History Characters / FireEmblemTelliusMajorRadiantDawnAntagonists

This here is the character page for major villains who appear in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn''. Head back [[Characters/FireEmblemRadiantDawn here]] for the main character page or [[Characters/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance here]] for ''Path of Radiance'' characters.

Take note: There are major spoilers that pertain to both this game and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]''.

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!!Begnion Forces
[[folder:Jarod]]
!!Jarod ''(Jeld)''
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A Begnion Knight who abuses his power over the Daein Garrison, Jarod is tasked with hunting down the Dawn Brigade by his superiors. Arrogant, brutish, and unconcerned with civilian casualties, Jarod nevertheless cares about his men, and is fully aware of the kind of people [[CorruptPolitician he is working for.]]

->'''Class:''' Halberdier (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AFatherToHisMen: A BadBoss, but he treats a good number of his soldiers with respect if he feels they've earned it.
* AffablyEvil: {{Jerkass}} he may be, he's still more human than most unarguable villains in this series. Micaiah points this out before fighting the boss of Part 4 Chapter 3.
* AntiVillain: Type 1. He's a {{Jerkass}}, but he is (for the most part) just following the orders given to him by the senate. Plus his death is arguably played for sympathy.
* ArcVillain: In Part 1, he is the commander of the corrupt occupation army opposing Micaiah.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: In a country whose vast majority of commanding officers are either [[BlueBlood nobles]] or [[HiredGuns mercenaries]], it says something that this man got his rank on ''skill alone''.
* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Said not by Jarod himself, but by Micaiah when she points out that while Jarod was a bastard, he was at least open and honest about it, unlike Numida and Lekain.
* BadassNormal: He fights against the mystically-empowered Black Knight with just steel and skill, and can do better against him than anyone else in the army.
* BadBoss: Does not take failure well.
* BladeOnAStick: A Steel Greatlance for his attempt to assassinate Micaiah; switches to a Short Spear for his last stand.
* ClimaxBoss: Final boss of Part 1.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Abandoned by Numida and the Senate, with the countryside in open revolt, Jarod barricades himself in Daein Keep, commences launching a barrage of stones into the streets on civilians, and waits for Micaiah to arrive, hoping that if he kills her he can still salvage something from all this. And then there's his FamousLastWords (see IRegretNothing) which are pretty much the verbal equivalent of spitting in the Dawn Brigade's collective faces.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's the man you've been fighting for the entirety of Part 1, but his death means little to the overall plot.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: His best friend took a hit from [[HeroKiller The Black Knight]] for him. It definitely leaves an impact on him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He realizes better than anyone what utter dicks he's working for, especially after Duke Numida frames him for the entire spectacle in Daein.
* EvilRedhead: Red haired, and is one of the leaders of a brutal Occupation Army.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: His LastStand is one final attempt at doing so.
* FourStarBadass: General of the Begnion Occupation Army, and undeniably badass. It should be noted that the Black Knight can't actually kill him in one hit unless he activates Eclipse, unlike literally every other character in Part 1 (not that it will save him, since the Black Knight doubles him).
* TheHeavy: Of Part 1.
* IRegretNothing: His FamousLastWords.
--> "Gh-ghuahh... I am... sorry for nothing. I regret... nothing. Because I did it my way... You win, Priestess. You must be delighted. Enjoy it while you can... Because... sooner or later... you..."
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Expresses this attitude towards his troops.
* {{Jerkass}}: He kills underlings he deems incompetent, and is generally an unpleasant man.
* JerkassFacade: His friend and second-in-command, Alder, is convinced that Jarod puts on the act of being far more evil than he actually is.
* JustFollowingOrders: Not that he or Micaiah really believe that it's much of an excuse.
* KickTheDog: After receiving orders to stand down from Sanaki, he decides to retake control of Daein Keep and kill as many Daein civilians as possible out of sheer spite towards Micaiah.
* TheLastDance: A scary example of what a villain put in this situation can be capable of. After receiving orders from Begnion to stand down and await the Apostle's inspection team, which will end with him and his troops being tried and executed for committing numerous war crimes and abuses against the people of Daein, Jarod refuses to sit and wait for his inevitable end. He attempts an assassination on Micaiah but is thwarted by none other than [[DidntSeeThatComing the]] [[BigDamnHeroes Black]] [[WhamEpisode Knight]]. With another failure on his shoulders, he retreats to Daein Keep, [[ShootTheMessenger kills the emissary who relayed Begnion's orders to him]], and then decides to [[MoralEventHorizon kill as many people as he can in Daein's capital city, Nevassa]] through the use of [[DeathFromAbove indiscriminate catapult strikes.]] His RousingSpeech to his soldiers is pretty much this trope.
* LastVillainStand: Jarod knows he's a dead man as Micaiah closes in on his position. Rather than surrender he rallies his men and prepares to go out in one last blaze of glory.
* PetTheDog: His relationship with his soldiers, particularly his best friend make him far more human than most villains in this game.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Wears purple instead of the usual Begnion red, and is the most dangerous adversary in the first quarter of the game.
* RousingSpeech: Gives a pretty damn good one to his troops before their final battle with Micaiah's forces.
--> "Listen up, all of you. This is our last chance to die as we've lived. As proud soldiers of the empire. If we survive this fight, imprisonment and a hushed-up execution await us. If we run from this fight, dishonor and pursuit will dog our miserable days. So I say, let's give those Daein curs a fight to remember, and let the glory of our deaths light our way! We've lived as proud soldiers of the empire! Let us die as proud soldiers of the empire! Now GO!"
* TheScapegoat: Jarod is a total bastard, and committed numerous atrocities while in command of Daein's Begnion garrison, including skewering civilians (and ''disobedient soldiers'') in broad daylight. However, he was following imperial policy as set by [[BigBadWannabe Vice-Minister Lekain]] and relayed to him through [[SmugSnake Duke Numida]]. Unsurprisingly, all the blame for the revolt gets heaped in his lap after Numida washes his hands of the affair.
* SilentScapegoat: Following from the above, rather than expose the senate's treachery, he decides to take Micaiah down with him in a LastVillainStand.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Every time he faces the Black Knight, [[HilarityEnsues to entertaining effect]]. Justified, seeing as by that point of the story he is a dead man walking and knows it.
* SuicideByCop: His entire final confrontation with the Dawn Brigade is an attempt at dying with dignity.
* VillainousUnderdog: The Black Knight wears indestructible armor, wields a sword blessed by Ashera, and is a Branded with all that entails. Jarod's a normal man with a steel greatlance and standard-issue plate mail.
* VillainousValour: Stares down the Black Knight and pulls a LastVillainStand with his weakened, badly outnumbered forces.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He killed one of his soldiers in the start of the game for standing there and doing nothing to stop the Dawn Brigade.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When the Apostle comes after his superiors, they disavow and scapegoat him, leaving him to be killed by the Liberation Army.
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[[folder:Izuka]]
!!Izuka
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Pelleas' aide, a MadScientist (emphasis on ''mad'') and so obviously evil it barely counts as a spoiler.

