History Characters / FireEmblemThreeHousesLeicesterAlliance

** In ''Three Hopes'', if [[spoiler:Shez kills Jeralt, Byleth]] will murder her in retribution.

* TeamMom: She acts as this towards the Golden Deer, with a tough yet motherly disposition. She dotes on Claude and Lorenz like kids, and greatly disapproves of Margrave Edmund having his daughter Marianne fight in the war while he stays behind.

[-''Main Characters:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesByleth Byleth]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesEdelgard Edelgard]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesDimitri Dimitri]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesClaude Claude]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesRhea Rhea]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesShez Shez]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesOtherMainCharacters Other Main Characters]] \\
''Secondary Characters:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesHubert Hubert]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFerdinand Ferdinand]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBernadetta Bernadetta]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesSylvain Sylvain]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesIngrid Ingrid]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesFelix Felix]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesLysithea Lysithea]]\\
''Houses:'' [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBlackEagles The Black Eagles]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesBlueLions The Blue Lions]] | [[Characters/FireEmblemThreeHousesGoldenDeer The Golden Deer]]\\

** While the other two nations have their infighting amongst the leaders, it's [[FatalFlaw notoriously bad]] for the Alliance. [[spoiler:In every route except for Verdant Wind, the Alliance ultimately ends up falling apart after the Battle of Gronder Field because they were never able to fully unify. In the Azure Moon route Claude reads the tea leaves and realizes it's best to put all of his hopes in Dimitri being able to win the war and lead a unified Fódlan. Claude does the same in Crimson Flower, arranging things so that no matter what happens, the Empire and Alliance will join together with minimal bloodshed. In Silver Snow, Claude goes completely MIA after the Battle and the Alliance collapses shortly after, with the lords becoming loyal to Byleth in the aftermath.]]

* TheArcher: The Alliance is known for having highly skilled archers.

* UniversallyBelovedLeader: Pretty much no one actually dislikes Holst. He was so well regarded he was presumed to lead the entire Alliance until Claude appeared. He has the full respect of his enemies and rivals alike in Nader and Count Bergliez. Edelgard won't even let Hubert snark about him.

* DarkhorseVictory: [[spoiler:Their victory in the war in Verdant Wind is essentially this. By and large, the main conflict of the war was between the Empire and the Kingdom, and the Alliance's only real reason they were involved to begin with was because both sides had to pass through their territories to attack the other. However, under Claude and Byleth's leadership, the Alliance ultimately comes out on top while the Empire and Kingdom are effectively destroyed.]]

* ParentalNeglect: He's not the best father to Marianne, failing to contact her on occasion they have a distant relationship. In one monastery conversation, Marianne wonders if Margrave Edmund has forgotten about her, and hopes that he has. In ''Three Hopes'', Marianne is often surprised when he ''does'' contact her, and she usually has no idea what she should say to him when they do get to interact - it also doesn't help that he often views matters in terms of gains-and-losses for the house (including the war itself, which Marianne mentions that in supporting it, he must be expecting significant returns).
* PromotionToParent: He was made Marianne's guardian by default when her parents vanished (in unspecified circumstances), and being her cousin was a living relative with the means to raise her. It's indicated that he's unsure how to ''be'' a parent and is trying his best in the circumstances.

* GoodAllAlong: ''Three Houses'' does not paint a pretty picture of the man, as it's implied he had Claude's grandfather assassinated (with Raphael's parents being caught in the crossfire) and is also seemingly willing to murder Alliance merchants for his own petty gain. He comes off as a lot more honorable in ''Warriors: Three Hopes'', and it also turns out that the assassination was carried out by double agents among his men without his knowledge.

* TheQuisling: In every route in ''Three Houses'', [[spoiler:Gloucester sides with the Empire, largely because his county's proximity to the Great Bridge means it's gonna be among the first to feel the flames of war. He will only switch to the Kingdom/Alliance/Resistance side if the Great Bridge of Myrddin is recaptured and he has nothing to fear.]]

[[folder:Shez's Adoptive Mother]]
Shez's adoptive mother, who taught them how to read and write, among other subjects, and died of sickness several years prior to the start of ''Three Hopes''.

