Sonya

This page is about the Rigelian mage; for the Elibean sage see Sonia.

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Sonya Artwork of Sonya from the art book Fire Emblem: The Complete.

Gender Female Race Human Age 25 (in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Family Jedah (father) Marla (older sister) Hestia (older sister) Nationality Rigelian Starting class Witch(Gaiden; as an enemy.) Mage(Upon recruitment.) Voiced by Rei Shimoda (Japanese, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Tara Sands (English, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Appearance(s) Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

“	Quite the clever one, aren't you? ...It's a bit infuriating. Still, I'll wager your friends are seldom bored. Maybe I'll just have to join up and see. If there's room for one more, that is?	”	— Sonya to Celica

Sonya (Japanese: ソニア Sonya) is a mage appearing in Fire Emblem Gaiden. She is a member of Grieth's pirates, and is recruited at Grieth's Citadel if she is not killed by Celica.

She is one of the children of Jedah, along with her older sisters Marla and Hestia.

Fire Emblem Gaiden

Role

She appears in the Northern Desert, under the forced employ of Grieth, and is recruited if Celica decides to fight Deen. Both her and Deen hate Grieth, but they also seem to have their own disagreements, preventing either from doing anything about Grieth. After Deen is killed Sonya retreats to Grieth's Fortress and is recruited after his death; being happy to lend her strength to the ones that dethroned Grieth.

If Celica fights her, she perishes in the desert.

Starting stats and growth rates

Boss, Chapter 3 Playable

Witch Level 5

Stats Max HP 28 Luck 0 Strength -- Defense 11 Skill 14 Resistance 14 Speed 10 Movement 4

Equipment Spells Steel Shield Excalibur Weapons Sword ✗ Axe ✗ B. Magic ✓ Lance ✗ Bow ✗ W. Magic ✗

Mage Level 5

Recruitment: Chapter 3, have Celica's army fight Deen instead; then speak to her at Grieth's Citadel. Stats Growth Rates Spell Levels Max HP 24 Luck 4 Strength -- Defense 5 Skill 11 Resistance 12 Speed 12 Movement 4 Max HP 30% Luck 30% Strength --% Defense 30% Skill 30% Resistance 0% Speed 30% Fire 1 Aura -- Thunder 1 Sagittae 18 Excalibur 1 Ragnarok -- Seraphim 14 Recover * {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Equipment Steel Shield Weapons Sword ✗ Axe ✗ B. Magic ✓ Lance ✗ Bow ✗ W. Magic ✗

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Promotion stat gains

Class	HP	Str	Skill	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Con	Mov	Weapon level
Priestess	+x to 36	+x to 5	+x to 1	+x to 1	+0	+x to 1	+0	+0	+0	--

• In Gaiden, promotion gains consist on giving the character as many points as necessary -the "x" value shown in the table- to reach the promoted class' base stats. If the character's stats are higher than their promoted class' base stats, they will not receive any bonus; however, if all stats are higher, then they will receive +1 to HP.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Role

Sonya has a slightly different story role in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia compared to Gaiden. Sonya is a mercenary hired by Grieth, and like Deen, has no particular loyalty to the man. If Celica bypasses her, she chooses not to aid Grieth in defending the citadel. There is no mention of Deen and Sonya keeping each other in check. Sonya joins Celica's group after Grieth's defeat because she thinks their escapades will be an interesting adventure for her.

After this Sonya has no particular story prescence aside from her battle quote with Jedah in act 4.

If Celica decides to fight Sonya instead of Deen, Sonya perishes in the desert like in Gaiden.

Starting stats and growth rates

Mage Level 5 Fatigue tol. 0.45

Recruitment: Act 3, have Celica's army fight Deen instead, then talk to her at Grieth's Citadel. Base Stats Growth Rates Max Stats Max HP 24 Luck 4 Attack 13 Defense 5 Skill 11 Resistance 12 Speed 12 Movement 4 Max HP 40% Luck 30% Attack 45% Defense 40% Skill 50% Resistance 4% Speed 35% Max HP 52 Luck 38 Attack 41 Defense 40 Skill 42 Resistance 40 Speed 39 {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Item Skills Steel Shield -- Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗

Spell list

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Fire	Mage, innate
Thunder	Mage, innate
Excalibur	Mage, innate
Recover	Priestess, level 1
Rewarp	Priestess, level 5
Entrap	Priestess, level 10
colspan="2" style="Template:Roundb; border:none; background-color:#222222; font-size: x-small;" width="100%"| If the character promotes before learning a spell, the level at which that spell is learned becomes (Spell's level - [Level before promotion +1]).

Analysis

Unfortunately, Sonya's black magic spell pool has been reduced from her Gaiden appearance, losing Seraphim and Sagittae, two powerful spells. The loss of Seraphim is particularly painful due to its utility on the terror-filled enemy loadouts of Celica's journey. She still starts with Excalibur, making her a fair critical hit dealer immediately upon recruitment. Her learned magic upon becoming a priestess gives her some interesting utility, being able to warp enemies close to her for her allies to dispose of them as well as the ability to warp to any ally over any distance, allowing for high mobility despite only having 4 movement in her native class line.

