Blood of Pride

Blood of Pride

Location Araphen Required units Dorcas, Erk, Florina, Kent, Lyn, Sain, Serra, Wil New units Rath, Matthew Boss(es) Bool Previous chapter(s) Beyond the Borders Next chapter(s) Siblings Abroad

“	These brigands are after me. If they're attacking the castle, it's because of me. So I must help if I can...	”	— Lyn

Blood of Pride (Japanese: 誇り高き血 Proud Blood) is the sixth chapter in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.

Plot

Main article: Blood of Pride/Script

Lyn meets Rath.

Lyn arrives in Lycia and stops in Araphen to request supplies from the marquess of the region. However, before they can receive the promised aid of Marquess Araphen that Kent arranged for, the castle is set ablaze by the mercenaries sent by Lundgren. Lyn is caught off guard by one of the mercenaries, but is saved just in time by Rath, a member of the castle guard. Lyn insists on aiding him against the mercenaries, since she is the reason why the mercenaries are attacking the castle. Rath reveals that there is a secret tunnel that leads to the castle that will enable him and his men to ensure the marquess's safety in a timely manner. Lyn realizes that she does not have any means of opening the doors to the rooms where the triggers for the secret passage are located; fortunately, the thief Matthew watched the conflict from a nearby house, and is willing to lend his services.

After defeating Bool and opening the secret passage, Rath and his troops suppress the mercenaries. Marquess Araphen requests a meeting with Lyn and her group; he rescinds his previous offer of supplies due to the annoyance he feels with being caught in Caelin's inheritance dispute. Additionally, Marquess Araphen claims that he does not feel comfortable lending aid to one "tainted with the blood of Sacae", nor does not want to sour his relationship with Lundgren, who he believes will succeed in becoming the next Marquess of Caelin as Hausen has fallen ill. Lyn refuses to beg for aid from a man who disparages her lineage, and takes her leave of the marquess. After Lyn departs, Marquess Araphen rants to himself that he would have lent Lyn the aid he promised had she merely shed a few tears and acted more humble. Rath confronts Marquess Araphen on his treatment of Lyn and his comments about the Sacaens; Marquess Araphen insists he is proud of Rath's work, but Rath accuses the Marquess of only reserving his judgments of Sacaens when they are subservient to him, and resigns from his service. Rath catches up to Lyn before she leaves Araphen; if he fell in battle, he informs her that he intents to travel Lycia and heal before returning to Sacae, but asks to join her on her quest if he was not defeated—regardless, he also gifts her gold before they depart Araphen.

Chapter data

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Trigger 3 switches	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Lyn dies	8+2	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	7	{{{third}}}

Character data

Characters
New units
Rath Nomad HP 25 Inventory Short Bow Vulnerary Level 7 Automatically from turn 1 Matthew Thief HP 18 Inventory Iron Sword Lockpick Level 2 Visit the northern village, or automatically on turn 3
Required characters
Available characters

Item data

Items

Name Obtainment Method Angelic Robe Open chest Armorslayer Open chest Door Key Visit central village Door Key Dropped by an enemy Soldier Door Key Dropped by an enemy Soldier (Hard only) 5,000G Automatically at end of chapter

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.

Normal Hard

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str/Mag Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Bool Knight 5 1 26 8 4 2 1 10 0 13 4 Steel Lance Does not move; will not act until revealed. Bandit Mercenary 1 2 18 3 8 8 0 4 0 9 5 Iron Sword Moves to attack units in range. Bandit Archer 1 1 20 3 8 9 0 4 1 9 5 Iron Bow Will not act until revealed. Bandit Soldier 1 2 20 3 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 Iron Lance • The initially covered one moves to attack units in range; will not act until revealed. • The one in front of the door does not move. Bandit Soldier 1 1 20 3 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 Iron Lance • Door Key Does not move; will not act until revealed.

