Before Awakening

Encounter with Awakening is the first DLC map in Fire Emblem: Fates. It is a free map that involves three Awakening characters, Chrom, Lissa and Frederick.

The Avatar's band travel to Ylisse through the Outrealm Gate, there they meet Chrom, Lissa and Frederick, who mistake them for one of Gangrel's bands and challenge them to a battle.

Once defeated, Chrom says that the Avatar was a good tactician and that he should be given two of Ylisse's treasures, the Lodestar Seal and the Great Lord Seal. However, the Avatar insists that he shouldn't get these treasures. However, Chrom insists and says that he would ask his older sister, Exalt Emmeryn, and that she would agree.

Later in the day, the Avatar is given the Lodestar Seal and Great Lord Seal, which allows a unit to become a Lodestar or Great Lord, right before they leave.

The next day, Chrom, Lissa, Frederick find a figure in a field, named Robin. This is where the plot of Awakening begins.