—Est in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Est (Esther in the Italian version) is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Fire Emblem Gaiden, Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, and their remakes. She is 16 years old in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
In Takayashiki Hideo's unofficial Mystery of the Emblem novel adaptation, Est is 17 years old.
In Fire Emblem Awakening, Est is the first DLC character for the Second Series DLC Pack and was illustrated by Kinu Nishimura.
Contents
- 1 Profile
- 2 Personality
- 3 In-Game
- 4 Quotes
- 5 Possible Endings
- 6 Non-Canon Appearances
- 7 Choose Your Legends Placement History
- 8 Etymology
- 9 Trivia
- 10 Gallery
Profile[]
Est is the youngest of the Pegasus Sisters of Macedon under Minerva's command. Unlike her elder sisters Palla and Catria, she joins late in the game, as she decided to steal Mercurius before returning. She falls in love with the knight Abel, and eventually marries him and moves to Altea.
She and her sisters also appear in Fire Emblem Gaiden. According to Est, Palla, and Catria's base converstions in the remake, Est had left the Whitewings the day after the War of Shadows, wanting to open up a shop with Abel and live a normal life. Unfortunately, Est ends up getting captured by Grieth, and her sisters follow the pirate ship to rescue her, but they lose sight of it near Zofia Harbor. Jesse tries to save Est, but gets captured. After Celica's party rescues Jesse, they travel to Grieth's fort, defeat Grieth, and save Est. After the war, she returns to Archanea with her sisters, but promises to come back some day.
In Mystery of the Emblem, Est is captured by the Archanean army to force Abel to fight against Marth. She can be rescued and once again fight alongside Marth's army. After the war, she leaves Abel and vanishes, leading him to disappear in search of her.
Personality[]
As the youngest of the three Whitewing sisters from Archanea, Est is pure and innocent and often gets told off by her sisters. One such example is in her supports with Catria, as she keeps showing junk that she seems to genuinely believe is special.
Though she is cheerful and chatty with a straight-forward personality, the repeated captures take a toll on Est's self-esteem. After she is rescued in Chapter 15 of New Mystery of the Emblem, her support conversations with her husband and her sisters show that she believes that she is a burden to him and doubts her worth to even be his wife. It is strongly implied that the reason she disappears after the War of Heroes is because she believes that Abel would be better off without her.
Though she often gets into trouble, Est regularly mentions that she wants to stop being a warrior, settle down, and run a shop with her husband.
In-Game[]
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light[]
Base Stats[]
| Starting Class | |||||||||
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 Pegasus Knight | |||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Wlv | Mov |
| 5 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 13 | Varies | 8 | 0 | 11 | 8 |
| Weapon | Starting Items | ||||||||
| Sword Lance | Armorslayer Mercurius | ||||||||
Growth Rates[]
| HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Wlv | Def | Res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 70% | 70% | 70% | 70% | 60% | 20% | 0% |
Promotion[]
| Item Required | Promoted Class |
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| Dragon Whip |  Dracoknight
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Overall[]
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Est is a character best known for possessing very high growths, with four of them being in the 70% range. Unfortunately, by her join time, the value of a character like her is dubious, since many of the player's units are likely to be bordering on capped-out anyway. Most of Est's high growths are also not particularly helpful; she can already use all swords and lances barring Gradivus at base, for instance, and is already fast enough to double most enemies when equipped well, meaning that only her high Strength growth actually truly affects her offense. Her durability-based growths, meanwhile, are average for a Pegasus Knight, making it very likely that Palla and Catria have long since surpassed her if they have been in use.
That said, Est remains a Pegasus Knight, one of the game's best classes due to its multiweapon access and flight, which makes her a solid option. Due to her flight and access to strong weapons, she should have little trouble with swooping in to pick off kills, and her high Speed means she can double. With her high Strength growth, it will take little time for doubling to become one-rounding, making Est a decent unit to keep around if one needs a spare flier.
