Hawkeye

This article is about the character in The Blazing Blade. For the skill, see Hawkeye (skill).

Hawkeye Artwork of Hawkeye from The Blazing Blade. The protector of Nabata. A mysterious air surrounds him.

Gender Male Race Human Age 30s Family Igrene (daughter) Unnamed wife Nationality Nabatan Title(s) Guardian of Nabata Starting class Berserker Voiced by Jamieson Price (English, Heroes) Teruyuki Tanzawa (Japanese, Heroes) Appearance(s) The Blazing Blade Heroes

“	I'm Hawkeye, defender of this desert.	”	— Hawkeye in Chapter 22E/23H

Hawkeye (Japanese: ホークアイ Hawkeye) is a playable berserker in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. He is the guardian of Nabata and the father of Igrene.

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

Role

Hawkeye is the legendary "Guardian of the Nabata Desert" protecting those who live there from the outside world. He was trained since his youth to do this task, and also trains his only daughter Igrene to do the same thing once he passes away. During his service he meets Athos, as well as his apprentice and Count and of Reglay of Eturia Pent and his wife Louise, whom he aided in their quests. Once Eliwood, Hector, and Lyn travel to the Nabata Desert to seek out Athos, Hawkeye is sent out by Athos to aid the trio in meeting him. After their meeting, Hawkeye travels with the lords in their adventure to defeat Nergal. After Nergal is defeated, Hawkeye returns to the Desert to be it's Guardian. During the war against Bern 20 years later, Igrene is now the Guardian of the Nabata Desert, so it can be speculated that Hawkeye passed away before the events of The Binding Blade.

Starting stats and growth rates

Berserker Level 4 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 22E/23H, talk with main lord, or at the end of the chapter if he was not defeated Stats Growth Rates Max HP 50 Luck 13 Strength 18 Defense 14 Skill 14 Resistance 10 Speed 11 Constitution 16 Movement 6 Aid 15 Max HP 50% Luck 40% Strength 40% Defense 20% Skill 30% Resistance 35% Speed 25% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Killer Axe Weapon Levels -- -- A -- -- -- -- --

Analysis

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

Hawkeye is the first and only pre-promoted Berserker to join your army, and the only Berserker you get within the game if you decide to sell the Ocean Seal. His growth rates are mediocre in most stats, but that hardly matters for most of the game since he comes with more than decent stats at base. With the highest base HP of all playable units and decent base defense and resistance, he is probably one of the most durable units you'll have at this point of the game, and his high strength and crit rate allow him to hit hard as well. He also got a high constitution base and an A rank in axes, allowing him to wield pretty much every axe you want him to without bothering about their weight, which is especially helpful since high rank axes aren't as demanded as high rank lances and swords, and they give him a weapon triangle advantage over lances, which are the preferred weapon type of physical enemies at this point of the game.

On the other hand, his base speed and speed growth are pretty shaky for his join time, making it hard for him to double faster enemies, and while his defensive stats aren't bad, Hawkeye can get overwhelmed by hard-hitting promoted enemies or large numbers of unpromoted ones if he doesn't get healed up from time to time, since he relies on HP first and defense second in order to tank hits. Luckily there are ways to compensate for this issues: for his speed, you can give him the Brave Axe so he can hit stronger enemies two times without doubling them, or use a Speedwing after he got a speed proc on a levelup, which increases to the value of his attack speed to the point which is generally considered high enough to double most generic enemies in the game. His bulk is fine as long as you have a staff user that can keep his health up, but can additionally be patched up by using a Pure Water for more resistance, or simply by adding an Elixir in his inventory so Hawkeye can heal himself up on player phase in case you require your staff users for other purposes.

Since Hawkeye is in the Berserker class, he can walk on peak and sea tiles in addition to the terrain tiles land units can traverse anyway. This adds him another way to increase his defensive capabilities by using one of the many peaks in the upcoming maps to receive a great increase in avoid and a small defense boost. It also allows him to traverse parts of the map only fliers could normally pass, which in theory gives him additional usefullness through additional mobility over other footlocked units; however he faces such heavy movement penalties when doing so that it's often easier to use an unpromoted Florina or another mounted unit with sufficient aid (here Hawkeye's high con acts against him, making it hard to find decent mounted units that can carry him around) to just rescue Hawkeye to his destination and drop him off on a sea or peak tile if it benefits his positioning.

All in all, Hawkeye is a good prepromoted unit due to his bulkiness and high attack power that gets held back by the lack of mounted mobility and good choices when it comes to getting rescue-dropped ahead.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Role

Hawkeye is one of the characters available to be summoned by players from the game's initial launch. Only one variation of Hawkeye is currently available in Heroes, based on his The Blazing Blade incarnation.

Starting stats

★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★

Rarity ★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 19/20/21 Attack 7/8/9 Speed 3/4/5 Defense 4/5/6 Resistance 4/5/6 Maximum HP 38/41/44 Attack 26/29/32 Speed 16/19/22 Defense 21/24/27 Resistance 23/26/29 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Steel Axe* -- --

Rarity ★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 19/20/21 Attack 8/9/10 Speed 3/4/5 Defense 5/6/7 Resistance 4/5/6 Maximum HP 39/42/45 Attack 28/31/34 Speed 17/20/23 Defense 23/26/29 Resistance 24/27/30 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Killer Axe* -- Rising Light

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 20/21/22 Attack 8/9/10 Speed 4/5/6 Defense 5/6/7 Resistance 5/6/7 Maximum HP 42/45/48 Attack 30/33/36 Speed 19/22/25 Defense 24/28/31 Resistance 27/30/33 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Killer Axe+* -- Rising Light

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Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Rarity	SP cost
	Iron Axe	Innate
	Steel Axe	Innate
	Killer Axe	★★★	200 SP
	Killer Axe+	★★★★★	300 SP
	Guardian's Axe	★★★★★	400 SP
	Rising Light	★★★	150 SP
	Growing Light	★★★★	300 SP
A	Death Blow 1	★★★	50 SP
A	Death Blow 2	★★★★	100 SP
A	Death Blow 3	★★★★★	200 SP
C	Threaten Atk 1	★★★	50 SP
C	Threaten Atk 2	★★★	100 SP
C	Threaten Atk 3	★★★★	200 SP

Personality and character

Hawkeye is reserved and short-spoken, he rarely speaks longer than necessary. During his recruitment, Hawkeye curtly explains to Eliwood/Hector that he will drive off the bandits and then immediately departs, leaving them bewildered. No matter who he is speaking to, Hawkeye's dialogue always remains terse and to the point.

Hawkeye maintains a stoic demeanor, even in the face of death. When speaking to Louise, Hawkeye requests that she give his wife's necklace to his daughter, Igrene, should he fall in battle, knowing that Igrene will understand without conversation. He is resolute when contemplating his mortality and is satisfied with fulfilling his duty as guardian of Nabata.

Supports

Main article: Hawkeye/Supports

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See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Hawkeye, Desert Guardian
Hawkeye returned to Nabata and lived peacefully in Arcadia with his daughter, whom he trains to be guardian of the desert.

Quotes

Death quotes

“	Will I never... make it home...	”	— Hawkeye

“	Will I never... make it home... I...Igrene... My...dear sister...	”	— Hawkeye

Retreat quote in Chapter 22E/23H or Chapter 22xE/23xH

“	I will not die here... I must fulfill my master's orders... I will...withdraw...	”	— Hawkeye

Final Chapter: Light quote

“	...I, too, will join you in this final glory.	”	— Hawkeye

Battle History quotes

“	...Well done.	”	— Hawkeye, with S or A rank

“	...Middling is the word I would choose.	”	— Hawkeye, with B or C rank

“	......	”	— Hawkeye, with D or E rank

Tactician quotes

“	Mark, is it? I must see you all safely back to my master. If you have need of it, I will lend you my strength.	”	— Hawkeye in Chapter 22xE/23xH: Genesis

Fire Emblem Heroes

Main article: Hawkeye/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Hawkeye's official artwork from The Blazing Blade can be viewed in Path of Radiance's extras menu if a copy of The Blazing Blade is connected to a copy of Path of Radiance.

Fire Emblem Cipher

Hawkeye is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Hawkeye
	Desert Guardian, Hawkeye
		"I'm Hawkeye, defender of this desert."
		Attack: 60	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 3
		Class: Berserker		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 2
		Guardian Berserker: [Always] If you have 1 or more other allies in the Back Line, this unit gains +10 attack. Killer Axe: [Activate] [Once per turn] [] Until the end of this turn, this unit gains +30 attack.
	Card #B13-028N • Artist: Ippei Soeda
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Hawkeye .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Blazing Blade	The protector of Nabata. A mysterious air surrounds him.	ナバタ砂漠の守護者 不思議な雰囲気を持つ
Heroes	Guardian of the Nabata Desert and Arcadia, where dragons and humans live in harmony. Appears in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.	ナバタ砂漠の守護者。寡黙で、己の役割に忠実。 人と竜が暮らす理想郷の平和を守っている。 （登場：『ファイアーエムブレム 烈火の剣』）

Trivia

• One of Hawkeye's death quotes was mistranslated and mistakenly refers to Igrene as his sister rather than his daughter.
• Both of Hawkeye's sprite^{[clarification needed]} and battle animations are unique and are different from other Berserkers.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Hawkeye	Used to describe someone with good eyesight.
Japanese	ホークアイ	Hawkeye
Spanish	Hawkeye	As above
French	Hawkeye	As above
German	Hawkeye	As above
Italian	Tronk	Borrowed from Dutch tronk, meaning trunk or prison.
Portuguese (Brazil)	Hawkeye	As above
Traditional Chinese	霍克艾	Hawkeye

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Berserker Basic axe Ranged axe

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from The Blazing Blade.

Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from Heroes.

Other appearances

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  Artwork of Hawkeye from Fire Emblem Cipher.

References

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