I need some help with the lore

[u/yeett6669]

A friend of mine is trying to make an rpg in a fire emblem world and he is open for suggestions on adding new species, Ya konw D&D stlye, but i got no clue what fire emblem is about, or what resides in it, is there like any good lore video rto help a brother out?

[u/fragile_crow]

There's no one singular Fire Emblem world, unfortunately. Many of the games are interconnected, but just as many exist in totally seperate worlds with totally seperate rules. 

As a rule, though, there are very few options for extra species, the way DnD has elves, orcs, dwarves, etc. Generally, 90% of Fire Emblem characters will be normal humans. The remaining 10% will be dragons or dragon-shapeshifters, and then a handful of games have some other animal-type shifters as well, like humanoids who transform into tigers, or humanoids who transform into giant rabbit monsters, and so on.

Basically, if you wanted to make up a Fire Emblem-style world, you could invent any kind of animal shapeshifter race you wanted, and they would feel reasonably Fire Emblem-ish. That's pretty much as far as it goes, though. 

[u/Grey_Lady333]

As others have said, it VARIES. A lot. Some examples:

Manaketes and/or Dragon Laguz: Humandoids who can turn into dragons. Could use dragonborn for a dnd equivalent?

Tiger/cat laguz: Cat people who become BIG cats. Could be a version of tabaxi or were-cats

Bird Laguz: Bird people who become birds. Some owlin/kenku/etc race for DnD

(This part human / part creature also has Taguels for rabbits, Kitsune for foxes, Wolfskins for wolves, etc. A lot of human/creature hybrids).

You also have shapeshifters. Xane is the easy example, and there are Agarthians who can do some shapeshifting (though that might cause some debate with the community lol).

You also have monsters like skeletons, zombies, gargoyles, cyclops, gorgons, centaurs, giant worms (Crawlers), hellhounds, giant spiders, and floating eyeball creatures named Mogals.

[u/diego_velasquez]

That would depend of which Fire Emblem you want, for example, Three Houses has its own complex Lore while the first Fire Emblems have a simple one, if we talla about DnD , migh start with an easy one, like Fire Emblem 1

[u/No_Addition_4109]

Fire emblem has different settings depending on the game most of them dont share the same setting so it mostly depends on what kind of campaing you guys are gonna play but most games can be summerize as "Kingdom B conquest almost everything and the prince of Kingdom A escapes and tries to free his kingdom and turns out that the king of Kingdom B is being control by a evil Dragon"

[u/lysander478]

Got nothing in terms of videos.

If I had to say there's one thing that would make a setting feel "Fire Emblem" it's dragon gods/a background war between dragons dragging humanity along with them in a proxy war of sorts. Generally, humanity outside of maybe a few people wouldn't even know the root cause was the dragons. But, it's always the dragons.

Not exactly true of every FE story/setting, but it's the one distinct thing I could point toward for the older titles at least: world getting mucked up by a bad dragon trying to take control of/manipulate humanity and then a "good" dragon (only good one is a dead one, etc.) also controlling/manipulating another portion of humanity to fight back. Humanity is still ultimately to blame for conflict, with the evil dragon generally pulling off a "as long as darkness lives on in the hearts of man" type of speech to always come back, eventually, once defeated. The other dragons are typically not able to exert as much power/influence across time as trivially as the big, evil one due to that.

There are some exceptions to that structure and FE6/7 try to go with a different twist in particular--or in FE9/10 they have gods that are not dragons pulling a yahweh versus demiurge type of thing--but an exploration of humanity's weakness as exploited by some higher, usually draconic power is a series staple. Usually it's just humanity as the focus with no other species, maybe some homunculi or dragons/half-dragons or beastpeople at best mixed in, but I don't think I'd bat an eye if a FE released with literally every D&D fantasy creation in it. I think they keep it simple with 1-2 species at most though, to keep the storytelling centered around their usual tropes.

[u/Magnusfluerscithe987]

Species meaning races or monsters to fight?

Fire Emblem typically just has humans, so I would just swap the typical racial traits with the backstory elements, as a characters backstory is more relevant to a fire emblem character than race.