->'''Class:''' Summoner (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AxCrazy: Mutters to himself constantly and whilst running his schemes through his head, even in the middle of conversation. Yeah, he's a bit unscrewed in the head.
--> '''Tauroneo:''' Goddess help me, that man could try the patience of a stone.
* BlackMagic: The only Summoner in the game, and packing the strongest Dark tome.
* DarkIsEvil: Wields Dark Magic, wears dark clothing and is an utterly reprehensible man.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He was one of the scientists of the Feral One's testing lab in the next-to-last chapter of ''Path of Radiance'', making a hasty retreat once Ike & co. strolled into the area, and not being seen again until the next game.
* EvilChancellor: To Pelleas.
* EvilLaugh: In his EarlyBirdCameo in ''Path of Radiance''.
* EvilGenius: First to Ashnard, then to [[spoiler:Lekain.]]
* EvilSorceror: The magic he wields is as black as his heart.
* {{Expy}}: Izuka acts a little different but he visually resembles [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Grí­ma Wormtongue]]. His appearance and role as a mad scientist also evokes [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Professor Hojo.]]
* GeneralFailure: He fancies himself a nigh-omniscient strategist, but when the chips are down he proves both blitheringly incompetent and transparently evil. In particular, he okays numerous actions, such as poisoning a lake near a populated area, that as Micaiah points out would badly damage public support for the Liberation Army.
* {{Gonk}}: He's not the most attractive man.
* HateSink: He's an utterly loathsome human being with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It's telling that Volke, a complete ConsummateProfessional who is OnlyInItForTheMoney, admits he doesn't like him and offers to help you kill him for a heavy discount.
* HighClassGlass: Though mainly seen in the concept art.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** During Chapter 8, the Liberation Army receives news that Begnion is taking prisoners to a nearby swamp to be executed. Izuka immediately tells Micaiah to ignore it since it's obviously a trap. Both she and Tauroneo admit that he's probably right on the money this time, but Micaiah decides to go in anyway.
** Later Izuka expresses how Micaiah's popularity is going to make it impossible for Daein to recognize and respect Pelleas as its king. At first everyone says that's not true, but Micaiah herself realizes that he's right based on a conversation she had with Jarod. This actually helps Pelleas [[GrewASpine grow a spine]] later.
* KarmaHoudini: In ''Path of Radiance'', he made a quick get-away before Ike and his troops arrive Gritnea Tower and arrest him for his war crimes. He resurfaces in ''Radiant Dawn'' as Pelleas's adviser and [[spoiler:disappeared after deceiving Pelleas. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Though justice finally caught up to him in Part 4.]]]]
* MadScientist: Created the drug that turns Laguz into Feral Ones, and gave it to humans too, to see how it would affect them.
* {{Necromancer}}: Summons waves of undead Feral Ones in his iconic battle in Part 4. It takes an exasperating 25 turns for the onslaught to end (though you can kill him faster).
* ObviouslyEvil: An unpleasant looking man whose genius plan involves poisoning a lake, and freely admits to both creating the drug that turns Laguz into Feral Ones AND giving it to Muarim. When he's later revealed to serve Lekain, it's completely unsurprising to everyone except [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Pelleas]].
* SlaveMooks: Produces Feral laguz for Ashnard and Lekain's forces, using PsychoSerum to keep them loyal. He's not above doing it to beorc as well, as evidenced by Bertram.
* TheSociopath: To the same degree as his former employer, Ashnard.
* TheStrategist: Served as one in Part 1, though he sucked at it and his methods lean toward cynical and mass genocide.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Though he never joins you on the battlefield, he nevertheless plays this role during the time he serves as your (highly incompetent) strategist. It really puts into perspective the fact that, in part 1, you are playing from the view of characters who were citizens of the enemy nation in the previous game - and Izuka is ''the'' rock bottom of Ashnard's old baggage.
* UniqueEnemy: He's the sole character of the Summoner class in the game, which had previously been playable in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Sacred Stones]]'' but isn't here.
* VillainTeleportation: Uses Rewarp to run away to another corner of the map if you give him the chance. And because the battle takes place in a swamp, it'll take a long time for your non-flying units to trudge over to where he is.
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[[folder:Numida]]
!!Numida
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The Begnion Senator responsible for presiding over the Daein Garrison's abuse of power.

->'''Class:''' Bishop (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* DeathByIrony: Is left for dead by Lekain in the desert against Micaiah's approaching army, much like how he left Jarod to take the fall for everything the Occupation Army did..
* DirtyCoward: Once the Daein Liberation Army gained serious momentum against his troops, Numida set up Jarod as a scapegoat for all of the crimes committed in Daein and made his escape.
** Late in the game when you have a chance to return the favor, he fights you with a tome that hits up to 10 spaces away. While it only has 5 uses, he's also shielded by ''tons'' of Mooks and most characters struggle to move through the desert sand.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: He has a mustache that may remind you of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler a certain German dictator]].
%%* {{Gonk}}
* LightIsNotGood: Uses Light Magic, and is responsible for ordering a great deal of the atrocities the occupation army did to Daein.
* NamesTheSame: In-universe example: Both his name and the name of the Begnion territory he presides over are Numida.
* SinisterMinister: An evil bishop.
* VillainousBreakdown: In glorious fashion during his last stand. Fight him with as many different people as you can, particularly the Dawn Brigade members, for maximum dialogue and entertainment.
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[[folder:Valtome]]
!!Valtome ''(Balutelome)''
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[[caption-width-right:183:Uwee hee hee!]]
Another Begnion Senator and Zelgius' superior during the Laguz/Beorc War. Described by the game as "a terrible narcissist, and is arrogant beyond comprehension", which sums it up nicely.

->'''Class:''' Bishop (''Radiant Dawn'')
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%%* AmbiguouslyGay
* AssInAmbassador: For a politician, he is very terrible with diplomacy. He never has one sentence with Elincia without being a complete asshole.
* ArcVillain: Appears in three chapters in Part 3 before being disposed of by [[spoiler:the Apostle.]]
* BadBoss: Sends his men into the lava-filled Kauku Caves (almost certain death) purely to "look for corpses".
* BackForTheDead: Reappears in Part 4 and is promptly steamrolled by the Hawk Army.
* DudeLooksLikeALady : And how !
* EvilIsPetty : Orders the Begnion Army to raze all Crimean villages they come across into the ground after Elincia politely declines his request for supplies. He also hurls petty insults at his attackers in Part 4, notably mocking Kieran's armor or calling Elincia homely.
* GeneralFailure: From the moment he takes command of the Begnion Army they suffer defeat after defeat.
* GigglingVillain: Uwee hee hee!
* HeManWomanHater: Given some of the names he calls Elincia, this seems pretty likely.
* '''{{Jerkass}}''': He makes Makalov look positively precious.
* LightEmUp: Uses Light Magic.
* LightIsNotGood: Wields corrupted Holy Magic (named after himself, no less) that will poison the opponent if it hits.
* MoralEventHorizon: Crosses it in-universe when he sics the Begnion Army on a defenseless Elincia after she tried to sue for peace. [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Zelgius]] deserts him in response.
* {{Narcissist}}: Part of a recurring enemy personality theme started in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemThracia776 Thracia 776]]''.
* NeckLift: On the receiving end of one from Zelgius after he insults Prime Minister Sephiran.
* PoisonousPerson: His spell, Valaura, poisons whatever it hits.
* PsychopathicManchild: Throws a tantrum when Zelgius deserts him in chapter 3-10, and develops an obsession with punishing him after his [[OffWithHisHead first attempt]] is thwarted.
* SinisterMinister: Another evil bishop.
%%* SissyVillain
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Par for the course for all Fire Emblem bosses, but he deserves special mention for genuinely believing that he can take the likes of [[OneManArmy Zelgius]] and [[LightningBruiser Tibarn]] head-on. In fact he's the only member of the corrupt Begnion senate that doesn't have a single line of battle dialogue showing fear.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: In Part 4 he's shown to have developed an unnerving obsession with Zelgius. He even calls out his name upon being defeated.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Claims that Zelgius is his to kill in Part 4, despite being a frail magic user that [[OneManArmy Zelgius could rip apart with his bare hands]].
* UnexplainedRecovery: After his defeat in Part 3 he has his authority as general of the Begnion Army revoked by [[spoiler:Sanaki]] and is last seen surrounded by soldiers and a very pissed-off Zelgius. Inexplicably shows up in Part 4 in command of a garrison of Disciples of Order, alive and well.
* WeHaveReserves: His justification for his BadBoss actions.
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[[folder:Hetzel]]
!!Hetzel
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Yet another Begnion Senator, though this one actually isn't so bad. He took Rafiel in and nursed him back to health before the Serenes Massacre.

->'''Class:''' Saint (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AccompliceByInaction: As pointed out by Sanaki, he did nothing to stop at least a few bad things from happening.
* AntiVillain: Motivated by fear of repercussions rather than malice.
* CowardlyLion: While an utter coward on the personal level, Hetzel's nothing to sneeze at statistically, and his Sleep and Silence Staves can make life very annoying for Ike's party.
* DirtyCoward: Although he expresses regret, Hetzel still refused to speak out against the crimes that the Senate had committed in order to maintain his status and his life. Even in the end he is unwilling to go against Lekain and helps him betray Sanaki. While he's at least somewhat pitiable, he's every bit as responsible for the Senate's atrocities as the likes of Valtome and Numida.
* TheDragon: After Lekain he's the most influential member of the Senate, and the most statistically impressive (a Level 14 Saint to Lekain's 16). Accordingly he's strongarmed into serving as Lekain's reluctant NumberTwo and back up.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Downplayed since he's more of a DirtyCoward, but he still expresses this sentiment when you fight him.
-->'''Hetzel:''' Wait... I remember you... You were one of the dracoknights that fled to Daein, defying the senators... You opposed the almighty Begnion and the word of the goddess... Why? Why would you defy such power?\\
'''Haar:''' You could live another lifetime, and you'd still never understand.\\\
'''Hetzel:''' I don't understand any of you. How can you oppose the goddess? It's only natural that people live to please the gods... the weak follow the strong.\\
'''Jill:''' Strong, weak... It doesn't matter. I fight on the side of my conscience, and have yet to regret my battles.\\\
'''Hetzel:''' Mortals cannot measure up to gods. Any child knows as much. Why do you not kneel before her?\\
'''Astrid:''' That would be throwing away my own beliefs to live a life of blind obedience. I stopped doing that three years ago, and I've never looked back.
* EvilOldFolks: Although he's not especially detestable on the personal level, Hetzel's still an old man with a rapsheet that includes corruption, slave-trading and high treason.
* ExtremeDoormat: Wherever Lekain is concerned. Hetzel may have wealth, influence and power, but he is totally spineless and always caves to Lekain's wishes.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Hetzel's battle quotes suggest he'd really like to be redeemed, but he has the bad luck to be serving as Lekain's [[TheDragon Dragon]] at a point in time when you ''really'' need to clear the room and move onto the next level.
* HeelRealization: Has one as his default battle quote.
-->'''Hetzel:''' There can be no forgiveness for my hand in these evil deeds. Salvation is denied me and my stained soul. My torment will be eternal.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: At the end of the day, Hetzel is little more than a terrified old man.
* JustFollowingOrders: Tries to use this as an excuse. The way he sees it, Lekain is the one who has betrayed the Apostle; he's just doing what Lekain tells him to.
* LightIsNotGood: Has the class of Saint, the rank of Bishop, and wields Staves (he can use Light magic, but proves too cowardly to do so). He's also the closest thing Lekain has to [[TheDragon a Dragon]].
* ManInWhite: Wears the white robes of one of Ashera's Saints.
* NumberTwo: Reluctantly acts as Lekain's.
* PetTheDog: While his general characterization is that of a spineless coward, he was still directly responsible for saving Rafiel's life before the Serenes Massacre.
* PowerNullifier: His Silence Staff can render an enemy unit incapable of using their own Staves or Spells.
* SinisterMinister: For a certain value of "sinister". He's not as crazy as Oliver or that lunatic Valtome, and he's nowhere ''near'' the bastard that Lekain is, but the fact remains that Hetzel profited from the Senate's corruption and did nothing to warn Sanaki about Lekain's schemes. He arguably plays the trope the straightest, as unlike Lekain, Valtome, and Oliver he honestly believes he is following the will of the Goddess.
* WhiteMage: Villainous variant. Hetzel's a third-tier version of the traditional Priest support class, equipped with Sleep and Silence Staves.
* YesMan: To Lekain. Hetzel always gives him what he wants and never says "no".
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[[folder:Lekain]]
!!Lekain ''(Lukan)''
-->''“We are the chosen ones! Our will is the will of the goddess! With us at its head, our army is invincible!”''

