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''This page is about the game in the Fire Emblem series; you may be looking for [[Medeus]]' [[Shadow Dragon (class)|class]] of the same name in {{FE3}} and {{FE12}}. | ''This page is about the game in the Fire Emblem series; you may be looking for [[Medeus]]' [[Shadow Dragon (class)|class]] of the same name in {{FE3}} and {{FE12}}. | ||
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'''''Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon''''' (Japanese: {{hover|ファイアーエムブレム 新・暗黒竜と光の剣|Faiā Emubremu: Shin Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken}} ''Fire Emblem: New Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light'') is the eleventh game in the [[Fire Emblem (series)|Fire Emblem]] series. It is a remake of {{FE1}}, originally released on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], for the [[Nintendo DS]] with updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, additional background music, and several new characters, items, and plot devices. The game overall merges numerous elements of both prior versions. | '''''Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon''''' (Japanese: {{hover|ファイアーエムブレム 新・暗黒竜と光の剣|Faiā Emubremu: Shin Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Ken}} ''Fire Emblem: New Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light'') is the eleventh game in the [[Fire Emblem (series)|Fire Emblem]] series. It is a remake of {{FE1}}, originally released on the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]], and of Book 1 of {{FE3}}, originally released on the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]], for the [[Nintendo DS]] with updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, additional background music, and several new characters, items, and plot devices. The game overall merges numerous elements of both prior versions. | ||
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This page is about the game in the Fire Emblem series; you may be looking for Medeus' class of the same name in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem and Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem.
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム 新・暗黒竜と光の剣 Fire Emblem: New Dark Dragon and the Sword of Light) is the eleventh game in the Fire Emblem series. It is a remake of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and of Book 1 of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, originally released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, for the Nintendo DS with updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, additional background music, and several new characters, items, and plot devices. The game overall merges numerous elements of both prior versions.
Plot
Prologue
Long ago, the continent of Archanea was invaded by the Dolhr Empire, led by the Shadow Dragon, Medeus, and the people lived in fear and despair. However... a miracle occurred. Anri, a youth from Altea, slew the Shadow Dragon using Falchion, The Blade of Light. The Kingdom of Archanea was restored and the world entered an age of peace. But 100 years later... Medeus was resurrected. He joined forces with the Dark Sorcerer Gharnef, who shared his ambitions of ruling the world, and launched an attack on Archanea. Archanea was defeated by Grust's General Camus, and, aside from Princess Nyna, the royal family was wiped out. Cornelius, the king of Altea and successor of the heroic Anri, left to battle Medeus, with the Falchion in hand. Meanwhile, Cornelius's only son and the prince of Altea, Marth, awaits his father's return as he passes his days with his education and sword training, not knowing that Gra had betrayed Altea. Gra soldiers attempted to take Marth captive; They were unsuccessful and, seemingly at the cost of the life of Frey, Marth escaped to Talys, a small island kingdom that was allied to Altea.
Marth Embarks
After staying at Talys for several years, during which General Camus helped Nyna escape Archanea for Aurelis, Marth set out to reclaim his kingdom and slay Medeus. When Marth set out he first went to Aurelis to free the war torn country. After a vicious battle Marth set Aurelis free and made a valuable ally in Hardin, the younger brother of Aurelis' king.
With Aurelis secured, Marth was given the sacred relic known as the Fire Emblem, and the forces fighting Dolhr united under Marth's leadership, symbolized by the shield. The newly-dubbed "Archanean League" traveled south to the Holy Kingdom of Archanea itself, with Marth at it's command. After being forced to make a brief detour to Pyrathi and to defeat its Manakete King Mannu, Marth was approached by Catria of Macedon's Whitewings squadron, who informed him of the plight of its princesses Minerva and Maria, the latter held hostage to force the former to serve Dolhr. On this news, Marth led the League to Castle Deil to free Maria, and the grateful Minerva joined with his forces, as did the three Whitewings later. From this victory, they marched on the Archanean capital Pales and liberated it from the Dolhr occupation under Volzhin.
Marth, Star and Savior
The League's next task was to free Altea. The army marched to Gra, Altea's traitorous neighbor and an ally of Dolhr, and brought down the country and its King Jiol; after the fight, Marth was disappointed to find that Altea's royal sword Falchion, said to have been stolen from his dead father by Gra at the war's beginning, was not there. His adviser Malledus theorized that Gharnef, the Dark Pontifex and resurrector of Medeus, was the one truly responsible for the blade's theft, and so the League made a fruitless detour to Khadein, the country under Gharnef's control, to recover it; there, Marth was informed by the White Sage Gotoh that they could not defeat Gharnef and recover Falchion without the Starlight spell, the only weakness of Gharnef's Imhullu spell, and tasked them with finding the Starsphere and Lightsphere, artifacts required to create it. The League then returned to Altea and reclaimed it from its master, Morzas of Dolhr.
