The Battle Before Dawn (FE7) is my favorite map

Good morning, afternoon, or whenever it is that you read this. Like many millennials, I found Fire Emblem through the Super Smash Brothers: Melee pipeline. Two of the secret characters in that game were Marth and Roy. Marth was the series' poster boy, and Roy was the protagonist of the most recent installment of the series, which to that point had only been released in Japan. My friends and I were intensely curious about who these two swordsman. Then Nintendo Power announced the next game would also be when the series was exposed to the world for the first time. Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (released as just Fire Emblem, and also known as FE7) was a day of release purchase for me, and I was in love with it from the title screen. Battle Before DawnBattle Before Dawn is the map that kicks off the game's final act. It is either Chapter 26 or Chapter 28 depending on if you are playing Eliwood Mode or Hector Hard Mode (HHM). The Battle Before Dawn stacks the deck against you. It is a…