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Alternate route
In some Fire Emblem series games starting from Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, the player is confronted with a branching set of alternate routes, in which the story and gameplay progresses in one of two distinct directions. The player chooses between the two routes, either explicitly through being given the option or implicitly through meeting certain statistical criteria, setting them on one of two paths of successive chapters which they will exclusively follow until the two routes converge back into a single chapter progression. When taking a route, the player is never able to visit the other route during the same playthrough, often resulting in certain characters being available solely based on a player's choice of route.
It should be noted that the "A" and "B" designation lettering is a colloquialism applied by the fandom to simplify talking about such split routes; the games themselves never refer to route-specific chapters by this letter designation, with equivalent chapters in a route instead bearing the same chapter number. The letter designations are, however, used officially on the website for Thracia 776, in the same fashion as the fandom's usage.[1]
Alternate routes by game
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
Sidequests in Thracia 776 | ||||||||||||||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; width:20%; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Root chapter | Split route "A" | Split route "B" | style="Template:Roundtr; width:20%; border:none; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Notes | |||||||||||
Access criteria | ||||||||||||||
Characters recruited in or as a result of this route | ||||||||||||||
15: The Two Paths | 16A: Nohrden Line 17A: Leonster's Gate |
16B: The Dark Forest 17B: The First Rain of May |
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In Chapter 15, escape the map via the left escape point or select the first option when Leif talks to the priest. | In Chapter 15, escape the map via the right escape point or select the second option when Leif talks to the priest. | |||||||||||||
Eyrios, Sleuf, Misha, Sara, Amalda | Shanam, Miranda, Sara, Conomool | |||||||||||||
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Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
Sidequests in The Binding Blade | ||||||||||||||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; width:20%; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Root chapter | Split route "A" | Split route "B" | style="Template:Roundtr; width:20%; border:none; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Notes | |||||||||||
Access criteria | ||||||||||||||
Characters recruited in or as a result of this route | ||||||||||||||
9: The Misty Isles | 10A: Western Resistance 11A: The Hero of the West |
10B: Amidst a Struggle 11B: Flight Toward Freedom |
Gonzalez is at level 11 when recruited on the B route, but at level 5 on the A route. | |||||||||||
In Chapter 9, do not visit the top-right village. | In Chapter 9, visit the top-right village. | |||||||||||||
Lalum, Ekhidna, Geese, Gonzalez, Klein, Thea | Elphin, Bartre, Geese, Gonzalez, Klein, Thea | |||||||||||||
16: Storming the Capital/ 16x: The Glorious Ascension |
17A: Ocean's Parting 18A: The Frozen River 19A: Bitter Cold 20A: Ilia's Salvation 20Ax: The Blizzard Spear |
17B: The Bishop's Teachings 18B: The Laws of Sacae 19B: Battle in Bulgar 20B: The Silver Wolf 20Bx: The Bow of Swift Wind |
In Chapter 21, Jodel will join with the divine weapon from the route the player did not visit - Mulagir if the player took the A route, and Maltet if the player took the B route. | |||||||||||
At the end of Chapter 16/16x, Shanna and Thea's total experience gained > Sue and Sin's total experience gained. |
At the end of Chapter 16/16x, Sue and Sin's total experience gained > Shanna and Thea's total experience gained. | |||||||||||||
Niime, Juno | Niime, Dayan | |||||||||||||
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
Sidequests in The Blazing Blade | ||||||||||||||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; width:20%; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Root chapter | Split route "A" | Split route "B" | style="Template:Roundtr; width:20%; border:none; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Notes | |||||||||||
Access criteria | ||||||||||||||
Characters recruited in or as a result of this route | ||||||||||||||
22E/23H: Living Legend/ 22xE/23xH: Genesis |
23E/24H: Four-Fanged Offense (Linus version) |
23E/24H: Four-Fanged Offense (Lloyd version) |
In Chapter 27E/29H, the boss of the chapter will be whichever boss of Ch.23E/24H was not fought - Lloyd if the Linus version of the chapter was completed, and Linus if the Lloyd version of the chapter was completed. | |||||||||||
At the end of Chapter 22E/23H/22xE/23xH, Eliwood, Hector and Lyn's current levels total 50 or more. |
At the end of Chapter 22E/23H/22xE/23xH, Eliwood, Hector and Lyn's current levels total 49 or less. | |||||||||||||
Geitz | Wallace | |||||||||||||
24E/26H: Unfulfilled Heart | 25E/27H: Pale Flower of Darkness (Kenneth version) |
25E/27H: Pale Flower of Darkness (Jerme version) |
The experience gain requirement does not count any EXP gained by any of the relevant characters in Lyn's Tale mode, if it was completed. Dead characters count as 0 EXP toward the threshold. | |||||||||||
At the end of Chapter 24E/26H, Erk, Serra, Priscilla and Lucius's total EXP gained > Dorcas, Bartre, Guy and Raven's total EXP gained. |
At the end of Chapter 24E/26H, Dorcas, Bartre, Guy and Raven's total EXP gained > Erk, Serra, Priscilla and Lucius's total EXP gained. | |||||||||||||
Harken or Karel | Harken or Karel | |||||||||||||
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Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Sidequests in The Sacred Stones | ||||||||||||||
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style="Template:Roundtl; border:none; width:20%; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Root chapter | Route "A" (Eirika) | Route "B" (Ephraim) | style="Template:Roundtr; width:20%; border:none; background-color:#222222;" rowspan="3"| Notes | |||||||||||
Access criteria | ||||||||||||||
Recruitable characters "unique" to this route | ||||||||||||||
8: It's a Trap! ("A New Journey" segment) |
9A: Distant Blade 10A: Revolt at Carcino 11A: Creeping Darkness 12A: Village of Silence 13A: Hamill Canyon 14A: Queen of White Dunes 15A: Scorched Sand |
9B: Fort Rigwald 10B: Turning Traitor 11B: Phantom Ship 12B: Landing at Taizel 13B: Fluorspar's Oath 14B: Father and Son 15B: Scorched Sand |
The "unique" characters of each route are also recruited automatically in the opposite route's Chapter 15, as the sole members of the retinue of the other Lord character. | |||||||||||
Select "Go with Eirika to Rausten". | Select "Go with Ephraim to Grado". | |||||||||||||
Innes, Saleh | Duessel, Knoll | |||||||||||||
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References
See also
- Sidequest
- Fire Emblem Fates, a game in the Fire Emblem series with a central mechanic involving a similar fashion of route branching, but whose branches never reconverge