Fire Emblem: Dreamkind
So I think that I dreamed an entire Fire Emblem campaign last night. Not an existing game, but one that my brain cobbled together out of the others. There were two heroes: one the blue-haired male General, one the blue-haired female General/Princess. They weren't related, though. The male General was very much influenced by Ike, but there was a lot of Ephriam in him, too. The female General/Princess was sort of a combination of Lyn, Elincia, and the Herons? Something like that. She was an elf, and her kingdom had been destroyed by humans long ago, and all of her people were either dead, in hiding, or sealed away by a magic spell/the dark god that always shows up in FE games.
I don't remember most of it, but the plot was pretty standard FE, with lots of combats and recruiting of various types of characters (including a couple of winged characters who also happened to be archers, now that I think about it - I think they were a kind of elf? But that would nicely solve some of the issue of "flying units are generally painfully vulnerable to bows") and plot twists and the two heros slowly falling in love.
I remember dreaming the aftermath of the final battle, where this light deity that was apparently helping them temporarily transported away the Princess and her most loyal retainers (you know, her starting group, essentially), and the other characters headed up the underground path into what had formerly been her ruined castle...only to find that the castle had been restored, fully and completely. The loyal retainers were waiting in the front entryway, but the Princess wasn't, so the General went up to them and before he could ask they were all like, "The spell has been broken! The Kingdom has been restored, and now it is time for the Princess's coronation so that all of her people may be returned. She is asking for you now. Will you go to her?"
The General, of course, says yes and they give him directions to the...royal quarters? Room where she is right now? Whatever. He goes and starts heading through the keep, and all of the characters that they've recruited throughout the game are standing at attention throughout it, just sort of an array of all of the characters sort of being an honor guard, and sort of a show for the player of, "These are all the characters that you've gained, and these are the levels that they've achieved."
Upon entering the room where the Princess is, the General is sort of taken aback to find that she's put aside her armor (because hell yes, she was an awesome unit to fight with) and is wearing a fancy gown, with her hair finally pulled back so that it isn't covering her pointed ears to hide them. They stare at each other, the memories of the past few months of traveling and fighting together building up all around them...
...and then I woke up. Dammit.
I'm not sure what the titular Fire Emblem was in this game. Maybe the Princess' royal seal that could unlock the seal that held almost all of her people.
I don't remember most of it, but the plot was pretty standard FE, with lots of combats and recruiting of various types of characters (including a couple of winged characters who also happened to be archers, now that I think about it - I think they were a kind of elf? But that would nicely solve some of the issue of "flying units are generally painfully vulnerable to bows") and plot twists and the two heros slowly falling in love.
I remember dreaming the aftermath of the final battle, where this light deity that was apparently helping them temporarily transported away the Princess and her most loyal retainers (you know, her starting group, essentially), and the other characters headed up the underground path into what had formerly been her ruined castle...only to find that the castle had been restored, fully and completely. The loyal retainers were waiting in the front entryway, but the Princess wasn't, so the General went up to them and before he could ask they were all like, "The spell has been broken! The Kingdom has been restored, and now it is time for the Princess's coronation so that all of her people may be returned. She is asking for you now. Will you go to her?"
The General, of course, says yes and they give him directions to the...royal quarters? Room where she is right now? Whatever. He goes and starts heading through the keep, and all of the characters that they've recruited throughout the game are standing at attention throughout it, just sort of an array of all of the characters sort of being an honor guard, and sort of a show for the player of, "These are all the characters that you've gained, and these are the levels that they've achieved."
Upon entering the room where the Princess is, the General is sort of taken aback to find that she's put aside her armor (because hell yes, she was an awesome unit to fight with) and is wearing a fancy gown, with her hair finally pulled back so that it isn't covering her pointed ears to hide them. They stare at each other, the memories of the past few months of traveling and fighting together building up all around them...
...and then I woke up. Dammit.
I'm not sure what the titular Fire Emblem was in this game. Maybe the Princess' royal seal that could unlock the seal that held almost all of her people.