Rinea

Rinea
Biological Information
Gender	Female
Race	Human
Relatives	May contain spoilers Berkut (Fiancé)
Affiliations
Nationality	Rigel
Game Data
Game	Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Fire Emblem Heroes
First Seen	Chapter 1: Zofia's Call
First Fought	Chapter 5: Together to the End
Starting Class	Witch
Voice Actors
Japanese	Hibiku Yamamura
English	Dorothy Fahn
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“Er, that is to say, I love to dance. In...most circumstances. There is a little grove behind my manor. Inside is a flower garden where small birds gather—it is a place dear to me.”
—Rinea, to Berkut

Rinea is a non-playable character who appears exclusively in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Profile

Rinea is a noblewoman from an impoverished Rigelian house and is engaged to Berkut. Even within the Empire, she is renowned for her beauty, and the one person whom Berkut trusts without reserve. Rinea met Berkut at a royal ball. Despite the lesser nature of her noble house, Berkut was charmed by her beauty and offered to dance with her, thus beginning their romance.

During the events of Shadows of Valentia, Rinea is first introduced when Alm's forces storm Zofia Castle where Berkut was stationed. Rinea showed no interest in the battle as she detested violence. Berkut was content to sitting back and watching the battle unfold with her at his side.

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After Alm kills Emperor Rudolf, it is revealed that Alm is Rudolf's true son, thus rendering Berkut's right to the throne invalid. In his frustration, Berkut enters the Duma Tower where he pleads to Duma for more power. Worried for Berkut, Rinea follows him into the Tower and tells Berkut that she does not care whether or not he is emperor, never desiring herself to be empress from the beginning, only to remain next to him for the rest of her days. Berkut takes this as a slight and drives him over the edge, offering Rinea's life as payment for power from Duma. Rinea's soul departs from her body and is engulfed in flames as Berkut holds her lifeless body. In pain from being forcefully transformed into a Witch and forced to obey Berkut, Rinea attacks Fernand, mortally wounding him. Shortly after, Alm's forces encounter Berkut and Rinea where the two forces clash and end with Rinea and Berkut both defeated. As Berkut is on his death throes, Rinea's spirit, now free from Duma's influence, beckons for Berkut to join her in the afterlife where they can search for their "empire" together, so long as Berkut is content with having Rinea as his "empress." Berkut accepts her offer and departs alongside her into the afterlife.

"End of spoilers. It's a pleasure doing business with you!"

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Personality

While uncomfortable around most strangers, Rinea still tries to put up a pleasant and polite front. She seems to feel a lot of pressure to be an "acceptable" fiancee to Berkut, even though she dislikes public life. She often frets a lot about her choice of words and being what is considered appropriate in her department.

Being the daughter of a minor Rigelian noble family that is not well-off, financially or in social standing, her discomfort with court life is exacerbated. She does, however, love to dance, and also enjoys nature and being outdoors. While typically fairly soft-spoken, if Rinea has an opportunity to talk about something she likes, she will become much more animated and verbose, a trait she is rather ashamed of. The whole ordeal of war is as uncomfortable and alien to her as court life, but she sticks it out to stay by Berkut's side. He's the only person she opens up to, and conversely, Rinea is the only person Berkut opens up to.

In-Game

Stats

• Normal
• Hard

Starting Class
Witch
Level	HP	Atk	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
17	40	20	19	16	0	10	16	4
Magic			Skills			Starting Items
Seraphim Fortify Entrap Conjure			Recovery* Wildfire Miracle* Pact			Prayer Ring

Granted by Prayer Ring*

Starting Class
Witch
Level	HP	Atk	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
19	42	25	18	17	0	12	18	4
Magic			Skills			Starting Items
Seraphim Fortify Entrap Conjure			Recovery* Wildfire Miracle* Pact			Prayer Ring

Granted by Prayer Ring*

Fire Emblem Heroes

• A Splendid Soiree

Reminiscent Belle

Berkut's betrothed. Typically on the reserved side, she loves to dance. She moves to the beat of any music playing in earshot. Appears in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Base Stats

