Foreword
This is a collection of short stories, set in the same world as my retelling of Fire Emblem: Awakening. It is meant to be read alongside my other work. Some of these stories will reference in-game events and dialogue. Some of them will revolve around events of my own invention.
I alluded to this collection in my author's note for Rise of the Conqueror. I currently have five short stories planned. I initially intended to post them after posting the last arc of my retelling, but I decided that the two of the short stories work slightly better when read alongside Rise of the Conqueror, instead of after the third arc.
These ideas were cut from the main story for a variety of reasons. The first two stories were cut simply because they were mostly fluff. There's very little in the way of actual story events happening, and they're just my ideas as to what Robin and Cordelia were up to in the year and a half between Reign of the Mad King and Rise of the Conqueror. The tone will be quite a bit different, and since there's little in-game dialogue to support these two stories, most of it is of my own creation. I don't know if these will be quite as enjoyable to the same audience for my other stories, but I felt like writing them nonetheless, and I may as well publish and let you, the reader, be the judge.
The remaining three side stories will not be posted until after I finish posting the last arc. One of them contains spoilers for numerous major plot twists, and the other two are based upon events after the third arc. In other words, you'll see the first two side stories posted in these next couple days, while the remaining three will be posted in a few weeks, after the completion of the main story.
There's a few minor original characters that will appear in this story, but none of them play a major role. I've tried to keep their positions, personalities, and even names reasonably consistent with the game's setting. These first two stories will focus a lot more heavily on Robin and Cordelia than on any of the other characters. Since those two are two of the main characters, and the other two main characters are tied up doing boring things, like ruling a kingdom, it was only natural.
Since each story is meant to be a standalone work, I don't want to try to touch upon all of them in a single note. I'll be including a stub at the end of each short story, at the very least to give credit to the in-game events that inspired it.
Finally, if you have any ideas for events that you would personally like to see narrated in this style, please feel free to leave them for me in a private message or review. If your request fits into the setting I've created, or can fit with a reasonable amount of alteration, I will try to accommodate it. Any stories added upon request will be posted after the five short stories that I currently have planned, as it will take me some time to write them.