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Sothis appears in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave as the progenitor god, a figure her official profile calls a powerful being known as The Beginning. When the world reaches the brink of destruction she calls down a single soul to stand against the demon god Balor, and that soul becomes the player character. She also performs the game's vocal theme. This page covers her appearance in this game only.

Role in the Story

The ruined era of 1454 is the point where she enters. The August 2026 presentation states it plainly: with Dagda facing its end and the four Heroes vanished, "the progenitor god, Sothis, calls down a single soul" to confront the situation. Her profile puts the same act in her own terms, describing her as entrusting the fate of the world to that soul in the hope that they will bring light back to a land facing ruin.

The soul she summons is Eshmel, whom she names the Promised One. From there the work passes to others: Fortuna supplies the means to reach the past, and the four Heroes supply the force. Sothis does not accompany the party. Her last line in the presentation hands the story over rather than joining it: "The rest is up to you."

She appears in an adult form in this game. That is a description of what is on screen, not a claim about when this story sits relative to anything else, and the pre-launch material makes no statement either way.

The Theme Song

The presentation gives the game's vocal theme to Sothis, sung in-fiction rather than played over a montage. The English caption track records the opening lines as "In time's flow, see the glow of flames ever burning bright. On the swift river's drift, broken memories alight." The Japanese track carries the matching lyric, 時のよすがに灯る炎 and 河面にたゆたう記憶の欠片. When the song ends she speaks directly to the listener: "I see that my song has finally reached your ears."

The placement matters more than the melody. The song is what reaches the summoned soul, so the theme is not scoring the scene, it is the scene. The track list is covered on Soundtrack.

Fortuna's Blessing

One in-game line ties the turn-rewind power back to Sothis, with Fortuna describing the ability she wields as a power over heavenly time inherited from the progenitor god. That is a single Japanese line of dialogue rather than a description of the mechanic, so the connection is worth noting and not worth building on. The mechanic itself lives on Fortuna's Blessing.

A second dialogue line has Fortuna say that the Obelisk Chamber beneath her temple was prepared at Sothis's request, in case disaster ever struck the land. Both lines point the same way: the response to Balor was set up long before Balor returned.

What Is Not Known

Sothis has no announced class, no stat block and no confirmed playability in this game. No voice credit for the role is published here; one credit has circulated but it traces back to a relay error rather than to an official source, so it is left out until Nintendo confirms it. Nothing about her beyond her appearance and her actions in Fortune's Weave belongs on this page.

Related Pages

For how the two eras of the story fit together, see Story and Plot Structure. For the tournament five years earlier that the counter-plan reaches back to, see Heroic Games.