Hello everyone! My name is milom and I think it might be time to create a page for my WIP hack Fire Emblem: The Order of Frost.
I got into rom hacking in 2020 after I very clumsily used FEBuilder the first time to make a 0% version of FE7, which soon thereafter turned into a classic rework/rewrite of FE7. This however led to a new project that’s been going on from time to time a year and a half, based on a very loose idea for a table top rpg plot I had a long time ago. I can with 100% certainty say that I would never have gotten as far as I have without the inspiration gotten from the incredible talent, friendliness and support I experience in this community.
So what is this hack about?
The continent of Crellia is in a delicate state of balance woven between five different countries united by a common threat. 600 years ago the continent was put into a state of despair when, by events lost to time, an enormous rift filled with flames opened at the center of the continent. From there, an endless stream of flaming fiends began pouring out, and only by uniting and combining each countries strengths did they manage to keep this threat under control. The rift have since remained, and an order was established to keep this ever present threat in check: The Order of Frost.
Our story starts in the year 611, when events are about to unfold that will shake the delicate balance of Crellia forever.
Patches
Fire Emblem: The Order of Frost 0.1.1
Version 0.1.1: Demo containing a draft of the first 8 chapters:
Fire Emblem: The Order of Frost 0.1.2
Updated Yorgios portrait
Design decisions
There are a couple of core ideas behind this hack that I have tried to follow to the best of my ability. These are mainly based on what I personally enjoy and find engaging in a FE and RPG game.
- A simple plot: The story is mostly straight forward, and while there are some turns and twists, they are still in the context of a mostly quite simple plot. Similarly, the dialogues are kept mostly quite short to keep focus on the gameplay.
- Lore: There are some extra tidbits of lore regarding the world and how it’s built, but most of it is not needed to understand the story. Bits and pieces are hidden in various locations and dialogues that add flavour to the world, but can mostly be ignored if the player don’t care for it.
- Item management: This might be a big one. Shops and armories can only be reached every so often, and money is also kept sort of low. Deciding how to spend the gold acquired is an important decision. Still, enough new characters and weapons are found throughout the chapters to not make this a game breaking thing if handled badly.
- Character uniqueness: I much prefer games where each character is distinct, and how this is expressed in this hack is that there are no two player controlled characters with the same class or same promotion. There are also plenty of personal weapons around with various levels of power.
- Less focus on RNG: Avoid is reduced across the board, and terrain avoid is halved. This is more in line with FE11/12.
- Low complexity: This game should mostly feel like vanilla with some other ideas sprinkled in. However, these are meant to be few and not too many. E.g. skills exists, but none that are RNG dependent and very very few overall.
Features
- 24 main chapters planned + a handfull of smaller side chapters
- Custom world map
- New monster types
- Avoid calculation changed to SPD + LCK
- New type of magic: Frost
- Skills added to select few units
- Exception to the above is that all foot units has Shove skill.
- Player decisions that affect both story and rewards
- FE4 style talk conversations. Supports and various other rewards are gained between conversations between characters on different maps.
- Thracia trading, i.e. infinite trading on one turn.
- Findable codex entries in chapters
- Several new weapons
- Unique promotions for all playable characters
- Escape chapters
- Lord inspired in gameplay by best lord in series i.e. Leif.
- Extremely advanced ASM (no not really, but a handful of small things at least)
- Probably more stuff
Screenshots
Credits
Please let me know if I’ve missed someone on this list
Portraits:
Ambrosiac
CanDy
CobyTheGoober
DerTheVaporeon
Ghostblade
Its_Just_Jay
Kaisser
Kanna
L95
LaurentLacroix
Lenh
Levin64
Markex133
Mexicancactus2911
Nickt
RandomWizard
Remurin
Shirex
Smokeyguy77
SSHX
Sterling Glovner
Tchyrimi
Xenith
XVI
Yasako
Zarg
Zeldacrafter64
ZoramineFae
Aruka
Dutch Introvert
Greentea
Nuramon
Pushwall
RedBean
SALVAGED
Yangfly
Zoisite
SD9k02
Ereshkigal
2WB
Beansy
I hope that this will be something that eventually can be enjoyed by many of you in this community. The first patch will soon be out!
