Lena

Lena
Game Data
Game	Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem Fire Emblem: Archanea Saga Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem
First Seen	Chapter 3: A Brush in the Teeth (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light) Final Chapter 2, Part 3/Chapter 23: The Dark Pontifex Lives (Mystery of the Emblem) Part 3: Thieves' Gang of Justice (Archanea Saga)
Starting Class	Curate (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light) Cleric (Mystery of the Emblem Book 1 / Shadow Dragon) Bishop (Mystery of the Emblem Book 2 / New Mystery of the Emblem)
Voice Actors
Japanese	Michiko Neya
English	Tiffany Grant
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“Please, sire. I am a cleric. I cannot bear to watch others come to harm when I have the power to help.”
—Lena in Shadow Dragon

Lena (レナ, Rena in the Japanese version) is a playable character from the Archanea Series of Fire Emblem. She is a cleric who hails from a noble family in Macedon. She is also the lover of Julian.

Profile

Background

Lena is the descendant of a powerful noble family based in the country of Macedon. Her mother once served the Grustian royal court as a bishop, and it is therefore perceived that Lena inherited her talent as a cleric from her mother. After her mother passed away when she was only ten years old, Lena was sent to live with her maternal grandfather in Grust. Residing in Grust for several years, Lena trained as a cleric by regularly paying visits to remote regions of the country with her grandfather, where they provided much-needed aid to the farmers who were either beset by illness or constant pillages by bandits. Her grandfather soon became too old to continue this work of charity, and she therefore resolved to upkeep his legacy in his stead.

While in the midst of carrying out her self-imposed duties of acting as a saviour to the less fortunate, Lena became acquainted with General Camus, who shared her vision and was already providing aid to the people at the time of their first encounter. While working alongside Camus, Lena was influenced greatly by him, learning that justice usually required self-sacrifice in order to be obtained.

When Prince Michalis of Macedon was coronated as the king of the country, Lena's foster father summoned her back to the Macedonian royal court, where she was imposed the duty of serving as an official under Princess Minerva. During a meeting with Michalis, Lena was requested to wed him in order to fulfil his selfish ambitions of both monopolising her wisdom and beauty and forging a familial union with the powerful elder nobility on Lena's foster father's side. When news of Michalis' proposal spread, Lena was regarded with envy by many women, who yearned to reap the benefits that could only be derived from being his spouse. In an act of defiance, Lena bluntly rejected the proposal, promptly departing from Macedon thereafter.

Archanea Saga

At an unknown period of time after she left Macedon, Lena became acquainted with Rickard, and the both of them supposedly worked together as "honourable thieves" who stole from the wealthy in order to provide amelioration to the poor, although most of the dirty work was performed by Rickard against Lena's feeble protests. Shortly after the palace of Archanea falls to Dolhr, the pair traipses into the palace town in Episode 3 of Archanea Saga, where Rickard contemplates looting the riches lying in wait within the walls of the Archanean Palace before leaving Lena's side to scout for potential bodyguards to aid him in his quest. While awaiting Rickard's return, Lena is harassed by a lascivious bandit, but is rescued from her distress when Navarre enters the scene and scares him off. As Navarre prepares to leave, Lena halts him in his tracks and requests for him to be the bodyguard of both her and Rickard, to which he relents after hearing her reasons.

Rickard later returns with Castor, an injured Hunter whom he had earlier saved, in tow. The group of four then proceeds to rendezvous in a local inn, where they discuss the details of their plan to break into the palace. The plan is executed the next morning, where the group raid the chests with Lena supporting them with her recovery and teleportation magic. While in the midst of looting the palace, the group chances upon Dice and Malice, a father-daughter treasure hunter pair who agree to aid them in exchange for a share of their spoils. As the group attempts to sneak back out of the palace, they are intercepted by General Camus. In response to Camus's incredulity at her choice to engage in thievery, Lena defiantly defends herself, asserting that her actions are done for the purpose of easing the pain of the citizenry who are suffering under Dolhr's tyrannical reign. Although moved by her words, Camus chooses to dutifully go by the book, to which in a rare outburst of anger, Lena responds by questioning whether he is nothing more than a pawn of Dolhr.

Princess Nyna of Archanea intercepts Camus in the nick of time, where she persuades him to grant Lena and her allies reprieve, just as he had done for her when he led the invasion of Archanea Palace in Episode 1. Nyna then briefly speaks to Lena, formally granting her permission to keep the looted treasures and distribute them to the needy, before requesting Camus to lead the group to safety. After she is freed, Lena will continue to travel with Rickard, presumably to use the looted treasures to amplify her mission to aid the poor.