Fire Emblem Gaiden[]
Base Stats[]
| Starting Class | ||||||||
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 Pegasus Knight | ||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 3 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
| Magic | Starting Items | |||||||
| - | - | |||||||
Growth Rates[]
| HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 0% |
Overall[]
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Est, and her sisters Palla and Catria, are all Pegasus Knights recruited in Celica's route. When considering all of the Pegasus Knights in Gaiden, Est and Catria are both strong all rounders whose balance between Speed and Strength usually makes them the most offensively potent. Palla is strong and durable but slow for a Pegasus Knight, and Clair is very agile but fragile.
In Gaiden, Est is the most statistically impressive of the Pegasus Knight sisters, having the single highest growth rates in the game and by quite a lot at that. She will start out much weaker than her sisters if you leveled them at all, and will require some babysitting until she gains half a dozen levels. However, if you do choose to level her, she will easily become the most powerful of her sisters, beating them both in all stats except for HP. Catria and Est will usually wind up even in stats or separated by 1 or 2 points in almost everything. The only stat that really separates the two is Defense, which Est will have a lot more of.
The two problems with Est are her late recruitment and low level. If you put in the effort of bringing her up to speed, she will not disappoint. Not only is she the most powerful among her sisters, but she is among the most powerful in the entire game. However, Catria is nearly as good as her and is available for almost the entire game. While Palla is statistically inferior to her sisters by a moderate margin, her availability may prove more useful overall than Est's statistical superiority. So while Est does have the most potential, her late recruitment means players may opt not to level her.
Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem[]
Base Stats[]
Growth Rates[]
| HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Wlv | Def | Res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 70% | 70% | 70% | 60% | 70% | 20% | 3% |
Promotion Gains[]
| Item Required | Promoted Class | ||||||
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 Dragon Whip
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 Dracoknight
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| 1 | +3 | +0 | +0 | +4 | -6 | Varies | +2 |
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon[]
Base Stats[]
| Starting Class | |||||||||
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 Pegasus Knight | |||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 3 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
| Weapon | Starting Items | ||||||||
| Lance - C |  Ridersbane Mercurius* | ||||||||
* - Drops if defeated as an enemy unit in Chapter 18.
Growth Rates[]
| HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40% | 55% | 0% | 60% | 55% | 50% | 20% | 5% |
Support Relationships[]
Supports
Supported by
Overall[]
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In Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, both of Est's sisters have their growths raised significantly, while Est's growths have been lowered. What is more, her utility as a flier has now largely vanished, as any promoted character in Class Set A can become one as well. This generally makes her less useful compared to the original. However, as a character with C Lances, combined with flight, Est does not actually particularly need growths to be useful, as she can strike enemies down with a forged Ridersbane or Dragonpike and gain kills that way. This is especially the case in her join chapter, as she has a Ridersbane in her base inventory in a chapter flooded with cavalry. While this is not a particularly unique advantage at this point, it is a noticeable mark in her favor.
Fielding her as well as Palla and Catria allows you to initiate the Triangle Attack, which can be helpful against some strong lategame enemies you couldn't defeat in one hit otherwise. While using the Triangle Attack forces you to group all three of them around one enemy, which is unwise in most cases, it can serve as a fail-safe method to get rid of a single enemy that otherwise would kill or heavily damage one of your units.
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem[]
Base Stats[]
| Starting Class | |||||||||
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| Pegasus Knight | |||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 5 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 8 |
| Weapon | Starting Items | ||||||||
 Lance - C | - | ||||||||
Growth Rates[]
| HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
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| 60% | 80% | 0% | 80% | 80% | 70% | 30% | 10% |
Support Relationships[]
Supports
Supported by
Overall[]
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The New Mystery incarnation of Est is, sadly, her worst showing. While her growths were typically remarked upon for being above-average, growth rates in New Mystery are generally high on the whole, and though Est's growths are still above-average, it makes them almost complete overkill when many other characters are probably hitting multiple stat caps. Est's ability to use forged effective weapons has gone from potentially useful to very incidental, due to the large number of characters with some kind of C-rank and the vastly increased enemy variety. Reclassing has expanded even further, meaning that Est's flier niche is simply gone. She cannot fight enemies in her join chapter without heavy support, and will likely be in danger of dying at every point in her training, which will not yield a unit much stronger than any given combat unit in the player's army.
