Fire Emblem Archanea/Characters

Main and Playable Characters

Prince Marth of Altea (Mars)

The prince and heir of the kingdom of Altea, and the hero of most of the Archanea games. Exiled to Talys in the beginning of the War of Shadows after his father was betrayed by former ally Gra, Marth united the forces of Altea, Aurelis and Archanea to rise up against Dolhr and kill the revived Medeus. Three years later, he clashed head-on with the mad Emperor Hardin of Archanea in the War of Heroes. In time, Archanea would come to be united under his rule as the War of Heroes took its toll on the rulers of other nations, and he would go down in history as the legendary Star Lord and Hero King; thousands of years later, his descendants are the royal family of Ylisse, including Chrom, Emmeryn, Lissa and Lucina.

Class: Lord (most appearances), Star Lord (Awakening DLC and Spot Pass) Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese, OVA and all versions of Super Smash Bros), Ai Orikasa (Japanese, OVA [child]), Spike Spencer (English, OVA)

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• Back-to-Back Badasses: With the Avatar in the New Mystery of the Emblem boxart.
• Badass Cape
• Bishonen: Though not as much as some of the other characters. Turned Up to Eleven in his Super Smash Bros. appearances (to the point of Flanderization concerning Dude Looks Like a Lady), but toned down to normal levels for Shadow Dragon and the sequel.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Caeda.
• Eleventh-Hour Superpower: Falchion is this for him.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
  • Cool Sword: The Rapier and Falchion.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: In the original and Mystery of the Emblem. Shadow Dragon changes this - it shows that the betrayal of Gra and the loss of his family and kingdom have, in fact, not been at all healthy for him psychologically.
• I Uh You Too: With Caeda in the epilogue.
• Jack of All Stats: With an emphasis on Fragile Speedster.
• Just a Kid: His youth is often pointed out.
• Marth Debuted in Smash Bros.: The Trope Namer and current world record holder (nineteen years from FE1 to the international release of Shadow Dragon; seven years from international debut in Melee to international release of Shadow Dragon).
• The Messiah: Is seen as this by pretty much everyone.
• No Pronunciation Guide: A strange case - the English dub of the OVA translated his name as "Mars", traditionally pronounced "marz", but still pronounced it closer to "Marce" (which, if you ignore "Marth" for a moment, is actually pretty kana-accurate).
• Pants-Free: On the cover and in the gameplay of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Marth wore a toga-esque uniform with exposed legs. This has been subject to much Memetic Mutation. Curiously, Mystery of the Emblem's' cover and artwork show Marth wearing a different uniform with pants but in gameplay Marth wears his old pantsless garb.
  • His book 1 portrait on the SNES seems to be the toga and his book 2 portrait is his modern uniform. It's likely Marth was originally intended to change clothes between books.
• The Red Baron: Many: "Prince of Light", "Hero King", "Star Lord/Star and Savior"...
• Royals Who Actually Do Something 
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Kickstarted the recurring tendency for Fire Emblem protagonists to sport blue (or otherwise unrealistic) hair.
• The Wise Prince

Frey

A knight of Altea. During Marth's escape, Frey volunteered himself as a decoy to lure the invading Gra/Grust army away from Marth and was seemingly killed. In New Mystery of the Emblem, it was revealed that he was left for dead by the invading army and, after recovering from amnesia, reunites with Marth after the War of Darkness.

Class: Cavalier

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• Not Quite Dead: Confirmed in the sequel.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Canonically this in the prologue chapters of Shadow Dragon. He gets better in the sequel.
• Undying Loyalty: Appears to have this.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Abel

A knight of Altea and close friend of Cain, known as the Black Panther. He was one of the retinue of Altean knights who aided Marth in escaping Altea and accompanied him in his Talys exile. He fell in love with Est after the War of Darkness, and retired early from the army to run a shop with Est. Unfortunately, Abel was later forced to fight against his prince and country in the second war, although he can be persuaded to rejoin again after speaking to either Marth or Est.

Class: Cavalier (FE1, FE11), Paladin (FE3, FE12) Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese, OVA), Bryan Bounds (English, OVA)

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• Blade on a Stick: His lance to Cain's sword.
• But Now I Must Go: In the epilogue of Mystery, he disappears, either in search of the also-disappeared Est, or because of her death.
• Clueless Chick Magnet: He just doesn't seem to get a break with romance.
• Fountain of Expies: With Cain, he started the archetype of a green cavalier partnered with a green cavalier with whom they have a Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic, with the green one specializing in Skill and Speed.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Cain's red.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Est, depending on whether the player thinks he finds her again or not.
• Those Two Guys: With Cain

Cain (Kain)

A knight of Altea and close friend of Abel, known as the Great Bull. At the onset of the War of Shadows, he fought in the battle at Gra in which King Cornelius was killed, and was sent back to bring Marth the king's last words; he then accompanied the prince in his exile to Talys.

Class: Cavalier Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese, OVA), Kyle Stuadvant (English, OVA)

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• Cain and Abel: Averted; Cain is a stand up Knight and the best friend of Abel (it's never said if they're related or not). 
  • In fact, Abel is the one who betrays Marth, though for sympathetic reasons unrelated to Cain.
• Fiery Redhead
• Fountain of Expies: With Abel, he started the archetype of a red cavalier partnered with a green cavalier with whom they have a Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic, with the red one specializing in HP and Strength.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: His sword to Abel's lance.
• Name's the Same: With Kain before Shadow Dragon came stateside. Incidentally, Kain is the Abel archetype of Thracia 776, even though his name seems to suggest he is Cain archetype instead.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Abel's blue.
• Those Two Guys: With Abel.
• Satellite Character: Isn't quite developed as Abel.

Jagen (Jeigan)

A veteran knight of Altea. He acts as Marth's guardian and is one of the people Marth turns to for guidance. After the War of Shadows, he retired from active service as a knight and instead took up the position of Marth's advisor.

Class: Paladin Voiced by: Seizo Kato (Japanese, OVA), John Swasey (English, OVA)

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• Ascended Extra: In FE1/FE11 he was just a character who had a few lines (though the same goes for most characters in those games). In FE3/FE12, he's now an important NPC and Marth's tactician.
• Badass Grandpa: Moreso in story than ingame, though he can have his uses early on.
• Cool Old Guy
• Crutch Character: He was formerly the trope namer for this, and among the fandom continues to name, define and exemplify it as an archetype. A villager in Shadow Dragon lampshades it.
• Demoted to Extra: Though he played a much more prominent role in the sequel's story as Marth's advisor, he's still one of a handful of characters from Dark Dragon/Shadow Dragon to not be playable at all in New Mystery. Oddly, he still wears full armour as if he would be.
• Fountain of Expies: As the progenitor of the "Jeigan Archetype".
• Old Retainer: He's served Marth for a long time.
• Old Soldier
• The Paladin: In Name Only.
• Spell My Name with an "S": His name was widely translated as Jeigan before the game officially made it out of Japan. This has led to an interesting quirk in the fandom - calling Jagen himself by the name Jagen is now near-universal, but the archetype he started is still generally called "Jeigan".
• Spikes of Heroism: Seriously, you could kill several men at once on those shoulderspikes.
• The Strategist: In Book 2, which he actually does very well at.
• 24-Hour Armor: For some reason, he still wears his full battle armour while serving as Marth's tactician, despite being unable to fight himself.

Gordin (Gohdon, Gorden)

An archer in the service of Altea and a friend of Draug's. During Marth's escape at the onset of the War of Shadows, he was captured by the enemy and disguised as one of their soldiers as a trap, but is saved by Marth and accompanies him in his exile to Talys. After the war, he moves to Akaneia to train under Jeorge, and later serves as an inspiration to his younger brother Raian.

Class: Archer Voiced by: Akira Ishida (Japanese, OVA), Kurt Stoll (English, OVA)

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• The Archer
• Big Guy, Little Guy: With Draug.
• Bound and Gagged: In Shadow Dragon's prologue.
• Dressing as the Enemy: A more sinister example in Shadow Dragon's prologue: he certainly wanted nothing to do with it.
• Fan Nickname: Gaggles and Captain Gordin, Defender of Earth!
• Fountain of Expies: Began the long line of Archers that join you early on.
• Off-Model: His portait in Shadow Dragon, leading to him being one of the small few characters portaits to be remodelled in New Mystery.
• Pants-Free: Prior to Shadow Dragon
• Spell My Name with an "S": The only thing anyone seems to agree on is to not spell his name the actual way: Gordon.

Draug (Dohga)

Draug is an armoured knight in the service of Altea. At the onset of the War of Shadows, he prepares a ship to allow Marth and his cohort to escape Altea, and is shown to be friendly towards the new recruit Norne.

Class: Knight Voiced by: Yasuhiko Kawazu (Japanese, OVA), Jason Lee (English, OVA)

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• Big Guy, Little Guy: With Gordin.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Norne.
• Blade on a Stick
• Gentle Giant: His ending refers to him as this.
• Mighty Glacier: The first playable armour knight in the series.
• Sdrawkcab Name: Guard spelled backwards. His parents must have known he would become an armour knight.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Apparently, his Japanese name "Dohga" is "guard" spelled backwards, so it turns out the same meaning made it through the translation. Similarly, in French, he was called "Edgar", an anagram of "garde".

Norne (Norn)

A volunteer soldier who joins Marth as he is fleeing Altea. She appears to befriend Draug and Gordin and is an old childhood friend of Chris.

Class: Archer

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• The Archer
• Childhood Friend Romance: With a male Kris, if they support.  
• Country Mouse
• Expy: Of Rebecca. She also looks almost exactly like Ethlyn
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: With Draug. It's implied that they have mutual feelings.
• No Sense of Direction: As revealed with her supports with My Unit, explaining why whenever she appears, she has someone else with her.
• Rose-Haired Girl

Princess Caeda of Talys (Shiida, Sheeda)

Caeda is the pure-hearted princess of Talys, trained as a pegasus knight. She is a childhood friend of Marth, the two having grown up together. She joins Marth in his quest, staying by his side most of the time and is also responsible for recruiting various people, including Castor, Nabarl, Roger, Jake, and Lorenz. After the War of Shadows, she becomes Marth's fiancée, but the two don't get around to marrying until after the War of Heroes.

Class: Pegasus Knight Voiced by: Sakura Tange (Japanese, OVA), Kim Sevier (English, OVA)

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• Action Girl
• All-Loving Heroine: She's capable of recruiting a large number of characters because of this.
• Badass Princess
• Blade on a Stick
• Crutch Weapon: The remake gives Caeda the Wing Spear, an Expy of Marth's Rapier, to compensate for her rather weak start and her newfound inability (thanks to the introduction of weapon ranks) to grab Jagen's silver lance as compensation.
• Everything's Better with Princesses: One of the many princesses appearing in the game, and surprisingly doesn't end up as a Distressed Damsel in any of the games she appears in.
• Heroic Seductress: While generally an overall nice girl, there is a reason why she is required to recruit almost all of the units that start out as enemies, despite having absolutely no past connection with them and relying solely on her "feminine wiles." This is especially apparent in her recruit conversation with Roger; poor guy betrayed his country because he was led on to think he actually had a chance.
• Fragile Speedster
• Hello, Nurse!: She has several admirers.
  • Lady in Red - Show Some Leg: She flirts with Roger right on the battlefield so he can join the Akaneian League, and IT WORKS.
• I Uh You Too: Her and Marth in the epilogue
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• Spell My Name with an "S": One of the worst cases, given she was stuck with multiple English-language name changes. Sheeda, Shiida, Caeda, Sheyda, or even Sheda have all seen use at some point or another.
• Tsundere: The OVA interprets her as this with Marth. 
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Wrys (Riff)

Wrys is a healer from Talys who joins Marth to defend his nation from the pirates.

Class: Curate

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• Bald of Awesome: Might be this but... well, see below.
• Crutch Character: To an extent. He mostly serves as your healer until you get Lena.
• Cool Old Guy
• The Medic
  • Combat Medic: Upon promotion
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• Running Gag: New Mystery made one of his rather abrupt recruitment in Shadow Dragon. Specifically, he introduces himself with the exact same line.
• What Could Have Been: He along with Roger, Beck, Darros, Jake, and to a lesser extent Gotoh were meant to return as playable characters in the SNES remake but were scrapped during development.
• White Mage

Ogma (Oguma)

Ogma is a hard-edged mercenary who leads the mercenary trio Barst, Bord and Cord. He was a gladiator at first and was drafted to the Talysian army when Caeda stopped several people from punishing him after he aided in Samto's escape. Ogma then dedicated his life to being the princess's bodyguard and was eventually handpicked as the guard of both her and Marth during the latter's quest.

