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{{quote|''Two sleeping dragons -- one a sacred ally of mankind, the other its sworn destroyer. Two heroes marked with the symbols of the dragons. Their meeting heralds the dragons' awakening -- and the world's ending.''|'''Japanese logo''' ([[Surprisingly Good English|completely untranslated]])}}
 
The thirteenth ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game, the first original title (as in, not a remake) since ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Radiant Dawn]]'' in 2007, and set nearly 2000 years after [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|the third game and its remake]]. It stars KromChrom, [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|yet another blue haired swordsman]] and the prince of the Iris Kingdom who leads a vigilante force, and a player-created custom character who acts as both a strategist and part of his force; accompanyingwho themhe isfinds Liz,with Krom'samnesia youngerat sisterthe andstart a Cleric, who appears inof the official site's banner opposite from himgame.
 
The game brings back the world map system of ''Gaiden'' and ''The Sacred Stones'', and reintroduces the Skills system in a form reminiscent of its Tellius incarnation, allowing you to freely swap skills between characters. It sports a graphical style reminiscent of the Tellius games with a more cartoonish bent, sporting a [[Two Point Five D]] map and 3D fights. The character design and portrait art style - the work of [[No More Heroes|Yusuke Kozaki]] - looks like it belongs in a [[SeinenShonen]] anime, which is a fresh departure from the [[Uncanny Valley|overly-realistic]] art style from the DS games. A new feature introduced allows units to gang up on enemies when next to an attacking ally (The exact mechanics of this are unknown). It willreceived benotoriety as the first first-party Nintendo title to feature paid [[Downloadable Content]], here comingmainly in the form of "episodes" comprising map packs telling side-stories, not unlike ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia War Chronicles]]''.
 
After ''[[Fire Emblem Akaneia|New Mystery of the Emblem]]'' failed to make the translation leap, some fans initially feared the possibility of [[No Export for You]]; a European release was confirmed in the February 2012 instalment of Nintendo Direct and as of E3, [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|a North American localization has been confirmed]] by Reggie Fils-Aime after the Nintendo 3DS Software Showcase event, with no release date given. NoIt translatedwas titleeventually hasrevealed yet been confirmed,<ref>that it's actuallywould beingbe translatedfirst was(and onlythus confirmedfar mid-February,only) whereingame itin wasthe tentativelyseries calledto just "''Fire Emblem"''</ref> it's universally known byuse a straight translation of its Japanese name, ''Fire Emblem: Kakusei'', which it was universally known as before this announcement (though given [[No Export for You|this series' history]], that's really nothing new), whichafter Nintendo of America has registered a domain for it (though currently itinitially just redirects to NOA's main Web site). While the translation did not go to the sheer incompressible level of the next game, the quality is low. Several sections are cut for translation cost, and several scenes were replaced with entirely made up dialog.
 
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: In their B support, KromChrom walks in on a female MU naked, and she returns the favor in their A support.
* [[Adorkable]] / [[Moe]]: Enforced with the "Confessions" scenes the [[Audience Surrogate|MU]] gets with his/her spouse.
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Averted with KromChrom, who has [http://www.serenesforest.net/fe13/img/15022012C.jpg two different portraits]{{Dead link}} for when he faces left or right.
* [[Anime Hair]]: Present, but nowhere ''near'' the level of what was previously feared by some. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107055839/http://serenesforest.net/fe13/character.html Out of all the characters revealed so far], only Liz's hairstyle is truly implausible; and, even then, it's not that bad to begin with.
* [[Art Shift]]: The series as a whole seems to have shifted itsnew art style towardsfor morethis ofgame is a [[Seinen]]radical departure lookfrom andprevious feelgames.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Anna, the [[Plucky Girl|plucky]] [[Series Mascot|mascot]] of ''Fire Emblem'' who has only made [[One-Scene Wonder|walk-on appearances]] in every game so far, is ''finally'' recruitable.