Fire Emblem Awakening[]
Base Stats[]
| Starting Class | |||||||||
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 Pegasus Knight | |||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 5 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 11+4 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| Skills | Weapon | Starting Items | |||||||
 Galeforce Aptitude Underdog Luna Luck +4 |  Lance - D | -- | |||||||
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia[]
Help Description: A pegasus knight from Archanea. The youngest of three sisters.
Base Stats[]
| Starting Class | ||||||||
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 Pegasus Knight | ||||||||
| Level | HP | Atk | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 3 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
| Magic | Skills | Starting Items | ||||||
| - |  Flier Triangle Attack | - | ||||||
Class Sets[]
| Class Sets | |||
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| First Tier | Second Tier | Third Tier | Overclass |
| Pegasus Knight
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 Falcon Knight
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- |  Harrier
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*DLC class; access with the Altar of the Skylord.
Learnt Magic[]
| Class | Level | Magic Learnt |
|---|---|---|
 Mage
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1 |  Fire
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| 8 | Thunder
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 Priestess
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1 |  Recover
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 Cleric
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1 | RecoverNosferatu
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 Saint
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1 | Seraphim
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| Harrier
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1 | Fire
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 Enchantress
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1 | MireDeath
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 Exemplar
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1 | WardRestore
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Growth Rates[]
| HP | Atk | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
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| 35% | 55% | 50% | 40% | 55% | 50% | 3% |
Personal Max Stats[]
| HP | Atk | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 41 | 39 | 40 |
Supports[]
- See also: Est/Supports
Passive Supports
- None
Fire Emblem Heroes[]
- Junior Whitewing
- Youngest of three sisters who are pegsasus knights for Macedon. Appears in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.
Base Stats[]
Rarity: | Title | ||||
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| Junior Whitewing | |||||
| Group | |||||
 Flying | |||||
| Level | HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res |
| 1 40 | 15/16/17 30/33/36 | 7/8/9 28/31/34 | 6/7/8 23/26/29 | 3/4/5 18/21/24 | 6/7/8 25/28/31 |
| Skills | Weapon | ||||
 Steel Lance |  Lance | ||||
 | Title | ||||
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| Junior Whitewing | |||||
| Group | |||||
| Flying | |||||
| Level | HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res |
| 1 40 | 15/16/17 31/34/37 | 8/9/10 30/33/36 | 7/8/9 25/28/31 | 3/4/5 19/22/25 | 6/7/8 26/29/32 |
| Skills | Weapon | ||||
Heavy Spear Shove | Lance | ||||
Skills[]
| Type | Name | Prerequisite | Default | Unlocked |
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 | Iron Lance | - | - | - |
| Steel Lance | - |  | - | |
| Heavy Spear | Steel Lance |  | | |
| Heavy Spear+ | Heavy Spear |  | | |
| Whitewing Spear | Heavy Spear+ | - | | |
 | Shove | - | | |
| A |  Defiant Res 1 | - | - | |
 Defiant Res 2 | Defiant Res 1 | | ||
 Defiant Res 3 | Defiant Res 2 | | ||
| B |  Seal Spd 1 | - | | |
 Seal Spd 2 | Seal Spd 1 | | ||
 Seal Spd 3 | Seal Spd 2 | |
Overall[]
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Base Set[]
Est is widely considered to be the strongest of the three Whitewing sisters performance wise specifically when she inherited other weapons. Though her Spd is middling, her impressive Atk and Res serve two particular purposes. She is an effective Brave Lance user and an excellent Ploy unit. This also allowed her to combat blue and red dragons effectively. Est still has some flexibility thanks to her weapon options but ultimately she is focused on straightforward offense mostly.