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Leader of the Begnion Senate, Duke of Gaddos, and effectively the game's BigBad. [[BigBadWannabe Or so he thinks]]. Still, you'll be hard pressed to find a single heinous act in the series that wasn't caused, approved of or performed by him.

->'''Class:''' Bishop (''Path of Radiance''), Saint (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AGodAmI: A Chosen of God Am I anyway.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Lekain is so evil that he ends up inflicting this on Micaiah and the heron siblings when they use their [[TheEmpath empathic powers]] to look into his heart. They are variously horrified and disgusted by what they see.
-->'''Micaiah:''' Your delusions can't change what I see in your twisted soul, demon!\\
'''Reyson:''' ...Evil. You are pure evil. I hear it in your heart. How do you even survive?
* AmbitionIsEvil: All that matters to Lekain is maintaining or improving his social status and political power.
* {{Archenemy}}: To Sanaki. There are lots of people gunning for Lekain's head, but their enmity is easily the most personal--Sanaki defines her entire persona in opposition to Lekain's corruption, while Lekain's chief motivation is to gain control of Begnion and put Sanaki in her place (or a grave). Lekain's MotiveRant in his final chapter, and Sanaki's reaction to it cements their status as one another's worst foes; by the time they face off at the end of the chapter (should you choose to use Sanaki) they have literally nothing left to say to one another.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Lekain loves to rub his status as Duke of Gaddos in everyone's faces, while sneering at anyone of lower birth than himself.
* ArrangedMarriage: Was once in one with Astrid. There is a ''reason'' she ran away from home upon finding out who her parents wanted her to marry.
* AscendedExtra: His single-scene appearance in ''Path of Radiance'' more or less writes him off as little more than another obnoxious, sniveling Begnion bureaucrat. Come ''Radiant Dawn'', he's revealed to be much, ''much'' worse and gets a promotion in his narrative role to match it.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Lekain is the leader of the Senators ''and'' the most physically (and mystically) dangerous. As a Level 16 Saint he clocks in at two levels higher than his closest colleague, Hetzel, and dwarfs the likes of Valtome and Numida in power.
* BeardOfEvil: Lekain has the beard and mutton chops to match his cred as arguably the vilest being on Tellius.
* BigBadWannabe: He seems like the BigBad of ''Radiant Dawn'' but he's upstaged by [[spoiler:Sephiran]] who was manipulating him the entire time. Even Ike mocks him for believing himself to the mastermind when he has no clue about the Medallion, therefore has no significance in the grand scheme of things. To add insult to injury, he doesn't have Ashera's blessing as seen from [[spoiler:Dheginsea and Sephiran]], despite his claims. Still, it says something about how dangerous Lekain is that the one time he went offscript, he ordered a genocide.
* TheChessmaster: If something bad happened to somebody in ''Radiant Dawn'', there's a pretty damn good chance that Lekain was the one behind it, and that's without getting into the Blood Pacts he loves to hand out years in advance.
* TheChosenOne: By the end he believes he was chosen by Ashera.
* CorruptPolitician: One of the Senators of Begnion, and the ringleader of every evil act they commit.
* DarkMessiah: Following Ashera's resurrection he comes to see himself as some sort of Jesus figure. This is rather different from his behavior beforehand and is suggestive of a mental breakdown as Lekain tries to rationalize his past crimes.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: He's set up to be the BigBad, and defeating him certainly feels like a victory, but by the time you do so enough has happened for you to know he's not the real mastermind.
* DisposableFiance: He's an exaggerated EvilAllAlong variant to Astrid, although this is only revealed in a very specific battle conversation. {{Justified|Trope}} due to it being an ArrangedMarriage.
* DirtyCoward: Lekain's a coward at heart. He hastily retreats if defeated during Part 3 and only sticks around to fight in Part 4 when he's drunk off of (delusions) of power.
* EvilChancellor: To Sanaki, whom he's secretly plotting to overthrow--though in a slight variation on the trope, his status as leader of the Senate makes him more analogous to the American Speaker of the House then a traditional chancellor, that role being held by Lekain's immediate superior, Sephiran.
* EvilIsPetty: His boss conversations have him throwing a decent amount of shade for no reason. He'll insult everyone for being lowborn, or less prominent than himself, or for being Laguz (or even being ''incapable of violence'' like the Herons).
* EvilLaugh: Tah ha ha.
* EvilerThanThou: Eviler than [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Naesala]], [[{{Jerkass}} Jarod]], and [[BloodKnight the Black Knight]], hands down.
* FantasticRacism: Towards all Laguz, and ''especially'' the Heron Clan, whom he sneers at for being incapable of violence.
* FinalSolution: He's the one who stirred up the people against the Serenes Herons, arranging for the extermination of the entire clan down to the last hatchling. He's very irritated when he finds out that Reyson, Leanne, and Rafiel have survived.
* HateSink: He's far and away the most despicable villain in ''Radiant Dawn'', being a cruel, holier-than-thou hypocrite motivated solely by personal advancement. Appropriately, he has ''seventeen'' special battle conversations[[note]]Micaiah, Sanaki, Naesala, Ike, Sothe, Pelleas, Nailah, Tanith, Sigrun, Astrid, [[spoiler:Oliver]], Leanne, Reyson, Rafiel, Tibarn, Jill, and Haar[[/note]] where your army gets to express their utter disgust with him, the most in any ''Fire Emblem'' game.
* TheHeavy: Debatable. While [[spoiler:Sephiran]] is the ultimate mastermind, it was Lekain's murder of the previous apostle, his scheme to massacre the Serenes Herons, and his constant undermining of Sanaki and Sephiran's reforms that caused [[spoiler:Sephiran]] to go over the DespairEventHorizon and set the events of both Tellius games in motion.
* HerdHittingAttack: He is the first of the Endgame bosses to have a Judge attack that inflict an area-of-effect attack to any units in the map. In this case, his Judge attack inflicts Silence to all of your units (which is almost useless as majority of the time, your physical units doesn't care while your magical units, the unit that is affected by it, may dodge the effect).
** In fact, it can be helpful to you than it hurts you. In Radiant Dawn, status condition can only be active one at a time so if one is inflicted with a status condition and then inflicted with another, it gets overwritten. Say, one of your units is inflicted with Sleep, if his Silence affects that unit, they lose the Sleep and can move again. NiceJobFixingItVillain.
* {{Hypocrite}}: One of Ashera's Bishops, he nevertheless participates in the assassination of her previous Apostle, the placement of a false Apostle on the imperial throne, the massacre of the Serenes Herons, the slave trade, consorting with practitioners of dark magic, and attempted genocide, before launching a coup d'etat against Sanaki. He seems to find his faith again following Ashera's resurrection, and promptly goes off the deep end. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also gets called out for his mental gymnastics and self-righteous grandstanding by several characters that fight him.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: His conversation with Leanne heavily implies that he would like to do this to her.
* InstantRunes: They appear whenever he invokes his Light magic.
* ItsAllAboutMe: All Lekain truly cares about is his own social advancement, by any means, fair or foul. He'll emotionally manipulate others, break Begnion's secular and religious laws, commit regicide, and order genocide, and never bat an eye at any of it as long as he continues his rise to the top. He's so egotistical that he even tries to steal credit for Ashera's resurrection, something he knew absolutely nothing about.
* ItsPersonal: Lekain accumulates personal vendettas the way some people collect stamps. By the end of the game it's hard to find a character who doesn't have a deeply personal stake in putting him in the ground and Lekain, as evidenced by his boss conversations, returns the sentiment in almost every instance. This goes double with Apostle Sanaki, whose entire life has been ruined by Lekain's manipulations.
* {{Jerkass}}: And that's putting it mildly. One particular standout example is his utterly dismissive remarks to any of the Herons you send against him ([[EasterEgg which you wouldn't do for any reason besides the boss conversation]]), who arguably have the greatest reasons to despise him.
* KnightTemplar: Subverted. Lekain talks a good game, but doesn't even seem to believe in Ashera (until her final resurrection).
* LackOfEmpathy: He's as bad as Ashnard in this regard.
* LightEmUp: Wields the Rexaura, the most powerful Light book in the game. He's also inexplicably capable of blasting your whole party with the Silence condition.
* LightIsNotGood: '''''Oh, holy hell.''''' He's a member of the Begnion Senate and a ManInWhite, his class is listed as Saint and he wields the Rexaura; none of this stops him from being one of the most irredeemable, self-righteous, sociopathic bastards in the game.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Jarod, Izuka, Naesala, and (he thinks) Zelgius.
* ManipulativeBastard: As demonstrated by his control of the Begnion Senate, and his ability to emotionally manipulate Sanaki, Pelleas, and even Naesala.
* ManInWhite: Clad in the white robes of one of Ashera's Saints.
* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: A large part of his coup justification against Sanaki is that she's a false Apostle and therefore an invalid Empress. Shaky logic aside, Sigrun and Tanith will point out to him that there's actually no such law dictating that the two must be one and the same, it's just been traditional (as it benefits the Senate). Of course, by that time he's long past caring.
* {{Narcissist}}: And how. Constantly proclaims his importance, has great delusions of grandeur beyond his actual stature, balks at the idea of actually accepting responsibility for his atrocities, and cares nothing for his subordinates' lives or well-being. He even tries claiming credit for Ashera's resurrection when he's little more than an UnwittingPawn.
* NothingCanStopUsNow: His boss conversations consist almost entirely of ranting about how he is the invincible chosen of Ashera.
* OffscreenVillainy: [[spoiler:Lekain (and Izuka) tricking Pelleas into signing the Blood Pact and binding them to their control]].
* PowerNullifier: Lekain can inflict the Silence condition on every member of your party, rendering all spell and staff users useless.
* SinisterMinister: One of the highest ranking members of Begnion's church, and a leading figure in the Senate, as well as a total psychopath. Interestingly he starts out as a {{hypocrite}} who more or less flouts all of Ashera's laws; following her resurrection he suffers a breakdown and begins to see himself as some kind of messiah figure.
* SmugSnake: He's a very good manipulator and it gets to the point where if something bad happened to a character, he was probably the one behind it. Yet he's not the true mastermind, and with the exception of the Serenes Massacre, nothing he did was his own idea. Ike gets him to almost admit as such if you pit the two against each other.
* TheSociopath: Without doubt, and of a much more traditionally insidious variety than Tellius' other resident psychopath, Ashnard. While Ashnard is a complete maniac and makes absolutely no effort to disguise it, Lekain has all the superficial charm, pathological manipulation, and LackOfEmpathy of a ''serial killer.''
* TeleportersAndTransporters: His Rewarp staff, whose capabilities (teleport to anywhere with no negative side effects) he's quite proud of.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The reaction of pretty much everyone once they find out that he gave the order at Serenes. Even [[AllLovingHero Rafiel]] finds him utterly vile.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His order to assassinate the apostle Misaha and his FrameUp and subsequent massacre of the Heron clan for said assassination drove [[spoiler:Sephiran]] over the DespairEventHorizon and caused him to attempt to burn Tellius to the ground.
* UnwittingPawn: Of [[spoiler:Sephiran]]. Out of all his atrocities only the Serenes Massacre was his own idea.
* VillainousBreakdown: By the time you encounter him in Part 4, Lekain is fully convinced that he is [[DarkMessiah the new voice of God]]. It's almost sad, as it means that you never face the Lekain you've really learned to loathe.
* VillainTeleportation: Carries an unstealable Rewarp staff, and uses it frequently in cutscenes to get around Tellius.
* WhiteMage: Villainous example. Lekain's a Saint (the third-tier version of the traditional Priest/Bishop support class), and comes equipped with a powerful Light tome, a Staff, and the ability to interfere with the enemy by casting Silence on them.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Levail]]
!!Levail ''(Rubale)''
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A young and idealistic general who used to lead Lekain's army, but chose to abandon him in favor of serving Zelgius. Fights the rest of the army while Ike is going one-on-one with Zelgius.