Class: Mercenary Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi (Japanese, OVA), Rob Mungle (English, OVA)

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• Badass
• Bodyguard Crush: Subverted; he might have feelings for Caeda, but he's aware that she is in love with Marth.
• Eighties Hair: Has one hell of a mullet; its extent depends on the artist.
• Fountain of Expies: The model for the "Ogma archetype", the bulkier, strength-oriented swordfighter build received early in the game with the potential to become one of the player's better units.
• Gladiator Games: His former occupation before Caeda found him, and the basis of his fighting style.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Just for Pun.
• Jack of All Stats: Has balanced growths with good starting stats.
  • Lightning Bruiser: If you're lucky.
• Spikes of Heroism: As interpreted by Mystery of the Emblem and the OVA. As of Shadow Dragon, they're gone.
• X Marks the Hero: Just for Pun... again.

Barst (Barts)

Barst is one of the three axe fighters in the Talys mercenary group. Like the two of his fellow axe-wielding mercenaries, Bord and Cord, he is under the command of Ogma.

Class: Fighter Voiced by: Wataru Takagi (Japanese, OVA), Charles Campbell

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• An Axe to Grind
• Heroic Neutral: In New Mystery of the Emblem. After the War of Darkness, he retired from being a mercenary and just wished to live peacefully as a lumberjack. During the War of Heroes, one of his fellow mercenaries (either Ogma, Cord, or Bord) convince him to fight alongside Marth once again.
• Jack of All Stats: Could be considered the axe wielding counterpart to Ogma, and has the most balanced growths and starting stats compared to Bord and Cord.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Again, if you're lucky.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Lampshaded in New Mystery.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair
  • Palette Swap: Of Bord and Cord in FE 1.

Bord (Saji)

Bord is a Talys mercenary under Ogma. After the war, he becomes a woodcutter renowned for his skill.

Class: Fighter

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• An Axe to Grind
• Art Evolution: He was slowly visually differentiated from Cord as more Akaneia games were released.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• You All Look Familiar: In the NES version, he had the exact same portrait as Cord.

Cord (Maji)

Cord is a Talys mercenary under Ogma. After the war, he becomes a woodcutter renowned for his speed.

Class: Fighter

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• An Axe to Grind
• Art Evolution: He was slowly visually differentiated from Bord as more Akaneia games were released.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• You All Look Familiar: Lampshaded in New Mystery. If you recruit Barst with Cord, the former mistakes him for Bord at first.

Castor (Kashim)

Castor is a hunter from Talys who was forced to leave his home and work with bandits and pirates to pay for the money needed to tend to both his sickly mother and many siblings. During the War of Shadows, Caeda convinces him to join Marth's army and promises to pay for his mother's medicine. By the time of Mystery of the Emblem, however, Castor has become a swindler, playing up his pitiful act and his mother's illness to gain more money.

Class: Hunter Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• All There in the Manual: The developer's notes revealed that after the War of Shadows, Castor returned home only to find that one of his younger sisters sold herself into slavery to pay for the family's needs, and thus Castor tracked her down to Port Warren, where he found her left dead in a back ally. After this, Castor vowed to make enough money to sure this never would happen to his siblings again, leading him to become the swindler he is during Mystery of the Emblem.
• The Archer
• Bow and Sword In Accord: upon promotion
• Dead Little Sister
• Only in It For the Money: A more sympathetic example than most, however.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Darros (Daros)

A pirate who grew sick of the lifestyle and sought to join Marth's army as soon as he heard Marth was in the area.

Class: Pirate (FE1, FE11), Berserker (FE12)

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• An Axe to Grind
• The Atoner: Implied in support conversations with My Unit.
• The Berserker: In New Mystery.
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Pirate: A Type 2 that wanted to escape the Type 1 lifestyle.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• What Could Have Been: He along with Wrys, Jake, Roger, Beck, and to a lesser extent Gotoh were meant to return as playable characters in the SNES remake but were scrapped during development.

Julian

A thief who was part of the Soothsires, but betrayed them to save Lena, and joins Marth's army alongside her. In Mystery of the Emblem, he and Lena are living together, but he is forced back into the fight after she is kidnapped.

Class: Thief Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese, OVA), Brett Weaver (English, OVA)

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• Fiery Redhead
• Fountain of Expies: To low-level thieves who join early on.
• Fragile Speedster
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Loveable Rogue
• Magikarp Power: Despite being a thief, he is deadly if you train him up, though he will be stuck with iron swords for quite a while.
• Motor Mouth: In Shadow Dragon
• Pants-Free: Prior to Shadow Dragon.

Lena (Rena)

A noblewoman and cleric from Medon who was raised in Grust and is an acquaintance of Camus. Originally chosen to wed Prince Michalis of Medon, she ran away from Medon and was eventually captured by the Soothsires. However, one of the Soothsires, Julian, freed her, and together they joined Marth's army. In Mystery of the Emblem, she starts an orphanage in Medon with Julian and her new apprentice Malliesia, but is kidnapped by Gharnef.....

Class: Cleric (FE1, FE11), Bishop (FE3, FE12) Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese, OVA and BS Fire Emblem), Tiffany Grant (English, OVA)

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• Arranged Marriage: To Michalis, prior to Shadow Dragon. She ran the fuck away from him.
• Barrier Maiden: In Mystery of the Emblem.
• Fiery Redhead or Rose-Haired Girl: Depending on the Artist.
• Fountain of Expies: Every game in the series since her has a White Mage that joins early on.
• The Medic
  • Combat Medic: Upon promotion
• White Magician Girl

Nabarl (Navarre)

A stoic swordfighter known as the Crimson Fencer who is often found fighting alongside bandits. He seems to hold himself to a moral code of never harming women or children. In Mystery of the Emblem, he appears protecting the dancer Feena. He appears to know Ogma, but how they met is currently unknown.

Class: Mercenary (FE1, FE3), Myrmidon (FE11, FE12) Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese, OVA and FE: Heroes), Shinichiro Ohta (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem), Aaron Krhon (English, OVA)

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• Bishounen
• Blood Knight: Though My Unit in New Mystery believes he is a decent man deep down.
• Fountain of Expies: An odd example: he was the progenitor of the archetype's trademark Fragile Speedster build and general circumstances of recruitment, and it's named for him, but depending on who you ask, either Ira or Rutger are the ones who implemented the archetype's associated class: the Myrmidon, which Nabarl himself later became in the remakes.
• Fragile Speedster: If you're unlucky
  • Jack of All Stats: How he will usually turn out.
    • Lightning Bruiser: If you're lucky enough.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
  • Cool Sword: The Killing Edge
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Morality Pet: Feena seems to be this to him.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Oh dear god... Nabarl, Navarre, Navarl, Navahl, Nabarru, Nabal, take your pick.
• The Stoic
• Worthy Opponent: To Ogma.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: One of the moral rules he follows, although in New Mystery's DLC, he does consider breaking it in order to provoke Ogma.
  • Word of God says he has a Freudian Excuse for it, but haven't stated exactly what it is.

Merric (Marich)

An Altean nobleman and childhood friend of Marth and Elice. He has spent years in Khadein training in magic under Wendell, and is the current holder of the Excalibur spell. In Mystery of the Emblem, he is cornered by his rival Ellerean, but is saved by Marth and Wendell.

Class: Mage

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• Badass Cape
• Bishonen: Except not as much in New Mystery.
• Blow You Away: His signature spell, Excalibur.
• Childhood Friend Romance: He and Elice.
• Disk One Nuke: In the New Mystery prologue.
  • His Excalibur spell is also one in Shadow Dragon where he can OHKO enemies the moment you recruit him.
• In the Hood: Except in his DS portiats.
• Fountain of Expies: The "Merric" archetype, early-game mages who tend to be the best playable mage of the game.
• Ill Boy: Elice reveals he was this as a child.
• Nice Hat
• Squishy Wizard
  • Fragile Speedster: He's actually quite fast for a mage.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair 

Matthis (Machis)

Lena's brother, a lowly soldier of Medon forced to fight against Marth's army under penalty of death if he refuses. In Mystery of the Emblem, he pretty much serves the same role, only now as a soldier of the Medon rebel army.

Class: Cavalier

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• Artificial Stupidity: Is well known for being able to kill his beloved sister Lena as an enemy.
  • Fan Nickname: Fans label any other character who does something like this as having "Matthis Syndrome".
• Dirty Coward: Though not without his reasons.
• Fiery Redhead/Rose Haired Boy: Depending on the Artist, and on your definition of fiery.
• Identical Stranger: To Vyland in Dark Dragon, with the similarities also extending to gameplay; this was rectified in later appearances of the two.

Prince Hardin of Aurelis

The younger brother of the King of Aurelis, and leader of its resistance against Dolhr. Hardin is in love with Princess Nyna of Akaneia, but seems to be unaware of her feelings for Camus. After joining with Marth's army, Hardin quickly befriends the young lord.

Class: Cavalier (FE1, FE11), Emperor (FE3, FE12) Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem), Kazuhiro Nakaya (FE: Heroes)

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• Badass Moustache
• Bodyguard Crush: On Nyna, who he's been protecting for some time.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: She cares for him, but her true love is Camus.
    • Becomes flat out Love Makes You Evil in the sequel.
• Enemy Mine: With Minerva in BS Fire Emblem.
• Jack of All Stats
• Man in White
• Nice Hat
• The Lancer: He seems to have been Marth's in the first war.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's leading the La Résistance, and is very competent statistically.

Wolf

Hardin's right hand man, and is fiercely loyal to him. After the war, Wolf becomes the captain of the newly formed Wolfguard and continues to serve Hardin even after his fall into madness.

Class: Horseman

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• Bishonen: In general, but taken Up to Eleven with his BS Fire Emblem and DS remake designs.
  • Dude Looks Like a Lady: A little bit, but his access to male-only classes makes his gender obvious.
    • Real Men Wear Pink
• Bow and Sword In Accord
• Crutch Character: Played straight with him and Sedgar in the original and Mystery, but averted in Shadow Dragon. They look like classic Crutch Characters, and even completely worthless if you look at their stats... however, they compensate for having much less levels by having some amazing stat growths, making both Wolf and Sedgar very viable late-game.
• Death Seeker: Becomes one after Hardin's death.
• Horse Archer
• The Lancer: To Hardin
  • The Dragon: After Hardin descends into madness.
• Lightning Bruiser: Can become this in the Shadow Dragon
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Is forced to choose between siding with his idol or Roshea in the remake.
• Peek-a-Bangs
• Undying Loyalty: To Hardin.

Sedgar (Zagaro)

A Knight of Aurelis and the right hand man to Wolf. After the war, he joins the newly-formed Wolfguard, and after the events of Mystery of the Emblem, succeeds Wolf as leader.

Class: Horseman

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• Bow and Sword In Accord
• Crazy Prepared: Implied in a support conversation.
• Crutch Character: Played straight with him and Wolf in the original and Mystery, but averted in Shadow Dragon. They look like classic Crutch Characters, and even completely worthless if you look at their stats... however, they compensate for having much less levels by having some amazing stat growths, making both Wolf and Sedgar very viable late-game.
• Horse Archer
• Identical Stranger: Looks a lot like Tomas, or at least, he used to look like him until Shadow Dragon.
• The Lancer: To Wolf.
• Lightning Bruiser: Can become this in Shadow Dragon.
• One Steve Limit: In the French version, sort of. Since Draug was renamed Edgar, Sedgar's name was changed to Sagaro.
• The Straight Man: Seems to be this for the Wolfguard.
• My Master, Right or Wrong

Roshea (Roshe)

A Knight of Aurelis under Hardin. After the war, he joins the Wolfguard, but spends some time in Altea first. In Mystery of the Emblem, he is the first (and in the original, only) of the Wolfguard to defect and join Marth's army.