Est has a Heavy Spear which deals effective damage to armor units. When supported and with proper skills on hand, Est could easily one shot some powerful armors like Zelgius, Zephiel, and Arden, especially when the Weapon Refinery was first introduced and boosted it to a Slaying Spear which not only dealt effective damage to armors, but could neutralize their received buffs. In a later update, Est alongside her sisters received upgraded versions of their base weapons and Est was given her Whitewing Spear which could be refined further. If Est is within two spaces of at least two Flier units, she gains +3 to her core stats. If she initiates an attack, she performs an immediate follow-up attack. The effect is extremely powerful, but coordinating your units to use it can be difficult. Est in particular can use this to eliminate many powerful Armor units before they get a chance to retaliate.
Shove pushes an ally forward one space, which is a minimally useful unit positioning skill. Defiant Resistance boosts her Res during combat if her HP is under a specific threshold, however her bulk is not high enough to safely employ it. Seal Speed lowers her target’s Spd by 7 after combat involving her which can allow her to follow up and deal more damage if a refresher unit sis available.
Counters[]
Est is at her weakest during the enemy phase as she lacks the Def from any physical unit. Any form of green unit easily checks her even Hector and Amelia who both, despite being exploited by her Spear, has the color advantage and bulk to sustain a hit and retaliate hard. While she can sustain a hit herself from most mages, Green mages who can receive buffs are exceptionally powerful against her like Nino and Soren. Merric is another good counter as he has exceptional physical bulk, has color advantage, can inherit Close Counter to counterattack her at close range, and his Excalibur deals effective damage against her as a flier. Finally the flier status also leaves her vulnerable to common Bow units that appear often such as Brave Lyn, Bridal Cordelia, and Innes.
Skill Inheritance[]
Est can take full advantage of her new weapon to use the flier team boost as her means of improving her damage output. As mentioned above, she can still be perfectly viable with a Brave Lance as the loss in Spd is easily covered by the guaranteed immediate double attack. Regardless of her weapon choice, Est maintains a similar build either way.
Reposition is a better overall unit positioning skill, especially on a flier team. Her Special Skill options range from Glimmer for flat damage boosts, Moonbow to ignore part of the enemy’s Def, or Iceberg to take advantage of her high Res. Death Blow grants her a further Atk boost when initiating while Swift Sparrow improves her Speed and can be a better option on her Whitewing Spear depending on her match-ups. Chill Defense targets the unit with the highest Def on the enemy team and inflicts a Def -7 Penalty onto them. Most of the time, this will apply to Armor units, allowing her to weaken them for her to finish off. Flier Formation can also be considered move closer to flier allies so she can utilize her refined Whitewing Spear effect. Skill C has many variations, but using Hone Fliers, Ward Fliers, even Flier Guidance are great complimentary skills for a flier team focus Est. Otherwise for general teams, Wave skills, albeit expensive, are worthy alternatives.
- Springtime Flier
- Youngest of the three Pegasus Sisters from Macedon. She's come to the spring festival as a bunny, just like her sisters. Appears in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem.