->'''Class:''' Sentinel (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AntiVillain: Type I or Type IV. Chooses Zelgius over his former master Lekain because he disapproves of the Senate's actions and considers Zelgius the "last true knight".
* {{Bishounen}}: Which Oliver will cheerfully comment on.
* BladeOnAStick: Wields the best lance in the game and is a Sentinel to boot, making him one of the few true third-tier enemies in the game.
* DesperationAttack: Possesses the Resolve skill, which increases his skill and speed stats by 1.5 in battle after hitting less than 50% health. Keep in mind that speed affects dodge rate, and that skill affects accuracy, CriticalHit rate, and LimitBreak activation rate.
* TheDragon: To Zelgius.
* {{Expy}}: They may not look a thing alike, but personality-wise he's pretty much a younger Bryce, loyal to his master no matter what, blind to the worst of the atrocities around him, and wielding the Wishblade.
** This is fitting, as they're both one to Camus - AntiVillains who look recruitable, but aren't. Levail is even closer to Camus, being a blond general with an endgame lance.
* FourStarBadass: Once the commander of Lekain's personal army, now Zelgius' NumberTwo, Levail has reached the highest levels of the Begnion military, while remaining a Level 16 Sentinel and one of the few genuine third-tier foes your party will face.
* HeroWorshipper: To Zelgius and Haar.
* HonourBeforeReason: He won't attack the Herons, or anyone else who can't fight back, going so far as to tell them to run away. He'll also never try to attack Micaiah or Sanaki, because Zelgius and Lehran don't want them hurt.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: His hero-worship of Zelgius, who [[spoiler:[[EvilIsCool cool factor]] aside is a [[BloodKnight pretty]] [[HeroKiller bad]] [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil dude]], what with being TheDragon to [[AxeCrazy Ashnard]] and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Sephiran]].]]
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The strongest lance, the Wishblade. Formerly belonged to Bryce, and now is in Levail's hands for some reason. If you beat him, you can claim it for yourself.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: If you battle him with Tanith, he states that he doesn't care about the goddess's agenda and serves only Zelgius.
* NobleDemon: The single most decent human being on the villainous side.
* NobleTopEnforcer: Unlike Zelgius, Levail really does embody the KnightInShiningArmour archetype, refusing to attack anyone who can't fight back.
* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: The Younger Villain. Logically he has to be around Ike's age, making him younger than almost everyone in your party. Haar specifically notes this.
* OptionalBoss: The level ends once Ike defeats Zelgius, regardless of how the rest of his troops are doing with routing the army Levail leads.
* UndyingLoyalty: To General Zelgius.
* WorthyOpponent: Like his boss, he's always on the lookout for one.
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!!Other
[[folder:Ludveck]]
!!Ludveck
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A Crimean Duke who attempts to usurp power from Queen Elincia while Bastian is in Daein.