Class: Cavalier (FE1, FE11), Paladin (FE3, FE12)

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• Bishonen
• Defector From Decadence: In Mystery of the Emblem. Starts the chain for the other Wolfguard members to do the same in New Mystery.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Though Roshea is the only member of Wolfguard who wonders if Hardin is himself.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Roshea is young and has pink/purple hair and armor. But in some versions of the game, he's one of the best cavaliers.

Vyland (Biraku)

A Knight of Aurelis under Hardin. After the war, he joins the Wolfguard. He seems to be one of the more sensible members of the group.

Class: Cavalier (FE1, FE11), Paladin (FE3, FE12)

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• Fragile Speedster: His only good stat is speed.
• Fiery Redhead
• The Generic Guy: There really isn't anything noteworthy about him.
• Palette Swap: Variation: In the original Famicom version, he shared a portrait with Matthis, who is another cavalier with poor growths.
• My Master, Right or Wrong

Wendell

A sage of Khadein and the teacher of Merric and Ellerean. He dislikes war, but is forced to fight against his will.

Class: Sage

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• Cool Old Guy
• Crutch Character: Can be considered the magical version of the Jeigan archetype.
• Fan Nickname: Either "Windell" or "The Pope", the 2nd one for obvious reasons if you look at his portrait.
• Gameplay and Story Segregation: Apparently, he has no love for war, but for some reason in FE 11 he will attack you by default until you talk to him with Marth or Merric. This was changed in FE 3 book 1, where he was found in a prison cell. In FE 1, he would go up to Marth and talk with him.
• Martial Pacifist: Does not like war, as stated above. However, he will fight if he has to.
• Squishy Wizard

Rickard (Ricard, Ricardo)

A stray thief who is friends with Julian.

Class: Thief Voiced by: Kazue Ikura (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Fragile Speedster
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Older Than They Look: Very much more so than most other characters. If the novel's ages are canon, he is 21 in Shadow Dragon. This may not be the case, considering that he sounds like a kid in the Akaneia Saga and that the manga isn't considered canon.
  • Adult Child: Especially in New Mystery's DLC.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Of course, in the Fire Emblem world(s), it's not an unusual trait.

Athena

A woman who was saved from drowning by a group of Akaneian villagers. In order to repay their kindness, she vows to save the village's children from the pirates in the area. After working with Marth to defeat the pirates, she insists that he let her in his army. In New Mystery, she can appear in the prologue helping to train the new recruits, and later appears after being ambushed by Kleine.

Class: Myrmidon

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• Ambiguously Brown
• Because You Were Nice to Me: To the villagers who saved her life.
• Canon Foreigner: Created for the DS games.
• Cutting Off the Branches: Athena likely didn't appear in the prologue otherwise she would have likely recongized Katarina from the DLC episodes.
• Disk One Nuke: In the New Mystery prologue.
• Horrible Judge of Character: In one of New Mystery's DLC chapters, she happily helps Eremiya and her assassins, assuming that their reasons for rescuing the children from the Soothsires are as virtuous as hers.
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Funetik Aksent: Speaks in Vampire Vords and refers to herself in the third person... for some reason. This remains in Heroes.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Yet her hair in the sprite is brown for some reason.

Bantu (Banutu)

An elderly Manakete who serves under Gotoh. He is the one who unsealed Tiki and raised her as they traveled the world.

Class: Manakete

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• Crutch Character: The fact that his growths always were just as bad as Jagen's seem to indicate that he's this.
• Kill It with Fire: He's a fire dragon.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• The One Guy: Meta-example. He is the only recruitable male Manakete in the series.
• Palette Swap: Of Gharnef of all people in the Famicom verison.

Caesar (Seazer)

A mercenary from Port Warren who joins Marth's army alongside Radd. He reappears in New Mystery, being forced to fight against Marth due to his sister being held hostage by the enemy.

Class: Mercenary

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• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.

Radd (Radei, Raddy)

A swordfighter from Port Warren who joins Marth's army alongside Caesar. After the war, he laid down his sword for a woman, implied in New Mystery to be Caesar's sister. Like Caesar, Radd is forced to fight against Marth after she is taken hostage.

Class: Mercenary (FE1), Myrmidon (FE11, FE12)

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• Bishonen
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Magikarp Power: He is pretty good if you want to use him, though he has such horrible base stats that it is hard to train him.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.

Roger

A knight of Grust who is recruited by Caeda flirting with him. He later appears in New Mystery, still with a crush on Caeda.

Class: Knight

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• All Love Is Unrequited: Played for laughs towards Caeda.
• Blade on a Stick
• Call Back: His recruitment conversation in New Mystery is very similar to his recruitment conversation in Shadow Dragon.
• Mighty Glacier
  • Lightning Bruiser: Rather fast for an Armor Knight.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• Rose Haired Boy

Jeorge (Jorjue, George)

A Akaneian nobleman and one of the finest archers in the land. He joins Marth's army after hearing of his alliance with Princess Nyna and later becomes a mentor to the Altean archer Gordin.

Class: Sniper

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• Arranged Marriage: To Midia. Neither of them wanted it.
• The Archer
• Big Brother Mentor: To Gordin.
• Heel Face Turn: In the sequel, not that he needed to much persuasion
• Nobles Who Actually Do Something: Jeorge is of noble birth but is somewhat rebellious, preferring to travel around. He says it's because his family is full of backstabbers and corrupted assholes.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Like Gordin, it seems no-one's interested in Romanizing his name the logical way: George.

Princess Maria of Macedon

The youngest princess of Macedon, who was taken hostage at a young age by her own brother in order to get her sister Minerva to fight. She is later rescued by Marth, allowing Minerva and her Whitewings to safely defect from Medon. Mystery of the Emblem reveals that after Michalis was defeated by Minerva, Maria prayed for him and restored him back to life. In response, when she is captured by Gharnef, Michalis risked (and depending on the version, gave) his life to save her.

Class: Cleric (FE1, FE11), Bishop (FE3, FE12)

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• Catch Phrase: "No protesting!"
• Distressed Damsel: Discussed between her and Minerva. Maria insists that she not be seen as a helpless damsel and tells Minerva that she wishes to fight alongside Marth's army. This trope gets played straight, however, in Mystery of the Emblem and its remake, where she and other girls (Elice, Lena, and Nyna) are captured and then Brainwashed and Crazy..
• Everything's Better with Princesses
• Fiery Redhead or Rose-Haired Girl: Depending on the version of the game. Heroes settles on the first.
• Fountain of Expies: Slightly later female healers, often young nobles; her expies alternate between being Clerics or Troubadours.
• The Medic
  • Combat Medic: Upon promotion
• The Pollyanna: Very cheerful and happy despite spending so much of her life as a prisoner.
• White Magician Girl
• Woman in White

Princess Minerva of Macedon (Minerba)

The elder princess of Macedon and leader of the Whitewings. Reluctant to fight with Doluna, Minerva is forced to do so after her sister Maria is taken hostage. Minerva later sends Catria to Marth in order to persuade him to free Maria and later defects after learning of Maria's safety. According to Mystery of the Emblem, she is the one who fights against and defeats Michalis later in the war. During the events of Mystery itself, Minerva is crowned queen of Macedon, but is overthrown by a group of knights led by Rucke, but is saved by Michalis and later reunites with Marth.

Class: Dracoknight Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Action Girl
• An Axe to Grind: In the remakes.
  • Blade on a Stick: In all versions.
• A Mother to Her Women: To the other Whitewings at least.
• Badass Princess: Another one.
• Broken Bird: A serious young woman who has... severe issues. Heroes gives her a younger alter who is around Maria's age, and yet behaves in near exactly the same serious way.
• Dragon Rider
• Enemy Mine: With Hardin in BS Fire Emblem.
• Everything's Better with Princesses: This too.
• Fiery Redhead
• Fountain of Expies: The "Minerva" archetype: Dragon Riders, often (but not always) red-armoured females who start as enemies, are generally dissatisfied with their service to the enemy, and are recruited by way of Heel Face Turn.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something

Linde (Linda, Rinda)

A noblewoman of Khadein and the daughter of Miloah, capable of using his Aura spell. After her father was killed by Gharnef, she disgused herself as a boy and escaped, but was later captured by slave traders. After being saved by Marth, she joins his army. After the war, she is made a noble of Akaneia by Nyna (who also takes her in as an apprentice), and is later entrusted to get the Fire Emblem to Marth during the events of Mystery of the Emblem.

Class: Mage

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• All Love Is Unrequited: Implied with Merric. He's not mentioned by name as her crush until Warriors.
• Black Magician Girl
• Brainy Brunette
• Lady in Waiting: A mix of this and The Apprentice, to Nyna.
• Light'Em Up: Aura.
• Magical Girl Warrior
• Magikarp Power: Starts off at a low level in both games, but if trained, she can be deadly.
• Name's the Same: With Linda at least before Shadow Dragon was relased in the West anyway.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Many of her dresses are in light pink.
• Revenge: On Gharnef for killing her father.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something
• She's Got Legs: Official artwork focuses a lot on her hips and legs.
• Squishy Wizard
• Sweet Polly Oliver: Doesn't last very long, though.
• Woman in White: In some illustrations. 

Jake (Jeik)

A Ballistician from Grust who is in love with Anna. He and Anna would later travel to distant lands like Jugdral and Elibe. In New Mystery, he replaces a lone enemy Berserker.

Class: Ballistician (FE1, FE11), Warrior (FE12)

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For Jake's tropes, see his section here.

Midia

A Knight of Akaneia and the lover of Astram. She is taken prisoner by Dolhr in Akaneia castle, but is later saved by Marth. In Mystery of the Emblem, she tried to rebel against the corrupted Hardin, but is again captured and rejoins once she's freed.

Class: Paladin Voiced by: ?? (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Faux Action Girl: Got captured in the same place twice, though to be fair this IS Hardin we're talking of.
• Lady of War: In the main games, at least character wise. However, in BS Fire Emblem, she acts much more crude.
• Plucky Girl: During the fall of Pales, when the group was all but defeated, she attempted to strike down Camus. Just to be clear: after being defeated, she tried to kill Camus. Say what you will, but gal's got quite the guts.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Dolph (Tomth)

A Knight of Akaneia who was imprisoned alongside Midia, Boah, Tomas, and his lookalike Macellan. After the war, he leaves the Akaneian Army as a rejection of Hardin becoming King. During the War of Heroes, he travelled to Altea to assist Marth in reclaiming the castle.

Class: Knight (FE1, FE11), General (FE12)

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• Bald of Awesome: Like Wrys, maybe not.
• Big Eater: In New Mystery.
• Blade on a Stick
• Gonk: In his original appearance.
  • Art Evolution: As the art shifted, Dolph became gradually more normal looking.
• Mighty Glacier
  • Lampshaded in New Mystery. He's fully aware of his status as one, and loves it.
• Palette Swap / Identical Stranger: Originally of Macellan, and the two are still pretty similar after Art Evolution kicked in. Lampshaded in the epilogue of Shadow Dragon - Dolph's Red Baron title is "Spitting Image".
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.

Macellan (Mishelan)

A Knight of Akaneia who was imprisoned alongside Midia, Boah, Tomas, and his lookalike Dolph. After the war, he forms a band of watchmen near the border. During the War of Heroes, he travelled to Altea to assist Marth in reclaiming the castle.

Class: Knight (FE1, FE11), General (FE12) Voiced by: ?? (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Bald of Awesome: Like Wrys and Dolph, it depends.
• Blade on a Stick
• Gonk: Like Dolph, his original appearance.
  • Art Evolution: As the art shifted, Macellan's appearance eventually matched the rest of the cast.
• Mighty Glacier
• Palette Swap / Identical Stranger: Originally of Dolph, and the two are still pretty similar after Art Evolution kicked in. Lampshaded in the epilogue of Shadow Dragon - Macellan's Red Baron title is "Dead Ringer".
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.

Tomas (Thormas)

A knight of Akaneia who was imprisoned alongside Midia, Boah, Dolph, and his lookalike Macellan. After the war, he leaves the Akaneian Army, but comes to Marth's assistance in Gra during the War of Heroes. He uses a bow.

Class: Archer (FE1, FE11), Sniper (FE12) Voiced by: ?? (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• The Archer
• The Generic Guy
• Identical Stranger: Looks a lot like a younger Sedgar.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.

