Ragnell

Ragnell
First Seen	Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Weapon Type	Sword
Most Common Rank	Prf/A
Uses	Infinite/25
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Ragnell（ラグネル Raguneru）is Ike's second exclusive weapon in both Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It also the main weapon of Priam in Fire Emblem: Awakening.

The weapon itself is a large golden sword with a black hilt. Ragnell was blessed by the goddess Ashera, making the blade unbreakable. In the storyline, Ike uses Ragnell to penetrate the blessed armor of the Black Knight during their duel. Early on in the game, Ragnell was offered to Ike's father by the Black Knight just before their duel. However, Greil refused the blade and chose to fight with his great axe, Urvan.

Ragnell, along with its sister sword, Alondite, was forged to smite the Goddess Yune. Both swords were used by the beorc hero Altina, also the first Empress of Begnion. Since the blade is a Begnion national treasure, Ike returned the sword to Apostle Sanaki after using it to reclaim his country of Crimea from the Mad King Ashnard. In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Sanaki stole the sacred blade as she escaped from the hostile senators and gave the blade back to Ike, so to lead the army faithful to the Apostle and retake Begnion.

Ragnell has high might which when in Ike's hands, deals a high amount of damage. It will almost always hit with a decent hit%. It also has ranged properties, allowing Ike to strike and counter indirect enemies from up to 2 tiles away. In Path of Radiance, this helps to counter the fact that Ike can only use swords, which have limited ranged options. Ragnell also has the ability to seal enemy critical hits (except when Wrath activates) in Path of Radiance only. In both games, it gives Ike +5 to his defense stat.

In Fire Emblem: Awakening, a weaker, although still potent, Ragnell reappears in the game. In Paralogue 23, a hero named Priam, who claims to be the descendant of Ike, wields this version of Ragnell, which has infinite usage. However once Priam is recruited or a copy of Ragnell is obtained from a random chest spawn in the Infinite Regalia, these usable Ragnell will only have 25 durability points. It is possible the blessing that gave the sword its power has weakened over time, as it is covered in small cracks and has a visibly duller blade. When used in an indirect attack, it is thrown in a similar fashion as a javelin.

Stats

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Template:WeaponStatFE5-11 |Ragnell |Sword |Prf* |Infinite |18 |80% |5% |1-2 |20 |2 | - |Negates non-Wrath criticals**, Defense+5 |} * - Preference = Ike
**-Only in Path of Radiance

Fire Emblem: Awakening

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Ragnell

|Sword |A |25* |15 |70% |0% |1-2 |? | - |Def+5 |} *-Infinite usage on Enemy Priam in Paralogue 23.

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Ragnell is also featured as Ike's weapon in the Wii game: Super Smash Bros. Brawl. With it he can perform his signature Aether attack and his Great Aether final smash attack. It also had magical fire properties, much like Roy's Sword of Seals, even though such power was only seen at the end of Radiant Dawn where Yune fuses her powers with Ike's.

Known wielders of Ragnell

• Ike
• The Black Knight
• Altina
• Priam

Etymology

In Arthurian legend, Dame Ragnell (or Ragnelle) was a hideously ugly woman whom Sir Gawain was forced to marry, because she knew the answer to the riddle: What do women most desire? Gawain needed the answer to this either because he had killed (In the Canterbury Tales it says he raped) a woman and would be put to death himself if he could not answer, or because someone had challenged Arthur to solve the riddle, and Gawain was honor-bound to discover the answer for his king. In return for marrying Gawain, Ragnell told the King that what women want most is their own way. On their wedding night, Ragnell revealed that she was a young woman under a spell, and told Gawain that he could choose: either she would be old and ugly at night and beautiful during the day, or vice versa. Gawain, remembering the answer to the riddle, told Ragnell she could choose. This broke the spell and Ragnell regained her beautiful form. [1] This is a reinterpretation of Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales".

Gallery

Artwork of the Ragnell from the Tellius Series.

An artwork of Ike holding the Ragnell in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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Ragnell in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

Ragnell's ranged attack.