Astra

This article is about the skill. For the weapon, see Astra (weapon).

Astra Icon of the Astra skill in Radiant Dawn. Strike five times at half damage. Trigger % = (Skill stat ÷ 2)

Type(s) Personal (Genealogy of the Holy War, Thracia 776) Class (Mastery) (Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn, Awakening, Fates, Three Houses) Special Sword (Genealogy of the Holy War) Capacity 20 (in Path of Radiance) 30 (in Radiant Dawn) First game Genealogy of the Holy War

Astra (Japanese: 流星 Shooting Star) is an offensive skill which debuted in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. When activated, the user deals five consecutive strikes. In most appearances each of the five strikes inflicts the normal amount of damage on the enemy, while others have each strike inflict half the usual damage.

Throughout its existence, Astra has been almost completely associated with sword-wielding units, particularly those of the Myrmidon class family. In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, Astra is a personal skill, associated exclusively with members and relatives of the royal family of Isaach. In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, Astra is the mastery skill of the Swordmaster and Trueblade classes. In Awakening and Fates, Astra is again learned only by Swordmasters, but can be possessed by units of any class by using a reclassing seal after learning it.

In Three Houses, Astra is a combat art that, when selected, in exchange for a heavy durability cost, inflicts five blows with 30% the normal damage, and the user cannot double. This is similar in function to the Astral Blade combat art from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Data

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Genealogy of the Holy War		Strikes five times consecutively. It is possible for any and all of the strikes to be a critical hit or to miss.	(Skill)%	--	For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776.
Thracia 776		Strikes five times consecutively. It is possible for any and all of the strikes to be a critical hit or to miss.	(Skill)%	--	For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776.
Path of Radiance		Strikes five times consecutively. Each strike deals half the damage a normal strike would, and it is possible for any and all of the strikes to be a critical hit.	(Skill/2)%	20	For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.
Radiant Dawn		Strikes five times consecutively. None of the strikes can be critical hits, but it is possible for any of them to miss.	(Skill/2)%	30	For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.
Awakening		Strikes five times consecutively. Each strike deals half the damage a normal strike would, and it is possible for any and all of the strikes to be a critical hit or to miss. Consumes only 1 point of durability.	(Skill/2)%	--	Consumes only 1 point of durability. For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Awakening.
Fates		Strikes five times consecutively. Each strike deals half the damage a normal strike would, and it is possible for any and all of the strikes to be a critical hit or to miss.	(Skill/2)%	--	For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Fates. Base cost: 2000 G

Game	Icon	Might	Hit	Crit	Avo / Crit Avo*	Range	Cost	Other effects and notes
Three Houses		+0	-10	+0	+0	1	9 durability	Strikes five times consecutively. Each strike deals 30% of the damage a normal strike would, and it is possible for any and all of the strikes to be a critical hit or to miss. Cannot make follow-up attacks. Swordmasters only.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Cooldown	SP cost	Unusable by	Inheritable	Notes
Heroes		Grants +150% to damage dealt.	4	200 SP		✓	--

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Warriors		Increases the speed at which the user's regular and combo attacks are dealt.	--	--	--

Availability

Thracia 776

Units (As a personal skill)	Galzus
Event	Chapter 15, Mareeta talks to Shannam to learn it

Path of Radiance

Units (As a class skill)	Stefan
Classes (Occult)	Swordmaster

Radiant Dawn

Units (As a class skill)	Stefan
Classes	Trueblade

Fates

Classes

Swordmaster (Learned from Level 5 and up)

Three Houses

Class mastery

Swordmaster (150 class Exp required)

Warriors

Learned	Ryoma (requires Ryoma's Headpiece ×3)
Borrowed	Requires ×1 each of Ryoma's Essence and Ryoma's Battle Coat

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Both the Astra skill and several unique derivatives of it are present on five cards in Fire Emblem Cipher, all of which feature members of the Isaach royal family:

• Astra itself is present on B06-024SR Astral Blade Princess, Ayra. It is a trigger skill which activates automatically if Ayra's opponent evades an attack. The player is given an opportunity to untap Ayra by paying the cost of flipping one bond card depicting Ayra face-down, if they have one.
• Larcei and Scáthach (B08-059R Astral Heavens-Dancer, and B08-057HN Astral Earth-Runner) possess Soul of Astra, which allows the player to, once per turn, spend one bond card to reveal five cards that are on the top of their deck. The skill's user then receives a 20 point boost to their attack for every revealed card that depicts them.
• Larcei (B08-059R Astral Heavens-Dancer) also possesses Polar Astra. If Larcei's attack currently totals 100 or greater as a result of boosts from other units, the player may spend two bond cards to untap her.
• Shannan (B08-076SR Astral Sword Sovereign) possesses Critical Astra, a trigger skill which activates automatically if Shannan executes a critical hit but his opponent evades it. If this happens, the player untaps Shannan with no cost in bonds.

Super Smash Bros. series

Roy using Double Edge Dance against Cloud Strife.

While Astra has not appeared in the Super Smash Bros series, Dancing Blade and Double Edge Dance were likely inspired by Astra’s appearance in Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776.

