Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave has introduced one of the largest new character ensembles in Nintendo’s long-running tactical RPG series, accompanied by an equally extensive English voice cast. Released exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2 on September 17, 2026, the new game follows four central heroes whose individual stories become connected through the Heroic Games, with dozens of additional characters appearing across their respective journeys.
Zeno Robinson, Xander Mobus, Shara Kirby and Katiana Sarkissian lead the English cast as Cai, Dietrich, Theodora and Leda. Joshua Waters and Virginia Lee provide the two voices of Eshmel, while the supporting ensemble includes performers such as Cassandra Lee Morris, Dave Fennoy, Jonah Scott, Aleks Le, J. Michael Tatum, Daman Mills and Amber Lee Connors. Several members of the cast also have previous connections to Fire Emblem, giving Fortune’s Weave a mixture of familiar franchise voices and performers stepping into its world in new roles.
Four Voice Actors Lead the Intertwining Stories
Zeno Robinson voices Cai, one of the game’s four protagonists and a character whose casting carries some personal significance for the actor. Robinson has spoken about growing up playing Fire Emblem and practicing voiceover by reading dialogue from the games aloud, making his eventual casting as one of the protagonists a particularly meaningful career milestone. Cai is also not Robinson’s first Fire Emblem role. He previously voiced Fogado in Fire Emblem Engage and has played Ross and Zihark in Fire Emblem Heroes. Outside the franchise, Robinson’s animation and game credits include Hawks in My Hero Academia, Hunter in The Owl House and Junpei Iori in Persona 3 Reload.
Xander Mobus plays Dietrich, giving another established Fire Emblem performer one of the game’s central characters. Mobus previously voiced Darios in Fire Emblem Warriors and has performed characters including Innes, Arvis and Kaze through Fire Emblem Heroes. His wider game career includes Joker in Persona 5, while Nintendo audiences have also heard him extensively in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as its announcer and Master Hand. Shara Kirby voices Theodora and previously appeared in Fire Emblem Heroes as Ganglöt, while Katiana Sarkissian completes the quartet as Leda. Together, the four performances anchor a narrative structured around separate perspectives rather than a single conventional protagonist, giving each actor a substantial portion of the game’s story to carry.
Eshmel and Some Familiar Fire Emblem Voices
The four heroes are connected through Eshmel, a central character available in male and female forms. Joshua Waters voices male Eshmel in English, while Virginia Lee performs the female version. The character occupies an important position within the larger story, interacting with the different protagonists as their paths through the Heroic Games begin to converge. The dual casting gives players two performances for the role while retaining the same narrative function.
One of the more intriguing pieces of casting involves Cassandra Lee Morris, who performs both Fortuna and Sothis. Morris originally voiced Sothis in the English version of Fire Emblem: Three Houses and subsequently returned to the character in other franchise projects. Fortune’s Weave therefore does more than simply bring the performer back for an unrelated part. She reprises Sothis while simultaneously voicing Fortuna, mirroring the game’s Japanese casting, where the two characters also share a performer. Mark Whitten similarly returns as Seteth, another character closely associated with Three Houses. Their presence strengthens the connections between the new game and earlier parts of the franchise without requiring the new cast to simply replicate the ensemble of a previous title.
A Supporting Cast Drawn From Across Games and Animation
Beyond the principal characters, Fortune’s Weave draws on an extensive group of actors with backgrounds spanning games, animation and anime dubbing. Dave Fennoy voices Bonaventure, while Aleks Le plays Majide and J. Michael Tatum voices Gaitz. Jonah Scott appears as Solel, Daman Mills plays Sirocco, Erin Yvette voices Orchel and Nazeeh Tarsha performs Diego. Other recognizable names include Kayli Mills as Ninae, Amber Lee Connors as Loretta, Anjali Kunapaneni as Nydine and Amelia Tyler in the roles of Kalla and Ursula.
