---------------------------FIRE EMBLEM 7 - THE BLAZING SILVER ‘PICK MY EDITS’---------------------------
Hello everyone! A quick introduction; I’m, what I believe can be called, an ‘Internet Drifter’. I check out a lot of different things on the internet, playing several types of games, watching videos and the like, enjoying whatever is fun but nothing really grandiose. And one of the things I’ve been following recently is indeed Fire Emblem games & hacks in here. I was a lurker that was, and still am, amazed at all the different works and customization potential that can be done, and so not only did I had fun playing several hacks from FEUniverse, but also was screwing around with FEBuilder mostly out of curiosity on how it works.
Well, up until now I’ve learned quite a lot about it, and so I want to ‘officially’ try my hand at Fire Emblem hacking! Settling in creating a PME because of the potential with making people’s character ideas come to life, with FE7 being the game of my choice.
So without further ado, let’s get the rules out of the way, as well as clarify the new classes & differences:
Differences/Rebalancing (Both PME & Vanilla Patches)
Some changes were based around several other FE7 rebalance hacks.
- Effective Weapons multiplier restored to 3x from 2x.
- Strength & Magic merged into a single stat; ‘Power’. Works correctly for all classes.
- Durandal gets -2 Weight, Sol Katti gets -4 Weight, Armads gets -5 Hit Rate.
- Luna gets -25 Hit Rate & -10 Crit Chance, Bolting gets -5 Hit Rate, Purge gets -10 Hit Rate, Eclipse gains +5 Hit Rate, Hammers gain +5 Hit Rate.
- All bows gain -1 Might, +10 Hit Rate & +5 Crit Chance (Rienfleche instead gets -2 Might with the same +Hit & +Crit). Killer Bows only gain the -1 Might & +10 Hit Rate. Ballistae only gets -1 Might.
- All light tome weights reduced by 1. Aureola & Luce’s reduced by 2. Purge’s unchanged. Wind Sword uses reduced to 25.
- Snipers gain the same +15 Crit bonus as other mono-weapon promoted classes.
- Thieves/Assassins gain free movement cost when passing through forest tiles, Assassins can steal items and Lockpicks gain +15 more uses for a total of 30.
- Dragonstones have been implemented: Firestone is the basic one. Icestone, Galestone & Magistone are obtained during the journey and can be bought at a secret shop. Darkstone & Divinestone are special, late game only.
- Wallace and Fiora have been turned into prepromotes.
- Chapter 19xx can be entered without having to defeat Kishuna. Still is Hector Mode exclusive.
- Farina’s recruitment cost reduced to 10.000 gold from 20.000 gold.
- In both versions of Pale Flower of Darkness, both Karel and Harken now always appear together, in all four main modes. The units that can recruit them are the same as vanilla.
- In Battle Preparations, Karla now always appears in all four main modes. Bartre’s class/level is no longer a factor, and she is also now a simple Talk event, without a forced fight. Bartre, Karel and either of the three Lords can talk with Karla to recruit her.
- Every enemy bow/eff. weapon on Fog of War maps (excluding bosses) was replaced with regular ones, for less annoyance.
- New names for following usable weapons: Longsword->Zanbato | Heavy Spear->Langdebeve | Halberd->Poleaxe.
- New names for following items: Hero Crest->Veteran Belt | Ocean Seal->Oceania Sign | Earth Seal->Master Seal | Heaven Seal->Heaven Sigil | Emblem Seal->Emblem Scroll.
- Every shop, including secret ones, has had their stock updated/reworked so there is more available weapons and items at all times.
- The usual FE7 QoL patches: Map Danger Zone, HP Bars w/Warnings, Show Heal Amount, Growth Rates in Status Screen, Default Fast Unit/Text Speed, ‘Null Move Display’, etc.
- All playable units gain support points at twice the rate from vanilla, and they accumulate points at up to 3 tiles away - same as the support bonuses - instead of having to stay next to each other.
