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* '''''Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance''''' ([[Game Cube]], 2005) stars mercenary Ike, the first non-noble main character of the series, as he aids Princess Elincia in reclaiming her kingdom of Crimea after its fall to the suddenly-aggressive nation of Daein. This game reimplemented the anima magic triangle and the skills system in full, in addition to implementing new features like the base menu, bonus experience, and the laguz, a [[Petting Zoo People]] whose combat revolves around transforming into animals.
* '''''Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn''''' ([[Wii]], 2007) is a direct sequel to ''Path of Radiance'', taking place three years after its beginning. The game is divided into four parts, each starring a different main character. The first arc features Micaiah, the leader of the Dawn Brigade, in her work to liberate the country of Daein from its abuse at the hands of its post-war Begnion occupation, an act which instigates the conflict to come. Following [[Arc|arcsarc]]s feature Elincia, now queen of Crimea, dealing with rebellious nobles, and Ike and his mercenaries aiding the Laguz kingdoms in a war against an apparently corrupt Begnion, with the final arc bringing all the characters together in order to avert the destruction of their world.
 
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Ragnell is first presented in this way, during Greil's battle with the Black Knight. Over a ''much'' longer period of time, so is Urvan.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: {{spoiler|Sephiran.}}
** Lekain ''thinks'' he's this, but he's actually just another one of the true [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster's]] [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]]s. What's more, he's pretty much {{spoiler|the whole reason Sephiran started his scheme in the first place}}.
* [[Child Soldiers]]: Leonardo, Rolf, Mist, Tormod, Sanaki, Sothe in PoR, Laura, and Edward.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: "You mean Naesala's betrayed us? Again?"
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** Also as mentioned in a [[Let's Play]], {{spoiler|Renning being Bertram is also implied in Path of Radiance}}.
** The game also includes several unused names, such as {{spoiler|Yune and Astartyune; known to English speakers as Ashunera}}.
** There are numerous conversations in ''Radiant Dawn'' which are nearly impossible to see -- includingsee—including a death quote for the Black Knight in Part 1, where nothing can physically harm him (incidentally, [[We Cannot Go on Without You|his death is also programmed to trigger a Game Over]]).
** Greil's combat animation looks a bit... weird... compared to Ike's or Boyd's in the prologue of ''Path of Radiance''; his sword-arm looks rather stiff, and his backhanded swing doesn't look very forceful compared to Ike's and Boyd's fore-handed swings. Not only was Greil [[I Let You Win|deliberately holding back on that fight]], but {{spoiler|his sword-arm had been crippled so that he COULDN'T swing his training sword properly.}}
** To defeat {{spoiler|Ashera, Ike must deal the finishing blow with Ragnell. To actually harm Ashera to begin with requires one's weapon be blessed by Yune partway through the Endgame, so if Ike doesn't have Ragnell equipped then for some reason, one cannot defeat Ashera. With this scenario clearly in mind, the game ensures that in the event that Ike ''doesn't'' have Ragnell equipped at that point, Yune automatically prompts him to do it and ensures Ragnell will be blessed.}}
* [[Double Entendre]]: The battle conversation between {{spoiler|Nailah and Tibarn}} is one giant one -- andone—and it's practically an [[Easter Egg]], given how hard it is to trigger.
* [[Duel Boss]]: The Black Knight, in both games.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Several characters, such as Lekain and Hetzel, make minor appearances in ''Path of Radiance'', but aren't relevant to the plot until ''Radiant Dawn''.
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* [[N-Word Privileges|Fantastic N Word Privileges]]: Beorc refer to themselves and each other as "human" without a second thought (perhaps because they don't know that laguz use it as an insult), but if a laguz says it to one, it's meant as an insult (though it's not always effective). "Sub-human," on the other hand, is always malicious.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]:
** The various shapeshifting Laguz tribes are called "sub-humans" by many beorc/humans. This is not limited to your enemies; some between chapter dialogue has your own characters referencing your own laguz characters as sub-humans. And it goes both ways, too... a laguz calling a beorc 'human' is the same as a beorc calling a laguz 'sub-human', and it happens more than once. Most characters eventually get better -- exceptbetter—except Shinon, who is a [[Jerkass]] and remains unrepentant even throughout ''Radiant Dawn.''
** And let's not get started on what [[Half-Human Hybrid|hybrids]] between the two have to put up with.
** While Lethe learns to treat beorc better, she still makes sweeping generalizations about them, implies they are inferior in their customs, and the word "human" escapes her lips sometimes.
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* [[Irony]]: There is superstition about branded having special powers but the only benefit they really get has the drawback of making them easily spotted by enemies. Amusingly, some of them survive Radiant Dawn's end game because the enemy overlooked them.
* [[Item Crafting]]: You can pay out the nose to create better versions of generic items in both games.
** FE 9 practically expects you to forge weapons regularly -- indeedregularly—indeed, [[Elemental Crafting|forged silvers]] [[Purposefully Overpowered|are the best weapons you could wield in the game,]] and you have [[Money for Nothing]] else. FE 10 inverts this; though the potential is greater on its own merits, you often don't have the funding to justify its use instead of [[Boring Yet Practical|stocking super-sized weapons.]]
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Elincia becomes this in ''Radiant Dawn''. As a [[Let's Play]] put it, she is a ''very'' effective healer, but can also be an effective tank or damage-dealer. She starts off as a [[Crutch Character]] in part 2, but unlike others, remains feasible late-game.
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The Tellius bilogy has arguably one of the most complex yet compelling scripts ever written by Nintendo.
