Characters / Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War - Non-Playable Characters

With a huge cast across two generations, the Characters page for Genealogy of the Holy War has been split further. Tropes related to playable characters in either generation should go here. Tropes related to Thracia 776-exclusive characters should go on that game's page.

The Kingdom of Verdane

Munnir

Prince Munnir of Verdane (Gandolf)

Class: Warrior

The eldest of King Batu's sons and the spearhead leader of the Verdane's invasion against Grannvale. He kidnapped Edain of Yngvi and retreated back to his castle in Marpha, intending to marry her.

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• And Now You Must Marry Me: Why he kidnaps Edain.
• Butt-Monkey: His portrayal in the Nuts Fujimori manga.
• Cain and Abel: He's Jamke's brother.
• Cutscene Power to the Max: He deals a pre-scripted Critical Hit in order to Curb-Stomp Midir. He doesn't actually have a skill that allows him to deal critical hits.
• Evil Uncle: A family tree in one of the Fire Emblem books says he's Jamke's uncle despite the game stating they're brothers.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He attacks House Yngvi for petty reasons, but because he attacked while the main Grannvale army was away, he starts Sigurd's journey, and by extension, the entirety of the tumultuous events to come.
• Starter Villain: He is the first antagonist to be faced who led the invasion that kickstarts the plot.
• The Pawn: Mentioned to be as such to Sandima.

Cimbaeth

Prince Cimbaeth of Verdane (Kinbois)

Class: Warrior

One of King Batu's three sons and the ruler of Castle Genoa. He held Shannan hostage, forcing Ayra to fight for him until Shannan is saved by Sigurd.

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• Big Brother Bully: Averted in the Nuts Fujimori manga, as Jamke mentions that Cimbaeth treated him kindly when he arrived to the Verdane court.
• Butt-Monkey: In the Fujimori manga, he clearly has no idea what he's doing. Ayra is the main threat his army poses.
• Heel–Face Turn: The Nuts Fujimori manga has him portrayed as not being deep down a bad guy, and Sigurd, noticing this, gives him mercy on the promise that he will atone for his sins. Cimbaeth is genuinely moved and promises. This mercy is important as Jamke later fights Sigurd not only because of his father's request, but also because he believes, in a misunderstanding, that Sigurd has killed his beloved brother Cimbaeth in battle.
• I Have Your Wife: He coerced Ayra to fight for him by holding Shannan hostage.
• Kill It with Fire: In the Oosawa manga, he is killed by Azelle's fire magic, after he was rejuvenated by Edain's healing.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Fujimori version.
• The Pawn: It's mentioned he was corrupted by Sandima's influence.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: A big step-up as a threat when compared to DiMaggio and Gerrard. The first boss who leads an army straight to your castle and he requires a bit more strategy beyond rushing for the kill due to being well-protected. All the while Edain and Dew are being chased by Munnir's army.

King Batu

King Batu of Verdane (Batou)

The king of Verdane, who was deceived by the wicked Loptous cultist Sandima into declaring war on Grannvale.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the Nuts Fujimori manga, he's the one who takes Sandima out. Of course, he still ultimately dies of his injuries, making this a case of Taking You with Me.
• Almost Dead Guy: Sandima fatally wounds him, but it takes him a long time to die—enough to hear Manfroy and Sandima's conversation, and long enough for Sigurd to complete the siege of Verdane castle. He dies after a final conversation with Sigurd.
• The Good King: Despite Verdane's reputation, it's noted that Batu is respected for being a peace-loving king.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Once he starts listening to the advice of Sandima, Verdane's stability quickly goes downhill. Eventually, Batu does start to question Sandima's advice and motives... at which point Sandima decides that Batu has become a liability that needs to be eliminated.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Murdered by Sandima at the first hint of becoming a liability. He still somehow clings to life long enough to apologize to Sigurd for Verdane's actions.

Dimaggio

Dimaggio

Class: Axe Fighter

One of Munnir's goons in the invasion of Grannvale. He guards Yngvi when Munnir ran off with Edain.

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• Hostage Situation: In the Oosawa manga, he grabs Midir as a hostage when he found himself surrounded by Sigurd's army. He was burst into flames by the arriving Azelle.
• Warm-Up Boss: He's the first boss fought by Sigurd's army, and only slightly stronger than his Mooks.

Gerrard

Gerrard

Class: Axe Fighter

Another of Munnir's goons in the invasion of Grannvale. He guards Evans.

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• Adapted Out: He doesn't make a physical appearance in the Oosawa manga.
• Too Dumb to Live: Munnir has his goons take down the bridge over the river between Verdane and Grannvale to keep Sigurd's forces from pursuing him as he takes Edain into Verdane. Had Gerrard NOT set the bridge back up to have his unit attack Sigurd's men after Yngvi was retaken, he would've survived, along with the rest of Verdane (since none of Grannvale's units can cross the river otherwise).

Lady of the Lake

Lady of the Lake

A mysterious woman who appears by the lake. She gives Lex the Brave Axe if he stands by the cliff with an Iron Axe.

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• Call-Back: She gets mentioned again in Thracia 776, meeting Halvan's sister by a lakeside and giving her a Brave Axe.
• Guide Dang It!: Good luck figuring out about how to get that Brave Axe, which never even hint of this event.
• Honest Axe: The entire event plays to this theme.
• Non Sequitur: Her appearance comes out of nowhere and she has no reason to even exist. But at least the Brave Axe is nice.
• You All Look Familiar: Shares the same portrait as Queen Lahna.

Deirdre's Grandmother

Deidre's Grandmother

Holy blood: Loptous [Minor]

Deirdre's grandmother living in the Spirit Forest.

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• Canon Foreigner: A character introduced in the Oosawa manga.
• Mind Rape: She was afflicted with dark magic by Manfroy when he tortured her for Cigyun's daughter's identity.

Agustria

Eldigan

Lord Eldigan of Nordion (Eltshan, Eltoshan, Eltosian)

^{Click here to see Eldigan in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Lionheart

Class: Paladin
Holy blood: Hoðr [Major]
Voiced by: Junji Majima (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Greg Chun (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

Lord of House Nordion and one of Sigurd's best friends. When Agustria went into civil war, he was imprisoned by the newly crowned king Chagall. He is the inheritor of the Demon Blade Mystletainn, and the father of Ares.

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• Ancestral Weapon: Mysteltainn, which he then passes down onto Ares.
• Animal Metaphor: The lion. His title is the "Lionheart", among other things it represents his noble status, he has the ferocious valor of one, not to mention his role in the story as a Sacrificial Lion. In Heroes, he gets the Fury skill which is represented by a lion, and one of the refinement options for Mystletainn gives him the Fury skill that can stack with the already-existing Fury in the A skill slot.
• Badass Boast: As an enemy unit, and rightfully so:
  "This is the Demon Sword, Mystletainn. If you don't wish to become its prey, then don't come anywhere near me..."
• Black Knight: Comes with wielding the Mystletainn.
• Brother–Sister Incest: While his feelings in the game are unclear, the Oosawa manga has him returning Lachesis's feelings.
• Cassandra Truth: To both Sigurd and Chagall. He warns that Sigurd's well-intentioned ventures into foreign territory to "help" his friends have turned into empire-building, and he tries twice to convince Chagall that Agustria is incapable of winning a war with its far more powerful neighbor. Sigurd shrugs him off. Chagall, meanwhile, throws him into the dungeon for the entirety of Chapter 3 and can cut off his head in Chapter 4 if Eldigan is persuaded to leave the field.
• Conflicting Loyalty: He'll prioritize his country above all else, but he's still not happy to have to fight his friends in the process.
• Decapitation Presentation: In the Oosawa manga, Chagall sends the heroes his severed head. The reader is mercifully spared the sight.
• Depending on the Artist: He doesn't have a defined eye color, due to many artists depicting him with either brown, golden, or blue eyes.
• Despair Event Horizon: When Chagall orders him executed, Eldigan despairs not just for himself but because he realizes that all of Agustria is now doomed.
• Downloadable Content: In Awakening, he has the honor of being the first character in the franchise to be made available exclusively via paid DLC.^note While several characters were made available through DLC before he was, all of them already had playable SpotPass versions while he didn't.
• Face Death with Dignity: Whether slain by Sigurd's army, or executed by Chagall for not dying to Sigurd's army, he maintains his knightly bearing throughout.
• Fatal Flaw: The inflexible way in which he maintains his oath to serve the throne of Agustria. He'll try to talk Chagall into changing his mind, but he won't countermand Chagall's orders. Eldigan tells Sigurd plainly that it doesn't matter how awful the king is, if he's king, Eldigan will obey him.
• Fighting Your Friend: Has to fight his good friend Sigurd on behalf of Chagall. You can potentially subvert this by having Lachesis talk some sense into him, but Chagall has him beheaded anyway.
• A Friend in Need: In Ch. 1, he defends Evan Castle from Elliot on Sigurd's behalf.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Hoðr bloodline.
• Honor Before Reason: After all of the crap Chagall put him through, he still insists on serving him because a knight is loyal to his liege. According to Kaga, his straight-laced devotion to his oaths regardless of the situation is his Fatal Flaw.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He refuses to believe that Chagall would go as far as to kill his own father until Chagall himself confirms it. Even then, he still sides with him because he's the last of the royal family, despite many people wishing Eldigan to be king.
• If I Do Not Return: If Lachesis talks to him on the battlefield, Eldigan will give her a Lands Sword and tells her that she must survive, indicating that he expects that Chagall will order his death.
• Inconsistent Dub: Eltosian, Eltshan, and Eltoshan, with the nicknames Elto and Elty as well. Awakening and Heroes name him Eldigan, and his nickname is 'Eldie'.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Personality and class-wise, he fits this to a T. Unfortunately for him, he lives in a very cynical world where maintaining this attitude is ultimately disastrous for him.
• Lawful Stupid: The heirs of Hoðr are sworn to loyally serve the Kings of Agustria, and Eldigan was personally close to the old king Imuka, who was widely respected as a wise and temperate ruler. Unfortunately, Eldigan considers himself duty-bound to serve Chagall despite his glaring flaws and crimes against Eldigan's own house and sister. (In part this is because Eldigan is trying to prevent Agustria from being outright annexed by Grannvale as Verdane was, but Chagall refuses to stop antagonizing Grannvale and Eldigan refuses to consider taking the throne himself, despite one village saying they'd prefer him as king.)
• Mighty Glacier: In Chapter 3, while he has a decent 20 speed, he cannot use it to attack twice per round, due to his lack of the Follow-Up skill. However, with Mystletainn in hand, he will make that one attack really count, hitting for up to a massive 52 damage to anyone who dares to fight him (aka: you).
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Although he's a close friend to Sigurd and Quan, Agustria — and therefore its king — will always take precedence for him. Chagall may be a bad king, but he is Agustria's king, and Eldigan finds that preferable to letting Grannvale's nobles seize the country.
• Off with His Head!: If you avoid killing him in chapter 3 by having Lachesis talk to him, Chagall beheads him.
• Offered the Crown: In the Oosawa manga. He refuses.

• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In Heroes.
  "By Mystletainn!"
  "No mercy!"
  "Yield or perish!"
  "I will finish you!"
• Promoted to Playable: Makes his playable debut as a DLC character in Awakening.
• Recurring Element: The first generation and the more obvious reference to Camus from the original game (complete with blond hair too), except with a sword and a bigger dose of Honor Before Reason that proves fatal.
• Red Baron: Lionheart Eldigan.
• Sacrificial Lion: Yeah, he's not making it to the end alive. Fits right in with his title "Lionheart Eldigan". The death of Eldigan is the first very personal and indelible punishment for Sigurd's attitude that "everything will be okay because I'm trying to do the right thing." Following this, Sigurd loses his rose-colored glasses about his mistakes and Grannvale's intentions, but he is unable to overcome them.
• Sadistic Choice: By the mid-point of Chapter 3, someone is fucked no matter what he does. If he defeats Sigurd and his forces in battle, the megalomaniac Chagall has a clear path straight to Grannvale. If he allows Sigurd to kill Chagall, either by inaction or direct betrayal, the expansionist and abusive Grannvale gets control of Agustria. If he tries to convince Chagall to stand down, Chagall beheads him as a traitor and one of the two previous bad outcomes occurs.
• Skippable Boss: Fighting him in chapter 3 is avoidable. If you have Lachesis talk to him, he will depart the battlefield (and give her a magic sword!). If you chose to fight him, boy are you in for a fight.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Camus, as the Anti-Villain who suffers greatly from My Country, Right or Wrong.
• Tragic Villain: The Oosawa manga portrays his refusal to take Agustria's throne as the result of his incestuous feelings towards Lachesis. Because he is disgusted with himself for desiring his own sister, he feels unworthy of the throne and clings to his sense of honor and loyalty as a knight, no matter how little Chagall deserves it.
• What the Hell, Hero?: His first appearance in the game points out that Sigurd's well-intentioned actions look to everyone else like Grannvale starting a second war to seize a neighboring country. When he's let out of the dungeon at the end of Chapter 2, he chews Sigurd out for basically conquering Agustria behind his back and warns him that any further aggressive action will result in Eldigan responding in force.
• The Wise Prince: He's well aware of how the people will suffer during times of war. He warns Elliot of the severe toll an unprovoked war would have on the people of Agustria and tries to persuade Chagall against warmongering for the same reason.

Chagall

King Chagall of Agustria (Shagall, Shagaal)

Class: Baron

The new king of Agustria, who was manipulated by Manfroy to murder his father and take his throne.

