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Olwen is the first (and maybe only) [[Mage Knight]] to join [[Leif]]'s army. She comes with rather mediocre base stats for a prepromoted unit, but also with a high FCM and decent growth rates in most areas aside from her rather bad HP and defense growth. Since her base HP and defense are also low, Olwen will most certainly remain weak against physical attacks for the entire game, making her ill-suited for taking on multiple enemies on enemy phase. On the other hand her base magic and speed are pretty decent, allowing her to one-round-KO most enemies with her personal tome, the [[Dire Thunder]], or a [[Wind]] tome quite reliably on player phase. | Olwen is the first (and maybe only) [[Mage Knight]] to join [[Leif]]'s army. She comes with rather mediocre base stats for a prepromoted unit, but also with a high FCM and decent growth rates in most areas aside from her rather bad HP and defense growth. Since her base HP and defense are also low, Olwen will most certainly remain weak against physical attacks for the entire game, making her ill-suited for taking on multiple enemies on enemy phase. On the other hand her base magic and speed are pretty decent, allowing her to one-round-KO most enemies with her personal tome, the [[Dire Thunder]], or a [[Wind (magic)|Wind]] tome quite reliably on player phase. | ||
The Dire Thunder is a quite powerful brave weapon that can only be used by Olwen and her brother [[Reinhardt]]. It doesn't only possess decent hit rates for a 1-2 range brave weapon, but also targets the enemies magic instead of defense, which is usually a pretty low stat among enemy units. However, it's also a quite heavy tome, reducing Olwen's speed by 12 points when equipped. This greatly reduces Olwen's avoid and makes her vulnerable to enemy follow-up attacks, often causing her to die to a stronger physical enemy during enemy phase. Enemies on terrain with good 1-2 range weapons like bosses are also risky to fight with the Dire Thunder, since they can dodge Olwen's attack and easily kill her on retaliation. Often it's possible to work around those issues by trading her weapon away after attacking or utilizing her support with Leif in combination with [[Nanna]]'s [[Charm]] skill, but sometimes it's just better to switch to a lighter, more accurate tome like Wind if Olwen can perform a follow-up attack with it, especially when a critical follow-up-attack is very likely. It might be tempting to combine Olwen's Dire Thunder with the [[Vantage|Vantage Scroll]] to compensate her frailness, since Dire Thunder will counter and two-hit-KO most enemies. Keep in mind though that this strategy comes with the risk of Olwen missing an attack at some point when countering multiple enemies, often resulting in her death. | The Dire Thunder is a quite powerful brave weapon that can only be used by Olwen and her brother [[Reinhardt]]. It doesn't only possess decent hit rates for a 1-2 range brave weapon, but also targets the enemies magic instead of defense, which is usually a pretty low stat among enemy units. However, it's also a quite heavy tome, reducing Olwen's speed by 12 points when equipped. This greatly reduces Olwen's avoid and makes her vulnerable to enemy follow-up attacks, often causing her to die to a stronger physical enemy during enemy phase. Enemies on terrain with good 1-2 range weapons like bosses are also risky to fight with the Dire Thunder, since they can dodge Olwen's attack and easily kill her on retaliation. Often it's possible to work around those issues by trading her weapon away after attacking or utilizing her support with Leif in combination with [[Nanna]]'s [[Charm]] skill, but sometimes it's just better to switch to a lighter, more accurate tome like Wind if Olwen can perform a follow-up attack with it, especially when a critical follow-up-attack is very likely. It might be tempting to combine Olwen's Dire Thunder with the [[Vantage|Vantage Scroll]] to compensate her frailness, since Dire Thunder will counter and two-hit-KO most enemies. Keep in mind though that this strategy comes with the risk of Olwen missing an attack at some point when countering multiple enemies, often resulting in her death. |
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“ | What have I been doing? Helping the Empire snatch innocent children away from their families? Or helping them send the children to Belhalla to be sacrificed? | ” | — Olwen |
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Olwen (Japanese: オルエン Olwen) is a knight of Friege, and the younger sister of the Friege general Reinhardt. She served as part of Friege's military force in its control of the Munster District, in command of a reconnaisance squad headquartered at Dandrum Fortress. She was betrayed and imprisoned by Kempf, her superior in the Friege army, out of his bitter hatred for her brother, where she learned first-hand the horrors of the child hunts perpetuated by Friege's occupation. With this experience, she allied with Leif's revolution army after being freed by her subordinate Fred.
