Light and Shadow

Not to be confused with Light and Dark, the tenth chapter of Genealogy of the Holy War.

The Dragon's Table Light and Shadow

Location Dragon's Table: Uppermost Level New units Maria, Nyna, Elice, Lena Boss(es) Medeus Previous chapter(s) The Dark Pontifex Lives

“	Shadow Dragon Medeus! Now, Nothing stands between this blade and you. Come, let's settle this!	”	— Marth

Light and Shadow (Japanese: 光と影 Light and Shadow) is the endgame of Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem. In Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem Book II, the same map is the third of three maps comprising The Dragon's Table, the second "endgame" chapter.

Plot

Main articles: Light and Shadow/Script and Light and Shadow/Conversations

The Altean Army arrives in the chamber where Medeus has been resurrected. Marth and Kris talk with each other, with Marth saying that this will be a fierce battle, and he doesn't know whether everyone will be alive at the end. Kris tells him that he has faith, because a fortune teller told him when he was a child that he would live to an old age.

They discover Medeus, surrounded by the missing clerics. Jagen tells Marth that Medeus must be defeated as soon as possible, and that it may be necessary to sacrifice the clerics, since Medeus cannot be killed with them around him. Marth still believes that there is a chance they might save the princesses. Jagen asks Kris to find a way to save them, and Kris replies that he will strike them down if necessary, but he still has hope.

A fierce battle ensues, and Medeus is eventually defeated. Marth thanks everyone for contributing to the war. Gotoh says that Medeus has been obliterated and the earth dragons have been subdued, and the Binding Shield will make sure it stays that way. Marth asks Caeda for her help in leading the continent, since all seven kingdoms will be united, with Marth as its king. Marth thanks Kris, and remarks that the things Kris has done are being presented as Marth's efforts. Kris is fine with this, since the continent needs a great hero everyone can rally behind, and that hero must be Marth. As long as Marth remembers, Kris has no problems with that. Marth remarks he feels close to Kris, and believes fate united them.

Marth is later crowned as the king of the United Kingdom of Archanea, and an era of peace begins.

Chapter data

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Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Defeat Medeus, then seize	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Marth dies	1–15+4	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	5+150	{{{third}}}
Map dimensions: 30 columns by 30 rows

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Defeat Medeus	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Marth or Kris dies	1–12+4	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	23−3+∞	{{{third}}}
Map dimensions: 30 columns by 30 rows

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In Mystery of the Emblem, no preparations menu appears before this chapter; the player's character selections and turn count carry over from the first two parts. The game cannot be saved before this chapter.

Character data

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Characters
New Units
Maria Bishop HP 17 Inventory Recover Level 1 Enemy, talk with Minerva Nyna Bishop HP 18 Inventory Thoron Level 7 Enemy, talk with Sirius Elice Bishop HP 18 Inventory Fortify Level 5 Enemy, talk with Merric Lena Bishop HP 18 Inventory Bolganone Level 3 Enemy, talk with Julian
Required Characters
Available Characters

Characters
New Units
Maria Bishop HP 24 Inventory Fire Physic Level 1 Enemy, talk with Minerva Nyna Bishop HP 25 Inventory Thoron Fortify Level 7 Enemy, talk with Sirius Elice Bishop HP 26 Inventory Bolganone Fortify Level 5 Enemy, talk with Merric Lena Bishop HP 27 Inventory Elfire Physic Level 3 Enemy, talk with Julian
Required Characters
Available Characters

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Item data

Items

Name Obtainment Method Thoron Dropped by Nyna if killed as an enemy Fortify Dropped by Elice if killed as an enemy Physic Dropped by Maria if killed as an enemy Elfire Dropped by Lena if killed as an enemy

There are no items to be found in the original Mystery of the Emblem. The item list above is for New Mystery of the Emblem.

Enemy data

Enemy data

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Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Nyna Bishop 7 1 18 4 4 10 18 4 7 6 Thoron Does not move. Elice Bishop 5 1 18 5 5 7 7 5 7 6 Fortify Does not move. Maria Bishop 1 1 17 3 3 5 8 3 7 6 Recover Does not move. Lena Bishop 3 1 18 6 6 13 10 6 7 6 Bolganone Does not move. Medeus Shadow Dragon 1 1 52 20 0 0 -- 15 15 5 Dark Breath • Does not move; stands on an altar. • Cannot be attacked by magical attacks. • If reduced to 0 HP, he consumes Nyna, Elice, Maria, and Lena if they have not been recruited or killed, restoring 13 HP for each consumed Bishop.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Earth Dragon Earth Dragon 1 150 52 10 0 0 -- 15 15 5 Dark Breath --

Stats with a decimal can vary randomly; the decimal represents the chance for the stat to increase to the nearest integer, or otherwise be truncated.

