arrival to the Dread Isle you'll meet up with the Pegasus Knight Fiora, who in her pain after having lost her wingmates, tries to perform one of these. If you don't send out her sister Florina to convince her to stop and join the crew, she'll fight your enemies until either she dies or the stage is done.
* [[Forced Tutorial]]: ''Blazing
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Many characters are the parents of people who appear in ''Sword of Seals'', yet were never mentioned by their kids. To handle this, the [[Where Are They Now]] epilogue mentions several characters were killed offscreen in between games. [[Doomed by Canon]] indeed.
** [[Memetic Mutation|Canas was killed by continuity errors!]]
** Hector swears to protect his children until the day he dies. Early on in ''Sword of Seals'', Roy meets a dying Hector.
** We learn the Bern royal family is having...[[Dysfunction Junction|trouble,]] but after Eliwood saves their life, they promise to try to make amends. Yeah, that didn't turn out well.
*** To make things clear, the dad tries to kill the prince many times and almost succeeds, the embittered prince kills his dad, locks up his little sister, sets out to take over the world. and nobody knows what happened to his mom.
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Normally, the series has the characters' bust shots talking to each other, but in Fire Emblem 7, this actually makes the ''most'' sense. Most of the time... it's actually as if you're viewing it from a character who's standing ''right there''... '''and you are.''' You're viewing it from the Tactician's point of view. This explains why they sometimes look ''towards'' the screen and address you.
** Also, Marcus. In ''Fire Emblem 7'', he's actually not a bad fighter and is a [[Crutch Character]] who fits the Oifey stereotype better (a pre-promoted unit who actually maintains usefulness throughout the game.) In ''Fire Emblem 6'', he's practically Jagen incarnate. [[Fridge Brilliance]]? In ''Sword of Seals'', he's ''much'' older. In 7 he's as much in his 40's, which would make him '''at least''' 60 in 7... and considering the stress of being a high-ranked member of the military, he may be even older than the average male in these days.
* [[Game Mod]]: The 7th game is wildly popular for [[ROM Hack]]s, receiving several entirely original campaigns while the rest of the series (bar ''Sacred Stones'') rarely gets more than translations and balance tweaks.
* [[Gay Option]]: [[Yaoi Fangirl|Some]] [[Yuri Fan|people]] see quite a few of these, such as Legault for Heath, Kent for Sain, Florina for Lyn, etc. Interestingly, despite the common pairing of Raven/Lucius, Lucius possesses a rather cute ''het'' option with Serra as well (though no common ending). The same could be said for all the other pairings listed getting ''straight'' options. Regardless, the game, even outside of supports, strongly has hints of Raven/Lucius and Lyn/Florina, which is why those two pairings are the two most popular pairings regarded by [[Yaoi Fangirl|the]] [[Yuri Fan|fans]].
* [[Genki Girl]]: Subverted with Serra, who acts genki but is more of a [[Stepford Smiler]]. Rebecca is more of the real deal.
* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: This almost borders to [[White and Grey Morality]] in a couple occasions. Several Black Fang bosses are indeed bad people, ''especially'' Jerme and Kenneth. However, Uhai [[Even Evil Has Standards|is above taking hostages, especially a Sacean woman]]. Lloyd, Linus, and Ursula likewise are not bad people, and Jaffar certainly looks this way at first.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Many of the [[Sidequest|gaiden chapters]] require you to complete a chapter in a set amount of turns or to visit a certain village, but Chapter 19xx is notorious for having very strange ones: Leveling your [[Spoony Bard]] to level 7 (which means [[Level Grinding]] and lots of it) on your second playthrough of Lyn's tale (see [[Forced Tutorial]] above) and killing the [[Bonus Boss]] in Chapter 19x (itself a [[Sidequest]]).
** There's also a [[Sidequest|gaiden chapter]] unlocked by making sure your party gets a certain amount of experience while the enemy throws itself at a [[One-Man Army]] NPC, and the boss for one chapter is determined by the total EXP of your [[The Big Guy|Fighters]] versus your [[White Mage|Clerics]] and [[Black Mage|Mages]].
