History FireEmblemFates / TropesAToG

* ForWantOfANail: A major part of the game's premise is seeing how certain events change depending on which country the Avatar sides with:
** The biggest case involves [[spoiler:Takumi]]. On two out of three routes, he [[spoiler:falls into the Bottomless Canyon and ends up being slowly possessed by Anankos]]. On ''Birthright'', Azura meets up with him shortly after this happens, and so is able to use her song to (mostly) cure him. On ''Conquest'', he isn't so lucky. [[spoiler:As his possession did not become apparent until ''much'' later on, it's far too late to save him by the time Azura realizes. This, combined with his greater resentment and bitterness on this route due to the Avatar's betrayal, means he eventually gets so consumed that the original Takumi is outright dead (courtesy of PsychicAssistedSuicide) and Anankos is able to turn his corpse into a puppet, which serves as the FinalBoss.]] On ''Revelation'', [[spoiler:the Avatar manages to reach him while he's still in Izumo, meaning his fall into the bottomless canyon is prevented entirely]]. However, it's not all good news. [[spoiler:Without him to use, Anankos possesses someone else who fell into the canyon: Gunter.]]
** Another example of this is the fate of the Ice Tribe. In ''Conquest'', the Avatar was sent in a UriahGambit to quell the tribe's rebellion. The rebellion is stopped through a diplomatic method (though not without a fight), and Flora much later joins as a party member. What happens to them in ''Birthright'', where the Avatar and Felicia aren't there to talk Chief Kilma down from his plan? [[spoiler:Garon [[CurbStompBattle steamrolled the tribe with impunity]], slaughtering most of them, and had Kilma executed. Flora then gathered the survivors and pledged loyalty out of fear, which Garon used as a bait to lure out the Hoshidan Army. At the end, Flora was broken because of the entire affair and immolates herself out of grief.]] Whereas in ''Revelation'', the rebellion still happens and is quashed by Garon, but rather than [[spoiler:destroying them outright]] as in ''Birthright'', he gives Flora a chance to save her people by helping Camilla and her retainers kill the Avatar, since Flora's ice control abilities allow them to ambush the Avatar's forces while traveling on the high seas by literally freezing the water, trapping them, and he needs her cooperation. When the Avatar in turn defeats them and gets Camilla on their side, Flora decides not to accompany them, but only so she can return to the Ice Tribe and get them into hiding before Garon can make good on the threat. [[spoiler:Much later in the route, after Flora manages to accomplish this, she ''can'' be optionally recruited.]]
** Gunter [[spoiler:is thrown into the Bottomless Canyon by Hans]] early on in the game. On ''Conquest'', [[spoiler:the Avatar and Azura later end up in Valla (the world at the bottom of the canyon), where they are able to rescue him]]. On ''Birthright'', however, this does not happen, and so [[spoiler:he never rejoins the army]]. Finally, on ''Revelation'', [[spoiler:he rejoins the party, though much earlier than in ''Conquest''... and turns out to be under DemonicPossession]].
** Another character, [[spoiler:Kaze]], can suffer a PlotlineDeath on ''Birthright'' but not on ''Conquest''. The death itself is a case of this, too; [[spoiler:if he does not have an A Support with the Avatar, he has to pledge his loyalty right there, which distracts him enough that he can't find a way out of their situation without sacrificing himself. If he does, he has enough concentration to notice something he can use to save them ''both'']].
** In ''Revelation'', the heroes never step foot in Fort Dragonfall, Macarath Palace, or the Woods of the Forlorn.
** Scarlet's rebellion in Cheve takes place offscreen in ''Revelation''.
** Cyrkensia [[spoiler:is reduced to rubble due to a skirmish between Hoshidan and Nohrian forces, thus no assassination attempt on King Garon]]. In addition, this is where the party encounters [[spoiler:Kaden & Keaton, supplicating the Kitsune and Wolfskin pack encounters]].

** In Chapter 10 ''Conquest'', if you manage to [[LordBritishPostulate make it to Takumi and defeat him]] before he uses the Dragon Vein, he actually ''won't'' [[ButThouMust do it anyway]].

** The game's BigFirstChoice, where Corrin must decide between their Hoshidan biological family, their Nohrian adoptive family, or choose neither. However, unless you own the ''Special Edition'' of the game which has all three routes, bought both standard editions of the game, or bought the ''Revelation'' DLC, you're locked into the specific route of whatever game you purchased, i.e. you already decided which family you will take sides with, if any, before you even started up the game.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Characters with asymmetrical features (such as Saizo's scarred eye, Kagero and Camilla's PeekABangs, etc.) will be flipped depending on which direction they're facing.