Boah (Boha)

The Advisor to the Akaneian royal family, who was taken prisoner alongside the Akaneian Knights. In Mystery of the Emblem, he pressures Nyna into marrying Hardin, and is later killed defending Nyna from Hardin.

Class: Bishop Voiced by: Koji Yada (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• The Consigliere: To Nyna. But had he not told her to marry Hardin for the sake of Akaneia...
• Demoted to Extra: Though he still played a role in the game's story, he's one of a handful of characters from Dark Dragon/Shadow Dragon to not be playable in the main story of New Mystery; he's still playable in one of the BS Fire Emblem chapters, though.
• Squishy Wizard
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: See above. He's well aware of it and apologises to Marth in his final moments.

Horace (Horus)

A Knight of Akaneia forced to fight for Doluna after the people of Akaneia were taken hostage. He is ultimately spared by Marth's army and pardoned by Nyna, to whom he swears devotion towards. He later appears in New Mystery fighting off Roro and his clones.

Class: General

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• The Atoner
• Blade on a Stick: His preferred weapon of choice, though his artwork shows him using a pole-axe for some reason.
• Mighty Glacier
• Undying Loyalty: To Nyna.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Beck

Class: Ballistician (FE1, FE11), Horseman (FE12)

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• The Archer: A Ballista type archer in Shadow Dragon and an actual archer in New Mystery.
• Bow and Sword In Accord: In New Mystery of the Emblem.
• Horse Archer: Also in New Mystery of the Emblem.
• Heel Face Turn: Sort of. He fought Marth's army at Castle Deil and after his defeat, decided to join him during the battle with Grust's Wooden Cavalry.
• Put on a Bus: Didn't appear in the second book of Mystery of the Emblem. This was remedied in Heroes of Light and Shadow.
• Palette Swap: Of Jake's portrait in the NES game.
• Siege Engines
• What Could Have Been: He along with Jake, Darros, Wrys, Roger, and to a lesser extent Gotoh were meant to return as playable characters in the SNES remake but were scrapped during development.

Astram (Astria)

A Akaneian mercenary and Midia's lover. Originally hired to fight for Doluna, he is convinced to defect by his girlfriend. In Mystery of the Emblem, he serves as one of Hardin's generals and wields the Mercurius, but is later convinced to defect by Jeorge.

Class: Hero

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• Artificial Stupidity: Can attack Midia when encountered as an enemy.
• Hair of Gold
• Heel Face Turn
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Undying Loyalty: To Akaneia and Nyna

Palla (Paola)

Palla is the oldest of the three Whitewing sisters, and is Minerva's second in command. Originally forced to fight for Doluna, Palla and her sisters are later able to defect after Maria was resuced. During the war, she develops a crush on Abel. After the war, she and Catria are forced to travel to the foreign continent of Valentia in order to save Est, getting involved with the war there and serving under Cellica. In Mystery of the Emblem, she joins Marth's army after Minerva is overthrown in Rucke's rebellion, and vows to help Julian and Minerva save Lena and Maria.

Class: Pegasus Knight

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• Action Girl
• All Love Is Unrequited: Has a crush on Abel. Doesn't get anywhere, since he marries her little sister Est.
• Ascended Extra: She is one of four characters to appear in all six of the Archanea/Barensia games, and the only time she's not playable is in BS Fire Emblem.
• Blade on a Stick
• Cool Big Sis: To Catria and Est. 
• Disk One Nuke: In Mystery, she is your second character (the first being Arran) who can use the Silver Spear.
• Fountain of Expies: She, Catria, and Est are the progenitors of the archetype of the Pegasus Knight trio who, when together, can initiate a Triangle Attack.
• Promotion to Parent: As revealed in New Mystery.
• Zettai Ryouiki

Catria (Katua)

Catria is the middle child of the three Whitewing sisters. Like her sisters, she was forced to fight for Doluna prior to Maria's rescue, and later join's Marth's army. During the war, she appears to develop a crush on Marth. After the war, she and Palla travelled to the foreign continent of Barencia in order to save Est, getting involved with the war there and serving under Cellica. During the events of Mystery of the Emblem, she joins with Marth's army after rebellion breaks out in Medon.

Class: Pegasus Knight

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• Action Girl
  • Action Girlfriend: With My Unit if they support.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Implied with Marth, though it's little more than a throwaway reference in her Book I ending.
• Ascended Extra: In a way - in a game duology where precious few characters have (released) official artwork of them to the point where the final boss doesn't, she for some reason had a downloadable wallpaper all to herself from the Japanese New Mystery of the Emblem website.
  • Not to mention, she's one of the only characters to be playable in all six Archanea/Valencia Fire Emblem titles, if one counts the four BS Fire Emblem chapters as one game. Being that she's also available by way of SpotPass in Fire Emblem Awakening and Est isn't, she is playable in seven games, more than any other character!
  • She's summonable in FE: Heroes too (and fairly easy to get), and has at least two Alters. That makes at least eight games for her!
• Blade on a Stick
• Fountain of Expies: She, Catria, and Est are the progenitors of the archetype of the Pegasus Knight trio who, when together, can initiate a Triangle Attack.
• Disk One Nuke: She is seen as this in Mystery and its remake. Most likely become one of your Infinity Plus One Characters later.
• Lightning Bruiser: In Mystery and its remake. And she joins in the second chapter!
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair
• Zettai Ryouiki

Arran (Aran, Alan)

A knight living in an Altean village which is opposed to Samson's village. It is revealed in New Mystery that he once served under a different kingdom, but became disillusioned when he was ordered to put down a peasant rebellion caused by a bad winter's harvest. He left his lord and wandered the land looking for the true meaning of Knighthood, eventually settling in the Altean army. During Mystery of the Emblem, he falls ill, but continues to fight in order to maintain his honor as a knight.

Class: Paladin

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• The Atoner
• Crutch Character: In Mystery of the Emblem and its remake. Book 2 Arran has growths to rival Jagen himself, but it's explained by his illness. Though he is VERY useful early on in New Mystery's Lunatic Mode, at least until Sirius comes, that is...
• Determinator: Continues to fight on despite being deathly ill.
• Fountain of Expies: He and Samson started the archtype of having the choose one character and overlooking the other in a playthrough.
• My Greatest Failure: Supports in New Mystery reveal that he once slaughtered a band of hunger-striking peasants under orders from his lord. That decision weighs very heavily on him, causing him to wander the earth reflecting on what being a knight truly means.
• Name's the Same: With two characters, no less, depending how you Romanise his name - with either Alan of Sword of Seals, or with Aran of Radiant Dawn.
• The Paladin
• Stealth Mentor: Kind of becomes one to My Unit during supports.
• Your Days Are Numbered

Samson

An Altean mercenary living in a village that is opposed to Arran's village. After the events of Shadow Dragon, he was hired by Princess Sheena of Gra as a bodyguard and eventually fell in love with her.

Class: Hero

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• Bodyguard Crush: Toward Sheema, of course.
• Cutting Off the Branches: His willingness to attack Marth's army in the sequel, coupled with Arran being with said army, seem to indicate that he was passed up in Shadow Dragon.
• Fountain of Expies: He and Arran started the archetype of having the choose one character and overlooking the other in a playthrough.
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Xane (Cheine, Chainy)

A mysterious youth with the ability to transform and take the appearance of anyone he pleases. He joins Marth after being saved from the Doluna army, although it is implied he was actually sent by Gotoh to keep an eye on Marth and later Tiki. He is one of the few surviving Divine Dragons, who lost the ability to take dragon form following the battle with the Earth Dragons centuries ago. Unlike Gotoh, Xane grew to hate humanity due to how they were treating dragonkind, to the point that he sympathized with the dragons who formed the Doluna Empire. Despite this, he continues to serve Gotoh loyally, and seems to have taken a liking to Marth.

Class: Chameleon

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• Bishonen
• Ditto Fighter
• Fiery Redhead/Rose Haired Boy: Depending on the version of the game.
• Humans Are Bastards: Due to how they treat the dragons.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Although a dragon is the one thing he can't turn into anymore.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• Pants-Free: Actually kept in Shadow Dragon.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Sympathized with the dragons who formed the Dolhr Empire due to how humankind was treating them.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting

Etzel

A sorcerer from Akaneia who lost his wife Ursula during the war with Doluna, and is forced to fight for them in exchange for her ring. After the ring is recieved, he happliy joins Marth's army. After the war, he travelled the world and appears to have settled in Khadein by the time of New Mystery of the Emblem.

Class: Sorceror

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• All There in the Manual: Etzel coming from Akaneia comes from the official Japanese site.
• Ascended Extra: His role is greatly expanded on in New Mystery's DLC chapters.
• Crusading Widower
• Dark Is Not Evil: And he's the only Sorcerer you can recruit in Shadow Dragon, not counting units you can reclass to Sorceror.
• Expy: Of Canas.
• High-Class Glass

Est

The youngest of the Whitewing siblings. Like her sisters, she was forced to fight for Dolhr due to Maria being captive. After Maria was saved, Est manages to steal the legendary sword Mercurius from Dolhr and joins Marth's army. After the war, she is captured by pirates and ends up getting involved with a whole other war in Valentia, serving under Celica with her sisters. In Mystery of the Emblem, she weds Abel, only for her to be taken hostage by Akaneia in order to get Abel to fight Marth.

Class: Pegasus Knight

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• Ascended Extra: She's one of the only two characters to be playable in all six Archanea/Valencia Fire Emblem titles, if one counts the four BS Fire Emblem chapters as one game; the other is Catria.
• Blade on a Stick
• But Now I Must Go: Disappears after Mystery of the Emblem, though we never learn why.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: A bit, in Echoes.
• Distressed Damsel / Badass in Distress: Twice, no less! She was first kidnapped by pirates and ended up in Valentia, prompting Palla and Catria to follow her there. Then, back in Akaneia, Eibel captures her to force Abel to do his bidding.
• Fountain of Expies: She, Catria, and Est are the progenitors of the archetype of the Pegasus Knight trio who, when together, can initiate a Triangle Attack. Additionally, Est alone is the progenitor of the "Est Archetype" - a unit, often young and/or female, who joins the player at a very low level late in the game, but has fantastic growths and is capable of becoming an excellent unit if the player takes the time to do so.
• Genki Girl
• Magikarp Power: Moreso in the original games than the remakes, though.
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Zettai Ryouiki

Tiki (Chiki)

A Divine Dragon girl who traveled the world with her "uncle" Bantu, but was captured and brainwashed by Gharnef. After being freed from the spell by Bantu, Tiki joins the Altean army and takes a liking to Marth. She is the daughter of Naga, the God-king of the Divine Dragons, who gave his life to seal her away due to her massive power. Eventually, Bantu took pity on her, and unsealed her and raised her. During the events of Mystery, she is put back to sleep by Gotoh, who is afraid she might go feral, but is allowed to be reawakened after Marth restores the Starsphere and claims the Lifesphere and Geosphere.

Class: Manakete

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For Tiki's tropes, see her section here.

Lorenz (Rolence, Lawrence)

A respected general of Grust and a close friend of King Mostyn of Talys. Unlike Camus, Lorenz opposed Grust fighting alongside Dolhr, but complied due to his loyalty. When Marth's army does battle with him and Camus, Mostyn's daughter Caeda convinces him to fight alongside them. After the war, he is made regent to Prince Yubello and Princess Yumina; however, in Mystery of the Emblem, he is betrayed by Akaneia and starts a rebellion in order to protect the royal siblings from Lang. However, by the time Marth reaches him, he is too wounded to carry on and dies after entrusting Marth with the fate of the children.

Class: General

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• Better to Die Than Be Killed: One interpretation of his death in Mystery.
• Blade on a Stick
• Cool Old Guy
• Demoted to Extra: One of only a handful of characters of Dark Dragon/Shadow Dragon to not be playable in New Mystery.
• Eyepatch of Power
• Fountain of Expies: All generals loyal enough to serve his or her kingdom to the end, but end up being persuaded nonetheless, can be traced back to Lorenz.
• Mighty Glacier
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Dies at the end of the first chapter of Mystery.

Ymir (Hymir)

A large man from Grust who is treated as a monster due to his size. Ymir eventually found a village who accepted him for who he is, but the villagers came under attack by the army of Grust. Ymir fights to protect the villagers, but is later convinced by Marth that they should work together.

