Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

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Template:GameInfo Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword (ファイアーエムブレム 烈火の剣, Faiā Emuburemu Rekka no Ken, literally Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword), or known simply as Fire Emblem outside of Japan, is the seventh game in the Fire Emblem series, the second game in the series to be released on the Game Boy Advance, and first in the series to be released outside of Japan. Blazing Sword is a prequel to Template:FEFT, featuring Roy's father, Eliwood, and two other major characters, Lyn and Hector.

Plot

In Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword, the player takes the role of a tactician who guides the armies of Lyn and later Eliwood and Hector to victory. At the start of the game, the tactician's name, month of birth, and gender are decided by the player. For this plot synopsis, the tactician's default name, Mark, will be used.

Lyn's story

Mark wakes up in a house in the region of Sacae to find a teenage girl caring for him. She introduces herself as Lyn of the Lorca, a tribe of Sacaean nomads. Suddenly, bandits attack, and Lyn goes to stop them. Mark joins her as a tactician, and the two defeat the bandits together. The next morning, Lyn tells Mark that her parents and the rest of her tribe died when the Taliver bandits attacked, and that she is now the last of the Lorca. She asks Mark to let her travel with him so she can avenge her father's death. Mark accepts, and they set off towards the town of Bulgar for supplies.

In Bulgar, Lyn meets the womanizing cavalier Sain and his more serious partner Kent, both knights of Caelin, a territory in Lycia. She is disgusted by Sain's nature and what she accidentally perceives as a flirt from Kent and leaves the city. After leaving, Lyn and Mark are attacked by more bandits, and Sain and Kent go to their aid. After the battle, the knights inform Lyn, whose full name is revealed to be Lyndis, that her mother Madelyn was the daughter of Hausen, the marquess of Caelin, making Lyn next in line for the throne. The bandits were sent by Lundgren, Hausen's younger brother, who aspires to be marquess and feels Lyn is a threat to his ambitions. Her life is in danger; the group decides to go to Caelin to prove that Lyn is alive.

Lyn takes the group to a shrine in order to pray for a safe journey. However, the shrine is attacked by bandits led by Glass, a swordsman interested in the Mani Katti, a mystical sword placed in the shrine. Lyn's party defeats the attacking bandits; as thanks, the caretaker of the shrine allows Lyn to hold the Mani Katti. She is able to draw it from its sheath, meaning the sword's spirits have chosen her. Since Lyn is the rightful owner of the Mani Katti, the priest allows her to take it.

On the way to Caelin, Lyn sees her friend, the shy pegasus knight Florina, being bullied by a group of the Ganelon bandits. The bandits start a fight, during which an archer named Wil lends a hand. The group then stops at a small fort where they meet Natalie, a woman looking for her husband Dorcas. More Ganelon bandits surround the fort, including Dorcas, who had joined the bandits to pay for Natalie's illness. He is convinced by Lyn to switch sides; after the bandits retreat, he decides to join the growing party. As Lyn approaches the border, two other travelers, the talkative cleric Serra and her escort, a serious mage named Erk are caught up in another fight. Both join Lyn after the bandits' defeat.

Lyn goes to the town of Araphen, whose marquess is willing to help her on her journey. Suddenly, the castle is set on fire and Lyn is attacked; however, Rath, the captain of the guard in Araphen and a Sacaean nomad of the Kutolah tribe, comes to her aid. The cheerful thief Matthew joins and helps enter the barracks by unlocking doors. Once Lyn's forces have defeated Lundgren's assassins, Lyn speaks her audience with the marquess of Araphen. However, he views Sacaeans as savage mongrels, so he refuses to help Lyn. Rath, who overhears his disparaging comments, leaves the marquess's service and joins Lyn.

While passing through Kathelet, 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, but when they reach 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 then tells Lyn that she can call on him for help if she requires it. Ninian and Nils offer to help Lyn by using their powers, which allow them to sense approaching dangers; they are soon accepted into the group.

After her rescue, Ninian finds that she has lost her ring, Ninis' Grace, which was a keepsake from her mother. If Chapter 7 is completed quickly enough, Lyn and the others are able to track the Black Fang down and reclaim Ninian's ring from them.

Lyn continues to encounter troops on the way to Caelin. Kent and Sain realize that the troops they were fighting had come from Caelin itself and had likely joined Lundgren. Matthew learns more about the situation: Lundgren has been poisoning Hausen. Furthermore, he has also been spreading false rumors saying that Lyn is an impostor. Eliwood is able to help Lyn by convincing the other Lycian territories to stay neutral in the conflict, leaving Lundgren her only opponent. When approaching Caelin, the group encounters the hearty Caelin general Wallace, who remains loyal to Lord Hausen and believes that Lyn is Hausen's granddaughter. He joins forces with Lyn.

Lyn finally reaches Castle Caelin and, after a heated battle, defeats Lundgren. She is finally able to meet Hausen, her grandfather, who is near death because 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. The tactician Mark takes his leave to travel on his own for a time. Lyn's story ends here.

Eliwood's story - Finding Elbert

Eliwood's story takes place a year after the events of Lyn's story. A month before the story begins, the marquess of Pherae and Eliwood's father, Lord Elbert, vanished while journeying abroad, along with several of his best vassals. Eliwood leaves Pherae to search for him, along with the paladin Marcus, an old family retainer, and the cavalier Lowen a new but skilled Pheraean recruit.

Hector's story

Hector's story covers the same events as Eliwood's story, but instead focuses on Hector as the main character. Several events are changed slightly, and some extra chapters are added:

• Chapter 11 covers Hector's departure from Ostia with Matthew
• Chapter 15 is a Hector's story-exclusive chapter that involves Hector's party defending Laus from invaders
• Chapter 19xx is a Hector's story-exclusive side-chapter that becomes available if the party kills Kishuna in Chapter 19x and if Nils was at least level 7 before the end of Lyn's story.
• Chapter 25 is a Hector's story-exclusive chapter that introduces a new character: Farina, oldest of the three pegasus sisters. She will join the party if paid 20,000 gold.
• Chapter 30, instead of dealing with Eliwood looking for Durandal, covers Hector's search for Armads.
• Chapter 31x also introduces a new character: the swordmaster Karla, sister to Karel. She can be recruited after a duel with Bartre, but only if he is at least a level 5 Warrior.
• Chapter 32x is a Hector's story-exclusive chapter that concludes the Kishuna subplot. It can be accessed if the player completes chapter 32 in 20 turns or less.

In addition, many chapters feature different or additional enemies, so the difficulty of Hector's story is generally increased when compared to Eliwood's.

Chapters

Main article: List of chapters in Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword

Characters

Main article: List of characters in Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword

Gallery

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  Japanese boxart

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  North American boxart