Salem

Salem is a playable character from Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. A Loptyrian Mage who is disillusioned with the ways of the Loptr Church, he is a member of Perne's Dandelion Gang. Salem is the only playable dark magic user in Thracia 776, and the first Dark Magic user in the series.

ProfileEdit

Before Thracia 776Edit

Salem was once a devout member of the Loptr Church. However, he reached a point where he began to grow disillusioned with their ways, and this was considered treasonous and punishable by death.

Fearing for his life, Salem attempted to flee, but he was caught and attacked before being left for dead. He would have died if not for Perne, who rescued him and tended to his injuries.

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776Edit

Salem first appears in Chapter 12, where he urges Perne to let him stand as sentry for the Dandelion Gang's hideout in Dakia Forest. Not knowing the identity of Leif's army as it passes through the forest, he attacks it with a Sleep Staff on hand. Leif's army eventually defeats Salem and captures him, and gets him to join its ranks.

If Salem is chosen to accompany the group who heads into the Dandelion Gang's hideout in Chapter 12x, he requests for Leif to let him speak to Perne. He explains that Leif's liberation army shares the same ideals as the Dandelion Gang, and Perne thus decides to lend his aid to them.

Salem then goes on to continue supporting Leif in his cause to liberate Northern Thracia from the Grannvale Empire. He retires to a small rural village thereafter, where he pens memoirs of his life, which proves to be valuable for historians in the future to understand the workings of the Loptr Church.

PersonalityEdit

Salem is portrayed as calm and collected, expressing no fear as he personally spearheads the defence of the Dandelion Gang's hideout in Chapter 12.

Salem is also known to be loyal to Perne, displaying his gratitude to the thief for rescuing him in his time of need by choosing to work as his subordinate. This is despite Perne urging him to rest in view of him not having fully recovered from his injuries.

In-GameEdit

Fire Emblem: Thracia 776Edit

RecruitmentEdit

Name	Class	Chapter	Affiliation	Recruit
Salem	Loptyrian Mage	12x	Player	Automatically from the start if he was captured in Chapter 12

Base StatsEdit

Starting Class
Loptyrian Mage
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Bld	Mov	LS	MS	PC
5	22	0	8	6	7	2	2	4	6	0	0	1
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
-				Fire - D Thunder - D Wind - D Dark - C Staff - C				Jormungand Sleep

Growth RatesEdit

Promotion GainsEdit

Item Required				Promoted Class
Knight Proof				Dark Mage
1	0	+3	+2	0	+4	+1	0
Weapon Levels
+1

Support BonusEdit

Supported by

Character	Bonus
Perne	10%
Sara	10%

• Supports give a bonus to Hit, Critical, Avoid, and Dodge
• Supporting characters must be within a three tile radius for the support to come into effect

OverallEdit

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.

Salem is the game's sole wielder of Dark Magic, but this element is mostly incidental in his kit. It does enable him to wield the high-might Jormungand, but its colossal weight of 12, combined with tome weight ignoring his Build, means that Salem will have 0 Speed when using it most of the time. The tome is not useless, as early on, Salem doesn't tend to double anyway, but it will rarely one-round enemies, and its weapon triangle boosts are almost completely negligible. He is the only character capable of wielding the Fenrir, which can give him some utility as a long-rang siege unit, but he will require a lot of grinding to hit A-rank in Dark tomes. Thankfully, he can use the more plentiful and lightweight Anima tomes as a backup. As a fairly low-level unpromoted unit for his joining time, Salem will usually gain XP quickly, and his growths are passable, especially as this is the point when the player has obtained a fairly large arsenal of Crusader Scrolls (particularly the Ced Scroll). Unfortunately, even when invested in, his offense is nothing special for a mage unit: most others possess exceptionally powerful personal tomes (Olwen), strong skills to compliment their abilities (Homer, Sara), unusually high critical multipliers (Linoan), or all three (Asbel), of which Salem has none.

Salem's true utility is as a staff-user. He starts with a C-rank, enough to wield the Sleep staff in his inventory if he was captured before he could burn through it, along with Restore, Physic, Magic Up, and Recover. Furthermore, upon his promotion to Dark Mage, he receives a boost to his staff rank, bringing him up to B, or possibly even A if the player has been making heavy use of Salem's staff skills. Open Fire is a particularly good place to train him, as he has many opportunities to use Physic. It is very likely that he will be the second character in the army to have A-rank staves after Safy. Combine that with the boost to his defenses from promotion, and Salem becomes a fairly strong utility character: while Safy tends to struggle with surviving on the frontlines, Salem can perform perfectly adequately as a combat unit, letting him stay closer to the action while he heals and cures his allies or throws out powerful status effects. Having two characters capable of using Warp is an opportunity that cannot be discounted.

Fire Emblem AwakeningEdit

SpotPassEdit

Starting Class
Dark Mage
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
14	31	1	15	12	14	5	8	6	6
Skills			Weapon			Starting Items
Hex Anathema Despoil			Tome - C			Nosferatu*

*Enemy only, joins unequipped

QuotesEdit

Thracia 776 Edit

Awakening Edit

EndingsEdit

Thracia 776 Edit

Salem - The Sorcerer (暗黒魔道士 Ankoku madō-shi)

"After the war's end, Salem moved to a rural area and became a recluse. He recorded the story of his life in writing. His memoirs told the tale of a man who had once been a member of the infamous Loptr Church. To historians, they were an invaluable resource, offering a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Loptrian society."

EtymologyEdit

Salem could have been named after the village in Massachusetts where the infamous 1692 witch-hunt trials took place.

Salem, incidentally, is also the setting of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where he retells the events of the witchcraft trials in the form of a play.

TriviaEdit

• In Salem's SpotPass team in Fire Emblem Awakening, there is a Thief with the Sol and Vantage skills. This thief is very likely meant to represent Perne.

GalleryEdit

Salem's portrait in Thracia 776.

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