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** While he is otherwise very strait-laced and duty bound, he is not above critiquing the Church of Seiros' teachings and in Golden Wildfire he [[spoiler:encourages Claude's desire to get rid of the Central Church]]. That said, he also objects to manipulating the church the way the Empire has, and seeks assurance from Claude that he will not seek to oppose the Church of Seiros as a whole.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: In Balthus' paired ending with Hilda, he has to win a duel against Holst to get Hilda's hand in marriage. In ''Three Hopes'', he laughs if Shez suggests that he'd fight someone who made a pass at her... ''however'', his portrait shows him with CrossPoppingVeins and Shez laughs nervously after seeing the response to their bad joke, implying that Holst might be more cross than he's letting on. It's also noted he has declared that he will be the one who determines if a suitor is right for Hilda, much to her anger and embarrassment.
** However in his A support with Claude, Holst does give Claude his blessing to marry his sister, Hilda.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: A minor one, but she gets talked up for being strong and [[OvershadowedByAwesome just happened to bite off more than she cpuld chew.]] Her class, however, is a Master tiered Bow Knight meaning that it's likely that by sheer mechanics she truly was a top contender of a mercenary on her own merits.

* ShipperOnDeck: For Shez and Hilda in ''Three Hopes'' - regardless of Shez's gender. Shez can try to invoke Holst's BigBrotherInstinct to goad him into sparring at full strength by flirting with Hilda, only for an amused Holst to give his enthusiastic approval for Shez and Hilda dating.

The youngest and smallest of the three nations. The Alliance is a loose confederation of noble houses, located to the east of Fódlan. Initially formed in [[AlternativeCalendar Imperial Year 801]] in an attempt to secede from the Adestrian Empire, they were occupied and annexed into the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus, only managing to gain their freedom in a second bid of independence in Imperial Year 881 upon refusing to recognize the heir of the deceased Faerghus archduke ruling their territory and succeeding with their victory in the Crescent Moon War of Imperial Year 901. Due to this past, they refuse to allow any king or emperor rule over them; however, they allow one family to lead them: House Riegan, as it was the house's duke of that time who lead Leicester to victory. Each house's territory is technically an autonomous region, though they all swear allegiances of loyalty to each other. Leicester students are assigned into the Golden Deer.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: While the nobles of the other nations have shades of this, it is most pronounced in the Leicester Alliance. Despite the vows of loyalty its nobles swore to each other, they are ultimately portrayed as opportunistic and more invested in furthering the interests of their own houses rather than the country as a whole. Of the five current ruling houses of the alliance, only House Goneril never betrays any ally or the Alliance itself at any point in either ''Three Houses'' or ''Three Hopes''. [[spoiler:Houses Edmund, Ordelia, and Gloucester will always follow their heirs' decisions in ''Three Houses'', and negotiate with the Empire on the Scarlet Blaze route of ''Three Hopes''. During the timeskip, Claude promotes conflicts between houses to keep the Alliance neutral. Claude can also potentially betray his allies in the Empire and the Church in or after the Scarlet Blaze and Azure Gleam routes of ''Three Hopes'', respectively. Claude also betrays the trust of the Empire in Golden Wildfire, but his allies talk him out of further underhandedness.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheAlliance. Though it is a land free from the rule of kings and emperors, it is a pit of vipers among the nobility. Many Alliance Lords are very opportunistic, self-serving and more loyal to themselves rather than to the nation as a whole. [[spoiler:In all routes, after Edelgard declares war, several Alliance Lords, led by Count Gloucester, join the Empire and go to war with the Alliance faction loyal to House Riegan.]]
* DividedWeFall: The Alliance's FatalFlaw. The Alliance lords are more concerned about their own ambitions and welfare rather than the nation. Because of their conflicting ideals, loyalty to themselves rather than the Alliance as a whole, and opportunism, the Alliance is barely kept together by its leaders. [[spoiler:In all routes, because Alliance lords side with the Adrestian Empire when Edelgard declares war, Claude is forced to pit the Alliance against itself to make it appear as a unified front. Depending on which route Byleth takes, this could backfire and lead to the Alliance's destruction.]]

