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|title=''The Blazing Blade''

|caption=North American logo and box art.

|released='''Game Boy Advance'''<br>{{JP}}April 25, 2003<br>{{NA}}November 3, 2003<br>{{EU}}July 16, 2004<br>{{AUS}}February 20, 2004<br>'''Wii U Virtual Console'''<br>{{JP}}May 14, 2014<br>{{EU}}August 21, 2014<br>{{NA}}December 4, 2014<br>'''Game Boy Advance&nbsp;&ndash; Nintendo Switch Online'''<br>{{WW}}June 23, 2023

 

'''''Fire Emblem''''' (Japanese: {{hl|ファイアーエムブレム 烈火の剣|Faiā Emuburemu Rekka no Ken}} ''Fire Emblem: The Sword of Raging Fire''), retroactively subtitled '''''The Blazing Blade''''', 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}} and the recent release of [[warswiki:Advance Wars (series)|''Advance Wars'']].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426182037/http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-advance-wars?page=2 |title=The Making Of Advance Wars |site=Wayback Machine - Edge Online |retrieved=13 January 2020}}</ref>

In ''Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade'', the player is given a direct character role in the story, as [[Mark|a tactician]] who guides the armies of [[Lyn]] and later [[Eliwood]] and [[Hector]] to victory in battle. At the start of the game, the tactician's name, month of birth, gender, and (only in the Japanese version) blood type are decided by the player; by default, the tactician's name is ''Mark''.

Mark wakes up in a house on the [[Sacae]] plains. A teenage girl introduces herself as Lyn of the Lorca, a tribe of nomadic plains dwellers. Suddenly, bandits attack; Mark aids Lyn, who, with a sword, fights them off. The next morning, she decides to travel with Mark, to avenge her dead parents and the rest of the Lorca tribe, who were killed by bandits.

While passing through [[Khathelet]], Lyn runs into a strange boy, [[Nils]], who requests her help to get his sister [[Ninian]] back from a shady organization called the [[Black Fang]]. The two are traveling performers: a dancer and a bard, respectively. A monk named [[Lucius]] also joins, having heard Nils's plight. Lyn's forces manage to defeat the Black Fang; in the castle, they find that Ninian has already been rescued by [[Eliwood]], the son of the marquess of [[Pherae]]. Lyn thanks him and tells him her story; Eliwood decides to help Lyn out. Ninian and Nils also start to help Lyn by using their powers, which allow them to sense approaching dangers. Ninian finds that she has lost her ring, [[Ninis's Grace]], a keepsake from her mother. Lyn and the others are able to track the Black Fang down and reclaim Ninian's ring from them.

Lyn finally reaches [[Caelin|Castle Caelin]] and, after a heated battle, defeats Lundgren. She is finally able to meet Hausen, her grandfather, who is near death because of the poison. However, Lyn convinces him that they still have much they can do together, and Hausen decides to make an effort to continue living and begins to recover. When Lyn decides to stay in Caelin, Florina and Wil enter the service of House Caelin to stay with her. The rest of the characters go their separate ways, as described in their endings. Mark takes their leave to travel on their own for a time. Lyn’s tale ends here.

===Eliwood's tale&nbsp;&ndash; Finding Elbert===<!--Chapters 11-19?-->

''The Blazing Blade'' also adds the ability for the player to decline [[side quest]]s.

''The Binding Blade'' gives every weapon in the game a line of flavor text,{{h|*|Recent fan translations also remove these descriptions}} all language releases of ''The Blazing Blade'' instead only feature descriptions on [[regalia]] or weapons with special effects.

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''The Blazing Blade'' features 44 playable characters; however, only 42 are available in any given playthrough, as the player must choose between [[Karel]] or [[Harken]] and [[Wallace]] or [[Geitz]], and two characters&nbsp;&ndash; [[Farina]] and [[Karla]]&nbsp;&ndash; are available only in Hector's tale. Of these 44, 13 are playable in Lyn’s tale.

{{main|List of chapters in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade{{!}}List of chapters in ''Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade''}}

From the beginning of Lyn's tale to the end of Eliwood or Hector's tale, the game is thirty-two (Eliwood) or thirty-four (Hector) chapters long, counting the prologue and final chapter but none of the side quests. The game features a total of fourty-six distinct map chapters, including side quests and alternate versions of chapters.

 

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** Two epilogue scenes are unlocked through linking, although both have alternate obtain criteria. A cleared ''Binding Blade'' save file which achieved the bad ending (where the game ended at [[Unattained Dream|Chapter 22]]) unlocks the first scene with Eliwood, Hector, Roy and Lilina, which can also be obtained by clearing the game nine times. A cleared save with the good endings (where the game ended at [[Beyond Darkness|the Final Chapter]]) unlocks the second scene where [[Zephiel]] is confronted by [[Jahn]], which can also be obtained by clearing the game eleven times. In the NTSC release of the game, both scenes are in the epilogue by default; in the PAL releases, both scenes are removed entirely.

* Of the official English localizations of the series, ''The Blazing Blade'' is the only one where item names are not [[wikipedia:Capitalization|capitalized]] as proper nouns (aside from [[regalia]] weapons and the [[Light Brand]]), and are rather presented as common nouns – for example, "[[Iron Sword]]" is spelled "Iron sword". From {{title|The Sacred Stones}} onward, capitalizing item names as proper nouns became the series standard. The ''gringe'' [[fan translation]] of ''The Binding Blade'' and "Project Naga" fan translation of ''Genealogy of the Holy War'', however, handle item names the same way as this game.

|jpn-name={{h|ファイアーエムブレム 烈火の剣|Faiāemuburemu rekka no ken}}

|jpn-mean=Officially romanized as '''''Fire Emblem: The Sword of Flame'''''; literally "''Fire Emblem: The Sword of Raging Fire''". The title refers to [[Durandal]], the legendary "Blazing Blade" wielded by Eliwood in the final chapter.

|eng-fan-mean=The game was almost universally identified by the fandom by a translation of its Japanese name/subtitle, by its number in the series, instead of by its actual English title, in order to avoid confusion with the rest of the series. Occasionally, the game was referred to by its untranslated Japanese subtitle, "''Rekka no Ken''".<br>It should be noted that in the English release, Durandal's epithet and thus the game's hypothetical subtitle was actually "Blazing '''Blade'''", not "Blazing Sword", but it was universally called by the latter name anyway. With the release of an officially localized English subtitle in ''Fire Emblem Heroes'', this name is starting to phase out of use in favor of the official English name. This name was used on the official website as a "loose translation".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401075809/http://old.serenesforest.net/gba/launch/history/index.html |title=Fire Emblem History (mirror, archived April 1, 2016) |site=Serenes Forest |retrieved=20 July 2016}}</ref>

FERK Logo jp.png|Japanese logo of ''The Sword of Flame''.

FERK group artwork.png|Artwork for the game.

Ss fe07 tactician creation.png|Creating a [[Mark|tactician]].

Ss fe07 font change ntsc-u.png|[[Matthew]] brings Hector his supplies.

Ss fe07 strategic combat forecast.png|Hector about to attack an enemy [[Soldier]].