The scale of the ensemble reflects the structure of Fire Emblem itself. Characters are not simply background figures surrounding the protagonists. Recruitment, support relationships and conversations between party members have long been central to the series, meaning supporting characters can accumulate substantial dialogue and individual story material even when they are far removed from the main cast. Fortune’s Weave expands that idea across its multiple intersecting groups, requiring a cast large enough to give each storyline its own collection of allies and personalities while still allowing characters to cross between different parts of the narrative.
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave English Voice Cast
Nintendo revealed the English performers gradually in the lead-up to release, with the completed game containing a considerably larger cast than the initial protagonist announcements suggested. The confirmed English cast includes:
- Cai – Zeno Robinson
- Dietrich – Xander Mobus
- Eshmel – Joshua Waters / Virginia Lee
- Fortuna / Sothis – Cassandra Lee Morris
- Leda – Katiana Sarkissian
- Theodora – Shara Kirby
- Alexandra – Natalie Rose
- Anatolia – Dawn M. Bennett
- Aurora – Jamie Sara Lewis
- Benditz – Max Lindsey
- Bertrand – Christian Young
- Bonaventure – Dave Fennoy
- Buccar – Chris Okawa
- Catania – Brittany Lauda
- Centurio – Justice Washington
- Creek – Willow Engel
- Dadao – Yung-I Chang
- Dante – Alaina Wis
- Diego – Nazeeh Tarsha
- Esmeralda – Kendell Byrd
- Fabio – Jimmie Yamaguchi
- Fianna – Nerida Bronwen
- Gaitz – J. Michael Tatum
- Goliath – Damon Alums
- Guzran – Matthew David Rudd
- Halvin – Judy Alice Lee
- Hong Hua – Jennifer Sun Bell
- Io – Clifford Chapin
- Jasmine – Heather Gonzalez
- Jester – Kieran Regan
- Kalla / Ursula – Amelia Tyler
- Lilian – Stephanie Wong
- Loretta – Amber Lee Connors
- Ludia – Kana Shimanuki
- Lysander – Howard Wang
- Majide – Aleks Le
- Mars – Joshua David King
- Mikaela – Marie Westbrook
- Mu – Asante Mango
- Nathan – Matt Silver
- Nezha – Paul Castro Jr.
- Ninae – Kayli Mills
- Noctula – Cassie Ewulu
- Nuzzuo – George Peter
- Nydine – Anjali Kunapaneni
- Olympia – Madeline Dorroh
- Orchel – Erin Yvette
- Peter – Michael Johnston
- Seteth – Mark Whitten
- Sha Lan – Courtney Lin
- Simon – David Cherry
- Sirocco – Daman Mills
- Sofia – Frankie Kevich
- Solel – Jonah Scott
- Talimun – Mauricio Ortiz-Segura
- The Lady of Lilies – Brittany Lauda
- Tialla – Madeleine Morris
- Tobias – Kamran Nikhad
- Troy – Monique Burias Shi
- Ultand – Rachel Rial
- Yang Jie – Brent Mukai
- Zarcone – Jonathan Fernandez
The list also illustrates how extensively modern Fire Emblem games rely on individual performances even outside their headline characters. Many of these actors voice recruitable allies whom players can spend dozens of hours using in battle and getting to know through conversations, making the supporting cast an important part of how the game’s enormous character roster develops its identity.
A New Fire Emblem Story With Connections to Its Past
Developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo, Fortune’s Weave revolves around the Heroic Games, a competition in which participants pursue the possibility of having their wishes granted. Cai, Dietrich, Theodora and Leda enter that larger conflict with different motivations, while Eshmel’s role increasingly ties their stories together. The game retains the tactical battles, classes, recruitment and relationship systems associated with Fire Emblem, while structuring its narrative around several protagonists whose paths can be followed within the same adventure.
That structure makes the voice ensemble particularly important. Robinson, Mobus, Kirby and Sarkissian each have a protagonist to establish rather than serving as companions to a single lead, while the supporting performers populate distinct groups that gradually become part of a much larger story. At the same time, returning actors such as Morris and Whitten, along with performers who previously played entirely different Fire Emblem characters, give the new cast connections stretching across several earlier entries. The result is a voice roster that introduces dozens of new performances while retaining some recognizable voices from the franchise’s recent history.