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The Impregnable Fortress (Silver Snow)

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The Impregnable Fortress

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Mural used to introduce The Impregnable Fortress.

Location

Garreg Mach Monastery

Boss(es)

Death Knight

Will death's scythe claim you... Or will I fall to that sword of yours...
— Death Knight

The Impregnable Fortress (Japanese: 鉄壁の要塞 Impregnable Fortress) is the seventeenth chapter of Fire Emblem: Three Houses on the Silver Snow route.

Plot

Main article: The Impregnable Fortress (Silver Snow)/Script

A Church soldier reports that Imperial, Kingdom, and Alliance forces had a massive battle at Gronder Field; Edelgard was badly injured and forced to retreat to Enbarr, Dimitri is dead, and Claude is missing. Despite his shock at these events, Seteth elects to take advantage of the damage done to the Imperial army to launch the Resistance's own invasion of Adrestia, using Fort Merceus as a foothold. Flayn also notes that Faerghus and Leicester are likely in disarray due to the loss of their leaders, and Seteth notes that Byleth will have to unite them under one union. Afterwards, Byleth wanders outside the monastery and seemingly encounters Dimitri, who laments his own actions up to this point. Seteth appears, berates Byleth for falling asleep in such a place, and denies seeing Dimitri.

At the end of the month, the Resistance infiltrates Fort Merceus using stolen Imperial uniforms. They conquer the fortress and defeat the fortress' commander, the Death Knight, who beckons them to pursue him as he escapes. He warns the Resistance to flee before they are all killed and escapes just as modern-day ballistic missiles obliterate Fort Merceus. The shocked and demoralized Resistance forces retreat to Myrddin, where Byleth and Seteth decide to infiltrate Enbarr and gamble everything on an all-or-nothing attack on the palace.

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Character data

Characters
New units

None

Available characters
Byleth f 02 ​Ferdinand 02 ​Linhardt 02 ​Caspar 02 ​Bernadetta 02 ​Dorothea 02 ​Petra 02 ​Felix 02 ​Ashe 02 ​Sylvain 02 ​Mercedes 02 ​Annette 02 ​Ingrid 02 ​Lorenz 02 ​Raphael 02 ​Ignatz 02 ​Lysithea 02 ​Marianne 02 ​Leonie 02 ​Anna ​Shamir ​Flayn ​Hanneman ​Manuela ​Alois ​Seteth ​Catherine ​Cyril 02 ​Hilda 02 ​Yuri 02 ​Balthus 02 ​Constance 03 ​Hapi 02 ​

Item data

Items
Name Obtainment Method
Is ns01 staff.png Magic Staff Tournament prize
Is ns01 bullion.png 3,000G Quest reward: Supply Run
Is ns01 gift.png Legends of Chivalry Quest reward: Worried Warrior
Is ns01 bait.png Herring Bait (×2) Quest reward: Worried Warrior
Is ns01 bait.png Earthworm (×5) Quest reward: Worried Warrior
Is ns01 shield.png Aurora Shield Northeastern chest in Taking Fort Merceus
Is ns01 stat booster.png Speedwing Southeastern chest in Taking Fort Merceus
Is ns01 ring.png Evasion Ring Dropped by enemy Swordmaster in Taking Fort Merceus
Is ns01 axe.png Brave Axe Dropped by enemy Warrior in Taking Fort Merceus
Is ns01 seal.png Dark Seal Dropped by the Death Knight in Taking Fort Merceus

Strategy

Main article: The Impregnable Fortress (Silver Snow)/Taking Fort Merceus

This is the last month the paralogue Foreign Land and Sky can be done, so get working on it if it's available and hasn't been done.

Trivia

  • The story skips over April in the in-game calendar, meaning Ferdinand's birthday is not observed by the player in Silver Snow Part II.
  • The story event "The Death Knight" has a trigger in the game's data which adds Caspar and Linhardt right next to the Death Knight if they're unrecruited, similar to how the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind counterpart of this event works. As this scenario is impossible without hacking however, this variation of the event goes unused.[1]
  • In the cutscene at the end of this chapter, Byleth's troops wear armor with a unique black and pink palette only seen in this cutsecne that is not explicitly affiliated with any of the factions. This is possibly due to the fact that this scene is present in both the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes.
    • At the end of the same cutscene, there is an animation error where Byleth's eyes are their original blue color instead of green.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language Name Definition, etymology, and notes
English

The Impregnable Fortress

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Spanish

La fortaleza inexpugnable

The impregnable fortress

French

La forteresse inexpugnable

The impregnable fortress

German

Die uneinnehmbare Festung

The impregnable Fortress

Italian

La fortezza inespugnabile

The impregnable fortress

Korean

철벽의 요새

Iron-walled fortress

Simplified Chinese

铜墙铁壁般的要塞

Impenetrable fortress; lit. "fortress with walls like iron"

Traditional Chinese

銅牆鐵壁般的要塞

Impenetrable fortress; lit. "fortress with walls like iron"

Gallery


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References

  1. Silver Snow. Event 28 - The Death Knight, fedatamine.com, Retrieved: July 4, 2020
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