Witch

Witch Artwork of a generic witch from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. What's left of a woman who was sacrificed to Duma.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Black magic, White magic (Gaiden, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Tome (Fates) Skill(s) Teleportation (all titles) Shadowgift, Witch's Brew, Toxic Brew (Fates)

“	This whole thing is a bit outta my realm of expertise, but apparently offering up your soul to Duma buys you enormous magic power. Problem is, you turn into a living-husk sort of...thing.	”	— Saber, on Valentian Witches

The Witch (Japanese: 魔女 Witch) is a magical class which originated in Fire Emblem Gaiden. In addition to possessing formidable prowess as an offensive magical class with their high magic stats, Witches are the only class to possess the infamous Teleportation skill, which allows them to teleport themselves somewhere else on the map before, in Gaiden at least, continuing on to perform another action. In Gaiden, this ability effectively gives them infinite movement, as their self-warping ability has unlimited range.

The Witch class is exclusive to female units. In Gaiden, it is an enemy-exclusive variant of the Mage class, and while there are two recruitable Witches, Sonya and Delthea, both their classes change to Mage upon recruitment. In Fates, Witches return as a playable class, and any female unit is able to reclass to Witch by using a Witch's Mark, which is obtained from the DLC chapter Witches' Trial.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Gaiden	22	--	10	12	8	0	4	14	7	--	Black magic, white magic
Fates	17	0	10	5	9	3	4	5	6	--	E
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	22	10	--	12	8	0	4	14	4	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Gaiden	52	--	40	40	40	40	40	40	7	--	Black magic, white magic
Fates	50	25	36	27	34	28	26	29	8	--	S

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision	Size
Gaiden	100	6	--	--	--	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	100	6	--	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Gaiden	150%	--	50%	50%	50%	0%	50%	0%	--	--	--	--
Fates	5/70%	0%	25/70%	5/40%	20/60%	5/20%	0/35%	10/40%	--	--	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	80%	--	50%	25%	30%	0%	30%	0%	--	--	--	--

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

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Gaiden Fates Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Teleportation	• Gaiden: Innate. • Fates: Learned from Level 25 and up. • Echoes: Shadows of Valentia: Personal skill assigned to every Witch except Marla, Hestia, Rinea (all difficulties), and one of the two Witches in Northern Zofia Battle on Normal.
Fates	+10 critical rate, +10 avoid	Innate.
Fates	Shadowgift	Learned from Level 1 and up.
Fates	Witch's Brew	Learned from Level 10 and up.
Fates	Toxic Brew	Learned from Level 35 and up.

• Gaiden: Enemy Witches possess a summoning skill which allows them to summon more enemy Witches to join the enemy army.

Class change

Gaiden

Base class
Witch

Fates

Any class	Promotion method	Special class
? Any female class	Using a Witch's Mark.	Witch

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Base class
Witch

Notable enemy Witches

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Delthea	Gaiden
Sonya	Gaiden
Rinea	Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Marla	Gaiden, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Hestia	Gaiden, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Nuibaba	Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Enemy Witch units in the Fire Emblem series.

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

A generic Witch is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Witch
	Puppet Borne From Sacrifice, Witch
		"DEATH...TO THOSE WHO WOULD DEFY LORD DUMA..."
		Attack: 40	Support: 0	Range: 1-2	Deploy Cost: 2
		Class: Witch		Tier: Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Will-less Tool: [Special] You may deploy this card even if you already have an allied "Witch", and you may have 2 or more allied "Witch" at once. [Special] You may have 5 or more cards with the same card name as this card in your deck. Offering to the Darkness: [Activate] [Send 1 card from your hand to the Retreat Area] Until the end of the turn, this unit gains +30 attack. Defiled Magic: [Trigger] When you deploy this unit, if you have 2 or fewer cards in your hand, draw 1 card.
	Card #B16-062HN • Artist: Kazuhiro Taneda
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Witch .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Fates	An otherworldly arcanist. Uses tomes and can warp over long distances.	異界の兵種。空間を操る術を持つ者。 魔法の他、ワープで長距離を瞬間移動する。
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	What's left of a woman who was sacrificed to Duma.	ドーマの生贄に捧げられた 女性の成れの果ての姿

Trivia

• In Gaiden, Witches use the same battle and map sprites as female Mages.
• The appearance of generic Witches in Fates looks similiar to Marla and Hestia.
• While most Witches in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia have access to the Teleportation skill, it actually appears as a personal skill, rather than a class skill, and certain Witches, such as Marla and Hestia, lack the skill. This is further proven as if a player edits the game to make their characters Witches, the skill won't appear.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Witch	A witch is a (usually female) practitioner of magic. In the western world, where various forms of Christianity have historically been the dominant religions, witches are often regarded as evil entities who worship the Devil and were often the subject of witch-hunts, where innocent people were often accused of being witches, were subjected to biased trials and executed.
Japanese	魔女	Witch. In Gaiden, the name is rendered in hiragana as まじょ.
Spanish	Bruja	Witch
French	Sorcière	Sorceress
German	Hexe	Witch
Italian	Strega	Witch
Dutch	Heks	Witch
Korean	마녀	Witch
Simplified Chinese	魔女	Witch
Traditional Chinese	魔女	Witch

Gallery

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  Artwork of a generic witch from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Artwork of a generic witch from Fire Emblem Cipher.

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  Concept artwork of generic witches from Fates.

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  Concept artwork of a generic witch from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  The generic Witch portrait in Fates.

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  The generic Witch portrait in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Orochi as a Witch in Fates.

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  A generic witch from Witches' Trial in Fates.

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  Nuibaba as a witch in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

See also

• Dark Mage
• Diviner
• Gremory
• Mage
• Vestal

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