The Liberation of Leonster
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All right. Everyone, let's go! Let's fly the flag of the Gáe Bolg from our castle once again!
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— Leif
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The Liberation of Leonster (Japanese: 王都解放 Liberation of the Royal Capital) is the eighteenth chapter of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.
Plot
- Main article: The Liberation of Leonster/Script
Leif's forces make their way to Leonster and storm the castle, the forces of which are commanded by Gustaf and Xavier. Xavier originally served Leonster, but he joined the Empire under Gustaf to protect the Leonster natives from persecution by the Empire. Thinking of himself as a traitor, he expects to be treated as one by Leif's forces and killed in the battle.
If Leif saves the Leonster hostages and has them talk to Xavier's adjutants, they leave the fortress once they are reunited with their loved ones. Leif can then approach Xavier and talk to him; Xavier expects to be killed for betraying Leonster and requests mercy for his adjutants, but Leif blames himself for the general's situation and apologizes for his failures. Dryas provides an apology of his own, then requests Xavier to join Leif's forces, and Xavier accepts.
Leif's forces kill Gustaf and seize Leonster, ending the battle victorious. Soon after Leif, Dryas, and Finn celebrate their victory, though, Leif is informed that the citizens of Ulster have started a rebellion and need Leif's help in order to succeed. Dryas and August advise Leif not to go, as they believe an open battle with the Empire is too dangerous, but Leif overrules them and pledges to help the Ulster rebellion regardless.
Seeing no other choice, Duke Dryas volunteers to lead Leif's vanguard into Ulster. August realizes Dryas's intent and requests to lead the vanguard himself, but Dryas refuses and tells August that he must stay by the prince's side to advise him. August relents, and Dryas tells the prince to keep the rest of his soldiers within the castle to rest. He also claims he will bolster his forces with soldiers from Leonster willing to join Leif's army. With their strategy determined, Dryas leaves and Leif stays behind, expecting to follow behind the duke's forces on the next day.
Chapter data
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Victory: Seize the throne
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Player
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Partner
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Other
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Enemy
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Third
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Defeat: Leif dies
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8–16+1
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{{{partner}}}
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8+8
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41+66−8−1
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{{{third}}}
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Units are arranged based on their position in deployment order after Leif.
Character data
- At the end of the chapter, Leif will promote to Prince automatically.
Item data
Enemy data
- Stats with two figures separated by a ~ are presented as a range, representing stats that vary due to random growths. The figures to the left and right of the ~ are the stat's minimum and maximum possible values respectively.
Reinforcements
- Turns 2–5
- 1 Thief from the eastern stairs
- Turns 2–11
- Turns 6–15
- 1 Mage, level 12, from the eastern stairs
- Turns 12–21
- 1 Sword Armor from the upper northwestern stairs
- 1 Mage, level 6, from the lower northwestern stairs
- Turns 19 and 20
NPC data
- Stats with two figures separated by a ~ are presented as a range, representing stats that vary due to random growths. The figures to the left and right of the ~ are the stat's minimum and maximum possible values respectively.
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Name
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Class
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Lv
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#
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HP
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Str
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Mag
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Skill
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Spd
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Lck
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Prf
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Def
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Res
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Cha
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Lck
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Con
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Mov
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Inventory and Skills
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Civilian
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Civilian
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1
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5
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10
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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Moves to talk to a Leonster knight, then moves to escape; ignores status effects that would prevent talking.
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Civilian
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Civilian
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1
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1
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10
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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Moves to talk to a Leonster knight, then moves to escape; ignores status effects that would prevent talking.
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Civilian
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Civilian
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1
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1
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10
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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Moves to talk to a Leonster knight, then moves to escape; ignores status effects that would prevent talking.
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Civilian
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Civilian
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1
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1
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10
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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6
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Moves to talk to a Leonster knight, then moves to escape; ignores status effects that would prevent talking.
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In order to be converted, the enemy Leonster knights must be talked to by the corresponding civilian. In the Project Exile and Lil' Manster fan translations, the civilians and knights are given names with matching initials (e.g. Mia has to talk to Marlon). Xavier can be recruited after all eight knights have been converted, regardless of if they escaped or where killed after switching sides. The matching civilian-knight pairs are provided in the table below:
talks to
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talks to
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talks to
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talks to
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talks to
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talks to
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talks to
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talks to
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- Note: There are two separate Civilians that share the portrait of the girl with the green shirt and twintails; it does not mean that one civilian needs to speak with two knights.
Boss data
- Main article: Gustaf
Strategy
This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.
