Niime

Niime Artwork of Niime from The Binding Blade. The "Mountain Hermit" devoting her life to historical and magical research.

Gender Female Race Human Age 70s Family Canas (son) Three other sons Hugh (grandson) Nationality Ilian Title(s) Mountain Hermit Starting class Druid Appearance(s) The Binding Blade

“	She is an odd character. She is known to some as the Mountain Hermit...	”	— Canas

Niime (Japanese: ニイメ Nimue), widely known as the "Mountain Hermit", is an Elibean scholar and sorceress famous for her research on dark magic and the Scouring. She is the mother of four sons, among them Canas, and raised Canas's son Hugh following his death.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Ilia route

Niime was arrested by the Bern occupation army in Ilia, and under Bishop Martel's orders she was forced to use an ancient tome to summon a rain storm in order to obstruct the approach of Roy and the Etrurian army. Instead, however, she used it to freeze the rivers and make a clearer path to Martel for Roy. Once the battle was over, she approached Roy, told him everything she knew of Bern's use of dragons, and joined his army.

Sacae route

Following Roy's successful capture of the Sacaen capital Bulgar, Niime sought an audience with him, piquing his attention with her mention of manaketes. She told him everything she knew of Bern and the manaketes in its service, and joined his army.

Starting stats and growth rates

Druid Level 18 Affinity

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Analysis

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Personality and character

Described by Canas as an "odd character", Niime is renowned as a scholar. As a researcher on the Scouring, Niime is fascinated by dragons, but as a result of the vast majority of sources on the subject portraying dragons in a negative light, she too at first accepts the claims describing them as inhuman terrors. Her experiences with Fae changed her views: at first she assumed her to be dangerous and presumably intended to harm or kill her, but rapidly learned otherwise and changed her mind, realizing the folly of killing Fae to preserve "peace".

Niime is a strong believer in the superiority of dark magic over other forms. She once attempted to convince Canas's wife, an anima mage, to adopt the practice of dark magic instead, relenting only because of her exceptional skill with anima magic. She is particularly abrasive toward Hugh for this reason, among others, but ultimately she still holds some fondness for her sole grandson.

Fifty years prior to the Great Movement of Bern, Niime was involved in a relationship with Jodel of the Elimine Church, which came to a messy end under unspecified circumstances.

Supports

Main article: Niime/Supports

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See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Niime - Mountain Hermit
Short: Returned to the mountains and disappeared.

Long: Niime returned to her secluded home in the mountains and continued her research. Although it is said that she solved many of the mysteries of the world, we can never know for sure because she didn't leave any written records of her work.

Quotes

Battle quotes

“	This is it! The power I've been searching for!!	”	— Niime, in the Final Chapter of The Binding Blade.

Death quote

“	Heheh. My life wasn't too bad, now...	”	— Niime, in The Binding Blade.

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Niime is currently featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Niime
	Mountain Hermit, Niime
		"I am Niime. I live in the mountains, where I study arcane magic. Some call me the Mountain Hermit."
		Attack: 60	Support: 20	Range: 1-2	Deploy Cost: 5
		Class: Druid		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 4
		Unfathomable Dark Power: [Activate] [] [] Your opponent chooses 2 cards from their hand, and send them to the Retreat Area. Ancient Tome: [Activate] [Once per turn] Choose 1 non-lord enemy, and destroy them. This skill cannot be used unless your opponent has no cards in their hand.
	Card #B13-048HN • Artist: Doji Shiki
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Niime .

Trivia

• Niime was initially listed as Nimue on the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends poll. This was corrected a few days in.
• Niime is mentioned in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade in Canas and Pent`s B support conversation. Canas mentions how Niime is his mother, which causes Pent to exclaim that "Every mage knows of Niime the Hermit", indicating her fame among magic users, and quickly rushes to tell his wife Louise that he has met the son of Niime.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Niime	Corruption of Nimue, one of the names given to the Lady of the Lake of Arthurian mythology.
Spanish	Niime	As above.
French	Niime	As above.
German	Niime	As above.
Italian	Niime	As above.

Gallery

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  Artwork of Niime from The Binding Blade.

References

This article is part of Project Characters, a project focused on writing articles for every character present in the Fire Emblem series.