Altina

Not to be confused with Altena, a playable character in Genealogy of the Holy War.

Altina Artwork of Altina from Heroes. Under the divine protection of Ashera, the goddess of order, she battled Yune as one of the Three Heroes.

Gender Female Race Beorc Family Lehran (first husband) Misaha (descendant) Micaiah (descendant) Sanaki (descendant) Nationality Begnion Title(s) Queen of Begnion Voiced by Krizia Bajos (English, Heroes) Miho Miyagawa (Japanese, Heroes) Appearance(s) Radiant Dawn Heroes

“	We give you our solemn oath: never again will either the laguz or beorc seek the extermination of the other.	”	— Altina

Altina (pronounced /⁠ælˈtinə⁠/^[key]; Japanese: オルティナ Oltina) was one of the Three Heroes of ancient Tellius, the founder of Begnion, and the original wielder of the swords Ragnell and Alondite.

Biography

Ashera's chosen

Altina was one of the strongest warriors in the service of the goddess Ashera, and in the aftermath of the Great Flood, she was chosen along with Soan and Dheginsea to defeat Yune after she was stripped from Ashera's being. To help her fight Yune, Ashera blessed Altina's twin swords and gave them the ability to pierce divine protection and harm Yune. However, after subduing Yune, she and Lehran regretted his idea to purge Yune to prevent future calamity, and the two eventually convinced Ashera to enter a covenant where, if humanity upheld a promise to not war for a millennium while the two goddesses slept, then Yune and Ashera would reunite. Altina pledged to achieve this on behalf of all beorc.

The first Branded

The era of the sleeping goddesses began peacefully, with the foundation of the Kingdom of Begnion as a place where both laguz and beorc could co-exist in the year -131. Altina became the kingdom's first queen and took Lehran as both her husband and an advisor. Four years into the kingdom's life, Altina became pregnant, the first known time that a laguz-beorc couple had ever conceived a child together. Her friends Dheginsea and Soan believed that the child would become a symbol of peace between the two races, but after the child was born, Lehran lost all of his laguz abilities. This news horrified both Lehran, who was shattered by the loss of his very identity, and Dheginsea, who believed that this development would harm relations between the two races.

Lehran came to the difficult decision that he must disappear from history, under the pretense of having died in an accident, and that the child's birth must be covered up as a false rumor. Lehran then departed Begnion to enter seclusion with Dheginsea in Goldoa. Eventually, Altina re-married and raised her child with Lehran as though it were a beorc born of her new husband. In order to prevent Lehran's fate being met by any other laguz, it became widely believed that laguz-beorc relationships were a sin against the goddess, and both laguz and beorc developed intense, systemic bigotry against the results of such a union, which became known as the Branded. However, Dheginsea soon realised that he, Altina, and Lehran had made the wrong decision in covering up Lehran's fate, and for the rest of his life he carried the guilt of their decision causing the suffering of the Branded.

Legacy

While Altina's child appeared for all purposes to be a normal beorc child, the powers granted by Lehran's bloodline eventually surfaced thirty-six years later in Altina's granddaughter, Yoram. Having inherited Lehran's communion with the goddess, Yoram successfully predicted the coming of a great famine in Begnion, and for this prediction she was hailed for her ability to hear the voice of the goddess and became the first of Begnion's apostles. This later led to the reorganization of Begnion into an empire under Altina's descendant, Apostle Meshua. Altina's own name also became the surname of her descendants (for example, "Sanaki Kirsch Altina"), although very few in Begnion were ever aware of the full names of their apostles or of Altina's presence in their names.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Role

Altina does not appear at all, but throughout most of the game, one of Ike and Mist's goals is to find "a girl named Altina" and pass the lyrics of the galdr of release on to her. In the game's epilogue, Sephiran reveals Altina's true identity as the ancient founder of Begnion, and that said girl is actually supposed to be Sanaki.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Role

Altina has a voice-acted speaking role in a flashback of the opening of the fourth part of the Part IV, Endgame, when Micaiah/Yune receives a vision of the bargain she and Lehran made with Ashera to spare Yune. Additionally, an illustration of Altina, Soan and Dheginsea fighting is used as the background for the default title screen of Radiant Dawn, although after clearing the game it alternates with an image of Ashunera and the Zunanma.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Role

There are two different variations of Altina available to Heroes, both of which are tied to her storyline appearance in Radiant Dawn. The normal variation of Altina is the game's seventh Mythic Hero, and as such was added to the game in a dedicated Mythic Hero update, and was made available for summoning as part of a summoning event released on November 28, 2019. A winter variation of Altina was made available on December 17, 2020 as part of the summoning event surrounding the launch of the A Festival Miracle update; this variation is a Harmonized Hero (contrary to its epithet, which implies a Duo Hero), carrying a dual-credit with Path of Radiance as a result of being paired up with that game's Sanaki.

The winter variation of Altina, along with a similar variation of Bernadetta, are notably the first winter variations of characters that are not armored units.

Altina: Dawn's Trueblade

Starting stats

Altina: Dawn's Trueblade is only available at 5★ rarity.