->'''Class:''' Axe General (''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lucia.
* ActionInitiative: Possesses the skill Vantage.
* AmbitionIsEvil: It's fairly obvious that all he wants is to rule Crimea.
* AnAxeToGrind: Fights using a Tomahawk.
* ArcVillain: In Part 2, he is the leader of a coup d'état against Queen Elincia of Crimea.
* BadBoss: Didn't care one bit that his soldiers would be sacrificed.
* ClimaxBoss: Final boss of Part 2. [[OptionalBoss You don't have to fight him though.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ludveck puts on a warm, compelling front, but in the end he's just about as legitimate and believable as [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Aizen]].
* FillerVillain: What his role essentially boils down to. He has no real effect on the plot at large and only exists to further Elincia's CharacterDevelopment.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Again... Poor, poor Lucia.
* IHaveYourWife: In this case, I Have Your Milk-Sibling.
* {{Jerkass}}: Started a revolt in order to gain the throne of Crimea, and is perfectly happy to let supporters die if it gets him closer to his goal.
* ManipulativeBastard: He likes to think so, but but he's often OutGambitted. [[spoiler:Bastian suspected that if he left Crimea for a while, Ludveck and his conspirators would make their move. He arranged contingency plans for just such an occasion, and hired the Greil Mercenaries to lay low and keep tabs on the situation, with instructions to step in and aid Elincia ''only'' if it got out of hand. Ultimately Ludveck was never in control.]]
* OptionalBoss: The final chapter of Part 2 is a "Defend" chapter, so you can just hold back your units and never face him if you choose. The reason to face him anyway is you'll miss out on a bunch of items if you take a defensive stance.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tries to give one to Elincia, telling her she's a weak queen because she's unwilling to make hard decisions or sacrifice her own people for a greater good, and framing his insurrection as a SecretTestOfCharacter. However, Elincia [[KirkSummation calls him out]] on the fact that even if what it was true, Ludveck's treatment of his soldiers and citizens as mere pawns proves that he won't be a better ruler.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Claims to have started the entire Insurrectionist stunt just to see if Elincia would have the mettle to order the death of her own countrymen if the situation required it.]]
* SmugSnake: Ludveck wastes no time in establishing himself as an absolute slime, arguably topped in deplorability only by [[SinisterMinister Lekain]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subverted. While he talks big, it's heavily implied that all he wants is to rule Crimea.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dheginsea]]
!!Dheginsea ''(Deginhanza)''
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The Black Dragon King of Goldoa, and one of only two living survivors from the time of the Great Flood. An extreme isolationist, he won't involve himself or Goldoa in the affairs of any other country, except mostly to scold the Laguz nations on inciting wars, and forbids his people to leave the country without his explicit permission. [[UndyingLoyalty His loyalty to the goddess is unshakeable]], and so when he discovers that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Ashera was awoken]] in Part 4, he [[YouShallNotPass doesn't take it well]]...

->'''Class:''' Black Dragon (''Radiant Dawn'')
->'''Voiced by:''' Takashi Nagasako (Japanese, ''Radiant Dawn''), James A. Parker (English, ''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AchillesHeel: Nihil, like all the endgame bosses, shuts down his lethal mastery skill. He also can't retaliate at 3-range, allowing trained [[GameBreaker Marksmen]] to gradually shoot his HP off for free. He shares his brethren's weakness to Thunder magic, but this is usually impractical to exploit.
* AntiVillain: He's not particularly evil and is working for Ashera solely because he does not have it in him to change.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Enforced in his chapter by every dragon on the map, him included - he will not fight back at all against Ena and Kurth, even if they attack. This is handy for [[LevelGrinding grinding their Strike rank up]] or [[BoringButPractical using them to wall off reinforcements]].
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: As a Laguz king, he is no exception. And considering that he was an ancient dragon that lived at the time of the Great Flood and was one of the Three Heroes, his boast of being the "greatest of all dragons" is no exaggeration.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The single most massive unit in the game.
* BreathWeapon: Breathes fire, like all the other dragons.
* CoDragons: With the person directly below on this list.
* DeathSeeker: One possible interpretation of his actions. Between his [[TimeAbyss ungodly long life]], his unwillingless to defy Ashera, the more or less shattered state of his family, and his grudging admission that he's gotten old upon defeat, one gets the impression that he knew he was headed for TheLastDance. His battle conversation with Micaiah heavily suggests this.
--> "Yes. I knew the first of your kind. I have been alive for a very long time... Perhaps too long. But soon it will all be over."
* HappilyMarried: Nothing is shown of Dheginsea's late wife, but he apparently loved her deeply, [[spoiler:and his last thoughts are of joining her and Rajaion.]]
* HealingFactor: Mantle has a healing effect based on his luck. With his 30 luck, he is healing for 30 HP out of his 100 at the start of the enemy's turn.
* HerdHittingAttack: His Judge attack inflicts physical damage to your units. It has 10 might (adding to his 50 strength), but loses power by 5 for every tiles separating between him and your units, which stops around 8 tiles.
* LargeHam: Just listen to his English voice.
* MightyGlacier: His only weakness is his (comparatively) slow speed.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He has a tellingly subdued reaction to fighting Nailah and learning what Hatari is like in the absence of the decree that Beorc and Laguz should not interbreed.]]
* NoSell: The first endgame boss with Mantle, which nullifies all damage from weapons not blessed by Yune while also acting as a combined Nihil/Fortune so neither skills nor critical hits can be activated.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Even after the beating into submission he receives from your party, he stands back up and scoffs that it would take more than that to kill him. [[spoiler:Alas, [[SecretlyDying he's lying.]] Just moments after he lets everyone go on ahead without him, he succumbs and dies.]]
* OutsideTheBoxTactic: The game doesn't make this clear, but it turns out dragons can only trigger Ire when fighting an enemy in melee (1-range). Nihil, therefore, is only necessary on units that need to fight him directly (other Laguz, namely).
* PapaWolf: Dheginsea was so outraged over what Ashnard did to Rajaion and Almedha that he was on the verge of breaking his centuries-long neutrality policy and would have declared war on Daein if Ike hadn't defeated Ashnard when he did.
* ParentalFavoritism: Nasir mentioned that Dheginsea held [[HeirClubForMen Rajaion]] more precious than Almedha, which implies that Kurthnaga was also beneath the eldest. However, it is not shown what effect this had on Dheginsea's treatment of his children, and the three of them loved each other dearly.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: A walking nuclear weapon.
* PrecursorHero: He is one of Ashera's Three Heroes, alongside Soan and Altina.
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Not only did he kept the fact that Altina and Lehran had a Branded child a secret, but also was the one to change history by rewriting it]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Set Kurthnaga against him, and his reason for opposing the heroes becomes an awful lot clearer...]]
--> [[spoiler:"No more snivelling! You, Kurthnaga, were to rule the dragon tribe in years to come. Show me that you would have been capable!"]]
* SoleSurvivor: He was the only living member of the Three Heroes that defeated the dark gods. [[spoiler:He finally dies at the end of Radiant Dawn.]]
* StupidNeutral: Invoked and justified. Many centuries ago, he formed a covenant with the goddess Ashera to prevent the continent of Tellius from descending into war, lest she pass judgement on humanity. To this end, he maintains a policy of absolute isolationism, refusing to get involved in other countries' affairs even when megalomaniacal lunatics attempt to conquer the world. That way, he can claim that Tellius is not at war because Goldoa is neutral.
* TimeAbyss: The Great Flood was at least 800 years before ''Path of Radiance'' took place. Dheginsea was alive at the time ''and'' was King of Goldoa then, too.
* UndyingLoyalty: Has remained steadfast to the decree that the races shall never again go to war, and stands by Ashera [[spoiler:and Lehran]] even though it means the end of the world.
* WaveMotionGun: His breath weapon crosses the line into this.
* WorldsStrongestMan: He isn't considered "godlike" for nothing. 100 HP, everything but Speed and Luck capped, a mastery skill that is more or less an instant kill, invulnerable to non-blessed weapons, and heals for 30 HP every turn. In fact, from a purely statistical standpoint, he is even more imposing than the FinalBoss. His boast of "greatest of all dragons" is no exaggeration.
* WrittenByTheWinners: [[spoiler:As the remaining survivor of the [[OrderVersusChaos Yune vs. Ashera]] war, he chose to villify Yune so no one would be crazy enough to touch her medallion. Alas, Ashnard ''was'' crazy already.]]
* YouShallNotPass: Tries to stop the party from ever reaching Ashera.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sephiran]]
!!Sephiran/[[spoiler:Lehran]] ''(Seferan/[[spoiler:Eluran]])''
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[[caption-width-right:250:''[[LightIsNotGood Light of Creation]]'']]

Sanaki's Prime Minister, and seemingly a gentle man who shares Sanaki's peaceful ambitions. He is actually the ManBehindTheMan, who lost his faith in humanity after the horror of the Serenes Massacre. He orchestrates ''all'' the events of both games to deliberately wake the goddess, hoping to bring about the end of the world.

