Hex

Hex Icon of the Hex skill in Awakening. Reduces Avo by 15 for all adjacent enemies.

Type(s) Class (Awakening) Passive (Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Game(s) Awakening Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Hex (Japanese: 呪い Curse) is a skill introduced in Fire Emblem Awakening. A class skill belonging to Dark Mages, it reduces the avoiding abilities of all enemies adjacent to the user.

It returned in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia as a passive skill linked to the Shadow Sword and Devil Axe, where it gives the user of the weapon bearing it a chance to damage themselves instead of their target as a result of their strike. However, it is negated by the Dread Fighter's Antihex ability. Technically speaking, this effect has existed in the series long before Echoes: Shadows of Valentia made it a formalized skill. Weapons with this effect have featured in many previous games, and first appeared in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, the very first game in the Fire Emblem series, as an attribute of the Devil Axe and Devil Sword.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Awakening		-15 avoid to all adjacent foes.	--	--	Remains active if user is the supporting unit of a pair up.
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia		User may damage themselves instead of their target with their strike.	??%	--	--

Availability

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Weapons

Shadow Sword • Devil Axe

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Awakening	Reduces Avo by 15 for all adjacent enemies.	??
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Has a set chance of cursing the user.	??

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
English	Hex
Japanese	呪い	Curse
Spanish	Maleficio	Hex
French	• Aura maléfique • Malédiction	• Evil aura. Used in Awakening. • Curse. Used in Shadows of Valentia.
German	Bann	Spell
Italian	Sortilegio	Spell
Dutch	Vloek	Curse

See also

• Anathema
• Heartseeker