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
Role
As Leif's army marched on Noel Canyon, a natural boundary between Thracia and Grannvale's holdings in the Munster District, Olwen and Fred were present on a scouting mission; despite General Largo's misgivings, they chose to remain behind for a while to assist, but eventually departed nonetheless.
She reported back to Kempf at Dandrum Fortress, who accused her of providing poor surveillance, refused to help Largo and goaded her into drawing her blade on him. On these charges, he had her imprisoned in the fort's dungeon. In the dungeon, she met numerous children captured in Child Hunts, and was moved by their terror. Upon being freed by Fred and Leif, she chose to ally with them, considering them to align better with her virtues than the Friege army.
During Chapter 22 Olwen can talk to her brother Reinhardt to acquire the Blessed Sword, the second of her two personal weapons. If they speak, Reinhardt initially attempts to convince Olwen to leave with him but she refuses.
Starting stats and growth rates
Enemy, Ch.10 Playable
- Note: If Olwen was recruited or is still alive by Chapter 16A, then Ilios cannot be recruited.
Analysis
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Olwen is the first (and maybe only) Mage Knight to join Leif's army. She comes with rather mediocre base stats for a prepromoted unit, but also with a high FCM and decent growth rates in most areas aside from her rather bad HP and defense growth. Since her base HP and defense are also low, Olwen will most certainly remain weak against physical attacks for the entire game, making her ill-suited for taking on multiple enemies on enemy phase. On the other hand her base magic and speed are pretty decent, allowing her to one-round-KO most enemies with her personal tome, the Dire Thunder, or a Wind tome quite reliably on player phase.
The Dire Thunder is a quite powerful brave weapon that can only be used by Olwen and her brother Reinhardt. It doesn't only possess decent hit rates for a 1-2 range brave weapon, but also targets the enemies magic instead of defense, which is usually a pretty low stat among enemy units. However, it's also a quite heavy tome, reducing Olwen's speed by 12 points when equipped. This greatly reduces Olwen's avoid and makes her vulnerable to enemy follow-up attacks, often causing her to die to a stronger physical enemy during enemy phase. Enemies on terrain with good 1-2 range weapons like bosses are also risky to fight with the Dire Thunder, since they can dodge Olwen's attack and easily kill her on retaliation. Often it's possible to work around those issues by trading her weapon away after attacking or utilizing her support with Leif in combination with Nanna's Charm skill, but sometimes it's just better to switch to a lighter, more accurate tome like Wind if Olwen can perform a follow-up attack with it, especially when a critical follow-up-attack is very likely. It might be tempting to combine Olwen's Dire Thunder with the Vantage Scroll to compensate her frailness, since Dire Thunder will counter and two-hit-KO most enemies. Keep in mind though that this strategy comes with the risk of Olwen missing an attack at some point when countering multiple enemies, often resulting in her death.
Another important tome in Olwen's arsenal is Bolting. Bolting is a tome with a massive 3-10 range that can be stolen from certain enemies and then be used to take down enemies over large distances, and in order to use it, Olwen only needs to increase her Thunder rank once (for example by killing weak generic enemies with Dire Thunder). It's especially useful to pick off enemy ballistae or other siege tome users before they can attack you, but it can also be used to defeat stationary enemies from a safe distance or help out distant allies who need some additional firepower. With her good magic and some help of the Magic Up staff, Olwen can often use Bolting to deal significant damage or even one-shot enemies from afar. Another point in Olwen's favour when using Bolting is her mobility: as mounted unit, Olwen can easily move into an enemy range, snipe a unit with Bolting, and use Canto to move out of enemy range again when fighting outdoors.
Being mounted does not only allow Olwen to canto after her actions, it also allows her to take and drop almost every non-mounted unit in the game during outdoor chapters. On the other hand, it also means Olwen will face a small stat and a major movement penalty when fighting indoors. While the stat penalty barely affects her ability to kill enemies with magic spells, the movement penalty makes it a lot harder for her to reach or escape from those enemies, making her frailness a lot more of an issue than it is in outdoor fights.
