We begin today’s Fire Emblem Heroes news update with a new Bound Hero Battle: Reinhardt & Ishtar.

Square up against the potent opponents Ishtar and Meisterschwert Reinhardt in this Thracia 776-themed battle – with Hard, Lunatic and Infernal difficulties available – giving a total of 9 Orbs for full completion. This BHB will end on the 13th of October, at 6:59 AM UTC.

As is tradition, Bound Hero Battles also come with a banner to use those fresh Orbs on:

Summoning Focus: Ishtar & Reinhardt.

The focus features Ishtar – Thunder Goddess, Reinhardt – Thunder’s Fist and Reinhardt – Thunder’s Sword. Don’t forget to pick up your free summon, and good luck to anyone trying to summon any of these three great Heroes!

As usual, a new Thursday brings a brand new Tactics Drills map. This new challenge is a part of the Skill Studies difficulty, and is named “Tiki and Mar-Mar.” It features Legendary Tiki and OG Marth.

Here’s the map:

Heavily outnumbered, but never underestimate the bonds between a legendary sword-wielding Hero and his cute shape-shifting dragon friend.

Last, but maybe not least, Round 2 of the ongoing Voting Gauntlet – Fathers and Daughters also begins today. The Semi-Finalists are Arvis, Lilina, Morgan, and Nina. Three of the four fathers have been KO’d. You could say that things are really…heating up.