Divine Pulse

Divine Pulse (Japanese: 天刻の拍動 Heavenly Time's Pulse) is the name of a mechanic appearing in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. It offers the limited ability to rewind turns in battle to undo unit actions.

Role

At the end of first chapter of Three Houses, Kostas recovers from his injuries and attempts to attack Edelgard, but Byleth sacrifices themselves to protect her. They have another vision of the girl, who scolds them for being so reckless, introduces herself as Sothis, and grants them the ability to rewind time with Divine Pulse. Byleth redoes the past several seconds and this time counters Kostas' strike and drives him off.

Later during Tales of the Red Canyon, Sothis recounts that the Red Canyon Zanado triggered some of her hidden memories and bids Byleth travel there to investigate. As Byleth departs, they are noticed by the lord character, who rounds up the other students and follows them. Byleth arrives at Zanado, but is suddenly attacked by a pack of giant animals led by a Demonic Beast. Byleth is rescued by their students, and together they drive off the animals. Afterwards, the lord character berates Byleth for their recklessness, and they agree to pass off the day's events as a training exercise. Sothis apologizes to Byleth for nearly getting them killed, but manages to awaken an improved Divine Pulse in the process.

Overview

Main article: Turn rewind § Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Like Mila's Turnwheel, Divine Pulse can be used to rewind turns and undo actions. The player may use Divine Pulse at any time during their turn; additionally, it will activate automatically when a Game Over is about to occur, provided that there are still charges remaining. The player initially has three charges to rewind turns, and can gain more as the game progresses; unlike Mila's Turnwheel, the maximum number of charges the player may acquire changes with difficulty—Normal and Hard allow a maximum of thirteen charges, while Maddening allows ten.

Skill data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Engage (Divine Pulse)		If user's attack would have missed, makes it hit.	(Luck + 30)%	--	Cost: 250 SP
Engage (Divine Pulse+)		If user's attack would have missed, makes it hit.	(Luck + 50)%	--	Cost: 500 SP

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Effect	Cooldown	SP cost	Unusable by	Inheritable	Notes
Heroes		Boosts user's damage by 25% of their Speed, reduces the damage of foe's next strike by 75%, and boosts the damage of the user's following strike by 20% of their Speed.	2	500 SP		✗	--

Locations and availability

Three Houses

Event	• Automatically at the end of Chapter 1 (3 charges) • Automatically at the end of Tales of the Red Canyon (3 (Normal, Hard) / 1 (Maddening) charges) • Automatically at the end of Chapter 10 (3 (Normal, Hard) / 2 (Maddening) charges)
Saint Statue rewards	Renown points: 3,000 (Limit: 4)

Heroes

Units

Byleth: Sublime Light

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Engage	May turn a missed attack into a hit. Trigger %=30. Chance increases with high Lck.	30％の確率で外れた攻撃が命中する 幸運が高いとさらに確率が上がる
Engage (Divine Pulse+)	May turn a missed attack into a hit. Trigger %=50. Chance increases with high Lck.	50％の確率で外れた攻撃が命中する 幸運が高いとさらに確率が上がる
Heroes	Boosts damage by 25% of unit's Spd. Reduces damage from foe's next attack by 75%, and unit's next attack deals damage = 20% of unit's Spd. (Resets at end of combat.)	速さの２５％を奥義ダメージに加算 次の敵の攻撃のダメージを７５％軽減 （その戦闘中のみ） 次の自分の攻撃のダメージ＋速さの２０％ （その戦闘中のみ）

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Divine Pulse	--
Japanese	天刻の拍動	Heavenly time's pulse
Spanish	Pulso Divino	Divine Pulse; rendered as Pulso divino in the American localization of Heroes.
French	Impulsion Divine	Divine Pulse
German	Göttlicher Puls	Divine Pulse
Italian	Il battito divino	The divine pulse
Portuguese	Pulso divino	Divine pulse
Korean	천각의 박동	Heavenly time's pulse
Simplified Chinese	天刻之脉动	Heavenly time's pulse
Traditional Chinese	天刻之脈動	Heavenly time's pulse

See also

• Mila's Turnwheel, the turn-rewinding mechanism in Shadows of Valentia
• Sure Strike
• Time Crystal, the turn-rewinding mechanism in Engage

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 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 • 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