Tethys

Tethys Artwork of Tethys from The Sacred Stones. A beautiful and charming dancer from Jehanna.

Gender Female Race Human Family Ewan (younger brother) Starting class Dancer Voiced by Jennifer Losi (English, Heroes) Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese, Heroes) Appearance(s) The Sacred Stones Heroes

“	That, my dear, is my little secret. Mine may be a bit unique, though. My life's taken some odd turns, but it's because of them that I started dancing. And when I'm dancing, I'm happy.	”	— Tethys, on her dancing style

Tethys (Japanese: テティス Tethys) is a dancer who appears in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. She is from Jehanna, a desert country on the continent of Magvel. She is the older sister of Ewan and a member of Gerik's mercenary company. Since she is a dancer, she provides morale boosts to her fellow allies, but cannot fight on her own.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Role

Tethys first appears in a village in Chapter 5, in which she tells the visiting unit that they just missed her performance. However, she states that a wealthy viewer left her with many gifts, and she gives a Dragonshield to said visitor, saying that wealth is useless if it's not used to benefit others, and that she cannot possibly carry all of her donations.

Later, she appears in the middle of the game either in Eirika or Ephraim's route. Either way, she is hired by Innes to help him on his way to the country of Jehanna. In Eirika's route, she appears in Chapter 10 with Gerik and Innes, trapped in a fortress in Carcino. After Innes chooses to leave Gerik and Tethys, she stays with Gerik and they fend for themselves. However, Eirika reaches them and convinces them to join her army.

Alternatively, in Ephraim's route, Innes sends them to help Ephraim. They appear in Chapter 13, and first meet Myrrh and tell her where Ephraim is. They are trapped quite far away from Ephraim with few supplies, but they manage to survive against Grado troops until Ephraim arrives to help them. Afterwards, Tethys joins Ephraim and helps to dance for the other soldiers for the rest of the game.

Starting stats and growth rates

Eirika's route Ephraim's route

Dancer Level 1 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 10, talk to with Gerik or Innes If Gerik dies in chapter 10, Tethys also leaves Stats Growth Rates Max HP 18 Luck 10 Strength 1 Defense 5 Skill 2 Resistance 4 Speed 12 Constitution 5 Movement 5 Aid 4 Max HP 85% Luck 80% Strength 5% Defense 30% Skill 10% Resistance 75% Speed 70% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Elixir Vulnerary Goddess Icon Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Dancer Level 1 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 13, automatically from turn 1 Stats Growth Rates Max HP 18 Luck 10 Strength 1 Defense 5 Skill 2 Resistance 4 Speed 12 Constitution 5 Movement 5 Aid 4 Max HP 85% Luck 80% Strength 5% Defense 30% Skill 10% Resistance 75% Speed 70% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Elixir Goddess Icon Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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Analysis

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

Tethys is a typical Dancer, possessing high luck and speed, along with great growths in said areas, while being very frail. However, as Tethys is unable to attack her stats might as well not matter.

Tethys's main use is dancing to refresh a player unit and give them another turn, this is incredibly powerful when utilitsed in combination with Rescue and Warp in order to easily skip certain chapters. Due to the low quality of enemy units and absence of many strong Warp users, Tethys is not as useful as most dancers, but with some thought Tethys can easily make user of her unique skill and justify getting a deployment slot for any map after she joins.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Role

Tethys is one of the characters added to the game in the Marvelous Dream update, and became available for summoning by players on November 7, 2019. Only one variation of Tethys is currently available in Heroes, based on her The Sacred Stones incarnation.

Starting stats

★★★ ★★★★ ★★★★★

Rarity ★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 14/15/16 Attack 3/4/5 Speed 7/8/9 Defense 2/3/4 Resistance 4/5/6 Maximum HP 31/34/37 Attack 20/23/26 Speed 28/31/34 Defense 17/20/23 Resistance 27/30/33 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Steel Dagger -- --

Rarity ★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 14/15/16 Attack 3/4/5 Speed 8/9/10 Defense 2/3/4 Resistance 5/6/7 Maximum HP 32/35/38 Attack 21/24/27 Speed 30/33/36 Defense 18/21/24 Resistance 29/32/35 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills The Cleaner Dance --

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 15/16/17 Attack 4/5/6 Speed 8/9/10 Defense 3/4/5 Resistance 5/6/7 Maximum HP 34/38/41 Attack 23/27/30 Speed 32/35/38 Defense 20/23/27 Resistance 31/34/37 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills The Cleaner+ Dance --

