Aias

Aias
Game Data
Game	Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
First Seen	Chapter 13: Hamill Canyon (Eirika's route)
Starting Class	Great Knight
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“Yes. It was a complete failure. The Rausten knights arrived far more quickly than I'd anticipated. But it doesn’t matter, does it? Whether I won or lost? You were planning on abandoning me from the start, weren't you?”
—Aias to Caellach if he survives the chapter

Aias (アイアス, Aiasu) is a Great Knight and aide to General Caellach in the army of Grado who appears in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.

Profile

He was formerly a part of Caellach and Joshua's old mercenary group from Jehanna and claims to both be a great tactician and that he was never even scratched in battle. Even though he says he has no need for rank or title and is dismissive of Caellach's desire to become a king, Caellach convinced him to join up with Grado as his lieutenant.

He is charged by Caellach with killing Eirika. If Eirika and her forces defeat Aias, he will praise their strategist for "piercing" through his formations. Should they manage to hold out instead, Rausten knights appear, forcing him to retreat to Jehanna Hall, where he is subsequently killed by Caellach due to being one of the few "chains" of the past holding him from being a king.

In Game

Stats

• Easy/Normal
• Hard

Starting Class						Affinity
Great Knight						Anima
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Con	Mov
10	46	18	11	10	11	19	11	14	6
Weapon					Starting Items
Sword - A Lance - B Axe - B					Short Spear Silver Blade Swordslayer Knight Crest*

*Dropped upon defeat

Starting Class						Affinity
Great Knight						Anima
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Con	Mov
10	48	19	12	10	12	20	13	14	6
Weapon					Starting Items
Sword - A Lance - B Axe - B					Short Spear Silver Blade Swordslayer Knight Crest*

*Dropped upon defeat

Overall

Like a good tactician, Aias is well prepared and has an assortment of powerful weapons at his disposal. He essentially has control of most of the Weapon Triangle - his choice of Axe being a Swordslayer, meaning he has Lance 'weaknesses' - and can easily destroy your Sword users with his Swordslayer and has very high stats compared to earlier bosses. He can still be beaten easily by a strong Axe-wielder, either with a Hammer or a Halberd, due to his Great Knight class and the fact that he is initially equipped with a Short Spear. Magic users with 14 attack speed or higher can be useful against him as well, but only to a lesser extent.

Aggressive players may find that Aias can be killed very early on in the chapter, a rarity for defense chapter bosses. However, doing so will prevent the player from recruiting Cormag, who appears on the map as a reinforcement on turn 5.

Quotes

Battle Conversations

• Default

Aias: It's not over yet. Victory still hangs in the balance. The key is defeating the enemy commander, but...

• Vs. Eirika

Aias: Ah...So here you are. The princess Eirika.
Eirika: Who?
Aias: You're not at all what I had expected... I would test the arm that bested Glen.

Death Quotes

“Very...impressive. You've pierced the battle formations I'd perfected. No one's ever done that...Renais's tactician has earned my highest regard.”
—Death Quote, if killed before turn 11 ends

“Rausten Knights?! That means Caellach's-- Curses...All troops! Retreat at once!”
—Retreat Quote, if alive at the end of Turn 11

Etymology

The name Aias is probably a reference to the Ancient Greek hero Ajax, whose name could also be spelled Aias.

Trivia

• His description in the English version of the game has a typo; his description reads: "An aid to Grado's General Caellach. He believes he is an unbeatable tactician." The proper term should be "aide" and not "aid."
• In the Japanese version, Aias is peculiarly weak; his stats in English Normal Mode are higher than his stats in Japanese Hard Mode. This is likely to convince the player to rush the map and defeat him rather than wait and confront Pablo, who received a significant stat boost from his appearance in Chapter 10 that he did not receive in the English version.