Tragic Start

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Tragic Start

Location Small Village New units Mozu Boss(es) Nohran Faceless

“	Run, Mozu! Please, dear! Run and don't look back!	”	— Mozu's mother

Tragic Start is the first paralogue chapter in Fire Emblem Fates. As a paralogue chapter, its events are not integral to the game's main storyline and can be done at the player's leisure. In this chapter, the Avatar and his/her army arrive at a village decimated by Faceless and must protect the sole survivor of the disaster.

Plot

Main article: Tragic Start/Script

A Faceless (presumably the stage's boss) growls in front of a mother and daughter. The mother asks her daughter, Mozu, to run away from the area and not look back; Mozu asks her mother to take her hand and asks that they run together. The Faceless growls again as it attacks, killing Mozu's mother; Mozu cries out to her fallen mother one last time.

We cut to the Avatar hearing Mozu's cries and deducing something bad is happening; Felicia/Jakob also notes the trouble brewing and notes that the village is under attack by Faceless--and it has been ravaged, they are too late. The Avatar refuses to give up hope and states there must be survivors; he/she deduces that with any luck, some people escaped, and asks his/her army to start searching the area. Battle preparations take place at this point.

Once preparations are finished, we find Mozu moping over the destruction of her village and the deaths of her mother and the village's other inhabitants; she deduces that she's alone with nowhere to go and sees the Faceless are coming back for her. The battle begins at this point.

If the Avatar speaks to Mozu, he/she asks her if she's OK, to which Mozu says she's not, making mention of her mother and friends; the Avatar states he/she is here to help, and asks Mozu where her mother and friends are, to which Mozu states her mother wouldn't take her hand. The Avatar apologizes and tells Mozu that there's no time to grieve now, asking her to stay behind him/her, he/she vowing to keep her safe; Mozu vows that she has to fight for her mother, friends, and everything the Faceless took from her. The player may now control Mozu at this point.

Once the battle ends, the Avatar states that they've finished off the last of the Faceless; Mozu asks the Avatar what she does now, as the Faceless took everything from her; the Avatar believes that Mozu must have some surviving family nearby and offers to take Mozu to them, but Mozu states that there is no surviving family and she can't even start over in this area--all of the homes and fields in this area are destroyed, yet she says she wouldn't stay in the area if it wasn't, as everyone she called family is dead and every house is a grave. The Avatar states that his/her army will be glad to take her in, saying they can't replace all that Mozu lost but that the army can take care of her; Mozu asks if she can really join the Avatar's group, to which the Avatar confirms, at least until they can find a safe place for her to call home. The Avatar states that their group is a dangerous cause, going from one battle to the next, ever in peril, which he/she believes is no life for Mozu; Mozu states she's not afraid, that she can help and possibly even save the Avatar or one of his/her friends, then asks the Avatar to let her join his/her cause, vowing to keep them safe. The Avatar accepts Mozu's offer, then admits that Mozu sounds like one of the group already; Mozu states she'll do her best, and that she'll stay safe--her mother's watching over her now.

Chapter data

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Rout the enemy.	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: The Avatar dies.	8+1	{{{partner}}}	1-1	19	{{{third}}}

This chapter's map is 25 columns by 20 rows.

Character data

Birthright Conquest Revelation

Characters
New units
Mozu Villager HP 1 Inventory -- Level 16 Speak to with the Avatar
Available characters
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Characters
New units
Mozu Villager HP 1 Inventory -- Level 16 Speak to with the Avatar
Available characters
Avatar f-default ​Arthur (Fates) ​

Characters
New units
Mozu Villager HP 1 Inventory -- Level 16 Speak to with the Avatar
Available characters
Avatar f-default ​

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Note: The returning characters list only those recruited by the time this chapter is unlocked. Felicia is only a returning character if the Avatar is male, while Jakob is only a returning character if the Avatar is female. As a paralogue chapter, there is no set timeframe in which the chapter must be taken on; thus, it is possible to have recruited more characters than the above by the point the chapter is started.

Item data

There are no items in this chapter.

Event tile data

There are no event tiles during the events of the chapter. When returning to the area for skirmishes in Birthright and Revelation, the following event tiles appear:

• Column 6, row 12: Plains tile to the right of five wall tiles
• Column 22, row 20: Three squares west of the bottom-right square of the map

Dragon Vein data

There are no Dragon Veins in this chapter.

Enemy data

Note: The following enemies' levels are those assuming the player plays this chapter closer to chapter 7 than closer to the final chapter. Levels may be higher depending on progress along the main story path.

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Nohrian Faceless 6 18 Shackled Fist -- Nohrian Faceless 10 1 Shackled Fist --

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes

NPC data

NPC Units

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Mozu Villager 1 1 Brass Naginata • Vulnerary File:Is 3ds forager.png Forager • File:Is 3ds aptitude.png Aptitude --

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes

Boss data

Stats with a + may be higher the further along one of the main story paths the player is.

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Strategy

This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.

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Trivia

• This chapter is the only paralogue in Fates that is not a child paralogue.

In other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Tragic Start
English (unofficial)	Hope from Tragedy	Popularly known by this name prior to the international release of the chapter.

Gallery

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References

	Tragic Start	• Dragon Blood →