*** On a similar note, while you will inevitably fight and kill both of the Reed brothers, the game uses a somewhat obscure method to determine which one you fight first: The combined levels of your three Lords.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: The tactician.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Lyn and Florina, Hector and Eliwood, Raven and Lucius, Sain and Kent... there's a long list. See [[Ho Yay]] for how fans have taken it...
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Sacaens supposedly never lie or break a promise, ever.
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: Lyn is repeatedly stated by numerous characters to be extremely beautiful, despite that, this being [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Fire Emblem]], there are many other female characters who are far above average in the looks department.
** Eliwood mentions Lyn's Sacaen heritage, that she's "striking" -- so perhaps it's something in her movement or her complexion. Her battle animations are decidedly elegant.
* [[Informed Attribute]]: General Bauker of Laus is allegedly not such a bad guy, according to the NPCs, but he never displays any sympathetic traits or a hint of regret for the sack of Caelin. Made particularly jarring since his commanding officer Bernard, the boss of the very next level, accepts his own death as justice for Laus's brutality.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Kent, Sain, and Lowen, the cavaliers of the game, all fall into this category, with certain specialties emerging from otherwise-balanced stats; Kent has the best skill and speed, Sain has the best strength, and Lowen has the best defenses. Eliwood serves as this role among the three lords, although care must be taken to avoid letting him end up a [[Master of None]].
* [[Leitmotif]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zu9kRwekxc Lyn], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQp7ekauEGc Eliwood], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqYXkG3ecg Hector] each have one, although technically they're variations of the same theme, of which you will hear plenty in this game.
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Don't let Hector's armor fool you, he's quite fast in addition to being strong and and well-armored. Lyn also tends towards this as a hard-hitting speedster, although her lack of armor means she could also be a [[Glass Cannon]] depending on how the [[Random Number God]] smiles on you.
* [[The Load]]: Whoever your main lord is before they get the item that promotes them. It's possible for them to hit 20 and can't gain any experience, so you have ''good reason'' to not let them fight.
* [[Lord British Postulate]]: Fargus.
* [[Love At First Punch]]: Bartre met his future wife Karla when she beat the crap out of him in an arena, gradually falling for her when they meet again much later.
** Also, Lyndis almost was hit by Hector swinging his axe around and then she told him so. That was the start of their [[Slap Slap Kiss]].
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*** Even more so trying to kill him in "Genesis", where he retreats as soon as you attack him or open the door to his chamber. (And his position makes him impossible to hit with anything other than a Longbow, though in Hector's Story he at least moves around enough to be within range of a regular ranged weapon.) Thankfully, there's nothing lost if he retreats rather than being defeated.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Nino is infamous for this: she comes at a low level very late in the game, but train her up and she'll be able to blow away anything that comes her way. Also a case of [[Lamarck Was Right]]: one character mentions that Nino's family is filled with extremely skilled magic users, including Nino's own sons Lugh and Ray.
** If you give her the Afa's Drops item, she'll level ''even faster''.
* [[Master of None]]: Eliwood. While by no means a terrible character, his "balanced" stat growths are pretty lackluster compared to Lyn and Hector's unbalanced ones.
* [[
** Another one that won't be apparent on your first playthrough: the brigands that Ephidel sent to "scare" Eliwood away from Santaruz outnumbered Eliwood and his company; if it weren't for [[Spanner in the Works|Hector's]] timely arrival, Eliwood might never have reached Santaruz or learned anything about the rebellion plot until it was too late. And if he and Hector hadn't quelled the rebellion, they never would have been in a position to interfere in Nergal's dragon-summoning ritual. As Nergal said, Hector's presence was his "greatest miscalculation."
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In ''Blazing Sword'', if you get the best Tactician rating, the game says (and I quote) that you "changed the course of history" and that "Bern and Etruria (the countries fighting in ''Sword of Seals'') so desired this skilled mind that they went to war." Granted, they still go to war if you do poorly, but...
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* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: With a moniker like "The Blazing Blade," you would expect Durandal to be a [[Flaming Sword]]; it isn't.
