Alm

"Everyone, don't let your guard down. A large brigade from Rigel is heading our way. Knights to the front; mages fall back. Fortify our defenses. Disperse the enemies and pick them off one by one!"

- Alm

Alm (also translated Arum) is one of the main characters from Fire Emblem Gaiden. He is a childhood friend of Cellica and was raised by Maisen in the village of Ram in Sofia. He joins and eventually leads the resistance against the rebelling forces of Dozah. After routing Dozah to his fortress, Alm reclaims Sofia Castle and reunites with Maisen and eventually Cellcia. The two go on their separate journeies and Alm's forces visit the Forest Village, where the mage Ryuto asks him to save his sister Dyute. Alm slays Dozah and captures his fortress, freeing the Sofian knight Matilda. At the floodgate Alm and his army confront and slay Tatara, freeing Dyute from his mind control. The floodgate opens after the corresponding floodgate at the Temple of Mila is opened first.

Alm then leads the counterattack on Rigel. After capturing a fortress belonging to the sorcerer Nuibaba, he finds the saint Teeta who explains that Nuibaba took her prisoner in order to make her lover, Zeke, fight. Upon seeing that Teeta is safe, Zeke cooperates with Alm's army to defeat the corrupt Jerome. At first Zeke refuses to join Alm's army due to his loyalty to King Rudolf, but changes his mind upon seeing a cross shaped mark on his right arm. He explains that Rudolf told him that the mark would belong to Barencia's savior and that he must follow that person. Eventually, Alm confronts Rudolf in battle, although Rudolf refuses to attack him. Rudolf is defeated, but before he dies he reveals that Alm is his son, and that his real name is Alpine Alm Rudolf, and also requests that he claims the Falchion and slays the dark god Doma.

At Rigel Castle Maisen explains that Rudolf was the one who entrusted Alm to his care and that he had to make himself the "destroyer" in order to instigate the appearance of the true heroes who would save mankind from the destruction that would come of the negative consequences of Doma and Mila's deep involvement in mankind. Alm then goes to confront Doma and joins with Cellica's army, who were set up to be sacrificed to Doma by Judah. Eventually he defeats Doma with the Falchion and is entrusted to govern the land justly by Doma before he returns to slumber in the shadows. After the war he marries Cellica and becomes the Holy King Alm the First of the united Kingdom of Barencia.