—Link to Lilina in a support conversation
Link is a playable character in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. He is a Mercenary from Lycia hired by Ostia. He can be promoted to a Hero during the game, depending on the player’s preferences.
Profile
Link joins a band of Ostian soldiers in order to pay for his impoverished family’s meals. However, because his physique and ability was incompatible with being part of the heavy knights, he instead chose the path of a mercenary. He joins Roy's party alongside Gwendolyn and Barthe, aiming to save Lilina and defeat Leygance in order to hand the Ostian throne to its rightful owner.
After the war with Bern, he traveled the world as a mercenary.
Personality
A somewhat reserved person, Link often comes off as shy and respectful to others, considering them to be of higher status than himself as he came from a dirt poor family, though Bors comments that while that sort of mundane reason to fight is usually looked down upon, it was still also a legitimate reason to fight.
Link is also greatly motivated to train himself in order to protect everyone else, as he and Gwendolyn train to become stronger than the other in their supports as hey work tirelessly to bring an end to the war.
In Game
Base Stats
Starting Class | Affinity | ||||||||
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Mercenary | Wind | ||||||||
Level | HP | Str | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res | Con | Mov |
3 | 24 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
Weapon | Starting Items | ||||||||
Sword - D | Steel Sword Armorslayer Vulnerary |
Growth Rates
HP | S/M | Skl | Spd | Lck | Def | Res |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
85% | 40% | 30% | 45% | 55% | 20% | 15% |
Promotional Gains
Item Required | Promoted Class | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hero Crest | Hero | |||||||
1 | +4 | +2 | +1 | +2 | +4 | +2 | +1 | +1 |
Weapon Levels | ||||||||
+1 E |
Supports
- See also: Link/Supports
Recruitment
Joins automatically in Chapter 8 on Turn 6.
Overall
Link is essentially a weaker version of Dieck due to his later join time and far inferior base stats. This is not necessarily a bad thing, since Dieck is one of the strongest early game units. However, Link's growths are better. His HP and Skill are worse than Dieck's, but they're still well above average, but his Speed and Luck are much higher. Ogier does suffer from lower constitution, but he suffers little trouble from wielding most swords barring the Steel Blade. Overall, Link is harder to train than Dieck, but due to his join time being just before the Western Isles, he can be brought up to speed with relative ease. Ogier promotes to Hero, granting him 1-2 range, and can be promoted as early as Chapter 8x given you feed him EXP. However, he does compete with Rutger and Dieck for the Hero Crest, so they might be prefered compared to Link.
Character Ending
- Link - The Little Hero (小さな『勇者』 Chiisana “Yūsha”)
- "Link continued to travel around the world as a mercenary, and his name gradually spread across the continent as a great warrior. Even in his fame, he kept the utmost respect for his comrades in the war, saying that he never would have gotten as far as he did without their help."
Non-Canon Appearances
Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)
Link is illustrated in the trading card game Fire Emblem Cipher with the following cards:
Quotes
—Link's death quote in The Binding Blade.
Etymology
Link the Dane was a legendary character who first appeared in The Song of Roland, a French medieval series of poems which the Elibe games reference often.
Trivia
- On the official Japanese website for Nintendo, Link won 25th place out of 80 in the character popularity poll for Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. The male-female vote ratio is 2:1. The voter comments seem to generally focus on his modest, brave, and humble personality and his backstory regarding his impoverished family.