(Beta Screenshots For Showcase)
!Class List! - Very Important
The new classes have their stats either based on versions in other Fire Emblem games, or balanced with the vanilla FE7 classes in mind (e.g. Siegemasters are based on FE8’s Great Knights, Deserters are Soldiers with extra power at the cost of speed, etc.) Of special note are Manaketes & their dragonstones; the Firestone will be their default attack method, while also being unsellable unlike the other variations. All dragonstones will have infinite uses & 1-2 range.
If you per chance like the idea of any of the new classes and/or names & want to feature it in your own hack, feel free to do so, F2U!
Now one last important note is the genders: the vanilla female classes have base & max stats that are all over the place, so now all female classes have the same base & max stats as their male counterparts, with the following adjustments on top (Promotion Gains are the same for both genders).
Base Stats: -2 HP, -1 POW, +1 SKL, +2 SPD, -1 DEF, +2 RES, -1 CON.
Max Stats (Promoted Only): -1 POW, +1 SPD, -1 DEF, +1 RES.
The Aid value for the female mounted classes will also be buffed to reflect their new, adjusted CON stat (‘23-CON=Aid’ instead of the vanilla ‘20-CON=Aid’).
!Rules List! - Also Important
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A limit of 2 Playable Units & 4 Boss Units (now No Limit) per person. Lords, Nergal & the Fire Dragon will count for the 2 playable/boss limit, and only ONE of the three Lords can be chosen per person. Seems strict, but I want to see how much stuff different members can create! If you are a lurker who stumbled into this paragraph, don’t be shy, come make some units with us! Also, no real restrictions on meme/jokey characters; anything goes as long as it’s not way too exaggerated.
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To make sure everything still goes okay tho; if after one month there’s still units left to replace, I’ll lift the limit so everyone can pick how many of the free units there is remaining (also please don’t make Alts to bypass the limit!).
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You can pick up to 3 items per playable unit replaced, increased to 4 for boss units. No duplicates are allowed however, and remember that items like vulneraries count too! Choices are fine if the boss is on a Fog of War map too, since we will know what to expect in these cases. Finally, if you choose a Manakete, you can simply pick a Firestone as one of the items (more info in !Class List!).
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You can make custom classes for the 3 Lords - complete with custom names - as well as Nergal & the Fire Dragon (using the vanilla bases)! Same for the personal weapons. For the Lords there will be a limit of 2 weapon types unpromoted then 3 weapon types promoted (Staves do count), while Nergal & the Fire Dragon can have up to 4 weapon types (the limit that can be shown on the status screen anyway).
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Athos DOES NOT have their own unique class. They will need to have one of the normal promoted classes picked. You can then choose in the same post what S Rank weapon your character will have, replacing it’s enemy wielder’s on the chapter with Forblaze if it was not picked itself.
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Only the Ninian & Nils replacers will & MUST have the Dancer & Bard classes. The Transporter and Magic Seal classes will also be unchanged. Don’t want to go crazy since it’s still my first hack lol. You can however swap around so Ninian’s replacer is a Bard while Nils’s is a Dancer if you want.
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Who can support with who will be the same as vanilla, including paired endings. Both the Pent & Louise replacers will still have their automatic A Support as well.
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Last but not least, you can also replace NPCs! How it works is they are tied to the units picked; a specific playable/boss unit allows the change of a specific NPC(s), and you can then replace them for free, without counting against the limit. They have their own template, and then after the choices information will be below in the Slots Taken list, clarifying which playable/boss unit allows the change of which NPC(s).
Growths/Boons/Banes
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Growth Rates; 305% for normal units (5% extra to help everyone a bit), while the following units will get up to 355% instead: all the 3 Lords (protagonist privileges), as well as Bards, Dancers & Manaketes (can’t promote).
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Pre-promotes will have 15% cut from all growth rates except HP, up to a minimum of 5% in a stat (in which case the excess will be subtracted from another). Athos replacer will not have their growth rates cut & also gets the above’s 355% growths, for the memes.
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Boons/Banes:
HP : 5/5
POW: 2/2
SKL: 4/4
SPD: 3/3
LCK: 5/5
DEF: 2/2
RES: 4/4
CON: 3/3
Character Templates
—PLAYABLE UNITS—
- Put the vanilla character you are gonna replace in ‘Slot’, then fill rest as per usual. Now, ‘Personality’ is unique in that it will be what I can use as information when writing the story bits! You can put any type of info in any way you want on it, what you think shall help me when writing the dialogue.
