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The escape objective exists only in {{FE5}}, {{title|Path of Radiance}}, {{title|Radiant Dawn}}, and {{title|Fates}}.
The escape objective exists only in {{FE5}}, {{title|Path of Radiance}}, {{title|Radiant Dawn}}, and {{title|Fates}}.


In ''Thracia 776'', escape maps have an additional requirement: Leif must be the last of the player's units to escape, as if there is anybody else who hasn't when he does so, they are left behind and will be considered [[capture]]d. As with all captured units, the player has an opportunity to get these units back in [[The Detention Center|Chapter 21x]], but it is better to avoid needing to do so in the first place.
In ''Thracia 776'', escape maps have an additional gimmick: Leif should be the last of the player's units to escape, as if there is anybody else who hasn't when he does so, they are left behind and will be considered [[capture]]d. As with all captured units, the player has an opportunity to get these units back in [[The Detention Center|Chapter 21x]], but it is better to avoid needing to do so in the first place.


* {{FE5}}: Chapters [[The Dungeon|4]], [[The Hero of the Winds|4x]], [[Mother and Child|5]], [[The Escape|6]], [[The Shield of Thracia|7]], [[The Emblem of Noba|9]], [[The Stronghold|13]], [[Freedom|14x]], [[The Empire's Counterattack|19]], [[The Detention Center|21x]], [[The Altar of Loptyr|24x]]
* {{FE5}}: Chapters [[The Dungeon|4]], [[The Hero of the Winds|4x]], [[Mother and Child|5]], [[The Escape|6]], [[The Shield of Thracia|7]], [[The Emblem of Noba|9]], [[The Stronghold|13]], [[Freedom|14x]], [[The Empire's Counterattack|19]], [[The Detention Center|21x]], [[The Altar of Loptyr|24x]]

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The status menu in The Sacred Stones explains a chapter's objective.

In every chapter or skirmish, the player is tasked with achieving a certain objective or victory condition in order to clear the map.

Common objectives

Seize

The first objective the series offered, and an extremely common one since, is seizing: the aim being to have the player's lord character arrive at a certain point on the map and end the chapter by selecting the Seize command once standing on top of it. In the majority of games, seize points are thrones in the heart of a castle/fort in interior maps, or the gates of a castle/fort in exterior maps, although Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn vary this by having seize points be a space of otherwise innocuous terrain which happens to be marked by a blue glow. Seize points are almost always occupied by the chapter's boss, requiring that the player's army defeat them before the lord can move in to seize; this task is made more daunting by how seize points give their occupier defensive, resistance, and avoidance boosts and heal the occupier at the beginning of their turn.

In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, there are a number of minor variations on the seize concept, where a character other than the primary lord is expected to do the seizing; for example, Part 1 Chapter 2's seize point must be seized by the playable character Laura instead of Micaiah, the lord character at the time of that chapter, and the Part 3 Prologue's goal is to have Skrimir, a NPC character who the player does not control at all, to arrive at the seize point. In Fire Emblem Fates, any character can seize.

Seize objectives are the only objectives in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Mystery of the Emblem and Genealogy of the Holy War; the latter uniquely requires that multiple castles be successively seized in the same chapter, with each castle seized opening the way to seize the next until the player's army reaches the map's final castle. Also, it is the only objective in The Binding Blade, with the exception of the Endgame and the trial maps, and the only one in Shadow Dragon with the exception of the Endgame and the multiplayer maps.

Rout the enemy

This objective simply requires that every enemy unit currently on the map be defeated in order to clear the chapter. If reinforcements appear, they must also be defeated.

With the exception of the final battle at the Tower of Duma, rout objectives are the only objectives in Fire Emblem Gaiden. Additionally, all skirmish situations also have a rout objective.

Defeat the boss

This objective is effectively a typical seize objective minus one step: the goal is simply to kill the enemy boss, and doing so automatically ends the chapter. This objective does not require that all other enemies be defeated as well.

Survive/defend

Defensive objectives were first introduced in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, and were relatively common until games after Radiant Dawn did not continue to include them. The player is tasked with enduring an enemy siege for a set number of turns (often between 7 and 15 turns), and the emphasis is on maintaining the defenses of their location to avoid being overwhelmed and defeated, rather than taking an active offensive against the enemy (though in most cases, doing so is certainly possible). The goal is focused around defending either a throne or gate which the enemy is attempting to claim, or defending weak NPC units who cannot fight back; should the enemy claim the seize point or kill the NPC in question, the map is failed and the player gets a Game Over.

The following maps are defensive maps:

Escape

The escape objective exists only in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn, and Fates.

In Thracia 776, escape maps have an additional gimmick: Leif should be the last of the player's units to escape, as if there is anybody else who hasn't when he does so, they are left behind and will be considered captured. As with all captured units, the player has an opportunity to get these units back in Chapter 21x, but it is better to avoid needing to do so in the first place.

Unusual objectives

Occasionally, individual chapters in a game may have an entirely unique objective that does not appear elsewhere in the series.

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