Normal Hard Maniac Lunatic

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Nyna Bishop 7 1 25 1 6 6 10 18 4 9 -- Thoron • Fortify -- Elice Bishop 5 1 26 1 7 7 7 7 5 10 -- Bolganone • Fortify -- Maria Bishop 1 1 24 1 5 5 5 8 3 9 -- Fire • Physic -- Lena Bishop 3 1 27 1 8 8 13 10 6 11 -- Elfire • Physic -- Dragon Fire Dragon 20 4 41.4 19.5 0 19.4 19.2 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Ice Dragon 20 4 35.4 14.5 0 22.2 16.4 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Mage Dragon 20 3 38.4 11.5 7.75 20.2 13.4 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Earth Dragon 20 3 41.4 21.5 0 23.2 21.2 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Wyvern 20 4 35.4 17.5 0 17.4 22.2 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Medeus Shadow Dragon 30 1 60 25 0 25 25 0 25 20 -- Dark Breath • Stands on an altar. • If reduced to 0 HP, he consumes Nyna, Elice, Maria, and Lena if they have not been recruited or killed, restoring 25% of his max HP for each consumed Bishop.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Dragon Fire Dragon 20 ∞ 41.4 19.5 0 19.4 19.2 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath -- Dragon Earth Dragon 20 ∞ 41.4 21.5 0 23.2 21.2 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath -- Dragon Mage Dragon 20 ∞ 38.4 11.5 7.75 20.2 13.4 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath -- Dragon Ice Dragon 20 ∞ 35.4 14.5 0 22.2 16.4 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath -- Dragon Wyvern 20 ∞ 35.4 17.5 0 17.4 22.2 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath --

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Nyna Bishop 7 1 25 1 6 6 10 18 4 9 -- Thoron • Fortify -- Elice Bishop 5 1 26 1 7 7 7 7 5 10 -- Bolganone • Fortify -- Maria Bishop 1 1 24 1 5 5 5 8 3 9 -- Fire • Physic -- Lena Bishop 3 1 27 1 8 8 13 10 6 11 -- Elfire • Physic -- Dragon Fire Dragon 20 4 50.44 24.7 0 22.84 22.72 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Ice Dragon 20 4 43.64 18.9 0 26.92 20.24 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Mage Dragon 20 3 47.04 17.1 14.23 23.32 18.04 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Earth Dragon 20 3 50.44 25.9 0 25.92 24.72 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Wyvern 20 4 42.04 21.9 0 20.04 25.32 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Medeus Shadow Dragon 30 1 76 31 0 31 27 0 31 24 -- Dark Breath • Stands on an altar. • If reduced to 0 HP, he consumes Nyna, Elice, Maria, and Lena if they have not been recruited or killed, restoring 25% of his max HP for each consumed Bishop.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Dragon Fire Dragon 20 ∞ 50.44 24.7 0 22.84 22.72 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath -- Dragon Earth Dragon 20 ∞ 50.44 25.9 0 25.92 24.72 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath -- Dragon Mage Dragon 20 ∞ 47.04 17.1 14.23 23.32 18.04 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath -- Dragon Ice Dragon 20 ∞ 43.64 18.9 0 26.92 20.24 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath -- Dragon Wyvern 20 ∞ 42.04 21.9 0 20.04 25.32 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath --

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Nyna Bishop 7 1 25 1 6 6 10 18 4 9 -- Thoron • Fortify -- Elice Bishop 5 1 26 1 7 7 7 7 5 10 -- Bolganone • Fortify -- Maria Bishop 1 1 24 1 5 5 5 8 3 9 -- Fire • Physic -- Lena Bishop 3 1 27 1 8 8 13 10 6 11 -- Elfire • Physic -- Dragon Fire Dragon 20 4 59.48 29.9 0 26.28 26.24 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Ice Dragon 20 4 51.88 23.3 0 30 24.08 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Mage Dragon 20 3 55.68 22.7 20.71 26.44 22.68 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Earth Dragon 20 3 59.48 30 0 28.64 28.24 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Wyvern 20 4 48.68 26.3 0 22.68 28.44 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Medeus Shadow Dragon 30 1 92 37 0 37 29 0 37 28 -- Dark Breath • Stands on an altar. • If reduced to 0 HP, he consumes Nyna, Elice, Maria, and Lena if they have not been recruited or killed, restoring 25% of his max HP for each consumed Bishop.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Dragon Fire Dragon 20 ∞ 59.48 29.9 0 26.28 26.24 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath -- Dragon Earth Dragon 20 ∞ 59.48 30 0 28.64 28.24 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath -- Dragon Mage Dragon 20 ∞ 55.68 22.7 20.71 26.44 22.68 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath -- Dragon Ice Dragon 20 ∞ 51.88 23.3 0 30 24.08 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath -- Dragon Wyvern 20 ∞ 48.68 26.3 0 22.68 28.44 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath --

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Nyna Bishop 7 1 25 1 6 6 10 18 4 9 -- Thoron • Fortify -- Elice Bishop 5 1 26 1 7 7 7 7 5 10 -- Bolganone • Fortify -- Maria Bishop 1 1 24 1 5 5 5 8 3 9 -- Fire • Physic -- Lena Bishop 3 1 27 1 8 8 13 10 6 11 -- Elfire • Physic -- Dragon Fire Dragon 20 4 60 30 0 28 28 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Ice Dragon 20 4 56 25.5 0 30 26 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Mage Dragon 20 3 60 25.5 23.95 28 25 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Earth Dragon 20 3 60 30 0 30 30 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Dragon Wyvern 20 4 52 28.5 0 24 30 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath Immediately begins moving unprovoked. Medeus Shadow Dragon 30 1 99 40 0 40 30 0 40 30 -- Dark Breath • Stands on an altar. • If reduced to 0 HP, he consumes Nyna, Elice, Maria, and Lena if they have not been recruited or killed, restoring 25% of his max HP for each consumed Bishop.

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str Mag Skill Spd Lck Def Res Cha Con Mov Inventory and Skills Dragon Fire Dragon 20 ∞ 60 30 0 28 28 0 18.5 8.8 6 Fire Breath -- Dragon Earth Dragon 20 ∞ 60 30 0 30 30 0 22.5 19.8 6 Dark Breath -- Dragon Mage Dragon 20 ∞ 60 25.5 23.95 28 25 0 20.5 14.8 6 Mage Breath -- Dragon Ice Dragon 20 ∞ 56 25.5 0 30 26 0 22.5 12.8 6 Ice Breath -- Dragon Wyvern 20 ∞ 52 28.5 0 24 30 0 16.5 4.8 12 Fire Breath --

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At the start of each player phase, any Earth Dragons present will be banished by the Binding Shield.

Reinforcements

Mystery of the Emblem

• Starting two turns after the part starts, continuing until thirty of each have appeared; which ones appear each turn is random
  • Five Earth Dragons from the altars

All reinforcements are halted when Medeus is defeated

New Mystery of the Emblem

Starting turn 2, reinforcements will spawn from the altars. Enemies appear in the following repeated cycle:

1. Fire Dragon
2. Earth Dragon
3. Mage Dragon
4. Ice Dragon
5. Earth Dragon
6. Fire Dragon
7. Mage Dragon
8. Earth Dragon
9. Wyvern

The number of enemies that appear cycles, depending on difficulty:

• In Normal and Hard modes: two enemies appear on the first turn of a cycle, then one, then four, then two
• In Maniac and Lunatic modes: three enemies appear on the first turn of a cycle, then two, then four, then three

The first enemy (a Fire Dragon) appears from the northwest altar. Subsequent enemies appear at altars offset from the enemy before them, clockwise (northwest altar → northern altar → northeast altar → southeast altar → southwest altar); the pattern varies by difficulty:

• In Normal and Hard modes:
  1. Two positions
  2. One position
  3. One position
  4. One position
  5. Two positions
  6. One position
  7. Two positions
  8. Two positions
  9. Four positions
• In Maniac and Lunatic modes:
  1. Two positions
  2. One position
  3. The same altar as previous
  4. Three positions
  5. Three positions
  6. One position
  7. Two positions
  8. One position
  9. Two positions
  10. Two positions
  11. One position
  12. Three positions

For example, on turn 2 in Normal mode, a Fire Dragon appears from the northwest altar; two enemies appear at this point in the cycle, so the next enemy (an Earth Dragon) appears two altars from the first enemy (at the northeast altar). On turn 3, a single enemy (a Mage Dragon) appears one altar from the previous enemy (at the southeast altar). On turn 4, four enemies appear: an Ice Dragon from the southwest altar, an Earth Dragon from the northwest altar, a Fire Dragon from the northeast altar, and a Mage Dragon from the southeast altar.

Boss data

Main article: Medeus

Boss data

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Shadow Dragon Level 1 Movement 5 Experience 30

Stats Max HP 52 Luck -- Strength 20 W. Level -- Skill 0 Defense 15 Speed 0 Resistance 15

Weapons Items Dark Breath -- Weapons Sword ✗ Lance ✗ Axe ✗ Bow ✗ Tome ✗ Staff ✗

Normal Hard Maniac Lunatic

Shadow Dragon Level 30 Movement --

Stats Max HP 60 Speed 25 Strength 25 Luck 0 Magic 0 Defense 25 Skill 25 Resistance 20

Inventory Dark Breath Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- --

Shadow Dragon Level 30 Movement --

Stats Max HP 76 Speed 27 Strength 31 Luck 0 Magic 0 Defense 31 Skill 31 Resistance 24

Inventory Dark Breath Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- --

Shadow Dragon Level 30 Movement --

Stats Max HP 92 Speed 29 Strength 37 Luck 0 Magic 0 Defense 37 Skill 37 Resistance 28

Inventory Dark Breath Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- --

Shadow Dragon Level 30 Movement --

Stats Max HP 99 Speed 30 Strength 40 Luck 0 Magic 0 Defense 40 Skill 40 Resistance 30

Inventory Dark Breath Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- --

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Strategy

This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.

