The Last Decisive Battle

The Last Decisive Battle

Location Archanea New units Roshea, Vyland*, Sedgar*, and Wolf* Boss(es) Nehring Previous chapter(s) Battle of the Pass Next chapter(s) Dark Emperor

The Last Decisive Battle (Japanese: 最後の決戦 The last decisive battle) is the nineteenth chapter of Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem Book II and Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem.

Plot

Main articles: The Last Decisive Battle/Script and The Last Decisive Battle/Conversations

Marth and his army arrive near the Archanean palace. Kris remarks that the entire Archanean army has assembled for this battle, but Jagen says that the people see the Altean Army as liberators.

During the fight, Marth encounters Roshea in a village, who says he wishes to join the Altean Army, because he does not want to fight anymore. He manages to convince Vyland to join as well, and Vyland talks to Sedgar, who convinces Wolf to stop fighting Altea, because they finally realize that Hardin is not the man who he once was.

Once the castle has been seized, Marth encounters a wounded Boah. Boah explains that when Archanea needed a king, it was decided that Hardin was to marry Nyna, since Marth was already engaged to Caeda. However, Nyna was still in love with Camus, who was believed to be dead; learning this brought Hardin great sorrow, and he locked himself away. One day, Gharnef appeared, and since Hardin was already despairing, the Darksphere immediately got control of him, and he started to become the villain he now is. Boah regrets all of this, and says that Nyna has been kidnapped by Gharnef, as he needs clerics of royal blood to resurrect Medeus. In his last moments, Boah asks Marth to save Nyna, and gives him his tome and staff.

Chapter data

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Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Seize	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Marth dies	15+1	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	31+24	{{{third}}}

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Seize	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Marth dies	12+4	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	26+11-3	{{{third}}}

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Character data

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Characters
New units
Roshea Paladin HP 36 Inventory Silver Lance Level 8 Visit the village
Available characters

Characters
New units
Roshea Paladin HP 36 Inventory Silver Lance Level 8 Visit the village Vyland Paladin HP 37 Inventory Silver Lance Level 8 Enemy, talk with Roshea Sedgar Horseman HP 35 Inventory Silver Bow Level 10 Enemy, talk with Vyland Wolf Horseman HP 36 Inventory Silver Bow Dracoshield Level 12 Enemy, talk with Sedgar
Available characters
Default female player's unit ​

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Item data

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Items

Name Obtainment Method 1,000 G Dropped by a Thief Dracoshield Dropped by a Paladin Thoron End of chapter Physic End of chapter

Items

Name Obtainment Method Silver Axe Dropped by a Warrior Silver Sword Dropped by a Thief Vulnerary Dropped by a Horseman Mend Dropped by a Bishop Silver Bow Dropped by Sedgar Dracoshield Dropped by Wolf Spirit Dust Dropped by Nehring Silver Lance Dropped by Vyland

