Bane

Bane Icon of the Bane skill in Engage. Can incapacitate with a single strike. Does not work on all opponents. Whisper

Type(s) Class (Mastery) Capacity 30 First game Radiant Dawn

Bane (Japanese: 瞬殺 Instant Kill) is an offensive skill that debuted in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is the mastery skill of the Whisper class, and is similar to Lethality. When activated, it reduces the target to 1 HP with a single strike. It cannot activate on attacks that would have otherwise done enough damage to kill the target.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Radiant Dawn		Deals (target's current HP − 1) damage to the target, leaving them with 1 HP.	(Skill/2)%	30	Nullified against bosses. For further mechanics, see Offensive skill § Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.
Engage		Deals (target's current HP − 1) damage to the target, leaving them with 1 HP.	(Dexterity/2)%	--	Nullified against bosses.

Availability

Radiant Dawn

Classes

Whisper

Engage

Bond Rings

Sothe S

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu, NTSC)	Can incapacitate with a single strike. Does not work on all opponents. Cannot unassign	発動すると 一撃で敵を瀕死にする 一部の敵には効かない 書に戻せない
Radiant Dawn (skill assignment menu, PAL)	Can reduce HP to 1 in an instant. Does not work on all opponents. Cannot unassign	--
Radiant Dawn (help, NTSC)	Can incapacitate with a single strike. Does not work on all opponents. Whisper	発動すると一撃で敵を瀕死にする 一部の敵には効かない 【密偵奥義】
Radiant Dawn (help, PAL)	Can reduce an enemy's HP to 1 with a strike. Does not work on all opponents. Whisper	--
Engage	May reduce foe's HP to 1. Trigger %=half of Dex. (Certain foes are immune to this effect.)	（技÷2）％の確率で相手のHPを1にする （一部の強力な敵は対象外）

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Bane is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B05-054SR Guardian of Hope, Sothe. It is a trigger skill which comes into play during the opponent's turn when they deploy a new unit, which lets Sothe disrupt the deployment. Sothe's player may pay the deploy cost of the opponent's new unit in order to immediately destroy that unit.

Trivia

• Bane derives its icon and Japanese name from the Path of Radiance icon and Japanese name for Lethality, which has a different icon and Japanese name from Radiant Dawn onward. In Radiant Dawn, it also uses a variant of the Lethality screen flash, colored purple like how Lethality looked in the western version of The Sacred Stones.
• The North American help description erroneously states that Bane incapacitates an enemy. It does reduce an enemy to 1 HP with a single strike, but it does not technically incapacitate them.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Bane	A term for destruction and death, or an individual or object which kills or brings destruction or misery.
Japanese	瞬殺	Romanized as BANE in the skill's internal file name; literally "instant kill". In Path of Radiance, this was the Japanese name of the skill Lethality, which was renamed from Radiant Dawn onward.
Spanish	Maldición	Damnation
French	Fléau	Bane
German	Verderben	Ruin
Italian	Sciagura	Disaster
Korean	순살	Instant kill
Simplified Chinese	瞬杀	Instant kill
Traditional Chinese	瞬殺	Instant kill

Gallery

• 

  Heather activating Bane (start-up flash) in Radiant Dawn.

• 

  Heather activating Bane (attack) in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Lethality