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Fortuna's Blessing is the turn-rewind mechanic in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. If an ally falls or a move goes wrong, you can wind the battle back to any earlier point and play it out differently. Nintendo's own framing of it is blunt: do not be afraid to rethink your strategy if things do not go as planned.

How It Works

The rewind is available after each move, and it is not limited to undoing the last action. You can return to any previous point in the battle, which makes it a tool for reworking a whole approach rather than a one-step undo.

Hands-on accounts of the pre-launch build found no usage limit on Normal difficulty. One of those accounts noticed a resource sitting in the corner of the battle screen and guessed that a harder difficulty might consume it. That was the writer's speculation rather than something observed, and nothing official has confirmed a cost at any difficulty.

In the Story

The power belongs to Fortuna, the Dagdan goddess of fate, and she is described as wielding authority over time that was passed down to her by the progenitor god Sothis. Eshmel receives the blessing from her as part of the mission into the past, which is the same errand that drives the game's second timeline. The Direct's own wording for the choice put to the protagonist is to use the time-travelling powers of the goddess Fortuna to change the fates of the four Heroes.

Not the Same as a Temple Blessing

Fortuna's Blessing is a battle system, not one of the Temple Blessings earned by volunteering at the seven temples in Dagsion. Those are separate battle effects such as temporary stat buffs and halved incoming damage. Fortuna does have a temple on the same row as the other members of the pantheon, and by one report her blessing there is the only one that cannot be upgraded, sitting permanently at no Level.

For how the rewind fits into a turn, see the Combat System.