Judge

Judge Icon of Judge from Radiant Dawn. The miraculous power of the goddess. Her attacks have myriad form and effect.

Type Various First game Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Judge (Japanese: 裁き Judge) is a unique weapon which appears only in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is the signature weapon of Ashera, the final boss of Radiant Dawn, which represents her power as a goddess. Judge is unique in that there are actually multiple different variants of it, each with different abilities from the other, but all of these variants possess exceptionally high power.

If Ashera is attacked during the player phase, she wields the regular light-type Judge that can be seen in her inventory, which behaves like ordinary magic. During the enemy phase, however, she instead performs any one of six different Judge attacks which all have unique effects, such as attacking all of the player's units within her range at once, attacking one unit at long range, and attempting to inflict status effects on all of the player's units.

Three bosses in the preceding stages of the Part 4 Endgame - Lekain, Dheginsea, and Sephiran - also have access to one or two Judge attacks each, and like Ashera, these bosses will often use their Judge during the enemy phase. There are an additional two dark magic Judges which are not used at any point in the game.

Stats

Ashera's Judges

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Radiant Dawn (Regular magic)		--	50	16	100	--	1-2	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works as magical damage. Counts as light magic under the Trinity of Magic. Cannot inflict critical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Physical area-of-effect)		--	52	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, -3 damage dealt to that enemy. Works as physical damage. Cannot inflict critical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Magic area-of-effect)		--	50	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, -3 damage dealt to that enemy. Works as magical damage. Counts as light magic under the Trinity of Magic. Cannot inflict critical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Long-range physical)		--	50	20	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works as physical damage. Cannot inflict critical hits. The target cannot counter-attack.
Radiant Dawn (Long-range magic)		--	50	20	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works as magical damage. Counts as light magic under the Trinity of Magic. Cannot inflict critical hits. The target cannot counter-attack.
Radiant Dawn (Silence area-of-effect)		--	1	1	100	0	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Inflicts silence status on contact with all enemies within range.

Other Judges

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Radiant Dawn (Lekain's silence area-of-effect)		SS	1	1	100	0	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Inflicts silence status on contact with all enemies within range.
Radiant Dawn (Dheginsea's physical area-of-effect)		SS	10	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, -5 damage dealt to that enemy. Works as physical damage. Cannot inflict critical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Sephiran's magic area-of-effect)		SS	25	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, -5 damage dealt to that enemy. Works as magical damage. Cannot inflict critical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Sephiran's long-range magic)		SS	5	25	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works as magical damage. Cannot inflict critical hits. The target cannot counter-attack.
Radiant Dawn (Area-of-effect dark)		--	1	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. Works as magical damage. Counts as dark magic under the Trinity of Magic. Cannot inflict critical hits. Unused.

Locations

Radiant Dawn

Unobtainable

Exclusively used by Lekain, Dheginsea, Sephiran, and Ashera.

Trivia

• Despite Ashera's variants of Judge not making use of a weapon type, all of her variants give 1 weapon experience. The secret variants not used by Ashera also give 1 weapon experience, but they make use of traditional weapon types and weapon ranks (albeit at the maximum SS rank).
• Judge is tied with the Echoes: Shadows of Valentia version of Messiah for having the most variants of a single weapon programmed into any single Fire Emblem game; ignoring the unused variants of both, there are more variants of Judge than anything else (eleven used Judges compared to ten used Messiahs). The playable weapon that makes the closest approach is the Fang from Radiant Dawn, with nine, and the closest approach a human weapon makes is the Yato of Fates, with seven.

Gallery

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  Ashera casting Judge (regular variant) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ashera casting Judge (physical area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ashera casting Judge (magic area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ashera casting Judge (long-range physical) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ashera casting Judge (long-range magic) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ashera casting Judge (silencing area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Ashera casting Judge (paralyzing area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Lekain casting Judge (silencing area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Dheginsea casting Judge (physical area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Sephiran casting Judge (magic area-of-effect) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Sephiran casting Judge (long-range magic) in Radiant Dawn.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Judge	Alludes to Ashera's ability as a god to judge the world and its inhabitants and to dispose of them as she sees fit.
Spanish	Juez	Judge
French	Juge	Judge
German	Richter	Judge
Italian	Giudice	Judge