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Shop data

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Armories and vendors

Swords Lances Axes Bows Tomes Staves Items Secret

	Name	Cost
	Silver Sword	2000
	Armorslayer	1000
	Wyrmslayer	1600

	Name	Cost
	Ridersbane	700
	Silver Lance	1600

None

	Name	Cost
	Silver Bow	2200

	Name	Cost
	Thunder	630
	Blizzard	690
	Elfire	900

	Name	Cost
	Mend	1600

	Name	Cost
	Vulnerary	300
	Door Key	500

None

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Armories and vendors

Swords Lances Axes Bows Tomes Staves Items Secret

	Name	Cost
	Iron Sword	400
	Steel Sword	875
	Silver Sword	2000
	Rapier	1120

	Name	Cost
	Iron Lance	480
	Steel Lance	980
	Silver Lance	2200
	Wing Spear	1120

	Name	Cost
	Iron Axe	320
	Steel Axe	700
	Silver Axe	1600

	Name	Cost
	Iron Bow	440
	Steel Bow	770
	Silver Bow	2100

	Name	Cost
	Thunder	420
	Blizzard	690
	Elfire	1260

	Name	Cost
	Heal	800
	Mend	1280

	Name	Cost
	Door Key	300
	Vulnerary	360
	Pure Water	600

None

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Enemy data

Enemy data

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Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Thief Thief 1 1 16 2 1 7 -- 1 0 7 Iron Sword • The eastern one drops 1,000 G upon defeat. • Ignores combat; moves to raid the village. Archanea Paladin 10 6 37 13 9 11 -- 14 6 10 Silver Lance • Moves to attack units in range. • Begins moving unprovoked if a unit enters the northeast area. Archanea Paladin 10 3 37 13 9 11 -- 14 6 10 Killer Lance • Moves to attack units in range. • Begins moving unprovoked if a unit enters the northeast area. Archanea Paladin 16 1 42 15 10 12 -- 16 6 10 Silver Lance • Dracoshield Begins moving unprovoked if a unit enters the northeast area; does not act beforehand. File:Ma snes01 knight enemy.gif Archanea Knight 20 3 35 12 8 4 -- 15 0 5 Silver Lance Moves to attack units in range. Archanea Mage 10 3 20 3 4 4 -- 4 7 6 Bolganone • Moves to attack units in range. • Begins moving unprovoked if a unit enters the northeast area. Archanea Bishop 10 3 30 7 8 6 -- 6 14 6 Swarm Does not move. Archanea Bishop 10 2 30 7 8 6 -- 6 14 6 Fortify -- Archanea Ballistician 10 3 25 3 1 1 -- 3 0 0 Hoistflamme -- Archanea Ballistician 10 4 25 3 1 1 -- 3 0 0 Pachyderm -- Nehring General 14 1 49 15 10 8 -- 20 3 5 Silver Lance Does not move; stands on a gate, the chapter's seize point.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Archanea Paladin 10 6 37 13 9 11 -- 14 6 10 Silver Lance -- Archanea Paladin 10 6 37 13 9 11 -- 14 6 10 Javelin -- Archanea Paladin 10 6 37 13 9 11 -- 14 6 10 Ridersbane -- Archanea Mage 10 6 20 3 4 4 -- 4 7 6 Bolganone --

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Archanea Warrior 10 1 Silver Axe -- Archanea Warrior 10 1 Killer Axe -- Archanea Warrior 10 1 Tomahawk -- Archanea Warrior 10 1 Silver Axe • Silver Bow -- Ruffian Thief 18 1 Silver Sword -- Ruffian Thief 18 1 Silver Sword -- Archanea Paladin 10 2 Ridersbane -- Archanea Paladin 10 2 Silver Lance -- Archanea Horseman 10 2 Killer Bow -- Archanea Horseman 10 1 Silver Bow • Vulnerary -- Archanea Ballistician 20 5 Pachyderm -- Archanea General 10 3 Silver Lance -- Archanea Bishop 8 1 Fortify -- Archanea Bishop 8 1 Fortify • Mend -- Archanea Horseman 10 2 Silver Bow -- Sedgar Horseman 10 1 Silver Bow -- Wolf Horseman 12 1 Silver Bow • Dracoshield -- Nehring General 15 1 Spear • Spirit Dust Immobile; stands on a gate, the chapter's seize point.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # Inventory and Skills Notes Archanea Paladin 10 2 Silver Lance -- Archanea Paladin 10 1 Killer Lance -- Archanea Paladin 10 2 Spear Lunatic only Vyland Paladin 8 1 Silver Lance -- Archanea Sage 8 2 Elfire Hard and above only Archanea Paladin 10 2 Silver Sword Hard and above only Archanea Paladin 10 2 Silver Lance Hard and above only Archanea Horseman 10 2 Silver Bow • Silver Sword Hard and above only Archanea Dracoknight 10 3 Silver Lance Maniac and above only Archanea Dracoknight 10 3 Silver Axe Maniac and above only Archanea Dracoknight 10 2 Poleax Lunatic only Archanea Dracoknight 10 2 Hammer Lunatic only Archanea Dracoknight 10 1 Silver Axe Lunatic only Archanea Sage 8 1 Elfire -- Archanea Paladin 10 2 Silver Lance -- Archanea Paladin 10 2 Silver Sword -- Archanea Horseman 10 1 Silver Bow • Silver Sword -- Archanea Sage 8 2 Elfire Hard and above only Archanea Horseman 10 2 Silver Bow • Silver Sword Hard and above only

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Reinforcements

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• Starting upon nearing the castle, continuing until 3 of each have appeared.
  • 6 Paladins and 2 Mages from the forts surrounding the castle.

