Fire Emblem : Rebirth of Eons

**Fire Emblem : Rebirth of Eons** is a Story Arc of the the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Archanea and follows the perspective of young tactician Aine Belten.

## Main Arc

### An Angel Awakens

Aine wakes up, amnesiac, in a distant continent of Archanea, stuck in a borderline war zone between continents of **Lancster** and **Tudoria**. She is found by mercenaries Solan and Grants , who seek to make a name and reputation for themselves. Upon witnessing both Aine's proficiency with a variety of weapons and talent as a tactician, they ask of her to come with them, and she accepts, seeking to understand the world better.

Adventuring into the northern Tudorian region, the group meets up with young pious monk Sperancia, who acknowledges Aine as an 'Angel'. Soon after, they meet with the terrifying Zoldis, a powerful bandit lord who seems demonic in nature, and also kneels in front of Aine, acknowledging her all the same, much to Aine's surprise. Sperancia explains that "Angels" are those chosen by fate to change the world, whether to save or destroy it.

### Sinister Serpents

Aine keeps marching north, recruiting mage Klotys and thief Isidor, who attempted to sneak into their possessions, into their common army. As she investigates to understanding the nature of the world's conflicts, she learns of tense political climate within Tudoria: an usurper, Murren, had taken the throne in place of Sen, its rightful heir, who was forced into exile. Furthermore, Murren hade made connexions with the occult, pirate king Scyllus.

Aine and her companions manage to rally Natrus, Scyllus's brother and rival, to their cause. Guided towards Scyllus, they learn that he made a pact with Kaathas, a powerful witch, herself at the service of dark, Abyssal Serpents, who manipulate the world from below the waves, and that he is their own Angel. Aine defeats Scyllus's armies, and recruits him instead of killing him after Kaathas rejects him as a failure.

### Tudorian Triumph

Aine then goes on to challenge Murren, but is faced with another problem: advance from the Lancastrian conqueror and evangelist Warwick, accompanied by his priestess Lysanna, who claim to follow the Serpent of Light, **Naga**. Aine defeats Warwick's devoted armies not once but twice, earning Lysanna's loyalty first then Warwick's after he is defeated. On her way, she also encounters and befriends Abyssal heretic Laurentius.

Teaming up with Sen loyalist Beolia, Aine finally defeats Murren and stops the usurper's reign, then goes to the nothermost forest to find Sen. In his exile, the prince had allied himself with tribeswoman Brigitte to battle the Serpents' influence. Aine manages to form an alliance with them, then keeps helping Tudoria, preventing a famine by repelling bandits and recruiting farmer Jonas, then recruiting Bestian Culainn from sinister poachers.

### Lancster's Lament

With this alliance form, Aine asks of the band to turn south and stop Lancster's advance towards the land. In order to have a political hold over the land, Aine encounters cruel noblewoman Vanessah who agrees to help her, under personal conditions. Vanessah upholds her world and helps Aine with encountering exiled princess Karolie and her bodyguard Julia, running away from Karolie's abusive and ambitious mother Queen Odyssea.

In Lancster, Aine meets with Minaressa, Solan's long-lost sister, and Selim, member from the same tribe as them, who explains that Lancster is divided between disciples of Naga, and worshipers of primordial Dragons, violent cousins to the Serpents. Selim's tribe, caught between the crossfire, was forced to leave town. However, this allowed him to guide Aine towards Velinda, member of the Dragon tribe and aspiring to the Throne.

### Dragons' Domain

However, Velinda is at time caught at war with powerful dragon hunter Dhakim, a ruthless individual who believes both Serpents and Naga to be enemies of humanity and seeks to slaughter them both, enslaving dragons to do so. Aine's forces subdue Dhakim and recruit him by promising him to challenge the Serpents. With Velinda and Dhakim by their side, Aine believes the army to be powerful enough to breach into Lancster's innermost territory and stop the civil war.

On their way, Aine encounters wandering monk Astora who joins them in a diplomatic effort with Naga, then defeats knights Felicya and Ventus, who were sent by Odyssea to prevent Aine's advance. When reaching Lancster's capital city, Aine teams up with thief Eltana in order to avoid captain of the guard Gregorius's forces, then latter challenge and bring him down, also recruiting him, and finally reaching the core of the capital.

There, Aine meets up with mage Canaan, who believes Odyssea to manipulate both draconic and holy factions into a war in order to take advantage of this and increase her power in order to challenge the Serpents. She offers peace to Dolian, the mystical priest that guides the church of light, and he ends up accepting despite warning Aine that she might bring about the world's end. Aine then challenges and defeat Odyssea's strengths.

### Morphing Menace

With Odyssea rescued from her own ruthless assaults, Aine has now unified Lancster and Tudoria in a strong alliance, believing the scheming Serpents and Kaathas to have even more schemes behind their sleeves. Investigating one of them, Aine uncovers a strange substance, Dregs, a liquid darkness which Vanessah manages to use, alongside Zoldis's blood and part of Aine's flesh, to create Mamba, an artificial being.

Mamba believes herself to be part of "original humanity", one that strives only to elevate itself through ruthless ambition. Laurentius hints that Serpents hope to replace mankind with such beings, called "Morphs". To stop this, Aine advances towards the northern seas that hide the Serpents, recruiting mysterious *manakete* (half-Dragon) princess Himarmena in the process, who seems to hold a peculiar interest in Aine.

### Eclipsing Endgame

After a last night with her companions before battle - during which she confesses her feelings for Scyllus - Aine ends up finding Kaathas's hideout and manages to defeat her, but realizes too late that she has planned it. Using her body as a sacrifice and her slaves' blood as ritual preparation, Kaathas ends the creation of Elaine, a dark mirror of Aine made from dregs of her soul, who promptly mocks Aine for using so many people in what she claims to be ultimately selfish whims.

To prove Elaine wrong, Aine promises to fix things alone, diving into the dark waters and saving Kaathas from dark, self-destructive visions. She then reaches Elaine's dark palace from amidst the waters and challenges her. Vastly outnumbered by Elaine's ghastly servants - morphs of her companions - she is then rescued by Scyllus and the rest of her troops, who chose to join her nevertheless. Together, they defeat Elaine and put an end to the Serpents' schemes.

## Characters

### Tudoria

* Solan (Swordman)
* Natrus (Soldier)
* Grants (Warrior)
* Isidor (Thief)
* Brigitte (Archer)
* Klotys (Mage)
* Lysanna (Priest)
* Laurentius (Sorcerer)
* Sperancia (Monk)
* Sen (Knight)
* Beolia (Pegasus Knight)
* Zoldis (Wyvern Knight)

### Lancster

* Karolie (Swordman)
* Felicya (Soldier)
* Gregorius (Warrior)
* Eltana (Thief)
* Selim (Archer)
* Canaan (Mage)
* Dolian (Priest)
* Vanessah (Sorcerer)
* Astora (Monk)
* Julia (Knight)
* Ventus (Pegasus Knight)
* Velinda (Wyvern Knight)

### Unaligned

* Aine Belten (Strategist)
* Jonas (Villager)
* Culainn (Bestian)
* Himarmena (Manakete)
* Minaressa (Dancer)
* Mamba (Morph)
* Scyllus (Dread Knight)
* Kaathas (Witch)
* Dhakim (Harrior)
* Warwick (Conqueror)
* Murren (Ballistician)
* Odyssea (Falconer)
* Elaine (Strategist)

## Trivia

* It is the first Story Arc to be directly inspired by the Fire Emblem series, although both Conquer the Heart and Conquer the Soul were largely inspired by japanese tactical-RPG aesthetic.