Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: Fire Emblem: Call of the Armor

Fire Emblem: Call of the Armor is a custom Sacred Stones romhack, with an original story/world, characters, levels, and custom graphics/music.

The hack was made by a team of hackers, by passing around the project and each person adding on a chapter at a time, with little of the plot planned out; each person improvised their continuation of the plot as they made their level. While there was some collaboration to prevent plot inconsistencies, for the most part there was little communication or direction provided between creators about which units to add in, how the story would unfold, and what gameplay goals to achieve.

The story focuses on Princess Kuijia, a princess sent away by her father as a civil war between the recently split East and West Kotor heats up. She departs her homeland only with her aged retainer, Shale, a handful of rookie knights and refugees, and a harrowing plea from her father to protect the armor she wears at all costs.

Feeling guilt for leaving her father and country behind, Kuijia seeks to raise an army and return back to East Kotor to free her country and end the conflict.

Throughout her journey, Kuijia will learn more about the mysterious armor she wears and the secrets it holds, meeting an eclectic cast of characters who join her on her mission along the way.

Features:
- 20 chapters of original maps, and 3 side chapters
- 65 different characters, of which 50 can be recruited on any one playthrough
- A colorful original setting and world
- New graphics, including portraits, tilesets, UI, and icons
- Many new items and weapons
- A soundtrack with both original compositions and remixes of tracks from other games
- New QoL features such as viewable growth rates and danger zone display

For more details: https://feuniverse.us/t/fe8-complete-call-of-the-armor-v1-20-chapters-3-character-selection-interludes-reverse-recruitment-patch-13-apr-22/12698

Welcome to Fire Emblem: Call of the Armor (development name: Project Telephone Strategy), a [complete] Fire Emblem 8 hackrom.

The final release is 20 gameplay chapters w/ 3 Tear Ring Saga inspired character selection interludes. You can play with up to 65 units total, and 50 in any single run of the hack.

This hack was built in ~4 months by a team of 14 chapter creators, dubbed Team Distant Roads. It took just under 4 months to complete our first draft, and then we spent a few weeks playtesting, rebalancing, and polishing as needed prior to posting a public release.

Plot:

The story focuses on Princess Kuijia, a princess sent away by her father as a civil war between the recently split East and West Kotor heats up. She departs her homeland only with her aged retainer, Shale, a handful of rookie knights and refugees, and a harrowing plea from her father to protect the armor she wears at all costs.

Feeling guilt for leaving her father and country behind, Kuijia seeks to raise an army and return back to East Kotor to free her country and end the conflict.

Throughout her journey, Kuijia will learn more about the mysterious armor she wears and the secrets it holds, meeting an eclectic cast of characters who join her on her mission along the way.

Gameplay changes:

The only mechanical changes from vanilla

Lord classes were changed since we didn’t want to work with an Eirika or Ephraim Lord.
Armors get 5 move, but promote to 5 move general
Added Halberdier as soldier alternate promo (they can also go general).
Summoners summon personalized green units. This was to nerf their usefulness, but primarily because we ran out of character slots.
We did add custom items as well to spice things up.

Team Members:

Chapter Creation & Writing

Knight_Moris
RandomWizard
Citrus
Rivian
Kyrads
LegendOfLoog
devisio
MintX
Pandan
A_Reliable_Chair
Epicer
MournfulRelic
Warpath
MrGreen3339

Art & Assets / Interlude Character Contributors / Playtesters

Levin
Dainn
Laurent_Lacroix
TDAWS
Sdaht
CountReglay
ArcherBias
Hypergammaspaces
ChivesKirk

Technical Support
7743
Pushwall

Credits:

HP Bars Tequila and Circles
Escape ASM 7743
Narrow Font Scraiza
Passive boosts patch Venno
Show heal amount Tequila
AI PRevent healer mistarget Magrika Is Now Canon
Change easy and normal mode penalty into bonus Shuusuke
Weapon Lock EX 7743
Status effect swords Aera, Stein, 7743
Move after talk/support circles
Limitless trade Aera
Fix prep store pricing Aera
Continuous battle BGM 7743
Change battle BGM by chapter 7743
Steel Sword Icon Beansy
Anti-huffman Hextator
Modular mini mug box Zane Avernathy
VQ style mini mug box Scraiza
FE6 Portraits with Fixed Frames Obsidian Daddy, Lenh
Weapon icon CamTech075
Armor mage map sprites WarPath
Armor Mage animations Orihara_Saki, TBA
Baron animations DerTheVaporeon, Leo_link, Nuramon, Iscaneus
HAlberdier animation and map sprite TBA
Portraits Laurent_Lacroix, Blade, RandomWizard, Lenh, Shin19,CanDy, SSHX, Zelkami, Levin, Epicer, KrashBoomBang, RandomPretzel, Zorua, L95, Nickt, Ken
GFE1R Oghma CirclesEverywhere, NickT
Danger Zone CirclesEverywhere
Unlocked Supply 7743
Item Icon Indogutsu Tenbuki, EldritchAbomination, Lisandra Brave, Gabriel Knight, Beansy, Zelix, Ereshkigal
Music Saxor, Pandan, Jordan Davenport of VGMusic, Sme, SurfingKyogre, RandomWizard, Runa, Scraiza, Erik Menjivar of VGMusic, King Meteor of VGMusic, KHInsider, pieordie1 of VGMusic, Andrew Shand of VGMusic
Unit Battle Palettes Epicer
Ice Shard Spell Sme, Compile
Set Unit Status Patch 7743
AI fix hypergammaspaces
Battle Stats w/Anims off Tequila
Add event: send items to transporter 7743
Set unit condition Tequila
Broken wall effect 7743
That Person’s name (Bravely Default) Sme
Evil church (Clock Tower) Dolkar
Person combat (Berwick) RSflame
Female Mercenary Map Sprites Agro
Female Mercenary Animation TBA
Corrupt Eye Spell Orihara Saki
Inazuma anim Arch
Frostcalibur Anim Shyuterz, Hiroto
Get units in range matching condition 7743
Judgement Anim arch
Set Preparation BGM By Chapter 7743
Add Event: GetKillerUnitID Leonarth
Oathbringer, Stone Breaker, Charybdis icons GabrielKnight
Stone Breaker Anim Bonsai, Blazer
Conversation 1 (FE4) SurfingKyogre
Veld (FE5) SurfingKyogre
Phantom Map Sprite Pushwall
Deathgoyle, Elder Bael, Gwyllgi Map Sprites Pikmin1211
Corporealis X Animations Arch
Many custom tunes & other MIDIs Chair
Zain’s Blade II Icon Zarg
Weapon Icon SacredStones



Database match: Fire Emblem - The Sacred Stones (USA, Australia)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
File/ROM SHA-1: C25B145E37456171ADA4B0D440BF88A19F4D509F
File/ROM CRC32: A47246AE