Gungnir

Gungnir Artwork of Gungnir from Genealogy of the Holy War. Str +5. A timeless weapon.

Type Lance Wielder(s) Dáinn* Travant Arion Equus First game Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

Gungnir (Japanese: グングニル Gungnir), sometimes known by the epithet "Lance of the Heavens" (Japanese: 天槍 sky lance), is the lance once wielded by Dáinn of the Twelve Crusaders, bestowed upon him at the Miracle of Dahna after his blood pact with a dragon. The lance is the property of Dáinn's descendants, the royal family of the Kingdom of Thracia, and is restricted in use to those in possession of major Dáinn Holy Blood.

Along with the Helswath, Mjölnir and Valflame, Gungnir is one of the Crusader weapons completely inaccessible and unusable to the player in Genealogy of the Holy War; no bearer of Dáinn holy blood of any level is playable. It was not until Awakening that it became a playable weapon.

History

Gungnir was eventually inherited by King Travant of Thracia, who wielded it in his murder of Quan and Ethlyn as they pass through the Aed Desert, and throughout the rest of his life. During the clash between Thracia and Seliph's liberation army in Grann 777, Travant entrusted it to his son Arion before departing to challenge Seliph's army. After Travant's death, Arion wielded it first to continue his father's work in opposition of Seliph's forces before being convinced by Altena to, during Seliph's march on Grannvale, support Seliph's cause.

Millennia later, Gungnir came into the possession of the Grimleal, and was wielded by its reincarnation of the Deadlord Equus. By this time, it is no longer sealed to the Dáinn bloodline and is capable of being used by any lance-wielder with a high enough weapon level.

Stats

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Genealogy of the Holy War		★*	30	15	70	--	1	50	50,000	--	+10 Strength, +10 Speed, +10 Defense when equipped.
Thracia 776		B	20	1	100	70	1	90	200	?	Unused. +10 Defense when equipped. Grants Vantage, Nihil, Wrath, and Paragon when equipped.
Awakening		A	16	--	70	10	1	25	0	2	+5 Strength when equipped. Cannot be forged.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

The Gungnir appears as one of Tsubasa Oribe's Carnages in Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE.

Icon Attack 117	Skills Unity Cost Zandyne Recarmdra Mana Aid Diarahan Mediarahan† Shaman Force R. ×1 Alabaster Quill ×1 5-Star Prestige ×3 Weaknesses and Resistances Rs -- Wk Wk -- -- -- Wk -- Rs
Raises chance of acting sooner.

Locations

Genealogy of the Holy War

Unobtainable

Exclusively wielded by Travant and Arion. No playable unit can have major Dáinn blood, and as such it is unusuable by the player.

Thracia 776

Unused

If hacked into the game, it is usable by any unit with an B rank in lances.

Awakening

Dropped by	Chapter 22, enemy Equus
Treasure	Infinite Regalia, chosen at random from a pool of other items.

Flavor text

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Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Genealogy of the Holy War	An exalted weapon.*	??
Thracia 776 (Unused)	Hacking is bad*	データかいぞうは だめですよ
Awakening	Str +5. A timeless weapon.	力＋５　古の竜騎士の天槍

Trivia

• Along with Helswath, Mjölnir and Valflame, Gungnir is one of the Crusader weapons completely inaccessible and unusable to the player in Genealogy of the Holy War. There are no playable character with either major or minor Dáinn blood. It was not until Awakening that Gungnir became a player-usable weapon.
• In Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, Gungnir still exists as an unused item. Its description reads データかいぞうはだめですよ Hacking is bad, scolding a viewer for modifying the game to view this description in the first place.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Gungnir	From Gungnir, a spear of Norse mythology borne by the god Óðinn.
Japanese	グングニル	Officially romanized as Gungnir; as above.
Spanish	Gungnir	As above.
French	Gungnir	As above.
German	Gungnir	As above.
Italian	Gungnir	As above.

Gallery

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  Artwork of Gungnir from Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  Arion wielding Gungnir in Genealogy of the Holy War.

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  Travant wielding Gungnir in Awakening.