Bramimond

"I’ve heard rumors… Bramimond, one of the eight legends, devoted himself entirely to the dark. All emotion, all memory… dissolved in a river of dark. That is how he received the power to best dragons…"

- Teodor

The Enigma Bramimond, who is shown to sleep in the Shrine of the Seals, was one of the legendary eight heroes who fought in The Scouring wielding his tome of silencing darkness, Apocalypse. Bramimond is associated with Valor, the Dread Isle, where he perfected dark powers to best dragons. Alongside the Archsage Athos, Bramimond is one of only two of the legendary heroes alive during the events of Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, and is presumably already deceased during the events of Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi, as implied during the epilogue just before Athos's death. Though Bramimond was originally male, due to his perfect mastery of dark magic, he no longer has any specific gender or personality, instead mirroring the personality and voice of the person speaking to it. Because of this, the Bramimond that is seen in his picture is how the Tactition views him. Teodor's explanation of Bramimond strongly hints he was born a normal human being like others, but his dark magic skills turned him into what he is today. Bramimond was probably originally a woman, since the character's namesake is a queen of the Saracens in the medieval epic poem "The Song of Roland."

As it appears in Rekka no Ken, Bramimond is of no existing class, but internal game data has him listed as a class named after himself and resembling a Druid somewhat. His sprite, as seen in the last level when he resurrects Ninian, is clearly that of a unique class but can be said to bear some resemblance to a Dark Druid.

Starting Stats
The following stats are unused in game and were found in the game data. |Bramimond |Dark |18 |35 |30 |25 |19 |28 |18 |30 |6 |5 |Staff - S Dark - S |Nosferatu, Heal

Etymology
Bramimond was the name of the queen of the Saracens and wife of King Marsile in the medieval epic poem The Song of Roland. Medieval poetry is infamous for grossly misrepresenting Islam; the poem The Song of Roland reveals a belief that Muslims worshiped three gods and refers to them as 'pagans' and inferior to the Frankish Christian knights. During the course of the poem, when the Saracen forces are wiped out by a much smaller Frankish Christian group lead by Roland and his companions Durbans and Olivier, Bramimonde comes to the 'realization' that Christianity is the true religion. At the end of the poem, after Roland and company have died heroically in battle against enormous odds, Charlemagne brings Bramimonde back to his capital city of Aix-la-Chapelle where she is baptized and takes the name Juliana.