Fire Emblem Fates family tree, Hoshido and Nohr

Hoshido is the kingdom that resists the expansion of Nohr.² Its late king, Sumeragi, fell in the war with Nohr, and his wife Mikoto took the throne after him.⁴ Nintendo’s guide says that Mikoto loved her children Ryoma, Hinoka, Takumi, Sakura and Corrin, and even Azura, the hostage from Nohr. It also says she died protecting Corrin.⁴

That sentence is the closest any official text opened here comes to a list of the Hoshidan children, and it is loose. It counts Corrin, whom Mikoto bore, and Azura, whom she raised, in the same breath as the four, so the words her children do not settle who bore whom. The chart therefore joins Ryoma, Hinoka, Takumi and Sakura to the royal couple by dotted lines of uncertain parentage, and keeps the solid birth line for Corrin alone.

Garon’s heir is Xander, whom Nintendo’s guide calls the first son and heir of King Garon. The same entry names his younger sister Camilla, who dotes on Corrin, his younger brother Leo, and Elise, the youngest sister.⁷ The chart hangs all four from Garon.

The guide says that Garon had a number of talented children but does not name their mothers.⁷ It does name two wives. Arete came from Valla, and Garon was so taken by her singing that he made her his bride. She was his second wife, and she died of the curse of Valla.⁵ Garon married her after the death of his first wife.⁶ Since the mothers of Xander, Camilla, Leo and Elise go unnamed in these texts, each of the four has a line from Garon only.

Corrin grows up among these four. Kotaku’s list of the children places Xander and Leo on the Conquest route, the route of Nohr, and Ryoma and Takumi on Birthright.^12,1 Their blue N marks run along the right of the chart, and Corrin carries both letters once the game reaches Hoshido.

Azura is Corrin’s mirror image. She is the daughter of Arete, the queen of Nohr, and she was taken to Hoshido as a young girl and raised there by Mikoto.⁶ Nintendo’s guide calls her Arete’s beloved daughter and names no father.⁵

The guide adds that Mikoto was Arete’s younger sister.⁵ That one fact ties the two houses together by blood. Corrin and Azura are the children of two sisters, so they are first cousins, each raised by the other’s side. The chart draws the sisters with a teal line between Mikoto and Arete and a green dotted arrow from Mikoto to Azura for the years Mikoto raised her. Garon’s line to Azura is drawn as uncertain, since the texts never say whether he is her father.

Arete’s story reaches past death. The guide says that after the curse killed her, Anankos, the king of Valla, brought her back.⁵ This is as far into Valla as the page goes, because the official texts opened for it say no more about Anankos and the royal families.

When two units reach the highest support rank, S rank, they marry, and a side mission opens in which the player recruits their child.^10,13 The children grow up in another dimension where time runs differently, so they join the army as young adults.¹⁰ Nintendo’s guide calls the place where Shigure was brought up the Deeprealms.⁹

The rule that matters for any Fire Emblem Fates family tree is which parent fixes the child. Kotaku explains that the father decides which child is born, while the child’s hair colour comes from the mother.^12,13 Corrin and Azura are the exceptions, each with a child of their own.¹² Kana is the child of Corrin and inherits Corrin’s dragon powers, and Shigure is the son of Azura.^8,9 Kana’s other parent can be anyone Corrin marries.¹³

Kotaku’s list, written for the Japanese release, gives each royal father his son. Siegbert is the son of Xander, and the Japanese names it gives for the sons of Ryoma and Takumi are Shinonome and Kisaragi.¹² The chart draws Kana, Shigure and Siegbert as the pattern. Each hangs from one fixed parent, and the place of the other parent stays empty, because the player fills it.

Corrin can reach S rank with almost every character of the opposite gender, and with Niles and Rhajat of the same gender.¹³

A square is a man, a circle is a woman, and a diamond is a person whose gender the player chooses, as with Corrin and Kana. A horizontal line is a marriage. A solid line down is a child by birth, a dotted line is a foster child, and the finer dotted lines from Sumeragi, and from Garon to Azura, mark a parentage the sources leave open.

The red outline and the H mark Hoshido, and the blue outline and the N mark Nohr. The teal line joins the sisters Mikoto and Arete, the green dotted arrow is Mikoto raising Azura, and the dark red dashed arrow is Garon taking Corrin.

To plan your own pairings, open this chart in the editor and add the parent you chose next to Kana, Shigure or Siegbert, or start from the story charts. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols.