Dorothy

Dorothy Artwork of Dorothy from The Binding Blade. A girl from Etruria in service to the St. Elimine Church.

Gender Female Race Human Age Teens Starting class Archer Appearance(s) The Binding Blade

“	...Yes, I understand. I'm probably just being a nuisance by apologizing over and over. I'll try harder next time!	”	— Dorothy to Perceval in a support conversation.

Dorothy (Japanese: ドロシー Dorothy) is a playable character in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. She first appears in Chapter 5. She is an Etrurian archer who works for the Elimine Church. Under the orders of Father Yoder, she and Brother Saul join Roy's army to keep an eye on the Fire Emblem.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Dorothy is first seen in a small Lycian town, talking to Father Yoder about their mission. Yoder leaves shortly thereafter, and Dorothy runs off to look for Saul, who had disappeared. Dorothy finds him soon, and to her displeasure, the priest is trying to flirt with a village girl. After the girl leaves, Dorothy gives him the church's report, and then follows Saul, to see if they should join the Lycian Army. After Princess Guinivere's intentions are confirmed, Dorothy—as Saul's bodyguard—joins the army and stays there for the rest of the story.

Once Bern is defeated and the war is over, Dorothy returns to her hometown and carries on with her normal life.

Starting stats and growth rates

Archer Level 3 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 6, automatically on Turn 1 Stats Growth Rates Max HP 19 Luck 3 Strength 5 Defense 4 Skill 6 Resistance 2 Speed 6 Constitution 7 Movement 5 Aid 6 Max HP 85% Luck 35% Strength 50% Defense 15% Skill 45% Resistance 15% Speed 45% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Steel Bow Vulnerary Weapon Levels -- -- -- D -- -- -- --

Promotion stat gains

Class	HP	Str	Skill	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Con	Mov	Weapon level
Sniper	+2	+3	+3	+3	+0	+2	+3	+1	+1	+1

Analysis

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

Dorothy joins in Chapter 6 of The Binding Blade as a level 3 Archer. She has a D rank in bows, which allows her to use the Steel Bow, Short Bow, and Longbow at base level. As Dorothy exclusively uses bows which only have 2-range, she cannot counter at 1-range, and is mostly limited to attacking on player phase. If she is attacked, she is likely to die—especially on Hard mode—as her HP, defenses, resistance, and speed are low.

Dorothy's has a base speed of 6 and strength of 5; she will struggle to deal significant damage to non-flying enemies, and will truggle to one-shot fliers even with bonus damage. For example, in Chapter 7 on Normal mode, Dorothy needs 36 attack to one-shot the weaker of the two Wyvern Riders present, or 23 attack and 8 attack speed to double and one-round; she needs four more points of strength from her base stats to one-shot with a Steel Bow, and 2 points of speed to one-round with an Iron Bow—the requirements are higher for the stronger Wyvern Rider and even higher for both on Hard mode, and she is unlikely to meet them. She also has the potential to miss, as the Steel Bow is inaccurate and one-rounding requires that both attacks hit.

Dorothy is not the only unit capable of wielding bows: Wolt joins earlier, though with lower bases; Sue and Sin are Nomads with mounts and gain 1-range after promotion, and Sue joins in the same chapter; and Klein and Igrene are pre-promoted Snipers and Dayan a Nomad Trooper, all with significantly higher base stats. Dorothy competes with the first three for access to their promotion item, Orion's Bolts, but offers little compared to the Nomads; she will function similarly to the Snipers after investment.

Personality and character

Dorothy is a shy and not very confident girl. She is fully aware of her limitations, but tries to make the best with what she has. Most of her support conversations have her being encouraged by the other person to be less shy, or to trust more on her own fighting skills. Her responses to those words of encouragement mark her as a rather positive and grateful person.

She shows a more outspoken side in her conversations with Saul, whose actions tend to upset her. Dorothy tries her best to keep him in line, as she fears that he is ruining the image of the Church; however, if Saul's excuses turn a bit more personal, Dorothy does not take it well and loses her calm altogether.

Dorothy is a follower of Saint Elimine, and in her supports with Yoder, it is revealed that she in interested in healing magic; her inability to wield staves make her question her worth and faith, needing the help and guide of the elderly bishop to overcome her doubts.

Supports

Main article: Dorothy/Supports

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Endings

Dorothy, Pure Archer
Short: Returned to her old life.

Long: Dorothy returned to her hometown and led a peaceful life. She was never the flashiest of her comrades, but she always knew what was most important in her life.

Quotes

Battle quotes

“	Can we win...? Of course we can!	”	— In the final chapter.

Death quote

“	Am... Am I finished...?	”	— Dorothy.

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Dorothy is currently featured on two cards in Fire Emblem Cipher.

One of the below cards' epithets is still in raw, untranslated Japanese; it needs translation.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Dorothy
	心美しき弓使い, Dorothy
		"You’ve been flirting with every girl in this army, Brother Saul… People will misjudge the church if they see you!"
		Attack: 50	Support: 20	Range: 2	Deploy Cost: 3
		Class: Sniper		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 2
		"Gird yourself!": [Trigger] [] Each time this unit’s attack destroys an enemy, you may pay the cost and if you do: Untap this unit. Anti-Fliers: [Always] If this unit is attacking a , this unit gains +30 attack. Guardswoman's Archery: [Support] Until the end of this combat, your defending unit gains +10 attack.
	Card #B16-015HN • Artist: Doji Shiki
	Archer Who Serves God, Dorothy
		"But where did Saul run off to now? How am I supposed to guard him if he keeps disappearing?"
		Attack: 30	Support: 20	Range: 2	Deploy Cost: 1
		Class: Archer		Tier: Base	Class Change Cost: --
		The Priest’s Guardswoman: [Always] If this unit is attacking an enemy with a Deployment Cost of 1, this unit gains +10 attack. Anti-Fliers: [Always] If this unit is attacking a , this unit gains +30 attack. Bullseye Emblem: [Support] Until the end of this combat, non-Main Character defending unit cannot evade.
	Card #B16-016N • Artist: Doji Shiki
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Dorothy .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade	A girl from Etruria in service to the St. Elimine Church.*	エトルリアに住む少女 エリミーヌ教団ではたらいている

Trivia

• Similar to Neimi from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Dorothy's battle sprites show her wearing a skirt despite not wearing one.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Dorothy	Used in the Choose Your Legends polls for Fire Emblem Heroes; has yet to be corroborated by other sources.
English (unofficial)	Dorothy	See the Japanese name.
Japanese	ドロシー	Romanized as Dorothy in the Binding Blade website. Dorothy is the English variant of Dorothea, which means "gift of God". Dorothy is the name of the protagonist in L. Frank Baum's famous Oz novels. There is also a comic opera with the same name.

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Sniper Bow Ballista Iron Ballista Killer Ballista

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  Artwork of Dorothy from The Binding Blade.

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  Concept artwork of Dorothy from The Binding Blade.

Battle animations

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  Dorothy attacking as an archer.

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  Dorothy performing a critical hit as an archer.

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  Dorothy attacking as a sniper.

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  Dorothy performing a critical hit as a sniper.

References

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