Okay, this is really more of a theory on how the Fire Emblem Switch game is going to go, but it is based on my previous theory on how FEH and FE: Switch may be linked and also dives into how I think the story of Heroes is going to go. So, I figure it counts.
Disclaimer: I go into some details about Fire Emblem Heroes Book 2. If you haven't played it, this is your spoiler warning.
Alright, something else that has been bugging me is, technically, in Norse mythology, both the Fire Kingdom and Ice Kingdom are antagonists. I love the story and all of my lovely little ice princesses, but my point remains. Another thing is this: Norse mythology has a lot of realms to it that play a big part in the stories, which I think they play with very well considering the hero summoning ability. Obviously they have Niflheim and Muspelheim, the kingdoms of ice and fire, and Asgard (say 'Askr' out loud. Yeah, that straight up blew my mind when I realised**), the realm of the gods (also plays well into the whole einherjar theory from before), but we are missing 2 very important worlds: Midgard and Hel.
Now, you could argue that the various FE worlds that we pull heroes from are ALL Midgard, but, since Midgard is where the Norse people lived and they were aware of these divine realms, it seems weird that these would just be the other FE worlds. So, if we assume there IS a Midgard world, we now have the setting for our new game. And how does the story of Heores play in? Easy. Many years after the events of Heroes are resolved, Niflheim and Muspelheim kick up their old feud and use Midgard as their battleground and you as humans of Midgard, must defend your home from both invading forces. Maybe you strike a deal with the ice kingdom to get them to leave if you help them defeat their hated rival, which is complicated some what by the fire kingdom's plan to turn the tide of battle: resurrecting the god-king Surtr. Yeah, now you see how Heroes fits in.
Okay, that deals with Midgard, but what about Hel? We may have actually already seen it: the Embliam Empire. Well, the proto version of it anyway. Think about it. We keep running into the problem that Askr opens portals and Embliam just swoops in after to make use of them. There isn't really any way to stop them, unless you cut them off entirely. Like, say, by locking them in another world/dimension with the aid of a rouge member of Embliam royalty to shut the gate and seal them in. But, we have already seen that they can make use of 'einherjar'. They just need a source, something like their own summoner.
This next part is REALLY stretching it, but just go with it for a bit. Alright, now, it would seem really odd for this GIANT battle to be taking place on Midgard and the 'Gods' (Askrians) to be doing nothing. Unless, of course, they recognised this as the start of Ragnarok and have been preparing for battle. Ooooone problem though; the giant battle with ice and fire was supposed to be filling their halls with great warrior einherjar and almost NONE have come. They step in to help quell the fire and ice war to try and figure out what is going on, only to realize that this has all be orchestrated by the captive royals of Hel so that THEY could claim the einherjar and use them to bust out of their dimensional prison and take back Askr, Midgard, and any place else they darn well feel like.
It actually works out rather nicely as that sort of two-part war thing that a couple FE games have going for them. And, yeah, it takes a LOT of inspiration from the other FE games I have played, but I still think it makes for a really compelling story. It also sets up a boss battle near the end where you have to fight all of the units and allies you have lost over the course of the game, because I am cruel and because, FE, if you are going to have perma-death, you might as well play with it, dang it.
Anyway, those are my current 3 theories on FEH. Please let me know what you think. :)
**Note: consulting the wiki shows that Askr and Embliam are actually derived from the names of the first man and woman in Norse mythology, but my argument is still fairly valid. This also maybe implies that the evil dragon god of the Embliam Empire might actually be female, which would be kind of cool.
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