* [[Ascended Meme]]: [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Ayra/Ira]]'s description for her guest appearance claims she is "mad strong", referring to her [[Game Breaker|infamous abilities]].
** Why yes, Marth and Roy ''are'' in this game!
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Most mixed physical/magic units have lower caps for their offensive stats than most pure classes and few characters have the growth rates to use both well.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Expect Battle Clerics to be this. [http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/070312C.jpg Considering]{{Dead link}} Liz's Strength is only ''2'' upon promotion, it's unlikely that this class would the most practical outside [[Squishy Wizard|fighting mages]].
** Sariya's promotion line are Sorcerer and Dark Knight. While the Dark Knight has better Defense, it [[Fridge Logic|lacks the ability to use Dark Magic]]....considering how Sariya is the first natural dark magic user, and how popular Dark Mages are in the fandom, expect nobody to make her a Dark Knight.
* [[Badass Family]]: Due to the second generation, you can have one.
* {{spoiler|[[Bad Future]]}}: {{spoiler|Lucina hails from one, where [[Player Character|MU]] [[Grand Theft Me|was killed and possessed by Gimle]], [http://i46.tinypic.com/e9stas.jpg killed Krom]Chrom, and [[Omnicidal Maniac|Gimle]] as well as [[Zombie Apocalypse|the corpse soldiers]] [[Earthshattering Kaboom|killed everything]]. Knowing that, her [[Anti-Hero]] disposition, and later [[The Woobie|woobification]] is justified.}}
* [[Black and White Morality]]: Seemingly, the issue between Iris and Perezia. Iris worships the benevolent [[Light Is Good|Divine Dragon]] [[God Is Good|Naga]], ruled by the kind and just [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Emelina]], and minus the Vigilance Force, is mainly peaceful. Perezia, on the other hand, worships the monstrous [[Dark Is Evil|Dark Dragon]] [[God of Evil|Gimle]], ruled by the cruel [[The Caligula|Gangrel]], and at least a portion of it's people are Barbarians who like to [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]. Even the [[Token Heroic Orc]]s, [[Black Magician Girl|Sariya]] and [[Sociopathic Hero|Henry]], don't even seem to be that heroic.
* [[Bucket Helmet]]: Villager class is badly equipped, and wears these.
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* [[The Cameo]]: Characters from past ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' games will show up in some downloadable chapters. So far, [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Claire from Gaiden]], [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Ira from Genealogy of the Holy War]], and [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Innes from The Sacred Stones]] have been announced.
** [[Marth Debuted in Smash Bros]]: Likely going to be the case, seeing as half the games weren't released outside of Japan
* [[Canon Welding]]: {{spoiler|My Unit's child will be a tactician named Mark, sharing the same outfit and default name as the player avatar from [[Fire Emblem Elibe|the 7th game]] and the game already has dimension hopping. The best ranking in the Japanese version of 7 also gives Mark the same "Grandmaster" title as promoted My Unit. The English translation erases these allusions by naming the character "Morgan" instead.}}
** The continent ''Gaiden'' took place on appears later in the story.
** According to chapter locations [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107051511/http://serenesforest.net/fe13/world.html here]: {{spoiler|It seems Mila and Doma, the gods from Gaiden, will be making an appearance. Or at least be involved in the game's backstory.}}
** The Holy Weapons from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|the Jugdral games]] make an appearence (and anyone with the appropriate weapon rank can use them now) as do {{spoiler|The 12 Dark Warlords, some of whom are in posessionpossession of said Holy Weapons.}}
** Donny and Olivia's supports {{spoiler|reference Naesala and Leanne}}!
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: From Serenes Forest's page on forging: "There is an overall limit of 8 intervals that can be raised per weapon. For example, you can raise Might by 5 intervals and Critical by 3 intervals, but no more than that. [...] Enemies on higher difficulties can have weapons that exceed the 8 interval limit." That should tell you enough. And then there's the enemy-exclusive Skills for Lunatic Mode, which include one that ''always'' makes them hit, regardless of stats and [[Oh Crap|a Luna that ALWAYS activates.]]
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** [[Religion of Evil]]
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The ''Developers themselves'', when designing the "Entombed Heaven" [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] chapter. Its very existance shows they know full well that players love to exploit Entombed for easy EXP, but made sure if you just blindly rush in and started beating them up, you'll be met with a nasty surprise... {{spoiler|Level 30 Entombed with Counter. Given that Entombed have massive HP, but abysmal Defence, that's an awful lot of damage coming right back at you...}}
* [[Double Standard]]: The fandomtranslation complains aboutchanges Nowi/Nono's character so she's only ''pretending'' to be childish instead of actually being so, but nobody says a thing about Richt and Donny.▼
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Looks like it'll be the darkest ''Emblem'' yet. The Seinen-esque art style indicates a shift towards a more mature tone, promotional cutscenes are ''not'' afraid of showing how many people are going to die in the upcoming invasions, [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|"Marth"]] seems to have become an [[Anti-Hero]] ''[[Fallen Hero|at]] [[Rogue Protagonist|best]]''... Oh, and the second dragon? The one that'll cause the world's destruction? Yeah, turns out that's not so much a dragon as it is a ''borderline [[Eldritch Abomination]]''. Whatever happened to the world after Marth was crowned, it was ''bad''.
* [[Downloadable Content]]: Marth (without the maskreal one) isand a remake of the first stage of the officiallyoriginal announcedgame aswas Nintendo's first DLC. [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Roy]], [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Leaf]], [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Alm]], [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Micaiah, Elincia]], [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Ephraim, Eirika]], and [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Celice]] havefollowed among maps in an alternate timeline and alsogeneric beenfanservice announcedepisodes.▼
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: Every possible pairing has a totally unique set of supports justifying it, and every pair of children who could potentially end up as siblings have unique supports if they do.
▲* [[Double Standard]]: The fandom complains about Nono, but nobody says a thing about Richt and Donny.
▲* [[Downloadable Content]]: Marth (without the mask) is officially announced as Nintendo's first DLC. [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Roy]], [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Leaf]], [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Alm]], [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Micaiah, Elincia]], [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Ephraim, Eirika]], and [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Celice]] have also been announced.
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Libera on Viole.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Fauder, the leader of the Gimle Cult.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: DLC Eirika's Class, "Bride"... guess what that looks like?
* [[Giant Flyer]]: The dark dragon Gimle. {{spoiler|It's so huge that the final chapter takes place ''on its back''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Older Sister]]: Eventually, Gangrel captures Emelina and forces KromChrom to give him the Shield of Seals for her safety. But, [[Heroic Sacrifice|she kills herself via falling off a cliff]] to prevent this}}.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: Whereas the entire franchise so far has generally maintained a (relatively) realistic and practical bent in its character design, what's been seen of character designs of this game so far leans much more in the direction of this trope. The best examples by far are the knight characters.
* [[Intercontinuity Crossover]]: 120 Characters from all past Fire Emblems return here, through a dimensional portal that exists in the land. The player can face them, hire them to join his army or buy items from them. And this is mostly unrelated to the game's main story. However, aside from their portraits, they just use generic classes and models colored like their original designs. Only a few characters, who are paid DLC content, actually get their own models and personal classes. The story of the paid DLC does involve many past characters though, including the ones that use generic models.
* [[Hot Dad]] / [[Hot Mom]]: Parents apparently don't age a day {{spoiler|Time traveling kids being the reason, of course}} meaning potentially all couples will continue to be gorgeous even after having children.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Compare Divine Dragon child Tiki's appearance in [http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/0404/tiki.jpg Awakening]{{Dead link}} with her appearance in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100702224245/http://www.serenesforest.net/media/fe11illust/l/L_Chiki.jpg Shadow Dragon] and see that the proof is in the pudding.