Rarity: ✯✯✯✯✯

		Title
		Reminiscent Belle
		Group
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1 40
Skills			Weapon
Silver Goblet+ Dance			Tome

Skills

Type	Name	Prerequisite	Default	Unlocked
	Thunder	-	-	-
	Elthunder	-	-	-
	Silver Goblet	-	-	-
	Silver Goblet+	-		-
	Dance	-		-
A	Warding Blow 1	-		-
	Bracing Blow 1	Armored Blow 1		-
	Bracing Blow 2	Bracing Blow 1
B	Torrent Dance 1	-		-
	Fireflood Dance 1	Torrent Dance 1		-
	Fireflood Dance 2	Fireflood Dance 1

Overall

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

Base Set

Soiree Rinea is a Tempest Trial Blue Tome Infantry unit that has the powerful utility of being a Dancer unit. As a standalone unit, her offensive stats are decent for a dancer with base 30 Atk and 33 Spd and her bulk is just enough to take a hit when needed, but nothing particularly spectacular. Her main downsides pertain to her Dancer status as she cannot obtain IVs to better distribute her stats and that there are many powerful dancers such as Legendary Azura, Peony, and Summer Festival Micaiah. While she shares this type combination with Performing Arts Shigure as well, overall, Soiree Rinea is an excellent budget dancer. Her Silver Goblet has a Distant Guard 3 effect, granting a bonus +4 Def/Res when they are attacked by a ranged unit and is within two spaces of Rinea. On top of the effect, the weapon stat forged to give her additional points to one of her stats, giving the player one method to better manipulate her stats in a meaningful way. As a dancer, she had Dance for her assist skill. Bracing Blow increases her Def/Res by 4 when initiating combat. and Fireflood Dance increases the Atk/Res of the ally she dances for by 3/4 respectively

Counters

Soiree Rinea's middling stats mostly results in mediocre damage dealt and received. Units with high bulk can easily absorb her attacks while high offense units can not only double on her, but also penetrate through her passing bulk. Both her HP and Def are low enough that both Mila and Bridal Fjorm can inflict the【Isolation】effect on her.

Skill Inheritance

Keeping her in her core Dancer build is advisable as the utility alone makes her an acceptable unit. Moonbow is a fast charging special that helps boost her damage output by ignoring part of the enemy's Res. Fury or Fortress Defense Resistance boosts her core stats to make her overall stronger or exponentially increases her overall bulk to the point that she can take hits even better. Wings of Mercy allows her to teleport across the map to help get an injured ally out of the range of danger by dancing them out. Inheriting Distant Guard doubles its effect on top of the Silver Goblet while inheriting Close Guard allows her to run both skills simultaneously, giving her allies onmibulk so long as she is close enough to them.

Quotes

Heroes

Rinea/Heroes Quotes

Non-Canon Appearances

Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)

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

B11-073HN

Etymology

Rinea's name may be based on Linea, a feminine name of Scandinavian derivation, and its meaning is "lime" or "linden tree". It may also be based on the Scandinavian female name "Linnea" which is a flower.

Trivia

• Despite being classed as a Witch Rinea's battle model bears more resemblance to the Vestal class.
• Rinea's Prayer Ring only truly grants her the Recovery skill. In order to activate the Miracle skill, she needs to have an actual Luck stat.
• Rinea placed 76th on Choose Your Legends Round 2 and was the 6th most popular Echoes character.
  • Rinea placed 56th on Choose Your Legends Round 3 and was the 2nd most popular Echoes character.
  • In both CYL polls, she was the most popular character not to be in Heroes at that point.
• Rinea is the first character to appear as an auxiliary character in Heroes, appearing in both Fallen Berkut's Special Attack still and during a Special Attack in her witch form.
• Rinea shares her English voice actress, Dorothy Elias Fahn, with Three Houses' Mercedes.
• Rinea is one of only two enemies in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia to have a Bond Support, the other being her fiancé Berkut.

Gallery

See main article: Rinea/Gallery.