Slot:
Name:
Gender:
Class:
Affinity:
Portrait:
Description:
Death Quote:
Personality:
Inventory:
Boon:
Bane:
Growth Rates
- HP:
- POW:
- SKL:
- SPD:
- LCK:
- DEF:
- RES:
—BOSS UNITS—
- Nothing too special; they’ll have the same unpromoted/promoted rules as vanilla, as well as the same movement rules of their chapter.
Slot:
Name:
Gender:
Class:
Affinity:
Portrait:
Description:
Battle Quote:
Death Quote:
Personality:
Inventory:
Boon:
Bane:
—NPC UNITS—
- As stated in the !Rules List!, down below in Slots Taken will be the information of what NPC you’ll be able to replace for free, when applicable.
Slot:
Name:
Gender:
Class:
Affinity:
Portrait:
Description:
Death Quote:
Personality:
Inventory:
Boon:
Bane:
---------------------------------------------------------SLOTS TAKEN---------------------------------------------------------
—PLAYABLE UNITS—
- Eliwood: Thorne (by MaxTheUltimateSwordmaster)
- Lyn: Aireth (by Taylor)
- Hector: Anthea (by AthenaBaer)
- Ninian: Miku (by amema003)
- Nils: Zuiho (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Marcus: Amelia (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Merlinus: The Boulder (by Omnifox999)
- Oswin: Marcus (by ATHATH)
- Matthew: Xilian (by Dex)
- Kent: Riv (by darkwingduck)
- Sain: Barrett (by Mintywater)
- Florina: Olivier (by Ignis)
- Dorcas: Serket (by VelvetKitsune)
- Serra: Silvia (by RaimonRex)
- Erk: Finn (by RaimonRex)
- Wil: Reagan (by Mintywater)
- Rath: Armstrong (by SomeRandomFinn)
- Lowen: Narcian (by Omnifox999)
- Rebecca: Tulli (by Dex)
- Bartre: Shelle (by AnneEgge)
- Guy: Rozaliya (by VelvetKitsune)
- Priscilla: Rolf (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Raven: Lavari (by Gunnar)
- Lucius: Edna (by Donlot)
- Canas: Rinkah (by Gunnar)
- Dart: Nova (by PicoArgento)
- Fiora: Eustace (by AnneEgge)
- Legault: Jonah (by Jonah_07)
- Isadora: Lilith (by SamsungGalaxyS24)
- Heath: Seward (by amema003)
- Hawkeye: Darezin (by Taylor)
- Pent: Mina (by FuriousHaunter)
- Louise: Tyche (by FuriousHaunter)
- Wallace: Mikhail (by SamsungGalaxyS24)
- Geitz: Madeline (by MaxTheUltimateSwordmaster)
- Farina: Farina (by ditto)
- Karel: Pelagia (by Alex_p_v)
- Harken: Nikolaos (by Alex_p_v)
- Jaffar: Vandis (by ColeTheOne)
- Nino: Fionn (by ColeTheOne)
- Vaida: Josiah (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Karla: Iver (by darkwingduck)
- Renault: Echidna (by ATHATH)
- Athos: Olympus (by Jonah_07)
—BOSS UNITS—
- Batta: Bigby (by darkwingduck)
- Zugu: Wally (by AnneEgge)
- Glass: Derringer (by Gunnar)
- Migal: Ursus (by Gunnar)
- Carjiga: Lily (by FuriousHaunter)
- Bug: 48E (by FuriousHaunter)
- Bool: Cacophony (by darkwingduck)
- Heintz: Abiba (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Beyard: Gretel (by Gunnar)
- Yogi: Makalov (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Eagler: Bonnie (by Mintywater)
- Lundgren: Shin (by Dex)
- Groznyi: Lasha (by Petey)
- Wire: Brooke (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Zagan: Pallardó (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Boies: Jared (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Puzon: Wilbur (by Gunnar)
- Erik: Knull (by Gunnar)
- Sealen: Barry (by ATHATH)
- Bauker: Dreckson (by Taylor)
- Bernard: Algernon (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Fargus: Brigid (by RaimonRex)
- Damian: Luchar (by RaimonRex)
- Zoldam: Silvertooth (by Petey)