Class: Warrior

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• An Axe to Grind
• The Big Guy: But not in the five man band sense.
• Gentle Giant
• Meaningful Name: Both Ymir and Hymir are the name of Giants from Norse Mythology.
• Satellite Character: He has only one support conversation in New Mystery and is not considered a Eleventh-Hour Ranger, making him this.

Princess Elice of Altea (Ellis)

Marth's older sister and the princess of Altea. When Doluna first invaded, Elice stayed behind so that Marth and his allies could escape. She survives, but is captured by Gharnef so that he could use her to use the Aum Staff. After Gharnef's defeat, Elice reunites with Marth and aides him with the power of the Aum. In Mystery of the Emblem, she is captured by Akaneia after they invade Altea to be used as a sacrifice for Medeus's resurrection alongside Lena, Maria, and Nyna, but is ultimately saved from Medeus by Merric.

Class: Cleric (FE1, FE11), Bishop (FE3, FE12) Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto (Japanese, OVA), Amanda Winn-Lee (English, OVA)

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• Childhood Friend Romance: She and Merric
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: The reason she's the Distressed Damsel twice to begin with - she stays behind to buy Marth, and later Caeda, time to flee Altea, letting herself be captured by Gharnef.
• Distressed Damsel
• Everything's Better with Princesses
• The Ojou: Type 1 (Spoiled Sweet). 
• White Magician Girl
• Woman in White
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Nagi

A mysterious woman with amnesia who resembles Tiki, she's found sleeping in a coffin atop a tower in another dimension. She is awakened by Marth, who was sent there by Gotoh to make up for a lost Falchion and a dead Tiki, and gives a weaker version of the Falchion. She later joins his army in the final battle against Medeus, insisting that she has something she needs to finish. She disappears shortly after the war ends, only to reappear in New Mystery when Medeus threatens to revive again.

Class: Manakete

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• Cutting Off the Branches: When she appears in New Mystery, Marth doesn't recognise her, implying her recruitment in Shadow Dragon was non-canon.
• Eleventh-Hour Ranger: An alternative to Gotoh in Shadow Dragon, and the only one in New Mystery.
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Reincarnation: Implied to be Naga, Tiki's parent and former leader of the Divine Dragons.

Gotoh (Gato)

A legendary magic user known as the White Sage, he was the founder of Khadein and the master of Gharnef and Linde's father Miloah. He became disillusioned with humanity after Gharnef betrayed him and killed Miloah. He eventually becomes a guide to Marth, whose actions restore his faith. He creates Starlight from the Starsphere and Lightsphere in order to defeat Gharnef and personally joins Marth's army in the final battle against Medeus.

Gotoh is one of the surviving Divine Dragons, who lost the ability to take dragon form after the battle with the Earth Dragons centuries ago. Following Naga's dying wish, Gotoh watched over humanity during this time. During the events of Mystery, Gotoh orders Marth to recover the five spheres and reveals to him the truth about the Falchion and the Fire Emblem, originally known as the Shield of Seals.

Class: Bishop (FE1), Sage (FE11)

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• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Gharnef is Gotoh's ex-student.
• The Archmage
• Eleventh-Hour Ranger: In the original game and Shadow Dragon, but not in Book 1 of Mystery.
  • What Could Have Been: He along with Jake, Darros, Wrys, Roger, and Beck were meant to return as playable characters in the SNES remake but the others were scrapped during development while Gotoh was reduced to an NPC in both books.
• Fountain of Expies: The "Gotoh Archetype", an Eleventh-Hour Ranger who joins in the penultimate or final chapter.
• Mr. Exposition
• Old Master: And this guy is old!
• Our Dragons Are Different: For one, he technically can't take dragon form anymore.

Notable NPCS

Malledus (Morodof)

Marth's elderly tactician and advisor. Malledus was also the former confidant to Marth's late father, King Cornelius. During the game, he explains to Marth the events of the war where Marth's ancestor, Anri, fought Medeus.

Class: Bishop (in cutscenes)

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• Cool Old Guy
• Fountain of Expies: After FE 1 there's always been a tactician/advisor/strategist in the army or kingdom that gives advice to the main character. Only recently did they double as playable characters.
• Put on a Bus: Is not seen at all in book II of Mystery of the Emblem due to being ill.
• The Strategist: The first in the entire series.

Princess Nyna of Akaneia (Niena, Nina)

The Princess of Akaneia and last living member of the Akaneia royal family. Spared and protected from Doluna by Camus, Nyna fell in love with him and eventually convinced him to help her escape. Afterwards, she joined with Hardin and later Marth and guided them throughout the war.

After the War of Shadows and upon succeeding the throne of Akaneia, she is pressured into marrying Hardin by Boah despite still loving Camus: Hardin's conflict over this indirectly led to his corruption by the Darksphere. Before she was captured by Gharnef, Nyna managed to send her apprentice Linde and the Fire Emblem to Marth and sent a letter to Hardin's brother detailing his "illness". She and three other girls are used as Barrier Maidens for Medeus, but Nyna is ultimately saved by the masked knight Sirius.

Class: Bishop Voiced by: Michiko Neya (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Bodyguard Crush: On Camus, and Hardin has one on her.
• Broken Bird: Poor gal is given a really raw deal, and it has a BIG effect on her.
• But Now I Must Go: Disappears after the conclusion of the War of Heroes, leaving Akaneia to Marth.
• Distressed Damsel
• Everything's Better with Princesses: ... Not really.
• Hair of Gold
• Love Triangle: The one between her, Hardin, and Camus is key to both games.
• Shipper on Deck: She supports Caeda's love for Marth. It's kinda implied that, among other reasons, she chose Hardin as her husband because the other man with enough Blue Blood to be her husband is Marth and she does NOT want to come between Caeda and him...
• The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask: Does everything she can for Akaneia, sacrificing her own happiness in the process. It horribly backfires, though.

King Mostyn of Talys

Mostyn is the first King of Talys, who united the island tribes. He is the father of Caeda and is friends with Lorenz of Grust. He hid Marth in Talys after his flight from Altea, and was rescued by him when pirates under Gazzak attacked the castle.

Voiced by: ?? (Japanese, OVA), Phil Ross (English, OVA)

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• No Name Given: He is just referred to as the King of Talys ingame; only developer notes confirm his name as Mostyn.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Reasonable enough to lend his mercenary troops to Marth.

King of Aurelis

The older brother of Hardin, who has entrusted his younger brother with defending the nation due to his poor health. During Mystery of the Emblem, at first he trusted and supported Hardin until he received a letter from Nyna describing Hardin's condition. Afterwards, he personally traveled to the front lines to stop the Wolfguard from fighting with Altea.

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• No Name Given: Not even in the developer's notes.
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Bandits

Gazzak

Class: Pirate Voiced by: ?? (Japanese, OVA), Brian Granveldt (English, OVA)

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• Ambiguously Brown: More so in Shadow Dragon.
• An Axe to Grind
• Ascended Extra: Has a large role in the first episode of the OVA.
  • I Have Your Wife: He pulls this twice, first on Caeda with her father, then on Marth with Caeda.
  • Single-Stroke Battle: His fight with Ogma. He's on the losing end of it.
• Pirate: Type 1.

Gomer

Class: Pirate

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• An Axe to Grind
• Palette Swap: Of Gazzak in Mystery of the Emblem Book 1
• Pirate: Type 1.

Reynard (Hyman)

Class: Fighter

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• Ambiguously Brown: Probably more so than Gazzak as of Shadow Dragon.
• An Axe to Grind
• Ascended Extra: Has a somewhat larger role in the anime.
• Fail O'Suckyname: Come on... Hyman?
• Palette Swap: Of Gazzak in Mystery of the Emblem Book 1.
• Wake Up Call Boss: For an early-game boss, he can be quite deadly due to his high speed and strength.

Bathys

Class: Pirate

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• An Axe to Grind
• Filler Villain: Added in the remake.
• Pirate: Type 1, as if you didn't know that by now.

Gra

King Jiol of Gra

The corrupted King of Gra who sided with Dolhr out of fear, then betrayed and personally invaded former closest-ally Altea. He is eventually killed by Marth's army. After the war, his daughter Sheena was instated as ruler.

Class: General

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• Bad Boss: Often refers to his soldiers as idiots.
• Beard of Evil
• Dirty Coward
• The Quisling

Gra Captain

A captain from Gra.

Class: Cavalier

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• Beard of Evil
• Blade on a Stick
• No Name Given

Macedon (Medon, Macedonia)

King Michalis of Medon (Misheil)

The King of Macedon. He killed his own father to gain the throne, due to continuing tension between them and a rumor spreaded by Gharnef that he was planning to choose Minerva over him. Michalis immedeately makes his little sister Maria a hostage so that Minerva would fight for him. Although he serves Dolhr, he secretly planned to betray them alongside Camus, but the plan never came to fruition and eventually Michalis was struck down by Minerva.

In Mystery of the Emblem, it is revealed that he survived the battle, badly wounded, living only because Maria constantly prayed for him. After Maria was kidnapped by Gharnef, Michalis attempted to rescue her by aiding Minerva and stealing the Starlight tome from Gharnef, but was wounded in the process. In the original Mystery, he dies from his wounds after passing Starlight to Marth, but in New Mystery, it is possible for him to survive and join Marth's army.

Class: Dracoknight

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• Ambition Is Evil
• Anticlimax Boss: Despite having an Iote Shield, he is disappointingly easy for a late-game boss. The Iote Shield is probably there just to prevent him from becoming a Zero Effort Boss.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Bishonen Michalis not only gets to come back from death twice, but also lose all his scars, become a king, then leave the continent and become the king of another continent! And this is after he killed his own father, was a Bad Boss to his soldiers, and an overall tyrant.
• Bishonen
• Disney Death: Twice in the remake.
• Dragon Rider
• Eleventh-Hour Ranger: In New Mystery.
• Enemy Mine: How he sees fighting alongside Marth in New Mystery.
• Fountain of Expies: Started a long line of ambitious bosses that do anything the seize power.
• Karma Houdini: If spared in New Mystery.
• Palette Swap: In Dark Dragon, he was pretty much a recoloured Nabarl with an extra armour patch added.
• Redemption Equals Death: In the original Mystery.
• Self-Made Orphan
• The Starscream

Bentheon

Class: Cavalier

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Merach

Class: Knight

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• Beard of Evil: Though evil might be pushing it here.
• Gonk: The man looks like a bear. Though he is less ugly-looking in the remake.
• Punch Clock Villain: Possibly, as he was guarding the castle under Minerva's orders.

Emereus

Class: General

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• Bad Boss: Implied, as he refers to his soldiers as idiots in his battle quote.
• Gonk: While kind of ugly looking in Shadow Dragon (well, more wrinkly due to older age, possibly), he was far more hideous looking in FE 3 book 1.
• Mighty Glacier

Orridyon

Class: Paladin

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Grust (Grunia)

King Ludwik of Grust

The weak king of Grust who sided with Dolhr out of fear. He is never directly seen and seems to have died by the time of Mystery of the Emblem. His children are the twins Jubelo and Yuliya, who become party members in Mystery of the Emblem after lots of misadventures.

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• Dirty Coward
• The Unseen

Camus

The leader of Grust's Sable Knights, said to be the most able man alive. During the war, he fell in love with Nyna and helped her escape from Dolhr's grasp, at the cost of his own rank and freedom. Despite having to fight against his beloved Nyna and her allies, Camus served Grust loyally and to the end and was seemingly killed by Marth's army....

Class: Paladin Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Anti-Villain
• Blade on a Stick / Infinity+1 Sword: He was given the stolen Gradivus, one of Akaneia's Regalia, to wield following the conquering of Akaneia. He isn't kidding when he says he's all but invincible with it - it can be used to fully replenish one's HP. Best of luck killing him.
• Black Knight
• Blonde Guys Are Evil: Subversion; while he's on the enemy side, he is definitely not evil.
• Char Clone
• Disney Death
• My Country, Right or Wrong
• Not Quite Dead: He appears in the second and third games as the amnesiac knight Zeke and the masked knight Sirius, respectively.
• The Paladin
• Skippable Boss: Though if you do, you won't be getting Gradivus. You only get a slightly different cutscene at the end of the chapter.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Him and Nyna.