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• Arc Villain: He serves as an antagonist for two chapters in Agustria.
• Asshole Victim: Chagall is the victim of both Manfroy's manipulations and Grannevale imperialism, despite this, his highly unsympathetic and even manipulative behavior makes him very hard to sympathize with.
• Bad Boss: Even though Eldigan is one of the best subordinates you could ask for, Chagall really doesn't treat him appropriately.
• The Caligula: Ended the direct royal line of Hoðr with his warmongering and incompetence.
• Disney Villain Death: In the manga, he falls off the top of Silvail Castle and either hits the ground or gets eaten by Trabant's wyvern. The angle isn't clear enough.
• The Evil Prince: Unlike his father, he's an incompetent and cruel Royal Brat easily manipulated by the likes of Manfroy.
• Evil Versus Evil: Whilst Chagall is a idiotic warmonger, Grannevale is still unjustly occupying Agustria and also oppressing the citizens of the country despite Sigurd's best intentions. This is a major reason why Eldigan ultimately sides with Chagall.
• Gameplay and Story Integration:
  • Chagall's Authority stars are signfiicantly lower than Eldigan and even some of his subordinates, reflecting his inability to rule well.
  • He carries the Physic staff in Chapter 2 but he's too much of a Jerkass to actually use it on any of his troops.
• Hate Sink: You'll be hard-pressed to see someone who sympathizes with him. In spite of Manfroy's manipulation, Chagall is by himself self-serving, greedy, makes Agustria suffer despite his peace-loving father, and treats Eldigan like crap and eventually has him executed for petty reasons. No one is going to pity him while he wails for his Agustria's future as he dies. The Agustrian people were more welcome to the idea of Eldigan taking over the throne, but Eldigan's honor prevents him from doing so. And even so, when Eldigan realizes that he's about to be executed, he summarizes that at that point, Agustria and the House of Hoðr are doomed as long as Chagall is in charge and Grannevale is invading. Yes, there's no one in Jugdral that likes him.
• Insufferable Imbecile: Chagall is dumb enough to think he can singlehandedly take on Grannevale, the largest and most powerful nation on continent of Jugdral. Chagall is also mean enough to manipulate Erinys and mistreat Eldigan out of sheer paranoia.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Judging by how the villagers talk about his father, it's pretty bizarre that he managed to produce an incompetent Jerkass like Chagall.
• Magic Knight: Chagall always carries a Silver Blade in his hand with two different magical equipment in both of his boss fights. In Chapter 2, he has a Physic staff to heal his soldiers, while in Chapter 3, he wields Bolganone to deal magic damage.
• Oh, Crap!: Panics when Sigurd's troops approach Agusti and he realizes that he never had a chance of victory, and that Manfroy has been using him as a pawn. On Manfroy's suggestion, he runs to release Eldigan and beg forgivness so that Eldigan will negotiate with Sigurd.
• Petty Childhood Grudge: It's indicated by his dialogue that Chagall's hatred of Eldigan and belief that he's out to get him is rooted in their childhoods.
• Playing with Fire: In his last stand at Silvail, he wields Bolganone to fight against Sigurd's army.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Chagall scolded Macbeth for robbing his own villages instead of following his orders from the crown to back up Boldor in the defense of Agustria. The Project Naga fan translation, also indicates, much of the gold, Macbeth stole, were taxes meant to go to Chagall.
• The Resenter: Imuka loved Eldigan like a son, and Chagall despises him for it. He takes his first opportunity to accuse Eldigan of undercutting him, humiliates him and imprisons him, and then sends troops against Nordion while it's practically defenseless.
• Self-Made Orphan: Manfroy manipulated him into killing his dad for power.
• Single Line of Descent: Downplayed Trope, whilst the descendants of Hoðr's youngest daughter, whom formed a minor noble house, are still around, Chagall is the very last descendant of Hoðr's oldest son and the royal branch of the family. Unfortunately Chagall never has any children and his death results in a Succession Crisis for Agustria, allowing Grannevale to take over the country.
• Smug Snake: Part of the Jiol archetype. Chagall thinks that he is very clever for getting on the throne (even though everyone but Eldigan correctly suspects he murdered Imuka to get there) and has grand ambitions for conquering Grannvale, but his ability to command his lords is nil. He doesn't realize until too late that he's gotten himself into an almighty mess and only survives Chapter 2 because he begged Eldigan to save him.
• Stupid Evil: While provoking Grannvale probably wasn't the smartest idea, his treatment of Eldigan (imprisoning him, ignoring his sound advice, and potentially beheading him out of deluded jealousy despite the latter's loyalty to him beyond all reason) lands him firmly in this category.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Eldigan rescues him from Sigurd, despite having been thrown in the dungeon, and continues to be loyal and supportive of his rule despite the many reasons he shouldn't. Chagall has him beheaded.
• The Wrongful Heir to the Throne: He committed patricide because he wanted the throne for himself and believed Manfroy was a trustworthy ally, making himself the last Agusty in doing so. He is laughably incompetent at ruling Agustria, and everyone knows it. Although his father was able to keep the disunified lords in line, three of the four immediately disobey Chagall's first order to them. Eldigan goes up to the capital to talk some reason into him, Clement completely ignores his decree and declares neutrality, and Macbeth takes advantage of the situation to line his pockets with the townsfolk's money. The only lord who actually listens to Chagall does so for ulterior personal reasons, rather than because Chagall said so. Agustria's lords were ready to splinter and Chagall's incompetence is the final nail in the coffin.
• Younger Than They Look: Chagall is indicated to be around the same age as Eldigan, but his ingame portrait has a notably lined face.

Eve, Eva, and Alva

Eve, Eva, and Alva

Eve

^{Click here to see Eva}

^{Click here to see Alva}

Class: Paladin

Three members of the Cross Knights who are the escorts to Princess Lachesis while Eldigan was away to meet with Chagall. Eve is the father of Tristan and Janne.

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• Artificial Stupidity: Instead of defending Lachesis from a nearby distance, they charge straight into any enemy that comes within their movement range. However, you can at least try to temper this by sparing a few nearby enemies so that they will focus on killing that enemy than charging straight into the farthest enemy they can find.
• Disappeared Dad: Eve is this for the replacement characters Tristan and Jeanne.
• Escort Mission: While they are protecting Lachesis, their survival gives you the Knight Ring which gives the Canto skill to the holder. But good luck trying to keep them alive while they gung-ho to the enemy lines and get themselves killed. To avert this, you have to force Lachesis to play passively as at best secondary healer (when you already have Ethlyn and Edain) and only killing a few enemies, slowing her growth for future chapters. Both paths aren't easy.
• Identical Twins: Triplets, in this case. They all look exactly the same.
• Killed Offscreen: Eve is confirmed to die between the events of the first and second generation by Janne during the Agustria Crisis.
• Knight in Shining Armor: All cross Knights are this by default and they can deal and receive a lot of damage. Unfortunately, they will run in to be surrounded by their opponents and get themselves killed if you aren't careful.
• Mauve Shirt: Eve actually has some significance since he is the father of Tristan and Jeanne.
• Palette Swap: Of each other.
• Red Shirt: Yeah, pretty much no chance any of them will make it to the end of the chapter unless you really book it and keep Lachesis far enough from a pool from enemies. Alva has it the worst as he starts off closest to the enemy units.
• Undying Loyalty: They go into the fight knowing that they probably won't survive, but they are sworn to protect Lachesis. If it wasn't for their Artificial Stupidity, this would be more admirable.

Elliot

Elliot of Heirhein

Class: Duke Knight

Son of Boldor. He tried to take Evans Castle in Chapter 1, only to be stopped by Eldigan and the Cross Knights. He returns in Chapter 2, where he attempts to take Nordion.

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• Ambition Is Evil: He's ambitious to an almost stupid degree. He charges into Verdane with only the Heirhein army, fully intending to ignore the peace treaty that his king holds and march into Grannvale. He should've been thankful that Eldigan and the Cross Knights spared him after wiping the floor with his army, since Grannvale certainly would have been less generous.
• And Now You Must Marry Me: He intends to force Lachesis into an unwilling marriage after conquering Nordion.
• Butt-Monkey: In Mitsuki Oosawa's manga, where he tries too hard to make Lachesis pay for every time she has put him through shame, ever since they were kids. All of his plots fail spectacularly (and amusingly) due to Eldigan's intervention or due to his own stupidity or weakness. Not surprisingly, it's also his portrayal in Nuts Fujimori's parody-ridden manga.
• Smug Snake: He's oblivious to how much his malice outweighs his actual capability. After he and his knights are wrecked by Eldigan, Elliot still thinks he's capable of overwhelming Nordion. (And while he could handle the skeleton force left there, he fails to account for the fact that Sigurd, having been saved by Eldigan, would be ready to return the favor.)
• Overlord Jr.: The son of the villain Boldor. You fight both of them in his second appearance.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Oosawa version, via Butt-Monkey designation.
• Unknown Rival: Has a one-sided hatred of Eldigan.
• Villainous Crush: On Lachesis.

Phillip

Phillip

Class: General

A general of Heirhein who leads a defensive line, preventing anyone from reaching Heirhein.

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• Adapted Out: Oosawa version.
• Anti-Villain: He may be bland, but he doesn't particularly do anything wrong. If anything, his loyalty is a hallmark of why Agustria is called the "country of the chosen knights".
• Loophole Abuse: If the Suzuki novelization is anything to go off of, as it heavily implies that he deliberately holds his troops back because he doesn't want to fight Nordion.

Boldor

Lord Boldor of Heirhein (Bordeaux/Boldo)

Class: General

Lord of Heirhein and father of Elliot. He orders Elliot to take Nordion to take revenge for being humiliated by Eldigan.

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• Evil Is Petty: Declares war with Nordion over a grudge towards Eldigan.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Oosawa manga, via using Elliot to force a truce from Heirhein.

Macbeth

Lord Macbeth of Anphony

Class: General

A greedy lord of Anphony. He sent bandits to pillage the villages nearby and hired Beowulf and Voltz to fight against Sigurd's army.

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• Adipose Rex: Is a Noble, and is overweight.
• Fat Bastard: His appearance is of a chubby elderly man wearing fancy clothes. He's noticeably more corrupt than other Lords.
• Kick the Dog: Is first seen sending bandits to rob from his own subjects.
• Opportunistic Bastard: He's the most corrupt Lord of Agustria, taking advantage of the civil war to line his pockets with his villagers' valuables. In his first cutscene, he talks about how King Imuka never let him milk the villages of their wealth, hinting that he's tried and failed to do this in the past.
• Spared by the Adaptation: The Oosawa manga has him simply be imprisoned for his crimes rather be outright killed in battle.
• Stout Strength: Despite being obese, he's a General with decent stats and he is equipped with a Shield Ring that bolsters his already impressive defenses.

Voltz

Voltz

Class: Forrest Knight

A mercenary captain leading a squad of Free Knights hired by Macbeth, and a close friend of Beowulf's.

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• Foreshadowing: He and Beowulf have a brief conversation early in the chapter about how as mercenaries, they might be on opposite sides some day.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: A friend and maybe even mentor of Beowulf who doesn't come with him when he's hired by Sigurd. Although he did say that Beowulf can do as he wish, as long as he gets paid. He even anticipated that he might fight Beowulf one day, and Beowulf took it into consideration.
• Punch-Clock Villain: As he says himself as a mercenary, you work for a lot of different clients regardless of ideology.
• Zerg Rush: Besides himself and Beowulf, most of his Free Knight mercenaries are weaker than the Agustrian cavaliers you've fought earlier but they are far more numerous that they can kill a weakened unit through repeated attacks if you're not careful.

Clement

Lord Clement of Mackily

Class: Bishop

Lord of Mackily. Clever and cautious, he was neutral toward Sigurd's army until Anphony was taken.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Given how neutral he is in the base game, he's much more antagonistic in the manga adaptations.
• Anti-Villain: There's not anything particularly evil about him; he locks his borders down and keeps his nose out of the conflict when the civil war starts, and only grows hostile after Sigurd kills Boldor and Macbeth. Seeing the other lords' deaths leads him to believe Grannvale is planning to conquer Agustria which comes true in Chapter 3 when Grannvale officials sent to govern Agustria abuse their power, a prelude to Grannvale's transformation into The Empire , driving him to prepare his forces and sides with Chagall in order to fight off the invaders.
• Fat Bastard: Averted, he's comparatively less corrupt than the other Agustrian lords.
• Forced Sleep: His weapon of choice is the Sleep staff, which can be used at long-range. In the Oosawa manga, he's quite proud of this magic.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Oosawa version again, though this time in one of the greatest scenes in the manga.

Zyne

Zyne (Zane)

Class: Duke Knight

A commander of the cavalry in Agusty.

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• Anti-Cavalry: He is armed with a Horseslayer spear that makes him a dangerous threat to even your most powerful cavalry units. In the Oosawa manga, it's portrayed as basically bigger than Zyne himself.
• Anti-Villain: In Oosawa's manga, where his personality is fleshed out as a very sympathetic and patriotic captain. It makes you feel sorry for him the next time that you face him in the game.
• Ascended Extra: The Oosawa manga gave him a lot of screentime and personality.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Sigurd's.
• Eyes Always Shut: In his character portrait.
• Patriotic Fervor: "Nothing more noble than dying for the motherland!"
• Palette Swap: Infamous for the amount of times his portrait was used for other bosses.
  • The fanbase goes on to call the rest of the palette swaps as "Harolds" or Harold clones despite Zyne being the first one to use this portrait.
• The Men First: Again, in Oosawa's manga, he makes his men stand back to confront Sigurd alone in a duel, so that they may keep on living.

Jacoban

Jacoban

Class: Forrest

A mercenary hired by Chagall, who was ordered to watch over Madino.

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• Punch-Clock Villain: He's a mercenary unaffiliated with the Agustrian army, and makes remarks about the job being boring but the pay being good.
• Shock and Awe: He comes with a Thunder Sword and is not afraid to call upon its power...
• The Worf Effect: Oosawa manga has him getting one-shotted by Tailtiu in her introduction by showing him a higher-class thunder spell: Thoron.

Imuka

King Imuka of Agustria

The king of Agustria before the events of Chapter 2. He was murdered by his own son, Chagall.

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• The Good King: He was loved by his people, in which one of the villagers says that he has a good soul. He also desires a peaceful co-existence with Grannvale, and kept the more power-hungry lords in check. Tellingly, when Chagall murdered him, everything goes to hell for the villagers now that the power-hungry lords can do whatever they want to terrorize them.
• Posthumous Character: He's still alive in the beginning of the game, maintaining the alliance between Agustria and Grannvale behind the scenes, but he is not named until the narration announces his death and the immediate, disastrous ramifications.

Grahnye

Lady Grahnye of Nordion

The wife of Eldigan and the mother of Ares. Hailing from Leonster, she and Ares leave under Eldigan's orders when Agustria went into civil war. She was later killed by the invading Grannvale forces.

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• All There in the Manual: Her identity is revealed in the Fire Emblem Complete.
• Derailing Love Interests: The Oosawa manga, instead of featuring her, uses a Suspiciously Similar Substitute named Iria. And it's clear that Oosawa really hates Iria, as she's portrayed as a Rich Bitch who loathes Lachesis and acts like a Clingy Jealous Girl when around Eldigan. Since Oosawa ships Eldigan/Lachesis, well... At the same time, however, Iria's final scene in Gen 1 acknowledges that she's in a rather stressful situation not only with the mess surrounding Grannvale's occupation, but the fact that her husband is in love with his own sister.
• Missing Mom: She was killed during the invasion of the Manster District by Grannvale.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: In the one picture we see of her.
• The Ojou: Given what little we know about her, particularly judging by her one picture, she's one of these, given that she has no combat abilities that we know of.
• Posthumous Character: We only see her in one illustration, but never in the game. According to Ares, Grahnye was killed when Leonster was invaded.
• Satellite Love Interest: Pretty much exists so Eldigan can have Ares, she's never even mentioned in the game aside from a vague line by her son.

Orgahill Pirates

Dobarl

Dobarl (Duvall)

Class: Warrior

Member of the Orgahill Pirates. Annoyed by Brigid's stance against pillaging, he led a bunch of pirates to raid behind her back and later declared mutiny on her.

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• Adaptation Deviation: He's Pizarl's brother in the Oosawa manga.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Brigid gets him and the Orgahil mutineers to surrender after she takes his brother Pizarl hostage.
• Filler Villain: Considering how little happens between Eldigan's death and the fall of Agustria and Sigurd branded as a traitor by Grannvale, he just there to fill the air.
• Palette Swap: A blue-haired version of Dimaggio.
• Pirate: Which is why he betrays Brigid.
• Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Is annoyed that Brigid won't let him loot villages and does it behind her back anyway.
• Straw Misogynist: Doesn't like being under the orders of Brigid. Though this might be less about Brigid being a woman and more about her not letting him be a Pirate.
• Smug Snake: Eager to mutiny against Brigid, but it quickly bites him in the ass when Sigurd's group shows up.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Thanks to his surrender, he isn't killed by Sigurd's army.

Pizarl

Pizarl

Class: Warrior

Member of the Orgahill Pirates. He supports Dobarl's mutiny and leads a group of pirates to pillage Agustria.

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• Adaptation Deviation: He's Dobarl's brother in the Oosawa manga.
• Filler Villain: Like his superior, Dobarl.
• Palette Swap: His portrait resembles Gerrard's, but with grey hair.
• Pirate: Just like Dobarl.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Thanks to Dobarl's surrender, he isn't killed by Sigurd's army.

Thracia

Travant

King Travant of Thracia (Trabant)

^{Click here to see Travant in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Class: Dragon Master

Holy blood: Dáinn [Major]

Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Jason Marnocha (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

The king of Thracia who desires a strong future for Thracia. He is willing to commit any crimes to do so.

