Dark Druid

Dark Druid Nergal as a Dark Druid in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. A druid whose soul has been sacrificed to darkness in an appeal for power.

Unit type(s) Nergal Weapon(s) Anima, Light, Dark, Staff Skill(s) None

The Dark Druid (Japanese: 災いを招く者 Basiliskglance) is an advanced, enemy-only magical class which appears only in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. This class is exclusive to Nergal, the game's main antagonist and final boss, and is a more powerful version of the Druid class available to the player. It has access to all four types of magic, but in gameplay exclusively uses dark magic.

The Dark Druid follows in a similar mold to the Druid itself, boasting fearsome raw magical power, HP, defense and resistance as well as good skill and speed. This class's high stats, combined with the raw power of Nergal's signature tome Ereshkigal, make Nergal a fearsome final boss. The class does have a unique weakness to the Aureola tome, which in the hands of a skilled Bishop is an effective way to fight Nergal.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	75	--	30	18	15	0	28	30	6	10	S S S S

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	80	--	30	25	25	30	30	30	15	25	S S S S

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
The Blazing Blade	--	3	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
The Blazing Blade	45%	--	55%	30%	25%	20%	10%	35%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class change

The Blazing Blade

Advanced class
Dark Druid

Notable enemy Dark Druids

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Nergal	The Blazing Blade
Enemy Dark Druid units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Blazing Blade (class roll)	A druid whose soul has been sacrificed to darkness in an appeal for power.	力を求め　闇魔道に己を捧げた者 その心は闇に囚われている
The Blazing Blade (help)	A master druid whose heart is bound in darkness.	『闇』魔法を究めし者 その心は闇に囚われている

Trivia

Pent casts Mend after being turned into a Dark Druid through hacking, demonstrating the class's broken staff animation.

• Dark Druids are able to use staves but do not have a correct battle animation for them, likely because there was never an anticipated need for Nergal to actually use a staff. When a Dark Druid attempts to use a staff through game modification, his usual standing battle sprite undergoes graphical glitches.
• The Dark Druid can be seen as an evil counterpart to the Archsage class, belonging to Nergal's former friend Athos.
• Nergal's stats are the same as the Dark Druid class's base stats, except for his luck, which is 20.
• In the Japanese version, the Dark Druid shares its name with the title of Nergal's theme in the game's Sound Room. International versions still call the song "Calamity Bringer" even though the class's name was changed.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Dark Druid	From druid, a type of Celtic priest prior to the rise of Christianity in the British Isles. "Dark" is added to indicate the class's superiority over regular Fire Emblem Druids.
Japanese	災いを招く者	Officially romanized as Basiliskglance; literally "calamity bringer". It is said that those who look into the eyes of a basilisk will die instantly.
Spanish	Druida negro	Black druid
French	Druide noir	Black druid
German	Geomant	Geomancer
Italian	Druidoscuro	Darkdruid

Gallery

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  Nergal as a Dark Druid in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.

See also

• Dark Prince
• Necromancer

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