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99 free Fire Emblem trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Fire Emblem began in 1990 as a side project by Shouzou Kaga and three student colleagues at Intelligent Systems, and it nearly ended in 2010 when Nintendo told the studio that the next game had to sell 250,000 copies or the series was finished. Awakening sold millions instead, Three Houses became the best-seller, and the mobile spin-off Heroes has now grossed more than a billion dollars. These 99 questions range across the whole series: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Gaiden's dungeons, Genealogy of the Holy War and the Weapon Triangle, Thracia 776 and Kaga's departure, the Tear Ring Saga lawsuit, the cancelled Fire Emblem 64, Marth and Roy in Melee, the Western debut as plain 'Fire Emblem', Path of Radiance, Casual Mode, Awakening's Chrom and Robin, Fates' three routes, Three Houses' Garreg Mach and time skip, Engage's Emblem Rings and Alear, Heroes' gacha, and the Switch 2's Fortune's Weave. Easy questions stick to the basics; the hard tier asks about composers, character designers and Japanese sales figures. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or print it for a strategy night.
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Q 01Which studio has developed the Fire Emblem series since 1990?
Intelligent Systems
Intelligent Systems had just finished a military strategy game, and Fire Emblem began as a bid to give that kind of grid battle the story and characters of a role-playing game.
Q 02On which console did the first Fire Emblem appear in 1990?
Famicom (NES)
Famicom (NES) owners outside Japan never got it: the first game stayed untranslated for 30 years, until Nintendo released an English version on Switch in December 2020.
Q 03Who created Fire Emblem and led every entry until leaving after Thracia 776?
Shouzou Kaga
Shouzou Kaga then founded his own studio and made a rival strategy game so close to his old series that Nintendo took its makers to court.
Q 04Which game introduced Casual Mode to Fire Emblem?
New Mystery of the Emblem
New Mystery of the Emblem never left Japan, so players abroad first met Casual Mode in the following game instead.
Q 05In the Weapon Triangle, which weapon beats swords?
Lances
Lances beat swords, swords beat axes and axes beat lances, yet the series' first three games had no such rule: it arrived only with the fourth.
Q 06Which Fire Emblem princess travels back from a ruined future to save her father Chrom, disguised as a legendary hero?
Lucina
Lucina arrives masked and under a borrowed name so that nobody, least of all her own father, learns who she is before her mission to avert his death is under way.
Q 07In the magic triangle, fire is stronger than which element?
Wind
Wind loses to fire but beats thunder, and thunder beats fire; several later games bundled all three as 'anima' magic and set it against light and dark instead.
Q 08Which game first swapped weapon durability for stat penalties on stronger weapons?
Fates
Fates lets weapons last forever, so power has a price instead: its Brave Sword strikes twice but lowers the wielder's defences.
Q 09Which 2003 game was the first Fire Emblem released in the West, under the plain title 'Fire Emblem'?
The Blazing Blade
The Blazing Blade opens with a prologue starring Lyn, added as an extended tutorial because its makers expected players who had never tried the series.
Q 10Which two Fire Emblem lords became playable fighters in the 2001 Smash Bros game Melee?
Marth and Roy
Marth and Roy were at first planned for the Japanese version only, and Roy's own game had not even been released when Melee arrived.
Q 11Which turn-based Nintendo series' Western success also prompted Fire Emblem's localisation?
Advance Wars
Advance Wars came from the same studio, and its success abroad eased Nintendo's fear that Western players would find Fire Emblem too difficult.
Q 12Before settling on a medieval world, the makers of Fire Emblem Awakening considered which planet as its setting?
Mars
Mars was floated, along with a modern-day setting, as the team hunted for bold new ideas; they decided either would alienate fans and kept the swords and castles.
Q 13Which 2012 3DS game is credited with saving Fire Emblem from cancellation?
Awakening
Awakening was designed as a possible farewell that gathered ideas from every earlier game, and its sales instead gave the series a new start.
