With Fire Emblem Heroes [Free] raking in money hand over fist for Nintendo, it's not likely that support for the game is going to dry up anytime soon. But surely there are only so many characters to go around, even in a long-running series like Fire Emblem" That much is true, but players have been responding enthusiastically to special variants of popular heroes, which means the development team can more or less throw a Santa hat on Chrom every so often and call it a day. Beyond silly (and fun) holiday tie-ins, however, there exists within certain games some canonical reasons to have different versions of characters, and it's that particular vein that is being mined for the Summoning Event kicking off on February 22nd.
This event is called Fallen Heroes, and if you haven't played the games these characters are drawn from, this is one spoilerific group. Okay, one of the games, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, has no official English release and may never get one, and another, Fire Emblem Awakening, is several years old at this point. The last of the bunch, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, just saw an official release in English in 2017, and it may well be sitting in the "haven't entirely ruled out playing it" section of your 3DS backlog. If so, well, spoilers. Spoilers spoilers spoilers. Don't say you weren't warned.
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All three of these new characters fall to the dark side at some point in their r...