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• Abusive Parents: While more ambiguous in the game up until the point where Altena starts having doubts, the Nea Fuyuki manga suggests that he was rather cruel to her while she was growing up.
• Adaptational Heroism: The Oosawa manga tones down his more ruthless, smug, opportunistic attitude, making him a more conflicted man, especially when he developed feelings for Ethlyn. He also did not give the order to take Altena hostage (another rider did that on his own volition) or tell Quan to drop the Gáe Bolg for her safety (he did it on his own volition), and his decision to adopt Altena was more to honor Ethlyn's death rather than an opportunity to use Gáe Bolg for his own ends. He's still a villain, but not an utter bastard like in the original. He ultimately decides his own death in the manga, leaning into Leif's sword with the intention of ending everything.
• Ancestral Weapon: Gungnir, the lance wielded by the Crusader Dáin.
• Anti-Villain: Everything he does is for the good of his nation and his people.
• Baritone of Strength: In the English dub of Heroes, Jason Marnocha gives him a very deep and intimidating voice befitting the mighty king of Thracia.
• Bad Boss: Kidnaps the kid of his own General due to the worry that he'd turn traitor.
• Betrayal by Inaction: Before Travant can make good on the Aed Massacre and take Leonster, Bloom swoops in and claims the region for Grannvale. Travant knows he can't beat Grannvale in a stand-up fight, so he bides his time for an opportunity that comes when Bloom loses his hold on Alster. Bloom frantically appeals to Travant for backup from the Thracian dragonriders. Travant gleefully ignores his messages and sits back to wait for Bloom and Seliph's forces to weaken each other so he can take the territory he's been trying to seize for twenty years.
• Dragon Rider: His Dragon is pure black in the battle animations.
• Face Death with Dignity: By the time Seliph and co. actually get to fight him, Travant is well aware that his end has come, seeing as how he passes Gungnir on to Arion before heading out to battle.
• Heel Realization: In Thracia 776, Travant says he's aware that his crimes have damned him to hell, but it'll be worth it if it moves Thracia out of its Crapsack World status.
  "My wish is to rebuild Thracia into that prosperous nation that Dáinn and Njörun created. ...And if that process dooms me to Hell, then so be it.”
• A Hero to His Hometown: While the rest of Jugdral paints him as a ruthless warlord, he is considered by the Thracians as The Good King, recognizing that all of his ruthless actions are for the sake of the poverty-stricken kingdom. This causes problems for Seliph and his rebellion when they invade Thracia.
• Heroic Lineage: He is the primary descendent of the Dáinn bloodline.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Travant withholding support from Bloom did not result in one destroyed and one weakened force as he'd expected. Instead, the Liberation Army fully occupies Munster, meaning that Travant has no choice but to fight his way out through an army that was a lot stronger than he thought.
• Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Discussed by Leif and Finn. After learning that Travant raised Altenna since childhood, Leif wavers, thinking that maybe despite his ruthless action, Travant has a heart. Finn then reveals that he raises her only so his army can use the Gáe Bolg for Thracia's cause. Leif than takes his compliment back, more convinced that Travant is a black-hearted fiend just as he thought before.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Killing Quan, considering how much Quan tried his best and yet still messed up. In fact, by doing this, he essentially managed to fulfill both his own and Quan's dream.
  • And if it wasn't for him jumping the gun on forcing Hannibal's loyalty via kidnapping Coirpre/Charlot, Hannibal most likely never would have joined with Seliph's army at all, and Coirpre/Charlot wouldn't have joined either.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Travant presents himself as a cool and snarky opportunist, but Chapter 9 has him frequently being emotional and losing his cool to the point his son Arion is surprised at his behavior Due to the fact he unwittingly forced himself and his kingdom into a conflict with Seliph's rebellion and being disturbed by Altena's rebellious attitude and her resemblance to her true parents.
• Power Nullifier: Comes with the Nihil skill which negates critical hits and weapon effectiveness, paralleling Michalis' Iote Shield.
• Promoted to Playable: Makes his playable debut as a SpotPass character in Awakening.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: As the Noble Demon who sides with the enemy faction to improve the standing of his nation, he is part of the Michalis archetype.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: A strong, dark-haired man with a penchant for sarcasm.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He'll do absolutely anything to save his beloved Thracia, which has gone through horribly hard times. By anything, we mean: first, he ambushes and kills Quan and Ethlyn in the worst and cruelest way possible, taking their daughter Altena hostage to raise her on his own so she can use the Gáe Bolg sacred lance for him; and 17 years later, he uses poor Coirpre/Charlot as a hostage to force Hannibal to work for him.
• Xanatos Gambit: A rather clever one, possibly. If his plan regarding Thracia worked, Thracia will be ruled by his much more well-liked children, Arion (biological) and Altena (adopted, sort-of) and hopefully be able to move from its Crapsack World state. In the story, his plan failed and Leif becomes the one who united Thracia, which is Quan's dream. However, Arion survived by the end of the game, and Thracia is able to move from its Crapsack World state all the same. It should be noted that by killing Quan, the entirety of Thracia view him and Ethlyn as a tragic hero, giving Leif a much more favorable position for his claim to the throne.
• You Killed My Father: From Leif and Altena.

Arion

Prince Arion of Thracia (Areone)

^{Click here to see Arion in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Class: Dragon Master

Holy blood: Dáinn [Major]
Voiced by: Kazuki Kyan (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Dio Garner (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

The son of King Travant and the inheritor of the Gungnir.

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• Ancestral Weapon: In Ch. 9, he inherits Gungnir from Travant.
• Anti-Villain: Very kind and gentle, but he happens to be Travant's son and heir as well as a powerful enemy thanks to being the only one aside from Travant able to use the very powerful Gungnir.
• Arranged Marriage: Revealed to be engaged to Linoan in Thracia 776.
• Dragon Rider: His mount is pitch black like his father's.
• Gender Flip: In the Nea Fuyuki manga.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Dáinn bloodline.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: He pretends to turn on Altena and kill her in order to protect her from Travant.
• Honor Before Reason: An antagonistic example. After Travant's death and his succession as king of Thracia, he refuses a truce with Seliph and co. out of Thracian pride. Lewyn even notes that he'd been hoping, after all that's been said about Arion, that he'd be more reasonable.
• Living Emotional Crutch: The Nea Fuyuki manga portrays him as being this for Altena, having been the only person to be kind to her while she was growing up.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: It's even pointed out by a villager that he's much nicer than his father Travant.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Loyal to Thracia (and, by association, Travant) above all else. This tends to put him into conflict with Altena.
• Power Nullifier: Like his father, Arion has Nihil to negate critical hits and weapon effectiveness.
• Pride: Travant's final words to him when he hands off the Gungnir are to "do as you see fit" and a wish that Thracia no longer be despised by the rest of the continent, hinting that he'd have no objections if Arion ended the war and turned Thracia around. Unfortunately, Arion decides that declaring a truce is an undignifed end to a Thracian warrior and resolves to keep fighting until the bitter end.
• Private Military Contractors: As is common for Thracia's Dragon Knights. Specifically, Julius hires his services for the final chapter.
• Promoted to Playable: He makes his playable debut in Heroes.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: Due to Nihil preventing the unit from receiving critical hits and bow effectiveness against flying units is dealt as a critical hit, Arion cannot be felled by bows easily.
• Skippable Boss: After Friege is seized, Arion and a small group of wyvren knights will attempt to seize Chalphy while Seliph and most of his army isn't looking. You can either choose to send someone to Chalphy to defend it against him, or send in Altena and have her talk to him. Doing the latter method will convince Arion to change his mind and will convert him and his squad of wyvren knights to become allies.
• Spared, but Not Forgiven: He can be persuaded to turn neutral by Altena in the final chapter and pledges to fight for her sake. Even if he survives, though, Altena says that they aren't going to start working together like nothing happened, as it doesn't feel right to either of them after everything that's happened.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: He and Altena. Though she can recruit him in the Final Chapter, albeit as an allied unit rather than a player unit.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Parallels Michalis' role as the female Wyvern Rider's close relative/love interest that ends up antagonistic in the end.
  • He also bears many similarities to Camus, both being good people from the enemy nation, wielding legendary lances from atop a mount. Both characters also wear predominately black, with Camus having some gold areas on his clothes and Arion having some red areas.
• Undying Loyalty: He always sides with his father, even when privately disagreeing with him. It's only in the final chapter that Altena finally persuades him to let go of Travant's desires and act according to what he believes in instead.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: If he and Altena both survive, no mention is made of him in the epilogue. Altena is the one who takes over Thracia to encourage the people to unify with their northern neighbors. Thracia 776 gives an explanation by stating that he was severely wounded, presumably keeping him out of restoration efforts.
• Worthy Opponent: He'll consider Seliph as such if the two fight.

Papilo

Papilo (Papilion)

Class: Dragon Knight

A leader of the group of Thracian knights in Agustria.

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• Demoted to Extra: Not that he was important to begin with, but the Oosawa manga has Travant fighting alongside him in her rendition of Chapter 3.
• Palette Swap: Of Zyne.
• Patriotic Fervor: He's the first of many Thracians who hold stark loyalty to their homeland.

Magorn

Magorn

Class: Dragon Master

One of the Thracian knights who accompanies Travant during the events of Chapter 5.

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• Lightning Bruiser: A powerful flying unit armed with a Brave Spear. Alongside his squad armed to teeth with Anti-Cavalry Horseslayers, this makes him a formidable foe.
• Palette Swap: Yep, Zyne again.
• Just Following Orders: His boss quote.

Coruta

Coruta

Class: Dragon Knight

A Thracian knight who was ordered by Travant to retake Manster.

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• Recurring Boss: Zig-zagged across two games. He only appears once in Genealogy, but Thracia 776 also portrays the battle of Manster from Leif's perspective, with Coruta showing up once again as a boss leading the charge.
• Palette Swap: Of Zyne, again.

Maikov

Maikov

Class: General

A general in charge of defending Mease from Seliph's army.

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Kanatz

Kanatz

Class: General

A general in charge of defending Kapathogia while Hannibal led the attack.

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• Anti-Villain: He's a friend of Hannibal and is only fighting because he doesn't want Hannibal's son to die.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: If Seliph rescues Coirpre/Charlot and recruits Hannibal without killing Kanatz, he'll just disappear.

Disler

Disler

Class: General

The general in charge of Luthecia. He is entrusted by Travant to watch over Coirpre/Charlot to prevent Hannibal from rebelling.

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• I Have Your Wife: Travant entrusted him with Coirpre/Charlot, who keeps watch over him until you defeat him and capture the castle. However, if you've killed Hannibal, Coirpre/Charlot will run away offscreen and never join the Liberation Army.
• Number Two: To Travant.
• Palette Swap: Of Boldor.

Silesse (Silesia)

Lahna

Queen Lahna of Silesse (Rahna)

The queen of Silesse and the mother of Lewyn.

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• Actual Pacifist: She does her best to keep things diplomatic and never engages in battle, but she will send Annand when those options are out of the question.
• The High Queen: Became the ruler of Silesse after her husband died.
• Parents as People: She's very distressed while Lewyn is gone, but acts coldly towards him when he returns for pulling such a stunt.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's pretty levelheaded and does what she can for Silesse.
• You All Look Familiar: Curiously, of the Lady of the Lake in Lex's Honest Axe incident.

Annand

Annand (Mahnya)

^{Click here to see Annand in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Class: Falcon Knight
Voiced by: Yuri Amano (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Fryda Wolff (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

Leader of the Four Heavenly Knights of Silesse and the older sister of Erinys.

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• The Ace: Erinys looks up to her big time.
• Back from the Dead: In Heroes, it's revealed in Forging Bonds: Enduring Legacy that Annand was summoned to the World of Zenith after her death.
• Cool Big Sis: To Erinys.
• First Love: It's implied in some conversations that Lewyn was in love with her when he was young.
• Lady of War: A respected Falcon Knight in direct service of the queen.
• Promoted to Playable: Makes her playable debut in Heroes.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Her death is one of the biggest catalysts of the tragedy that's about to come. She quickly perishes at the hand of Pamela, who has the aid of Andrey and the Beige Ritter.
• You Monster!: To Pamela, whose betrayal enrages her.

Myos

Myos (Maios)

Class: Baron

One of Lewyn's uncles and the lord of Tófa. He joined Daccar in a rebellion to claim Silesse.

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• Evil Uncle: To Lewyn.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Despite being the brother of Lewyn's father, the king of Silesse, he didn't inherit Minor Forseti blood. This comes off as odd at first, but it explains a major source of political tension within Silesse: the reason people want Lewyn to be king over his uncles is because he has Forseti blood while Myos and Daccar don't.
• Palette Swap: Strangely, of... Elliot.

Díthorba

Díthorba (Deetver, Deet'var, Dietova)

^{Click here to see Díthorba in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Class: Falcon Knight
Voiced by: Yoshino Takamori (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Megan Shipman (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

One of the Four Heavenly Knights of Silesse who supports Myos in his rebellion. She is the mother of Misha in Thracia 776.

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• Action Mom: She's the mother of Thracia 776's Misha, but more or less a Dark Action Mom who actually cared for her daughter.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Is less creepy looking in artwork.
• Adaptational Weapon Swap: Díthorba in Genealogy of the Holy War wields a Silver Sword. Heroes has her wield lances instead, specifically a Firesweep Lance.
• Ascended Extra: She's a rather one-note sub-boss in her home game, but she gets to have her daughter become playable in Thracia 776 and becomes playable herself in Heroes.
• Badass Boast: One of her level up quotes in Heroes:
  Díthorba: I am Díthorba, of the Four Heavenly Knights of Silesse. The skies are ours! All those under us will kneel!
• Bond One-Liner: Not necessarily said upon her opponent's death since it is a level up quote, however she sports a badass one in Heroes:
  Díthorba: Shame you had to die, but you may count yourself unfortunate having met me on the field of battle.
• Dark Action Girl: A powerful warrior who assists Myos in his attempt to overthrow the legitimate queen of Silesse. Heroes imply that she personally believed that said queen would bring ruin to Silesse and she joined Myos, whom she believed to be more capable, to save the country.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She genuinely loves and cares for her daughter Misha, and one of her lines in Heroes has her hope that she is safe.
• Face–Heel Turn: She assisted Myos' rebellion and turned against the queen.
• Palette Swap: Not her, actually, but she would begin the trend for almost every female enemy portrait looking exactly like her.
• Pet the Dog: Not visible in her limited dialogue in the original game, but in Heroes it's revealed that despite her Dark Action Girl credentials she still cares for her daughter Misha and hopes that she grows up to be a proper Action Girl.
• Promoted to Playable: She makes her playable debut in Heroes.
• The Rival: In Heroes she considers Annand and Pamela ones for the position of captain of the Four Heavenly Knights. Erinys less so, whom she dismisses as an amateur and crybaby.
  Díthorba: With this, neither Annand nor Pamela will be able to stand against me. I will lead the Heavenly Knights!
• Villain Has a Point: Her character was expanded in Heroes to include her reasons why she defected to Myos who was planning to usurp the throne after his brother the king died, that she did not trust the rule of Queen Lahna and the late king's son Lewyn. Considering Lahna's pacifist stance towards the increasingly aggressive Grannvale and Lewyn's lackadaisical and womanizing nature and penchant for suddenly disappearing to wander outside Silesse (although still caring for the country like a prince would) her reasons were not unfounded.

Cuvuli

Cuvuli

Class: Bishop

A bishop under Myos's command who leads a squad of wind mages.

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• Non-Action Guy: Relies on his squad of Wind Mages for damage as he is armed with only Sleep and Physic staves to neutralize an enemy and heal from afar.
• Forced Sleep: Another user of the Sleep staff, which can be used at long-range.
• Palette Swap: Of one of the two Loptr Church priest portraits. Whether this is a coincidence or not is anybody's guess.

Daccar

Daccar

Class: Baron

Lewyn's uncle and the leader of Zaxon. He led the rebellion to claim the throne of Silesse.

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• Ambition Is Evil: According to the Oosawa manga, since Lahna says he wasn't an asshole from the start.
• Ascended Extra: Gets twice the characterization he did in-game via the Oosawa manga.
• Anti-Villain: Only in the Oosawa manga, due to a surprisingly sympathetic death scene.
• Cain and Abel: He says that he joined the rebellion for revenge against his elder brother.
• Driven to Suicide: Oosawa manga only.
• Evil Uncle: To Lewyn.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Similar to Myos, he has no trace of Forseti Blood at all as a unit.
• Kick the Dog: Slapping Pamela in the manga, since she's a sympathetic Anti-Villain there.
• Redemption Equals Death: In the Oosawa manga. When Lewyn performs in front of him and Lahna, with a bit of prodding from the Forseti tome and the bits of powers that Forseti the dragon poured through it, Daccar sees the errors of his ways... and after recognizing how far gone he had been, he stabs himself to atone for his evil deeds and dies in Lewyn's arms.
• Palette Swap: Of Boldor.

