—Grieth
Grieth is the leader of the Grieth Pirates in Fire Emblem Gaiden, who kidnapped the Pegasus Knight Est and Atlas' brothers. Sonya and Deen work for him, but both secretly despise him. His group of pirates and his fort are located in the eastern desert of Valentia.
Profile[]
Gaiden/Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia[]
Though alluded to beforehand, Grieth first appears in Chapter 3 of Celica's route. He is informed of Wolff's defeat at the hands of Celica's party and orders Deen and Sonya to guard the north and south desert routes respectively, plotting to deliver Celica to Rigel while apparently ending his alliance with Desaix in the process.
After Celica's party defeats either Deen or Sonya, opening a route to Grieth's fortress, the survivor refuses to engage Celica themselves, and an angered Grieth confronts Celica himself along with those few remaining loyal to him. Grieth is ultimately slain by Celica's party.
With the death of Zofia's "brigand king", either Deen or Sonya will join Celica's force, and Grieth's captives, including Est, Atlas's brothers, and Irma, a Cleric of Mila, are all freed.
Personality[]
Grieth is an opportunistic individual who will seize at whatever power is available to him, showcased by his overt willingness to betray Desaix by his plot to deliver Celica to Rigel. Prior, he wasted no time ascending to become the "brigand king" as Zofia's royalty (likely the ruling king Lima IV) did nothing to stop him.
Though fearless and defiant, Grieth is also impatient, easily upset, and prone to shouting. He demonstrates these traits by impatiently ordering a brigand under him to spit out the bad news and nearly threatened said subordinate to spill the identity of Wolff's killer. After Deen/Sonya betrays him after the other's deaths he furiously charges at Celica's group himself.
Grieth trusts in the capability of his men, and does not belittle them for their defeat. Upon learning of Wolff's death, his first assumption was that he was done in by a sniper, and that his men were defeated by the Deliverance, a formidable resistance army that had recently freed Zofia Castle from Desaix's control. Upon hearing otherwise, that Wolff and his men were instead defeated by a "ragtag group of kid mages and a mercenary," his first reaction is disbelief that such a supposedly meager group could take out Wolff's entire force.
Despite his power-hungry opportunism, Grieth is not so overconfident as to believe he is invincible, and is in fact aware that all of the power he amassed could vanish. He remains defiant even as he recognizes the odds are stacked against him, and swears to drag Celica and her group down with him. Even as he dies, he does not lose this edge, claiming that another person like him would always be around.
In-Game[]
Description: The Self-proclaimed "King of all Brigands" in Zofia.
Fire Emblem Gaiden[]
| Starting Class | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dread Fighter | ||||||||
| Level | HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Mov |
| 1 | 36 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 7 |
| Magic | Starting Items | |||||||
| - | - | |||||||
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia[]
Quotes[]
—Grieth's battle quote in Gaiden
—Grieth's battle quote in Echoes.
—Grieth's death quote in Gaiden
—Grieth's death quote in Echoes.
Choose Your Legends Placement History[]
| Round | Placement | Character Version | Votes |
|---|
| CYL1 | 748 |  Gaiden |
43 |
| CYL2 | 751 ↓3 |
 Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
38 ↓5 |
| CYL3 | 542 ↑209 |
Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
48 ↑10 |
| CYL4 | 567 ↓25 |
Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
19 ↓29 |
| CYL5 | 490 ↑77 |
Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
14 ↓5 |
| CYL6 | 495 ↓5 |
Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
18 ↑4 |
| CYL7 | 420 ↑75 |
Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
12 ↓6 |
| CYL8 | 435 ↓15 |
Gaiden/Echoes: Shadows of Valentia |
7 ↓5 |
Trivia[]
- Though Grieth wears an eyepatch in the games, the manga adaptation of Gaiden depicts him with two healthy eyes.
- In Gaiden, Grieth wears his eyepatch over his left eye, while in Shadows of Valentia, he wears it over his right.
- In the inaugural "Choose Your Legends" event of Fire Emblem Heroes, Grieth placed at 748th out of 791, with 43 votes tying him with Jesse for the lowest scoring character from Gaiden.
- Grieth's official artwork in Echoes and his in-game battle model have noticeable differences from each other; upon closer inspection, it is the same model that Kamui and Saber use as Dread Fighters sans the halo structure for Grieth.
- Grieth is the one of the few Dread Fighters have the absence of the halo structure in his model. Other characters include Xaizor from Alm's route, Cerberus, and Naberius in the final chapter.
- Grieth shares his battle voice clips with all the brigand bosses encountered in the story. This includes the Brigand Boss, Barth, and Garth. Since the Brigand class's critical hit animation does not play the character's critical hit voices but the default ones, Grieth is the only one to use the critical voice set out of all the brigand bosses.
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