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type Mythic Hero

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 17/18/19 Attack 7/8/9 Speed 2/3/4 Defense 10/11/12 Resistance 9/10/11 Maximum HP 39/42/45 Attack 35/38/42 Speed 17/20/23 Defense 27/30/34 Resistance 33/36/39 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Ragnell·Alondite -- Chilling Wind

Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Rarity	SP cost
	Iron Sword	Innate
	Steel Sword	Innate
	Silver Sword	Innate
	Ragnell·Alondite	Innate
	Chilling Wind	Innate
	Iceberg	★★★★★	200 SP
	Twin Blades	★★★★★	500 SP
A	Ashera's Chosen	★★★★★	300 SP
A	Ashera's Chosen+	★★★★★	300 SP
B	Vantage 1	★★★★★	50 SP
B	Vantage 2	★★★★★	100 SP
B	Vantage 3	★★★★★	200 SP
C	Atk/Def Rein 1	★★★★★	60 SP
C	Atk/Def Rein 2	★★★★★	120 SP
C	Atk/Def Rein 3	★★★★★	240 SP
C	Atk/Def Hold	★★★★★	300 SP
C	Atk/Def Oath 1	★★★★★	60 SP
C	Atk/Def Oath 2	★★★★★	120 SP
C	Atk/Def Oath 3	★★★★★	240 SP

Altina: Cross-Time Duo

Starting stats

Altina: Cross-Time Duo is only available at 5★ rarity.

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 17/18/19 Attack 9/10/11 Speed 2/3/4 Defense 10/11/12 Resistance 10/11/12 Maximum HP 39/42/45 Attack 37/40/44 Speed 15/18/21 Defense 34/37/40 Resistance 36/39/42 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Ragnell·Alondite -- Chilling Wind

Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Rarity	SP cost
	Iron Sword	Innate
	Steel Sword	Innate
	Silver Sword	Innate
	Ragnell·Alondite	Innate
	Chilling Wind	Innate
	Iceberg	★★★★★	200 SP
	Twin Blades	★★★★★	500 SP
A	Atk/Res Bond 1	★★★★★	60 SP
A	Atk/Res Bond 2	★★★★★	120 SP
A	Atk/Res Bond 3	★★★★★	240 SP
A	Atk/Res Unity	★★★★★	300 SP
B	Null C-Disrupt 1	★★★★★	60 SP
B	Null C-Disrupt 2	★★★★★	120 SP
B	Null C-Disrupt 3	★★★★★	240 SP
C	Atk/Res Oath 1	★★★★★	60 SP
C	Atk/Res Oath 2	★★★★★	120 SP
C	Atk/Res Oath 3	★★★★★	240 SP

Personality and character

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Quotes

Main article: Altina/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Altina is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Altina
	The Beorc's Strongest Swordfighter, Altina
		"Back in the early days of the empire, Empress Altina, the first apostle of Begnion, used two swords to fight the dark god.'"
		Attack: 70	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 6
		Class: Trueblade		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 4
		A Legend's Beginning: [Trigger] When you deploy this unit, until the end of the turn, you are not required to pay the cost of this unit's "Cosmos-Shaking Twin Divine Swords". Cosmos-Shaking Twin Divine Swords: [Activate] [Once per turn] [] Until the end of your opponent's next turn, this unit gains +30 attack and range 1-2, and the number of orbs that this unit's attack will destroy is increased to 2.
	Card #B16-089HN • Artist: Daisuke Izuka
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Altina .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Heroes (Altina: Dawn's Trueblade)	Under the divine protection of Ashera, the goddess of order, she battled Yune as one of the Three Heroes. Appears in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.	【正】の女神アスタルテの加護を受け、 【負】の女神ユンヌと戦った【三雄】のひとり。 （登場：『ファイアーエムブレム 暁の女神』）
Heroes (Altina: Cross-Time Duo)	Altina, the founder of Begnion, and her descendant Sanaki, binding past and future. They appear in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn / Path of Radiance.	ベグニオン帝国の祖オルティナと、その子孫サナキ。 過去と未来がここに繋がる… （『ファイアーエムブレム 暁の女神・蒼炎の軌跡』）

Trivia

• Despite being added as a playable character in Heroes in 2019, Altina could not be voted for in the 2020 running of Choose Your Legends; she was first made an option in the 2021 poll. Altina is the only character playable in Heroes to have not been a voting option in Choose Your Legends.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Altina	Transliteration of her Japanese name.
Japanese	オルティナ	Romanized as Oltina in internal file names.
Spanish	Altina	As above.
French	Altina	As above.
German	Altina	As above.
Italian	Altina	As above.
Portuguese (Brazil)	Altina	As above.
Traditional Chinese	歐帝那	Oltina

Gallery

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  Artwork of Altina from Radiant Dawn.

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  Artwork of Altina from Fire Emblem Cipher.

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  Artwork of Altina and Sephiran drawn by Daisuke Izuka in celebration of Fire Emblem Cipher's set 16 release.

Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Altina: Dawn's Trueblade from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Dawn's Trueblade from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Dawn's Trueblade from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Dawn's Trueblade from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Cross-Time Duo from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Cross-Time Duo from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Cross-Time Duo from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Altina: Cross-Time Duo from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Edelgard: Sun Empresses, a Harmonic Hero of which Altina is a part, from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Edelgard: Sun Empresses from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Edelgard: Sun Empresses from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Edelgard: Sun Empresses from Heroes.

References

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