Pamela

Pamela

Class: Falcon Knight

One of the Four Heavenly Knights of Silesse under Daccar's command. She led a charge to Sailane and later to reclaim Tófa.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Just like Díthorba. Even more in the Oosawa manga, where she's actually drawn differently from Díthorba via getting a Boyish Short Hair.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: The Oosawa manga gave her blue hair, despite having green hair in the game.
• Adaptational Heroism: Is depicted as more sympathetic in the Oosawa manga, showing some remorse for killing Annand. By comparison, the game version of Pamela was a Psycho for Hire who bragged about killing Annand in her boss quote with Lewyn and Erinys.
• Always Someone Better: The Oosawa manga adds this as her other motivation, having her tell Erinys that she never could surpass Annand in life, and asking her to kill her.
• Ambition Is Evil: As soon as Lahna's position was seriously threatened, Pamela betrayed her in hopes of becoming the top Falcoknight. She openly admits it when she kills Annand.
• Antagonist in Mourning: In the Oosawa manga. To the point of personally carrying Annand's lifeless body to Queen Lahna and giving her Annand's Silver Lance instead of taking it for herself.
• Anti-Villain: In the Oosawa manga, she's given a somewhat more expanded role and a surprisingly sympathetic portrayal. See Antagonist in Mourning.
• Ascended Extra: In the Oosawa manga. See Daccar.
• Death Seeker: Refers to herself as such in the Oosawa manga.
• Even Evil Has Standards: In the Oosawa manga, she cannot bring herself to desecrate Annand's body via cutting her head off and sending her to the enemy, and when Andrey points it out, she gets pissed.
• Face–Heel Turn: Sides with Daccar against her queen. She kills Annand and mocks the grief of her loved ones.
• Heel–Face Turn: However, the Oosawa manga makes her return to the side of good.
• Kick the Dog: In the game version, Pamela not only kills Mahyna with Andre's help, but mocks Lewyn and Erinys for their grief over her death.
• The Rival: To Annand, and later to Erinys in the manga.
• This Cannot Be!: Her last words when you kill her are pretty much this.
• Palette Swap: She continues the trend of almost all female enemies having the same portrait. She's notable since she looks only slightly different from Díthorba.
• Psycho for Hire: Her in-game self is shown to enjoy killing people.

Donovan

Donovan

Class: General

A general under Daccar, who was sent to occupy Sailane.

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• Adapted Out: Oosawa version.
• Kick the Dog: Sends his men to kill the Silessian civilians Queen Lahna evacuated from her castle.
• Palette Swap: Of Cimbaeth, yet is somehow a General instead, despite the soldiers under his command being Axe Fighters and Warriors. Hell, he doesn't even uses axes himself.

Leimia

Leimia (Lamia)

Class: Swordmaster

A mercenary hired by Daccar. She leads a group of strong female warriors.

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• Adapted Out: Oosawa version.
• Amazon Brigade: Leads an all female troop of Mymidons, Thunder Mages and Clerics.
• Identical Stranger: Curiously, she looks a LOT like a younger Hilda. And is a jerkass too.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: Her and her squad all have high speed stats, and half of them even have Pursuit, while she herself is probably the fastest enemy unit in the First Generation. Tackling her will require some thought beyond rushing.

Isaach (Isaac)

Mannanan

King Mannanan of Isaach

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Od [Major]

The king of Isaach and the father of Marricle and Ayra.

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• Disappeared Dad: To Mariccle and Ayra.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Od bloodline.
• Out-Gambitted: Some time before Genealogy took place, the nearby Kingdom of Rivough (ruled by one of Mannanan's relatives, also Galzus's father and Mareeta's grandfather) got into a very ugly struggle with Grannvale after a massacre of Grannvalians that took place in Darna. Mannanan tried to prove himself as loyal to Grannvale by conquering Rivough, then offering the head of its ruler as "proof"... but he only got to get himself executed by Manfroy and Reptor.
• Posthumous Character: He's already dead by the time Ayra joins the group.
• Walking Spoiler: It's thanks to his spoileriffic actions that Ayra and Shannan are thrown into the action and Galzus exists in Thracia 776l

Mariccle

Crown Prince Mariccle of Isaach

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Od [Major]

The son of King Mannanan and the father of Shannan.

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• Ancestral Weapon: He wielded the Balmung before he died. It was locked up in the Yied Shrine afterwards.
• Disappeared Dad: Shannan's.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Od bloodline, with him passing down his major Od blood to Shannan.
• Honor Before Reason: Why he goes to war with Granvalle. He knows Isaach is screwed already, but he's got no other option than fighting against the empire for having executed the King.
• Posthumous Character: Ayra is already fairly certain he's dead by the time she meets up with Sigurd's army.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: It's clear where Shannan got his looks from.
• Warrior Prince: As the crown prince of Isaach, he goes to war with Grannvale after his father is killed.
• You Killed My Father: To Grannvale in general, after Mannanan's execution. It really, really goes bad for him, but he's savvy enough to tell his younger half-sister Ayra to take little Shannan and leave the realm before taking off...

Grannvale (Grandbell)

Belhalla

Azmur

King Azmur of Grannvale

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Naga [Major]

The old king of Grannvale and the inheritor of the Naga blood. He is the father of Kurth, who appointed him in charge of the country due to his old age.

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• Despair Event Horizon: After Kurth's death, he is bed-ridden and can barely handle the government. Therefore, his grandson-in-law Arvis easily starts ruling in his name...
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Naga bloodline.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: In both the game and the Oosawa manga, Azmur is never fully convinced that Byron and Ring were planning a coup or that Byron would ever betray Kurth. Unfortunately, his poor health makes it so that he can't really interfere on their behalf.
• Unwitting Pawn: Thanks to Manfroy brainwashing Deirdre, his granddaughter and heiress, he ends up agreeing to marry her to Arvis and have their child become the new ruler of Grannvale when they come of age. Which allows for Julius to be born and gain full control of the continent and once Manfroy gives him the Book of Loptous, leads to the Loptr Church gaining control of Jugdral.

Kurth

Prince Kurth of Grannvale

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Naga [Major]

The Prince of Grannvale given authority by his father. He led the Grannvale army against the Kingdom of Isaach.

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• A Death in the Limelight: The Oosawa manga has him appear directly as a character, showing what kind of person he is right before Lombard murders him.
• The Atoner: He never forgave himself for the deal with Cigyun, so he silently supported her eldest son Arvis when he was too young to properly rule over Velthomer. Arvis never knew about it.
• Celibate Hero: He never married, despite his counselors' nagging, because he still loved Cigyun.
• Disappeared Dad: To Deirdre, though in the games he's implied to have never found out: it's known that Deirdre was acknowledged, but not if Kurth managed to do it before he died. The Oosawa manga states that not only did he find out about her, but was about to search for Deirdre and acknowledge her as his heiress — right before he got killed.
• The Ghost: We learn that Kurth is leading Grannvale's troops in Isaach, that he's close to Sigurd's father, and is spoken of as being a competent and worthy heir to his country's throne, but he never appears firsthand.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Naga bloodline, hence why it becomes clear that Deirdre is his daughter.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Older version, though in the Oosawa manga it's paired with Older Than They Look. Seriously, he looks like he's in his 20's when he's supposed to be at least in his mid/late 30's!
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Was very well-loved by everyone due to his kindness and common sense.
• Sacrificial Lamb: He was killed off by the middle of Chapter 2.

Filat

Filat

A messenger under King Azmur.

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• Mr. Exposition: He tells a story about Lady Cigyun to Sigurd. He also informs him of the rumors of him, Quan, and Eldigan conspiring against Grannvale for hiding Shannan.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Chapter 2, he completely vanishes from the story aside from a scene in one of the villages — and that may not even be him.

Chalphy

Byron

Duke Byron of Chalphy (Vylon)

Class: Master Knight

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Baldur [Major]

The duke of Chalphy and the father of Sigurd and Ethlyn. A renowned war hero and trusted adviser to the young Prince Kurth, he accompanied him in the war against Isaach.

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• Almost Dead Guy: Survives just long enough to deliver the Tyrfing to his son Sigurd. Given that he's reported as being severely wounded at the end of chapter three, which takes place a full year before chapter five, he probably holds the record.
• Ancestral Weapon: He wields Tyrfing, but he has to pass it on to Sigurd before he succumbs to his wounds at the end of Generation 1.
• Cool Old Guy: He's already a grandfather in terms of age, and becomes one literally once Sigurd and Ethlyn find their lovers.
• Disappeared Dad: He was nearly killed by Slayder until Sigurd saved him. He was too badly wounded to survive, but was able to give the Tyrfing to him.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Baldur bloodline, the major side of which Sigurd inherited and the minor side of which Ethlyn inherited.
• I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: He gives Tyrfing to Sigurd as he's dying. In fact, he intends to give it to him at any cost, waning strength be damned.
• Sacrificial Lamb: His death forces Sigurd to man up, take up the Tyrfing, and take his life back.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: In the Oosawa manga, with Ring. Eagerly and amusingly lampshaded.
  Ring: Look what you've done! Because you said something unnecessary, the Prince is now depressed!
  Byron: I just stated the obvious, don't blame me!
  Kurth: ... I can hear you, you know...
  Author's Notes: The two are best buds!
• Walking Armory: Like all Master Knights, he is theoretically capable of wielding almost any non-holy weapon in the game, although in practice he only carries the busted-up Tyrfing.

Palmark

Palmark

Class: Bishop

A former attendee to Sigurd. He was ordered by Arvis to take the children and the Tyrfing from the cultists. He gives the Tyrfing to Seliph.

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• Palette Swap: Of Ring.

Yngvi (Jungby)

Ring

Duke Ring of Yngvi

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Ulir [Major]

Duke of Yngvi and the father of Brigid, Edain, and Andrei. He was one of Kurth's trusted advisers.

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• Ascended Extra: In the Oosawa manga, he got some more development. Still not enough to avoid his death.
• Gory Discretion Shot: Toyed with in the Oosawa manga. We do see his death... but it's from Byron and Kurth's POV, meaning that we only see his back and some blood as he gets an arrow to the throat.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Ulir bloodline.
• Informed Ability: As major Ulir, he's supposed to be a good archer, yet Edain has the Yewfelle so she can give it to Brigid and he gets killed off-screen (or not, in the manga) by his own son Andrey.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Especially in the single scene in the Oosawa manga, which has him discussing Kurth's plans to search for his heir/heiress with Byron and Kurth.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Byron, in the Oosawa manga. See Byron's section.

Andrey

Duke Andrey of Yngvi (Andorey, Andre, Andrei)

Class: Bow Knight

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Ulir [Minor]

The only son of Duke Ring of Yngvi and younger brother of Brigid and Edain.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: He isn't that ugly in-game, but is more of a Long-Haired Pretty Boy in official art.◊ Similarly, in the Oosawa manga, he's a straight up case of Dude Looks Like a Lady.
• Adapted Out: Fujimori version.
• Ambition Is Evil: His ambition to rule Yngvi.
• Cain and Abel: Brigid and Edain's evil younger brother.
• Death Seeker: His characterization in the Oosawa manga, portraying him as someone who is crushed under the pressure of being better than Brigid to the point that he wanted to make Brigid hate him enough so she'd kill him and release him from that burden. He gets what he wanted.
• Hates Their Parent: According to a villager in the first map, there was obvious friction between him and Ring when he saw them. Though the reason behind this is never revealed.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Ulir bloodline, and like those above him, not quite as heroic as his ancestors or siblings.
• Horse Archer: His class allows him to shoot on horseback.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Is made a He-Man Woman Hater in the Oosawa manga, especially when he mocks what remains of Pamela's honor and openly tells her that women are only there to physically pleasure men. In addition, he shot a woman in the head despite being his accomplice who had stolen Brigid's Yewfelle for him.
• Self-Made Orphan: Killed his own father for power. Not even his fellow conspirator Lombard liked that.
• Smug Snake: He's such an asshole, even other Smug Snakes dislike him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid:
  • According to Brigid, in the Oosawa manga.
  Brigid: When I delve into my memories of him, I see him smiling like a little angel... So why would he do such a thing like killing our father to take over as the head of the family?
  • The notes of Shouzou Kaga also supports this, portraying Andrey as a timid and scaredy-cat boy during the day the Yngvi house lost Brigid. He certainly becomes braver in the future, but at the cost of his conscience.

Scipio

Duke Scipio of Yngvi (Scopio, Scorpio)

Class: Master Knight

The son of Lord Andrei. He sought to avenge his father's death by attacking Seliph's army. He holds hatred towards his cousins, who he sees as traitors to House Yngvi.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Just like his dad and Ishtore, he isn't that ugly in-game, but he's handsomer in art.◊ And unlike in-game, he also actually looks different from Andrey in the aforementioned art.
• Avenging the Villain: His dad asks him to do it upon his death, and Scipio intends to do just that.
• Clashing Cousins: If Scipio fights his male cousins, Lester and Febail, he is eager to kill them for being children of his "traitorous" aunts. Strangely, he has nothing special to say to his female cousins, Lana and Patty.
• Heroic Lineage: Despite his father having minor Ulir holy blood, Scipio does not.
• Horse Archer: Much like most of House Yngvi, he excels in archery, more specifically mounted archery.
• Palette Swap: Has the same portrait as his father.
• Skippable Boss: Since he and the Beige Ritter are tied to Friege, seizing the castle will cause him and every other enemy units to disappear.
• Smug Snake: From what little we do know of him, he seems to be just as smug as his father.
• Walking Armory: Like all Master Knights, he is theoretically capable of wielding almost any non-holy weapon in the game, although in practice he only carries a Killer Bow.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Is only introduced as a boss, and is then shortly killed off (or disappears when Friege is seized if the player hasn't killed him by then, as with all other enemy units).
• You Killed My Father: His father was killed by Sigurd's army.

Velthomer

Victor

Duke Victor of Velthomer (Viktor)

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Fjalar [Major]

The former duke of Velthomer and the father of Arvis and Azelle. Known for having many affairs, despite having a wife: Cigyun. He committed suicide after finding out that she had an affair with Prince Kurth.

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• The Casanova: He was infamous for being a womanizer.
• Cheater Gets Cheated On: Victor's serial cheating, his wife having one affair in response, his reaction to it, and the fallout from it all forms much of the game's backstory.
• Disappeared Dad: To Arvis (and Azelle).
• Evil Redhead: Arvis got his red hair from him. As for the evil part, he was an abusive jackass and a serial rapist.
• Hate Sink: He's basically the last generation of Jugdral's Hate Sink, even when compared to Lombard and Reptor who at least had slight redeeming qualities or points. He's a womanizing rapist bastard who had tons of negative qualities without redeeming ones, and his actions practically enabled Manfroy to do his plan to revive Loptous, without knowing each other.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Fjalar bloodline, although he's not as heroic as his predecessor. At all.
• Hypocrite: He was known to have several lovers while married to Cigyun (and was a rapist to boot), but when she had one affair, he flipped out, wrote a suicide note full of insults towards her and her lover, and killed himself.
• Jerkass: He really has no redeeming values.
• Posthumous Character: He died about 18 or so years before the start of the game.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Victor's lifespan in-game is super short, but without his asshole philandering ways, Kurth would not feel the need to comfort and had an affair with Cigyun, which led to the birth of Deirdre, who was vital to Manfroy's plan to revive Loptous. Yeah, a lot could have been avoided if Victor for once stopped being a womanizing jerk.
• Spurned into Suicide: When Cigyun cheated on him, he was so humiliated that he wrote a letter denouncing her and her lover and either hung himself (game) or drank poison/stabbed himself (Oosawa manga).

Arvis

Duke Arvis of Velthomer (Alvis)

^{Click here to see Arvis in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Emperor of Flame

Class: Sage (Generation 1), Emperor (Generation 2), Sorcerer (Awakening)

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Fjalar [Major], Loptous [Minor]

Voiced by: Show Hayami (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Xander Mobus (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

The duke of Velthomer and the captain of the Royal Guard. Given the title of duke after his father's death, he is a cunning and calculative man. He desires a world free of corruption and prejudice, though his encounter with the dark cult changed the continent forever...

