—Excellus
Excellus is an boss character from Fire Emblem Awakening. He is one of Walhart's generals and tactician.
Profile[]
Excellus serves Walhart as his tactician for battles, but was secretly manipulating him. Excellus' skills lie not in war tactics, but his ability to con and deceive others into joining Walhart's army through blackmailing and threats. Excellus cares only for himself, Grima and seizing power, even if it means abandoning his superiors. However, despite his cowardly nature, he was secretly a devout member of Grimleal, and was manipulating Walhart to fail in his quest to destroy the Grimleal. Excellus also took a deal from Aversa which offered him the throne of Plegia if he was able to take the Fire Emblem from Chrom.
At Fort Steiger, Excellus managed to threaten numerous Resistance members to fight Chrom's army and aid Pheros to her disgust, but in the end, it was futile and the fort was seized. Later at the Demon's Ingle, he spoke to Yen'fay before his battle with his sister and Chrom's army and openly mocked him. After Yen'fay's death, Excellus revealed to Say'ri why Yen'fay allied with Walhart, and laughed as Say'ri learned the heartbreaking truth before warping away.
Believing to still have much of Chon'sin under his control, Excellus returns to Valm to prepare for the battle between Walhart and Chrom. After Chrom defeats Walhart outside of the castle, Excellus looks outside after Walhart tells him to. He is surprised that the Chon'sin forces are now allied with Chrom and his army, unable to understand why they had turned sides. Walhart deduces that they were loyal to Yen'fay and not under the control of Excellus' blackmail. Walhart also reveals that he has been aware of Excellus' betrayal towards him, having learned about his secret deal with Aversa. Hearing this, Excellus asks Walhart why he did not have him killed, only for Walhart to state that he does not see him as a threat. Excellus attempts to flee the castle, but Walhart orders him to lead his personal guard into battle and threatens to kill him on the spot if he refuses. With no other choice, he fights against the Shepherds, only to be killed in battle.
Excellus' gender is rather confusing, due to his ambiguous appearance and his use of feminine titles. In Chapter 22, Aversa indicates in a conversation with Robin that Excellus lacks male genitalia.
In-Game[]
Fire Emblem Awakening[]
Boss Stats[]
Chapter 20[]
| Starting Class | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sage | |||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 10 | 46 | 5 | 25 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 15 | 20 | 6 |
| Skills | Weapon | Starting Items | |||||||
 Focus |  Tome - B Staff - E |  Bolganone* | |||||||
Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE[]
Boss Stats[]
Chapter 4[]
| Starting Class | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sage | |||||||||
| Level | HP | EP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
| 42 | 7500 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Resist | Null | Weak | -- | Repel | Weak | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Skills | Items | ||||||||
| Command | Session | Passive | Scheming Insight Master Seal | ||||||
Agilao Let's get a retake! All part of the act...! | Sword-Fire | -- | |||||||
| Starting Class | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sage | |||||||||
| Level | HP | EP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
| 42 | 7500 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| | | | | | | | | |
| -- | Resist | -- | -- | -- | -- | Weak | Null | -- | -- |
| Skills | Items | ||||||||
| Command | Session | Passive | Scheming Insight Master Seal | ||||||
| Zanma Let's get a retake! All part of the act...! | Sword-Wind | -- | |||||||
Chapter 6[]
| Starting Class | Wardrobe Stats | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sage | Attack 200, Armor 68 | ||||||||
| Level | HP | EP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
| 61 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| | | | | | | | | |
| Resist | Null | Weak | -- | Repel | Weak | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Skills | Items | ||||||||
| Command | Session | Passive | -- | ||||||
| Agilao Let's get a retake! All part of the act...! | Sword-Fire | -- | |||||||
| Starting Class | Wardrobe Stats | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sage | Attack 200, Armor 68 | ||||||||
| Level | HP | EP | Str | Mag | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
| 61 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| | | | | | | | | |
| -- | Resist | -- | -- | -- | -- | Weak | Null | -- | -- |
| Skills | Items | ||||||||
| Command | Session | Passive | -- | ||||||
| Zanma Let's get a retake! All part of the act...! | Sword-Elwind | -- | |||||||
Quotes[]
—Excellus' pre-battle quote
—Excellus' death quote
Chapter 20[]
Vs. Say'ri[]
- Excellus: ...You. ...YOU! You and Yen'fay cost me EVERYTHING!
- Say'ri: I only pray my brother is watching... Yen'fay, guide my hand!
Non-Canon Appearances[]
Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE[]
Excellus appears as an enemy Mirage and boss that possesses acclaimed director Kuen Tarachino. With Tarachino under his influence, he puts Tsubasa Oribe through a series of challenges that lead her to grow as an actress. When he finally challenges the party to combat, Yashiro Tsurugi assists him in battle. Upon his defeat, he attempts to flee like a coward, but drops dead.
Excellus later reappears in Illusory Dolhr, having been revived by the Shadow Dragon.
Excellus is redesigned as a robot with a very feminine figure, two giant legs and his face on a computer screen.
In the battle, it is advised that you pay attention to his current color, which hints his weaknesses. If the player lowers Yashiro's HP enough, Excellus will swap his own HP percentage with Yashiro's, which heals Yashiro, but also damages himself. When Excellus reaches half of his HP, he will enter his second phase where his lights turn white, meaning that he is weak to every single element, but also means that he is in his most dangerous state since he will start spamming Ma -dyne spells, dealing massive damage to the party. It is advised to spam healing and damage Excellus with your most powerful attacks, and to also kill him quickly in this phase.
Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)[]
Excellus is illustrated in the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher with the following cards:
Choose Your Legends Placement History[]
| Round | Placement | Character Version | Votes |
|---|
| CYL1 | 476 |  Awakening |
254 |
| CYL2 | 618 ↓142 |
Awakening |
116 ↓138 |
| CYL3 | 499 ↑119 |
Awakening |
113 ↓3 |
| CYL4 | 518 ↓19 |
Awakening |
73 ↓40 |
| CYL5 | 449 ↑69 |
Awakening |
57 ↓16 |
| CYL6 | 457 ↓8 |
Awakening |
60 ↑3 |
| CYL7 | 392 ↑65 |
Awakening |
40 ↓20 |
Trivia[]
- Excellus' English voice actor, Spike Spencer, also voiced Marth in the English dub of the Fire Emblem anime.
- Much of Excellus background such as being a Grima worshipper, and his manipulation of Walhart is only revealed in the latter's supports with Female Robin.
- Excellus uses female pronouns, and style of speaking in Japanese.
- Excellus shares many traits with Valtome from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, including the narcissism, effeminate appearance, and even sharing similar laughter.
- In the poll results for most influential villain as listed in Art of Awakening, Excellus came in 4th place.
- In the first Heroes Choose Your Legends poll, Excellus came in 476th place with 254 votes, and was the lowest-ranking member of all Awakening characters eligible for the poll.
- Excellus appearance in Tokyo Mirage Sessions is similar to the Recognizer from the 1982 movie Tron.
- As of June 2024, Excellus is the only character from Awakening that's been eligible in the Chose Your Legends polls that is yet to be made playable in Heroes in any shape or form.
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