Death (spell)

Death An enemy Arcanist casting death on Clair in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Deadly magic.

Type Black magic (Gaiden, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Dark (Three Houses) First game Fire Emblem Gaiden

Death (Japanese: デス Death) is a black magic spell appearing in Fire Emblem Gaiden and its remake, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. Death is a powerful mid-range spell without special effects; in Gaiden and vanilla Shadows of Valentia, Death is wielded exclusively by enemy units, with a DLC package required in order for the player to legitimately wield Death for themselves. Contrary to the spell's name, it is possible to survive a hit of Death. It returns in Three Houses as a dark spell known as Death Γ (Japanese: デスΓ Death Γ). In this game, it is weaker in terms of raw might, but has a high critical rate.

Its incarnation as a blue tome weapon skill in Heroes is a personal weapon of the corrupted variation of Delthea; in addition to a constant boost to its user's Defense, it further boosts all of its user's stats during combat but deals recoil damage to its user afterward.

Stats

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	Exp	Other effects and notes
Gaiden	--	--	15	9	70	0	1-2	--	-5 HP	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia			14	9	70	0	1-3	--	-5 HP	--	--
Three Houses		C	6	8	70	20	1-3	4	--	?	--

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	Exp	Other effects and notes
Heroes		5★	14	--	--	--	2	Infinite	400 SP	--	Boosts user's Resistance by +3. Boosts user's Attack, Speed, Defense and Resistance by +4 each during combat, but deals 4 damage recoil to user afterward.

Locations

Gaiden

Unobtainable

Usable only by enemy magic-wielding units

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Unobtainable	Exclusively wielded by enemy Arcanists and Cantors in vanilla Shadows of Valentia.
Classes (DLC)	Enchantress

Heroes

Units

Delthea: Tatarrah's Puppet

Flavor text

Game Text (English) Text (Japanese) Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Deadly magic. ?? Three Houses Intermediate dark magic. Has a high Crit rate. 闇の中級魔法 必殺が高い

Trivia

• A dark magic spell called Death also appears in TearRingSaga: Yutona Heroes War Chronicles.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	• Death • Death Γ	• Used in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia and Heroes. • Used in Three Houses. Dark magic in this game is denoted with a Greek letter; in this case, Gamma.
Japanese	• デス • デスΓ	• "Death" in katakana. Used in all titles except for Three Houses. • Death Γ. Used in Three Houses.
Spanish	• Agonía • Agonía Γ	• Agony. Used in Shadows of Valentia. • Death Γ. Used in Three Houses.
French	• Agonie • Mort Γ	• Agony. Used in Shadows of Valentia. • Death Γ. Used in Three Houses.
German	• Tod • Tod Γ	• Death. Used in Shadows of Valentia. • Death Γ. Used in Three Houses.
Italian	• Morte • Morte Γ	• Death. Used in Shadows of Valentia. • Death Γ. Used in Three Houses.
Dutch	Dood	Death
Korean	데스Γ	Death Γ
Simplified Chinese	• 死神 • 死神Γ	• Death (i.e. the personification of death); literally "death god". Used in Shadows of Valentia. • Death Γ Used in Three Houses.
Traditional Chinese	• 死神 • 死神Γ	• Death (i.e. the personification of death); literally "death god". Used in Shadows of Valentia. • Death Γ. Used in Three Houses.

Gallery

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  Death as it appears in Heroes.

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  Death as it appears in Heroes.

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  Artwork of Delthea, as an Enchantress casting Death from Fire Emblem Cipher.

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  Tatarrah casting Death against a Falcon Knight in Gaiden.

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  An enemy arcanist casting death on Clair in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.