->'''Class:''' Bishop (''Path of Radiance'', dummy cutscene class), Chancellor (''Radiant Dawn'')
->'''Voiced by:''' Kazutaka Ishii (Japanese, ''Radiant Dawn''), Ed Bednarzik (English, ''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AntiVillain: Type II, possibly Type III. [[{{Bishonen}} His looks]] [[BeautyEqualsGoodness should tell you about it]], though.
* AffablyEvil: He's nothing if not this.
* TheArchmage: He belongs to the single strongest magical class in the game short of Ashera herself.
* BadassLongrobe: Wears a white robe, and is
* BigBad: TheManBehindTheMan to Ashnard and Lekain, making him the Big Bad of both games.
* {{Bishounen}}: The most attractive senator is also the true BigBad? How appropriate.
* CastingAShadow: Can use Dark tomes.
* ChekhovsGunman: In retrospect, it is a little suspicious how, in ''Path of Radiance'', you first meet Sephiran in a prison cell as an NPC who just so happens to have a unique skill that makes him invincible. The fact that he proves capable of telling the Black Knight what to do in the very next chapter is even more suspect, but by the end of the first game, most players (who aren't aware of the events of ''Radiant Dawn'') might not know what to make of Sephiran, with his enigmatic behavior and few onscreen appearances.
* TheChessmaster: Manipulated many things behind the scenes.
* CoDragons: With Dheginsea, who most emphatically does not take orders from him.
* CompleteImmortality: His Mantle skill shields him from all damage not inflicted by weapons blessed by the Goddesses. As nobody on the map where he appears as an NPC in ''Path of Radiance'' has any such weapons, he can wade into the enemy lines and laugh at their feeble attempts to bring him down.
* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The magic spirits that are shielding Sephiran have a hidden Guard skill that directs all attacks away from him when he's below half HP. [[MyRulesAreNotYourRules That isn't even how Guard works for the player in the rest of the game.]]
%%* DarkMessiah
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:After losing his powers he attempts suicide several times before exiling himself into Goldoa to hide his existence. He again tries to kill himself, and the entire world along with him, after the previous Apostle is killed.]] He gets his wish in the end, unless the player is on a second [[GuideDangIt playthrough and jumps through about 20 hoops to save him.]] During fights he actively tries to force every player to take him out; when he's killed his last words are "[[AlasPoorVillain I'm dying. At last...]]"
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Crossed it thanks to the Serenes Massacare. He came very close to it about 600-700 years earlier, when he lost his laguz powers.]]
* DefeatMeansPlayable: [[NewGamePlus Second playthrough]], after defeating him, you can recruit him [[spoiler:as Lehran]].
* DontYouDarePityMe: A passive example. He wants Yune's Army to see him as nothing but the manipulator of everything that's going on, but as Yune, Tibarn and potentially Ike can see, he's just a victim of moral decay who wants to drown his sorrows of [[DespairEventHorizon his power loss and the Serenes Massacre]] by way of Ashera wiping the continent clean of life, including himself.
* TheDragon: To Ashera. In fact, [[spoiler:he once served as Lehran, the fourth member of the Goddess' Three Heroes.]] He was arguably [[UndyingLoyalty the most loyal]], given that he's been plotting for her return for the better portion of ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 780 years]]''.
* EleventhHourRanger: Heavy emphasis on "Eleventh-Hour"... [[GuideDangIt assuming you manage to recruit him]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: There are only two people in the world he intended to spare from Ashera's petrification - [[spoiler:his multi-great granddaughters Micaiah and Sanaki]].
* EvilChancellor: Subverted. His in-game class is even that, Chancellor, but what is lacking is the "evil" part. Okay, he [[spoiler:''is'' TheManBehindTheMan for most events happening in Tellius, and he is planning a genocide, [[AntiVillain but he is not evil at heart]], [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds having just lost faith in the world after he kept seeing the atrocities people committed.]]]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler:Was the SixthRanger of the Three Heroes of Ashera, but lost faith in the world and planned a genocide after he got tired with the ugly side of people.]]
* FamousAncestor: [[spoiler:He is this to the Begnion imperial family, including Micaiah and Sanaki. This is ''the'' most carefully guarded secret on Tellius.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: If [[GuideDangIt certain conditions are met]] he can be convinced to join you at the absolute last part of the game.
* HealingFactor: He has Mantle that heals him based on his 40 luck.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Zelgius.
* InterfaceSpoiler: In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'', when you meet him in the prison, you can see that he has god-like stats, along with a unique skill which makes him invincible to weapons who aren't imbued with Yune's magic, as you discover in ''Radiant Dawn''. One of the many clues that hints that he's more than what he seems to be.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:With Altina. They were not the first beorc/laguz couple, but they were the first to have a child. Everything can ultimately be traced back to how badly everyone reacted to the side effects of said child's birth.]]
* IveComeTooFar: Expresses this notion if he encounters Micaiah in battle; he might have acted differently if he knew about her, but as far as he's concerned, he's too far gone.
* LightEmUp: His element of choice.
* LightIsNotGood: Can use light magic, and he is the mastermind of the plot to annihilate all life on Tellius.
* TheManBehindTheMan: To Ashnard, Zelgius, and Lekain, making him responsible for every in-series atrocity that wasn't the Serenes Massacre.
* ManipulativeBastard: Manipulated the entirety of Tellius in order to create enough war to awaken Ashera.
* NecessaryEvil: From his point of view.
* NotMeThisTime: When Ike asks if he ordered Greil's death, Sephiran admits that that was all on Zelgius.
* OmnicidalManiac: "Maniac" is perhaps a stretch, but "Omnicidal" certainly fits, being that Sephiran's endgame is armageddon and, thus, the complete eradication of life on Tellius.
* OptionalPartyMember: Only recruitable if [[GuideDangIt certain conditions are met]].
* ParentalSubstitute: To Sanaki. [[spoiler:Almost literally, as he is her distant great-grandfather.]]
* PrecursorHero: He is the uncredited supporter of the Three Heroes that defeated the dark god. It was his suggestion to seal Yune away in his medallion.
* PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Is the one who imprisoned Yune in the Fire Emblem/Lehran's Medallion, not seeing it fit to comply with Ashera's belief that Yune needed to be silenced outright.]] His interactions with other members of the cast (notably Sanaki and Ike) also help him from fully crossing into {{Knight Templar}}dom.
* PromotedToPlayable: He's a minor NPC in ''Path of Radiance''; if you fulfill several obtuse requirements in ''Radiant Dawn'', he becomes playable for the final chapter.
* PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery: Type 4; his motivation is that he feels a world where something like the [[spoiler:Serenes Massacre could happen simply doesn't deserve to live.]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:He was already ''at least '''1000 years old''''' by the time Yune and Ashera had their feud. This means Lehran is at least '''[[TimeAbyss 3000]]''' by ''Radiant Dawn''[='=]s full epilogue.]]
* RedemptionDemotion: Yes and no. Statistically, he's still incredible, but because he shows up ''after'' the final battle has already begun, he doesn't have a weapon blessed by Yune, so he's relegated to healing and fighting off the reinforcements (or forces one of your other spellcasters into this role, most likely the outclassed Micaiah or Pelleas). He also has [[HolyHandGrenade Corona]], but it's useless against Ashera who negates all skills. His saving grace is that he can hit Ashera twice with high magic using a blessed SS tome, and he won't be attacked by her. He's just bonus damage like Kurthnaga and Ena, and Micaiah were to Dheginsea and himself respectively.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In a first playthrough, and in later ones if you don't meet all the conditions required to recruit him, he dies with a scene between [[AChildShallLeadThem Sanaki]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil Yune]]. [[spoiler:If the conditions are fulfilled, it becomes RedemptionEqualsLife and he joins the party for the final showdown against Ashera.]]
* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: Ike can do this if the right conditions are met.
** Before this, he wistfully expresses to himself that he may have acted differently if he'd learnt of Micaiah's survival, but that he believed himself to be at a point of no return.
* SequelHook: In the epilogue for ''Path of Radiance'', he points out the UnfortunateImplications of Ike's RagsToRiches story, and correctly guesses that his battles are far from over.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:In the epilogue, he is the only Hero to be alive when Ashunera returns to the world, as Altina and Soan died sometime later and Dheginsea was defeated by Yune's Chosen Ones]].
* StatusBuff: Holds the Rudol Gem when you fight him, giving him +10 defense. Gives it to Sanaki at the end of the chapter, though by that point the only thing it helps with is the final boss's [=AoE=] attacks.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: He wants to die, but before he can let himself, everybody has to be turned to stone.
* StepfordSmiler: You have ''no idea''.
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:His former life as Lehran.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: To Ashera, even after all that has happened. [[spoiler:Heck, in the epilogue (should he survive the events of ''Radiant Dawn'') shows him patiently waiting for the return of his Goddess, now reunited with Yune as Ashunera, '''1200''' years later.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Lehran had the best intentions when he spoke to Misaha, which prompted her to reveal her Brand to the world. Unfortunately, he did not predict that the Senate would kill her to prevent the damage that revelation would have caused to their power and credibility, or that they would then frame the Herons for their crime.]]
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: His faith in humanity was shattered by the Serenes Massacre, and he now seeks to put an end to all life.
* YinYangBomb: He is one of only three units in the entire franchise to be capable of using both Light and Dark magic, the others being [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Athos]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Ewan]].[[note]]While Ashera and her auras are technically capable of doing so as well, they never do so in legitimate gameplay.[[/note]]
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[[folder:Ashera]]
!!Ashera ''(Astarte)''
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The Goddess of Order, Yune's other half, and the final boss. Turned most of the [=NPCs=] into stone upon waking up (that is, after Yune's awakening). She ''despises'' Yune, the Goddess of Chaos, with passion, and refuses to accept her as a part of herself- and wants to destroy her to make herself "perfect". She was born 800 years before the events of Radiant Dawn, when Ashunera split herself in two beings (under the advice of Lehran- her and Yune) after having caused the Great Flood trying to stop the war between the Beorc and the Laguz, which only left alive those that lived in the highest peaks of Tellius.
As the flood was caused because Ashunera lost control of her emotions,she tried to wipe out Yune to get rid of her own chaos, but due to Lehran's advice, she simply sealed her away in the medallion. Despite Lehran's insistence to restore Ashunera, she instead arranged that she would enter a deep slumber, and if there was no fighting for 1000 years, Ashunera would be restored, if not, she would deliver her judgement. Unfortunately it didn't happen... Forcing Ike, Yune and company to stop her. She is finally slain by an Ike empowered with Yune's powers, allowing Ashunera to be finally restored.