With Altea reclaimed, the League's new task was to defeat the remaining allies of Dolhr: Grust and Macedon. The army first traveled to the southwest, to the Fane of Raman, to find the Spheres and free Tiki, the Divine Dragon princess, from Gharnef's control. From there, they conquered nearby Grust, Marth dueling and seemingly killing its general Camus, despite Nyna and Marth both desperately wanting to spare him and Nyna revealing to Marth and his army that she loves him.
The army traveled next to Macedon, now ruled by Minerva's ambitious elder brother Michalis. Minerva challenged and seemingly killed her brother, liberating her country and bringing the Spheres to Gotoh, currently living near its castle, who from them forged Starlight.
The Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Gotoh transported the army to Thabes, a distant ancient city and the current home of Gharnef, where they engaged Gharnef in battle and slew him with Starlight, recovering Falchion. With the tower reclaimed, they found Marth's lost sister Elice, held captive by Gharnef for the past three years. It shortly thereafter was revealed to Marth that his sister was held prisoner due to her ability to make use of the sacred Aum Staff, which Gharnef wanted to exploit for unknown reasons. With no other opposition remaining, the League turned on Dolhr itself, charging into Dolhr Keep. It was discovered Medeus could not take his dragon form outside of Dolhr Keep, nor was he fully revived yet, and thus the Archanean League had effectively cornered him- however, Medeus fully expected an assault on his castle and thus was well prepared to deal with them.
Marth engaged Medeus in an epic battle, wielding Falchion, and the Shadow Dragon once again fell, though not without telling Marth he cannot be destroyed as long as darkness is in the hearts of men. With the war over, at the advice of Nyna, Marth proposed to Caeda, and the two became engaged. Nyna married Hardin, who became Archanea's next king, yet in her heart she still wept for Camus, for she loved him and him alone...
Gameplay
Game play is similar to the rest of the Fire Emblem series with a bird-eye view of the grid-format map. You can move the character either using the D-Pad and select using A, B, or X or you can tap on the touch screen using the stylus.
Changes from the original
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Story
Some scenes were changed, ranging from minor to overhauling the scene entirely. Chapter 11 was renamed from "Knorda Slave Market" to "Knorda Market", and the village dialogue was changed accordingly. Every chapter has both an opening narration and a cutscene with characters. In the original, it depended on the chapter. All bosses have battle and death quotes, and all playable characters have death quotes rather than only about half.
Gameplay
Multiplayer
Shadow Dragon is not the first game in the series to feature multiplayer; it is, however, the first to feature online multiplayer and
Characters
- Main article:
List of characters in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon features the return of every playable character in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, including those removed from Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, with some new additions. These new characters can only be recruited if the player visits the new chapters exclusive to Shadow Dragon. However, this generally requires an enormous amount of units to die in order to gain access to these chapters. The new characters and their appearance conditions are outlined in the table below:
style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; color:#fff"|Portrait | Character | Class | Found in | style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; color:#fff"|Accessed if |
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Frey | Cavalier | Prologue II | Player chooses Normal Mode. | |
Norne | Archer | Prologue IV | Player has 4 or less units at the end of the chapter. | |
Athena | Myrmidon | Chapter 6x | Player has less than 15 units at the end of Chapter 6. | |
Horace | General | Chapter 12x | Player has less than 15 units at the end of Chapter 12. | |
Etzel | Sorcerer | Chapter 17x | Player has less than 15 units at the end of Chapter 17. | |
Ymir | Warrior | Chapter 20x | Player has less than 15 units at the end of Chapter 20. | |
style="Template:Roundbl; border:none; background-color:#222222"| | Nagi | Manakete | Chapter 24x | style="Template:Roundbr; border:none; background-color:#222222"|By the end of Chapter 24, Tiki is dead and Falchion is lost. |
Chapters
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List of chapters in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon includes all of the original chapters of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, and then some. Shadow Dragon features the addition of a four-chapter prologue of Marth's story, introducing new players to the gameplay of the Fire Emblem series, as well as a never-before-seen beginning to Marth's quest. Shadow Dragon also features several sidequests, which are accessed if the player has lost too many of his or her units, and feature short plots and new characters.
Gallery
Trivia
Etymology and other languages
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Refers to Medeus, the Shadow Dragon. |
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