Fire Emblem Heroes: latest events and content updates (January 2018)

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On February 2nd 2017, Nintendo launched Fire Emblem Heroes on Android and iOS (click here to check out everything you need to know about it). Just like all Free 2 Play games worth their salt, Nintendo is planning to provide users with regular content, events, and updates, in order to make sure they keep playing as long as possible.

In this post, we listed all the events and content updates for Fire Emblem Heroes in January 2018, so that you can find all those details in one place. If you’re looking for the most recent updates, make sure to check out this post instead!

Looking for an overview of what’s coming to Fire Emblem Heroes in late January, February, and early March? Then check out this post for the latest Events Calendar! And this one for the various events announced during the 5th Feh Channel presentation!

January 1st

[Event] The 10th Voting Gauntlet event has been announced! It’s called “Winter Festival vs New Year’s”, and it starts on January 1st. You will find all there is to know about it in this post! (available until January 7th)
[Event] Round 1 of the 10th Voting Gauntlet is now live. You will find all there is to know about it in this post! (available until January 3rd)
[Quests] The first set of Special Quests for the latest Voting Gauntlet is now live. You can clear the quests in order to get various bonuses (available until January 3rd)
[Log-in Bonus] During the Voting Gauntlet event, all players can get 5 Battle Flags every day as special Log-in Bonus (available until January 7th)
[Log-in Bonus] To celebrate New Years, all players can get 2 Orbs a day, during 10 days (so 20 Orbs in total) (available until January 16th)
[Maps] A new set of Daily Special Maps is now live, with one new map going live every day for 3 days straight (each map remains available for a full week). Clearing them on Normal and Hard allows you to earn up to 18 Orbs (available January 3rd)
[Maps] The first Daily Special Map for New Year is now available: “New Year’s – Part 1”. You can clear it on Normal and Hard to get some bonus Orbs (only the first time) (available until January 8th)
[Quests] A new set of Daily Special Quests is now available: “New Year’s”. It allows you to get Stamina Potions and Orbs (available until January 8th)
[Quests] Not one, but three new sets of Monthly Quests are now available for January (available until February 1st)
[Maps] The 9th Daily Special Map is now live: “Daily – Part 9”. You can clear it on Normal and Hard, and get 1 Orb for each difficulty level (only the first time) (available until January 8th)

January 2nd

[Quests] The second set of Daily Special Quests for the Tempest Trials event is now live, and allows you to get various goodies by clearing them (available until January 9th)
[Maps] The 2nd Daily Special Map for New Year is now available: “New Year’s – Part 2”. You can clear it on Normal and Hard to get some bonus Orbs (only the first time) (available until January 9th)
[Maps] The 10th Daily Special Map is now live: “Daily – Part 10”. You can clear it on Normal and Hard, and get 1 Orb for each difficulty level (only the first time) (available until January 9th)
[Arena] The latest set of Bonus Heroes is now available, and features the following characters: Camilla (Holiday Traveler), Takumi (Prince of Soup), Azura (Celebratory Spirit), Rhajat, Navarre, Olwen, Genny, Sophia, Gunter, Alfonse (available until January 16th?)
[Elements] The Elements for the current season are: Water, Wind (available until January 2nd)

January 3rd

[Event] Round 2 of the 10th Voting Gauntlet is now live. You will find all there is to know about it in this post! (available until January 5th)
[Quests] The second set of Special Quests for the latest Voting Gauntlet is now live. You can clear the quests in order to get various bonuses (available until January 5th)
[Maps] The 3rd Daily Special Map for New Year is now available: “New Year’s – Part 3”. You can clear it on Normal and Hard to get some bonus Orbs (only the first time) (available until January 10th)
[Maps] The 11th Daily Special Map is now live: “Daily – Part 11”. You can clear it on Normal and Hard, and get 1 Orb for each difficulty level (only the first time) (available until January 10th)

January 4th

[Summoning Focus] A new Summoning Focus is now available: “Effective Against Cavalry”. It includes the following characters: Gray, Mathilda, and Rhajat. Characters added to this page! (available until January 18th)

