Nintendo has officially announced the Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Expansion Pass. While it comes with an uncharacteristically high price, the new DLC may actually complete the original vision for the game, which Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave developer Intelligent Systems had to abandon.
The latest entry in the long-running strategy RPG series launched exclusively for the Nintendo Switch 2 on September 17. Fortune's Weave earned widespread critical acclaim, with its 90 average score on OpenCritic making it one of the highest-rated Fire Emblem games to date. One of its defining features is a campaign structured around four playable protagonists—Cai, Dietrich, Theodora, and Leda—whose individual stories intersect over the course of the game. However, Intelligent Systems previously revealed that Fortune's Weave was originally designed around eight protagonist perspectives. The developer ultimately halved that number after determining that such an arrangement made the game excessively complicated.
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave crosses a major sales milestone just days after its release, quickly becoming a smash hit with fans.
The newly announced Fortune's Weave Expansion Pass now appears poised to revisit that abandoned concept. Its third and most substantial wave will introduce new stories featuring Bertrand, Talimun, Orchel, and Anatolia, four other prominent Flame Lords who already play important roles in the base game. Nintendo has not explicitly confirmed that these Fortune's Weave characters are the four protagonists removed during development, nor has it described their upcoming stories as full campaign paths. Still, the matching number and the characters' established prominence in the story make it plausible that Wave 3 is effectively backfilling the perspectives Intelligent Systems originally intended to include but could not.
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