** Most of the DLC versions of the female lords.
** Again, compare Micaiah's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507150521/http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/dlc/001.jpg DLC artwork] with her [http://www.feplanet.net/media/gallery/view.php?id=351 original art.]
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: It seems beingBeing cousins does ''not'' prevent children from reaching an S Support with eachother. The English version avoids mention of them being married but otherwise changes nothing.▼
** Also, [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100327181854/fireemblem/images/f/f3/Ferd_Elincia.jpg Radiant Dawn Elincia]{{Dead link}} versus her [http://images.wikia.com/fireemblem/images/8/8a/Dlc0510_img.jpg DLC Artwork]{{Dead link}}. Hot Damn.
▲* [[Kissing Cousins]]: It seems being cousins does ''not'' prevent children from reaching an S Support with eachother.
* [[Lady of War]]: {{spoiler|Lucina}}
* [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships]]: My Unit in-universe. This iswould completelybe intendedone of the most controversial parts of the gam, especially as the next game doubled down on it.
* [[Magic Knight]]: For the first time in the series in a game officially released in English certain classes are capable of truly<ref>Tellius allowed Sages to pick knifes over staffs, but this was so weak they couldn't damage anything except enemy mages. There was also a pair of units who could use both swords and staffs.</ref> using both weapons and magic. The avatar's main class the "Strategist" can wield bothmagic and swords.
* [[Magic Knight]]: The second protagonist's main class; the "Strategist". It functions the same as [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Jugdral's]] Mage Fighter, wielding both magic and swords.
** [[White Mage|NUNS]][[Memetic Mutation|WITH]][[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|AXES]]
** DLC Class "Demon Fighter", as a result of being ported from ''Gaiden'' and its weird magic system can wield swords, axes and tomes. The followup DLC class, the "Bride" class, can wield bows, staffs, and lances just so it has a counterpart.
*** Which later proved to also be MONKSWITHAXES
* [[Mark of the Beast|Mark of Naga]]: As proof of their [[Heroic Lineage]], Emelina has this on her forehead, KromChrom on his shoulder {{spoiler|and Lucina in her eye}}. We have no clue where Liz's is.▼
** Tricksters and Falcoknights also qualify, since they use staves as well as weapons. So do Dark Knights and Dark Pegasi, which are closer to the traditional Magic Knight class from [[FE 4]]&5.
** DLC Class "Demon Fighter": Swords, Axes, Tomes.
*** As well as it's followup, the "Bride" class: Bows, Staffs, and Lances.
▲* [[Mark of the Beast|Mark of Naga]]: As proof of their [[Heroic Lineage]], Emelina has this on her forehead, Krom on his shoulder {{spoiler|and Lucina in her eye}}. We have no clue where Liz's is.
* [[Super Move Portrait Attack|Mastery Skill Portrait Attack]]: The cut-in also occurs on critical hits.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Serge's wyvern is named [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Minerva]].
* [[Nerf]]: The forging system seems to have had one, compared to how utterly broken it was in the preveous two games. You can now only give a limited number of 'buffs' to a single weapon, meaning you can no longer forge both Might and Critical up to max. You'll need to choose between a weapon that hits ''really'' hard all the time, or one that's slightly weaker but criticals more often. Hard mode enemies don't follow this rule.
** The [[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Holy Weapons, such as Tyrfing, Holsety, and Narga]] used to have 30 MT and ludicrous bonuses. Now they've got Between 14 and 20 MT, and those bonuses are down from 30/40/80 Stat points to 5/10. [[Nerf]]ed indeed.
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Eirika's]] new [https://web.archive.org/web/20121028031326/http://serenesforest.net/fe13/img/dlc0607_img.jpg DLC costume.] Complete with [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]], [[Frills of Justice]], and what appears to be [[Impossibly Cool Clothes|sheer]] [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]]. May double as a [[Battle Ballgown]].
