“The story itself is fairly elemental — Good vs. Evil, Nice Guys vs. Nasty Guys, (or Them vs. Us). It has the usual Quest, the Magic (or Holy) Thingamajig, the Mighty Sorcerer, the Innocent Hero, and the Not Quite So Innocent Heroine— along with a widely varied group of Mighty Warriors with assorted character faults. It wanders around for five books until it finally climaxes with the traditional duel between “Our Hero” and the “Bad Guy.” (Would it spoil anything for you if I tell you that our side wins?)”
- Eddings, D. (2002). The Belgariad: Volume 1 (2nd edition). Random House.
Twenty years have passed since the defeat of the Black Queen, Brecilien, and all is well. The thrones of Velia and Palnata are soon to be joined in marriage, ensuring peace will reign across the Twin Isles forevermore. The Black Queen’s granddaughter, Bronwyn, has spent her entire life sequestered away from the world, awaiting her destined marriage to a man she has never met; now she emerges, to return to the homeland she has never known.
Homecoming is the second custom campaign made by Not Quite Rodents – consisting of Parrhesia and Lumi – and the third with Parrhesia as lead designer, after Drums of War and Dream of Five. At its core, Homecoming is a thought experiment. What might FE6 have looked like if FE6 didn’t exist? What are other ways the series could have developed, while staying true to the direction of a stripped-down, back-to-basics game with a high degree of intertextual referencing?
It will contain 25 chapters, of which 12 are currently playable and currently circulating in closed testing. There is a playable cast of 54, none of whom have or will have written supports, multiple of whom have between zero and one line in the story. An ironman or bronzeman approach is encouraged, but not enforced, and there is a turnsave option as in DoW/Do5. There will be a tight, focused, character-driven narrative in a new setting, while all mugs are created from scratch by the unmatchable Lumi to create an established and consistent aesthetic (which will in time include the full UI).
You will face tough formations, varied and difficult objectives, the simple pressure of time. But you shall also have powerful tools of your own to turn the tide. Every mage at your disposal has a unique Prf with hugely varied effects, while you are also given many powerful hard-counter weapons. It will be a challenge, but the bold and cunning will find a way to prevail.
Public patch coming early 2025.
CREDITS
A Not Quite Rodents campaign
Lead Designer
Parrhesia
Art Director
Luminescent Blade
All Portraits
Luminescent Blade
GRAPHICS
Class Assets
Adept Monk
Teraspark, RobertFPY (class card)
Archer
Der, Flasuban
Ballistician
Flasuban, Der
Berserker
TheBlindArcher
Brute Brigand // Fighter
eCut (battlesprite), Flasuban (mapsprite)
Cataphract Great Knight
Dancer A (repalette)
Cavalier
SALVAGED, Flasuban, Pikmin
Champion Hero
Nuramon
Chosen One Alm Hero
Nuramon (battlesprite), Feier (mapsprite)
Cleric
Flasuban, Eldritch
Drake Lord Wyvern Lord
Nuramon (battlesprite), SCYUTERz (mapsprite)
Drake Rider Wyvern Rider
Mikey Seregon, Alfred Kamon
Dragon Black Dragon // Divine Dragon
Nuramon (battlesprite), L95 (mapsprite)
Dreadnought General
TheBlindArcher, Der the Vaporeon, Nuramon, The Big Dedester
Fighter Axe Mercenary
SALVAGED, Luminescent Blade
Lordling and Lady Regent (Original Placeholders) (Eirika Lord and Great Lord)
Teraspark
Glory, Warder Ophanim, Living Armour
Sphealnuke
Guardian Halberdier
TheBlindArcher
Hexe Witch (Nuibaba)
