This page covers Fire Emblem Fates characters that either hail from Nohr or join the player in Conquest.
In General
- Anti-Villain:
- In Birthright, Nohr is the aggressor of the war and the antagonists, but its soldiers are still largely shown to be good and decent people otherwise. Many of them are just doing their jobs, such as Benny and Charlotte, while some are so loyal to the royalty that they willingly fight for them, not unlike some characters from Hoshido. Many of them even show no signs of hatred of Hoshido, even when battling them.
- In Conquest, they also technically count as this due to (allegedly) being the Villain Protagonist side. While they assist Garon and his lackeys, Iago and Hans, in the conquest of Hoshido, the playable characters do have a sense of morality and find Garon's methods questionable.
- Badass Family:
- Xander, Corrin, Camilla, Leo, and Elise are all siblings (adopted in Corrin's case) and can be really badass. As a "princess of Nohr", Azura is apparently part of this family as well.
- A late-game reveal shows that all of Corrin's Nohrian siblings are all only half-siblings; Camilla, Leo, and Elise were conceived with different mistresses, while Xander is the only child produced by Garon's then-wife. You also meet Azura's mother and deceased queen of Nohr in Revelation, making Azura their stepsister.
- The Bad Guys Win: Siding with Nohr to invade Hoshido seems to be this. In reality, however... Garon's true form is revealed and he's killed immediately afterwards, Hinoka survives and becomes Queen of Hoshido so she and Sakura can start rebuilding her lands, while Xander inherits the Nohrian throne and succeeds Garon as the ruler of Nohr so he and Corrin can properly begin to change Nohr from within, making it more like "The Anti-Villains Win". Plus, the actual plan of the Greater-Scope Villain behind Garon, Anankos (who is thoroughly defeated only in the Golden Path and Heirs of Fate), is to destroy both kingdoms, which is avoided thanks to Garon's defeat and the child units undoing all the damage and deaths at the end of Heirs of Fates where he proceeds to invade and destroy timelines where the pendant can no longer weaken him as it's gone.
- Battle Theme Music: Nohr has four boss themes associated with them. One is for the unplayable Nohrians, another is for the playable Nohrians, the third is reserved for the Nohrian siblings, and the last one is Garon's boss theme. As Elise is never actually fought outside of certain DLCs or on maps that don't have overriding map music, she will never use the Nohrian siblings boss theme. Garon will also use Anankos's boss theme instead of his own for his fight on the Conquest path, as his true nature and ties to Valla are revealed on the Revelation route. Garon also uses "End of All (Sky)" as the Final Boss of the Birthright route. On the Revelation path, Anankos!Gunter will use Garon's boss theme for the fight against him, foreshadowing that Anankos doesn't have full control over him.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Due to Garon having numerous concubines and children, feuds erupted between the mothers over who got to be with Garon and used their children as tools to gain favor. It's mentioned in supports that some of these children were killed in the resulting feuds, and only after Elise was born did the quarreling end. Garon, ironically, is mentioned to have been a loving and caring father up until Queen Arete's death. Then he gradually got more and more emotionally stunted until he eventually became the monster seen in the story. Fortunately, the children themselves don't seem to hold much of a grudge, and they all mostly get along like real siblings.
- Black Bra and Panties: The female Nohrians wear this type of underwear as part of their daily wear, including the female Corrin and Kana.
- Broken Pedestal: Corrin to the Nohrian siblings upon siding with Hoshido or if they side with nobody, though they get better in this latter case — and without dying like in the former one. This also happens in regards to their father King Garon, who was once a stern but kind father before he died and became Anankos' corpse-puppet.
- Xander is a lesser example of the trope, showing immense disappointment and sadness in Corrin for turning on them despite having raised them to adulthood. However, he doesn't challenge their decision and accepts it at face-value, unlike Ryoma who cannot believe or accept if Corrin sides with Nohr. Later subverted completely in that he never once really fights Corrin with the desire to kill them and, if anything, actively hopes Corrin is the one who survives in their fights. It's even hinted he sees himself as embodying this trope for Corrin with his failure to defend Nohr or protect his siblings. Played straight near the end of Conquest, being hit especially hard upon learning his father is a corrupted corpse-puppet and that he was serving a monster all along, though he's broken out of it when Corrin keeps fighting and resolves to kill the thing he'd served in memory of his real father and to put their spirit to rest.
- Played straight and taken to a new level in Revelation, where Xander's utterly enraged response is a stark contrast to his saddened but determined response in Birthright — apparently, siding with the Hoshidans is actually more forgivable to him because at least then he could take it as being done out of familial love, much like how he follows Garon's monstrous orders simply because he still loves his father. As a result, siding with nobody and rejecting the love of any family — for reasons Corrin can't reveal, no less — is so incomprehensible to Xander that his subsequent rage makes Ryoma of all people look tame by comparison.
