Thank you Iridium.
If I understand you correctly you are advocating the following order?!:
Fire Emblem Awakening first and then?
1. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
2. Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light (NES, remade for SNES as FE3 Book 1, and reremade for DS as Shadow Dragon. DS is technically the best version, but a weaker title in the series overall.)
3. Fire Emblem Gaiden (NES, very outdated and the game nobody talks about. A game mostly unrelated to the two it's between, but a couple characters are in both.)
4. Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (SNES, remade for DS as Heroes of Light and Shadow. Takes place three years after Shadow Dragon, shares most characters.)
5. Fire Emblem: Binding Blade
6. Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword
7. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
8. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
9. Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
10. Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
Thanks again
Also, n00b here, but what do you mean by " in-universe order"?