HyperGammaSpaces (base and mapsprite), Nuramon (Nuibaba reskin)
Ironclad, Mage, Scout Armour Knight, Tactician, Lancer
SALVAGED
Marksman Sniper
Nuramon (battlesprite), ArcherBias (mapsprite)
Paladin
SALVAGED, Leo_link, Flasuban
Seraph, Wind Rider Pegasus Knight, Falcon Knight
Flasuban
Sage
Levin64
Sentinel Halberdier
MK404
Skirmisher Nomad
eCut
Valkyrie Ursula
Greentea
Warrior
Pushwall, Temp
MAPS
Map Facelifts
RandomWizard
Tilesets
Castle
N426
Fields
ZoramineFae, JellyUnicorn
Temple
N426 (base), RandomWizard (porting outside tiles)
Stronghold
N426
Village
N426, ZoramineFae, Venno
Mapsprite Palettes adapted from
Feier
ICONS
Unless Stated Otherwise
AstraLunaSol
Alignments
Luminescent Blade
Horn Recurve, Icebolt, Frost Blast
LordGlenn
MUSIC
Ancient Fantasies Eternal, Dancing Defence, Dark Castle, Dungeon Breaker, Imperial Capital – Decisive Battle, Pushing Onwards, Terror from Confusion, Running Hell
ArcherBias
Antonia, Archineer, Emi, Eyvel, Forsaken Rhapsody, Grannvale Army 2, Heroic Struggle, Land of the Phoenix, Last Stand, Main Theme (LaL), Moderato 2007, Planet’s Paralysis, Telling the Truth, Time Gear, The Extreme, Those Who …, Upper Steam Cave
TrikkiNikki
Decline, Destructive Logic, Mercenaries
Sekhmet
Midi Rips
Blitz Lunar, FantasyAnime(dot)com, KHInsider, Lolsquid0, Online Sequencer, Three-Headed Monkey
CODING
01 Command Hack, 48 Command Hack, Anti-Huffman
Hextator
16 Tracks 12 Sounds
Agro, Brendor
224 / 256-colour BG, Minimug Palette Buffer
Huichelaar
256 Colour Title Background
Leonarth
Actions after Support/Talk, Convert Chapter Titles to Text, Danger Zone, Drumfix, HP Bars with Warnings
CirclesEverywhere
Allegiance Palette, Decide Whether To Fill AI Danger Map, Battle Stats with Anims Off, Group AI
Vesly
Allow 254 generic minimugs
Gryz
Animation on/off Switch, Auto Save Function, Add Event: Conditional Talk, Change Supports to 5 People
Aera
AutoGenLeftOAM, Fix CG Fade, Change (Spell) Palette, Victory BGM by Chapter, Continue Battle BGM, Remove Enemy Control Glitch, Escape Menu, Events (Add Trap, Change AI, Change Affiliation, Check Unit Ability, Get/Set Unit Status, Silently Change Unit Status, Set All Unit Status, Item Check, Lose Item, Is Tile Change Triggered, Send Unit’s Items to Transporter, Silent Give Gold / Item, Escape Event, Display / Recover Item), Fast-Forward Battle Anims, Support Anims Setting, Flag 26 Changes Menu Colour, Use Hand Axe as Generic Motion, AddInRange Efficiency, Canto Glitch Fix, Multiple Supply Units, MultiTileMarker, Null Move Display, Switch Preps Shop v2, Change Image in Upper-Right of Preps, WeaponLockEX
7743
Canto Glitch Fix, CritCap, Dump Inventory on Death
Contro
Change Unit Name
Epicer
Critical Threshold
DragZ
Deny Deploy from Preps
Aera, 7743, Kesseki Patch
Exceed Portrait Hackbox
Tiki
Fill AI Danger Map Efficiency Fix
HyperGammaSpaces
Fix LZ77 Decompress, HP Bar / Cloud Fix, Show Heal Amount
Tequila
Guide Event
Shinan
Heroes Movement (Standalone), Unit Action Rework
Stan
Hostile Greens Don’t Pass
UltraxBlade
HP Bars Simple
CirclesEverywhere, Zane
Limit WR Display
jjl2357, Blademaster, Hextator, Tequila
Luck to Hit
Mournful Relic
Melee and Magic Fix
Hextator, Tequila
Modular Minimug Box v2 (Catball Style)
Zane Avernathy (MMB), Catball (variant)
NosResire (recolour Nosferatu)
SME
Prevent Rescue
Pikmin 1211
SOUND NIMAP 1-2
CirclesEverywhere (1), Alusq (2)
Switch Portrait By …, NarrowFont
Scraiza
Updated L-Button Cycling
AuraWolf
Custom C Code
Luminescent Blade
CREATED in 7743’s FEBUILDER
(No this isn’t the DoW sequel, but that is also, separately, coming 2025/26)