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• '80s Hair: He might be from The '90s himself in terms of release, but good lord, he's got this going on, especially as a younger man. His perfect red locks would make Fabio jealous. His hair actually bounces in Heroes.
• Affably Evil: Actually discussed by Chrom and Robin in Awakening's Lost Bloodlines 2 DLC, to the point where they wonder if the sagas got him wrong. Him being an Anti-Villain may have something to do with it. In Heroes, he's arrogant for sure, and still willing to justify what he does to Sigurd, but he gets along fairly well with the Summoner and is still shown to deeply love his wife and daughter.
• Aloof Big Brother: As flawed as he might be, he won't hesitate to tell Sigurd how much Azelle means to him.
• Anti-Villain: He is caught between a rock and a hard place where he either goes along with Manfroy's plans or is outed as a descendent of Loptous, which would result in his swift execution. Arvis tries to use his position in the Loptosians' schemes to reform Grannvale and put an end to the pointless wars once they put him on the throne, and he does succeed in doing so until his son Julius takes over.
• Artificial Stupidity: When you fight him in Chapter 10, he never uses the Silver Blade he has in his inventory. Now, obviously, he would rather use his powerful Valflame, but if you somehow hack your units to silence him, he never uses the Silver Blade despite enemies being capable of switching weapons when it is necessary.
• The Bad Guy Wins: While he is a Big Bad Wannabe when accounting for the entire story, he got what he wanted at the end of Generation 1. Unfortunately, he has long since choked on it by the time Seliph's story begins.
• Bait the Dog: Early in the game, he's presented as a very aloof but nonetheless powerful ally on Sigurd's side, supporting his cause. Even after Lombard and Reptor rallied to hunt Sigurd and declaring him traitor, Arvis kept a cool head and stayed by Azmur's side, showing no signs of downright antagonism. It's eventually topped with suddenly turning his back against Reptor and killing him when Sigurd needed it the most, and declaring that Sigurd was innocent. Right after that, he reveals that it's all a lie, and Sigurd's still scheduled for execution... by himself.
• Break the Haughty: To the point where it ages him HORRIBLY.
• Brother–Sister Incest: Had twin kids with his memory-wiped younger half-sister, Deirdre. According to some notes, at first he didn't know she was his sister, and when he learned the truth, he still was so in love with her that he decided it didn't matter anymore. The Oosawa manga switches things around: he genuinely doesn't know anything until Julius goes Creepy Child on him and Deirdre, while Deirdre herself had already realized it and manages to tell him before dying.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: He succeeded his father as the Duke of Velthomer at the age of seven. He technically did it more or less well, though he was also seen as cold and iron-fisted.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's undeniable that the man's life sucked balls ever since he was a child. To start with, his father's behavior was so awful that everyone in Grannvale high society pitied his mother. Then, he gets a new baby brother who is not his mother's child. Then his father commits suicide and leaves a note denouncing his mother and the prince as adulterers, which then causes his mother to flee without trace and leaving Arvis, a seven-year-old boy, as the heir in the wake of this complete scandal and ruin. The Oosawa manga goes into detail about his past.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He hates the child hunts so much that he comes up with a Batman Gambit to thwart them with Ishtar's help.
• Evil Redhead: Well, Extremely Morally Ambiguous Redhead, at any rate.
• Fatal Flaw: Ambition: he's so blinded by his ideals of equality and peace that he causes Jugdral more harm than good. His domination of the entire continent also meant that when the empire was put into the hands of Julius, everything went to hell quickly.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: His luck stat at max level is only a 4. Predictably, his life has turned out to be pretty rotten.
• The Heavy: Arvis is The Chessmaster villain Playing Both Sides so he can Take Over the World and make The Empire in Generation 1 and The Emperor apparently ruling over said empire in Generation 2, although by that point he's just a Puppet King. Still, the guy has a huge role in Generation 2: He's the murderer of the father of The Hero Seliph, the father of the Deuteragonist Julia, and one of the two imperial officers saving children from the child hunts (the other being Ishtar).
• Hero Killer: The most infamous example in the series. Arvis betrays and kills Sigurd, as well as almost everyone in his army. The confirmed survivors can be counted on one hand.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Fjalar bloodline. He took pride in the Fjalar bloodline and it was his reason to usher in a peaceful regime after the Battle of Bellhalla. Didn't help him that much, in the end. When Manfroy is blackmailing him, Arvis also defiantly points out that his Loptous blood is from Maera, who rebelled against the rest of his evil family.
• He-Man Woman Hater: Was this in his past, due to his Jerkass father's philandering and his mom Cigyun's disappearance. When this happened, young Arvis had all of his dad's mistresses kicked out of the Velthomer court save for Azelle's mother, and except for Aida, he became very bitter towards ladies. Until Deirdre came along, that is.
• Historical Villain Upgrade: As much of a villain as he was, dialogue from Awakening suggests he's been remembered in Judgral sagas as the bad guy of his time, which ignores his Dark and Troubled Past and the fact there were other villains active at the time who manipulated him and made him a Puppet King. As such, in Fire Emblem: Awakening when Chrom and his party fight alongside an Einherjar of Arvis in the Lost Bloodlines DLC, Chrom is taken aback by how nice he comes off as and he and Robin speculate he is considered a villain principally because he lost.
• Hope Spot: In the Oosawa manga, as he finds the now not!mindwiped Deirdre and Sigurd, he gives him a huge and tearful Motive Rant where he explains his Dark and Troubled Past and begs Deirdre "Please, Don't Leave Me". Sigurd, as an All-Loving Hero, speaks to him kindly and tries to win him over, and it looks like it might work... One Gory Discretion Shot and scene later, a mentally and emotionally broken Arvis has burned Sigurd to death and caused Deirdre to mentally collapse Ophelia-style.
• I Did What I Had to Do: In Heroes, he stubbornly maintains that to build a just world, Sigurd had to die.
• Irony: He canonically has an illegitimate son of his own, who appears in Thracia 776.
• I Have Your Wife: Literally does this, unknowingly or not, to Sigurd right before he murders him in cold blood.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: So he steals Sigurd's wife, kills him and his allies, takes over the kingdom, and appoints himself as emperor. What did that get him? Being made into a Puppet King as Manfroy and Prince Julius rule from the shadows, and completely unable to do a thing to the point that he has to ask the children of the people he killed for help!
• Kick the Dog: Twice:
  • At the end of Chapter 5, he has Sigurd's amnesiac former wife brought to him to show off that she is his wife now. While he only had suspicions that Deirdre was Sigurd's wife, confirming it in that manner to a man he intended to kill was a major dick move.
  • If Seliph fights him, he mocks Sigurd's memory to his face. The implication is that he is intentionally provoking Seliph so he can get himself killed at this point.
• Like Parent, Like Spouse: Arvis ends up falling in love with Deirdre at first sight. While he recognizes that the woman reminds him of his mother, he didn't learn about her being his literal sister until a later point.
• Magic Knight: He's proficient in more traditional weaponry as an Emperor, but he prefers to just nuke everything with Valflame.
• Mighty Glacier: His Valflame tome gives him an astounding +10 bonus to his already high magic and grants the same to both defense and resistance (which also becomes sky high in the second generation). However, its 15 weight devours his otherwise excellent speed, taking it down from 30 to 15.
• The Needs of the Many: He won't stop at any extreme to achieve his dreams of peace, even in Heroes he encourages the Summoner to shape the future as ideally as possible.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Okay, so he is definitely not a hero, let alone on Sigurd's side, but he genuinely thinks that what he's doing is for the best, and that he can unify Jugdral and make it flourish into a land where no one has to suffer inequality or discrimination. Problem is, he's working with the Loptr Church to achieve his goals, and by killing Sigurd and his army, he robbed himself of a set of powerful and loyal potential allies who could have been a failsafe for his plans in case the Loptr Church grew too big for him to handle. As a result, when the Loptr Church seize power and the child hunts begin, he's completely powerless to stop them. To his credit he does seem to realize where he went wrong, and sends Seliph the Tyrfing.
• Playing with Fire: Valflame, his magical tome.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In Heroes.
  "I sentence you to death."
  "For a better world."
  "Opposing me is treason."
  "Hellfire upon you!"
• Promoted to Playable: Makes his playable debut as a SpotPass character in Awakening.
• Promotion to Parent: At seven years old, even. When Victor died or better said, killed himself, the young Arvis took baby Azelle under his wing, and as soon as he saw him in the Oosawa manga.
• Puppet King: Becomes this as Emperor in Generation 2. With Manfroy and Prince Julius calling all the shots, Arvis is rendered completely powerless.
• Recurring Element: Depending on the generation, Arvis can represent two previously used archetypes of the series:
  • In generation 1, he shares elements with Michalis, being the overambitious, yet noble antagonist who will stoop to the lowest of low in order to make his people prosper, in his case, betraying Sigurd in the cruelest way possible and succeeding at that, though by the end of it, he also makes good on his word to create a better world, until Manfroy ruined everything.
  • In generation 2, now decked with heavy armor and being the emperor of Granvalle and looking very pitiful after realizing how his plan fell apart due to miscalculation, for sympathy points, he took after Rudolf.
• Suicide by Cop: Heavily implied, given that he gave Palmarch the Tyrfing to give to Seliph.
• Tragic Villain: By the time Seliph actually faces him, he's an utterly broken man who is all but explicitly stated to be fighting you to commit Suicide by Cop, and even taking what he does into account, it's hard not to feel sorry for him. Even Seliph, who has every reason to hate the guy, says that killing him feels empty, and in the epilogue he will say to Azelle's son (if he survived) that he no longer holds any hatred for Arvis, and that he was as much a victim of fate as anyone else.
• Villainous Lineage: His Loptous blood, inherited from Cigyun. Although he is from the line of Maera, and not The Emperor Gair, this wouldn't matter to anyone who believes that everyone with Loptous blood should die (which is most of Jugdral). Manfroy ropes him into the Loptr Church's schemes by threatening to expose him, which would probably lead to a quick and messy death. And Gair or Maera, this evil blood does make him capable of siring a new vessel for Loptous.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He possibly would have managed to truly unify Grannvale, or at least have Velthomer take the lead spot for the greater good, if not for Manfroy's manipulations turning his Empire into tyranny.
• Yandere: Arguably, for Deirdre. That would certainly explain why he brought her Brainwashed and Crazy self to Sigurd's presence to show off how she was his wife now, before killing him, though the game's playing guide suggests that it was more about testing Deirdre's reaction to Sigurd, having heard rumors that Sigurd's wife had gone missing in Agustria around the same time he met Deirdre.

Cigyun

Lady Cigyun of Velthomer

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Loptous [Minor]

A young woman from the Spirit Forest. She had broken the village's law and left to see the world.

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• Apocalypse Maiden: She carries none other than the dreaded Loptous blood through her veins. It passes down to her children, and if they ever mated, then the major Loptous blood would result in the return of Loptous himself. It happens.
• Broken Bird: Being a descendant of Loptous is bad enough, but being married to a bastard like Victor makes it worse.
• Death by Childbirth: Died in the Secret Forest while giving birth to poor Deirdre.
• Girl in the Tower: More exactly, Girl In The Forest, due to her Loptous/Maera heritage.
• Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Bad: Victor cheats on her repeatedly and is shown as a terrible guy (the fact that he raped Cigyun's favorite maid when drunk doesn't help). Good: Cigyun cheats on him with Kurth only because she's emotionally weakened after finding out about said maid being pregnant and sent away.
• The Lost Lenore: For Prince Kurth.
• Missing Mom: To Arvis and Deirdre.
• Posthumous Character: She passed away about 18 years before the start of the game.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Victor was an utter bastard and a drunk, so it's no wonder she cheated on him with Prince Kurth.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Turns out the rule of having only one child was there for a damn good reason. Her passing her minor Loptous blood to both her son Arvis and her daughter Deirdre allows Manfroy to marry them off and produce a vessel for Loptous, bringing 8 years of tyranny and despair to Jugdral and nearly causing the total destruction of the continent.

Vaha

Vaha

Class: Mage Fighter

One of Arvis's soldiers in charge of watching Phinora against Sigurd's march through the desert.

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• Palette Swap: Of Díthorba, again.

Aida

Aida

Class: Mage Fighter

One of Arvis's closest confidants and one of the leaders of the Roten Ritter, Veltomer's elite troops.

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• Bodyguard Crush: Has one on Arvis. They got intimate at least once, as her son has major Fjalar blood.
• Cavalry Betrayal: To Reptor. And then Sigurd, once Reptor is settled.
• Enemy Mine: In the final battle of the first half of the game, she allies with Sigurd in order to advance Arvis' plan.
• Evil Redhead: Played with. She seems to be a decent person... who happens to work for Arvis and be his Number Two.
• Exact Words: She reassures Reptor by saying that things are going according to Arvis' plan. The plan is to betray him so as to lure Sigurd into Belhalla.
• Lady of Black Magic: An elegant-looking young woman with lots of magical power.
• Mama Bear: As noted below, she died protecting her son from the Loptr Church.
• Missing Mom: To Saias in Thracia 776.
• Shipper on Deck: In the Oosawa manga, she comments that Tailtiu would make a good wife for Azelle, but she has her orders from Arvis to eliminate anyone from House Friege, Tailtiu included, and that takes priority.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To Reptor.

Felipe

Felipe

A former attendee to Arvis. He was trusted to protect the children from the child hunts with aid of Ishtar. He is also informed that a special key is needed to open the treasure room holding the Book of Naga.

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• Palette Swap: Of Ring, again.

Julius

Prince Julius of Velthomer (Yurius)

^{Click here to see Julius in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Scion of Darkness

Class: Dark Prince

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Loptous [Major], Fjalar [Minor]

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Griffin Burns (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

The son of Emperor Arvis and the vessel to the dark dragon Loptous.