War of Shadows

Lena later appears in Chapter 3 of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, where she has been captured by the Soothsires, a band of thieves that is notorious for terrorising the lands encircling the Samsooth Mountains. Julian, a former member of the Soothsires, betrays them by rescuing Lena from their stronghold within the domains of the mountain range. Her attempt to return to the stronghold to retrieve her misplaced Mend staff is brushed aside by Julian, and she is thereafter led to the safe custody of the approaching troops of Marth's army.

When Marth's army enters the realm of Aurelis in Chapter 4, Lena chances upon her older brother Matthis, who has taken up arms and allied himself with the enemy. After chastising him for his poor, cowardly choice, she manages to convince him to defect to Marth's army.

Lena then resolves to aid Marth in ending the War of Shadows, and following its conclusion, she returns to Macedon, where she, alongside Julian, sets up a monastery to care for orphans.

War of Heroes

At an unstated time prior to the events of Book 2 of Mystery of the Emblem, Lena took Marisha under her tutelage, training her to be a cleric. Shortly after, Lena, alongside Elice, Maria and Nyna, were abducted by Gharnef, who intended to use them for the nefarious purpose of resurrecting Medeus.

Lena later appears alongside the other three kidnapped priestesses in Chapter 24, where she has been placed under a trance by Gharnef, compelling her to serve as a shield to protect Medeus from coming under harm. Fortunately enough, Julian succeeds in breaking her out of her reverie, rescuing her from an untimely death. Medeus is felled shortly after all four noble priestesses are rescued, and following the termination of the War of Heroes, Lena is formally wed to Julian. She thereafter leads a life of serenity with him in Macedon, caring for orphans in her convent alongside Minerva and Maria.

Personality

Lena is portrayed as an individual who is compassionate, magnanimous and selfless, a fact that is strongly proven by her having made the act of harnessing her healing capabilities to tend to the needy her personal life's crusade. Further complementing these traits of Lena's is the fact that she is passionate in fulfilling her self-imposed duties as a cleric, one that has seen her going beyond the line of duty by completely disregarding her safety in order to provide assistance to the sick. This is the case during the events directly preceding Chapter 3 of Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, where she, ignoring the warnings of many good-willed villagers, makes her way to the residences around the Samsooth Mountains in order to tend to the ill.

Lena's passion is one that also extends to her inclination to be strong-willed and obstinate in standing up to defend her beliefs and convictions; her harsh admonishment of Camus after being caught stealing from the rich to aid the poor proves as much, as his adamant resolve to conform to his duties as a loyal knight of Grust motivates her into lashing out at him, referring to him as an insignificant "pawn of Dolhr".

Lena is also portrayed to be prudent in the manner by which she carries herself, as can be evidenced through her originally denying her romantic feelings towards Julian in recognition of her position as a noblewoman. When she is in a state of vulnerability upon being rescued by him much later, however, she lets fall her true feelings, to the extent that she forwardly proposes to him.

In spite of the presence of all these positive traits that adorn Lena's portfolio, she has the tendency to be naive, a fact that stems from her inclination to believe that everyone is inherently good at heart. This is evidenced through her interactions with Rickard in Episode 3 of Archanea Saga, during which he feigns tears when Nabarl expresses suspicion of his true devious intention in raiding the palace for his personal benefit. Lena is the only one amongst the group of four to be deceived into believing Rickard's tears to be genuine, perceiving him to be "but a fragile child whose feelings are easily hurt".

In Game

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light

Recruitment

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Curate	3	Other	Automatically from the start.

Base Stats

Starting Class
Curate
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Wlv	Mov
3	16	1	7	8	8	3	0	7	5
Weapon					Starting Items
Staff					Warp

Growth Rates

HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Wlv	Def	Res
0%	0%	0%	20%	40%	30%	0%	0%

Promotion Gains

Item Required				Promoted Class
Bishop Ring				Bishop
1	+2	+0	+13	+5	+0	+3	+1

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

Recruitment

• Book 1
• Book 2

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Cleric	3	Other	Automatically from the start.

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Bishop	F-3	Dark Clan	Starts out as an enemy unit; talk with Julian.

