Raigh

Raigh
Biological Information
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Relatives	May contain spoilers Nino (Mother) Lugh (Twin brother) Juge (Grandfather) Iris (Grandmother) Kai (Uncle)
Game Data
Game	Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade Fire Emblem Awakening (SpotPass) Fire Emblem Heroes
First Seen	Chapter 12: The True Enemy
Starting Class	Shaman (The Binding Blade) Dark Mage (Awakening)
Voice Actors
Japanese	Natsumi Fujiwara
English	Sam Riegel
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“I want to protect those I hold dear, and destroy all those who oppose me. That's the power I seek.”
—Raigh to Niime in a support conversation in The Binding Blade

Raigh (レイ Rei, Lleu in the Japanese version) is a playable character in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. He is a Shaman and the twin brother of Lugh. He is sarcastic, rude and cynical, the opposite of his brother. Despite his rude behavior to all the people around him, people like Lugh and Sophia say that he is really a good person at heart and is just hiding it. He is on relatively good terms with Chad despite his departure from the orphanage. His dream is to make dark magic more known throughout Elibe and to study ancient magic, joining Roy's army because it may help with his dream.

He is the second playable Dark Magic user in the Fire Emblem series, following Salem.

Profile

Raigh is the son of Nino and the identical twin of Lugh. The difference in looks between the twins is their eyes. Lugh's eyes are softer like Nino's, while Raigh's eyes are harder, possibly a trait from Jaffar. He is rough around the edges, rude, and overall mordant, having been raised in an orphanage in Araphen alongside his brother and Chad. After hearing that the father was slaughtered and that Bern charred said orphanage to the ground, Raigh pretends to be standoffish to the fact and while he exclaims that he does not care what happens to the orphanage or the orphans, Lugh insists that it is merely a barrier and that he is truly lighthearted and caring by nature.

In Game

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Recruitment

Speak to him in chapter twelve with either Lugh or Chad.

Base Stats

Starting Class						Affinity
Shaman						Ice
Level	HP	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Con	Mov
12	23	12	9	9	6	5	10	4	5
Weapon					Starting Items
Dark - C					Nosferatu

Growth Rates

HP	S/M	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res
55%	45%	55%	40%	15%	15%	35%

Promotion Gains

Item Required				Promoted Class
Guiding Ring				Druid
1	+3	+4	+2	+2	+2	+2	+1	+1
Weapon Levels
+1 E

Supports

See also: Raigh/Supports

• Chad
• Hugh
• Lugh
• Niime
• Sophia

Overall

Raigh is a subpar magic user as he won't be doubling most enemies. However, he can instantly promote using the chapter 14 guiding ring to become of some use to player should they want to use him. Dark tomes in FE6 aren't that heavy compared to later titles so he won't lose more than 1 or 2 before he's promoted. It might be worthwhile to use a Body Ring on him. In all, Raigh doesn't have much going for him other than being a midgame magic user who can instantly promote when the guiding ring comes his way 2-3 chapters later.

Fire Emblem Awakening

SpotPass

Starting Class
Dark Mage
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
16	36	5	17	14	13	8	10	6	5+1
Skills			Weapon			Starting Items
Hex Anathema Movement +1			Tome - C			Nosferatu*

*Enemy only, joins unequipped

Fire Emblem Heroes

Description

Dark Child

Wielder of dark magic. A scornful loner with a troubled past as an orphan. Appears in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.

