Echidna

"I have a plan to build a new village on the Western Isles for those people who lost their homes in the war"

- Echidna

Echidna is a female Hero from Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi. Echidna is the leader of the resistance force against the Ertruian Government in the western isles. She is recruited only if you select the house on the left or neither houses in chapter 9. Echidna is recruited when Lalam talks to her, she is surrounded by enemy forces trying to drown her out. In her supports, she attempts to gain recruits to help her in her plan to make a "free village", a village where people in the Western Isles who had their homes destroyed could settle after the war.

Supports

 * Geese
 * Gonzales
 * Lalam
 * Ward
 * Lot

Initial Stats
Level 1 Hero
 * HP: 35
 * Strength: 13
 * Defence: 8
 * Skill: 19
 * Speed: 18
 * Luck: 6
 * Magic Defence: 7

Character Ending
 Echidna - Goddess of the West 

After Echidna went back home to the Western Isles, the people were overjoyed at the return of their hero. She left the rebel group, but the people begged her to be their leader once again. Her hard work united the Western Isles into a new nation, the Western Union.

Etymology
In Greek mythology Echidna was a female monster who spawned in a cave and mothered every major horrible monster in the myths.

An echidna is also an egg-laying mammal similar to the hedgehog and the platypus.