Base Stats

• Book 1
• Book 2

Starting Class
Cleric
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Wlv	Mov
3	16	1	7	8	8	3	5	7	5
Weapon					Starting Items
Staff					Warp

Starting Class
Bishop
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Wlv	Mov
7	17	6	6	13	10	6	7	18	6
Weapon					Starting Items
Staff Magic					Bolganone

Growth Rates

• Book 1
• Book 2

HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Wlv	Def	Res
10%	20%	40%	20%	70%	40%	10%	3%

HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Wlv	Def	Res
10%	10%	10%	20%	40%	30%	10%	3%

Promotion Gains

Item Required				Promoted Class
Bishop Ring				Bishop
1	+2	+0	+13	+5	+0	+3	+1

Support Relationships

Supports

Character	Bonus
Julian	10%

Supported by

Character	Bonus
Julian	10%

Fire Emblem: Archanea Saga

Recruitment

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Cleric	3	Good Thieves	Automatically from the start.

Base Stats

Starting Class
Cleric
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Wlv	Mov
3	16	1	7	8	8	3	5	7	5
Weapon					Starting Items
Staff					Heal Warp

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Recruitment

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Cleric	3	Other	Automatically from the start.

Base Stats

Starting Class
Cleric
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
3	16	0	2	7	8	8	3	7	5
Weapon					Starting Items
Staff - C					Warp

Promotion Gains

Item Required				Promoted Class
Master Seal				Bishop
1	+6	+1	+2	+1	+1	+2	+0	+1
Weapon Levels
Tome E Staff +30

Class Sets

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Cleric	Bishop
-	Paladin
Pegasus Knight	Dracoknight Falcoknight
Archer	Sniper
Mage	Sage

Growth Rates

Default

• Cleric
• Bishop

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
15%	0%	25%	25%	20%	60%	0%	50%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
15%	0%	35%	30%	20%	60%	0%	40%

Reclassing Options

• Paladin
• Pegasus/Falcon Knight
• Dracoknight
• Archer/Sniper
• Myrmidon/Swordmaster
• Mage
• Sage

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
35%	15%	5%	35%	10%	60%	15%	15%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
25%	10%	0%	30%	25%	60%	10%	20%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
35%	10%	0%	30%	25%	60%	10%	20%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
35%	10%	5%	30%	30%	60%	10%	10%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
45%	10%	5%	30%	25%	60%	5%	15%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
15%	0%	45%	30%	15%	60%	0%	30%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
15%	0%	35%	30%	20%	60%	0%	40%

Support Relationships

Supports

Character	Initial points	Total points for
		C	B	A
Julian	5	5	8	13
Matthis	0	5	9	14
Jake	0	5	10	35

Supported by

Character	Initial points	Total points for
		C	B	A
Julian	0	5	8	13
Matthis	0	5	9	14

• To increase support levels, characters must participate in chapters together
• One support point is gained for each chapter they both participate in
• Support levels that require 35 chapters cannot be reached normally
• Characters must be within a three tile radius of each other to receive support bonuses

Bonuses per level:

• C: +5 Hit and +5 Avoid
• B: +10 Hit and +10 Avoid
• A: +10 Hit and +10 Avoid, +5 Critical and +5 Dodge

Overall

While Lena's stats do not particularly stand out offensively, she will likely be the premier choice for a staff user because of her high availability, high weapon ranks in staff upon recruitment, and the high amount of experience that can be gained by un-promoted units from using staves. However, aside from high luck and resistance, Lena's stats are fairly substandard, even in magic, which can in turn give her issues once she promotes. However, the ability to Lena makes up for this by having the exclusive ability to use the Hammerne staff, which has 12 uses in Shadow Dragon as opposed to the three or even one use in other games. This in turn allows Lena to repair some of the most powerful weapons in the game and restore them to full use. However, her magic stat is fairly low due to the low base growth rates of Clerics; once Lena promotes, it is advised to reclass her from a Bishop into a Sage, which will give her an additional point of magic, two more points of strength to counterbalance the loss of attack speed from tomes, and a D rank in tomes by default, which will allow her to use stronger tomes like Elfire and Blizzard without losing attack speed. In addition, it also allows her to improve her weapon rank in tomes faster so she can wield stronger tomes like Thoron and even Aura towards the end of the game. However, given that Lena will more often than not be the default staff user of choice in a run-through of Shadow Dragon, she will more often than not be marred by the low magic growth rates of the Cleric class. As a result, giving her a Spirit Dust may not only help to give her more offense once she promotes, but also to increase her ability to heal HP by a single point.

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

Recruitment

• Default
• Saga

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Bishop	24	Dark Clan	Starts out as an enemy unit; talk with Julian.

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Lena	Cleric	3	Good Thieves	Automatically from the start.

Base Stats

• Default
• Saga

Starting Class
Bishop
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
3	27	1	8	8	13	10	6	11	6
Weapon					Starting Items
Tome - D Staff - B					Elfire* Physic

*Dropped if defeated as an enemy.