Last but not least, Olwen also obtains a second personal weapon very late in the game, the Blessed Sword, by talking to Reinhardt in chapter 22. Equipping this brave sword grants Olwen the Miracle skill as well as +10 magic, making her the most magic-resistant unit in the lategame. Since the sword only has 1 range however, she'll also lose her ability to counter enemy mages as soon as she equips it, making the magic boost a lot less relevant. Generally Olwen will still fare best when using magic tomes instead of swords.
Overall, Olwen is a decent, yet not amazingly strong unit. Her personal weapon as well as mounted movement and access to the Bolting tome give her an interesting niche as a hard-hitting player phase unit with additional rescue-drop-utility in outdoor battles, but most of the combat will usually still be done by your more durable units, since they can reliably take on multiple enemies at once.
Fire Emblem Awakening
Role
Olwen is playable as a SpotPass character, released in the Thracia 776 character set. She is also present as an enemy in the first and third installments of the Lost Bloodlines DLC series.
Starting stats and growth rates
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Reclassing options
Growth rates when reclassed
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Promotion stat gains
Archer Cavalier Cleric Dark Mage Wyvern Rider Knight Mage Mercenary Myrmidon Pegasus Knight Tactician Thief Troubadour
Class | HP | Str | Mag | Skill | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov | Weapon level |
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Sniper | +4 | +2 | +1 | +4 | +3 | +0 | +5 | +3 | +1 | -- |
Bow Knight | +8 | +3 | +0 | +2 | +4 | +0 | +1 | +2 | +3 | E, E |
Skill set
Like all female bonus units in Awakening, Olwen has access to all base class and advanced class skills available to standard female units.
Fire Emblem Heroes
Role
There are two different variations of Olwen available to Heroes, both of which are tied to her storyline appearance in Thracia 776. The normal variation of Olwen is one of the characters added to the game in the Sibling Bonds update, and became available for summoning by players on February 27, 2017. A second variation of Olwen, here dubbed the "World of Thracia" variation after the name of the summoning event she debuted in for lack of a theme common to most other variant characters, was made available on April 11, 2017 as part of the summoning event surrounding the launch of the Snow and Ash update.
Olwen: Blue Mage Knight
Starting stats
- Olwen: Blue Mage Knight is only available at 5★ rarity.
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Initial Stats Level 40 Stats
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Skill set
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File:Is feh skill offense.png | Thunder | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill offense.png | Elthunder | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill offense.png | Thoron | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill offense.png | Dire Thunder | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill support.png | Reposition | Innate | |
A | Warding Blow 1 | ★★★★★ | 50 SP |
A | Warding Blow 2 | ★★★★★ | 100 SP |
A | Warding Blow 3 | ★★★★★ | 200 SP |
C | Spur Res 1 | ★★★★★ | 50 SP |
C | Spur Res 2 | ★★★★★ | 100 SP |
C | Spur Res 3 | ★★★★★ | 200 SP |
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Olwen: Righteous Knight
Starting stats
- Olwen: Righteous Knight is only available at 5★ rarity.
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Skill set
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File:Is feh skill offense.png | Wind | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill offense.png | Elwind | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill offense.png | Rexcalibur | Innate | |
File:Is feh skill offense.png | Thunderhead | Innate | |
Rising Wind | Innate | ||
Blazing Wind | ★★★★★ | 300 SP | |
A | Darting Blow 1 | ★★★★★ | 50 SP |
A | Swift Sparrow 1 | ★★★★★ | 120 SP |
A | Swift Sparrow 2 | ★★★★★ | 240 SP |
B | Renewal 1 | ★★★★★ | 60 SP |
B | Renewal 2 | ★★★★★ | 120 SP |
B | Renewal 3 | ★★★★★ | 240 SP |
C | G Tome Exp. 1 | ★★★★★ | 50 SP |
C | G Tome Exp. 2 | ★★★★★ | 100 SP |
C | G Tome Exp. 3 | ★★★★★ | 200 SP |
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Personality and character
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Supports
Thracia 776
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Endings
Thracia 776
Olwen, Blue Mage Knight
After the war, Olwen returned to Friege and aided its reconstruction. Whenever she remembered her brother Reinhardt, she burned with anger at his pitifulness. Perhaps because of that, the man whom she married was surprisingly ordinary.