* [[Player Character]]: My Unit, you get to select your gender, [[Hello, Insert Name Here|name him or her]], select a character portrait and model, and select his or her voice. You'reIn lockedthe inJapanese withversion theyou could select one of [[Thefour Strategist]]personalities classas thoughwell.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: The Corpse Soldiers, in both their portraits and battle animations.
* [[Relationship Values]]: The relationship system and children from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral]] [http://andriasang.com/con0hp/fire_emblem_love/ returns],. onlyMost thiscontroversially timeis allowingthe (almost)avatar any[[Dating twoSim|getting unitsin ofon the oppositeaction]], sexwhich tomany tiefans thewould knot.claim Evengot Mytoo Unitmuch canof [[Datinga Sim|getfocus inand onwas aimed at the actionwrong kind of player.]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Nono's daughter is named ンン, roughly pronounched un-un or nn-nn. How are you supposed to spell that?? The translation goes with "Nah".▼
** It ''may'' also apply to same-sex characters, as we see [[The Archer|Viole]] hitting on [[Even the Guys Want Him|Libera]]...mind you, Viole [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|appears to think Libera's a chick]].
** Certain characters who obtain an 'S' rating with each other will also have children. These children are dependent on the mother, except for Krom who always has {{spoiler|Lucina}} after chapter 12 no matter who he's supported with, and My Unit, who has {{spoiler|Mark.}}
▲* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Nono's daughter is named ンン, roughly pronounched un-un or nn-nn. How are you supposed to spell that??
* [[Spoiler Opening]]
* [[Stock Subtitle]]: "Awakening"
* [[Sturgeon's Law]]: Mild example. The Avatar has the most Support conversation options out of any character. Especially if not romancing the character in question, many of them are a bit more bland and less personal than between other characters due to the Avatar's fairly down-to-earth personality and lack of personal connection to many of the characters. That said, they're still worth reading for sure.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|"Marth" is actually Lucina, KromChrom's daughter from the future.}}.
* [[This Loser Is You]]: Completely inverted. Not only does MU have a special class and is the first true [[Magic Knight]] since Judgral, but he/she can also get paired with [[The Hero|KromChrom]] and Sumia, and even have kids. Way to go, stud!
* [[The Unexpected]]: Spotpass allows you to recruit {{spoiler|Gangrel. Yes, [[Ax Crazy|TH]][[The Caligula|AT]] Gangrel.}}
** The DLC Bride class. Let's just say no-one saw ''that'' coming and [[Internet Backdraft|leave it at that.]]
* [[Time Skip]]: With the presence of "Marth" and, it seems, {{spoiler|Tiki}} in this game, it's all but a certainty that ''Awakening'' is a direct sequel to the [[Fire Emblem Akaneia|Archanea series]], though technology is unchanged.
* {{spoiler|[[Timey-Wimey Ball]]: Your characters' children come from the future in order to prevent the end of the world. Expect a a lot of this.}}
* [[Variable Mix]]: The battle music on most maps is a variation of the map's theme, shifting into the arrangement as the scene changes.
* [[Yandere]]: {{spoiler|Sariya, as one could tell from her various support conversations, especially the ones she has with [[Audience Surrogate|My Unit]]... hopefully you don't have a nice boat...}}
* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Due to each DLC having wildly different artists with no style consistently, few characters are recognizable.
* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Ike and Micaiah]]'s appearances in Marth's DLC. Their battle models [http://www.kano-bi.com/3ds/fekdlc6.jpg are]{{Dead link}}, [http://www.kano-bi.com/3ds/fekdlc5.jpg well]{{Dead link}}...
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Thus far, the biggest examples are ''males'', in the form of KromChrom and Marth,<ref>It still counts, as DLC Marth wears the same outfit as "Marth"</ref> who score a grade-A!
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Like [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Sacred Stones]], one's getting underway with the mass appearance of "Corpse Soldiers"... {{spoiler|There's a [[Bad Future]] where it got to full-fledged Apocalypse levels.}}
 
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