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• Ambiguous Situation: It's not entirely clear whether Loptous is in full control of Julius or he is under More than Mind Control. On one hand, according to Julia, he Used to Be a Sweet Kid and a loving brother until he was given the Loptous tome. On the other hand, he developed a relationship with Ishtar which he retained after getting the Loptous tome. It's also possible that both interpretations are true at different points, with him starting out as being merely influenced by Loptous while descending into full possession the longer he holds on to the tome. To add to the uncertainty, his description in Heroes simply says "Prince of the Grannvale Empire. Was once a kind boy but suddenly came to have a cruel nature." Thracia 776 heavily implies that in his childhood, Julius had a problem with consistent illness, and that since Loptous began influencing him the severity and frequency of his illnesses had been steadily increasing. The only thing crystal clear about his actions is that his dying words were Loptous', not his.
• The Antichrist: He was born from the Loptr Church's century-long plan of birthing a vessel of their dark god and restoring the Loptrian Empire. As the scion of Loptous, he inherits the dark god's power.
• Ax-Crazy: Thanks to the Loptous tome, he's completely off his rocker.
• Big Bad: By Generation 2, Julius has become more in sync with Loptous than ever before, taking center stage as the mastermind of events from that point forward alongside his faithful servant Manfroy.
• Blood Knight: He happily engages in a "rebel hunt" for fun in Chapter 10, and instead of trying to overpower your army while he's there, apparently chooses to leave so the war can drag on. In Fire Emblem Heroes, quite a bit of his dialogue references the notion that he enjoys fighting.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: It's strongly implied that the Loptous tome's magic pretty much took over his mind as soon as he was given the spellbook.
• Cain and Abel: With Seliph and Julia, also Saias, to a degree.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: One of the rare villainous examples.
• Demonic Possession: His situation with Loptous seems to be a mixture of this and More than Mind Control. By the endgame, he's been fully overtaken by Loptous, with his death quote in all caps and a different, bolded font, later repeated with Fomortiis, indicating that Loptous is speaking and not Julius.
• Enfante Terrible:
  • In the Oosawa manga, holy crap. He took the Loptous tome, was possessed by it, AND killed his mother (and almost did his father in too, and would've killed his sister if his mother hadn't spirited her away) when he was five years old.
  • One short story among Genichiro Suzuki's novelizations has Julius engage in playing pranks around his home and butchering small animals as a little boy.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even while possessed by Loptous, he still manages to hold genuine love for Ishtar.
• Evil Redhead: One of the bad guys, with blazing red hair.
• Facial Markings: Has the mark of Loptous on his forehead and shows it proudly.
• Final Boss: He's the last opponent you face in Genealogy of the Holy War.
• Heroic Lineage: Major Loptous blood (as a descendant of Saint Maera) from both his parents, minor Fjalar from his father.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The Loptr Church Priests that support him can be potentially be used against him by having Sharlot use the Berserk Staff to have one of the Priests attack him, especially the ones using Hel.
• Inbred and Evil: He is born of an incestuous relationship and he bears the lineage of Loptous.
• Kick the Dog: In the Oosawa manga, not only is he very pleased when he kills Deirdre, but bloodily murders a servant of Arvis when he objects to Julius's desire to personally "meet" his "brother" Seliph.
• More than Mind Control: There are some moments in Genealogy that imply Loptous hasn't fully awakened in him, as he seems to mangle whether or not he's the Dark God at times. By the time of the final chapter, however, he seems to have fully embraced his identity as Loptous reborn.
• No-Sell: The Loptous tome will halve the power of anyone who tries to attack him unless they come packing the Book of Naga.
• Oh, Crap!: Has a very brief moment if you have Julia, wielding Naga, face him in the final chapter.
  "J-Julia? Why...What are you...aagh! Manfroy, you've made a grave mistake!"
• Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: It also doubles up as this. Going by the two years before the Battle of Belhalla, the seventeen years that follow it, and the year that it takes his army to get back to Grannvale, Seliph is a grown youth in at least his late teens/very early twenties by the time of his final showdown with Julius. The Dark Prince's age, on the other hand, is vaguer, but he's definitely younger and probably just in his mid-to-late teens.
• Our Vampires Are Different: His influence/possession by Loptous in Suzuki's novelization makes him crave blood. One short story telling of his transformation into the heir to Gair tells of him consuming the blood of small animals (a preying mantis, a kitten) then moving onto consuming blood from a murdered little girl with aid from Manfroy.
• Pet the Dog: Is somewhat nice, if controlling, to Ishtar. One of his first appearances is pulling a Big Damn Heroes (well, big damn villains) when she's defeated for the first time.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In Heroes.
  "Your hope is gone!"
  "To me, you're nothing."
  "I bring you death."
  "Blood will rain."
• Promoted to Playable:
  • Makes his playable debut as a SpotPass character in Awakening.
  • In Heroes, he's playable as a Grand Hero Battle unit.
• Puppet King: Inverted. He was first established as Arvis' scapegoat while the emperor runs things from behind but it was later revealed that Julius is actually the one in charge by undermining his father's reign and causing chaos around the continent with the backing of Manfroy and the Loptr Church.
• Raised as a Host: His entire reason for existing. His parents are carefully chosen so that they would give birth to a child with Major Loptous blood, which he ends up with.
• Recurring Element: Takes cues from Hardin for being possessed by an evil source and corrupts the major superpower of the continent that used to be a force of good under their leadership.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: If, through good luck, Cherry Tapping, or grinding, he is defeated in Chapter 10, Julius will unceremoniously leave in a huff.
  "Play time is over. I'm going home."
• Self-Made Orphan: Killed his mother Deirdre and tried to kill his sister Julia after being given the Loptous tome. Deirdre, however, managed to spirit Julia away before dying at his hand.
• Shoulders of Doom: His art in Geneology and in Heroes gives him rather large shoulder pauldrons, and he's a villain.
• Smug Smiler: All his portraits and official art have him sprouting a rather cocky smirk.
• Soul Jar: He serves as the vessel of Loptous.
• Teen Genius: Is the Dragon-in-Chief to Manfroy's Big Bad... while still under 20 years old.
• The Unfavorite: Accuses Deirdre of not loving him in the Oosawa manga, right before he kills her.
• Unholy Matrimony: In a romantic relationship with Ishtar, although he's obviously the more evil of them.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid:
  • Ishtar being a Love Martyr for him would suggest that Julius was quite normal in comparison to how he acted after Manfroy gave him the Loptous tome. One of her main motivations in sticking by his side in the Oosawa manga is based on the nice kid he used to be, with some of their backstory together actually shown.
  • Julia also expresses the sentiment that Julius wasn't always the villain he became:
    Julia: ...Just who are you? Everything changed the day Archbishop Manfroy brought that eerie black book in. That day also marks the last I saw of my dear brother... All that remained in his place was this powerful, yet demonic child. You... whoever you are... have deprived me of my mother and my brother, as well! Who are you!? Why must you put me through this agony!?
• Yandere: For his girlfriend Ishtar, since he tells her in Thracia that he hates how Reinhardt looks at her and threatens to kill him if he appears in front of them again.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Says this almost word by word to his own mom before killing her.

Friege

Reptor

Duke Reptor of Friege (Leptor)

Class: Baron

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Thrud [Major]

The duke of Friege, Prime Minister of Grannvale, and the father of Bloom, Tailtiu, and Ethnia. He leads a coalition opposing the Prince's authority.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Perhaps one of the bigger ones in the Oosawa manga. Reptor regretted his rash actions for his own ambitions and then did all he could to keep Tailtiu safe, which culminated in a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Ambition Is Evil: He already had a very high position in the Empire, but wanted more than that.
  Reptor (to Sigurd): "Hmph, you idiot! Politics is all about power! Your father had no power, which is why he died."
• Ancestral Weapon: Mjolnir.
• Archnemesis Dad: For Tailtiu and Ethnia. In fact, he's one of the few who can scare the living SHIT out of the usually fearless Tailtiu. Averted in the Oosawa manga: instead of being antagonistic, he's still a loving, conflicted father. Tailtiu only thought that he snuck her to Sigurd's army as a mole to further his agenda, but then was proven wrong.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He leads the coalition to overthrow the Prince so he can take over Grannvale and presumably the rest of the continent for himself, but he's really just being played by Arvis. Interestingly, since Arvis himself is a Big Bad Wannabe being played by Manfroy, this creates a three-part chain of wannabes.
• Climax Boss: The last enemy you fight in Gen 1.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Given a full 30 magic stat for a class that caps it at 22. He was originally going to be a Sage, which has a 30 Magic cap, so either the developers forgot to change it or intentionally left it as is.
• Disc-One Final Boss: After you smoke him, Sigurd wastes no time following him into the grave and the plot switches to focus on Seliph.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Downplayed. Reptor actually tried to be a family man that cares for his family and children, but after seeing Tailtiu betray him and being crushed over it, his next course of action is to guard the family prestige instead and inflicts a Honor-Related Abuse on Tailtiu.
• Evil Chancellor: He's the Prime Minister of Grannvale, and a greedy, treacherous one at that.
• Evil Old Folks: He's already old enough to have three children and potentially be a grandfather. He's also a prideful, ambitious asshole.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: In the Oosawa manga, Reptor was actually serious about turning himself in to Azmur, admitting to killing Kurth and Ring and framing Byron and Sigurd for it, and owing up to his crimes, all thanks to Tailtiu calling him out. Unfortunately, the conditions of surrender required him to surrender his Mjolnir to Aida on the premise that it would be passed down to Bloom later... and that's the time Aida, on the order of Arvis, backstabbed Reptor, thus at a time he would not have the luxury of Mjolnir's blessings.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Thrud bloodline. Like Lombard, he himself isn't nearly as heroic as his ancestor. However, in the Oosawa manga, at the end of his life, he proved his heroism, telling Azelle to take care of Tailtiu and then showing himself to his pursuers, gladly giving his life for both of them.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the Oosawa manga, he told Azelle to take care of Tailtiu and then confronted his pursuers so they wouldn't hunt down his daughter. Just shortly before, he prayed for Thrud to just take his life instead of his daughter's as his punishment for letting his ambition fly over his head, and his chance came.
• High-Class Glass: Helps show his position as the Evil Chancellor.
• Honor-Related Abuse: Reptor started this trend on the House Friege to abuse Tailtiu in the future, by marking her a traitor that shamed the House of Thrud's honor and wanting her to die for it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In the Oosawa manga, after being confronted by Tailtiu, who accused him of just using her and dropping her on Sigurd's ranks just to further his ambition, Reptor has this reaction, realizing how far he has fallen for the sake of ambition.
• Pet the Dog: Subverted. Reptor was visibly crushed when he faced Tailtiu in battle, blaming Claud for 'tricking her', meaning that there could be a chance that he genuinely loved her as a father. But then, he decided that the Friege house name comes first, so he'll kill her without hesitation. This is instead played straight in the Oosawa manga; after all those, he's still a loving father to Tailtiu and wasn't even thinking to kill her off for the Friege house name. Too bad Aida decided that she'd roast him right around the reunion.
• Psycho Electro: The Mjolnir tome that Bloom and Ishtar wield? It's originally his weapon.
• Taking You with Me: It's likely that the player will only initiate combat with him after Velthomer's fire mages turn on him. If a character without special dialogue is the first to confront him, he yells that if he's going to burn, then everyone will burn with him.

Ethnia

Princess Ethnia of Friege

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Thrud [Minor]

The youngest daughter of Reptor and the sister of Tailtiu. She is the mother of Amid and Linda.

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• Heroic Lineage: Of the Thrud Bloodline, handing it down to her children Amid and Linda if they are to appear.
• Missing Mom: If Tailtiu doesn't marry, she takes her place as a Sacrificial Lamb who's tortured to death by Hilda and becomes this to Linda and Amid. She also does NOT appear in the game whatsoever, only mentioned by Amid and Linda.
• The Ojou: A straighter example than her sister, given that she's more quiet and appears to be more ladylike, but she still runs off to join Sigurd's army if Tailtiu is killed.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: Ethnia is said to be more quiet compared to Tailtiu.

Bloom

Duke Bloom of Friege (Bloome, Blume)

Class: Baron

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Thrud [Major]

Son of Duke Reptor and the brother of Tailtiu. He was appointed in the occupation of the Manster District. He is married to Hilda and the father of Ishtore and Ishtar.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: He didn't kill Tailtiu, he just stood by and allowed his wife to abuse her until she died. He doesn't like the child hunts, he just doesn't lift a finger to stop them. If Tine faces him in Chapter 8, she holds him just as responsible for her mother's death.
• Ancestral Weapon: He's the direct inheritor of Mjolnir. He passes it further down the line to Ishtar at the start of Chapter 8.
• Anti-Villain: Very hard to see, as he rules like a tyrant and makes people suffer, but he possesses some standards, especially about Child Hunts, and it is hinted that he's quite kind to Teeny, even if he looked like a controlling stepfather. Most likely, he's only doing all those in order to preserve the Friege House's reputation rather than outright malice/evil. In addition, compared to Danann, Bloom didn't come off as The Caligula; he's tyrannical, but he's not indulging in selfish pleasures, just concentrating on keeping order.
• Entitled Bastard: He kidnaps Tailtiu and Tine beacause it's his "right" as head of the household. He scolds Tine for her reluctance to fight because of the "kindness" he showed afer Tailtiu's death (a death which he did nothing to prevent). When the battle turns against him, he demands aid from Travant—the man who did the work of opening Manster for conquest—and doesn't understand why Travant ignores him. And rather than try and protect his surviving child and heir, he instead begs for her to go out and save him from the rebels... yet only begrudgingly hands over Mjönir, the best weapon for her to do it with. To the moment he dies, he never stops viewing the world as someting that's meant to serve him.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Doesn't like the child hunts, even though he doesn't protest about them.
• Evil Uncle: He's both the uncle of Arthur/Amid and Tine/Linda. Arthur/Amid despises him for taking his mother and sister back to Friege, while Tine/Linda rebels against him for letting her mother be tortured by his wife until the day she died.
• The Ghost: In Thracia 776, Bloom only shows up in the opening narration of chapters and is offhandedly mentioned to be in charge of the Friege army.
• Greater-Scope Villain: As the leader of the Friege occupation of Manster, he’s naturally this in Thracia 776 alongside everyone above him in the chain of power.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Thrud bloodline, but like his father before him, a now villainous example.
• Honor-Related Abuse: Just like his father, Bloom believed that Tailtiu shamed the family's house by turning against Reptor, so to maintain that image to the Empire supporters, he didn't intervene on Hilda's abuses to her.
• Pet the Dog: Does care for Tine (or Linda), though he is controlling towards her. Through What Could Have Been, he would have moments more based on Kaga's notes: While he left Tailtiu to die, he would still give her a proper burial by putting her in an ice coffin and sent the coffin to Silesse, which was later used by Claud to resurrect her at the cost of his life and the Valkyrie Staff. Alas indeed.
• Psycho Electro: The Mjolnir in Chapter 7; switched to Bolting and Thoron in Chapter 8.
• Puppet King: See Danann, but for Manster.
• The Unfought: In Thracia 776, as Leif focuses his forces on Manster while Seliph takes care of him in Conote.
• Unholy Matrimony: Subverted. Both he and Hilda are horrible people, but Bloom's actual feelings for Hilda were not shown, thus remaining ambiguous. He also didn't share her joy for Child Hunts.

Hilda

Duchess Hilda of Friege

^{Click here to see Hilda in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Queen of Friege

Class: Queen

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Fjalar [Minor] (It's listed as Dáinn [Major] in the last chapter, but this is due to a glitch)
Voiced by: Yuko Sanpei (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Liz Morey (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)

The wife of Duke Bloom and the mother of Ishtore and Ishtar and sister-in-law to Tailtiu and Ethnia. She was in charge of the occupation force in the Miletos District.

