Fire Emblem (GameCube)

• About this item Master a world of strategy Test your prowess against mages, monsters and madmen as you command your knights, pikemen and ed cavaliers Three-dimensional battlefields present all-new challenges Graphically stunning battle sequences put you right on the battlefield Bring peace to the land Take winged soldiers high into the air, or send your furious skinshifters and unleash their feral might on your enemies.

The storyline of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is completely unrelated to any of the previous titles in the series. The protagonist, Ike, the son of Greil, begins the game as the newest member of his her's mercenary company, the Greil Mercenaries. The company operates within the borders of Crimea, a nation of non-shapeshifting humans (referred to as "beorc") that shares its southern border with Gallia, a nation of beast laguz, or humanoids capable of transforming into animals. A few chapters into the game, a neighboring beorc nation, Daein, invades Crimea. Soon after, Ike comes across an unconscious woman in a forest that turns out to be the Crimean princess, Elincia Ridell Crimea. Faced with the ruthless Daein assault, Greil leads the mercenaries out of Crimea and towards Gallia, but is killed by a Daein general known only as the Black Knight. After Ike and his little sister Mist grieve for their her's death, Ike swears revenge. These events mark the beginning of a long journey that will take Ike, Elincia, and the mercenaries across the continent and back in an effort to defeat Daein and restore Crimea's royalty to the throne. Over the course of the game, Ike and his companions must overcome long-held racial tensions between the beorc and laguz in order to form an alliance against their true enemy, Ashnard, king of Daein. In particular, Ike manages to reestablish relations between the beorc nation of Begnion and the few remaining members of the heron laguz clan, which was annihilated in an act of genocide known as the Serenes Massacre. With this accomplishment, Ike is given command of a patchwork army that he leads into Daein and finally back to Crimea, where he confronts the Black Knight and ultimately King Ashnard himself.