On Thursday, Nintendo launched two new Fire Emblem websites in Japan: one for Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami on Wii and a second site that provides a comprehensive look at the series.

The site for the Wii game provides us a first look at the characters, an interactive map, and a story synopsis. (Note, this is a direct sequel to GameCube's Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, so there are spoilers here if you haven't finished the previous title.) The star is a trailer which runs for a minute and a half, showing several cinema sequences from the game. The scenes show a massive clash of laguz and beorc armies, a dragon slicing a tower from a castle wall, and a bird landing on a girl's finger in green foothills. Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami releases on February 22nd in Japan and will hopefully make it to the US before the end of the year.

Fire Emblem World is a new site that provides a detailed history of the entire FE series. You can view summaries of each game, watch instructional gameplay videos, survey maps, and browse backgrounds and stats for dozens of classic characters.