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str/Mag Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Bool Knight 5 1 26 8 4 2 1 10 0 13 4 Steel Lance Does not move; will not act until revealed. Bandit Mercenary 1 2 18 3 8 8 0 4 0 9 5 Iron Sword Moves to attack units in range. Bandit Archer 1 1 20 3 8 9 0 4 1 9 5 Iron Bow Will not act until revealed. Bandit Soldier 1 1 20 3 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 Iron Lance Moves to attack units in range; will not act until revealed. Bandit Soldier 1 2 20 3 0 1 0 0 0 6 5 Iron Lance • Door Key Does not move; the covered one will not act until revealed.

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Boss data

Main article: Bool

Knight Level 5 Affinity --

Stats Max HP 26 Luck 1 Strength 8 Defense 10 Skill 4 Resistance 0 Speed 2 Constitution 13 Movement 4 Aid 12

Inventory Steel Lance Weapon Levels -- D -- -- -- -- -- --

Strategy

Augury
This chapter has no augury. Hannah will offer her services beginning in Chapter 14.

This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.

On normal mode, the player is given a forced tutorial. On the first turn, the game will force you to visit the house where you can recruit Matthew, a Thief. Afterwards, the game will give a brief tutorial of how thieves and locked rooms work by forcing the player to open the nearest door with Matthew. Opening the door will reveal one of the three triggers that a unit must wait on top of to clear the chapter. Rath will be forced to activate the trigger, which causes a pathway that contains a single Soldier and a chest to be revealed. At the start of turn 2, Matthew will notice a chest and tell the tactician to move him to it so that he can steal it. The chest contains an Angelic Robe which the player should use before the end of Lyn's tale or it will disappear. Matthew will suggest you use it on someone with poor defenses like himself, however, you should give it to someone who will see more combat like Sain, Kent, or Florina. After this point the player will be free to approach the chapter how they see fit.

There is a trigger in the room to the south. Pick up the Door Key from the Village on the first turn with one of the mounted units so they can use Canto to move closer to the locked door. Take out the Soldier guarding the door with the units who did not grab the door key, open the door, then activate the trigger. It is worth noting that you do not have to "wait" on the triggers to set them off; If you move a mounted unit on top of the triggers and then use a Vulnerary, trade, or rescue/drop a unit while on top of the trigger, that unit will activate the trigger and then, using Canto, they can move away from the tile.

The boss will be revealed once the second trigger is activated. He will be between the locked room with the Armorslayer in it and the room with the first trigger. Make sure to move Erk towards this location. The soldier guarding the room with the Armorslayer does not move, making him very easy to approach and take out.

The best unit to take out Bool is Erk on account of the boss's zero resistance and lack of 1-2 range weapons. Erk at base can inflict twenty damage in a single round of combat to Bool. After attacking with Erk, Lyn can get the kill with the Mani Katti or one of the Cavaliers can with a lance or the Armorslayer.

The strategies displayed in the tutorials on Normal mode are not always the most efficient ways to clear a chapter; however, this chapter is an exception. The player should still recruit Matthew on the first turn, use Matthew to open the nearest door then have Rath stand on the first trigger.

Trivia

• The Marquess of Araphen shares his base portrait with Aion, the boss of Chapter 18xE/19xH, though Aion is recolored.
• The beginning log of this chapter makes it sound like Lyn is leaving Araphen, even though she is actually entering it. This is an error that only exists in the localization, as in the Japanese version the text only states she is in Araphen and is going to travel further from it in the future.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Blood of Pride	--
Japanese	誇り高き血	Proud Blood
Spanish	Sangre de orgullo	Blood of pride
French	Le sang de la vanité	The Blood of Vanity
German	Stolzes Blut	Proud Blood
Italian	Sangue d'orgoglio	Blood of pride

Gallery

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  This chapter's map.

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  Lyn meets Rath.

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  An earlier version of Lyn meeting Rath from Fire Emblem Museum^{[dead link]}.

Prototype

Images from the Fire Emblem 0206 and 0219 prototypes.

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  Lyn meeting Rath in the prototype.

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