Base Stats[]
Rarity: ✯✯✯✯✯
 | Title | ||||
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| Springtime Flier | |||||
| Group | |||||
| Flying | |||||
| Level | HP | Atk | Spd | Def | Res |
| 1 40 | 16/17/18 35/39/42 | 7/8/9 35/38/42 | 8/9/10 32/35/38 | 3/4/5 13/17/20 | 6/7/8 23/26/30 |
| Skills | Weapon | ||||
Eagle's Egg New Moon |  Tome | ||||
Skills[]
| Type | Name | Prerequisite | Default | Unlocked |
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| Thunder | - | - | - |
| Elthunder | - | - | - | |
| Thoron | - | - | - | |
| Eagle's Egg | - | | - | |
 | New Moon | - | | - |
| Moonbow | New Moon | - | | |
| A |  Fury 1 | - | - | |
 Fury 2 | Fury 1 | - | ||
 Fury 3 | Fury 2 | | ||
 Fury 4 | Fury 3 | | ||
| B |  Chill Res 1 | - | - | |
 Chill Atk/Res 1 | Chill Res 1 | - | ||
 Chill Atk/Res 2 | Chill Atk/Res 1 | | ||
| C |  Hone Atk 1 | - | - | |
 Hone Atk 2 | Hone Atk 1 | - | ||
 Hone Fliers |  Hone Spd 2 or Hone Atk 2 | |
Overall[]
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Base Set[]
Counters[]
Skill Inheritance[]
Quotes[]
—Est's withdraw quote in Chapter 7 in Shadow Dragon
—Est's quote prepare to strike with a Triangle Attack in Shadow Dragon
—Est's recruitment quote in Awakening
Death Quotes[]
—Est's death quote in Shadow Dragon
—Est's death quote in Gaiden
—Est's death quote in Mystery of the Emblem Book 1
—Est's death quote in Mystery of the Emblem Book 2
—Est's retreat quote in Chapter 7
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia[]
Heroes[]
Possible Endings[]
Shadow Dragon[]
- Little Sister - Est
- "Est fell in love with an Altean knight, and found that the path of the heart was a surer route to happiness than that of the spear."
Gaiden[]
- (If both Palla and Catria are alive)
- 'I'll definitely come again! Thank you, everyone~~'
No matter where she goes, Est always remains upbeat.
- (If one or both are dead)
- 'Big sister(s)...'
Remembering the older sister(s) who had died for her sake, Est wept.
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia[]
- (If both Palla and Catria are alive)
- Successfully reunited with her sisters, Est returned home in triumph. Tales of her further exploits line the pages of Archanea’s history books.
- (If Palla or Catria died)
- Though painful loss hung over her return home like a dark cloud, the annals of Archanean history are replete with tales of Est’s glorious exploits later in life.
New Mystery of the Emblem[]
- Wayward Knight
- "After the war, Est said her goodbyes to Abel, for reasons known only to her and disappeared."
- (If Abel is dead)
- "Unable to bear the sadness of losing Abel, Est disappeared after the war"
Non-Canon Appearances[]
Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)[]
Est is illustrated in the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher with the following cards:
Choose Your Legends Placement History[]
| Round | Placement | Character Version | Votes |
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| CYL1 | 514 |  |
217 | ||
| 639 |  |
98 | |||
| 664 |  |
84 | |||
| CYL2 | 537 | |
201 | ||
| 507 |  |
233 | |||
| 650 | |
93 | |||
| CYL3 saw the transition to different counting mechanisms involving versions of characters and ties, so change measured between CYL2 and CYL3 shouldn't be taken at face value. | |||||
| CYL3 | 301 | |
694 | ||
| CYL4 | 321 | |
381 | ||
| CYL5 | 362 | |
154 |
Etymology[]
In the French and Italian language, Est means "east", as in the cardinal direction. In both French and Latin, Est also means "is".
Trivia[]
- Est, Palla, and Eldigan are the only recruitable DLC characters in Awakening that do not have recruitable SpotPass versions.
- Est shares her Japanese voice actress, Rie Murakawa, with Fates' Kagero.
- Est, alongside her sisters, is the most reccuring playable character in the series, being playable in 8 games out of the series.
- Est is the only character to represent two different Archetypes. She represent the Whitewings Archetype with her sisters and her own Archetype.
- Est is the only one of the Whitewings to not suffer of unrequited love.
- Palla, Catria and Est's artworks from Echoes depict them wielding a lance that is not in the game. It looks like a more decorated Iron Lance.
Gallery[]
- See main article: Est/Gallery.
