King Daein

King Daein Ashnard, King Daein, in Path of Radiance. The king of Daein, a bitter enemy.

Unit type(s) Flying Beorc Weapon(s) Sword, Axe Skill(s) Canto

The King Daein (Japanese: デイン国王 King of Dayne) is an advanced flying class which appears only in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. This class is exclusive to Ashnard, the titular king of Daein and the game's final boss, and is similar to a more powerful version of the playable Wyvern Lord class, riding a Black Dragon mount. The class is enemy-only in the main story, but becomes a playable class in the game's Trial Map mode when Ashnard himself is unlocked as the final bonus character. The class has access to swords and axes, although in the main story Ashnard will only ever use a single sword, Gurgurant.

The King Daein class is extremely powerful with by far the highest maximum stats in the game, and while some classes - mainly laguz - may equal it in a single stat, none come close to it overall (only Red Dragons have a higher single maximum stat than this class, namely strength). Compounding this is how, owing to the blessed armor Ashnard wears in the story, the class possesses a hidden skill that renders him completely impervious to damage from all but a small few attacks; only Ike with Ragnell, Nasir, Ena, Tibarn, Naesala, and Giffca are able to damage Ashnard. Fighting Ashnard is an extended game of attrition, where the player's capable units must slowly chip away at him while having their HP recovered, with the easiest way to defeat him - Ike activating Aether to bypass Ashnard's monstrous defense stat - relying on sheer luck.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Path of Radiance	25	9	1	7	5	0	9	1	10	14	C E

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Path of Radiance	80	40	40	40	40	40	40	40	20	99	S A

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision
Path of Radiance	--	--	--	+35	40	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Path of Radiance	80%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	50%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Path of Radiance	Canto*	Innate; hidden and unnamed.

• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: A King Daein will take no damage at all from any attack which does not use one of the following weapons: Ragnell, Breath, Giffca's Claw, and Tibarn and Naesala's Beaks.

Class change

Path of Radiance

Advanced class
King Daein

Playable Kings Daein

Playable Characters
Name	Game
Ashnard	Path of Radiance (Trial Map only)
Playable King Daein units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Kings Daein

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Ashnard	Path of Radiance
Enemy King Daein units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Path of Radiance	The king of Daein, a bitter enemy.	仇敵、デインの国王です

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	King Daein	--
Japanese	デイン国王	King of Dayne
Spanish	Rey Daein	King Daein
French	Roi de Daein	King of Daein
German	König	King
Italian	Re di Daein	King of Daein

Gallery

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  Ashnard, King Daein, in Path of Radiance.

See also

• Wyvern Lord

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