{"id":849299,"date":"2026-09-16T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849299\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:50:09","slug":"fire-emblem-fortunes-weave-almost-had-eight-protagonists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849299\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Almost Had Eight Protagonists"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fire Emblem: Fortune\u2019s Weave countdown continues<\/a> and with two days left to go, Nintendo has shared three<\/a> rounds<\/a> of interviews<\/a> with several of the game\u2019s developers. They offered insight on the themes behind the game (family) and how it differentiates itself from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. But the most interesting tidbit to come from the interview was how Fortune\u2019s Weave\u2018s cast was almost double its current size.<\/p>\n

Three Houses is a massive influence on Fortune\u2019s Weave, and the developers say they originally wanted this new game to exceed the one that influenced it in every conceivable way, including when it came to the number of protagonists. \u201cInitially, we came up with the bold idea of increasing the number of story perspectives from three to eight,\u201d said Genki Yokota, producer on Fortune\u2019s Weave. When that proved too unwieldy, they cut it down to four. But even with the four main characters, whose stories you can explore in parallel, there was still something missing, something that would inevitably\u2026weave all the protagonists\u2019 stories together.<\/p>\n

Enter Eshmel, the game\u2019s fifth protagonist and the initial player-character, who functions similarly to Byleth in Three Houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we continued to follow the story through each of [the other four heroes\u2019] individual perspectives, it just wouldn\u2019t have felt like it matched the concept of multiple stories converging into one,\u201d said Fortune\u2019s Weave director Toshiyuki Kusakihara. \u201cWe needed another character who could take a broader view of all four protagonists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The devs also addressed Fortune\u2019s Weave being the first time guns show up in the Fire Emblem series<\/a>. While they wouldn\u2019t say exactly why, the devs did reveal that adding firearms was not done for the sake of simple novelty. \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s rather an unusual weapon for the series, but as players progress through the story, they may uncover the reasons why something like it exists in this game\u2019s world,\u201d said Masahiro Higuchi, another one of Fortune\u2019s Weave\u2018s producers. If I had to guess, considering there\u2019s a time travel element in the game, the existence of guns is going to have something to do with that.<\/p>\n

The developers didn\u2019t say what happened to the other four main characters that were initially planned for Fortune\u2019s Weave. We don\u2019t know if they were merely turned into some of the many recruitable characters in the game, if they were scrapped altogether, or if Nintendo\u2019s holding them in a dungeon under the floorboards of the Heroic Games amphitheater<\/a> with the intention of releasing them as future Fortune\u2019s Weave DLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fire Emblem: Fortune\u2019s Weave countdown continues and with two days left to go, Nintendo has shared three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[359078,74],"class_list":["post-849299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-fire-emblem-fortunes-weave","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}