Lucia

"People of Crimea... Behold a true queen! YOUR queen! Long live Queen Elincia!"

- Lucia, before she was to be hanged.

Lucia (ルキノ, Luchino in the Japanese version) is a young lady descended from Count Delbray's house, and is the older sister of Geoffrey. She is Elincia's milk sister and her dearest friend from their youth together. She is also often the subject of long rambling love declarations from Bastian who seems to be smitten with her. Lucia is an outstanding swordswoman, and is constantly challenged by duty and formality. Lucia commands the Royal Guards alongside her younger brother Geoffrey and also sets up a clandestine network of spies to monitor activity inside of Crimea.

=Personality= Lucia is a very gorgeous and attractive woman. She also has a very nice body, which gives off a fragrancy. Thus many men, as well as women, yearn and fawn over her. Bastian is most certainly in love with her. She is a calm, wise, rational, courteous and quite capable person. Lucia holds absolute loyalty to Elincia, she definitely would do anything for her, no matter how difficult or how unreasonable, even it will danger her own life. She is also noted as a good cook. It seems that Heather finds Lucia to be a great person. Lucia has a sweet tooth, and she likes to eat sweet things.

=Appearance= In Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, Lucia wears a white-based elegant suit, with thigh-length high heel boots, but there are some differences in certain games. For example, In Path of Radiance she wears a red sleeveless shirt as an undershirt, in Radiant Dawn, her clothing she is wearing is open-collared and she does not wear an undershirt, which exposes her cleavage, which seems to make her look more charming than before. Besides in Radiant Dawn, she wears accessories, such as a necklace, a pair of earrings and a bracelet on her right hand, which makes her look more like a noble.

In Path of Radiance and for her first appearance in Radiant Dawn before her imprisonment, her long, elegant hair was approximately thigh-length and straight. After her capture, her hair is roughly chin-level by a humiliating forced haircut.

It is noteworthy that during the courses of both Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, there is never a frame or a screen where both of Lucia's eyes are clearly visible; her blue hair is draped over either side of her face and even her in-game conversation sprite merely reveals one eye depending upon which way she is facing.

=Character History=

Path of Radiance
When Crimea was defeated in the war, Lucia was led by Geoffrey, Bastian and other Crimean retainers, they were lurking in their country, and continuing to fight with Daein.

Lucia first appears in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance's 23rd Chapter as reinforcements representing the last of Crimea's then-current loyal retainers during the Mad King's War at the opposite side of the Great Bridge that the Crimean Liberation Army attempts to cross.

Radiant Dawn


She is playable as the central character in Part 2 of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn involving an infiltration chapter before she is captured by Duke Ludveck's rebels upon confirming her suspicions that the Duke was plotting to overthrow Elincia from dissatisfaction over her transient peaceful rule and pacifist choices regarding the news over the emancipation of Daein and Prince Pelleas's coronation to King. They eventually intend to execute her in public eye outside of Fort Alpea in order to undermine the young Queen, but she is subsequently rescued by the Greil Mercenaries as they make their return.

After Radiant Dawn, if she has a level A support with Bastian, they will begin to have casual affairs, but never marry.

=Character Data=

Recruitment

 * Chapter 24: Automatically from Turn 2

Base stats
|Swordmaster |Earth |12 |36 |15 |12 |21 |23 |16 |10 |8 |8 |8 |7 |Sword - A |Parity |Silver Sword Laguzguard Vulnerary

Growth rates
|70% |50% |30% |70% |65% |50% |40% |30%

Bond support

 * Elincia:10%
 * Geoffrey:5%

Support conversations
See Lucia/supports

Death quote
Lucia: I will not die... I must not cause the lady Elincia any more grief... I must not! Live... No matter the pain... I will live!

Recruitment
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |◎ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |╳ | | |○ | | |○ |○ |□ |□ |□ |□ |□ ◎=Forced　○=Available　□=Available for selected　╳=Not allowed
 * Part 2: Chapter 2: Automatically from Base.
 * Part 3: Endgame: Automatically from Start.
 * Part 4: Forced to join the team Tibarn.

Base stats
|Swordmaster |Earth |14 |38 |18 |10 |27 |27 |19 |14 |15 |8 |8 |7 |Sword - A |Parity Critical +10 Shove |Silver Sword Wind Edge Iron Sword

Growth rates
|50% |25% |20% |70% |60% |30% |15% |50%

Bond support

 * Elincia:10%
 * Geoffrey:5%

Defeated quote
Lucia: I... How? I can't...
 * In Part 2: Chapter 2

Nealuchi: L-Lady Lucia! It can't be!

Lucia: Forget about me... Save yourselves! You have to tell...Queen Elincia...

(Lucia die, Game over) Lucia: Ahh... It hurts...
 * In Part 3: Chapter 10 (as NPC), Part 4: Chapter 2 and 5

Elincia: ...Lucia! Pull back!

Lucia: Elincia... I can still...

Elincia: Retreat! Your queen commands you!

Lucia: As you wish, my queen.

(Lucia retreat) Lucia: I...cannot die... Elincia... I cannot leave her to mourn... Geoffrey... Bas...ti...an...
 * In Part 4: Endgame

(Lucia die)

Epilogue
Where the queen went, Lucia followed. Their love was fabled to be stronger than even most blood sisters.
 * Tireless Advisor (女王の姉妹, Queen's Sister in the Japanese version)

First among the ministers to support her queen, Lucia never married. However, her affair with Count Bastian continues.
 * (A Support with Bastian)

=Trivia=
 * In Radiant Dawn, on Part Two Chapter 2, Tides of Intrigue, when you use Lucia to clear out the entire chapter on easy mode (along with the bonus experience before the chapter) she can change class if you've successfully cleared the entire map with only her. When she does change class, her model as a trueblade will have her hair cut. And spawning from events of the game, her hair is not cut from this point. Which means that the developers did not create a model for Lucia as a trueblade with long hair. The reason is in the Japanese version, you can only use the Master Crown to change second-tier classes, and the Master Crown, at least until Part 3, cannot be obtained. That means it is impossible to let her class change on Part 2 in the Japanese version.
 * In the Path of Radiance Japanese version, in the Lucia/Janaff Level C support conversation, Lucia refuses to let Janaff drink with her, because she is too young to drink. Which means that Lucia is a minor, and must be 20 years old or younger in Path of Radiance (Assuming the legal age in Tellius is 18).
 * Lucia, along with Naesala, possesses the highest possible avoid rate with maxed stats for a playable character. At 40 speed, 35 luck, best biorhythm, and A support with another Earth affinity unit, she boasts a whopping 170 avoid. In the endgame, if she stands on a healstone while adjacent to Nasir (and is thus under the effects of White Pool, her avoid will reach 210. By contrast, Ashera's hit rate is 245, giving her only a 35% chance to hit Lucia.

=Etymology= 'Lucia' is the feminine form of the name Lucius in Italian, German, and English; in the former language, it would be pronounced 'Lu-CHEE-ah' which correlates with her Japanese name 'Luchino,' a variation using a diminutive ending. The name means 'light.' In Christian tradition, Saint Lucia was a martyr from Syracuse in the 4th century whose eyes were gouged out. She is therefore the patron saint of the blind and had a strong following in medieval Europe. This may reference to why Lucia has her hair draped over one eye, while leaving the other revealed, and why she was nearly sacrificed. =Gallery=