There is often debate on the Deen-Sonya recruitment choice; both units are fairly good, though Celica's party has a fair amount of both Mercenaries and Mages. Neither character is excessively weaker than the other initially, though Deen generally will class change sooner than Sonya, and Sonya learns her more interesting utility spells at late levels. Another thing to note is that Sonya's Steel Shield is lost if she is killed as an enemy, while Deen's Brave Sword, while certainly superior, can be pried out of his cold, dead hands as a drop.

Personality and character

Sonya grew up in a priory with her sisters, though this tired her of piousness and she generally avoids such activities in her adulthood. It is unclear when she left the priory and became separated from her sisters. She has a deep-seated hatred of her father, Jedah, due to him being responsible for transforming Marla and Hestia, Sonya's elder sisters, into witches. Sonya has always chosen to live on her own desires, to which Hestia is somewhat jealous of, and to the disapproval of her father. Sonya appears to still miss her sisters, if she falls in battle her final thoughts are of them.

Even after her sister's deaths in the battle against Duma, Sonya searched extensively for a way to return witches to normal. It is unknown if she ever found a way to do this, as she vanished to an ambiguous fate.

Sonya appreciates her appearance, though not to an exaggerated or narcissistic degree.

Supports

Main article: Sonya/Supports

Endings

Gaiden

Her two older sisters, Marla and Hestia, had been reborn as witches to be sacrificed to Duma... Sonya would never forgive their father Jedah for making his three daughters into sacrifices.

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Sonya's search for a cure for women turned into witches took her across the land. Her trail ended in a remote region, after which she was never seen again. Rumors fly, however, that shortly thereafter a new witch took up residence in Nuibaba's abode on Fear Mountain.

Quotes

Death quote

“	My fate's come to an end too...	”	— Sonya, in Gaiden

“	It seems...today is the day... my star...goes out...	”	— Sonya as an enemy in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

“	If this is...where my story ends, then so be it... My...sisters...	”	— Sonya's death quote in Classic Mode in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

“	Well, this is damn infuriating... Sorry, but I'm done for the day. Scars aren't really my style.	”	— Sonya's retreat quote in Casual Mode in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Battle quotes

“	Hehehe, little girl and company -- too bad, but you're going to die!	”	— Sonya as an enemy in Gaiden

“	Naughty children. You ought never have made an enemy of Grieth. Still, this is mere business for my part. No hard feelings, I pray.	”	— Sonya as an enemy in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

“	Sonya: Jedah! Jedah: Well, if it isn't Sonya. Sonya: You've no idea how long I've waited for this day. You stole the lives of my sisters and cursed them to become witches! I will avenge them with your blood! Jedah: Their souls were offered to Duma freely, and both received endless bliss in turn. Only a fool would refuse to see a truth so plain. You are a burden to your wise sisters, and I shall relieve them of it now!	”	— Jedah to Sonya in act 4 of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

“	Ugh. It's almost painful to watch... Just how hopelessly ignorant can someone be?	”	— Sonya's final battle quote in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Gaiden (manga)

Sonya appears in the Gaiden manga with an initially similar role to her Gaiden appearance, though she is given a comparatively large amount of dialogue and story presence compared to the original Gaiden.

On their journey through the desert, Palla tells Celica about Grieth's two bodyguards, Sonya and Deen. Palla mentions that Sonya and her two sisters were cursed to be witches. Celica decides to fight Deen. During the battle against him Sonya appears, and asks Deen if he's trying to steal her glory again. Deen reminds her that both of them have orders to kill Celica anyway. Sonya then attacks Boey and Mae.

Later, Grieth appears and asks what is taking Sonya and Deen so long to defeat Celica. Grieth also takes the opportunity to attack Deen and Sonya; he had been looking for an opportunity to get rid of the two of them. Deen takes the blow from Grieth for Sonya and dies. Celica, during the distraction, finishes Grieth. Sonya takes Deen's death hard, and mourns him.

After Celica's group arrives at Mila's Temple Sonya tells Celica about Jedah, who resides in the Duma Tower, and that he is likely the one to have Mila. After entering Lost Treescape Sonya tells Celica more about Jedah and her sisters, Marla and Hestia; they were all devout followers of Duma. However, Duma changed, and corrupted his followers, driving Jedah mad and eventually killing Marla and Hestia. Sonya says she'll pray for them when everything is over; she also thanks Celica for showing her that she could change her own fate.

Trivia

• Like many characters appearing in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, her hair color was changed; in this case, she originally had red hair and was given purple hair in her redesign. This was presumably done to make her look more like her sisters.

Etymology

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Sonya	As of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
English (unofficial)	• Sonia • Soni	• Used in the latest Gaiden fan translation. • Used in the older Gaiden fan translation. Presumably this odd abbreviation is due to space issues.

Gallery

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  Sonya in the manga.

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  Sonya attacking Boey in the manga.

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  Artwork of Sonya from the art book Fire Emblem: The Complete.

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  Artwork of Sonya from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Concept artwork of Sonya from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Portrait of Sonya from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Sonya as a villager, as she appears in battle, in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Sonya as a mage, as she appears in battle, in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Sonya as a priestess, as she appears in battle, in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

References

This article is part of Project Characters, a project focused on writing articles for every character present in the Fire Emblem series.