Hestia

Hestia Artwork of Hestia from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. A witch who serves the Duma Faithful. The middle of three sisters.

Gender Female Race Human Family Jedah (father) Marla (older sister) Sonya (younger sister) Nationality Rigelian Starting class Witch Voiced by Cindy Robinson (English, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Appearance(s) Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Hestia (Japanese: ヘステ Heste) is a witch in Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. She is one of Jedah's daughters and one of Sonya's older sisters. She is also a follower of Duma.

Fire Emblem Gaiden

Role

Hestia is fought twice throughout the game, Alm fights her in Act 4 on the way to Rigel castle, Hestia guards the river crossing. The second time she is fought by Celica and Alm is in the final Act in the basement of the Duma Tower alongside her sister and father.

Unlike her sisters and father, Hestia does not have a single line of dialogue in the entire game.

Stats

See also: Rigel Falls Battle and The Final Battle

Witch Level 8

Stats Max HP 31 Luck 0 Magic 13 Defense 7 Skill 15 Resistance 14 Speed 11 Movement 4

Equipment Spells -- Aura Weapons Sword ✗ Axe ✗ B. Magic ✓ Lance ✗ Bow ✗ W. Magic ✓

• Note: Hestia is also capable of summoning witches.

Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Role

Hestia, as in Gaiden, is fought twice throughout the game, first encountered by Alm in act 4 on the way to Rigel castle at the river crossing. The second time she is fought by Celica and Alm is in the act 5 in the basement of the Duma Tower alongside her sister and father.

Stats

See also: Rigel Falls Battle and The Final Battle

Boss, Act 4 (Normal) Boss, Act 4 (Hard) Boss, Act 5 (Normal) Boss, Act 5 (Hard)

Witch Level 12

Stats Max HP 31 Luck 0 Attack 16 Defense 7 Skill 15 Resistance 14 Speed 11 Movement 4

Item Skills Ambrosia Aura Conjure* Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Witch Level 15

Stats Max HP 33 Luck 0 Attack 17 Defense 8 Skill 16 Resistance 14 Speed 12 Movement 4

Item Skills Ambrosia Aura Conjure* Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Witch Level 20

Stats Max HP 37 Luck 0 Attack 20 Defense 10 Skill 17 Resistance 14 Speed 14 Movement 4

Item Skills -- Aura Conjure* Pact Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Witch Level 20

Stats Max HP 37 Luck 0 Attack 20 Defense 10 Skill 17 Resistance 14 Speed 14 Movement 4

Item Skills Grimoire Ring Aura Conjure* Magic +5* Pact Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

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Personality and character

While Hestia has no dialogue in the original, she is given dialogue in the remake.

Prior to being sacrificed to Duma, she lived in a priory with her two sisters. She is described as having been smart, mature, and having "marched to her own beat" by Sonya.

In her first encounter, she does not understand why anyone would oppose Duma. However, in her second encounter in Duma's Altar, she regrets not having lived life as she pleased like her sister Sonya.

Quotes

Battle quotes

Hestia does not have any battle quotes in Gaiden.

“	Why do you refuse Duma's truth? It is incomprehensible...	”	— Hestia in act 4 of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

“	That's no fair, Sonya... Why should you be the only one allowed to live as she chooses?	”	— Hestia in act 5 of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Death quotes

Hestia does not have any death quotes in Gaiden.

“	Why...? I've done...nothing wrong...	”	— Hestia in act 4 of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

“	Oh... It seems so...obvious now. I should have just lived...as I pleased... like you...	”	— Hestia in act 5 of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Gaiden (manga)

A glimpse of Jedah, Marla, and Hestia provided by Sonya.

In the Gaiden manga Hestia, along with Marla, is deceased. She appears sparingly with Jedah before his corruption by Duma in some of Sonya's flashbacks of the times when they still lived together as a family.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	A witch who serves the Duma Faithful. The middle of three sisters.	ドーマ教団の魔女。 三姉妹の次女。

Trivia

Hestia's head sprites. The top row are for unmounted classes, the bottom row are the unused mounted sprites.

• Hestia and Marla have the exact same stats as each other throughout all their appearances in Gaiden.
  • They also have identical stats in the final act of Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
• In Gaiden Hestia and Marla share portraits, but one is flipped.
• The generic class portrait for witches in Fire Emblem Fates may be inspired by Marla's and Hestia's appearances, as the Fates witch has the same hair color—a very dark and high contrast purple—as the two sisters.
• In Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Hestia and her sister Marla use generic witch models in battle despite having custom map sprites.
• Despite only appearing as a witch in Shadows of Valentia, Hestia has an unused set of sprites for if she appears in a mounted class; these sprites, however, are edits of Sonya's mounted sprites.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Hestia	Derived from Greek ἑστία hestía "hearth, fireside". In Greek mythology Hestia was the goddess of the hearth and domestic activity.
English (unofficial)	• Heste • Hes	• Used in the most recent Gaiden fan translation.[which?] • Used in the older Gaiden fan translation.[which?]
Japanese	ヘステ	Officially romanized as Heste.
Spanish	Hestia	--
French	Hestia	--
German	Hestia	--
Italian	Hestia	--
Dutch	Hestia	--
Portuguese	Hestia	Used in the Choose Your Legends polls for Fire Emblem Heroes.
Korean	헤스테	Heste
Simplified Chinese	海斯特	Heste
Traditional Chinese	海斯特	Heste

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Witch Black magic

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  Artwork of Hestia from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Hestia's portrait in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

References

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