Harmein

Class: General

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• Palette Swap: Of Jiol in the original NES game.
  • In FE 3, he got the boss portrait used for most bosses in the NES game. It was also used for Toras in Book 2.

Kannival

The boss of Chapter 8. He is an armoured knight guarding the eastern castle of Port Warren and is caught off guard as the Akaneian league tries to capture the castle.

Class: Knight

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• Anticlimax Boss: He has no ranged weapon, so you can take your time blasting him away with magic.
• Punch Clock Villain: You can't help but pity him, he just happens to be guarding that castle at the wrong time.
• Genre Savvy: Is aware that he'll probably die as soon as the player fights him.
• Gonk: In FE 3 book 1, less so in Shadow Dragon. He still has a creepy look on his face though.
• Mighty Glacier

Zharov

Class: General

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Grigas

The boss of chapter 13. He is the leader of the feared Wooden Cavalry, an artillery regiment of Grust that launches powerful missiles from afar to destroy their enemies, but can't attack close which what kills him in the end.

Class: Ballistician

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• The Archer: A Ballista-type archer.

Hollstadt

The boss of chapter 16. He guards Altea castle and commends the league for reaching Altea. He is killed by Marth's army as they storm the castle

Class: General

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• Palette Swap: Of Harmein in both the NES and SNES versions.
• Punch Clock Villain: May be a member of the Sable Order as several surround him and his death dialogue says he works for Camus.

Dactyl

Class: General

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• Filler Villain: Added in the remake.

Sternlin

One of the Sable Knights.

Class: Paladin

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• Catch Phrase: You Shall Not Pass!
• The Paladin
• Punch Clock Villain: He was one of Camus's Sable Knights, so he probably wasn't that bad a guy.

Larissa

The boss of chapter 20X. He is a General who, in an attempt to stay alive orders his men to take all of the residents of a nearby village hostage to keep Marth from striking.

Class: General

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• Anticlimax Boss: Is disappointingly easy for this late in the game.
• Filler Villain: Added in the remake.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Holding all of the residents of a village hostage had the exact opposite effect he was going for.
• Gender Blender Name

Dolhr (Doluna, Durhua) and Dragons

Emperor Medeus of Dolhr (Mediuth)

An Earth Dragon and, if not the cause of it all, the primary foe and biggest threat of the game. He was once a prince of the Earth Dragon royal family, but when the dragons were forced to take Manakete form, he was the only Earth Dragon who complied and thus did not go wild. After the other Earth Dragons were sealed by Naga, Medeus was tasked with guarding the seal. Over time, he became furious on how humans looked down upon his race, so he formed up the Dolhr Empire and enslaved humanity. He was eventually killed by the hero Anri, and his kingdom was destroyed. Centuries later, the dark priest Gharnef brought his forces back and worked to resurrect him. Medeus was revived, but not completely, as he could not leave Dolhr Keep.

Class: Manakete (FE1, FE11), Earth Dragon (FE11), Dark Dragon (FE3, FE12) Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Back From the Dead: Twice, both times revived by Gharnef - once before the beginning of Shadow Dragon, sparking the War of Shadows, and again near the end of the War of Heroes in Mystery. As he dies for the second time, he swears that he can be revived again.
• Big Bad / Big Bad Duumvirate: With Gharnef.
• Dark Is Evil
• Final Boss: In both games.
  • True Final Boss: In Mystery and New Mystery.
• Looks Like Orlok: Medeus's human form has this appearance.
• Non-Indicative Name: Sort of an in-universe example - everyone calls him the "Shadow Dragon", but he's an Earth Dragon and he doesn't appear to be in possession of any sort of dark-based power which would give rise a name like "Shadow Dragon". That said, come Mystery, he does indeed become a full-fledged dark dragon.
• Medeus On His Throne: This one's actually justified. As stated above, he has to stay within the walls of Dolhr Keep until his resurrection is complete; if he left it, he might be powerless.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Given that he started several wars against humanity because of how they treated the Manaketes...
• Our Dragons Are Different: Moreso than the other Manakete characters, being an Earth Dragon and all.

Gharnef (Garnef)

Gharnef was a former pupil of Gotoh, but due to his lack of a caring heart, he was passed up for inheriting the Aura spell in favor of Miloah. Enraged by this, Gharnef stole the Darksphere and forged from it the spell Imhullu, which corrupted his soul. Gharnef then began his plans to take over the world: first by killing Miloah, then by reviving Medeus and the Dolhr Empire, and then manipulating the rulers of the other nations into betraying Akaneia and Altea and siding with Dolhr. Despite his power, however, Gharnef was eventually killed by a member of Marth's army wielding the Starlight spell.

Years later, it is revealed that Gharnef survived by hiding his soul in the Darksphere, and later used that sphere to corrupt Emperor Hardin of Akaneia. Using the war between Akaneia and Altea as a distraction, Gharnef kidnapped four maidens (Nyna, Maria, Lena, and Elice) to be sacrificed for Medeus's revival.

Class: Bishop (FE1, FE3 Book 1), Dark Mage (FE3 Book 2), Sorcerer (FE11, FE12) Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (Japanese, OVA), Charles Campbell (English, OVA)

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• A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Gharnef is Gotoh's ex-student.
• Big Bad / Big Bad Duumvirate: With Medeus; they're a duumvirate at the very least. Gharnef specifically revives Medeus from his century-long death for this purpose, but it's implied he has plans which transcend Medeus and will (try to) dispose of him once he's done; for his part, since he cannot leave his castle without losing his power or risking death, Medeus pretty much relies on Gharnef to actually execute their plans for dominating Akaneia.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The Darksphere is implied to have done this to him.
• Dark Is Evil
• Disproportionate Retribution: All of this because he was passed over to inherit a single tome?
• Evil Makes You Ugly: Its implied he was handsome or at least normal looking when he was Gotoh's star pupil.
• Fountain of Expies: The progenitor of the franchise's long line of {{goFire: He breathes fire.
• Our Dragons Are Different

Khozen

The boss of chapter 11. He is one of the manaketes who serves Medeus. He helps Grust and Dolhr hold Akaneia, and only seems to care about incinerating his enemies. He is one of the only boss characters in the game that doesn't start on a throne or a gate, and actually moves on the map.

Class: Manakete

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• Ax Crazy: Really seems to be fighting just so he can incinerate humans (or anyone who gets in his way, at least).
• In the Hood
• Our Dragons Are Different: Another fire dragon.
  • Kill It with Fire
• Skippable Boss: One of the few in the game.

Volzhin

The boss of chapter 12. He is a bishop leading the forces occupying Pales and a good example of a human holding authority in Dolhr.

Class: Bishop

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• Remake-Induced Plot Hole: A minor one. In Shadow Dragon, he is labelled as being with the Grust army even though he refers to the might of Dolhr while being fought. Later on, in chapter 15, Camus mentions him as being a general of Dolhr. In FE 1 and FE 3 Book 1, the chapter 12 enemy army was labeled as Durhua.
• Beard of Evil and Bald of Evil
• Kill It with Fire: He wields a powerful Bolganone tome.
• Sinister Minister: It%nk}}y, Obviously Evil sinister ministers.
• Good Is Not Nice: Pre-corruption, obviously - he's been described as having been a just man, but lacking a caring heart.
• No Sell: Imhullu protects him from all damage, save that of Starlight.
• Obviously Evil: His portrait in Shadow Dragon should tell you enough.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Becomes this in Mystery of the Emblem.
• Send in the Clones: Gharnef creates two clones to confuse the player in Book 1/Shadow Dragon.
• Sinister Minister (original games) --> Evil Sorcerer (DS remakes)
• Start of Darkness: He was once a man of justice, but the Darksphere ended up corrupting him after he stole it.
• The Starscream: Implied to be his ultimate intention against Medeus in Shadow Dragon.

King Mannu of Pyrathi

Mannu is the king of the small isolationist nation of Pyrathi. He regards Marth and his army as "unclean" and attacks them as soon as they arrive.

Class: Manakete

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• Beard of Evil
• Fantastic Racism: Seems to regard humans as unclean...
• Hypocrite: ...except for the army of humans who serve under him.
• In the Hood
• Kill It With 27 s hard to tell whether he's truly evil or just following orders, though.

Heimler

Introduced in Shadow Dragon, Heimler was originally an unused enemy character in the Famicom version before making his proper debut in the remake. He appears in chapter 12 and is likely working under Volzhin.

Class: Paladin

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• Dummied Out: In the original Famicom Dark Dragon.
• Filler Villain: About as much filler as you can get really.
• Who Is This Guy Again?: Despite having a unique name and face among non-boss enemy units, he cannot be recruited, does not not have a background story, nor has any spoken lines when he is attacked or defeated.

Dejanira

Class: Paladin

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• Filler Villain: Added in the remake.

Morzas (Moses)

A cruel Manakete left in charge of Altea Castle after Camus's demotion. He personally killed Queen Liza, Marth and Elice's mother, and executed captives for the smallest of reasons. He is killed by Marth's army as they retake Altea.

Class: Manakete

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: In FE 1 and Book 1, he resembled an old man, but in FE 11, he is a much younger and stronger-looking Manakete.
• Faux Symbolism: A standout case among Fire Emblem, in which this is normally the case - his name in the Japanese version is Moses, but he's got nothing in common, either as a person or in role, as his namesake.
• Kick the Dog: His killing of Liza, Marth and Elice's mom.
• In the Hood
• Mage Killer: Depending on the game, Mage Dragons either have a extremely high Resistance, or flat out void all magic damage.
• Our Dragons Are Different: A Mage Dragon.
• Palette Swap: Reused Mannu's portrait in the original Famicom game.
• Wizard Beard (original games) --> Goatee (Shadow Dragon).

Xemcel

The boss chapter 24. He guards Dolhr Keep and is likely taking orders under Medeus himself. He is killed by Marth's army.

Class: Manakete

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• Beard of Evil
• In the Hood
• Mage Killer: Like Morzas, Mages should stay away from him.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Another Mage Dragon.
• Palette Swap: Of Mannu/Morzas in the Famicom and Super Famicom versions.

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Main and Playable Characters

My Unit (default: Kris / Chris)

An Altean recruit who joins the Altean army alongside Katarina, Rody, Luke, and Raian, and is eventually made Marth's right hand man/woman.

Class: Variable (Mercenary [M] and Myrmidon [F] are the defaults)

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• AFGNCAAP: An odd example, actually. While his/her appearance and class are dependent on the player, his/her actual character and personality is preset and unchangeable.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Marth in New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~ boxart.
• Expy: The default male My Unit strongly resembles Ike, and the female one similarly resembles Mia. They even have very similar default classes, given that Ike's promotion tree is one long Mercenary expy.
• The Ishmael: In reality, they're this to Katarina in the sidestory chapter subplot.
• Hello, Insert Name Here: That said, his/her default name appears to be Kris.
• The Hero: If you consider the 7th Platoon a minor Five-Man Band.
  • The Lancer: To Marth.
• Lethal Chef: He/She can't cook for the life of him/her.
• Lightning Bruiser: Will almost always be this, to the point where people consider him/her a Game Breaker
• The Straight Man/Woman
• Tomboyish Name: Kris is the default.
• The Stoic
  • Not So Stoic: Samto, Palla, and Katarina are the only ones that have him/her show more emotion.
• Undying Loyalty: To Marth, to the point when he even asks why is he/she is so loyal to him.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: The default hair colour for My Unit. S/he can be given other colors, however.

Katarina / Reese

A Altean recruit who is training alongside My Unit and the others to become a tactician. This is actually a ruse to get close to Marth. In reality, she is Eine, one of Eremiya's assassins sent to infiltrate the Altean army and kill Marth before he can interfere with their plans. She fails and retreats with Roro's help, and afterwords she begins to gradually see Eremiya's cruel nature as she watches her "siblings" die one by one, and can be eventually recruited into the group.

Class: Mage (in the prologue as a boss), Sage (when recruited later)

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• Break the Cutie
• Broken Bird
• Crash Into Hello: How she first meets My Unit.
• Dark Magical Girl
• Death Seeker: Becomes this by the time Marth's army finally fights her again. My Unit and Marth end up snapping her out of it, though.
• Expy: Of Nino, sort of.
• Sixth Ranger Traitor: Revealed as such at the end of the prologue, although she can be turned back eventually.
• The Smart Guy: Of the 7th Platoon.
• Tyke Bomb.
  • Defusing the Tykebomb
• Zettai Ryouiki

Cecil (Cecile)

An Altean knight of the 7th Platoon, although she was originally part of the 9th Platoon. Doesn't like to lose, and often gets into fights with her fellow knights.