Quotes
Battle quotes
“ | You are tresspassing on Imperial territory! Leave at once! | ” | — Olwen, as an enemy in Chapter 10 of Thracia 776. |
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“ | My name is Olwen. | ” | — SpotPass parley quote in Awakening. |
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“ | What compels you to do this?! | ” | — SpotPass battle quote in Awakening. |
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“ | Might I accompany you? | ” | — SpotPass recruitment quote in Awakening. |
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“ | We are both fated to fight here, but I am fated to win! | ” | — Olwen, in Lost Bloodlines 1 in Awakening. |
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Death quotes
“ | Not...in a place like...this... Rein...hardt... | ” | — Olwen, in Thracia 776. |
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“ | So ends my role here... | ” | — Olwen, in Lost Bloodlines 1 in Awakening. |
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Fire Emblem Heroes
- Main article:
Olwen/Quotes (Heroes)
Other appearances
Fire Emblem Cipher
Olwen is currently featured on three cards in Fire Emblem Cipher.
- One of these cards' quotes and another card's epithet are still in raw, untranslated Japanese; these need translation.
Fire Emblem Cipher data for Olwen | |||||
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Blue Mage Knight, Olwen | |||||
"No matter the pain it might cause me, I have made my decision. Not even your words could sway me, my brother." | |||||
Attack: 60 | Support: 20 | Range: 1-2 | Deploy Cost: 4 | ||
Class: Mage Knight | Tier: Advanced | Class Change Cost: 3 | |||
Dire Thunder: [Activate] [] [] Choose up to two enemies besides the Main Character whose attack is less than this unit's attack, and destroy them. Prideful Determination: [Activate] [Once per turn] [Flip 1 of your "Olwen" bond cards face-down] This turn, this unit gains +20 attack. Also, draw a card. | |||||
Card #B10-031SR • Artist: Fuzichoco | |||||
Mage of Friege, Olwen | |||||
"ここは帝国の領土です。すぐに立ち去りなさい!" | |||||
Attack: 30 | Support: 20 | Range: 1-2 | Deploy Cost: 1 | ||
Class: Mage | Tier: Base | Class Change Cost: -- | |||
Book of Thrud: [Bond] [Activate] [Place this card into your Retreat Area] Draw a card ([Bond] This skill can only be used while this card is in the bond area). Mage's Emblem: [Support] Draw 1 card, then discard 1 card. | |||||
Card #B10-032HN • Artist: Fuzichoco | |||||
信念の雷, Olwen | |||||
"I... I never thought those tales of the child hunts could be true... I had such faith in Friege. Is this what my people have been doing all along?" | |||||
Attack: 50 | Support: 20 | Range: 1-2 | Deploy Cost: 3 | ||
Class: Mage Knight | Tier: Advanced | Class Change Cost: 2 | |||
A Path of Her Own Choosing: [Trigger] [Once per turn] When you play a card in your Bond Area, until the end of the turn, this unit gains +10 attack. Faith in Herself: [Activate] [Once per turn] [Send 1 bond card to the Retreat Area] Choose 1 card from your Retreat Area, and play it in the Bond Area. | |||||
Card #B15-090HN • Artist: Aoji | |||||
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Olwen . |
Trivia
- In Thracia 776 Olwen has the exact same growth rates as Ilios, Xavier, and Galzus.
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
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Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
Olwen |
As of Fire Emblem Awakening. Olwen is the heroine of the Arthurian story Culhwch and Olwen. |
Spanish |
Olwen |
As above. |
French |
Olwen |
As above. |
German |
Olwen |
As above. |
Italian |
Olwen |
As above. |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Olwen |
As above. |
Traditional Chinese |
歐爾玟 |
Olwen |
Gallery
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Artwork of Olwen from Thracia 776.
Artwork of Olwen from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.
Artwork of Olwen from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.
Heroes artwork
- FEH Olwen 01.png
Artwork of Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
- FEH Olwen 02.png
Artwork of Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
- FEH Olwen 02a.png
Artwork of Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
- FEH Olwen 03.png
Artwork of Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Resplendent Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Resplendent Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Resplendent Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Resplendent Olwen: Blue Mage Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Olwen: Righteous Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Olwen: Righteous Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Olwen: Righteous Knight from Heroes.
Artwork of Olwen: Righteous Knight from Heroes.
References
- ↑ Character ~登場人物の紹介~, ファイアーエムブレム トラキア776, Retrieved: 18 March 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Olwen Voice - Fire Emblem Heroes (Game) | Behind The Voice Actors, www.behindthevoiceactors.com, Retrieved: 25 May 2019
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