Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave true ending, explained

Regardless of being a recreation that may simply surpass the 150-hour mark, Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave leaves many questions unanswered in its ending. After it was revealed that 4 routes had been minimize out through the growth course of in a latest Ask the Developer interview, one chance is that these tales will turn out to be DLCs sooner or later — and that these expansions will reply some lingering questions. Whereas we nonetheless do not know if any of that is taking place, in fact, I consider the ending of Fortune’s Weave suggests one clear factor: that Sothis is coming again — and perhaps in multiple method.

[Ed. note: Spoilers follow for Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave.]

Who’s Sothis in Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave?

Sothis has many names, and ever since she was launched in Fortune’s Weave’s predecessor, 2019’s Fireplace Emblem: Three Homes, we all know that she’s not solely the strongest character within the recreation’s universe but in addition one of the mysterious. Though her origin as an alien from outdoors the planet isn’t new, we do not really know why she left her planet (the “Blue Sea star”) and what occurred when she arrived, nor do we all know precisely what she really is.

Her story has been slowly advised. In Three Homes, we see Sothis’s present state within the Fireplace Emblem universe as having misplaced her materials physique and dwelling inside Byleth. Fortune’s Weave takes us earlier than that, letting us see a second when she was nonetheless alive, however sleeping, working as a looming power that may erase a complete civilization from historical past. We’ve not, nevertheless, seen the start of her story, however Fortune’s Weave‘s post-credit scene appears to point that we may be about to.

What occurs in Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave’s post-credits scene?

After you view profiles to your characters, see what occurred to your items after the Underworld Warfare was over, and let the credit roll, the display screen goes black, and we hear Sothis speaking to Balor. Though we do not see what is definitely taking place, her phrases paint a transparent image: Balor has returned to Sothis, his mom, and is now making an attempt to persuade her to not kill him for every thing that occurred.

Fortunately for him, Sothis has a mom’s compassion and his sentence is to “drown in Mom’s love — a vaster depth than any of the seas.” We might interpret that figuratively, as Balor being left below her management, or a bit extra actually, as in Balor’s existence merging into Sothis’. No matter which you consider, what issues is that she guarantees to inform Balor a bedtime story: her story, one which began “a protracted, very long time in the past…”

The interplay between Sothis and her relatively rebellious son might solely suggest that Balor hasn’t been utterly erased from existence, however I consider the remainder of the sport provides us sufficient evidences to indicate that one in all developer Clever Techniques’s objectives with Fortune’s Weave was to put the groundwork required to finally inform her story. Greater than as soon as, we’re put face-to-face with parts from the previous and Sothis’ origin story, however none is as emblematic as Theodora’s chapter 7 in Half 1.

The chapter begins with Theodora dreaming of Balor and Dagda, each of their dragon varieties, combating in a contemporary city metropolis that has been utterly devastated. The battle is brief and the god of the underworld defeats his brother. As Balor flies towards the sky, he’s stopped by Sothis in her humanoid kind. He engages, firing three hearth balls. Because the digicam follows the trajectory of the spheres, we see them hitting not the feminine humanoid determine, however an infinite creature: Sothis’ actual kind. The earlier duel between two highly effective dragons turns into insignificant; Balor pales compared to the titanic proportion of the creature in entrance of him. He’s seized and pushed inward into the big creature.

These occasions are by no means totally mentioned through the recreation, but on this temporary section, we’ve the chance not solely to see Sothis’ true kind however to additionally perceive how alien she really is. We’re not speaking a few common dragon coming from area, however a creature that makes Fortune’s Weave really feel extra like a Xenoblade Chronicles recreation. On the similar time, questions stay: Why have been her sons combating? What occurred to human trendy civilization? What was Balor making an attempt to perform that made Sothis come along with her actual kind to punish him? We would really be taught as Sothis tells her story to her son.

The origin of the progenitor god or a minimum of the occasions that modified the world, may not be the one half in Sothis’s story that Fortune’s Weave is nodding to. As talked about, so far as we all know, Sothis misplaced her bodily physique and has merged with Byleth from Three Homes. However, based mostly on what we be taught from Fortuna after the battle in opposition to Balor, we are able to speculate that Sothis might finally get hold of a bodily physique once more. Hear me out.

What Fireplace Emblem: Fortune’s Weave may be telling us about Sothis’ future?

The third act in Fortune’s Weave, known as “The Salvation Arc,” is the end result of every thing the sport has been constructing by its first two elements. Eshmel and Fortuna, together with all of the Flame Lords and items you’ve saved, go to the “depths of the underworld” to battle Balor. The mission is dangerous as a result of, in keeping with Fortuna, as quickly because the god of the underworld is defeated, his area is destined to vanish as effectively, throwing everybody inside it into oblivion. That is as a result of, up till then, the underworld was tied to Balor’s existence.

Nonetheless, Balor has been capable of broaden the underworld past his being by creating one other pillar to help his dimension, making it a cloth place that might survive his soul’s destruction — the precise situation that permits the characters to outlive the ultimate battle. Balor was not simply making an attempt to maintain the underworld within the materials, although. His true purpose was to make use of the underworld as physique, a brand new, extra highly effective vessel for his soul, so he might problem Sothis once more.

In different phrases, it’s potential for a vessel as highly effective as Sothis’s true physique to be created and a soul transferred to it. In each Fortune’s Weave and Three Homes, it’s established that Sothis can inhabit different our bodies. She will be able to both transfer into one in all her simulacra’s our bodies, like Fortuna’s, and take over their id, or she will coexist with one other soul, as she does with Byleth. If Sothis can give you a plan like Balor’s — that might maybe keep away from the mass killing half — and create a god-like simulacrum, it might be potential for her to have a bodily physique of her personal — and, you already know, kick the god of the underworld’s ass once more.

Possibly seeing a post-Three Homes chapter within the progenitor god’s story may be much less possible than the following recreation within the collection (or potential DLC) being a prequel, because the post-credit scene suggests. No matter which, Fortune’s Weave has paved the best way for extra tales about Sothis to be advised. I might be ready.