* [[Nostalgia Level]]: Several chapters in ''Blazing Blade'' take place at the same location as a chapter in ''Sword of Seals.'' To wit:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612044518/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/14.PNG Chapter 14 of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter4.png Chapter 4 of Fire Emblem 6] (Laus)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612044015/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/23A.PNG Chapter 23 (Lloyd) of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter2.png Chapter 2 of Fire Emblem 6] (Bern/Pherae border)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612044350/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/27.PNG Chapter 27 of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter21.png Chapter 21 of Fire Emblem 6] (The Shrine of Seals)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612044601/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/28.PNG Chapter 28 of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter8x.png Chapter 8x of Fire Emblem 6] (Durandal's cavern)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612043914/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/30H.PNG Chapter 30 (Hector mode) of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter12x.png Chapter 12x of Fire Emblem 6] (Armads' cavern)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612044255/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/29.PNG Chapter 29 of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter8.png Chapter 8 of Fire Emblem 6] (Inside Castle Ostia)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100612044826/http://serenesforest.net/fe7/map/29x.PNG Chapter 29x of Fire Emblem 7]: [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/NomadicTrooperGirl/VASM/Chapter7.png Chapter 7 of Fire Emblem 6] (Outside Castle Ostia)
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]
* [[Plot Armor]]: Important non-lord characters will retreat when defeated rather than die, though they remain unusable for the rest of the game. In ''Blazing Sword'', this also applies to Bartre and Karel, since they're still around in ''Sword of Seals''.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Sain as Red, Kent as Blue.
* [[Royal Rapier]]: an effective [[Anti-Cavalry]] and [[Armor-Piercing Attack|armor piercing]] weapon used exclusively by Eliwood.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Leila.}}
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Dart lays it out in no uncertain terms that attacking Fargus would be a bad move, and just in case you do, you get hit with a double whammy; not only is Fargus practically a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] (he can be beaten with some tweaking and Arena grinding, though), but if you try to fight him, you get a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] no matter what happens next.
* [[Ship Tease]]: The game's endings are open-ended for supports, but the game drops a lot of hints for Eliwood/Ninian, including a different ending if they reach A support. Additionally, Hector's story has a ''ton'' of Hector/Lyn moments.
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* [[The Unfought]]: {{spoiler|Turns out Ephidel is just a villainous [[Mauve Shirt]].}} Sonia can also become this if you choose to skip her side-chapter, and Limstella will dispose of her instead.
** [[That One Level|Thank]] [[That One Boss|God.]]
** Zig-Zagged with Brendan. It appears like you might have to fight him since, well, he ''looks'' evil and ''is'' the commander of the Black Fang alongside Sonia. However; he is {{spoiler|killed off-screen....and you DO fight a morph in his liking in the final chapter}}.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: {{spoiler|Eliwood's supports with three characters (Lyndis, Ninian, or Fiora) can lead to him marrying them and having Roy. Ninian is the only one stated as actually loving him ''without'' having a support conversation. This means that you can ''literally'' have Eliwood fall in love with Fiora or Lyndis ''right in front of Ninian''.}} Eeeeeeeep.
* [[Weather of War]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"The ice dragon there... The beast slaughtered by your hand... That is Ninian. The girl you loved."}}
* [[You Bastard]] / [[Take That, Audience!]]: If you play with a Tactician in ''Blazing Sword'' and get an E or D ranking overall, several characters on the Battle History screen will say something along the lines of either "What were you thinking?", "You need more practice", or just flat out say "You suck" (though [[Jerkass|some units]], namely Karel and Jaffar, will say things like this even if you [[Dude, Where's My Respect?|played decently]] and [[Do Well, But Not Perfect|got a C or B rank]]). And the ending notes that future historians were baffled at how you led Eliwood and co. to victory with [[Scrub|'such incomprehensible']] strategies.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: The Black Fang has such a policy. Jaffar goes so far as to ''berate the girl who saved his life'' for failing to adhere to this policy and nursing him back to health. (And yet he pretty much decides to pull a [[Last Stand]] for her a few stages later.)
** This was actually [[Defector From Decadence|the reason why]] {{spoiler|Legault}} left the Fang, since he had to {{spoiler|kill an [[Action Girl]] from the group because she was crippled.}}
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