->'''Class:''' Order Incarnate (''Radiant Dawn'')
->'''Voiced by:''' Kumi Sakuma (Japanese, ''Radiant Dawn''), Janet Day (English, ''Radiant Dawn'')
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Ashera doesn't really acknowledge either...
%%* AGodAmI: She sees herself as being truly perfect due to lacking emotions, as revealed in her dialogue with Kurthnaga. [[Prise However...]]
* ButThouMust: A variation; Ike ''has'' to be the one to slay her. Should anyone else fell the Goddess, Ashera will simply resurrect herself and the battle will continue.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: Weird case. [[spoiler:When you go to deal the last blow with Ike, the game runs the calculations and if the attack will kill Ashera, you immediately go to a CG cutscene of Yune charging up Ike... then back to the game engine to watch the NoHoldsBarredBeatDown... then back to CG again.]]
** This also serves as an InterfaceSpoiler. [[spoiler:If you would be able to deal enough damage to finish her, and you ''don't'' see the cutscene, prepare to see an attack miss.]]
%%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* DarkActionGirl: Combines this with TheArchmage and LadyOfBlackMagic.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Yeah, Ike did. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he was drawing upon Yune's power.
* EmotionlessGirl: Ashera is what was left after the Goddess of Dawn ''cast away her emotions''.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Heavily implied to be as a result of having "cast out her emotions" (and having refused to fuse with Yune); it has left her cold and unfeeling towards humanity. She cannot understand why the normal people of Tellius would try to stop her, since from her perspective, they are all chaotic beings who fight and cause bloodshed. The notion of both good Beorc and Laguz trying to stop her just doesn't make sense to her.
%%* EvilRedhead
* EvilerThanThou: Usually Ashera is just a byproduct of the real BigBad's actions. However, [[spoiler:if you recruit him, [[TheAtoner Lehran]] will]] try to reason with Ashera by admitting that she was only summoned because he manipulated her. This prompts her to turn around and nick the BigBad spot for herself by deciding to carry on regardless.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Radiant Dawn''; following on the recent ''Fire Emblem'' tradition [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade of making]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones the last enemy]] a byproduct of the real BigBad's actions.
* TheGhost: Only in ''Path of Radiance'' though; she finally appears in ''Radiant Dawn''.
* GodIsFlawed: Chalk this one up to her backstory. At one point in time, the Goddess of Dawn Ashunera became so overcome by emotion in response to the warring of the world that she summoned up [[TheGreatFlood a calamitous deluge]], wiping out most of humanity (the mountainous continent of Tellius is the only remainder of the old world). Ashunera was so guilt-ridden by her actions that she discarded her emotions (what she believed to be the cause of her distress), splitting into Ashera (the mature Goddess of Order and Restriction) and Yune (the childlike Goddess of Chaos and Transformation). It takes a timeframe of about 2000 years before [[FusionDance the two halves become whole]] and the [[GodIsGood benevolent]] Ashunera finally returns to her world to watch over it as its creator.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Yune outright says that neither she nor Ashera is [[AboveGoodAndEvil "good" or "evil"]] per nature. As such, there's no reason why Ashera ''couldn't'' have been as benevolent as her. The difference between them is that, without regular human contact, Ashera effectively forgot humanity and her real responsibilities towards them.
* HotGod: Ashunera [[BeautyEqualsGoodness played it straight]]. Ashera is the {{evil|IsSexy}} [[BeautyIsBad variant]] while Yune is more of a "Cute Goddess" than anything.
* HotWitch: If only by the technicality of using magic.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Pointed out by Caineghis with regards to her army of zombies; after all, says the lion king, what kind of Goddess of Order doesn't respect such fundamental laws of the universe as those of life and death?
* LadyOfBlackMagic: Actually, more like "Lady of [[LightEmUp White]] Magic". Oddly enough, Judge is a Strike weapon, but uses the Magic stat.
%%* LightIsNotGood
* MetaTwist: Normally the final bosses of the ''Fire Emblem'' series are either an EldritchAbomination, or Dragons, that seek to destroy the world for whatever reason, or are an absolutely insane tyrant. Ashera is unique in that she is neither; she's a full-blown God, and one aligned with [[LightIsNotGood Light and Order]].
* MoralEventHorizon: Her raising all the {{Mooks}} the heroes have killed from the dead without their souls is regarded as such InUniverse, so much that even ''Yune'' runs away in tears upon witnessing it. Keep in mind that she is a Goddess of Order and Creation, so reviving the dead, as pointed out by Caineghis, is the exact opposite of Order.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her [[spoiler:turning all the {{Muggles}} of Tellius to stone]] actually ends up working in the heroes' favor, as it ends the war and motivates '''everyone''' to ally together and unite to take her down. Furthermore, it buys them enough time to [[spoiler:destroy both Daein's and Kilvas' Blood Pact without anybody dying]].
* PiecesOfGod: She is one half of Ashunera, the creator goddess of Tellius. Ashera is what left of her after discarding her emotions which became Yune.
* {{Pride}}: It's very obvious that she has this in spades. When informed of some of the good things that have happened in her absence, she refuses to back down because she has already made her decision and "doesn't make mistakes." This is true even if [[spoiler:Lehran tries to reason with her.]]
%%* RapunzelHair
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* TakenForGranite: She turns all the NPC characters into stone. The only reason some aren't are due to Yune's blessing/presence, and some she deemed worthy to keep around.
* TautologicalTemplar: Her train of thought for anything is like: "As I am the goddess of order, I am therefore right in whatever I do, and any other opinion is wrong". "Yune is one of the halves of Ashunera? She's the goddess of chaos, so she must be wiped out." "Humans rebel against my judgement? They clearly don't understand that I am the one that is correct." "Yune is on your side?- You can't be forgiven for this insolence."
* TimeLimitBoss: Ashera is not strictly one of these, but if you don't kill her by turn 10, she cripples your whole party with the Stun condition, at which point her magic spirit Mooks can freely pick people off at their leisure, unless one of your mages is holding a Restore Staff, or if there are units adjacent to units with the Boon skill, like Ena or Nasir.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She genuinely thinks she is helping the world by effectively wiping it all away. After all, if mortals are destructive and cause war, the best way to remove that is to get rid of all the "evil" people who do so. The problem is that she operates on a ''really'' skewed spectrum of who are worthy and those who are not, and has no sympathy to mankind anymore.
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* VillainousUnderdog: The Black Knight wears indestructible armour, wields a sword blessed by Ashera, and is a Branded with all that entails. Jarod's a normal man with a steel greatlance and standard-issue plate mail.

* BigBadWannabe: He seems like the BigBad of ''Radiant Dawn'' but he's upstaged by [[spoiler:Sephiran]] who was manipulating him the entire time. Even Ike mocks him for believing himself to the mastermind when he has no clue about the Medallion, therefore has no significance in the grand scheme of things. To add insult to injury, he doesn't have Ashera's blessing as seen from [[spoiler:Dheginsea and Sephiran]], despite his claims. Still it says something about how dangerous Lekain is that the one time he went offscript he ordered a genocide.

* DarkMessiah: Following Ashera's resurrection he comes to see himself as some sort of Jesus figure. This is rather different from his behaviour beforehand and is suggestive of a mental breakdown as Lekain tries to rationalize his past crimes.

* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: A large part of his coup justification against Sanaki is that she's a false Apostle and therefore an invalid Emperess. Shaky logic aside, Sigrun and Tanith will point out to him that there's actually no such law dictating that the two must be one and the same, it's just been traditional (as it benefits the Senate). Of course, by that time he's long past caring.

* DarkIsEvil: Uses both Dark and Light magic.

* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: A large part of his coup justification against Sanaki is that she's a false Apostle and therefore an invalid Emperor. Shaky logic aside, Sigrun and Tanith will point out to him that there's actually no such law dictating that the two must be one and the same, it's just been traditional (as it benefits the Senate). Of course, by that time he's long past caring.

* NoSell: The first endgame boss with Mantle, which nullifies all damage from weapons not blessed by Yune while also acting as a combined Nihil/Fortune.

* WorldsStrongestMan: He isn't considered "godlike" for nothing. 100 HP, everything but Speed and Luck capped, a mastery skill that is more or less an instant kill, invulnerable to non-blessed weapons, and heals for 30 HP every turn. In fact, from a purely statistical standpoint, he is even more imposing than the FinalBoss.

* ParentalSubstitute: To Sanaki.

* BigBadWannabe: He seems like the BigBad of ''Radiant Dawn'' but he's upstaged by [[spoiler:Sephiran]] who was manipulating him the entire time. Still it says something about how dangerous Lekain is that the one time he went offscript he ordered a genocide.

