Cain (Thracia 776)

"Kain" redirects here. For the Archanean Cavalier, see Cain.

Cain Artwork of Cain from Thracia 776.

Gender Male Race Human Nationality Leonster Starting class Lance Knight Appearance(s) Thracia 776

Cain (Japanese: ケイン Kain) is a playable lance knight in Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776

Role

Cain is a knight of Leonster guarding Hannibal's manor, where many nobles of Leonster are taking refuge.

Starting stats and growth rates

Lance Knight Level 2 Action --

Recruitment: Chapter 9, automatically from turn 1 Stats Growth Rates Max HP 26 Speed 7/5 Strength 7/6 Luck 3 Magic 0 Defense 6/5 Skill 4/3 Constitution 10 Movement 8/5 FCM 1 Max HP 75% Speed 35% Strength 55% Luck 50% Magic 5% Defense 35% Skill 40% Constitution 20% Movement 1% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills Iron Sword Iron Lance -- Weapon Levels E (+20) D (+20) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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	+50 WEXP

Analysis

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

Cain 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, Cain 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; outdoors, he can use D rank lances, but indoors, he is restricted to E rank swords. This prevents him from using stronger weapons to circumvent his low stats, making it even harder to train him. Alva has an access to D rank swords at base, but even then, he's not much better than him when dismounted, and both of them are very outclassed by Finn, who joins at the beginning, is better than them with no investment and is probably ready to promote at this point of the game. Compared to Alva, his stats and growths are more focused on strength, HP and defense, but with worse speed, skill and luck, which will also make it harder for him to double or even hit reliably at times, especially since he suffers from penalities when dismounted. He also has no skills and no action stars and his FCM of 1 is low, so he can't rely on critical hits.

If Cain 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. Without favoritism, he is extremely underwhelming and typically benched at the first opportunity.

Personality and character

Cain is nondescript, and given no explicit personality traits. His ending, where he becomes known as the "Taciturn Tactician", suggests that he is a man of few words.

Supports

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See Support § SNES games for more details on supports.

Endings

Cain, Lance of Leonster
Leaving the ways of the lance behind him, Cain became a civil servant. He instituted sweeping reforms to restructure Leonster's army, making comprehensive policy changes one by one. Nicknamed the "Taciturn Tactician," it is said that Leif and his descendants relied greatly on his wisdom.

Quotes

Death quotes

“	N-Not yet... My dream... I still... need to...	”	— Cain

Escape quotes

“	I'll ride ahead, Prince! Be careful!	”	— Cain

Trivia

• According to Thracia 776's website, Cain was designed to look 20 years old.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Cain	Used in the Choose Your Legends polls for Fire Emblem Heroes; has yet to be corroborated by other sources.
English (unofficial)	Kane	Used in the Project Exile fan translation
Japanese	ケイン	Officially romanized as Kain. May be a corruption of Cain, to match his partner Alva.
Spanish	Cain	--
French	Caïn	--
German	Kain	--
Italian	Cain	--
Portuguese	Cain	--
Traditional Chinese	凱恩	Cain

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Lance Knight Duke Knight Lance (Iron Lance) Sword* (Iron Sword) Lance (Iron Lance) Sword* (Iron Sword)

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  Artwork of Cain from Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.

References

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