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Binding Blade
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The Binding Blade (Japanese: 封印の剣 Sword of Seal) is a regalia sword of Elibe which exclusively appears in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. It is one of two swords once wielded by Hartmut of Elibe's Eight Legends, along with Eckesachs. It is generally considered one of the legendary weapons of Elibe, but at the same time is considered to be separate from and even more powerful than the other weapons.[1] Its most prominent user is Roy of Pherae.
History
The Binding Blade was forged in the Scouring for the purpose of fighting dragons, along with the other legendary weapons. Widely acknowledged by both humans and Jahn as being far stronger than the other legendary weapons, it exhibits a wide range of powers: it can generate fire for use in battle, can be used to heal its wielder, can vaguely convey the memories and feelings of its past wielders,[2] and can increase the power of its bearer. Additionally, it reacts to the emotions of its wielder, changing its power and effect accordingly; in the final battle with the Demon Dragon Idunn at the Scouring's climax, it reacted to Hartmut's reluctance to kill Idunn and simply stunned her, and was later used in conjunction with the Fire Emblem to seal her away in the Shrine of Seals.[3]
In the intervening millennium, the Binding Blade was left at the Shrine of Seals, sealed away and completely inaccessible without use of the Fire Emblem: to unlock it, the Fire Emblem must be inserted into a niche in the enshrined blade's pommel.[4] Near the climax of the Disturbance of Bern, one thousand years after the Scouring's end, the Etrurian/Lycian army's General Roy used the Fire Emblem, provided to him by Bern's Princess Guinivere, to unseal the Binding Blade and adopt it for his own use in fighting King Zephiel and the Bern army. Following Zephiel's defeat, Roy used it to again fight Idunn, and with it defeated her while sparing her life, taking her to Arcadia in the hope of seeing her soul restored.
Stats
In the main Fire Emblem seres
Game | Icon | Level | Might | Weight | Hit | Crit | Range | Uses | Worth | WEXP | Other effects and notes |
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The Binding Blade | Prf* | 18 | 8 | 95 | 10 | 1-2 | 20 | Cannot be sold | 1 | +5 defense, +5 resistance when equipped. Deals bonus damage to Manaketes and Demon Dragons. Can be used as an item to restore 30 HP to the user. | |
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia | 0 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | Grants Deicide when in use. |
In other Fire Emblem series titles
Binding Blade Dragonbind
Game | Icon | Level | Might | Weight | Hit | Crit | Range | Uses | Worth | WEXP | Other effects and notes |
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Heroes (unrefined) |
5★ | 16 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 400 SP | -- | Boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +2 each when an enemy initiates an attack on the user. | |
Heroes (refined: +Effect) |
File:Is feh wpn quick riposte refined.png | 5★ | 16 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 400 SP 500 200 |
-- | Deals bonus damage to dragon units, and boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +4 each when an enemy initiates an attack on the user. Grants +3 HP. Guarantees a follow-up attack if target initiates attack when user starts battle with 50% or more total HP. |
Heroes (refined: +Atk) |
5★ | 18 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 400 SP 500 200 |
-- | Deals bonus damage to dragon units, and boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +4 each when an enemy initiates an attack on the user. Grants +5 HP. | |
Heroes (refined: +Spd) |
5★ | 16 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 400 SP 500 200 |
-- | Deals bonus damage to dragon units, and boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +4 each when an enemy initiates an attack on the user. Grants +5 HP and +3 Speed. | |
Heroes (refined: +Def) |
5★ | 16 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 400 SP 500 200 |
-- | Deals bonus damage to dragon units, and boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +4 each when an enemy initiates an attack on the user. Grants +5 HP and +4 Defense. | |
Heroes (refined: +Res) |
5★ | 16 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 400 SP 500 200 |
-- | Deals bonus damage to dragon units, and boosts user's Defense and Resistance by +4 each when an enemy initiates an attack on the user. Grants +5 HP and +4 Resistance. |
Locations
The Binding Blade
Event | Chapter 21/21x, closing cutscene |
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Inventory | amiibo interaction: Roy |
Heroes
Binding Blade
Units | Roy: Young Lion |
Dragonbind
Units | Roy: Blazing Lion |
Other appearances
Super Smash Bros. series
Roy wields the Binding Blade in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The sword is used in all of Roy's moves, save for his pummel and throws, to swipe or stab to attack. Although as a clone of Marth, Roy's handling of the blade is derivative of Marth's use of Falchion, the Binding Blade has several unique traits in comparison: it has a sweet spot at the base of the blade (center of the blade in Super Smash Bros. Melee), and blows Roy inflicts in close quarters deal greater damage and far greater knockback than attacks with the rest of the blade. In contrast, Marth's Falchion has its sweet spot at the very tip of the blade. Additionally, the Binding Blade's fire powers from its native game are used in several of Roy's moves, most notably his neutral special Flare Blade and up special Blazer. Unlike its original portrayal, Roy cannot heal himself with it.
