The main cast! Expect a few quirky people, though.note
This is a list of characters in Fire Emblem Engage.
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- Land of Lythosnote
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- Kingdom of Brodianote
- Kingdom of Elusianote
- Queendom of Solmnote
- Alternate Elyosnote
- Antagonistsnote
- The Emblemsnote
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Continent of Elyos
In General
- Seasonal Baggage: Aside from Lythos and Gradlon, all of the kingdoms of Elyos represent a season:
- Firene represents Spring, due to the abundance of grassy plains and flowers.
- Solm represents Summer, due to how hot and dry it is, along with the palm trees and beaches.
- Brodia represents Autumn, with the Fall-colored leaves scattered across the kingdom.
- Elusia represents Winter, as it is a cold kingdom with constant snowfall.
- Visual Pun: A major element in Fire Emblem Engage is the rings that summon heroes from other worlds. Elyos is shaped like a ring.
Playable Characters (In General)
- Back from the Dead: Regardless if one is playing on Classic or Casual mode, dead units will come back if killed during the Fell Xenologues.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: In comparison to the rest of the franchise's playable characters, Engage's cast is considerably Denser and Wackier in their personalities, though no less capable.
- The Chains of Commanding: A common theme among the royal characters, with each of them responding to the stresses that royalty brings in different ways. Diamant struggles to live up to the "perfect prince" that people see him as. Alcryst constantly negatively compares himself to Diamant, viewing himself as outright inferior to his brother. Timerra, while the most carefree of the royal characters, still feels pressured to be the queen that people want her to become and rarely ever sees her brother because of their positions. Fogado and Céline constantly take it upon themselves to support their older siblings and their countries. Ivy and Hortensia, owing both to their position as royalty and their upbringing, keep their own insecurities and anxieties hidden from most people albeit in two different ways. Alfred, unbeknownst to even his own family, faked a recovery from his terminal illness as he doesn't want to be seen as a weak prince.
- Color-Coded Characters: All the characters have colors associated with them that affect some of the colors of the outfits they wear when they change classes. Citrinne, for instance, is associated with brown, Ivy with purple, and so on.
- Everyone Is Bi: Played with and of the player-sexual variety. For the first time in the series, every companion that the player recruits (as Alear) can obtain an S Rank support with them and them alone, regardless of whether the player chose to play as Alear's male or female version. On the other hand, Alear's sex does not come into play in any such pairings dialog either, implying their partner's interest could be cases of If It's You, It's Okay rather than them being generally bisexual. However, whilst some previous entries reserved S Rank supports for romantic relationships, not every S Rank support Alear can obtain is romantic in nature, especially in the English version of the game.
- Long-Lived: It's implied many of the human characters are capable of this via the powers/blessing they gain if Alear forms a pact with them via the Pact Ring. Alfred enjoys a long and happy reign as king despite his chronic illness cutting his life short in his solo ending, and Jean is noted to have still been alive more than 100 years after the war against Sombron ended. One known exception is Lindon, perhaps because he was already rather aged.
- Mirror Universe: The Fell Xenologues features evil alternate universe versions of Elyos' royals as antagonists. Fittingly, you recruit heroic versions of Zephia, Griss, and Marni from the same universe.
- Non-Standard Character Design: In the Somniel, the default casual outfits of most characters can come across as something that fits well in a modern setting (Such as Amber's jersey and Vander's suit), which can be jarring when placed next to the more medieval-looking Emblems. This also applies to the swimwear and the DLC spirit garb, which look more like something from a modern setting than in a medieval one.
- Pals with Jesus: Alear, as a Divine Dragon, is the chief deity of Elyos but can still form everyday friendships with those in their army. The exact prevalence of this trope varies quite a bit from character to character. Some of the more religious characters like Pandreo or Ivy care quite a bit about interacting with their deity in the flesh while less devout characters like Timerra or Zelkov interact with Alear as if they were just another person.
- Platonic Life-Partners: While many S-Supports with Alear are explicitly or implicitly romantic
, some characters have more platonic undertones if they S-Support Alear in the English translation. This is especially prominent with underage characters like Anna. - Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: There is a lot going on with Alear's army. It has a pair of twins who are fans of the divine dragon, a rather thin-looking prince who loves working out, a village boy training to be a doctor, a very happy-go-lucky thief who used to be an assassin in her past, a royal knight Farm Girl, a comedy writer, a wyvern knight who loves all things cute, a free-spirited princess who loves singing and going on "picnics", a priest who's a party animal, a chef of questionable sanity who likes to lick and taste everything and much, much more. Let's not forget that it's all led by a dragon child who happens to be one of the most, if not the most, normal person in the entire army despite their wacky design.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The royal heirs from the four countries of Elyos are more than willing to take to the battlefield for the sake of their countries, though those first in line to the throne will retreat instead of die if defeated in battle, often noting their priority is to inherit the throne and lead the nation.
- Vague Age: While the game's files list an age for each playable character (as well as some others like Zephia being 2500 years old), said ages are never mentioned in the game itself and may not be canon. Instead, characters will simply refer to their ages in general terms ("old" or "young") and at most we know the minimum age of various characters (i.e. Alear and Veyle are both over a thousand years old, Sombron is thousands of years old, and so on).
- Weapon Specialization: All playable characters in the game have one weapon type that they are more specialized in than any other weapon type, denoted by the weapon proficiency icon having a blue colorization instead of white in the Change Class menu. This allows a unit to raise most advanced class' weapon rank corresponding to their specialized proficiency up by one, such as a knife specialist unit having an S-rank in knives as a Wolf Knight instead of an A-rank.