Class: Cavalier

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• Fiery Redhead
• Gender Blender Name: The official Romanization, anyway. "Cecile" is a perfectly normal girl's name.
• The Lancer: Of the 7th Platoon, seems to quickly replace Rody in this regard.
• The Squadette
• Rose-Haired Girl
• Sixth Ranger: At least in regards to the 7th Platoon's Five-Man Band, being from the 9th Platoon and all.

Roderick (Rody)

An Altean knight of the 7th Platoon. He has a rivalry with Luke, and seems to have some sort of feelings towards Cecil.

Class: Cavalier

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• The Lancer: Of the 7th Platoon, although he is replaced by Cecil almost as soon as she arrives.
• Those Two Guys: With Luke, though averting the traditional "red cavalier/green cavalier" dynamic this trope brings in the franchise.

Luke (Ruke)

An Altean knight of the 7th Platoon. He is Rody's rival and a bit of a gambler.

Class: Cavalier

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• The Big Guy
• The Gambling Addict
• The Rival: Sees himself as My Unit's rival at first, but ends up as Rody's.
• Those Two Guys: With Rody, though averting the traditional "red cavalier/green cavalier" dynamic this trope brings in the franchise.

Raian (Ryan)

An Altean knight of the 7th Platoon, and the younger brother of Gordin.

Class: Archer

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• The Archer
• Big Brother Mentor: Supposedly has Gordin as one. He gets another one in the form of My Unit in New Mystery.
• The Chick: A male example, to the 7th Platoon Five-Man Band.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Fan translation calls him "Ryan" as that's the obvious, logical Romanization, but Japanese material officially has it as "Raian".

Marisha (Marisa, Maillesia, Melissa)

A young Grustian priestess who was training under Lena. After Lang was assigned control of Grust, her grandmother hid her to protect her. After Marth visits her village, she joins Marth's army and develops a crush on him.

Class: Cleric

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• Girlish Pigtails
• Older Than They Look: A plot point in her backstory, since her grandma passes her as a little girl to hide her from Lang.
• Third Person Person
• White Mage
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Warren

A hunter from Medon who joined with the rebel army to earn gold. He is informed by Catria of the reasons behind Rucke's coup against Minerva and he offers to join Marth's army. When the war is won, he returns to Medon and continues living as a hunter.

Class: Hunter

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• The Archer
• Only in It For the Money: The reason he joined the rebel army.

Prince Jubelo of Grust

The young Prince of Grust who was put under Lorenz's care after the War of Shadows. Once Lang begins his oppression of Grust and Lorenz begins his rebellion, Jubelo is sent away with his older twin sister Yuliya under the protection of Ogma. Before they can reach Wendell, they are attacked by Medon rebels but are saved by Sirius.

Class: Mage

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• Child Mage
• Hair of Gold
• Half-Identical Twins: With Yumina.
• Shrinking Violet
• Squishy Wizard

Princess Yuliya of Grust

The Princess of Grust and Jubelo's twin sister. Like her brother, she was sent away with Ogma to be protected by Wendell in Medon, but was attacked by Medon rebels and saved by Sirius.

Class: Cleric

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• Hair of Gold
• Half-Identical Twins: With Yubello.
• Plucky Girl: More of a Stepford Smiler, tho.
• White Mage

Sirius

A mysterious knight who appears to protect Yuliya and Jubello, and later saves Nyna from Medeus before disappearing as suddenly as he came. It's almost certain that he is Camus of the Sable Order, despite his protestations to the contrary; Belf is the only one to suspect so, but is asked by Sirius to not pursue his suspicions.

Class: Paladin

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• Black Knight
• But Now I Must Go: He disappears after rescuing Nyna and Medeus's defeat. It's thought that he travelled back to Barensia to resume his Zeke identity and be with Teeta.
• Char Clone
• Disc One Nuke
• Hair of Gold
• Mask Power
  • Cool Mask
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Totally isn't Camus.
  • He even insists he's not Camus after saving Nyna, who instantly recognizes him, and he does the same after former fellow Sable Knight Belf recognises him.

Samto

A former gladiator who managed to escape from his slavery with the help of Ogma. In the War of Heroes, he is hired as a mercenary by Lang, who confuses him for Nabarl due to his impersonation, but is later convinced by Ogma or Caeda, who both initially confuse him for Nabarl as well, to join Marth's army.

Class: Mercenary (FE3), Myrmidon (FE12)

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• Chivalrous Pervert: If his support conversations with female My Unit are anything to go by.
• Costume Copycat
• Gladiator Games
• Heroes Prefer Swords

Phina (Feena)

A traveling dancer who comes under Nabarl's protection after she is ambushed by thieves. It is implied that she may come from royalty.

Class: Dancer

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• Dance Battler
• Fiery Redhead or Rose-Haired Girl: Depending on the game.
• Genki Girl
• Morality Pet: To Nabarl.
• Motor Mouth
• Royal Rapier: The only unit other than Marth able to use them, which is the main hint at her potential royal descent.
• Spoony Bard: Though she can use swords and is said to actually be a decent fighter if given stat-boosting items.

Ellerean (Elrean)

The current leader of Khadein's mage army and Wendell's first pupil. He is jealous of his fellow pupil Merric due to his inheritance of the Excalibur spell and attempts to kill him once the war reaches Khadein, but is stopped by Wendell. After the war, he succeeds Wendell and works to restore the nation.

Class: Mage

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• Blond Guys Are Evil: At first, but Wendell fixes that.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Is originally willing to kill Merric (and his allies) for being chosen as Wendell's successor. Does This Remind You of Anything?? A certain Gharnef, maybe?
• Not So Different: Wendell comparing his selfish jealously to Gharnef causes him to think over what he's been doing and have a Heel Face Turn.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Wendell calls him out with a Not So Different, and he indeed chooses him to be his successor in time, because Merric is going back to Pales.
• Jerkass
• Shock and Awe: His signature spell Thoron.
• The Rival: To Merric.
  • Rival Turned Evil: Got awfully close to this.
    • Heel Face Turn: Until Wendell told him "Quit Your Whining".

Dice

A gambling mercenary who travels with his daughter Malice. Before the events of Shadow Dragon, he and Malice were recruited by Rickard to help him steal from Dolhr. During a later revolt in Talys, as recorded in New Mystery's DLC, the two were hired by the rebels, but were later convinced to side with Caeda, in part due to a debt that Dice owed Ogma. During New Mystery itself, Dice and Malice force their way into Marth's army, hoping to get paid greatly.

Class: Fighter Voiced by: Koji Yada (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Badass Moustache
• The Berserker
• The Gambling Addict
• Horny Vikings
• Meaningful Name
• Punch Clock Hero
• Stealth Pun: He has a gambling problem and has a Devil Axe in his inventory. In other words, he is quite literally gambling with his life.

Malice (Maris)

A female swordfighter who travels the land with her father, taking jobs mostly to pay off his gambling debts. Prior to Shadow Dragon, she and Dice found themselves amongst a group of bandits, but were later bribed by Rickard to help him steal from Dolhr in the name of justice. Malice and Dice would later be hired to fight in a rebellion in Talys, but she was convinced to defect by Ogma, and told Dice to follow suit. During New Mystery, Malice forces herself into Marth's army, hoping to be paid greatly for her service.

Class: Mercenary (FE3), Myrmidon (FE12) Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Action Girl
• Anti-Hero: Type 3, possibly.
• Eyepatch of Power (or cloth to be specific.)
• Horny Vikings
• Hot Chick with a Sword
• Meaningful Name: Malice means "ill will" or hatred.
• Only in It For the Money / Punch Clock Hero

Robert

A Sable Knight under Camus during the War of Darkness, who aided Camus in helping Nyna escape from Dolhr's clutches. During New Mystery, he and his comrades join Marth's army.

Class: Horseman

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• Bow and Sword In Accord
• Horse Archer
• Not Quite Dead: It's shocking to believe that Dolhr didn't kill him for helping Nyna escape from them.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards Camus.

Belf (Vergil)

A Sable Knight under Camus during the War of Darkness, who aided Camus in helping Nyna escape from Doluna's clutches. During New Mystery, he and his comrades join Marth's army. He suspects thatSirius is Camus, but is later convinced by Sirius not to reveal his suspicions.

Class: Cavalier Voiced by: Shinichiro Ohta (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Not Quite Dead: It's shocking to believe that Dolhr didn't kill him for helping Nyna escape from them.
• Secret Keeper: For Sirius.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards Camus.
• Unfortunate Names: That "Belf" sounds like some sort of bodily expulsion prompted his Dub Name Change to "Vergil" in the upcoming fan translation.

Leiden (Raiden)

A Sable Knight under Camus during the War of Darkness, who aided Camus in helping Nyna escape from Doluna's clutches. During New Mystery, he and his comrades join Marth's army.

Class: Cavalier

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• Not Quite Dead: It's shocking to believe that Dolhr didn't kill him for helping Nyna escape from them.
• Undying Loyalty: Towards Camus.

Princess Sheena of Gra (Sheema, Shina)

The princess of Gra, and the daughter of Jiol from his second wife. During Mystery of the Emblem, she hires Samson as a bodyguard and is ordered by Akaneia to face Marth's army. If Marth spares the weak Gra soldiers, Sheena and Samson will gladly join his forces. After the war, she settles in Pales with Samson.

Class: General

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• A Mother to Her Men: So much so that attacking the weak Gra soldiers will make her and Samson unrecruitable enemies.
• Blade on a Stick: Her preferred weapon of choice, though her artwork and later Heroes show her using an axe for some reason.
• Bodyguard Crush: To Samson.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: The nice daughter of Jiol.
• The Ojou
• Plucky Girl
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Works towards restoring Gra to its former glory despite overwhelming odds. 

Frost

An elderly bishop who was acquaintances with the rogue Dragon Knight Ruben, but later joined Minerva during her battle against Ruben's forces. He later appears in New Mystery, having apparently been following Marth since he liberated Medon.

Class: Bishop Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (Japanese, BS Fire Emblem)

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• Cool Old Guy
• Defector From Decadence
• Palette Swap: In the original BS Fire Emblem, of Bulzark, a Manakete boss.

Medon (Macedon, Macedonia)

Rumel (Lumel)

Class: Dracoknight

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• Wake Up Call Boss / That One Boss: At least he is nerfed in lower difficulties.

Rucke (Ryuke)

A former general of Medon who instigated a successful rebellion against Minerva after she disbanded much of the country's army.

Class: General

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• Beard of Evil
• The Starscream
• Unwitting Pawn: Michalis implies he is this to Hardin.

Bandits

Gale

Class: Pirate

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• Fat Bastard
• Gonk
• Name's the Same: With Galle, who's frequently called "Gale".

Dahl

Class: Thief

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Akaneia (Archanea) and Allies

Emperor Hardin of Akaneia

The former prince of Aurelis and ally of Marth, now the Emperor of Akaneia through Arranged Marriage to Nyna. His feeling that Nyna did not truly reciprocate his love for her drove him to despair, cutting himself off from others and paving the way for Gharnef, disguised as a merchant, to corrupt him through the Darksphere, twisting his once noble and just heart into one of hatred and rage. Under its influence, he turns Akaneia into a brutal empire, subjugating and destroying other countries, and he handed Nyna over to Gharnef without a second thought.

Class: Emperor

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• Authority Equals Asskicking
• Blade on a Stick: Wields the Regalia, Gradivus.
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Chekhov's Gunman: Hardin's marriage to Nyna in the epilogue of Dark Dragon/Shadow Dragon is what sets off almost the entire plot of Mystery.
• Death Equals Redemption
• Face Heel Turn
  • Fallen Hero
• Large and In Charge: Kickstarted the trend of non-magic final bosses of the series being utterly massive.
• Love Makes You Evil
• Mind Control Eyes
• Red Eyes, Take Warning
• Rival Turned Evil

Toras

Class: Ballistician

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• Anticlimax Boss: For some reason, the dev's mistake or otherwise, he is much worse than his mooks, who also have the advantage of being able to move around.
  • Took a Level In Badass: In harder difficulties of FE 12.
• Palette Swap: Of Harmein.

