Land of Sorrow (Gaiden)

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Land of Sorrow

Location Rigel New units Alm's Route: Tatiana, Zeke, Mycen Celica's Route: Nomah, Conrad Boss(es) Alm's Route: Fernand, Berkut, Shizas, Xaizor, Marla, Nuibaba, Jerome, Zeke, Magnus, Hestia, Rudolf, Mueller Celica's Route: Garcia, Dolth, Jamil, Jedah Previous chapter(s) War of Deliverance Next chapter(s) Together to the End

Land of Sorrow (Japanese: 悲しみの大地 Land of Sadness) is the fourth act of Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Plot

Main article: Land of Sorrow (Gaiden)/Script

Wyrmstym 401 V.C. arrives, and Alm's pleas to Rudolf to begin negotiations for peace go unanswered. Alm elects to launch a counter-invasion of Rigel, and notes that the cold air feels oddly familiar to him. His first opponent is Berkut, who personally takes command of the border division to repay his humiliation in Zofia. Alm emerges victorious once again, and Berkut swallows his pride and smashes Nuibaba's mirror. An army of Terrors emerge from the ground and begins attacking the Deliverance, disgusting even Berkut and Fernand. Alm successfully dispels the Terrors by praying to Celica's charm. Berkut and Fernand retreat and flee back to the capital, where Berkut rages at his inability to defeat Alm to his beloved fiancée Rinea and hears a mysterious voice beckon to him. Alm detours to Nuibaba's Abode to kill her and rescue the innocent maidens she has abducted, including the priestess Tatiana. Afterwards, he makes his way up Rigel's west coast. Alm also recruits Zeke, an amnesiac general who was being forced to serve the corrupt Jerome by using Tatiana as leverage. Any further attempts to reach Rigel Castle are arrested by a rockslide at the Dragon's Maw.

Meanwhile, Celica begins her march towards Duma Tower. As she sets out, Jedah telepathically contacts her and reveals that both Mila and Duma are suffering from mental degradation that will destroy all of Valentia if left unchecked. He offers to release Mila if Celica offers her soul up to Duma to restore his mind, which would allow Alm to end his military campaign. Troubled by Jedah's offer, Celica and her forces battle the cantor Dolth. After his defeat, Dolth nearly convinces Celica to surrender, only to be killed by the masked knight. He reveals himself to be Celica's presumed-dead older half-brother Conrad, and convinces her to keep living for the sake of her friends. Celica's party confronts Jedah, who bids Celica come to the peak of Duma Tower to give her answer to his offer. Celica and her friends make their way through Duma Tower and meet Jedah, who shows them a vision of Mila's corpse with Falchion plunged into it. He explains that after Rudolf sealed Mila, Mila sealed Falchion, making Duma unstoppable. Jedah warps Celica's party away and removes the rockslide impeding Alm's progress.

Alm begins the final push towards Rigel Castle. At the Last Bastion, he encounters Slayde once more, and the Deliverance finally slays him once and for all. Finally, Alm besieges Rigel Castle and mortally wounds Rudolf. As he dies, Rudolf claims that Alm is his only son and begs him to take Falchion and slay Duma. A distraught and confused Alm enters Rigel Castle and meets Rudolf's captain of the guards, Massena. Massena directs him to Mycen, who explains that Alm is indeed Albein Alm Rudolf, firstborn heir to the Rigelian Empire. Alm was born with the Brand, marking him as the one who would save Valentia, and Rudolf entrusted Mycen with his care in order to protect him from the Duma Faithful and fashioned himself a tyrant for Alm to rise against. Meanwhile, at Duma Tower, Jedah points out that Alm's quest to defeat Duma is doomed without Falchion's power. Celica finally breaks down and agrees to sacrifice her soul to Duma to protect Alm.

Character data

Character data

Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Alm's route Celica's route

Characters
New units
Tatiana Saint HP 28 Inventory Physic Nosferatu Seraphim Level 1 Talk to with Alm at Nuibaba's Abode Zeke Gold Knight HP 40 Inventory Lance Level 3 Talk to with Alm at Rigelian Village after clearing Rigel Plains Battle if Tatiana has been recruited Mycen Gold Knight HP 44 Inventory Lance Level 7 Talk to with Alm at Rigel Castle (required to progress)
Available characters

Characters
New units
Nomah Sage HP 28 Inventory Fire Excalibur Sagittae Recover Level 7 Talk to with Celica at the Temple of Mila
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Characters
New units
Tatiana Saint HP 28 Inventory Seraphim Nosferatu Physic Level 1 Talk to with Alm at Nuibaba's Abode Zeke Gold Knight HP 40 Inventory Lance Level 3 Talk to with Alm at Rigelian Village after clearing Rigel Plains Battle if Tatiana has been rescued Mycen Gold Knight HP 44 Inventory Lance Level 7 Talk to with Alm at Rigel Castle (required to progress)
Available characters

Characters
New units
Nomah Sage HP 28 Inventory Fire Thunder Excalibur Sagittae Recover Level 7 Talk to with Celica at the Temple of Mila Conrad Paladin HP 32 Inventory Blessed Lance Level 7 Automatically after clearing Attack on Dolth Keep
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Map data

There are a total of 18 maps in Act 4 of Gaiden and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Alm's route

1. Border Battle
2. Rigel Forest Battle
3. Fear Mountain Battle
4. Fear Mountain Shrine
5. Siege of Nuibaba's Abode
6. Rigel Plains Battle
7. Fight at the Dragon's Maw
8. Rigel Falls Battle
9. Secret Shrine
10. Attack on the Last Bastion
11. Attack on Rigel Castle

Celica's route

1. Dead Man's Mire Battle
2. Skirmish
3. Attack on Dolth Keep
4. Lost Treescape
5. Storming of Duma Gate
6. The Swamps of Duma Battle
7. Duma Tower

Exploration sections

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Trivia

• In the original Gaiden Shizas was the boss of the battle at the Rigel-Zofia border. The remake, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, has Berkut wholly replace his role. Shizas does not appear anywhere in the remake at all, though he does have some unused data suggesting he was possibly planned to appear in the game at some point in development.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Land of Sorrow	--
Japanese	悲しみの大地	Land of Sadness
Spanish	Tierra de tragedia	Land of tragedy
French	Les terres de douleur	The land of sorrow
German	Land des Wehklagens	Land of Lament
Italian	Terra di dolore	Land of sorrow
Dutch	Land van verdriet	Land of sorrow
Korean	슬픔의 대지	Earth of sorrow
Simplified Chinese	悲情的大地	Land of sorrow
Traditional Chinese	悲情的大地	Land of sorrow

Gallery

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References

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