The Flame Emperor's forces stage an attack on the Holy Mausoleum where Seiros' remains are allegedly stored, but they only manage to uncover a Relic called the Sword of the Creator. During this time, they come to blows with forces conspiring against the Church, including 'those who slither in the dark' and a masked individual calling themselves the Flame Emperor. Byleth chooses one of the three lords to take charge of and spends the next year teaching them the ways of battle and going on missions for the Church of Seiros. The five travel to the Officers Academy at the Garreg Mach Monastery, where Byleth is offered a position as a teacher and Jeralt resumes his former post as a high-ranking member of the Knights of Seiros. Byleth, after arriving at the Garreg Mach Monastery and given a teaching position, chooses one of the three houses to teach this choice will have ramifications for both students and teachers down the road.Īfter a vision of a battle between Nemesis and Seiros and a meeting with an amnesiac girl who eventually identifies herself as Sothis, a mercenary named Byleth and their father Jeralt rescue three nobles from an attack by bandits: Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude. The game features four main characters: Byleth, the playable avatar unit, and the leaders of the titular three houses, Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude. Byleth's role in this war depends on what the player has chosen. After Byleth has taught there for a year, Adrestia's newly crowned emperor Edelgard von Hresvelg launches a full-scale invasion of the monastery with the intent to remove the influence of the Church of Seiros, and also has the goal to conquer Faerghus and Leicester and unify the continent. Byleth is given the choice of teaching one of three classes, each of which features characters from one of the three major countries. The player takes control of Byleth, son or daughter of the renowned mercenary Jeralt Eisner, and is assigned to work as a teacher at Garreg Mach. This game is set on the continent of Fódlan, which has three major powers: the Adrestian Empire, the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, and the Leicester Alliance, at the center of which lies the Garreg Mach Monastery, which is the headquarters of the Church of Seiros, a religious organization which has a major influence in Fódlan. It is the sixteenth main installment in the Fire Emblem series, the first for the Nintendo Switch console, and it was released on Jin all regions.

Fire Emblem: Three Housesįire Emblem: Three Houses (Japanese: ファイアーエムブレム風花雪月 Fire Emblem: Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon) is a turn-based strategy role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch.

For other uses, see Three Houses (disambiguation).

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