January 5th

[Event] The Final Round of the 10th Voting Gauntlet is now live. You will find all there is to know about it in this post! (available until January 7th)
[Quests] The final set of Special Quests for the latest Voting Gauntlet is now live. You can clear the quests in order to get various bonuses (available until January 7th)
[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now available: “Infantry Mastery Quests”. Clearing those allow you to get various goodies (including Orbs) (available until January 19th)

January 6th

[Maps] The Bound Hero Battle featuring Ephraim and Eirika is back for a limited time. You can clear it on Hard, Lunatic, or Infernal in order to get some Orbs (available until January 13th)
[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now available: “Bound Hero Battle”. Clearing those quests allow you to get soem bonus Orbs (available until January 13th)

January 9th

[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now available: “Anna Quests”. Clearing those allows you to get various goodies, including bonus Orbs, Sacred Coins, and more (available until January 23rd)
[Elements] The Elements for the current season are: Earth, Wind (available until January 16th)

January 10th/11th

[Update] A new update is now available for Fire Emblem Heroes: Ver. 2.1.0. You can find more details in this post (coming soon), and the patch notes on this page!
[Maps] A new Squad Assault is now available: “6th Assault”. Clearing it allows you to get 2 Orbs and a Sacred Seal (no end date)

January 12th

[Summoning Focus] A new Summoning Focus is now live: “World of Dawn”. It features several characters from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: Micaiah, Sothe, and Zelgius. More details can be found in this post, and characters added to this page (available until January 25th)
[Maps] A new Story Chapter is now available: Guided by a Dream (no end date)
[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now available: “Guided by a Dream”. It allows you to get some bonus Orbs by clearing the various maps on the latest Story Chapter on Lunatic (available until January 25th)
[Log-in Bonus] To celebrate the latest Summoning Focus, all players can get some bonus Orbs as Log-in Bonus, with the amount varying each day: 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3 (13 Orbs in total) (available until January 25th)

January 13th

[Summoning Focus] A new Summoning Focus is now available: “Tempest Trials”. It includes the following Heroes: Ryoma, Hinoka, and Sakura. Characters added to this page (available until January 23rd)

January 14th

[Hero Battles] The Grand Hero Battle featuring Oliver: the Admirer of Beauty is now available. As usual, you can clear the map on Hard to get a 3 ★ version of that character, on Lunatic to get a [4 ★] version, and on Infernal to get a [4 ★] version and some Hero Feathers. Character added to this page (available until January 23rd)

January 16th

[Event] The second Tempest Trials Mini event, “Stepping into the New Year…”, is now live. Check out this post for all you need to know! (available until January 23rd)
[Quests] The usual set of Daily Special Quests went live alongside the latest Tempest Trials Mini event. It allows you to get various bonuses, including Refining Stones (available until January 23rd)
[Arena] The latest set of Bonus Heroes is now available, and features the following characters: Micaiah, Sothe, Zelgius, Oliver, Sanaki, Fae, Linde, Chrom, Virion, Fjorm (available until January 30th?)
[Elements] The Elements for the current season are: Earth, Wind (available until January 23rd)

January 17th

[Log-in Bonus] If you completed the Fire Emblem Heroes survey that was sent a few weeks ago, you can now claim 5 Orbs as Special Log-in Bonus. There’s no notification on the main screen, but it’s listed as “Survey Participation Reward” in the Present List (no end date?)
[Manga] The 9th chapter of the official Fire Emblem Heroes manga is now available: click here to check it out (Japanese-only)! (no end date)

January 18th

[Summoning Focus] A new Summoning Focus is now live: “4 ★ and 5 ★ Heroes”. It includes the following Heroes in 4 ★ Focus and 5 ★ Focus rarities: Hinata, Laslow, Roy, Abel, Oscar, Mathilda, Barst, Frederick, Fae, Klein, Setsuna, and Rebecca. Characters added to this page! NB: the 4 ★ Focus category has a 29% initial appearance rate, and 6 ★ a 3% initial appearance rate. (available until February 7th)

