Sonic Sword

The Sonic Sword is a weapon that first apeared in Fire Emblem: Path of Radience. The most noteable characteristic of the Sonic Sword is that it has a range of 1-2, so it can hit enimies from both 1 and 2 spaces away.

The sword was only the second 'basic' ranging sword of Fire Emblem history. This meaning that almost all other swords that had a range of 1-2 were 'special' and were only useable by one character and also one of a kind. the only other exception to that rule at the time of the creation of the Sonic Sword was the Rune Sword, which was a rarity in the games although not unique to one a game. Only 5 1-2 range swords exsisted in Path of Radience, two being the Sonic and rune Swords and the remaining three being weapons only Ike, the Black Knight and Ashnard could weild.

The Sonic Sword was also one of a few weapons introduced in Fire Emblem: Path of Radience that used magic to attack when normally a weapon of their class would use strengh insted. Another weapon like this is the flame Lance, although it was a lance and also one of a kind. Since the weapon uses magic to attack it deals magical damage, meaning that the damage is blocked by the enemies' resistance rather then there denfence.

This unusual power has it's advantages and disadvantages. Although the magic damage it would deal would be good against most melee attackers it would be limeted by the attacker's magic stat, which would generally be smaller then their strength. One exception to this is Mist, who can effectively use the Sonic Sword once promoted and having gotten a high enough sword mastery level.

The weapon comes with the character Tanith in Path of Radience and can also be grabbed from a few enemies throughout the game.Colm 18:00, 13 September 2008 (UTC)