Q 21Fire Emblem Fates was sold in which two physical versions, plus a downloadable third route?
Birthright and Conquest
Birthright and Conquest put the hero on opposite sides of one war, and Conquest was built to be far tougher, for players who wanted a challenge.
Q 22Which 2004 game was the last Fire Emblem released for the Game Boy Advance?
The Sacred Stones
The Sacred Stones let players roam a world map and take on optional battles to train weak units, a freedom the two earlier Game Boy Advance games withheld.
Q 23Which Fire Emblem entry for Switch 2 was announced in September 2025?
Fortune's Weave
Q 14Which composer wrote the music for the first Fire Emblem and later scored Paper Mario?
Yuka Tsujiyoko
Yuka Tsujiyoko was working as a computer programmer before she turned to game music, and she went on to score the series for more than a decade.
Q 15Which cyberpunk manga creator redrew the cast for the DS remake Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon?
Masamune Shirow
Masamune Shirow, creator of Ghost in the Shell, redrew the official character art, while the small in-game portraits were left to series regular Daisuke Izuka.
Q 16Which character designer gave Fire Emblem a new look in 2012 and stayed on for Fates?
Yūsuke Kozaki
Yūsuke Kozaki was brought in to refresh the look of a series close to cancellation, and the designs stuck: he was kept on for the next 3DS game and for the mobile spin-off.
Q 17Which artist designed the cast of Fire Emblem: Three Houses?
Chinatsu Kurahana
Chinatsu Kurahana was chosen because the game's director felt her style could best portray its glamorous, aristocratic society of young nobles.
Q 18Which 1992 Fire Emblem entry is known for unusual mechanics such as dungeon exploration?
Gaiden
Gaiden follows two separate armies across a freely roamed world map of towns and dungeons, a break from the formula that its 2017 remake, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, kept.
Q 19Which 2005 GameCube game was the first Fire Emblem with 3D graphics and voice acting?
Path of Radiance
Path of Radiance also broke with habit in its hero: where most earlier leads were raised as royalty, Ike starts out as the newest member of his father's mercenary company.
Q 20Radiant Dawn (2007) was released on which console?
Wii
Wii had made its name on motion controls, yet the console's only Fire Emblem ignores them and plays like a traditional pad game.
Fortune's Weave swaps the usual march to war for a tournament: its lead warriors enter the Heroic Games and prepare between matches in the host city.
Q 24Which studio made the Fire Emblem crossover Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE?
Atlus
Atlus at first turned the idea down for lack of time; once it agreed, its Shin Megami Tensei team made the crossover a role-playing game set in modern Tokyo.
Q 25Which Fire Emblem mobile game, launched in February 2017, became Nintendo's first to gross a billion dollars?
Heroes
Heroes costs nothing to download, yet players paying to summon favourite characters made it the first Nintendo phone game to earn a billion dollars.
Q 26What kind of monetisation does Fire Emblem's 2017 mobile game use to hand out characters?
Gacha
Gacha means paying for random draws, and when Belgium ruled that such loot boxes count as gambling, Nintendo shut the game down there in 2019.
Q 27Fire Emblem Shadows, the second mobile game, is what kind of game?
Social deduction strategy
Social deduction strategy here means three players fight side by side while one of them is secretly a traitor, and after the battle everyone votes on who it was.
Q 28A Fire Emblem game cancelled in 2000 was being built for which Nintendo add-on?
64DD
64DD, a disk drive for the Nintendo 64, flopped and was never sold outside Japan, and the stranded project was reworked into a Game Boy Advance game instead.
Q 29After leaving Fire Emblem, its creator made which PlayStation game that Nintendo sued over?
Tear Ring Saga
Tear Ring Saga was at one point titled Emblem Saga; the first court sided with it, but on appeal its publisher was ordered to pay Nintendo.
Q 30What was the name of the creator's post-Nintendo studio, sued over a PlayStation strategy game?
Tirnanog
Nintendo's first lawsuit against it failed; the second won a cash settlement.