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• Abusive Parents: Where do we even begin on this? Not only she hideously abuse Tine/Linda, her nieces, for lulz, she also mentally abuses Ishtar to just marry Julius just so she gets the peerage of being directly linked to the Imperial family, ignoring Ishtar's true feelings for Julius.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Her official game portrait had her face possessing wrinkles, but when it comes to official arts, TCG portrayals or Heroes, she actually looks quite decent for an old woman that hasn't reached grandma status, and the wrinkles are gone.
• Adapted Out: She's not present in the Mitsuki Oosawa manga, which could be saying something, as the manga was well known to make formerly unsympathetic characters look more sympathetic, meaning that even Oosawa thinks that Hilda is just unsalvagable.
• Bastard Bastard: When you consider where the Fjalar blood within her comes from, one can assume that she's born from one of Victor's womanizing antics. Either you can wonder if Victor just happened to impregnate a cruel woman and/or Hilda got most of her bad stuffs from Victor and took it far worse with actions that not even Victor would dream of doing.
• Dark Action Girl: More exactly, a very powerful Lady of Black Magic.
• Domestic Abuse: Inflicts this to Tailtiu/Ethnia to the point it killed them, then continues to do that to Tine/Linda. Ishtar only got the mental abuse version.
• Drowning My Sorrows: In her level 40 quote in Heroes she reveals that she secretly likes to drink to forget the pain and sorrow of losing Bloom, Reptor as well as the fact that the House Friege that she's proud of has been reduced to very few members thanks to Seliph.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Heroes reveal that her anger against the Liberation Army for slaughtering her family was genuine, she does hold love and respect for Bloom and Reptor and House Friege. Of course, once the two died, she becomes even more monstrous than she already was.
• Evil Aunt: She's the aunt of Arthur/Amid and Tine/Linda, and she's abusive towards the latter. .
• Evil Gloating: Likes to rub in the faces of Arthur/Amid and Tine/Linda that she drove their mothers to death and takes great pleasure in that act and trying to repeat that to them.
• Evil Matriarch: An exceptionally terrifying sort, even by the standards of this trope.
• Freudian Excuse Denial: In her Heroes Level 40 confession, she tells the Summoner to leave after seeing her drinking to forget her pain of losing loved ones, implying that she'd rather not get pitied for that sorrow of hers, she has embraced the image of 'sadistic devil in human skin' wholly despite her vulnerability and would rather the world see her that way too.
• For the Evulz: There's virtually no reason why Hilda is such a power-hungry evil bitch that likes the suffering of others. Hell, even Manfroy and his Loptr Church kinsmen can make the claim that their years of persecution eventually drove them into Card-Carrying Villain status (though they have no regrets), Hilda has no such excuse. Even the idea that her abuse towards Tailtiu was revenge for her "shaming" her family by supporting Sigurd's "coup" is shot down, as she outright admits to Tine that she did it solely for her amusement. Even with the extra layer given from Heroes, this trope is still part of her characterization that stays the same.
  "Tailtiu was a waste of space. I made her life miserable and I would do it again."
• Gold Digger: Her reasons for being content with Julius' courting of Ishtar amount to this. Already being married to the Duke of Friege drives this point even further. Ishtar herself isn't too thrilled, as she actually loves Julius and not his status.
• Glass Cannon: Very strong Lady of Black Magic — with a very heavy fire tome. Get her a considerably powerful physical attacker (or an angry Tine) and she'll just take a few hits to pop off.
• Hate Sink: Probably the single most despicable character in the entire series, let alone woman. From what she did to both her sister-in-law and her daughter, and even how she treats her own, she was made to be so utterly reprehensible and lacks any sort of Freudian Excuse (for reference, even Manfroy has one). Hilda was really made to show the lowest that the Empire can do even with minimum Loptous interference. Additionally, Hilda is an intentional attempt to avert the trope Females Are More Innocent, showing that women can be just as despicable beings as men.
• Heroic Lineage: A minor degree of the Fjalar bloodline. However, 'heroic' would be the last thing you would refer to Hilda as.
• Honor-Related Abuse: Hilda thrives in using this trope as a front to torture Tailtiu and Tine, since she was on the Empire's side and Reptor was her father in-law, but beneath that, she just personally enjoys torturing them for no apparent reason.
• Hypocrite: She's pissed that you killed her husband and son, Bloom and Ishtore, and wanted to exact revenge. But she gloats proudly about driving Tailtiu/Ethnia to death and is said to be very delighted when she drove the parents of many children to death.
• It's All About Me: Subtly: When Hilda talks about her grudge against Seliph and his army for killing Bloom and Ishtore, she refers to them as "[her] husband and son". That specific choice of words wouldn't seem strange if she were talking to anyone other than Ishtar, her daughter. You know, Bloom's daughter and Ishtore's sister? Also, as said about her being a Hypocrite, kill HER husband and son? That's a horrible crime and she wants revenge. When she herself kills someone else's family member (or just drove them to death)? What a joy.
• Kick the Dog: It's mentioned in the intro of Chapter 10 that she drove numerous citizens to "hideously cruel" deaths. Meaning Tailtiu/Ethnia wasn't the only person she tortured to death. In addition, she heartily supports the Child Hunts. When some escape, she orders them all killed. (We’ll say this again — when some children escape, she orders for all of them to be killed.)
• Noblewoman's Laugh: She will usually let one out whenever either Arthur/Amid or Tine/Linda confront her, before she starts her Evil Gloating. Just so you get REALLY angered at her quickly.
• Playing with Fire: Her tome, Bolganone, and her unique weapon in Heroes, Fiery Bolganone.
• Promoted to Playable: She's recruitable in Fire Emblem Heroes. Considering that many other Hate Sink characters throughout the franchise was made playable, it's of no surprise that Hilda, one of the biggest Hate Sinks of the franchise, would end up getting the trope in the end.
• Puppet King: See Danann, but for Miletos.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: In Heroes:
  "Hellfire!"
  "Is it to be revenge?"
  "My hand will end you."
  "I'll kill you all!"
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The queen of Chronos might not be a good monarch but is a powerful mage sure enough.
• Recurring Element: Starting from Hilda, you can usually find a recurring female antagonist that is especially despicable and unsympathetic; usually on the mature age, contrasting with her sympathetic daughter. As the first progenitor of that, Hilda lacked the more humanizing elements of Dark Ladies about being brainwashed into loyalty.
• See You in Hell: Her response to Arthur in the final chapter.
• Smug Snake: So very full of herself, as she also seemed a little too controlling on Ishtar, her own daughter, who's far more powerful than her because of her Major Thrud Holy Blood and only follows her around because she understands familial love and piety. And then there's her Evil Gloating (which is usually preceded with a Noblewoman's Laugh), which many players find very satisfying to wipe off from her face using either Tine or Arthur.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Bloom, it's subverted, see his entry for more details. She wants Ishtar to get on the trope by marrying Julius, though Ishtar truly loves the Prince and shows hesitation about the deal. Heroes reveal that it may be at least one-sided for Hilda, she does love her husband and her anger against the Liberation Army for killing him was not fake at all.
• Unique Enemy: Gets her own class and skillset to herself for unknown reasons.
• Villainous Breakdown: Heroes makes clear that she doesn't take the death of her father, Bloom and Ishtore well... However it's unknown if she's talking about her father-in-law Reptor or her birth father (who is possibly Victor).
  I will avenge my father, my husband and my son. I will see their killers BURN!
• You Monster!: Aside from her brutal torture of Tailtiu & Tine or Ethnia & Linda, when you liberate one of the villages in the map she's in, this exchange pops up...
  That Queen Hilda of Chronos is wicked to the core. She began abducting kids after allying with this dark bishop. She kills the mothers, too, without a blink of an eye! That woman's not even human. I'd say she's more like a devil!

Ishtar

Princess Ishtar of Friege

^{Click here to see Ishtar in Fire Emblem Heroes}

Goddess of Thunder

Class: Sage

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Thrud [Major], Fjalar [Minor]

Voiced by: Mai Kadowaki (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Ratana Therakulsathit (English, Fire Emblem Heroes) (credited as Ratana)

Daughter of Bloom and the "Goddess of Thunder." Inheritor of the Mjolnir, she is in love with the Prince of Grannvale, Julius.

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• Ancestral Weapon: Mjolnir.
• Anti-Villain: Thracia 776 has her state that neither she nor Ishtore approve of the child hunts, to the point that in the final chapter she has the children Arvis rescued hidden away, with it being made very clear that anyone who laid a hand on them would answer to her personally. She (and Ishtore) were also kind to Tine, unlike their parents.
• Apologetic Attacker: Even if you're going to die with her next thunder strike, she will still apologize for it. The exception is when she's on the first blood race with Julius in Chapter 10.
• Break Out Villain: Seems to be this due to being a complex Tragic Villain combined with her unusually heroic appearance: Ishtar is playable in Fire Emblem Heroes under four different forms, including a Resplendant alt and an Ascendant alt which was released only few months later. She's also in Fire Emblem Awakening as a downloadable playable character.
• Broken Bird: She's torn between her love for Julius and her family, and her own sense of what's right and wrong. In official art, she often appears uncertain and sorrowful. She's also usually posed with one arm across her body, like she's closing herself off, or hugging herself.
• Cool Big Sis: To Tine/Linda.
• Dark Mistress: She's not really evil, but her love for Julius and loyalty to her family makes her a foe.
• Disappointed in You: Says this to Tine/Linda when facing her in Chapter 8.
• Glass Cannon: Ishtar hits quite hard with the Mjolnir tome and the tomes' bonuses makes her hard to hit and her attacks harder to dodge but her defense is comparatively low that the likes of Seliph with Tyrfing, Ares with Mystletainn or Fabail with Yewfelle can kill her in one or two hits if they can hit her..
• Gold Digger: What Hilda wants for her, in regards to Julius. Since she does like Julius for more than his power, she's not very convinced.
  Hilda: Ishtar, you listen up! We Frieges are of noble rank within Grannvale. And I'm originally from Velthomer, just as the Imperial family is. Who could possibly make a more worthy partner for His Highness than yourself!?
  Ishtar: ...Yes, Mother...
• Heroic Lineage: Major Thrud blood from her father. Although she is a descendant of Fjalar through her mother’s side, she does not possess minor Fjalar blood. Unlike her parents, she's got more heroic and honorable traits, but remains loyal to both of them and her family, unlike her aunt.
• I've Come Too Far: She has her own sense of right and wrong, but the combination of filial piety, love for Julius and how she believes she's been too invested with the Empire's banner made her reject any form of redemption, thinking that she's too deep down in the path she walked and there's no turning back at that point.
• Lady of Black Magic: She uses the Mjolnir with deadly power and accuracy.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Let's recap: Bloom is a tyrannical jerk, Hilda is pretty much a devil in human skin. So how in the hell did Ishtar turn out to be an honorable girl? Although she does gleefully partipate in Julius' "game" of killing the first Cruaader in Miletos but then your army has pretty much killed her brother and father anyway.
• Love Martyr: To Julius. She doesn't approve of everything he does, but sticks with him out of love.
• Meaningful Name: She's named after the Babylonian/Assyrian goddess of love, fertility, and war. Fitting for a character defined by her love for her boyfriend and family, and her prowess on the battlefield. Unlike her namesake, Ishtar's love doesn't lead Julius to his death, but her to hers.
• Morality Pet: Julius is nicer to her than anyone else, if possessive.
• My Greatest Failure: In Heroes, many of her lines make clear she regrets having chosen to side with Julius and the Empire. In her 5★ level 40 convo, she even ask the Summoner/Kiran to avoid committing to a side they'll come to regret.
• Noble Top Enforcer: A very sympathetic, decent, and kind-hearted lady whose loyalty happens to lie with the enemies, and in love with the devil-possessed Big Bad. She's one of the Camus Archetype characters in the Second Generation.
• Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In Heroes.
  "I am sorry."
  "There's nothing more to be said."
  "You will die here."
  "Mjölnir's wrath!"
• Promoted to Playable:
  • Makes her playable debut as a SpotPass character in Awakening.
  • In Heroes, she's playable as a 5 star unit.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She fights the heroes because of her love for her family and her boyfriend.
• Recurring Element: Like Eldigan and Arion, Ishtar is supposed to be a Suspiciously Similar Substitute of Camus, a sympathetic enforcer of the enemy team. But because of that and being female, she started a trend that even female enemy generals can be sympathetic like her. Even moreso if there's a more confrontative and unsympathetic Dark Lady, in her case her mother Hilda, to contrast her.
• Red Baron: "Goddess of Thunder".
• Resurrected for a Job: Implied. In her 5★ level 40 conversation in Heroes, she implies that she was called into Askr shortly after her demise in her home game. Her Ascended variant outright confirms this as well.
• Shock and Awe: Being born in the Thrud lineage, she's a deadly thunder mage, even more so since she has Major Blood, thus has access to Mjolnir.
• Shoulders of Doom: If her shoulder pads in her original artwork weren't big enough for you, her artwork in Heroes makes them larger than her head.
• Suicide by Cop: Implied. She's sends herself and the Royal Guard of Belhalla on an offensive charge against the Crusaders rather than staying put and provide a difficult defense. Even Julius himself questions Ishtar's decision and suspects her of doing this trope but Ishtar convinces him otherwise.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Julius. Anti-Villain she may be, but Ishtar is still perfectly willing to ride onto the battlefield with him to hunt your army for sport.
• Villains Out Shopping:
  • She is sometimes depicted with Julius playing board games in older promotional art.
  • In Fire Emblem Heroes, Ishtar and Reinhardt are among the characters taking part to the dance festival. Guess the anti villains also need a break.
• You Killed My Father: And brother and mother, too. She tries doing this to Seliph and the Liberation Army, but obviously fails because she was on the wrong side anyway.

Ishtore

Prince Ishtore of Friege (Ishtor)

Class: Mage Fighter

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Thrud [Minor], Fjalar [Minor]

The son of Bloom who was in charge of defending Melgen along with his lover Liza.

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• Anti-Villain: Ishtar notes in Thracia 776 that he's also strongly opposed to the child hunts, but he is nevertheless an enemy who needs to be fought.
  • He also cares for his cousin Tine/Linda and her mother, despite Hilda's abuse.
  • He's also genuine in loving Liza, and was utterly crushed if she's killed before him, swearing revenge.
  • When Seliph beats him, he starts wondering if he's truly a bad guy, because he looked like someone who'd be decent off-battle.
• Eyes Always Shut: His in-game appearance.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Like Ishtar.
• Heroic Lineage: Fjalar and Thrud like his sister, but minor in both cases.
• It's Personal: He has nothing against Seliph's army unless Liza dies — then he's more than willing to take vengeance.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Same deal with Ishtar, though we only get little snippets on how decent Ishtore is.
• Magic Knight: He's one of the few male War Mages in the game.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's really not that bad a guy, he just happens to be on the enemy side.
• Recurring Element: Ishtore, along with his lover Liza, codified the trend of one-shot, unrecruitable enemies, that could be sympathetic and any characterization he could get are mostly posthumous.
• Shock and Awe: He's part of House Friege and has the signature electricity spells expected of a descendant of Thrud, such as Bolting and Thoron. Unfortunately for him, he didn't inherit major Thrud blood like his sister, so he can't use Mjolnir.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's a minor boss who dies fairly early into the second generation, but it has a ripple effect on the rest of the Friege nobility. In addition, he's also the first boss that caused Seliph to question whether the Empire was really completely filled with bastards, which would test his mettle as a leader a few chapters later.

Liza

Liza

Class: Thunder Mage

Ishtore's tactician and lover.

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• Anti-Villain: Like Ishtore, she isn't particularly evil, but she is still an enemy that needs to be fought.
• Electrified Bathtub: In the Oosawa manga, she and the entire Melgen army are killed this way by Arthur due to a recent rain creating a giant puddle in the battlefield where she and her forces are crossing. Ironically, she expected that the rain would enhance her lighting magic, unaware that the Isaachian rebels have a lighting mage of their own...
• Palette Swap: Of Aida.
• Shock and Awe: Much like her boss (and lover) Ishtore, Liza is proficient in Thunder magic.
• The Strategist: She serves as Ishtore's tactician.

Fetra, Eliu, and Vampa

Fetra, Eliu, and Vampa

Class: Wind Mage, Thunder Mage, and Fire Mage respectively

The trio of mages in the Manster occupation force.

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• Amazon Brigade: And they're also led by a woman - Ishtar.
• Artificial Stupidity: Once they select a target for their Triangle Attack, they will try to set it up even if one of them is lost on on the counterattack and will continue entering melee counterattack range to do so.
• Blow You Away: Fetra (Elwind).
• Palette Swap: Of Pamela and Díthorba, again.
• Playing with Fire: Vampa (Elfire).
• Psycho Electro: Eliu (Elthunder).
• Recurring Boss: They are fought twice in Generation 2, in Chapters 7 and 8.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Be careful with dealing with these women, the three can do the Triangle Attack, which lets them deal a critical hit when all three are adjacent to their intended target. Kill one and you cripple their ability.

Muhammed

Muhammed

Class: General

A cruel general who leads the charge to retake Alster.

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• Bad Boss: He threatens to behead anyone that doesn't follow his orders.
• You All Look Familiar: He egregiously reuses the portrait of a major villain in the first generation, Chagall.

Ovo

Ovo

Class: Mage Knight

A general who leads the charge to retake Leonster.

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• Anime Hair: Duuuuuude, what's up with that fop of hair?!
• Magic Knight: As expected of a Mage Knight, he throws thunderbolts at whoever dares gets in his way.

Ridale

Ridale

Class: Paladin

An officer in the Miletos District. He was sent forth to execute the children that escaped the child hunts.

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• Blood Knight: Shows shades of this, as he's outright excited when the Liberation Army shows up and thanks them for giving him a good fight.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's blatantly against the Child Hunts – even remarking to his superior that they're a waste of time – but really only goes along with it because of the empire's influence. When he's deployed to chase them, he specifically orders his squad to go "at a leisurely pace"; because of this, he's one of the few enemies in the series whose AI is programmed specifically not to use their full movement range.
• Face Death with Dignity: Wonders aloud if it's destiny for him to die at the hands of the Liberation Army.
• Gameplay and Story Integration: Given that he has ordered his squad to move at 'a leisurely pace', he and his troops will not use their full movement range and instead move in formation 5-7 tiles at a time, unlike other aggresive bosses that move towards you as fast as they can.
• Palette Swap: The last of the Zyne clones.

