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Alva (Thracia 776)

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Alva

FE776 Alva.png
Artwork of Alva from Thracia 776.

Gender

Male

Race

Human

Nationality

Leonster

Starting class

Lance Knight

Appearance(s)

Alva (Japanese: アルバ Alva) is a playable lance knight in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.

Biography

Alva joins Selphina in the defense of Hannibal's mansion during the attack of Thracia's forces, with the help of Leif and his army. Along with Selphina and Dryas, Alva accompanies Leif's liberation army until at least the liberation of Munster. His involvement, if any, with the war after Leif's forces merged with Seliph's is unknown.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

Role

Alva is a playable character. In Chapter 9, Alva appears as a player unit next to the escape point.

Starting stats and growth rates

Portrait alva fe05.png
Ma snes03 lance knight playable.gif Lance Knight
Level 2
Action --
Recruitment: Chapter 9, automatically from turn 1

Stats Growth Rates

Max HP 24 Speed 9/7
Strength 6/5 Luck 4
Magic 0 Defense 5/4
Skill 5/4 Constitution 9
Movement 8/5 FCM 1
Inventory Skills
Iron Sword
Iron Lance
--
Weapon Levels
Swords D (+10) Lances E (+40) Axes -- Bows -- Staves --
Fire magic -- Thunder magic -- FE5RankWind.png -- Light magic -- Dark magic --

Promotion stat gains

Class HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Con Mov Weapon level
Duke Knight +0 +2 +1 +3 +2 +0 +2 +1 +1 Lances+50 WEXP

Supports

Portrait alva fe05.png
Alva
Lance Knight
Supports:
None.

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Bishop
Bonus:
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Bishop
Bonus:
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[[{{{supportg3}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
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Bishop
Bonus:
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Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg5}}}

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Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg5}}}

[[{{{supportg6}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg6}}}

[[{{{supportg7}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg7}}}

[[{{{supportg8}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg8}}}

[[{{{supportg9}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg9}}}

[[{{{supportg10}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg10}}}

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Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg11}}}

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Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg12}}}

[[{{{supportg13}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
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Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg14}}}

[[{{{supportg15}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg15}}}

[[{{{supportg16}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonusg16}}}
Supported by:
Portrait glade fe05.png
Glade
Duke Knight
Bonus:
10
Portrait selphina fe05.png
Selphina
Arch Knight
Bonus:
10

[[{{{supporto3}}}]]
Bishop
Bonus:
{{{bonuso3}}}
See Support § Super Famicom games for more details on supports.

Analysis

This character analysis section may not be accurate to every player's experience.

Alva joins in Chapter 9 and is extremely underleveled for his join time. With only level 2, putting him far away from promotion, and abysmal base stats for his join time, Alva requires significant investment to catch up with other units. He can only use lances outdoors and only swords indoors, preventing him from manipulating the weapon triangle. His weapon ranks are also very low; indoors, he is restricted to D rank swords, which is better than Cain's E rank, but his lance weapon rank is E, although he's close to getting a D rank. This prevents him from using stronger weapons to circumvent his low stats, making it even harder to train him.

Compared to Cain, he has better bases and growths in speed, skill and luck, but less strength, defense and HP. Since he has access to Steel Swords from the beginning, he does slightly better than him on indoors maps, but worse on outdoor maps. His growths are decent, but he relies on them, has no skills nor action stars and his FCM is only 1, so he can't crit reliably.

If Alva receives the significant investment he needs, he can grow into a competent combat unit. However, he requires more work than most other units in the game, while not offering anything unique to compensate. Without favoritism, he is extremely underwhelming and typically benched at the first opportunity.

Personality

Alva is nondescript, and given no explicit personality traits. His ending indicates that he has a "jovial and friendly nature".

Endings

Alva, Lance of Leonster
At his own request, Alva was reassigned by Leif and Altena to a post in the former region of South Thracia. There, he strived to quell the area's civil unrest, and restore order to the war-torn land. At first, the locals treated him with distrust, referring to him only as "the Northerner." Yet his jovial and friendly nature eventually won over the people's hearts, and they treated him as one of their own.

Quotes

Death quotes

May...the banner of Njörun...fly forever...
— Alva

Escape quotes

OK, onto the next battle! Ever onward and upward!
— Alva

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round Placement Character Votes
CYL 1
(2017)
717 Portrait alva fe05 cyl.png
Alva
Thracia 776
57
CYL 2
(2018)
746
(+29)
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Alva
Thracia 776
40
(−17)
CYL 3
(2019)
655
(+7)
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Alva
Thracia 776
38
(−2)
CYL 4
(2020)
743
(+13)
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Alva
Thracia 776
25
(−13)
CYL 5
(2021)
749
(+6)
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Alva
Thracia 776
27
(+2)
CYL 6
(2022)
789
(+38)
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Alva
Thracia 776
18
(−9)
CYL 7
(2023)
800
(+11)
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Alva
Thracia 776
12
(−6)
CYL 8
(2024)
861
(+61)
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Alva
Thracia 776
10
(−2)
Total results This character has 8 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls. 227

Trivia

  • According to Thracia 776's website, Alva was designed to look 20 years old.[1]
  • Beside his death and escape quotes, Alva doesn't have any dialogue.

Etymology and other languages

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

Alva

Used in official websites.

English
(unofficial)

Alba

Used in the Project Exile fan translation

Japanese

アルバ

Officially romanized as Alva. Possibly from Alba, the Scottish Gaelic and Irish word for Scotland. May also be a corruption of Abel, to match his partner Cain.

Spanish

Alva

--

French

Alva

--

German

Alva

--

Italian

Alva

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Portuguese

Alva

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Traditional Chinese

阿魯巴

Alva

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Portrait alva fe05.png Ma snes03 lance knight playable.gif Lance Knight Ma snes03 dismounted basic knight playable.gif Ma snes03 duke knight playable.gif Duke Knight Ma snes03 dismounted promoted knight playable.gif
Bs fe05 alva lance knight lance.png
Lance
(Iron Lance)
Bs fe05 alva dismt lance knight sword.png
Sword*
(Iron Sword)
Bs fe05 alva duke knight lance.png
Lance
(Iron Lance)
Bs fe05 alva dismt duke knight sword.png
Sword*
(Iron Sword)

References

  1. Character ~登場人物の紹介~, ファイアーエムブレム トラキア776, Retrieved: 11 April, 2017
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