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Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Rarity	SP cost
	Iron Dagger	Innate
	Steel Dagger	Innate
	The Cleaner	★★★	200 SP
	The Cleaner+	★★★★★	300 SP
	Dance	★★★	150 SP
A	Spd/Res Bond 1	★★★	60 SP
A	Spd/Res Bond 2	★★★	120 SP
A	Spd/Res Bond 3	★★★★	240 SP
C	Dagger Exp. 1	★★★	30 SP
C	Dagger Exp. 2	★★★★	60 SP
C	Dagger Exp. 3	★★★★★	120 SP

Personality and character

Tethys is a very graceful and beautiful woman who is confident in herself and her dancing abilities. She is quite sociable and often can be teasing and playful. To those she is close to, Tethys is very caring, such as how she cares greatly for her brother Ewan and acts as a maternal figure to Artur. Although she warns Ewan that the battlefield is a dangerous place that, at least to her, he is too young for, she still accepts that he is growing up. She also is quite observant, such as when she notices that Marisa is left-handed.

Tethys is the sister of Ewan, a young novice mage. She and Ewan were abandoned when they were just children, and they lived in the streets alone. However, Tethys worked hard to help Ewan by trying to imitate the moves of a street dancer. She fell many times and become covered in cuts and bruises, but she did it for a better life, so she would not have to see Ewan cry. Eventually, she was able to make a living with her dance, as well as raise her brother on her own. How she met Gerik is unknown, but she is currently a loyal and steadfast member of Gerik's mercenary group. As part of the group, she is also a friend of Marisa. Both Tethys and Marisa have feelings for Gerik, but either one can marry him depending on which girl has an A support level with him.

Supports

Main article: Tethys/Supports

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See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Tethys, Beloved Dancer
She danced from city to city, and the entire continent became her stage. Her fame grew and grew, and large crowds gathered wherever she performed.

Gerik and Tethys
Gerik and Tethys remained bound to no nation and beholden to no authority. They bought themselves a leisurely retirement. Gerik taught fencing to city youths, and Tethys found many stages on which to dance.

Quotes

Death quote

“	The dark rider I foresaw... He was coming for me...	”	— Tethys

Battle quotes

“	Don't tense up! You'll fight better if you're relaxed.	”	— Tethys in the final chapter.

Heroes quotes

Main article: Tethys/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Tethys's official artwork from The Sacred Stones can be viewed in Path of Radiance's extras menu if a copy of The Sacred Stones is connected to a copy of Path of Radiance.

Fire Emblem Cipher

Tethys is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Tethys
	Beloved Dancer, Tethys
		"Dancing is a way of expressing feelings through body movement. All of one's experiences are incorporated and displayed in the way one dances."
		Attack: 30	Support: 10	Range: -	Deploy Cost: 3
		Class: Dancer		Tier: Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Dancer of the Mercenaries: [Trigger] When you deploy this unit in the Front Line, choose 1 other ally. Until the end of the turn, that ally gains +20 attack. Dance: [Activate] [] [] Choose 1 ally that has attacked this turn, and untap them. "Would you like to dance with me?": [Activate] [Once per turn] [] Choose 1 other ally, and untap them. Until the end of the turn, that ally is unable to attack.
	Card #B18-094R • Artist: Yoko Maturica
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Tethys .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Sacred Stones	A beautiful and charming dancer from Jehanna.	ジャハナ王国出身の踊り子 大人の色香漂う美女
Heroes	A member of Gerik's Mercenaries who is a talented and charming dancer. Together with her dear brother Ewan, she strives to survive a life torn apart by war. Appears in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.	ジスト傭兵団の一員で、艶やかな色気を持つ踊り子。 愛する弟ユアンとふたりで戦乱の世を生き抜く。 （登場：『ファイアーエムブレム 聖魔の光石』）

Trivia

• Tethys's death quote and an offhand line to Gerik in her support conversation with him seem to imply that Tethys has some skill in making fortunes, though this ability ends up never being mentioned in detail elsewhere.
• In the Japanese version of Tethys's C support with Marisa, Tethys asks Marisa why she sleeps on her left side, to which Marisa replies that she sleeps with her dominant side up.^{[citation needed]} This is incorrect as Marisa is left-handed. The English version modified so that Tethys asks Marisa why she sleeps on her right side.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Tethys	Tethys was a titan in Greek mythology who was the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the wife of Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.
Japanese	テティス	Officially romanized as Tethys.
Spanish	Tethys	As above.
French	Tethys	As above.
German	Tethys	As above.
Italian	Tethys	As above.
Portuguese (Brazil)	Tethys	As above.
Traditional Chinese	特媞絲	Tethys

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
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  Beta portrait of Tethys in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.

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  Artwork of Tethys from The Sacred Stones.

Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Tethys: Beloved Dancer from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Tethys: Beloved Dancer from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Tethys: Beloved Dancer from Heroes.

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  Artwork of Tethys: Beloved Dancer 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.