Meng, Maybell, and Bleg

Meng, Maybell, and Bleg

Class: Falcon Knight

The trio of Falcon Knights in Grannvale. They accompanied Ishtar in the charge against Seliph's army.

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• Artificial Stupidity: Like the mage sisters from the previous chapters, they will try to set up their Triangle Attack around a targeted unit even when that unit has already killed one of them, and will attack from melee range despite having ranged swords.
• Dark Action Girl: Three powerful women who work for the evil side.
• Heroic Lineage: They all possess minor Forseti blood. Somewhat heroic considering they work for Ishtar, who is not in approval of what the Empire is doing morally wrong, but not so heroic when they're actually fighting the army whose tactician is the source of their power and blood.
• Lightning Bruiser: The trio have ridiculously high speed stat and are equipped with Leg Rings that boosts their already vast movement stat. They also have a high defensive stat and the Nihil skill which nullifies all criticals including their class' weakness to bows, an impressive array of offensive skills and are armed with Lands Swords (and because they are enemies, it has infinite uses instead of the paltry 10 uses that your own Lands Sword has) that make them a very formidable foe that even Seliph and Ares can't handle alone.
• Palette Swap: Of Pamela and Díthorba.
• Quirky Miniboss Squad: Like Fetra, Eliu, and Vampa, these three woman can do the Triangle Attack so deal with them before they have a chance to do it.

Dozel

Lombard

Duke Lombard of Dozel (Langobalt, Langbart)

Class: Baron

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Nál [Major]

A greedy lord of Dozel and the father of Danann and Lex. He joined Reptor's coalition opposing the Prince's authority.

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• Abusive Parents: He considers his elder son Danann useless and is reluctantly willing to fight Lex if he is engaged in combat.
• Ambition Is Evil: Like Reptor, he wanted power, which was being undermined by Kurth. He was also first described as avaricious.
• Ancestral Weapon: The Helswath, a holy axe which has been passed down his family line for generations.
• Archnemesis Dad: For Lex, who will express regret that it's come to this.
• Beard of Evil: He has quite the impressive one.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: A greedy lord who wields a holy axe, Helswath.
• Driven by Envy: Why he does things: He's jealous that House Dozel got shafted in favor of House Chalpy. The Mitsuki Oosawa manga expands this further: he used to be a normal, loving dad to Lex, but the moment Lex inquired about his jealousy, Lombard started to act cold toward him, and stayed that way until the end. Likewise, it expands further on his jealousy: Lombard thought that all the Crusaders were treated as equals, thinking it wasn't fair that their descendants suddenly had favorites. Deconstructed in the game, as this caused Lewyn to mark Lombard as the start of the disgrace of House Dozel, as his predecessors probably did not mind such favoritism, so his envy and desire for equality marked the start of the disgrace of his otherwise perfectly fine house.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Expresses disgust at Andrey's killing of his own father, since Lombard actually respected Ring.
  • He's horrified when he finds out Lex is fighting him and asks his son to back down.
• Evil Old Folks: He's a bitter old man with very ambitious plans to gain as much power as possible.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Nál bloodline, hence why he can wield Helswath. Not so heroic in his case, though.
• Kin Slaying Is A Special Kind Of Evil: Lombard appears to hold this view as he's upset by Andrey's murder of his father and subsequent lack of remorse. Similarly he's reluctant to fight Lex and calls out his son for engaging him in combat.
• Smug Snake: Despite his fierce grimace, he's every bit as smug and zealous as his cohorts.
• Villain Has a Point: While Lombard is villainous, there is no mistaking that the House of Granvalle has been playing favorites even before he took those avaricious actions, though there were no indications of how the House Dozel members before him acted, whether they were also bad like him or actually good people but got shafted for no apparent reason. He might be Driven by Envy, but he didn't do it without grounds and it also highlighted one of the big problems within Granvalle that Seliph has got to fix.
• Villain Respect: While he'll do anything to one-up Byron and House Chalpy, he clearly views Lord Ring of House Yngvi favorably, despite the house being overfavored by Kurth just like House Chalpy, enough that Lombard wished him a peaceful afterlife after his brutal death by his own son.

Danann

Duke Danann of Dozel (Danan)

Class: Baron

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Nál [Major]

The son of Duke Lombard and the father of Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba. He was appointed King of Isaach when the Grannvale Empire placed an occupation force in the kingdom.

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• Adaptational Badass: The Oosawa manga actually gave him Helswath to fight against the rebel army.
• Archnemesis Dad: To his sons, Iuchar or Iucharba, depending on who is recruited. They don't hate him, but see his removal as neccesary.
• Always Someone Better: In the Oosawa manga, this is the actual reason why he hated Lex so much and ultimately betrayed him. Since Lombard tended to favor Lex when the two brothers were young (at least until little!Lex started questioning him), Danan felt constantly inferior and he never got over it, projecting his self-hate on Lex and Ayra, and later on Scáthach and Larcei.
• Avenging the Villain: He wants Seliph dead, because Sigurd killed his father Lombard.
• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: The brutal king of Isaach who happens to be an axe wielder.
• The Caligula: When Arvis conquered the entire continent for Grannvale, the countries were divvied up between the Grannvalian nobles and Danann got Isaach, which it's mentioned he's running straight into the ground by the time the second generation starts.
• Combat Pragmatist: In the Oosawa manga, since Danann can barely keep up with Scáthach, he begs for mercy, and as soon as his nephew lowers his guard, he uses Helswath to seriously hurt him. Ultimately fails, since Scáthach pretty much brings himself back when Larcei comes to help, and they both defeat him.
• Evil Uncle: In the Oosawa manga, he's Larcei and Scáthach's uncle who is a tyrant and murderer of their parents, with their father being his brother. In-game, he can be the uncle of any of the children whose father is Lex, though he doesn't make a comment on it.
• Extreme Doormat: According to Iucharba, he lets the Loptyrian cult walk all over him.
• General Failure: Pre-Time Skip, Lombard himself berates Dannan for being unable to defeat a rebellion in Isaach despite commanding most of House Dozel's forces including the Grauen Ritter. Post-Time Skip, he and his forces are quickly defeated by Seliph and his resistance forces, in contrast to Blume commanding significant Friege forces in the Munster District, nearly defeated Leif's resistance force and lasts for 2 chapters.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Nál bloodline, but one of the few cases who doesn't get to use his family's Ancestral Weapon (Helswath, in his case). However, this is because his eldest son, Brian, has it in his possession, as seen in the final chapter.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Disturbingly, the Oosawa manga hints that he intends to do this, not to any of the girls in Seliph's army, but to Seliph himself.
• Kick the Dog:
  • If one can count making the entire country suffer a massive dog kicking.
  • The Oosawa manga adds another one: Lex and Ayra returned after the horrific Battle of Belhalla. Danann at first acted like a cool big bro and welcomed him until Lex handed down Helswath... and then he betrayed both of them, resulting in Lex's surefire death and Ayra was implied to die afterwards.
• Mighty Glacier: In the Oosawa manga, he tries to fight against Scáthach on his own... but quickly finds out that Helswath is not the easiest axe to wield.
• Puppet King: Danann isn't a puppet himself, but he does run Arvis's puppet regime in Isaach after deposing the rightful royal family.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the Nea Fuyuki version, Seliph manages to recruit both Iuchar and Iucharba, which gives them enough troops to surround his castle and force him to surrender.
• Starter Villain: He is the first major enemy that Seliph must defeat in order for his revolution to succeed.
• Sucksessor: Even Lombard thinks he's useless, as he's unable to send reinforcements for his father in his fateful battle with Sigurd due to being unable to quell a rebellion in Isaach even with his house's elite knight squadron under his command. Even moreso, in-game he doesn't even bring Helswath with him despite having major Nál blood, leaving it to Brian... which would become his downfall.
• Tin Tyrant: An armor-clad ruler who treats his conquered subjects like dirt.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Received the end of it by Seliph for making the people suffer.
  Seliph: "King Danann... Under your rule, many people have suffered and died. Now you must face the consequences."
• Underestimating Badassery: He thinks that Oifey and Shannan are the most concerning of the Liberation Army. Seliph and his friends proved him otherwise.
• Warm-Up Boss: He is your first major boss in Generation 2, and since he is an axe user while most of your units use swords or ranged weapons (which he lacks on the latter), he is easy to kill.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Unike Bloom or even his father, Langobalt, Danan is killed basically after his first appearance in the game.
• You Killed My Father:
  • Invoked when fighting Seliph, whose father killed his father.
  • In the Oosawa manga, Lex and Ayra's kids Scáthach and Larcei invoke this on him instead.

Brian

Prince Brian of Dozel (Burian)

Class: Master Knight

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Nál [Major]

The son of Duke Danann and the inheritor of the Helswath. He rules over Castle Dozel while the rest of his family are stationed in the occupation of Isaach.

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Brian's in-game portrait is aged and hideous◊, but his card-game portrait◊ has him looking his age.
• Ancestral Weapon: Helswath.
• Avenging the Villain: Wants to avenge his family members slain in the feud between Chalpy and Dozel.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His in-game portrait resembles Chagall with thick eyebrows.
• Cain and Abel: His desire to uphold his family honor puts him in conflict with Iuchar or Iucharba.
• Heroic Lineage: Of the Nál bloodline, hence his inheritance of Helswath.
• Mighty Glacier: He has 47 defense and 27 resistance as a result of the bonuses from Helswath, but the weight reduces his impressive 26 speed into a pitiful 6 speed.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Wonders if he was fighting for the right side before dying.
  Brian: The Helswath was defeated so easily!? Was I on the right side...?
• Recurring Element: He is the Trope Maker of last minute powerful generals that are normally affable but is fanatically loyal to the enemy country to the point of unrecruitability and wields a mighty axe and decked in armor (Helswath gave him great defenses) that would later be perfected by Murdock two games later; Brian did not receive enough characterization back in the days to name the archetype.
• Skippable Boss: Since he doesn't guard Dozel and will charge towards Chalphy, you can seize Dozel and he will vanish with the rest of the Dozelian units.
• Super-Toughness: The most durable enemy in the game thanks to Helswath defensive boosts, Julius notwithstanding.
• Walking Armory: Like all Master Knights, he is theoretically capable of wielding almost any non-holy weapon in the game, although in practice he only carries the Helswath.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: He's killed not long after his introduction, unless the player plans things beforehand very well.^note If Shannan, Iuchar, or Iucharba is near Chalphy Castle, they can be used as a 'bait' to distract Brian while the main army focuses on conquering Dozel Castle from Edda. Brian's entire army will vanish the moment Dozel is conquered, allowing the player to bypass him completely.
• You Killed My Father: Uses this line:
  Brian: You're the person that killed my father... It's time to end this grudge that has plagued the House of Dozel for 3 generations!
• Younger Than They Look: His in-game portrait looks like an old man, when in fact he's not likely to be past his late 20's/very early 30's.

Slaydar

Slaydar

Class: Great Knight

A general of Dozel under Lord Lombard's command.

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• One-Steve Limit: His name is nearly identical to Slayde, even sharing the same characters in the Japanese version.

Harold

Harold

Class: General

A general of Dozel in charge of defending Ganeishire.

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• Kick the Dog: By the time Seliph and the Liberation Army reclaim Ganeishire, the town is already trashed, implying he killed the inhabitants.
• Palette Swap: Of Zyne, again.

Schmidt

Schmidt

Class: Great Knight

One of Danann's generals, who leads an army of Axe Knights after Iuchar or Iucharba defected or were defeated.

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• Palette Swap: Of Slayder.

Fisher

Class: Great Knight

Brian's captain who leads the charge at Edda.

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• Skippable Boss: Since he doesn't guard Dozel and will charge towards Edda, you can seize Dozel and he will vanish with the rest of the Dozelian units.
• Palette Swap: His portrait is Philip's portrait, but with a dark purple cape.

Edda

Robert

Robert

Class: Paladin

A mercenary hired by Rodan to retake Chalphy from Seliph.

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• Nothing Personal: He's more or less only in the battle for the bounty on the Liberation Army's heads.
• Palette Swap: Reused Voltz's portrait.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Has no real loyalty to the Grannvale empire.

Boyce

Boyce

Class: Swordmaster

A warrior in charge of defending Edda.

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• Blood Knight: Seems to be really concerned about the "worthiness" of the people he fights.
• Palette Swap: Of Jacoban and Javarro.
• Punch-Clock Villain: He's a mercenary who, similar to his companion Robert, is in it for the money rather than actual loyalty to Grannvale.
• Shock and Awe: Like Jacoban, he wields a magic-based Levin Sword.

Rodan

Rodan

Class: Bishop

A bishop who was ordered to defend Edda from Seliph.

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• Palette Swap: Reused Filat's portrait.
• Skippable Boss: He and his troops do not move even if a unit approches Edda castle, and his army doesn't completely surround the entrance to Edda. This means that it's possible to seize Edda without having to fight him.
• Status Effects: He and some of his troops are armed with Sleep Staffs that will instantly put a stop any of your units that lack enough resistance to nullify it. Add to the fact many of the mages are armed with Bolting and Meteor tomes and protected by Boyce and his mercenaries and they form the infamous "Wall of Edda" that takes calculated strategies to break through.

Other Mercenaries

Bramsel

Bramsel

Class: General

A former merchant who became a leader of Darna under Bloom's rule.

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• Attempted Rape: He throws Lene/Laylea to the dungeon when she refuses his advances. It's strongly implied that he succeeded at it or something similar, as Javarro seems pleased when he tells Ares that Lene/Laylea is at his mercy and Ares, until then very cool and badass, is openly terrified for the poor girl.
• Dirty Old Man: Poor Lene/Laylea.
  Lene/Laylea: Look at you acting so tough now that Ares isn't around! You sick old man!
• Fat Bastard: Unlike his lookalike Clement, Bramsel plays this trope rather straight. Creepy tendencies aside, he's also a puppet ruler who is easily manipulated by Grannvale.
• Palette Swap: Of Clement. Unique in that all other users of that portrait are magic users, while Bramsel is a General.
• Properly Paranoid: Despite being assured by Javarro of Ares' loyalty to him, he is armed with a Horseslayer spear that makes it a death sentence to have Ares attack him unless he is properly weakened. He is appriopriately smug to Ares as a result.

Javarro

Javarro

Class: Forrest Knight

A leader of the mercenary group hired by Bramsel. He found and raised Ares when he was young.

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• Adapted Out: In the Nea Fuyuki manga. Though Ares's backstory of living as a mercenary is still the same, the exact circumstances are different, so he doesn't appear.
• Broken Pedestal: To Ares, after finding out about what happened to Lene/Laylea and how he never said anything about it. Telling Ares to forget about her made him very furious, and he promptly betrayed his former boss.
• Parental Substitute: To Ares, having raised him after his mom Grahnye perished.
• Palette Swap: Of Jacoban.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: After deploying from Dahna, Javarro gives Ares a lecture about how it's okay to fool around with women but it's best to abandon them when their lives fall apart, and laughs at the thought of Bramsel assaulting Lene.

Musar

Musar

Class: Mage Knight

Holy blood:^note not a playable character, but it'll be mentioned for story reasons Forseti [Minor]

A Mage Knight who was ordered to reinforce Thracia to fight against Seliph's army.

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• Blow You Away: He uses Tornado, a powerful Wind magic.
• Developer's Foresight: A villager warns you of his upcoming arrival. If you already dealt with him before arriving in the village, he'll congratulate you instead.
• Heroic Lineage: He has Minor Forseti blood. While it is used to give him Tornado since Mage Knight are locked at B rank in all magic without holy blood, a villager mentions him hunting a Silessian knight that killed his father, implying that he was one of Lewyn's uncle's son (which one is not explicit).
• Palette Swap: Another reuse of Zyne's portrait.
• You Killed My Father: A villager said that a Silessian knight killed his father and 'he' is among your ranks.

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