Starting Class
Cleric
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
3	16	0	3	5	7	7	3	5	5
Weapon					Starting Items
Staff - C					Heal Warp Rescue

Growth Rates

• Default
• Saga

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
35%	0%	45%	40%	30%	60%	10%	40%

HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
35%	0%	35%	35%	30%	60%	15%	50%

Support Relationships

Supports

Character	Conversations	Total points for
		C	B	A
Matthis	None	0	-	-
Julian	None	0	0	0

Supported by

Character	Conversations	Total points for
		C	B	A
Matthis	None	0	-	-
Julian	None	0	0	0

• To increase support levels, characters must participate in chapters together
• One support point is gained for each chapter they both participate in
• A hyphen (-) indicates the support level cannot be reached
• Characters must be within a three tile radius of each other to receive support bonuses

Bonuses per level:

• C: +5 Hit and +5 Avoid
• B: +10 Hit and +10 Avoid
• A: +10 Hit and +10 Avoid, +5 Critical and +5 Dodge

Overview

In Shadow Dragon, Lena is one of the best clerics in the game. Her high bases balance her relatively decent growth rates, allowing her to become a very balanced unit combat-wise. Her high Luck will help with her evasion and her high Resistance will make her impervious to many magical attacks. She has a higher Magic growth than many starting healers, and her high rank in Staves allows her to be a very versatile healer. Her growth rates, specifically in HP, can be improved by possibly re-classing her, although she will most likely be too weak for physical combat. However, her high Magic growth will allow her to be a great Mage or Sage if the player wishes for her to be a more offensive unit. If promoted to a Bishop from a high level at an early stage, she will maximise her Staff rank, allowing her to be a very proficient user of staves. Additionally, she is available extremely early in the game, and she is the only character who is able to use the Hammerne staff, exclusively granting her the unique ability to repair weapons.

In the second book of Mystery of the Emblem and its remake, Lena is recruited during the final chapter with low base stats. After saving her from Medeus, moving her to safety is highly recommended, although, unlike the other 3 bishops, she can survive a hit from the Ice Dragons on lower difficulties, due to her base speed being 13, and her alright 6 defense for a level 3 Bishop, although moving her to safety is still recommended.

Quotes

Death Quotes

“Deities... I will return to your side.”
—Death quote in Book 1 of Mystery of the Emblem

“Ah, Julian...”
—Death quote in Book 2 of Mystery of the Emblem

“Lords above... Take me...into your embrace...”
—Death quote in Shadow Dragon

Possible Endings

Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem

Book 1

Frontier Saint

"At a monastery in Macedon, she cares for orphans."

Book 2

Macedonian Bishop

"At a monastery in Macedon, she cared for orphans."

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Angel to All

"Lena cared for orphans at a convent in Macedon and doled out love in equal shares to all she met."

Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem

Macedon's Angel

"Lena cared for orphans in a convent in Macedon. Her kindness healed the hearts of many."

Non-Canon Appearances

Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)

Lena is illustrated in the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher with the following cards:

• B01-025HN

  
• B01-026N

  

Gallery

Rena the complete.jpg

Official artwork of Lena from The Complete.

Official artwork of Lena from the TCG.

Official wallpaper featuring Lena, Maria, Nyna, and Elice with their respective rescuers forming the background.

Official artwork of Lena by Koya Katsuyoshi.

Fumi Lena1.jpg

Artwork of Lena from Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher) by Fumi.

Fumi Lena2.jpg

Artwork of Lena from Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher) by Fumi.

Lena, as she appears in the fifth series of the TCG as a Level 10 Sister.

Lena, as she appears in the sixth series of the TCG as a Level 20 Bishop.

Lena as a Sister in Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher).

Lena as a Bishop in Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher).

Animation still of Lena in the Fire Emblem anime.

CG artwork of Julian saving Lena, as seen in the ending of Mystery of the Emblem.

CG artwork of Rickard convincing Lena to steal from Dolhr in Archanea Saga.

CG artwork of Rickard's motley plotting the robbing of Archanea palace in Archanea Saga.

CG artwork of Lena being stopped by Camus in Archanea Saga.

CG artwork of Lena escaping with her comrades in Archanea Saga.

Lena's portrait in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light.

Lena's portrait in Mystery of the Emblem.

Lena's portrait in Archanea Saga.

Lena's portrait in Shadow Dragon.

Lena's portrait in New Mystery of the Emblem.

Lena's hypnotized portrait in New Mystery of the Emblem.