- Camilla plays this relatively straight in Birthright and Revelation due to how attached she is to Corrin, being so heartbroken from feelings of abandonment and betrayal that she thinks it better to kill Corrin rather than let them live as anything other than their sibling. She gets better by the end of Birthright when the war is over, and especially Revelation when Corrin welcomes her to join them with open arms and assures her they never once stopped caring about her. Also happens in Conquest upon learning Garon is actually a long-dead corpse-puppet.
- Leo treats Corrin the most coldly out of all of his siblings if they don't side with Nohr and declares them scum only worthy of death or at least outwardly so. In the end, this trope is revealed to be subverted since, despite not agreeing with their choices, Leo can't bring himself to hate Corrin for staying with their birth family. He only really suffers this in Conquest and Revelation after seeing what his "father" truly is or hearing him rave about destroying both countries, hesitant to kill the only parent he has despite knowing he has to.
- Elise is arguably the only one of the Nohrian siblings to completely subvert this trope in regards to Corrin openly at least, never once attacking Corrin for their choice no matter how much she doesn't understand why they did it. In Birthright, it's to the point that she takes a fatal blow from Xander to shield Corrin, while in Revelation she is the only one of Corrin's Nohrian siblings to abandon the war against each-other without needing to be convinced of anything like Xander or Leo, or defeated like Camilla, and gladly joins Corrin in uniting both kingdoms without reservation. Played straight in Conquest, though, upon witnessing "Garon's" true form, breaking down in tears at the idea the only father she ever knew was not only pretending to be her father but that she has to help kill him.
- Xander is a lesser example of the trope, showing immense disappointment and sadness in Corrin for turning on them despite having raised them to adulthood. However, he doesn't challenge their decision and accepts it at face-value, unlike Ryoma who cannot believe or accept if Corrin sides with Nohr. Later subverted completely in that he never once really fights Corrin with the desire to kill them and, if anything, actively hopes Corrin is the one who survives in their fights. It's even hinted he sees himself as embodying this trope for Corrin with his failure to defend Nohr or protect his siblings. Played straight near the end of Conquest, being hit especially hard upon learning his father is a corrupted corpse-puppet and that he was serving a monster all along, though he's broken out of it when Corrin keeps fighting and resolves to kill the thing he'd served in memory of his real father and to put their spirit to rest.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Invoked and Reconstructed. In contrast to Hoshido's method of hiring soldiers — which are generally the cream of the crop in their fields — Nohr's scarcity of resources and more horizontal hierarchy means that the Nohrian royals don't particularly care who's able to fight as long as they can. This results in various odd bedfellows such as a Large Ham self-styled "hero of justice", a fitness-obsessed Pint-Sized Powerhouse, a Depraved Bisexual former career criminal, a Chuunibyou dark sorcerer, a hyper-competitive Tsundere, a Kuudere assassin and hitwoman, a serial-killing Psychopathic Womanchild and Heroic Comedic Sociopath, and a shameless philanderer and flirt of a mercenary. And all of them, fitting Nohr being a Death World, are very capable at what they do. Three of those people never even appeared on the registry of Nohr's citizenship, coming entirely out of nowhere to then show so much talent they are hired soon afterwards as their respective royals' retainer.
- Casting a Shadow: Nohrians appear to specialize in dark magic.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Overall, they have dark color schemes and come from a less-than-pleasant country, but none of them are evil (even if playing Birthright, where they are all antagonists).
- Dysfunction Junction: Holy crap, these people have issues. Whether it's the Royal family's histories, or other members' pasts, most of the Nohr cast has a lot of issues. It's especially telling/reinforced that the most well-adjusted Nohrian (Silas) isn't Conquest/Revelation-exclusive.
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- Corrin's Nohr family is this as a whole to their Hoshido family, each prince and princess foiling their individual counterpart. Xander is a stoic From Zero to Hero while Ryoma is a quick-tempered Ace, yet both are devoted older brother-mentor figures to their families. Hinoka is tomboyish and principled while Camilla is womanly and single-minded, but both have devoted their lives to Corrin's safety. Takumi is a judgmental bow-wielder while Leo is a ruthless magic-wielder, yet both are quite nice when they warm up to someone and suffer from being the middle-child. Elise is exuberant and optimistic while Sakura is soft-spoken and shy, yet both are very generous and kind-natured healers.
- This also comes through in their behavior on the respective routes, barring one respective exception. Barring Elise, the Nohrian royals in Birthright accept Corrin's choice as both irrevocable and their own decision, addressing them as an enemy (if not reluctantly). Meanwhile, barring Takumi, the Hoshidan royals in Conquest refuse to accept Corrin's choice as anything else but brainwashing or trickery, trying until the end to take them back.
- The same contrasts go for most of their respective retainers as well — with the exception of the Noble-born Peri, a majority of the Nohrian retainers are people who either grew up on the streets or were criminals and mercenaries, whereas most of the Hoshidan retainers either came from wealthy or prestigious families or had a family tradition of serving the royalty.