* FatalFlaw: [[DividedWeFall Their disunity]]. The Kingdom and the Empire both have their share of infighting among the leaders, but it's nowhere near as bad as the Alliance. Because of their ChronicBackstabbingDisorder tendencies and their status as AHouseDivided, the Leicester Alliance suffers from a grave lack of unity due to their leaders barely keeping it together. Though the ruling lords swear loyalty to each other, the majority of them are ultimately very opportunistic and are quick to turn on each other when it benefits them. [[spoiler:In all routes, Edelgard takes advantage of this and manages to rally several Alliance lords to her side, led by Count Gloucester. Depending on which route the player takes, it could lead to the complete annihilation of the Leicester Alliance and Claude's death or disappearance.]] It's also brought up in ''Three Hopes'' that because of this disunity, their army is the weakest of the three nations; while Goneril is loyal and certainly a force to be reckoned with, it usually has its hands full beating back Almyran attempts to invade, and the other members of the Roundtable frequently waffle on sending out troops to support other members of the table and the other lords - even ''when'' [[spoiler:they actually are unified on a particular matter]]. This is especially true of Ordelia and Edmund; the former mostly maintains its seat through its standing among the nobility but is noted to have almost no fighting force to speak of, and the latter was made a part of the Roundtable only recently because of its Margrave's popularity as an orator for the people, who is, behind closed doors, notorious for withholding his impressive array of troops unless he is utterly convinced he's 'investing' in a measure that will give him either fame or fortune. Thus, a major plot development in both ''Three Houses'' and ''Three Hopes'' is that the Alliance frequently is only ever fighting with a fraction of what its army ''should'' be able to field. Tellingly, in ''Three Houses'', they're [[spoiler:almost a footnote in any route that isn't their own in the grand scheme of the war, always the first to fall and typically only ever able to muster up a significant fighting force for the battle at Gronder Field.]]

* NumberTwo: In ''Three Hopes'' he's this to Claude. He assists him in all his military operations, Claude trusts him enough to let him in on some of his schemes and he's also Claude's main political ally at the roundtable, as a staunch House Riegan loyalist who also fully supports all of Claude's decisions, from [[spoiler: reforging the Alliance into the Federation]] on the Golden Wildfire route to [[spoiler: allying with the Empire to take down the Central Church]] on all routes except Azure Gleam. He also cannot be poached from the Alliance army.

* RequiredPartyMember: In ''Three Hopes'', he joins automatically in Chapter 5 of the Golden Wildfire route [[spoiler:during said chapter's main story battle.]]

* HiddenDepths: Despite his less than savory traits, Count Gloucester apparently works to develop new foods himself, suggesting he is somewhat of a chef.

* MysteriousPast: Shez notes that she didn't like talking about her past, so they learned basically nothing of her life pre-Shez prior to her death. Shez's Supports with Hapi imply that whatever previous life she had was not one she was proud of.

* AmbitionIsEvil: The Alliance is nowhere near as corrupt as the Empire at the start of the story, but they undoubtedly have morally unscrupulous lords. Many Alliance lords are mostly loyal to themselves and put the welfare of the Alliance aside. The most prominent example is Count Gloucester [[spoiler:as in every route, after war breaks out, he defects to the Empire and is the leader of the Alliance lords who align themselves with Edelgard.]]

* ParentalNeglect: He's not the best father to Marianne, failing to contact her on occasion and they have a distant relationship. In one monastery conversation, Marianne wonders if Margrave Edmund has forgotten about her, and hopes that he has. In ''Three Hopes'', Marianne is often surprised when he ''does'' contact her, and she usually has no idea what she should say to him when they do get to interact.

* TheQuisling: In every route in ''Three Houses'', [[spoiler:Gloucester sides with the Empire. He will only switch to the Kingdom/Alliance/Resistance side if the Great Bridge of Myrddin is recaptured and he has nothing to fear.]]

!!!'''Voiced by''': Takuya Matsumoto (Japanese), [[Creator/ProZD SungWon Cho]] (English)