Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave: four heroes from Dagda, time travel and new guns
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave centers on Cai, Theodora, Dietrich and Leda as the Four Flames of Dagda, with early choices and new guns.
- The game uses a time-travel story in which the player, as the herald of the pale raven, goes back to change the fates of those four heroes.
- Kotaku also reports that Fortune’s Weave adds guns as a new weapon type, with a prologue character named Troy using one.
What happened
Kotaku published an article on September 17, 2026, further detailing Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave. In that piece, Cai, Theodora, Dietrich and Leda are named as the Four Flames of Dagda, the game’s four central characters. According to the description, players get an early choice between the four.
The source also says that choice does not appear to be fully locked in. The developers reportedly said players can switch between Cai, Theodora, Dietrich and Leda, meaning the four remain central but are not presented as fully separate routes in the preview information available.
The story revolves around time travel. The player takes on the role of the herald of the pale raven and is sent back to change the fates of the four heroes so they can later help save the world from ravenous undead. The same reporting also says Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is coming to Nintendo Switch 2.
A second Kotaku article from the same day adds a new weapon system: guns. According to that preview, guns are mechanically treated as gauntlet weapons and increase a character’s evasion when equipped. Kotaku names Troy, an older woman and priest, as one of the first characters to use such a gun in the prologue.
Timeline
September 17, 2026: Kotaku publishes an article about the Four Flames of Dagda and says players get an early choice between Cai, Theodora, Dietrich and Leda.
September 17, 2026: Kotaku publishes a second article describing guns as a new weapon type in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.
September 17, 2026: Preview information names Troy as an older priest who uses a gun in the prologue.
September 17, 2026: Nintendo’s official site lists Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave for Nintendo Switch 2.
September 18, 2026: A social post from Nintendeal says the physical release was temporarily out of stock on Amazon and sold out at Walmart, while the game also ranked No. 1 on the eShop bestsellers list.
Background
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is a tactical RPG from Intelligent Systems and Nintendo. The available sources outline a setup with time travel, four main characters and a campaign in which the player influences how the story unfolds. Cai, Theodora, Dietrich and Leda are explicitly identified as the Four Flames of Dagda.
Alongside that character setup, the preview information also highlights the weapon system. Guns are described as a new weapon type in the game, with a mechanical link to gauntlet weapons and an evasion bonus. The source only covers the prologue and leaves open how broadly that mechanic will be used in the full game.
Social posts around the release mainly point to stock status and online attention. A Nintendeal post says the physical version was temporarily unavailable on Amazon and sold out at Walmart, but the available sources do not confirm any separate inventory cause behind the banana joke that appeared in the coverage.
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Sources
- Kotaku, September 17, 2026: article about the Four Flames of Dagda and the early character choice in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.
- Kotaku, September 17, 2026: article about guns as a new weapon type in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.
- Nintendo Official Site, September 17, 2026: official listing of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave for Nintendo Switch 2.
- Nintendeal, September 18, 2026: post about stock status and eShop ranking.