January 19th

[Event] The Early Anniversary Celebration event is now live. Check out this post for more details about the 1st Anniversary of Fire Emblem Heroes (no end date)
[Log-in Bonus] A new set of Log-in Bonuses is now live: “Early Anniversary Bonus”. It allows you to get 2 Orbs each day, up to 10 times (so 20 Orbs in total) (available until February 3rd)
[Log-in Bonus] Players who haven’t played during the past 30 days or more can get 20 Orbs from Sharena as a Special, one-time only Log-in Bonus (no end date)
[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now live: “Arena”. It allows you to get various bonuses, including Orbs and Sacred Coins. Several difficulty levels available (available until February 2nd)
[Shop] Starting today, everyone can purchase the Starter Support Pack from the Shop, though only once. It includes 12 Orbs, 12 Light’s Blessings, 12 Stamina Potions, and [5 ★] version of Black Knight (no end date)

January 21st

[Maps] The latest set of Special Maps is now live: “Refined Weapons”. There’s 5 maps in total, playable in 3 difficulty levels (Normal, Hard, Lunatic), so technically 15 maps in total. Clearing them allows you to get Orbs and Refining Stones (available until February 5th)
[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now available: “Refined Weapons”. Clearing those allow you to get Orbs and Great Badges (available until February 5th)

January 23rd

[Quests] A new set of Special Quests related to Chain Challenge and Squad Assault is now live: “Chain Challenge”. Clearing those allow you to get Orbs and Stamina Potions (available until February 6th)
[Elements] The Elements for the current season are: Fire, Wind (available until January 30th)

January 25th

[Summoning Focus] A new Summoning Event is now live: “Sacred Memories”. It features several characters from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, and more precisely: Myrrh, l’Arachel, and Eirika. More details can be found in this post. Characters page updated (available until February 9th)
[Maps] A new Story Chapter is now available: “Book II, Chapter 4: Fiery Resolve”. Like all Story Chapters, it includes 5 new maps (no end date)
[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now available “Fiery Resolve”. It allows you to get some bonus Orbs by clearing the maps from the new Story Chapter on Lunatic (available until February 9th)
[Log-in Bonus] To celebrate the latest Summoning Focus, all players can get some bonus Orbs as Log-in Bonus, with the amount varying each day: 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3 (13 Orbs in total) (available until February 9th)

January 26th

[Hero Battles] The Grand Hero Battle featuring Lyon is now live. As usual, you can clear the map on Hard to get a 3 ★ version of that character, on Lunatic to get a 4 ★ version, and on Infernal to get a 4 ★ version and some Hero Feathers. Character added to this page (available until February 3rd)
[Event] The interim results for the Choose your Legends: Round 2 event are now available. You can check them out in this post!

January 29th

[Quests] A new set of Special Quests is now live: “Three Heroes”. Clearing those allow you to get some bonus Orbs and three 3 ★ characters: Hinata, Gwendolyn, and Saizo. Characters added to this page! (available until February 12th)

January 30th

[Elements] The Elements for the current season are: Earth, Wind (available until February 6th)
[Arena] The latest set of Bonus Heroes is now available, and features the following characters: Eirika (Anamesis Lady), Myrrh, L’Arachel, Lyon, Rebecca, Marth (Altean Prince), Raven, Peri, Hana, Anna (available until February 13th?)

January 31st

[Livestream] The 5th Feh Channel presentation took place today. Check out this post for all the juicy details!
[Event] The third Tempest Trials Mini is called “Shrouded by the Storm”, and it’s now live. More details can be found on this page (available until February 7th)
[Quests] A new set of Daily Special Quests is now available “Tempest Trials Mini”. Clearing those allow you to get various goodies, including Refining Stones (available until February 7th)
[Summoning Focus] A new Legendary Hero Summoning Event is now live: “Legendary Heroes: Ike”. It features the following Heroes: Ike (Vanguard Legend), Takumi, Sanaki, Faye, Frederick, Robin (Seaside Tactician), Xander (Student Swimmer), Lucina (Brave Princess), Azura (Lady of Ballads), Fjorm, Siegbert, and Gunnthrá. More details can be found in this post. Characters Page updated (available until February 5th)
[Manga] The 11th chapter of the official Fire Emblem Heroes manga is now available: click here to check it out (Japanese-only)! (no end date)