Disclaimer: I do not own Fire Emblem, or Nintendo, or any of FIre Emblem's set characters, what I do own are my characters and story set in Fire Emblem 4's setting.

Prologue

In the Year Gran Calendar 632, gods descended from the heavens and gave their powers to twelve of the Liberation Army's soldiers, thus forming the Legend of the Twelve Crusaders. With divine power and holy weapons in hand, the Twelve Crusaders fought the Lopt Empire, desperate to bring an end to centuries of fear, chaos and destruction.

But this story isn't about them, too quickly do the common folk forget that others were involved in the defeat of the Lopt Empire, particularly the exploits of the Reid Brothers, Darry and Faucon. Joining soon after the Miracle at Darna, the two brothers led a detachment of the Liberation Army to free Chalphy and Jungby, while the bulk of the force led by Heim defeated the dark emperor in Barhara.

For their efforts, the Reid brothers were given peerage by Lord Baldo, as well as weapons imbued with the power of Narga by Heim, yet not all was to go well during the after war period. Some years after the war's end, Darry asked Lord Baldo for the hand of his daughter in marriage, for the two fell in love soon after the fighting was over.

While he felt assured that his status as knight of the realm and a member of the Liberation Army was enough, Baldo thought differently, and wasn't keen with his somewhat cocky attitude, so Baldo dismissed him and started work on finding a more "suitable" partner for his daughter.

Feeling betrayed by his friend, early the next day Darry attacked Baldo with the weapon given to him by Heim, and the clashing of holy weapons alarmed many in Castle Chalphy, and the first to step in and protect Lord Baldo was the younger Reid brother Faucon.

While Faucon tried to reason with his brother the two fought, and in a fit of rage and fury Darry sliced the head of his younger brother clean off in a scene later dubbed "The Tragedy of Faucon." Suddenly realizing what he had done, and with troops rushing in to arrest him, Darry picked up his brother's sword and fled Chalphy, where he was never seen again.

Some say he renounced his warrior ways and became the Blaggi Priest, while others say he was captured and exiled to the Silesian Mountains as punishment, but ask anyone who lives in the small Holmes Village in Northern Thracia, and they will tell you that the Reid family lives on as protectors of Manster, forever in atonement for the sins cast by the older Reid brother...

Almost a century, and several generations later, another Tragedy would occur, and once more would the holy blades of Reid be clashed by two brothers, in sorrow and in anger.

A Brief Overview of Characters Introduced This Chapter

Darry: The older Reid Brother and a talented swordsman, together with his younger brother Faucon he fought the Lopt Empire at Chalphy and Jungby. He attacked Baldo after he denied his right to wed his daughter, and in the ensuing chaos he killed Faucon.

Faucon: The younger Reid Brother and also a great swordsman, though not as talented as his older brother. He fought the Lopt Empire along with his older brother, and defended Baldo when Darry attacked him, getting killed in the process, leaving his young son fatherless and his wife a widow.

Baldo: One of the Twelve Crusaders, granted peerage to the Reid brothers for liberating Chalphy, but disapproved of Darry marrying his daughter.

Author Note: This a project I tried many times, but with school out and no stress in my life I feel like I can do this for once. While I have all of the story notes on hand, translated them to paper (or the keyboard) is quite frustrating, I generally write short stories or poetry, but I want to create a blockbuster epic for this story. Next chapter will start with the main character, Markus, who lives with his father and brother in Holmes Village. For anyone interested, Holmes Village is portrayed as being southwest of Manster, using the Fire Emblem 5 world map as reference, the story also starts in Gran Calendar 745, twelve years before the start of Fire Emblem 4. As long as nothing interrupts me, I should be able to do at least 1 chapter a week.