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'''''Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade''''' (Japanese: {{hover|ファイアーエムブレム 烈火の剣|Faiā Emuburemu Rekka no Ken}} ''Fire Emblem: The Sword of Flame''), originally released outside Japan as simply '''''Fire Emblem''''', is a [[Game Boy Advance]] game released in 2003, and later re-released on the [[Wii U]] Virtual Console in 2014. It is the seventh game in the {{FES}}, the second game in the series to be released on the Game Boy Advance, and was the series' first internationally-released title, spurred on by the sparking of interest in the series caused by {{SSBM}}.

''The Blazing Blade'' is a prequel to {{FE6}}, set on the same continent of [[Elibe]] twenty years prior to its predecessor's events. It stars three main [[lord]] characters: [[Eliwood]] and [[Hector]], the fathers of ''The Binding Blade''{{'}}s [[Roy]] and [[Lilina]] respectively, and a completely new character, [[Lyn]]. The game is divided into two segments: the first segment stars Lyn and revolves around her quest to save her grandfather from his treacherous brother, acting as a tutorial mode for the game. The longer second part stars Eliwood, Hector and Lyn as they oppose the schemes of the sorcerer [[Nergal]], who seeks to summon the long-banished [[dragon]]s back to Elibe for his own gain

[[File:CG fe07 01.png|thumb|left|[[Lyn]] takes care of the amnesiac traveler she found on the plains.]]

''The Blazing Blade'' reintroduces the ability for enemies to drop items upon defeat, a gameplay feature absent from ''The Binding Blade''. Additionally, the player may now use [[class change]] and stat booster [[item]]s from the [[battle preparations]] menu instead of deploying the desired unit to use the item in the next chapter. ''The Blazing Blade'' also removes the ability for units to gain multiple S [[weapon rank]]s, instead limiting each unit to mastering only one weapon type (with one playable [[Athos|exception]]).

*This game supports the ability to allow characters to wink and blink during dialogue, though the former is used once in the entire game by [[Matthew]] in his recruitment conversation with [[Guy]]. Because the wink animation plays at the same speed as the blink animation most players miss it.

|eng-mean=• As the series' first English release, the subtitle was initially omitted outside of Japan, likely seen as pointless in the face of no internationally released predecessors with which to confuse it. This was the title used in the game itself, and in nearly all localized material until {{FEH}}.<br>• Used in the [[Mario Kart: Double Dash!! bonus disc]].<br>• Used from ''Fire Emblem Heroes'' onward, matching Durandal's title like the Japanese name.

FERK group artwork.jpg|Artwork for the game.