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If the player does not want to recruit Xavier, they can easily Warp-skip this map. As a bonus, doing so makes acquiring the Member Card much easier.
It is highly recommended to bring Tina if the player wants the Body Ring, as there is a Thief who will open the chest containing it well before the player can enter the area.
To get the Member Card, you must not kill any of the Leonster Soldiers (the ones that are of the Soldier class; Xavier's Armored Knights aren't included). This does not include the Soldier reinforcements, they are Friege, and killing them will not affect the Member Card. All of them are armed with Javelins, meaning that in most cases, they would prefer attacking your units at range, making it slightly less likely for them to get themselves killed attacking your powerful frontliners at close combat. Capturing and releasing the soldiers are also fair game, as it allows you to safely remove them from the map without killing them. Stealing their weapons is possible, though that would require that your Thieves gain a couple points of constitution in order to do so. The Member Card is not especially useful - the only secret shop is in chapter 24 and only contains a few stat boosters - so there is no shame in skipping it.
Recruiting Xavier
Recruiting Xavier is a somewhat daunting task; the several NPC civilians must talk to the eight Leonster Armor Knights working under Xavier. Additionally, each specific NPC has to talk to a specific Knight; the characters do not have unique names, so they can only be identified by their portraits. It is made more difficult by the inability to manipulate unit positions from battle preparations, so it may be necessary to use Warp, Rescue, or Rewarp staves, or deploy/undeploy certain units who otherwise wouldn't have been so. Fortunately, the right side will not require many good units.
The civilians will not start moving from their cell until the door to the throne room is unlocked. But once it's unlocked, the Armor Knights stationed there (including Xavier's knights) will start moving towards the door. What happens to the knights or the civilians after the former converts does not matter. So long as all of the Leonster armor knights become NPCs before dying or escaping, you will still meet the recruitment requirements for Xavier. While Xavier and his knights won't attempt to harm or capture any of the civilians, the Friege Knights will (there are four of them) when given the chance. They should either be killed with ranged magic (siege tomes work especially well here) or putting them to sleep.
After a knight gets converted and becomes green, the others will try to kill him. Considering how the knights have Killer Lances or Hammers equipped, one should be ready to use the Rescue command if necessary, as the counterattacks might result in someone getting killed. Alternativly, as Killer Lances have a weight of 10, you can steal them if Perne and/or Lifis had their constitution increased a couple of times during level-ups or via the Body Ring you can find in this chapter. It's not mandatory to keep all the knights alive after they spoke to their relatives, but you have to keep all the non-converted knights alive until everyone is reunited with their loved ones. Also, the NPCs are the ones that start the conversations, so if they manage to reach the knight that is their relative, they will convert them, ignoring the status effects.
The easiest way to handle the Leonster knights is by having them put to sleep with the Sleep Sword. This can be done on enemy phase by having them attack the user of the Sleep Sword, though they wielder must be positioned carefully to not be surrounded, especially with the Action on all of the knights. Giving that unit a Crusader Scroll is recommended to prevent a Killer Lance critical, and they should be bulky enough to survive an Adept activation. The best unit to use them against the knights will be a base Ralf, as not only can he withstand and Adept, he has the weapon rank to use it at base, and more importantly, he only has 40 ATK when he crits with the Sleep Sword, making it very unlikely the knights will roll too little bulk to withstand a crit. A Sleep staff can also be effective, but it has far less durability and is more useful due to its infinite range.
It is recommended to have some of your units stand on the staircases to plug up and prevent reinforcements from appearing, especially the Dark Mages, as they either teleport themselves all over the place with Rewarp staves or attack with Fenrir tomes. Don't let the ones with Fenrir get in the range where they can attack with it or they'll easily kill the civilians. The ones with Jormungand have Rewarp, so they'll chase after the NPCs and try to attack them after closing the gap by teleporting, so leave someone to attack them and cover everyone as you move on. High-constitution units like your knights can rescue the converted armor knights and civilians can be rescued by anyone, so be sure to rescue them whenever possible to avoid casualties that will cause you to fail the side quest.
Trivia
- The Leonster Soldiers all possess a unique red palette. Strangely, they only have this palette when they initiate an attack; when the player attacks on player phase or when they attack a unit with Vantage, they use the generic Soldier palette.
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions
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Name
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Definition, etymology, and notes
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English (unofficial)
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• The Liberation of Lenster • The Liberation of Leonster
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• Used in FireLizard's translation. • Used in the Lil' Manster fan translation patch.
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Japanese
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王都解放
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Liberation of the Royal Capital
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