Time blindness in Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is a deadly affliction, causing me more pain in what’s already been a less than amazing experience. Like most folks with busy lives and social obligations, if it ain’t on the calendar, it does not exist to me. And even then, without several notifications ticking down to the appointed time, warning me “Hey, you better clear a block of time for this important thing,” stuff still gets missed or forgotten about. And the consequences for missing time-sensitive events in Fire Emblem are morale killing.

Throughout the game there are events known as paralogues—side quests specific to certain characters. They are optional but unlike the other, basic side quests, paralogues offer up a nice bit of extra story and worldbuilding—pretty much the thing I’m enjoying about Fortune’s Weave at the moment, so I don’t want to miss them. Problem is, they are incredibly easy to miss. Paralogues are only available during a narrow window of time, so if you’re out and about completing quests and exploring dungeons on the world map and don’t take the time (the significant amount of time!) it takes to pop into the hub world, you can miss them. And even when you do pop into the hub world, you can still f@%&*@! miss them.

My first run-in with a paralogue was Leda’s. I was excited to take it because it offered a hefty payday for completion and I generally enjoy Leda as a character. Accepting her paralogue informed me that she’d be ready to go five in-game days later and that the event had been added to my calendar.

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