* SmugSnake: Of the "failed MagnificentBastard" stripe. He's a very good manipulator and it gets to the point where if something bad happened to a character, he was probably the one behind it. Yet he's not the true mastermind, and with the exception of the Serenes Massacre, nothing he did was his own idea. Ike gets him to almost admit as such if you pit the two against each other.

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* ChekhovsGunman: In retrospect, it is a little suspicious how, in ''Path of Radiance'', you first meet Sephiran in a prison cell as an NPC who just so happens to have a unique skill that makes him invincible. The fact that he proves capable of telling the Black Knight what to do in the very next chapter is even more suspect, but by the end of the first game, most players (who aren't aware of the events of RD) might not know what to make of Sephiran, with his enigmatic behavior and few onscreen appearances.

* EvilChancellor: Subverted. His in-game class is even that, Chancellor, but what is lacking is the "evil" part. Okay, he [[spoiler:''is'' TheManBehindTheMan for most events happening in Tellius,and he does planning a genocide, [[AntiVillain but he is not evil at heart,]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds just lost faith in the world after he keep seeing the atrocities people committed.]]]]

* LightIsNotGood: Can use both Light and Dark magic.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:He was already ''at least '''1000 years old''''' by the time Yune and Ashera had their feud. [[TimeAbyss This means Lehran is at least '''3000''' by Radiant Dawn's full epilogue.]]]]
* RedemptionDemotion: Yes and no. Statistically, he's still incredible, but because he shows up ''after'' the final battle has already begun, he doesn't have a weapon blessed by Yune, so he's relegated to healing and fighting off the reinforcements (or forces one of your other spellcasters into this role, most likely the outclassed Micaiah or Pelleas). He also has [[HolyHandGrenade Corona]], but it's useless against Ashera who negates all skills.
** His saving grace is that he can hit Ashera twice with high magic using a blessed SS tome, and he won't be attacked by her. He's just bonus damage like Kurthnaga and Ena, and Micaiah were to Dheginsea and himself respectively.

* UndyingLoyalty: To Ashera, even after all that has happened.[[spoiler: Heck, in the epilogue (should he survive the events of ''Radiant Dawn'') shows him patiently waiting for the return of his Goddess, now reunited with Yune as Ashunera, '''1200''' years later.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds
* YinYangBomb: He is one of only two units in the entire franchise to be capable of using both Light and Dark magic, the other being [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Athos]].[[note]]While Ashera and her auras are technically capable of doing so as well, they never do so in legitimate gameplay.[[/note]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: Ludveck puts on a warm, compelling front, but in the end he's just about as legitimate and believable as [[Series/{{Bleach}} Aizen]].
* FillerVillain: What his role essentially boils down to.

* EvilSorceror:
* {{Expy}}: Izuka acts a little different but he visually resembles [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Grí­ma Wormtongue]], the English version doesn't overlook this.
** His appearance and role as a mad scientist also evokes [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Professor Hojo.]]

[[folder:Ludveck]]
!!Ludveck
[[quoteright:262:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Ludveck_6680.png]]
A Crimean Duke who attempts to usurp power from Queen Elincia while Bastian is in Daein.

->'''Class:''' Axe General (''Radiant Dawn'')

* AbhorrentAdmirer: To Lucia.
* ActionInitiative: Possesses the skill Vantage.
* AmbitionIsEvil: It's fairly obvious that all he wants is to rule Crimea.
* AnAxeToGrind: Fights using a Tomahawk.
* ArcVillain: In Part 2, he is the leader of a coup d'état against Queen Elincia of Crimea.
* BadBoss: Didn't care one bit that his soldiers would be sacrificed.
* ClimaxBoss: Final boss of Part 2. [[OptionalBoss You don't have to fight him though.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ludveck puts on a warm, compelling front, but in the end he's just about as legitimate and believable as [[Series/{{Bleach}} Aizen]].
* FillerVillain: What his role essentially boils down to.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Again... Poor, poor Lucia.
* IHaveYourWife: In this case, I Have Your Milk-Sibling.
* {{Jerkass}}: Started a revolt in order to gain the throne of Crimea, and is perfectly happy to let supporters die if it gets him closer to his goal.
* ManipulativeBastard: He likes to think so, but but he's often OutGambitted. [[spoiler:Bastian suspected that if he left Crimea for a while, Ludveck and his conspirators would make their move. He arranged contingency plans for just such an occasion, and hired the Greil Mercenaries to lay low and keep tabs on the situation, with instructions to step in and aid Elincia ''only'' if it got out of hand. Ultimately Ludveck was never in control.]]
* OptionalBoss: The final chapter of Part 2 is a "Defend" chapter, so you can just hold back your units and never face him if you choose. The reason to face him anyway is you'll miss out on a bunch of items if you take a defensive stance.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tries to give one to Elincia, telling her she's a weak queen because she's unwilling to make hard decisions or sacrifice her own people for a greater good, and framing his insurrection as a SecretTestOfCharacter. However, Elincia [[KirkSummation calls him out]] on the fact that even if what it was true, Ludveck's treatment of his soldiers and citizens as mere pawns proves that he won't be a better ruler.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler:Claims to have started the entire Insurrectionist stunt just to see if Elincia would have the mettle to order the death of her own countrymen if the situation required it.]]
* SmugSnake: Ludveck wastes no time in establishing himself as an absolute slime, arguably topped in deplorability only by [[SinisterMinister Lekain]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subverted. While he talks big, it's heavily implied that all he wants is to rule Crimea.
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[[folder:Izuka]]
!!Izuka
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px-Izuka_6320.jpg]]

Pelleas' aide, a MadScientist (emphasis on ''mad'') and so obviously evil it barely counts as a spoiler.

->'''Class:''' Summoner (''Radiant Dawn'')
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[[folder:Dheginsea]]
!!Dheginsea ''(Deginhanza)''
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deghinsea_4260.jpg]]

The Black Dragon King of Goldoa, and one of only two living survivors from the time of the Great Flood. An extreme isolationist, he won't involve himself or Goldoa in the affairs of any other country, except mostly to scold the Laguz nations on inciting wars, and forbids his people to leave the country without his explicit permission. [[UndyingLoyalty His loyalty to the goddess is unshakeable]], and so when he discovers that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Ashera was awoken]] in Part 4, he [[YouShallNotPass doesn't take it well]]...

->'''Class:''' Black Dragon (''Radiant Dawn'')
->'''Voiced by:''' Takashi Nagasako (Japanese, ''Radiant Dawn''), James A. Parker (English, ''Radiant Dawn'')

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:He was already ''at least '''1000 years old''''' by the time Yune and Ashera had their feud. This means Lehran is at least '''3000''' by Radiant Dawn's full epilogue.]]

* TheDragon: To Ashera. In fact, [[spoiler:he once served as Lehran, the fourth member of the Goddess' Three Heroes.]] He was arguably [[UndyingLoyalty the most loyal]], given that he's been plotting for her return for the better portion of ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 780 years]]''. Finally, [[spoiler:the epilogue (should he survive the events of ''Radiant Dawn'') shows him patiently waiting for the return of his Goddess, now reunited with Yune as Ashunera, '''1200''' years later.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: In a first playthrough, and in later ones if you don't meet all the conditions required to recruit him, he dies with a scene between [[AChildShallLeadThem Sanaki]] and [[DarkIsNotEvil Yune]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Heavily implied to be as a result of having "cast out her emotions" (and having refused to fuse with Yune). She cannot understand why the normal people of Tellius would try to stop her, since from her perspective, they are all chaotic beings who fight and cause bloodshed. The notion of both good Beorc and Laguz trying to stop her just doesn't make sense to her.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Yune outright says that neither she nor Ashera is [[AboveGoodAndEvil "good" or "evil"]]. As such, there's no reason why Ashera ''couldn't'' have been as benevolent as her. The difference between them is that, without regular human contact, Ashera effectively forgot humanity and her real responsibilities towards them.

* TautologicalTemplar: Her train of thought for anything is like: "As I am the goddess of order, I am therefore right in whatever I do, and any other opinion is wrong". "Yune is one of the halves of Ashunera? She's the goddess of chaos, so she must be wiped out." "Humans rebel against my judgement? They clearly don't understand that I am the one that is correct."

* WellIntentionedExtremist: She genuinely thinks she is helping the world by effectively wiping it all away. After all, if mortals are destructive and cause war, the best way to remove that is to get rid of all the "evil" people who do so. The problem is that she operates on a skewed spectrum of who are worthy and those who are not, and has no sympathy to mankind anymore.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Negotiating with Pelleas to end the occupation (and tricking him into a blood pact), as is revealed in a surprisingly offhand manner that some players may have glossed over. While YMMV on whether this is awesome, its absence is sorely missed. Part 1 ends before the meeting takes place, and it had previously been stated that Sephiran was the one coming to negotiate (Which would have been understandable to skip, as Sephiran is meant to be trusted by the player) letting it end on a high note. It isn't until much later that the player is informed that things went wrong offscreen.

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