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[[File:Ss_fe08_sacred_stone_of_renais.png|right|thumb|Renais' Sacred Stone]]

The '''Sacred Stones''' are five stones of much magical power, after which [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|said game]] is named. While the stones never appear as usable items, nor do they have sprites, they play an integral part in the storyline.

The origins of the Sacred Stones are surrounded in mystery, the only explanation of their origin is that they were blessed upon humanity by some sort of divinity.<ref>{{cite| In its despair, mankind appealed to the heavens, and from a blinding light came hope. THE SACRED STONES These five glorious treasures held the power to dispel evil.|Opening narration|The Sacred Stones}}</ref> There are no significant references to any specific gods throughout the rest of the game. Though, [[Vanessa]] makes a passing mention of a war god named Fale.<ref>{{cite|But this is… The war god Fale’s amulet!|[[Vanessa]], upon receiving a gift from [[Syrene]] in a support conversation|The Sacred Stones}}</ref>

The Sacred Stones' source of power is human will.<ref>{{cite|You must listen to me, Eirika. The stories are true; the stone does hold the power to stop the Demon King. However, the source of its power is human will, the desire for peace within our hearts.|[[L'Arachel]]|The Sacred Stones}}</ref> Every Sacred Stone holds magical power, presumably, the stones keep the [[monster]]s born in [[Darkling Woods]] at bay, as more and more stones are destroyed more awash in monster hordes Magvel becomes. Grado's Sacred Stone is special in the respect that it is the stone that houses the Demon King, [[Lyon]] speculated this was why that particular Sacred Stone was resopnsive to dark magic.<ref>{{cite|Mm... My research isn’t complete yet, but there’s no mistaking the power the Sacred Stones contain. And the Stone of Grado seems especially responsive to my dark magic. I suppose it’s because it contains both sacred and demonic properties.|[[Lyon]]|The Sacred Stones}}</ref>

While Lyon's experimentation with Grado's stone ended in tragedy, there were several impressive discoveries made. While the distinction between the Demon King's influence and the Stone's power is blurry, Lyon was able to reanimate corpses after his experiments, as demonstrated by Vigarde. Lyon was also able to perform incredible healing feats, healing a child that had been burned in a fire.<ref>{{cite|Uh-huh... A while back, a fire ravaged Serafew, and a little girl got trapped in the flames. Her burns were terrible:<br>

not even healing staves were able to cure her injuries. But just a sliver of the stone’s power restored her life and healed her wounds. We saved that girl’s life, Ephraim! Oh, if you could have seen the tears of joy in her mother’s eyes!|[[Lyon]]|The Sacred Stones}}</ref>

Long ago, the legendary heroes used the Sacred Stones to seal away the soul of the [[Fomortiis|Demon King]]. The five stones were then distributed to the rulers of what became the five great kingdoms of [[Magvel]]: [[Renais]], [[Frelia]], [[Jehanna]], [[Rausten]], and [[Grado]]. Each country hid its Sacred Stone in a secure location so that they would be protected should the Demon King ever again pose a threat to Magvel.

===Magvel, year 802-803===

Some time in the the year 802 Lyon created the Dark Stone by separating the Demon King from the Sacred Stone's holy elements. In a disastrous series of event [[Fomortiis]] and his new puppet-prince set off on a conquest to overwhelm the entirety of Magvel and snuff out every last Sacred Stone. The first stone destroyed was Grado's, Frelia and Jehanna's stones followed after. The Sacred Stones of Renais and Rausten remained safe, until Lyon took the stone from Eirika and Ephraim and destroyed it, leaving Rausten's stone the sole remainder. Rausten's stone was successful in sealing the Demon King once again.

After ''the War of the Stones'' only one Sacred stone, the stone of Rausten, remains on Magvel. While problematic, chances of the Demon King returning to complete power are low, as his true body was destroyed in the conflict.<ref>{{cite|No, we’ve done far more than the legends ever told. We’ve destroyed the Demon King’s body. He can never come back.|[[Innes]]|The Sacred Stones}}</ref> Curiously, the stone belongs to Rausten, but dialogue seems to imply the Rausten's stone ended up sealed within Renais.<ref>{{cite|That would be nice… But first we must seal this away… This stone banished the Demon King.|[[Eirika]], in the ending talking to [[Ephraim]] in [[Renais]]|The Sacred Stones}}</ref>

[[File:Ss_fe08_dark_stone.png|right|thumb|Lyon's experiments.]]

The Dark Stone was created before the events of the game, around the same time that Lyon's father, [[Vigarde]], died from his illness. His father's death, and the disastrous earthquake that was foreseen to plunge Grado into the ocean, spurred Lyon to take his experiments with the Fire Emblem even further. The Dark Stone is said to grant Lyon strange powers,<ref>{{cite|The crown prince of Grado’s empire. The Dark Stone gives him strange powers.|[[Necromancer]] help description|The Sacred Stones}}</ref> though its true nature is that of a vessel for the Demon King's soul in which his powers are not restrained. Through Lyon having the stone the Demon King has control over him. The Demon King is allowed to channel his power through Lyon, presumably giving Lyon some of his necromantic abilities.

*In [[Fire_Emblem:_The_Sacred_Stones_pre-release_information|pre-release materials]] for ''The Sacred Stones'' there are images of monsters using a weapon called [[Stone Shard|stone shard]], the item remains in the final release, though unused.

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