Nearly three years after the anniversary entry Fire Emblem: Engage, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems have unveiled the next chapter: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, revealed during a Nintendo Direct presentation.
Fortune’s Weave appears to build on the franchise’s familiar foundations — a continent at war and the soldiers caught in its tides — while introducing new spectacle: the Heroic Games, a Colosseum-style arena where combatants face off. The reveal also included a brief look at the series’ signature turn-based combat.
Clues in the trailer hint that the game may reconnect with elements from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. We glimpsed demonic creatures and weapons that seemed to contain crest stones, both central motifs in Three Houses. Whether that means the story returns to Fódlan or shares a timeline with characters such as Edelgard, Claude, and Dimitri remains uncertain. However, the deity Sothis — long tied to Fódlan’s lore — clearly plays a role in the new title.
In the trailer’s closing moments, the perspective shifts to the blurred vision of an unnamed figure gazing up at a throne. An older Sothis rises and speaks: “The years were long, weren’t they?” She follows with, “Have you forgotten me so soon?” before the sequence cuts to black.
The implication of Sothis appearing aged — she previously manifested as an older woman in flashbacks within Three Houses before reverting to a childlike form — leaves the game’s placement in the timeline ambiguous. Is Fortune’s Weave a prequel, a sequel, or something that runs parallel to known events? That has yet to be clarified.
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is slated to release on Nintendo Switch in 2026.
Source: Polygon