Mystery of the Emblem

A high priority is recruiting Nyna, Maria, Lena, and Elice, as, if Medeus is killed without recruiting them, Medeus will kill them all and fully restore his HP. If you do not have Sirius, Minerva, Julian, or Merric, then it is advisable to kill the ones you can't recruit as this will prevent Medeus from reviving himself.

Marth should fight Medeus with Falchion. Using anything other than Falchion will do very little damage due to attack stats being halved when fighting against Medeus, and magic is completely useless against him. Other units should also be placed in the range of the earth dragons (but not in Medeus's range) to prevent them from all attacking Marth when they appear.

Two or more staff-using units should stay out of range of Medeus and the earth dragons and use Physic on Marth before he engages Medeus, and Fortify after to heal Marth and the people who are being attacked by earth dragons. Yuliya's Rescue can also be used to prevent Marth from being attacked by Medeus on the enemy phase if he is too low on health. Anew is also very useful, as it will give everyone an extra turn (up to three times, if you haven't used it before).

New Mystery of the Emblem

The best way to beat this map in Lunatic and Lunatic Reverse is to beat it in 1 turn in order to avoid having to deal with the many dangerous dragons. Sirius can reach Nyna and talk to her with a dance from Phina, you should have Sirius hold a rescue staff and pass it around the four princesses in order to recruit all of them and finally warp in Marth. Marth should be equipped with Falchion as it's the only weapon effective against him and as such will be the best way of fighting him. Marth needs to have capped speed in order to avoid getting doubled, if you haven't trained up Marth and don't have any statboosters left over it's best to try and play this map slowly and use your other strongest characters and staffbots.

Tiki and Nagi are recommended, as well as dragonpikes and wyrmslayers to fight the dragons the chapter. Medeus is the biggest problem in the chapter and it's recommended to fight him with powerful weapons like the Hauteclere, since only Falchion is effective against him and other weapons will to pitiful damage in comparison. Forged weapons are also very useful, particularly a +10 forged Thoron tome, an again staff and rainbow tonics are equally useful. In order to defeat him without losing any characters it's a good idea to rig a critical hit, this is luckily very easy as there's a save point near the start of the chapter allowing you to try and try again until you get that one lucky crit (the final hit on Medeus will always be a crit, even if he dies to a normal hit).

Medeus' stats on Lunatic are completely out of this world. He 2HKO's anything in the game, even a HP/DEF capped General. He doubles anything that isn't a Swordmaster, Sniper, Horseman, Berserker, Thief or SPD-capped Marth, thereby ORKO'ing them. He also has 42 DEF and 30 RES, making the units that do survive deal very little damage to him. Marth can deal 24 damage with capped STR, A-Swords and the Falchion and survives a round of combat. However, he would take about 3 turns of being healed and enemy-phasing to actually kill Medeus, which would allow ambush reinforcements to spawn. Other units can still chip Medeus down, however. While Snipers are stuck at 2 damage with Parthia or 6 damage with +10 Silver, Swordmasters and Horsemen with 3 damage Mercurius or 7 damage +10 Silver, Berserkers can deal 12 damage with a +10 Silver, 8 damage with the Hauteclere and 7×2 with a +10 Brave Axe at capped strength. Sages and Sorcerers can also deal up to 25 damage with a +10 Thoron, outstripping even Marth, but die on retaliation. However, you can intentionally reclass a magic-using unit into Swordmaster or Horseman to gain enough speed to avoid being doubled, then give them a forged Levin Sword to deal as much as 13 damage at +10 forge. Thoron's high base CRT combined with Medeus's luck of 0, however, can make Thoron an effective finisher if Medeus is below 75 HP and you rig for a crit. A hit from Marth combined with a Crit from a Sage can kill Medeus in two attacks.

Etymology and other languages

Mystery of the Emblem

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	The Dragon's Table	Implied by the location's name in Fire Emblem Awakening.
English (unofficial)	The Dragons' Altar	Used in the Mystery of the Emblem fan translation.[which?]
Japanese	竜の祭壇	The Dragon's/Dragons' Altar

New Mystery of the Emblem

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English (unofficial)	Light and Shadow	Used in the New Mystery of the Emblem fan translation.[which?]
Japanese	光と影	Light and Shadow

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References

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