Niime

Niime Artwork of Niime from The Binding Blade. The Mountain Hermit. Has devoted her life to research and study.

Gender Female Race Human Age 70s Family Canas (son) Three other sons Hugh (grandson) Nationality Ilian Title(s) Mountain Hermit Starting class Druid Voiced by Robin Bell (English, Heroes) Kikuko Inoue (Japanese, Heroes) Appearance(s) The Binding Blade Heroes

“	She is an odd character. She is known to some as the Mountain Hermit...	”	— Canas

Niime (Japanese: ニイメ Nimue), widely known as the "Mountain Hermit", is an Elibean scholar and sorceress famous for her research on dark magic and the Scouring. She is the mother of four sons, among them Canas, and raised Canas's son Hugh following his death.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Ilia route

Niime was arrested by the Bern occupation army in Ilia, and under Bishop Martel's orders she was forced to use an ancient tome to summon a rain storm in order to obstruct the approach of Roy and the Etrurian army. Instead, however, she used it to freeze the rivers and make a clearer path to Martel for Roy. Once the battle was over, she approached Roy, told him everything she knew of Bern's use of dragons, and joined his army.

Sacae route

Following Roy's successful capture of the Sacaen capital Bulgar, Niime sought an audience with him, piquing his attention with her mention of manaketes. She told him everything she knew of Bern and the manaketes in its service, and joined his army.

Starting stats and growth rates

Druid Level 18 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 19A/20B, automatically from turn 1 Stats Growth Rates Max HP 25 Luck 15 Magic 21 Defense 5 Skill 20 Resistance 18 Speed 16 Constitution 4 Movement 6 Aid 3 Max HP 25% Luck 5% Magic 15% Defense 15% Skill 15% Resistance 20% Speed 15% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Flux Eclipse Physic Heal Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- A A

Analysis

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

Niime is a pre-promoted Druid that joins fairly late regardless of which route the player chooses, though she joins one chapter earlier in the Ilia route. Niime has rather terrible growths in all areas, but makes up for it with high bases and weapon level, most notably her A rank in staves. Because of her ability to use Warp at base and her high magic, Niime is considered the best warper in the game, as other characters such as Saul are unlikely to get equally high magic in faster playthroughs or even reach such a high staff rank. Because every map in The Binding Blade is a seize map, most maps can be warp-skipped by warping a strong boss killer such as Rutger or Perceval to the boss, dancing for Niime, and warping Roy to the throne so he can seize it. Niime is an excellent user of other staves as well, due to her aforementioned high magic base. While Niime's low defense and HP limit her combat prowess, her high magic and the enemies' generally low resistance enables her to deal high damage without taking a counter attack, and if given a Body Ring, a Speedwing, and a Angelic Robe she can be an excellent unit for dealing with the wyverns in Chapter 21 with Nosferatu. Overall, Niime is an excellent pre-promote, likely eclipsing even other trained magic users and is an invaluable asset on hard mode as a staff bot.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Role

Niime is one of the characters added to the game in the Princess Alone update, and became available for summoning by players on February 18, 2022. Only one variation of Niime is currently available in Heroes, based on her The Binding Blade incarnation.

Starting stats

Niime: Mountain Hermit is only available at 5★ rarity.

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 15/16/17 Attack 10/11/12 Speed 5/6/7 Defense 2/3/4 Resistance 8/9/10 Maximum HP 32/35/39 Attack 38/41/45 Speed 29/32/35 Defense 12/16/19 Resistance 38/42/45 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Hvítrvulture+ -- Chilling Wind

Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Rarity	SP cost
	Stone	Innate
	Elstone	Innate
	Hvítrvulture	Innate
	Hvítrvulture+	Innate
	Chilling Wind	Innate
	Iceberg	★★★★★	200 SP
A	Atk/Res Solo 1	★★★★★	60 SP
A	Atk/Res Solo 2	★★★★★	120 SP
A	Atk/Res Solo 3	★★★★★	240 SP
A	Atk/Res Solo 4	★★★★★	300 SP
C	Threaten Res 1	★★★★★	50 SP
C	Threat. Atk/Res 1	★★★★★	100 SP
C	Threat. Atk/Res 2	★★★★★	200 SP
C	Atk/Res Menace	★★★★★	300 SP

Personality and character

Described by Canas as an "odd character", Niime is renowned as a scholar. As a researcher on the Scouring, Niime is fascinated by dragons, but as a result of the vast majority of sources on the subject portraying dragons in a negative light, she too at first accepts the claims describing them as inhuman terrors. Her experiences with Fae changed her views: at first she assumed her to be dangerous and presumably intended to harm or kill her, but rapidly learned otherwise and changed her mind, realizing the folly of killing Fae to preserve "peace".

Niime is a strong believer in the superiority of dark magic over other forms. She once attempted to convince Canas's wife, an anima mage, to adopt the practice of dark magic instead, relenting only because of her exceptional skill with anima magic. She is particularly abrasive toward Hugh for this reason, among others, but ultimately she still holds some fondness for her sole grandson.

Fifty years prior to the Great Movement of Bern, Niime was involved in a relationship with Yoder of the St. Elimine Church, which came to a messy end under unspecified circumstances.

Supports

Main article: Niime/Supports

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See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Niime - Mountain Hermit
Short: Disappeared in the mountains.

Long: Niime returned to her secluded home in the mountains and continued her research. It was rumored she solved many of the world’s mysteries, but she left no records so none can know for sure.

Quotes

Battle quotes

“	This is it! The power I've been searching for!!	”	— Niime, in the Final Chapter of The Binding Blade.

Death quote

“	Heh heh. Well, I had a decent life...	”	— Niime, in The Binding Blade.

Heroes quotes

Main article: Niime/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Niime is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Niime
	Mountain Hermit, Niime
		"I am Niime. I live in the mountains, where I study arcane magic. Some call me the Mountain Hermit."
		Attack: 60	Support: 20	Range: 1-2	Deploy Cost: 5
		Class: Druid		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 4
		Unfathomable Dark Power: [Activate] [] [] Your opponent chooses 2 cards from their hand, and send them to the Retreat Area. Ancient Tome: [Activate] [Once per turn] Choose 1 non-lord enemy, and destroy them. This skill cannot be used unless your opponent has no cards in their hand.
	Card #B13-048HN • Artist: Doji Shiki
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Niime .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade	The Mountain Hermit. Has devoted her life to research and study.*	イリア地方の山奥で 研究にうちこむドルイド
Heroes	Scholar of dark magic and ancient dragons. Everyone in Elibe who knows anything about magic has learned her name as well. Appears in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.	闇魔道と古代竜族の研究者。 エレブ大陸において魔道を志すなら知らぬ者はいない。 （登場：『ファイアーエムブレム 封印の剣』）

Trivia

• Niime was initially listed as Nimue on the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends poll. This was corrected a few days in.
• Niime is mentioned in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade in Canas and Pent`s B support conversation. Canas mentions how Niime is his mother, which causes Pent to exclaim that "Every mage knows of Niime the Hermit", indicating her fame among magic users, and quickly rushes to tell his wife Louise that he has met the son of Niime.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Niime	Corruption of Nimue, one of the names given to the Lady of the Lake of Arthurian mythology.
Japanese	ニイメ	Officially romanized as Nimue.
Spanish	Niime	--
French	Niime	--
German	Niime	--
Italian	Niime	--
Portuguese (Brazil)	Niime	--
Traditional Chinese	尼伊玫	Nimue

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Druid Dark Staff

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  Artwork of Niime from The Binding Blade.

Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit from Heroes.

References

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