World map

Navigating the world map in Awakening.

The world map (フリーマップ free map) is a gameplay navigation system used only in Fire Emblem Gaiden, The Sacred Stones and Awakening. In it, as opposed to the linear and uninterrupted chapter progression in most games in the Fire Emblem series, the player can freely traverse the world at their own pace, fighting marauding bands of enemies which appear and visiting shops in between chapters, and starting said chapters whenever they so choose.

Fire Emblem Gaiden

In Gaiden, the player moves both Alm and Celica's parties around the world map, alternating between the two at their discretion. Movement across the world map is achieved by selecting the character, selecting the Move menu option, then picking one of the location's adjoining destinations. Uniquely in the Gaiden system, the world map itself has its own turn count, in which a turn elapses every time either Alm or Celica move, or at command by selecting the Rest menu option.

Every battle within Gaiden is technically a skirmish, with the main story mostly consisting of pre-defined skirmishes against set enemy groups posted at specific locations on the world map. In addition, more enemy groups are spawned from certain locations periodically, and will move at random around the map after a certain number of turns pass; these marauding groups can be fought on their own, and can also join up with other enemy groups (both pre-defined and marauding) and both be fought at once. Skirmishes are initiated by choosing to travel to a location with an enemy group posted on it; conversely, however, enemies can also advance on the player's location and initiate skirmishes themselves.

A small few locations - mostly villages, castles, fortresses and Mila Shrines - can be visited outside of battles, and in these the character in question can freely move around and interact with the locals. Some villages contain item exchange couriers who can send a specific item to the other character's party; however, these are limited in number and have only a finite number of uses.

style="Template:Roundtl; border:none" width="100%" colspan="12"|World map of Fire Emblem Gaiden
style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="60%"| Map	Location (Alm's route)		style="Template:Roundtr; border:none; background-color:#222222" colspan="2"| Location (Celica's rt.)
	Chapter 1		Chapter 2
	1	Ram Village	1	Novis Monastery
	2	Ram Forest	2	Novis Graveyard
	3	Thief Forest	3	Novis Port
	4	Thief Shrine	4	Sea
	5	Ram Valley	5	Sea
	6	Southern Fort	6	Pirate Fort
	7	South Zofia 1	7	Sea
	8	South Zofia 2	8	Sea Shrine
	9	Liberation HQ	9	Sea
	10	Zofia Gate	10	Sea
	11	Zofia Castle	11	Zofia Port
	Chapter 3
	12	North Gate	12	Zofia Shore
	13	North Zofia	13	East Zofia
	14	Zofia Woods 1	14	Mountain Graveyard
	15	Forest Village	15	Mountain Village
	16	Forest Village	16	Mila Valley
	17	Dozer's Fort	17	Dragon Shrine
	18	Zofia Forest 2	18	Desert Fort
	19	Forest Shrine	19	North Desert
	20	Forest North	20	South Desert
	21	Floodgate	21	Geyse's Fort
			22	Mila's Temple
	Chapter 4
	22	Border	23	Death Swamp
	23	Rigel Woods	24	Swamp Graveyard
	24	Fear Mountain	25	Dolk's Fort
	25	Fear Shrine	26	Lost Woods
	26	Nuibaba's Manor	27	Sage's Hamlet
	27	Rigel Plains/ Rigel Village	28	Duma's Gate
	28	Rigel Valley	29	Duma's Swamp
	29	Dragon Crater	30	Duma's Tower
	30	Rigel Falls
	31	Hidden Shrine
	32	Fort
	33	Rigel Castle
colspan="5" style="Template:Roundb; border:none; background-color:#222222" width="100%"|Note: Until Chapter 3 begins, #11 Zofia Port has a route connecting it to #10 Zofia Gate, which is removed once Chapter 3 begins.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

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Fire Emblem Awakening

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See also

• Skirmish