- Uhai: Kempf (by SomeRandomFinn)
- Aion: Sabre (by ColeTheOne)
- Teodor: Hana (by ColeTheOne)
- Darin: Adira (by Taylor)
- Cameron: Harald (by RNGSOMEONE)
- Oleg: Borris (by MaxTheUltimateSwordmaster)
- Eubans: Dreyfus (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Paul: Molly (by amema003)
- Jasmine: Frith (by amema003)
- Lloyd: Bella (by Dex)
- Linus: Marik (by Mintywater)
- Pascal: Dutch (by Petey)
- Jerme: Alkmini (by Alex_p_v)
- Kenneth: Stylianos (by Alex_p_v)
- Ursula: Caroline (by Alex_p_v)
- Maxime: Mathias (by Alex_p_v)
- Sonia: Amalie (by ColeTheOne)
- Georg: Kei (by ColeTheOne)
- Kaim: Dozla (by ColeTheOne)
- Denning: Villager (by ditto)
- Limstella: Daimler (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Kishuna: Narty (by ATHATH)
- Brendan: Zoe (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Nergal: Dezdana (by Taylor)
- Fire Dragon: [!?@)($%^ (by FuriousHaunter)
—NPC UNITS—
- Elbert [Eliwood]: Madoka (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Eleanora [Eliwood]: Jenny (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Hausen [Lyn]: Thomas (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Uther [Hector]: Ariel (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Natalie [Dorcas]: Bastet (by VelvetKitsune)
- Araphen [Rath]: Quincy (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Augur Hannah [Nils]: Ferrah (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Ephidel [Jaffar]: Robin (by ColeTheOne)
- Reissmann [Lyn]: Lavania (by Taylor)
- Leila [Matthew]: Delta (by Dex)
- Helman [Darin]: Hosea (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Igor [Linus]: Lonnie (by Mintywater)
- Uncle Jan [Nino]: Kaku (by ColeTheOne)
- Cameo Sophia [Bartre]: Gendrina (by Taylor)
- Cameo Fae [Karel]: Shyama (by medicbag7)
- Desmond [Nergal]: Hyaine (by Taylor)
- Hellene [Sonia]: Claret (by ColeTheOne)
- Murdock [Limstella]: Norton (by TheEmeraldKing267)
- Zephiel [Special]: Anna (by RaimonRex)
- Guinevere [Pent]: Cardboard Sans (by FuriousHaunter)
- Bramimond [Special]: Damhaint (by TritraSerpifeu)
- Roland [Special]: Cloud (by SomeRandomFinn)
- Durban [Special]: Dozla (by ColeTheOne)
- Vanilla Anna [Louise]: Afa (by FuriousHaunter)
- Vanilla Jake [Pent]: Joan (by FuriousHaunter)
- Child Roy [Eliwood]: Evaine (by SilverRoy)
- Child Lilina [Hector]: Adam (by AthenaBaer)
That’s that! Release links down bellow. Enjoy!
Because instead of encouraging new changes as the submissions roll in and improvising on the fly (y’know, like a normal PME), this isn’t a PME at all…it’s a PME on top of a balance patch, which makes no sense to me. I don’t want to be overly critical and beat you down, nor do I want to crush your dreams, but this is a pretty ass-backward way of going about things, and I don’t understand why you couldn’t release the balance patch on its own and then start fresh to make the PME. I also want to apologize for making this reply in the first place, but as someone who has one canceled PME and another on hiatus (albeit both in FE6, which is wayyy more restrictive), I feel like this is a recipe for disaster, especially with the classes and balance changes which are just bizarre to me. However, I wish you luck anyway, as it’s always good to see new talent come into the fray, and I hope this PME is a success. Also, I might make my units for this soon. I just needed to vent this out 
