Earth Dragon

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Earth Dragon Mighty dragons whose strength is second only to the divine dragons.

Unit type(s) Unknown Weapon(s) Dragonstone/Dark Breath Skill(s) Halve foe's attack power (Mystery of the Emblem)

The Earth Dragons (地竜 Earth Dragon) were one of the dragon tribes of Archanea. Once said to be the mightiest of the dragon tribes, rivalled only by the Divine Dragons, their pride was their downfall in that it ultimately resulted in their virtual extinction, with all but one of the tribe sealed in the Dragon's Altar by the Shield of Seals. The sole escapee, Medeus, went on to eventually become an infamous tyrant and the founder of the Dolhr Empire, and other members of the tribe, like Loptyr and Grima, went on even beyond death to cause chaos and tyranny in other lands and times.

History

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Loptyr

Millennia before the foundation of the Kingdom of Archanea, the dragons were the dominant race of the land, presiding over an enlightened and advanced civilization covering the entire continent; this changed one thousand years before Archanea's formation, as the dragons began to show signs of deterioration. When the Divine Dragon elders recommended that dragons seal their power into dragonstones and take a human form to ensure their survival, the Earth Dragons refused out of sheer pride, with the sole exception of their prince, Medeus. Within three centuries, much as the elders had predicted, the Earth Dragons had indeed degenerated into mindless wild monsters and begun attacking the fledgling human race. In response, the Divine Dragons, led by Naga, engaged the Earth Dragons in a war, fighting to protect mankind. During the conflict, a bishop from a distant land, Galle, arrived in Archanea and approached one of the Earth Dragons, Loptyr; the two formed a blood bond, and Loptyr was confined to the form of a powerful dark tome usable only by Galle and his eventual descendants, whom he would possess through the tome.

The Dragon's Altar

In the end, Naga's tribe defeated the Earth Dragons, though with their own tribe nearly wiped out. Naga created the Dragon's Altar in what would later become Macedon, and sealed the Earth Dragons within it using the Shield of Seals forged from his own fang; according to Gotoh, some several thousand Earth Dragons survived and were sealed. He then tasked Medeus, the sole survivor and Manakete of the Earth Dragons, with guarding the altar and its seal.

Medeus's reign of terror

Seven hundred years later, the Shield of Seals was stolen by Adrah, who broke it by removing its five spheres; this weakened the seal on the Altar, causing the sealed dragons to slowly stir over the following centuries. The broken Shield, renamed the Fire Emblem, became the crest of the kingdom Adrah soon formed, the Holy Kingdom of Archanea. As the centuries passed from there, Medeus observed the rise of mankind and the increasingly derogatory treatment of the impoverished and weakened Manaketes of the world, causing him to form the Dolhr Empire in protest; it conquered and controlled the world for five years in what became known as the War of Liberation, until the rise of Cartas's uprising and Anri's defeat of Medeus in single combat, wielding the Falchion.

A century later, Medeus was resurrected by Gharnef and again raised the Dolhr Empire and conquered the world, but was again defeated, this time by Anri's descendant Marth. Three years after that, with the seal on the Dragon's Altar having sustained six hundred years' worth of degradation, the Earth Dragons slowly began to arise from their imprisonment in the Altar, at the same time as the rise of Emperor Hardin in Archanea; a single Earth Dragon was present serving Hardin's army in Pales in the closing days of the war. Meanwhile, at the Dragon's Altar, Gharnef and his Fell Magi had begun the process of reviving Medeus for a second time, this time metamorphised into an even more powerful Shadow Dragon. With Hardin's defeat, the five Spheres were gathered with the Fire Emblem possessed by Marth, and the Shield of Seals was restored; however, it was too late, as Earth Dragons had already begun to emerge from their imprisonment. When Marth travelled to the Altar himself to confront Medeus, Earth Dragons continually emerged from underneath the altar to serve Medeus, only to be repelled and resealed by the power of the Shield, or killed by Marth or members of his army before the Shield could respond. After Medeus's fall, the seal was restored and those Earth Dragons which survived the fight were returned to their imprisoned slumber

Somewhere amidst all of this, an Earth Dragon by the name of Grima, considered a "sworn destroyer of mankind", developed a rivalry with Naga and, an indeterminately long period of time later, became a deity worshipped by the nation of Plegia. Grima is said to be "sleeping".

Class data

In its first appearance, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, the Earth Dragon was merely Medeus's transformed state using an Earthstone as a Manakete, and not an autonomous class; this was altered in the remakes, Mystery of the Emblem Book 1 and Shadow Dragon, where the Earth Dragon was a separate class which Medeus remained in for the entire duration of the final chapter.

In Mystery of the Emblem Book 2 and New Mystery of the Emblem, Earth Dragons appeared exclusively as normal enemies in two chapters: a single one appeared in Chapter 20, while in the final chaper they continually spawned at the beginning of every enemy phase, only to be banished by the Shield of Seals at the beginning of every subsequent player phase.

In all three of its autonomous appearances, the Earth Dragon has a weakness to the Falchion and Divinestone/Mist Breath, but not to the Wyrmslayer or Dragonpike. In Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem, the Earth Dragon is one of the classes with the increased level cap of 30.

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Mystery of the Emblem	52	10	--	0	0	0	15	15	5	--	--
Shadow Dragon	18	14	0	10	8	0	14	19	6	--	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Shadow Dragon	60	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	6	--	--

Notable enemy Earth Dragons

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Medeus	Mystery of the Emblem Book 1, Shadow Dragon
Enemy Earth Dragon units in the Fire Emblem series.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Earth Dragon
Spanish	Dragón tierra	Earth dragon
French	Dragon terre	Earth dragon
German	Erddrache	Earth dragon
Italian	Drago terra	Earth dragon