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Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Genealogy of the Holy War	May strike foe five successive times.*	５かいれんぞくで こうげきする
Thracia 776	(Skl %) chance to attack five times*	５回れんぞくで 攻撃する
Path of Radiance (skill assignment menu)	In certain conditions, grants this unit 5 consecutive attacks at half damage. Swordmaster	一定の確率で ダメージ半分の攻撃を ５回連続でおこなう 取得可能 ソードマスター
Path of Radiance (help)	In certain conditions, grants this unit 5 consecutive attacks at half damage.	一定の確率でダメージ半分の 攻撃を５回連続おこないます
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu)	Can launch 5 consecutive attacks. Cannot unassign	??
Radiant Dawn (help)	Can launch 5 consecutive attacks. Trueblade	発動すると ５回連続の攻撃をおこなう 【剣聖奥義】
Awakening	Strike five times at half damage. Trigger % = (Skill stat ÷ 2)	技÷２％の確率で発動 ダメージ半分の５回連続攻撃
Fates	Strike five times at half damage. Trigger % = (Skill stat × 0.5)	攻撃時、技×０．５％で発動 ダメージ半分で5回連続攻撃
Three Houses	An attack that strikes 5 times at 30% Mt. Exclusive to the Swordmaster class.	ソードマスター専用　５連撃 １撃ごとのダメージが３０％になる
Warriors	Increases the speed of Regular Attacks and Strong Attacks.	??

Trivia

• Unused text strings exist in Path of Radiance that refer to Astra's name from the Jugdral games. It was translated as Starblade in the English version.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Astra	Latin: "stars".
English (Europe)	• Astra • Astrum	• As above. This name is used in Path of Radiance and every game from Awakening onward. • Latin: "star" (singular form, as opposed to the plural "astra"). This name is used solely in the PAL English version of Radiant Dawn.
Japanese	• りゅうせい剣 • 流星	• Shooting Star Sword. This name is used in Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776. • Shooting Star. This name is used from Path of Radiance onward. Referred to as STARTRICK in its internal file name in Path of Radiance, and as ASTRA in the same in Radiant Dawn.
Spanish	• Meteoro • Fobos	• Meteor. This name is used in Path of Radiance. • From Fobos, the Spanish name for Phobos, the personification of fear in Greek mythology (and the larger of the two moons of Mars). This name is used from Radiant Dawn onward.
Spanish (Latin America)	Astrea	Astraea or Astrea is a goddess in ancient Greek mythology (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραίᾱ Astraíā, lit. "star-maiden"); she is associated with justice and stars. Used in the Latin American localizations of Heroes and Three Houses.
French	Stellaire	Stellar, pertaining to stars.
German	Astra	--
Italian	• Fobos • Astra	Phobos, as above. • Used in Heroes.
Portuguese (Brazil)	Astro	Star
Korean	유성	Falling star
Simplified Chinese	流星	Shooting star
Traditional Chinese	流星	Shooting star

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Astra manual from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Larcei activating Astra in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  Lucia activating Astra (start-up flash) in Path of Radiance.

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  Lucia activating Astra (attacks) in Path of Radiance.

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  Mia activating Astra (start-up flash) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Mia activating Astra (fourth strike) in Radiant Dawn.

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  Say'ri activating Astra in Awakening.

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  Roy using Astra in Heroes.

See also

• Adept
• Astra (weapon)
• Astral Blade
• Brave weapon

Special skills in Heroes

Area-of-effect skills Blazing Flame • Blazing Light • Blazing Thunder • Blazing Wind • Gifted Magic • Growing Flame • Growing Light • Growing Thunder • Growing Wind • Rising Flame • Rising Light • Rising Thunder • Rising Wind Defensive skills Aegis • Buckler • Circlet of Balance • Escutcheon • Godlike Reflexes • Holy Panic • Holy Vestments • Ice Mirror • Life Unending • Miracle • Negating Fang • Pavise • Sacred Cowl Healing skills Aether • Daylight • Heavenly Light • Imbue • Mayhem Aether • Noontime • Open the Future • Radiant Aether • Righteous Wind • Sol Offensive skills Aether • Armored Beacon • Armored Floe • Astra • Black Luna • Blue Flame • Bonfire • Brutal Shell • Chilling Wind • Circlet of Balance • Divine Pulse • Draconic Aura • Dragon Fang • Dragon Gaze • Enclosure • Fire Emblem • Glacies • Glimmer • Glowing Ember • Godlike Reflexes • Hero's Blood • Holy Pressure • Holy-Knight Aura • Iceberg • Ignis • Imperial Astra • Lethality • Light's Restraint • Luna • Lunar Flash • Mayhem Aether • Moonbow • New Moon • Night Sky • Open the Future • Radiant Aether • Regnal Astra • Reprisal • Retribution • Righteous Wind • Ruptured Sky • Seiðr Shell • Shining Emblem • Sirius • Sublime Heaven • Twin Blades • Vengeance • Vital Astra Staff specials Deluge Balm • Earthfire Balm • Earthwater Balm • Fireflood Balm • Heavenly Light • Imbue • Kindled-Fire Balm • Solid-Earth Balm • Still-Water Balm • Swift-Winds Balm • Windfire Balm Miscellaneous skills Galeforce • Njörun's Zeal • Requiem Dance • Umbra Blast • Umbra Calamity • Umbra Eruption