Foreword
A Song of Conquest and Birthright is my first foray into Fire Emblem fanfiction and medieval fantasy as well. This story is indeed a Fire Emblem Fates redux, introducing some new story elements and changing canonical items to create a slightly altered plotline. You will see things such as character names and their social ranks change, histories and lore of Nohr and Hoshido, countries turn to provinces, and familiar locations are given new names and importance. You'll also see references to other Fire Emblem games most likely if you're an old-school player like myself and yes... beloved characters will die.
Why?
Because I'm no filthy casual. Lunatic/Classic for life.
The reason for this foreword is to also explain a very important item of the story: ages.
As we all know, the ages of these characters were not clearly given by the Devs of Fates (as well as their forgetfulness to giving the Avatar some manner of foot attire). It was an issue while writing up initial drafts for this story so I went ahead and took the liberty to give these characters ages after some research I've done, as well as familial relations.
Xander ~ 25
Ryoma and Camilla ~ 23
Hinoka ~ 19
Avatar ~ 18
Leon and Takumi ~ 17
Sakura ~ 15
Elise ~ 14
Another thing that irked me about both playthroughs was the Avatar's convenient birth and placing in the Hoshidan Royal Family. So I did a bit of twisting and decided to have Sumeragi take Mikoto as a royal concubine, who was already pregnant with Anankos' child but seduced Sumeragi and passed off the Avatar as his child. Once Sumeragi's wife died and he shortly afterward, Mikoto took over their house and nation of Hoshido. Dragon-like ears were explained by the blood of the Dawn Dragon flowing strongly in his veins.
So there you have it!
Enjoy the story and happy reading!
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El Jaguar
