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title: "Fire Emblem Heroes – Animated Trailer, reveals villainous Lif’s true identity"
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description: "After months it looks like Book III of Fire Emblem Heroes will be taking an even more tragic turn."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2019-08-02 14:23:21"
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Fire Emblem Heroes - Animated Trailer, reveals villainous Lif’s true identity | General News | NintendoReporters

 [![Fire Emblem Heroes – Animated Trailer, reveals villainous Lif’s true identity](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/fire-emblem-heroes-animated-trailer-reveals-villainous-lifs-true-identity.jpg "Fire Emblem Heroes – Animated Trailer, reveals villainous Lif’s true identity")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/fire-emblem-heroes-animated-trailer-reveals-villainous-lifs-true-identity.jpg)After months it looks like Book III of Fire Emblem Heroes will be taking an even more tragic turn.

It’s a pretty huge spoiler that finally explains what we saw from Book III’s first trailer.

## [](#spoilers-beware)Spoilers beware

Nintendo has released a new animated trailer for the mobile game, which continues the story of Alfonse’s battle against Hel. It follows up from the events of the game’s updating story missions – with Alfonse finally confronting the undead general Lif about his real identity.

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[Link](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/general/fire-emblem-heroes-animated-trailer-reveals-villainous-lifs-true-identity/)

### [](#about-fire-emblem-heroes)About Fire Emblem Heroes

Fire Emblem Heroes is a free-to-play tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for Android and iOS. The game is a mobile spin-off of the Fire Emblem series featuring its characters, and was released on February 2, 2017.

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