Fire Emblem: Hasha no Tsurugi
In Fire Emblem: Hasha no Tsurugi's retelling of the final battle with Zephiel, Zephiel himself wields the Binding Blade along with Eckesachs. Al and Roy eventually succeed in seizing it away from him and using it against him.
Fire Emblem Cipher
The Binding Blade is present as a skill on two of Roy's cards in Fire Emblem Cipher: S07-001ST Young Lion, Roy, and B05-001SR Heir of the Binding Flames, Roy. It gives Roy an effective bonus against dragons, adding +20 to his attack power when fighting dragon-type units.
Flavor text
Trivia
- In Awakening, while the Binding Blade itself does not appear, Owain often uses its name as one of his many battle cries referencing earlier games in the series; when gaining weapon experience from an event tile or the barracks, he claims to be receiving his weapon experience boost from practicing the "Secret Art: BINDING BLADE!"
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
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Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
• Binding Blade |
• This name was first explicitly given to the weapon in Fire Emblem Heroes, although it has been in use in general in the Fire Emblem games since Awakening. |
English (unofficial) |
• Binding Blade |
• Used in the 2013 revision of the Binding Blade fan translation; in gameplay, the name is contracted to Binding Bld to fit length constraints. |
Spanish |
Espada de los sellos |
Sword of the seals. Abbreviated as E. de los sellos in the European Spanish version of Fire Emblem Heroes and as Esp. de los sellos in the Latin American Spanish version. |
French |
Lame du Sceau |
Blade of Seal; as of Fire Emblem Heroes. |
German |
• Bindende Klinge |
• Binding Blade. Used in Fire Emblem Awakening.[5] |
Italian |
• Spada dei sigilli |
• Sword of seals; in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Fire Emblem Heroes. |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Espada do selo |
Sword of sealing |
Russian |
Меч Печатей |
Sword of Seals. Used only in the Russian version of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, as no Fire Emblem game has as yet been officially released in the region. |
Simplified Chinese |
封印之剑 |
Sword of Seals |
Traditional Chinese |
封印之劍 |
Sword of Seals |
Dragonbind
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
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Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
Dragonbind |
-- |
Spanish |
Selladragones |
Seals-dragons |
French |
Lame du dragon |
Blade of the dragon |
German |
Drachenklinge |
Dragon Blade |
Italian |
Sigilladraghi |
Seals-dragons |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Selo de dragão |
Dragon's seal |
Traditional Chinese |
封印魔龍之劍 |
Demon dragon-sealing sword |
Gallery
Artwork of the Binding Blade from The Binding Blade.
Roy wielding the Binding Blade in The Binding Blade.
Other appearances
Zephiel wielding both Eckesachs and the Binding Blade in Hasha no Tsurugi.
The Binding Blade as it appears in Heroes.
Roy wielding the Binding Blade in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Roy wielding the Binding Blade in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Roy wielding the Binding Blade in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
References
- ↑ "Roy: Does that mean Eckesachs is the final legendary weapon? I thought it was the Binding Blade.
Elffin: ...The Binding Blade may be on an even higher level than the legendary weapons... It may be its own entity, beyond compare to even the legendary weapons...
Roy: More powerful than the legendary weapons...? What power lies in this sword?" — Roy and Elffin, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "...What... are these images...? Are they the Binding Blade's... No, Hartmut's memories...?" — Roy, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
- ↑ "Jahn: Knowing the demon dragon still had to be defeated, they readied their weapons. Idunn must have reacted to their attack out of instinct. It changed into dragon form and fought as the soulless war dragons do. Hartmut, however, brandished a blade even more powerful than the legendary weapons.
Roy: The Binding Blade!
Jahn: I don't know what you humans call it, but that must be it. When the blade cut the demon dragon's flesh, it fell unconscious rather than dying.
Roy: Why didn't it slay Idunn?
Jahn: The blade has a strange power that reflects the wielder's soul. Hartmut didn't want to kill her, so the Binding Blade reflected that feeling and spared her... He had apparently heard how the demon dragon was formed and felt pity for it. We dragons cannot understand that illogical feeling.
Roy: He pitied her...
Jahn: In his soul, he wished to spare Idunn. I personally would never hesitate to eliminate a threat as he did.
Roy: Hartmut's soul changed the sword itself...
Jahn: After persuading the others that it should be spared, Hartmut built a shrine hidden deep in what you now call Bern. There, he bound the demon dragon away using the blade and the Fire Emblem." — Jahn and Roy, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "Merlinus: ...I can't seem to draw it from the stone.
Roy: It's sealed in the altar. You must use the Fire Emblem.
Merlinus: Use it? How?
Roy: Princess Guinivere said that it goes in the socket on the hilt..." — Merlinus and Roy, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "Geheime Fähigkeit... BINDENDE KLINGE! Hiiiijaaa! ...Ja, die Extra-Übung hilft..." — Owain (German version), Fire Emblem Awakening
- ↑ "L'abilità segreta... LAMA VINCOLANTE! Oh, sì. L'allenamento extra fa effeto!" — Owain (Italian version), Fire Emblem Awakening
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