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: If siding with Nohr, the story revolves around good people working within the system to reform a militaristic empire. In addition, despite their faction being portrayed as a "glory-seeking" empire, most of the apparently-playable Nohr royal family don't seem to be despicable villains either way. Even Garon had a perfectly reasonable, if ruthless, rationale for going to war with Hoshido. However, at present, he has expired, and his corpse is being used by Anankos for his own ends.Xander: The sad truth is that justice is an illusion. A fairy tale for children. There is no light path that always leads to good, nor dark path that leads to evil. To believe that, to see the world in black and white, is missing half the picture.
- Hero Antagonist: In Birthright.
- Heroic Bastard: Downplayed; the only legitimate child of Garon and the late queen is Xander, with the rest being the children of concubines or adopted in the case of Azura and Corrin. However, they are legitimized as true royalty. And on the Revelation route, all of them assist in killing the Greater-Scope Villain, Anankos, and stopping the conflict between Nohr and Hoshido.
- Love Martyr: In contrast with Nohr's common masses, the royal siblings are much more willing to stomach the king's current frame of mind and cruelty for all the crap he puts them through because he's their father. This is especially true for Xander, Camilla, and Leo, since Garon had been a good father to them until he died and his corpse became Anankos's servant.
- Mighty Glacier: Certain classes, such as the Knight line, are far more hard-hitting than the usual Stone Wall classes that makes up most of Nohr, but lack their speed.
- Stone Wall: Some of the Nohrian characters have access to classes that have higher defense and HP, but most of their units have lower mobility and some of them don't hit really hard, nor do they have enough speed to double strike (in fact, some of your hardest-hitting units will be coming from the Mercenary, Fighter, and Dark Mage lines, and many don't have high speed caps). To further highlight the more defensive gameplay in the Nohr storyline, the classes accessible to them have more defensive capacity and have some form of self-healing (since the Nohr path does not have a lot of healers aside from the Maid and Strategist classes).
- The Team: Garon (or rather, his corpse-puppet of Anankos) is the patriarch and Big Bad of the Villain Protagonist team who is an axe-swinging warlock king. Xander is the direct and honest Leader of armies and carries a magic sword. Corrin is The Lancer as the adopted — but important — sibling. In contrast to Xander's direct nature and sense of duty to Garon, Corrin is conflicted and more caring towards the enemy.note Leo is described as a genius, and as The Smart Guy, attacks with spell books. Camilla is The Big Guy with a big axe, an Amazonian Gentle Giant, who smothers the people she likes, but revels in killing and bringing pain to people she doesn't. Elise is The Heart as the innocent and joyful member with a staff. Azura is the Sixth Ranger, as the last to join the siblings, and Corrin's co-conspirator.
- Thicker Than Water: Applies to the royal siblings, and also Deconstructed. Garon's inability to sever ties with a woman once he fell in love with her led him to take many concubines in addition to his wife. As a result, he sired a lot of children. While he loved all of his children equally and doted on them like a good father would, his concubines fought and chafed with one another for his favor and used their children as a part of this. Assassinations and deaths of both concubines and children occurred until only four half-siblings were left: Xander (the legitimate heir), Camilla, Leo, and Elise, who were all tired of the in-fighting and resolved the inheritance of Nohr's throne among themselves, and in the process formed strong ties to one another. Unfortunately, the whole affair appears to have hardened Garon and he became neglectful, abusive, and ruthless. Because Xander, Camilla, and Leo remember Garon's doting affection for them, they will not directly oppose him, even if they agree that his rule at the present is overly harsh and ruthless, and they hope that once their father conquers Hoshido, he will go back to who he was. What they don't know is that Garon expired shortly after the whole affair and his corpse is being used as a familiar by Anankos in his plot to destroy both Hoshido and Nohr. Subverted with Corrin, who is not of Garon's blood, but the siblings love them all the same and consider them a part of the family nonetheless.
- The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Xander, Camilla, Leo, and Elise are all incredibly gorgeous, and do not look like Garon's spawn at all.
- However, Garon was hinted to be an attractive man when he was younger. The creators' book even said Xander resembles a young Garon, mostly in regards to his hairstyle. This Cipher card confirms it
◊, showing a Garon as much in his 30s who looks terrifyingly like a somewhat older Xander.
- However, Garon was hinted to be an attractive man when he was younger. The creators' book even said Xander resembles a young Garon, mostly in regards to his hairstyle. This Cipher card confirms it
- Villain Protagonist: They are this, to a degree, in Conquest. They assist Garon in his conquest of Hoshido in this route, but are not exactly fans of his methods.
- With Us or Against Us: Subverted in the third route. Everyone else believed that Corrin betrayed both Hoshido and Nohr but Camilla (who cared for Corrin and would rather have them kill her when she found them), and Elise (who believed in Corrin, though she only joined during Chapter 14, as she needed confirmation that Corrin never actually betrayed the family). Xander got around it much longer than Camilla and Elise. Leo listened but couldn't believe him completely early on in Chapter 10 and only took so long to join because he doubted Corrin and wanted to see for himself. This let him tip off Xander, and both defected shortly after once Garon's corpse familiar had an Out-of-Character Moment for them.
