History TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter / FireEmblemHeroes

* '''Njörðr''' suffered this fate the hardest out of everyone else. Throughout the story, Njörðr sought to help the Order of Heroes in their quest to stop Gullveig, the Golden Seer. Keen players noticed questionable orders coming from him, such as asking Seiðr to retrieve his Ar from his sister Nerþuz, who warns her and the Order that he should not have it. Additionally, he demands Seiðr to bear a child, much to her confusion. Eventually, it was revealed that Njörðr was the one who wanted to turn Seiðr into Gullveig, by using his light to turn Heiðr into a monster and force Seiðr to put her own, thus allowing Njörðr to transfer the curse to Seiðr so that she would become Gullveig. After the twist was well-received, many people had high hopes for Njörðr as the main Book VII villain, theorizing he created this plan as revenge for the Order of Heroes killing his children Freyr and Freyja in Book IV... only for the whole set-up to ultimately amount to nothing as not only is Njörðr‘s reasoning being a generic hatred of humanity, [[EvilIsNotAToy Gullveig immediately kills him off once he summons her at the end of Book VII, Chapter 10]], [[TheUnfought and without any boss fight against him]], to add salt to the wound. The fact that he was revealed to be evil only to die immediately after made many fans question why they made him evil at all, or killed him off anticlimactically.

* '''Heiðr''', despite the fact that everyone knew she was destined to die due to being a sibling character like many others before her. She's the step-sister of Seiðr who also turns out to be the child of Gullveig and the Summoner after they made a rite together to create a child, as a part of Njörðr's plans to create the Golden Seer herself. Unfortunately, she barely gets any screentime before she turns into a monster and is promptly killed. This would have been fine, if it also wasn't for the fact that her death gets swept under the rug almost immediately afterwards, which is especially jarring due to how Seiðr took her death very hard when it happened. In the end, Heiðr's death turned out to be in vain, leaving many others to wonder as to why she was even included as a character in the first place.
* '''Kvasir'''. She's the past version of Gullveig and Seiðr, having experienced the grief that both Gullveig and Seiðr experienced, having been betrayed by Njörðr to become the Golden Seer and end the world. She nurses the Summoner back to health in the past and even grows attached to them for the 100 days they're in the past, and afterwards she reveals she is Gullveig. The problem is that Kvasir doesn't do anything besides simply completing her role in the cycle by approaching Njörðr to let him know of Gullveig's existence and completing a ritual to turn into Seiðr. Even compared to Heiðr, where her role was that she was destined to die from the Golden Curse, Kvasir felt like she was included without any real idea what her role was supposed to be, which became notable due to how she barely felt important in the story until near the very end: During Chapter 12 when Gullveig brings Kvasir to the present and she dies unceremoniously at the hands of Alfonse and Seiðr. Many fans were hoping to spare her, or were at the very least hoping she would play a bigger role in the story due to retaining knowledge as both Seiðr and Gullveig, but in the end, she's defeated without providing much to the story beyond her debut in Book VII, Chapter 2.