Duke Lang of Adria

A noble of Akaneia who sided with Dolhr during the War of Darkness and had his men raid towns and steal from the people. After Hardin's descent into madness, he restores Lang to power and places him in control of Grust, and his resulting reign of tyranny provokes Lorenz into rebelling in order to protect Yumina and Yubello. However, it is later revealed that Hardin placed Lang in charge of Grust (and subsequently sent Marth as Lang's reinforcements against Lorenz) to provoke Marth into entering battle against Akaneia, so that Akaneia could justify invading Altea.

Class: General

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• Bald of Evil and Beard of Evil
• Dirty Coward
• Dirty Old Man: Played for Drama, as Lang and his men abduct young villager girls.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Attempts this in his battle quote. Since it's a battle quote, it kinda loses the effect.

Yodel

Class: Bishop

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• Adaptational Attractiveness: Compare this to this.
• Anti-Villain / Punch Clock Villain: Seems to be just doing what Ellerean ordered him to.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Wonders this before death.
• Name's the Same: Shares the same name with a Bishop from Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals, except that Yodel is a playable character.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Eibel

Class: General

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• Beard of Evil
• I Have Your Wife: Holds Est hostage to force Abel to betray Altea.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Willow

Class: Bishop

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• Bald of Evil
• Suicidal Overconfidence: He think that having the Meteor spell makes him invincible.

Nehring

Class: General

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Other Antagonists

Eremiya

The head of a group of assassins commanded by Gharnef to kill Marth. Eremiya is a cold hearted and manipulative woman who treats her minions as puppets simply to be used and discarded after they have served their purpose. It is implied that she and her assassins were also assigned to kidnap the maidens needed for Medeus's revival. After her defeat, Gharnef reveals to her that she was once a virtuous caretaker of an orphanage, but after the orphans there were killed during a war, she broke down, allowing Gharnef to wipe her memory and bewitch her into brutally training other orphans into being his assassins. After realizing what she had done, Gharnef leaves her to die in despair.

Class: Bishop

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• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Despair Event Horizon: Twice!
• Kick the Dog: Does this in just about all her appearances.
• Filler Villain: An addition to the remake.
• Light Is Not Good: She's a bishop.
• Sinister Minister Implied to have been a Good Shepherd prior to her "bewitching".
• Smug Snake
• You Have Failed Me: While Katarina claimed that Clarisse could be saved from her wounds, she said to just leave her to die after failing to kill Marth.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: She thinks Legion's clones are useless after the death of the "real" Legion, and thus must be put down. Ironically, this happens to her as well from Gharnef.

Clarisse (Kleine, Claine)

One of Eremiya's assassins. Clarisse is a cruel and sadistic young woman who lives to kill and seems to have absolute loyalty to Eremiya. Despite this, Katarina sees her as an older sister.

Class: Sniper

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• Ax Crazy
• The Archer
  • Cold Sniper
• Blondes Are Evil
• Blood Knight
• Dark Action Girl
• Filler Villain
• Jerkass
• Name's the Same: With a certain Sword of Seals character who hilariously enough is also a Sniper, but is otherwise her opposite - a male one who joins the player's party.
• Stay with Me Until I Die: Asks Katarina this before she dies.
• Tyke Bomb
• Undying Loyalty: To Eremiya.

Legion (Roro)

One of Eremiya's assassins, Legion is a savage masked Berserker. It is later revealed that he is in fact not one person, but a whole group of them commanded by a "head Legion".

Class: Berserker

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• Ax Crazy
• The Berserker
• Blood Knight
• Cloudcuckoolander: He sometimes gets confused with whether he is a clone or whether he is the real one according to a conversation with Clarisse.
• Filler Villain
• Mask Power
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Despite being no more evil then Kleine and Eremiya, he doesn't get as sympathetic a death scene.
• Send in the Clones: Although where the clones come from is never explained.
• Tyke Bomb
• Verbal Tic: He ends his sentences with 'Yokiki' and refers to himself as 'we', which makes sense since he has a lot of clones. In FE: Heroes, he instead adds "-ses" to near everything.

BS Fire Emblem Bosses

Gouber

The boss of the first Akaneia War Chronicles chapter, "Fall of the Palace". He is a general of Dolhr who leads the initial assault against Pales. He is killed by Nyna's party before reinforcments arrive.

Class: General

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• Beard of Evil
• Blade on a Stick

Ruben

The boss of the second Akaneia War Chronicles chapter, "The Red Dragon Knight". He is a cruel deserter from Medon who had his men kidnap the women of Aurelis and kill the men, and has no respect to his superior's, making fun of Minerva's enthrallment by her brother and the death of her father.

Class: Dracoknight

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• Blade on a Stick: More so in the original as that was all he could use.
• Blond Guys Are Evil: This guy does stand out more than others.
• Kick the Dog: Did this to Minerva when he makes fun of Minerva's enthrallment by her brother and the death of her father.

Barm (Varm)

The so-called boss of the third Akaneia War Chronicles chapter, "Thieves' Gang of Justice,". He is the leader of a thief gang trying to steal as much as they can from the palace of Akaneia.

Class: Thief

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• Anticlimax Boss: Let's see here, low HP, bad defence, best way to beat the chapter requires him to go down in two turns... Yep sounds like a easy win.
• Thieves Against Thieves

Bulzark

The boss of the last Akaneia War Chronicles chapter, "The Beginnning". A powerful Manakete serving under Medeus, he is tasked with pursuing Camus as he tries to escort Nyna safety to Hardin in Aurelis. It's likely that he was killed by Camus's group, as he was never seen again afterwards.

Class: Manakete

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• Beard of Evil
• In the Hood
• Our Dragons Are Different
• Palette Swap: Of Frost in BS Fire Emblem; a rare case of a boss being a Palette Swap of a playable character, if not one playable in the same chapter.
• Skippable Boss: The only boss in BS that you don't have to kill.
  • Bonus Boss: Also the Hardest among them all.

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Recent History

King Cornelius of Altea

The late King of Altea, and father to Marth and Elice. When the Grust/Khadein army invaded Altea on behalf of Doluna, Cornelius personally led the Altean army, backed by their allies in Gra, to battle, wielding the Falchion. However, the king of Gra, Jiol, betrayed Altea in the middle of the battle and Cornelius was killed. It is unknown who actually took his life, although it's attributed to Gharnef, Camus, and Jiol in at least one version of the story each.

Voiced by: Akio Ohtsuka (Japanese, OVA), Rob Bundy (English, OVA)

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• Abusive Parents: As interpreted by the OVA - Cornelius slaps Marth for refusing to follow through in killing a deer he shot. Neither the games themselves nor any other adaptation support this interpretation, though.
• Adaptation Dye Job: Brunette in the OVA, white haired in the manga, and finally blue in his "blink and you'll miss it" Shadow Dragon appearance.
• Disappeared Dad
• Posthumous Character
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Well, tried to do something.

Queen Liza of Altea

The late Queen of Altea, and mother to Marth and Elice. She was killed by Morzas during Gra's invasion of Castle Altea.

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• Missing Mom
• Posthumous Character

Miloah (Miroa)

The Pontifex of Khadein, Linde's father, and one of the pupils of the White Sage Gotoh. Due to his virtuous heart, he was chosen to wield the light magic Aura by Gotoh. However, Gharnef would later betray Miloah and Gotoh out of jealousy. At the beginning of the War of Shadows, Gharnef, backed by the Doluna Empire, invaded Khadein and used his dark magic Imhullu to kill Miloah. Before his death, however, Miloah had entrusted Aura to his daughter and sent her to safety.

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• Badass Moustache: His only depiction ever, a Mystery guidebook illustration, gives him one.
• Disappeared Dad
• Light'Em Up: Wielded Aura before Linde.
• Posthumous Character

Ancient History

Naga (Narga)

Known to humans as the God of Light, Naga was actually the leader of the Divine Dragon tribe. Eons ago, the nature of the world changed, forcing dragons to take humanoid Manakete form to survive. The Earth Dragons, aside from Prince Medeus, refused to take Manakete form and gradually began to go insane. In order to protect the fledgling human race from the raging Earth Dragons, Naga led her tribe to battle against them, eventually sealing them away with the Shield of Seals, forged from her own fang. Tasking Medeus to guard the seal, Naga forged from another of her fangs the holy sword Falchion. Some time after this, she and a few of his allies moved to give power to humans on another continent in their time of greatest need, but that is a tale for another time...

Shortly after the birth of her daughter Tiki, Naga was forced to seal her away, as her great power would drive the infant child insane, leading to the destruction of the world. Afterwards, Naga passed away, entrusting fellow Divine Dragon tribesman Gotoh to watch over the world in her place. While the exact details are unknown, she has seemingly reincarnated as the Manakete Nagi in an alternate dimension.

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For Naga's tropes, see her section here.

Emperor Ardah of Akaneia

The Founder of the Kingdom of Akaneia. Originally a lowly thief, sometime after the death of Naga he managed to loot the Fane of Raman and steal the Shield of Seals, removing the spheres from it to sell for cash, unknowingly weakening the seal on the Earth Dragons in the process. He also stole what would eventually be known as Akaneia's Three Regalia (the Gradivus, the Mercurius, and the Parthia) and used these weapons as well as the money he gained from the spheres to raise an army that would sweep across the continent. Believing it the cause of his good fortune, he renamed the now weakened Shield of Seals "Fire Emblem" and made it the crest of his new kingdom.

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• Rags to Royalty

King Anri of Altea (Henry)

The founder of the Kingdom of Altea. Originally a peasant living on the Altean islands with his brother Marcelus, Anri became involved with the war against the Doluna Empire after meeting with Princess Artemis of Akaneia. Falling in love with her and vowing to protect her, Anri journeyed to the Temple of the Ice Dragons, led by Gotoh, and claimed the Falchion, allowing him to slay Medeus. Despite their love, Artemis and Anri could not marry for political reasons, and because of this, Anri died without an heir. After his death, his kingdom was divided into Altea, ruled by Marcelus, and Gra, founded by nobles who opposed Marcelus coming to power.

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• All Love Is Unrequited
• History Repeats: The Love Triangle between Anri, Artemis, and Cartas is repeated with Camus, Nyna, and Hardin, with Camus paralleling Anri.
• Rags to Royalty
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Princess Artemis of Akaneia

The Princess of Akaneia during the time of Anri. When Doluna invaded Akaneia, Artemis was forced to flee the country, but not before giving the Fire Emblem to General Cartas. To ensure Cartas's victory in battle, she placed a curse on the Emblem. She ended up in the Altean Islands, where she met and fell in love with Anri. After Anri left to claim the Falchion, Artemis and Cartas formed a liberation army against Doluna and with Anri's aid, were able to win the war. Artemis and Anri were unable to marry, however, due to Anri's status as peasant-born, forcing her to marry Cartas. She died giving birth to Cartas's child.

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• All Love Is Unrequited
• Death by Childbirth
• History Repeats: The Love Triangle between Anri, Artemis, and Cartas is repeated with Camus, Nyna, and Hardin, with Nyna paralleling Artemis.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The tragic end of her tale is blamed on the curse she placed on the Emblem during the war.

Emperor Cartas of Akaneia

The leader of the Akaneian army during Anri's time, who was given the Fire Emblem by Princess Artemis and led the war effort against Doluna. With the aid of the Emblem, Cartas was able to turn the tide until Medeus personally entered the battle. After the war, he married Artemis on request of the people, either oblivious to or simply ignoring her feelings for Anri. Their relationship would end in tragedy, however, as Artemis would die giving birth to his child.

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• History Repeats: The Love Triangle between Anri, Artemis, and Cartas is repeated with Camus, Nyna, and Hardin, with Cartas paralleling Hardin.

King Iote of Medon

The Founder of the Kingdom of Macedon. Originally a slave of Doluna, Iote and his men taught themselves how to ride the wild wyverns and took up arms against the Empire, eventually joining Cartas's liberation army. After the war, Iote and his men returned to the lands where they once served as slaves and bulit a kingdom there, with Iote chosen as their king.

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• Dragon Rider
• Generation Xerox: Michalis is said to be his second coming. However, while Iote was presumably a just man, Michalis is, well...
• Rags to Royalty
• Slave Revolt