Recap / Fire Emblem Heroes Book VII

Artist: Yoshiku

The seventh Book of the game, starting from December 2022. Taking place in Vanaheimr, the Realm of Light, the Order of Heroes teams up with Seiðr to stop Gullveig's evil schemes.

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• Anachronic Order: The story starts with Chapter 13, which is usually the last chapter in every other Book, then continues with Chapter 5 to Chapter 8, then continues to Chapter 2 to Chapter 4, then goes to Chapter 9 to Chapter 12, and finally ends at Chapter 1, which is usually the first chapter in every Book. This is due to the numbers of the chapter for Book VII being indicators of placement in the story's timeline rather than being told out of order.
• Apocalypse How:
  • Gullveig pulls off a Class 6 by destroying the entire mortal realm of Midgard, and all of the humans along with it, in the Bad Future.
  • Njörðr attempts to summon Gullveig to pull off a Class X-4, wanting to destroy all of time due to his hatred of humans multiplying while the gods are slowly dying out despite their immortality. While he doesn't quite get what he achieved, he still technically wins in the Bad Future due to Gullveig destroying the mortal realm of Midgard and everyone along with it.
• Downer Beginning: Book VII opens with the Order of Heroes infiltrating the Hold of the Golden Seer, hoping to defeat Gullveig. Despite all of their efforts, Gullveig comes out unscathed and defeats the Order of Heroes with ease by turning them to dust, including the Summoner.
• Dub Induced Plothole: In Chapter 7, Seiðr states that Nerþuz is Freyr and Freyja's mother, but despite how maternal and protective Nerþuz is, no mention is made of the Order of Heroes's involvement in both her children's deaths in Book IV. This is because in the Japanese version Seiðr actually says that Nerþuz is their aunt instead of their mother. This was later corrected in an update in March 2023 to display her proper relationship with Freyr and Freyja.
• "Get Back Here!" Boss: Upon learning that the Order want the Ár in Chapter 7, Nerþuz refuses to give it over and instead flees from them because she can't bear to harm them, forcing the Order to chase her across two maps. However, since they refuse to heed her warnings to leave, she takes it as reason to fight back.
• Have We Met Yet?: During Chapter 7 in Book VII, when the Order first meet Nerþuz, she appears pained and confused at their appearance, but soon ends up gushing over how cute the humans are. After seemingly refusing to aid them in saving their world, Nerþuz reveals that she's actually already met them in her past, but that for the Order, it's their first time meeting her, and agrees to help them. Chapter 4 shows this meeting once the Order has traveled into the past, with the roles now reversed.
• I Let You Win: The Order appear to defeat Nerþuz in battle in Chapter 7, but she reveals there was no way that mortals could have won against a god, and that she is willingly forfeiting because she finds them too cute to beat.
• Invincible Villain: Gullveig has become this in the future and is unable to be damaged in Chapter 8 Part 5 due to her having her "Gold Perfection" Sacred Seal reducing damage taken to 0. It was this reason why Njörðr in Chapter 8 suggests that Seiðr and the Order of Heroes to go into the past and Set Right What Once Went Wrong and stop her before she reaches that level of strength.
• Marshmallow Hell: In Chapter 7, when the very well-endowed Nerþuz meets the Order and asks to hug them because she thinks they're adorable, Sharena, Alfonse, and Anna all end up very flustered by her affection, implying she's smothering them into her chest.
• Mythical Motifs: Besides drawing from Norse Mythology, the characters and setting are at least visually inspired from Japanese Mythology, with Seiðr visually invoking Oto-hime, Gullveig invoking Yamata-no-Orochi, and Vanaheimr invoking Ryūgū-jō (lit. Dragon Palace Castle).
• Our Phlebotinum Child: In Chapter 8, from Njörðr's request to Seiðr for the prosperity of Vanaheimr, Seiðr wants to conceive a child with the Summoner though a magical ritual that will birth their child that will be a product of their souls rather than their flesh in Vanaheimr (even if the Summoner in question if female). Book VII, Chapter 4 reveals that the child in question is Heiðr.
• Reduced to Dust: While Gullveig's way of killing off her enemies is via Death by De-aging in the main story, the Book VII Intro movie shows Gullveig turning Alfonse and the Summoner to dust, before it was revealed to be a vision of a possible Bad Future from Seiðr. She does the same to Njörðr in Book VII, Chapter 10 as her first kill.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Njörðr in Chapter 8 suggests that to stop Gullveig one and for all after she accumulated infinite strength Seiðr and the Order of Heroes have to travel into the past to the time before she could reach that strength and eliminate her there.
• Time Travel Escape: As a last ditch effort to escape from Gullveig after she becomes an Invincible Villain and traps Seiðr and the Order of Heroes in Chapter 8, Seiðr sends herself and the Order of Heroes to an unknown time in the past due to Seiðr's inexperience of time traveling, but Gullveig attacks the Summoner during the traveling process to complicate things. Chapter 2 reveals that Seiðr and the Order of Heroes escaped hundreds of years into the past, the Summoner included, albeit sent 100 days earlier and heavily injured, needing to be nursed back to health by Kvasir, the native goddess of that time period.
• Timey-Wimey Ball: Chapter 4 reveals that Kvasir is Seiðr's past self, and that killing her to erase their future self Gullveig would likely also mean killing Seiðr. However, Nerþuz tells Seiðr in Chapter 11 that she must kill both Gullveig and Kvasir to fully break the cycle; Chapter 12 has her further elaborate that due to how the cycle works, killing Kvasir will not actually affect either Seiðr or Gullveig.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Brave Gullveig's appearance in Chapter 10 Part 4 is this, especially if players deployed either any of the Askr Trio or Seiðr for that part, as despite Time Travel and multiple personas being involved, the Askr Trio and Seiðr don't comment about Brave Gullveig at all during that part. This turns to a head when the actual Gullveig appears in Part 1 and 5 of the same chapter.
• Wham Episode: Book VII, Chapter 9. After Heiðr turns into a terrifying monster similar to that of the Orochi, Seiðr has no choice but to kill her to protect everyone from danger. Unfortunately, this is also the time that Njörðr reveals his true colors: He is the one who creates Gullveig, and all of this was according to plan.
• Wham Line:
  • Kvasir reveals that she is Gullveig as a child at the end of Chapter 2.
    Kvasir: I will not always take this childish form; I will grow... And when I've grown, I will take another name. I will be known as Gullveig, the Golden Seer.
  • Additionally, at the end of Chapter 4, Seiðr herself slowly comes to terms about who the Gullveig of the present really is:
    Seiðr: When performing the Rite of Light, I was unable to sense [Gullveig] at all. No matter how I searched...I could not find her. Which means... ...Which means...I am her. Kvasir is...me. And I...become Gullveig.