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* [[Lord British Postulate]]: In one chapter of ''Radiant Dawn'', {{spoiler|Lekain}} appears on the field for a couple turns, and then leaves. During the time they're on the field, it is actually possible to reach them and kill them. [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|They simply retreat upon being defeated]].
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Part 2, chapter 1 in ''Radiant Dawn'' has the player controlling minor character Nephenee from ''Path of Radiance''.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The fight {{spoiler|with the Black Knight}} in Path of Radiance. If Ike has his relevant stats maxed (almost impossible for him not to if he hasn't been left out of the action), you still need Aether to activate at least once before the battle ends. If it does, you win! It doesn't? [[Game Over|Too bad.]] (Unless Ike's strength is [[Cap|cappedcap]]ped, Mist is tough enough to survive the [[Mook|mooksmook]]s and heal him, and he hits the Black Knight on every single blow. To be fair, you're more likely to get a single Aether than all of that.)
* [[MacGuffin]]: Lehran's Medallion in the first game.
* [[Magikarp Power]]:
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: Possibly Mist. A conversation with Caineghis early in ''Path of Radiance'' reveals that her mother had been killed "more than ten years ago," and {{spoiler|Ike's memory scene from ''Radiant Dawn'' reveals that Mist had already grown old enough to walk and talk by then,}} meaning that Mist was about 13 or 14 in POR and 16 or 17 in RD. That said, Mist ''does'' look her age, '''if''' you're used to anime artwork, so people thinking she's younger may be merely a form of [[Small Reference Pools]] and [[Values Dissonance]].
** All laguz are older than they look. Deghinsea, for example, looks like a regular man entering his 50s yet [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|is really over 1000 years old.]] Though this is because certain laguz races have longer lifespans than others. Presumably, the order would be: Dragons > Herons > Hawks and Ravens > Beasts, but we can only infer the certainty of the first two for sure.
** Branded also seem to inherit this gene to some degree. {{spoiler|Zelgius}} looks not a year older in ''Radiant Dawn'' than he did in the flashback scene to 13 years ago in the same game, and {{spoiler|Micaiah}} is outright stated to be older than she looks. Given the chronology, she has to be between 24-2724–27 years old whereas she looks like a girl in her mid-teens. Stefan spells this out in his support conversations with Soren, who looks like he just started puberty in spite of being 19 when that conversation happens.
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Data from Path of Radiance can be transferred to Radiant Dawn. Characters that have reached the level cap and capped at least one stat in Path of Radiance gain a + 2 bonus to that stat in Radiant Dawn (or in Sothe's case, his exact stats if they are higher). A-supports in Path of Radiance become bonds and can unlock additional conversations.
* [["On the Next..."]]: ''Radiant Dawn'' has this at the end of the first three parts.
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* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: The Heron tribe have hair between waist-long (males) and feet-long (females).
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Sanaki becomes this in ''Path of Radiance'', although at first she appears to be a spoiled little kid. (Which well, she is...she's ''eleven''.)
* [[Regional Bonus]]: The PAL version of Radiant Dawn fixed the [[Game Breaking Bug]] in the [[Old Save Bonus]], and fixed [[Inconsistent Dub|a few name inconsistancies with the first game]] and a couple of utter [[Blind Idiot Translation|Blind Idiot Translations]]s. (like the infamous "Heart of Fire")
* [[Retraux]]: The icon for ''Path of Radiance'' save data.
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: A rather gripping one in near the end of Part 3 in Radiant Dawn. {{spoiler|Just as Micaiah is about to give the order to fire on the Apostle, Tibarn swoops in and hangs her [[Bodyguard Crush]] Sothe over a cliff and gives her an ultimatum: cease fire and retreat or Sothe dies. Micaiah can't retreat however, since it would effectively mean everybody in Daein would die due to the bloodpact. Unable to find a third option, Michiah is helpless as she watches Sothe get thrown over the cliff. Micaiah promptly has a [[My God, What Have I Done?]], until it is revealed to have been a bluff and she calls for a retreat.}}
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** ''Radiant Dawn'' is merciless about this. You can choose to ignore it in favor of your own little fantasies but canon is canon.
** Before ''Radiant Dawn'', Astrid tells Gatrie she can't be with him because [[Disposable Fiance|she's engaged]] (something she [[Foreshadowing|doesn't mention to Makalov]]).
** Soren and Geoffrey sink their ships with Stefan and Calill respectively in roughly the same way: a line or more in the A support that explicitly mentions a preference for the rival--therival—the only other support option either has.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Elinicia delivers an awesome one to Ludveck at the end of Part 2 in ''Radiant Dawn''. It's even more awesome in the [http://www.serenesforest.net/fe10/script/2_Fb.html Japanese script], which has extended dialogue.
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]]: In the Japanese previews of ''Radiant Dawn'', Ike and the Greil mercs were nowhere to be seen, despite Ike been a major focal character in the latter half of the game.
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{{spoiler|'''Ashnard'''}}: That is the natural order. The only way for the weak to survive is to cling to the strong. }}
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: Mia's backstory. Leads to the hilarious [http://serenesforest.net/fe9/support/046.html Mia x Largo supports].
* [[Standing Between the Enemies]]: Elincia tries to prevent the Begnion Army and the Laguz Alliance from fighting. It doesn't work, but at least she could convince the Laguz that not all [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]].
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: ''Radiant Dawn'' presents us with gems such as "Moldy onions!" and "Hornet hairs!"
** Marcia loves this trope. She swears... using ''food''. "Oh, crackers!"
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