New Mystery of the Emblem

• After visiting the village, after the village is destroyed, or after attacking a thief
  • 3 Paladins (Maniac and below) or 5 Paladins (Lunatic) and Vyland from the southwest
• 2 turns after Vyland appears (Hard and above only)
  • 4 Paladins, 2 Sages and 2 Horsemen from the forts around the castle (Hard and above), 2 Dracoknights (Maniac only) or 4 Dracoknights (Lunatic only) each from the northeast, southeast and southwest.
• After getting near the castle for 2 turns, with an empty turn in between
  • 1 Sage, 1 Horseman (Normal only) or 2 Sages, 2 Horsemen (Hard and above) and 4 Paladins from the forts around the castle

Boss data

Main article: Nehring

Boss data

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General Level 14 Movement 5 Experience 75

Stats Max HP 49 Luck -- Strength 15 W. Level -- Skill 10 Defense 20 Speed 8 Resistance 3

Weapons Items Silver Lance -- Weapons Sword ✗ Lance ✓ Axe ✗ Bow ✗ Tome ✗ Staff ✗

Normal Hard Maniac Lunatic

General Level 15 Movement --

Stats Max HP 40 Speed 12 Strength 17 Luck 0 Magic 1 Defense 20 Skill 14 Resistance 3

Inventory Spear Spirit Dust Weapon Levels -- B -- E -- --

General Level 15 Movement --

Stats Max HP 48 Speed 17 Strength 21 Luck 0 Magic 1 Defense 20 Skill 18 Resistance 3

Inventory Spear Spirit Dust Weapon Levels -- B -- C -- --

General Level 15 Movement --

Stats Max HP 56 Speed 21 Strength 25 Luck 0 Magic 1 Defense 20 Skill 23 Resistance 3

Inventory Spear Spirit Dust Weapon Levels -- B -- B -- --

General Level 15 Movement --

Stats Max HP 60 Speed 21 Strength 27 Luck 0 Magic 1 Defense 20 Skill 25 Resistance 3

Inventory Spear* Spirit Dust Weapon Levels -- A -- A -- --

Note: Boss stats in Lunatic Mode are rounded to the nearest whole number.

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Strategy

This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.

The Wolfguard appear again, and can be recruited with a talk chain. However, their usefulness has been decreased significantly from Shadow Dragon, so you can skip or kill them if you don't want them. Roshea will be recruited when Marth visits the village in the south. If he was killed in the previous chapter, the village is instead closed. If you want him, you will have to hurry towards the village, or use fliers or the Warp staff to eliminate the thieves who run towards it. Remember that Vyland appears as soon as you attack a thief, or you recruit Roshea, who will then start moving towards you. If Sedgar becomes a problem, you can use someone without ranged weapons to bait him, or box him in so he can't attack with his bow, until Vyland talks to him. Lastly, you can bait Wolf from one of the forts, then have Sedgar move in to recruit him.

This chapter has a lot of reinforcements, with three triggers. Two turns after Vyland appears, a few forces appear from the castle and start moving towards you. On Maniac and Lunatic, Dracoknights will spawn from three corners as well. Lastly, when you move close to the castle (one tile to the west of the eastern two forts is a way to trigger them), a load of cavalry and Sages pop up from most forts, for two turns, with one empty turn in between. To avoid your units near the castle getting overwhelmed, you can have a unit move inside the trigger range, and then Rescue them out again, which will still spawn the reinforcement waves.

Of course, if you don't want to deal with the overwhelming number of enemies, you can also Warp skip this chapter. You can use a strong flier with armor effective weaponry to kill Nehring in one turn, then Warp Marth to the seize point to end the chapter.

Trivia

• This chapter uses a modified version of the map from Knorda Market.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English (unofficial)	• Decisive Battle • The Final Battle	• Used in the Mystery of the Emblem fan translation • Used in the New Mystery of the Emblem fan translation

Gallery

• 

  CG image displayed during the intro in Mystery of the Emblem

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  CG image displayed during the intro in New Mystery of the Emblem

References

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