Base Stats

Rarity:

1

Dark Child		Title
		Group
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1	15	11	6	3	5
Skills			Weapon
Flux			Tome

2

Dark Child		Title
		Group
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1	15/16	12/13	6/7	4/5	6
Skills			Weapon
Ruin			Tome

3

Dark Child		Title
		Group
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1	17	13	7	4	6
Skills			Weapon
Rauðrwolf Rally Attack			Tome

4

Dark Child		Title
		Group
		Infantry
Level
1
Weapon
Tome

Skills

Weapon

Name	SP Cost	Might	Range	Effects	Rarity
Flux	-	4	2	-	✯
Ruin	100	6	2	-	✯✯
Rauðrwolf	200	6	2	Effective against cavalry units.	✯✯✯
Rauðrwolf+	300	10	2	Effective against cavalry units.	✯✯✯✯✯

Assist

Name	SP Cost	Range	Effects	Rarity
Rally Attack	150	1	Grants Atk+4 to a adjacent ally until the end of the turn.	✯✯✯

Passive

Name	SP Cost	Effects	Rarity
HP +3	40	Grants +3 to Max HP.	✯✯✯
HP +4	80 (Required: HP +3)	Grants +4 to max HP.	✯✯✯✯
HP +5	160 (Required: HP +4)	Grants +5 to max HP.	✯✯✯✯✯
Seal Res 1	40	After combat, foe suffers Res-3 through its next action.	✯
Seal Res 2	80 (Required: Seal Res 1)	After combat, foe suffers Res-5 through its next action.	✯✯
Seal Res 3	160 (Required: Seal Res 2)	After combat, foe suffers Res-7 through its next action.	✯✯✯✯

Quotes

The Binding Blade

“Hn. In the world... There are only fools...”
—Raigh's Death Quote

Heroes

Raigh/Heroes Quotes

Possible Endings

Raigh - Child of Darkness (闇の申し子 Yami no Mōshigo lit. God-sent Child of Darkness)

Raigh traveled around the world, honing his dark magic skills. Although dark magic had been all but forgotten, Raigh's efforts brought it back to people's awareness again. He was known for being hard on both himself and others, but for some reason he was generous towards deprived children.

Non-Canon Appearances

Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)

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

• B09-065R

  
• B09-065R+

  
• B09-066N

  

Etymology

The Japanese transliteration of Raigh's name, "Lleu", comes from the Welsh mythlogical figure Lleu Llaw Gyffes, who was born when his mother, Arianrhod, was running for the door after giving birth to Dylan Ail Don during a magical virginity test and is raised by Arianrhod's brother Gwydion. When presented with the child, Arainrhod places a tynged, similar to a curse, on him that only she could name him, which Gwydion tricks her into doing, as well as later tricking her into arming him to counter a second tynged, and making a wife out of flowers to counter a third. He is considered to be the equivalent of the Irish Lugh.

The change in his name in Fire Emblem Awakening was likely due to pronunciation - The Welsh ll (ɬ) sound is very difficult to pronounce for most native English and Japanese speakers so it might have been a pragmatic choice to translate according to the Japanese pronunciation towards a variation of a common English Language name rather than try to maintain the intent and pronunciation of the original word.

Trivia

• On the official Japanese website for Nintendo, Raigh won 4th place  out of 80 in the character popularity poll for Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. The male-female vote ratio is 1:2. The voter comments seem to mostly center on him being a kind and caring person despite seeming cold and cynical on the surface.
• His artwork in Heroes depicts him wielding a Dark Magic tome.
  • It is unknown as to which tome he is wielding as Flux, Ruin and Fenrir share the same design in Heroes.

Gallery

Artwork of Raigh from Fire Emblem Heroes by Himukai Yuji.

Artwork of Raigh from Fire Emblem Heroes by Himukai Yuji.

Artwork of Raigh from Fire Emblem Heroes by Himukai Yuji.

Artwork of Raigh from Fire Emblem Heroes by Himukai Yuji.

Raigh in Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher).

Raigh as a Druid in Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher).

Raigh as a Druid in Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher).

Raigh's appearance in Hasha no Tsurugi.

Raigh's portrait in The Binding Blade.

Raigh as a Shaman in The Binding Blade.

Raigh as an enemy in The Binding Blade.

Raigh as a Druid in The Binding Blade.

Druid Raigh with a staff in The Binding Blade