The newest official Fire Emblem Heroes The popularity poll was not won by Marth or Chrom or any of the other handsome guys in the history of the franchise. No, fans voted overwhelmingly for the unnamed gatekeeper guarding the entrance to Garreg Mach Monastery in 2019 Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Nintendo has the full results of the fifth “Choose Your Legends” poll yesterday (h / t Polygon), showing that Heroes players threw a lot of weight behind the Gatekeeper, who will be added to the game as a playable character this summer due to his victory. He earned 72,267 votes compared to 46,699 for the original Fire emblem main character Marth. Three housesMarianne and Sacred StonesEirika were the two best characters on the women’s side.
The Gatekeeper – an unnamed NPC that only exists to greet the player when they enter the monastery – became something of a meme in the Fire emblem community after Three houses arrived on Switch in 2019, despite the fact that he couldn’t be romanticized or even recruited by the main character. Still, his cheerful disposition warmed the hearts Fire emblem fans, who produced a lot of fan art even found a way to turn him into the game as a useful unit in combat. Unsurprisingly, the Gatekeeper’s charm was off the charts.
Fire Emblem Heroes has seen steady updates since its arrival on mobile platforms in 2017. In previous polls in the “Choose Your Legends” series, the community voted for characters such as Three houses‘Dimitri and Edelgard, Gaiden‘s Alm, and Bright dawnMicaiah to appear in-game wearing special outfits. This was the first year that the Gatekeeper was included as a voting option.