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[[folder:Niðavellir in General]]

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!!Niðavellir, The Realm of Dvergar
[[folder:In General]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:The Cog of Niðavellir]]

** Her Seiðr Shell allows her to have -3 special cooldown at the start of turn 1, which means that she has Seiðr Shell ready to activate.

* BeginWithAFinisher: Her Seiðr Shell allows her to instantly charge it on turn 1, allowing her to instant activate it on one foe. Consequently, she needs to either enter combat again or rely on allies that provide CooldownManipulation outside of combat to charge it up again.

* CoolSword: Her regular variant's Lyngheiðr gives her +3 Spd, gives her +6 Atk/Spd during combat and reduce damage from the foe's first attack by 30% if she initiates combat, and between turn 1 and turn 4, she has access to [Canto (3)], which after attacking, using an assist skill, or destroying an enemy structure, she can move 3 spaces before ending her turn, but she cannot warp more than 3 spaces during this movement.
* DamageIncreasingDebuff: Her regular variant has access to Lull Spd/Def, which inflicts -3 Spd/Def on the foe as well as ignore any bonuses on those stats during combat.
* DamageReduction: Her regular variant's Lyngheiðr allows her to reduce damage from the foe's first attack by 30% if the user initiates combat.

* FinishingMove: Her finishing attack and Seiðr Shell special animation has her shoot down her foe with MoreDakka and finish them off with a pair of missiles.

* HitAndRunTactics: Her regular variant's Lyngheiðr and New Year variant's Niðavellir Lots allows her to move again after attacking, using an assist skill, or attacking a structure between turn 1 and turn 4 once per turn allows her to perform a hit-and-run on enemies. Notably, if she is under the AI's control, after she performs her action, she will use Canto to move away from the enemy at the end of her turn.

* SecretArt: Her Seiðr Shell is a 3 cooldown special that allows her to have -3 special cooldown at the start of turn 1, and boosts her damage by 15 and targets the lower defensive stat of the foe when it activates.

** Her regular variant's Lyngheiðr gives her +6 Atk/Spd during combat if she initiates combat. She also has Swift Sparrow 3, which grants +6 Atk and +7 Spd during combat if she initiates it.

* StatusEffects: Her regular variant has Panic Smoke, where after combat she inflicts the target and any enemies within 2 spaces of them the Panic status, converting field stat bonuses into penalties.

* BladeOnAStick: His regular variant's Hreiðmarr is a lance that gives him +3 Def, grants him +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat and inflicts -1 special buildup on the foe per attack and after combat if he attacked, he inflicts the Guard status effect to the target and all foes within 2 spaces of the target after combat if he's not adjacent to an ally, and between turn 1 and turn 4, he has access to [Canto (3)], which after attacking, using an assist skill, or destroying an enemy structure, he can move 3 spaces before ending his turn, but he cannot warp more than 3 spaces during this movement.

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* GatheringSteam: Inverted, ironically for the royal family of a SteamPunk kingdom. Reginn and Ótr perform best at the beginning of the battle, but their combat abilities taper off as the battle goes on. Reginn's Seiðr Shell and Ótr's Brutal Shell allows them to charge it instantly at turn 1, but has a 3 special cooldown, meaning that they can deal great damage on their first attack but have to recharge their specials to activate it again, meaning that they have to go into more battles to charge it up and use it again, and Regular Reginn, Lyngheiðr and Ótr's Auto-Lofnheiðr having access to [Canto (3)] and Eitri's Grim Brokkr, New Year Fáfnir's Niðavellir Sprig and New Year Reginn's Niðavellir Lots having [Canto (2)] for the first 4 turns means that they can perform HitAndRunTactics well, but are unable to do so after turn 4, meaning that if they don't want to get stranded and take hits from more foes than they can handle they have to act as early and quickly as possible.

* BeginWithAFinisher: Her Seiðr Shell allows her to instantly charge it on turn 1, allowing her to instant activate it on one foe. Consequently, she needs to enter combat again to charge it up again.

** Her New Year variant's Niðavellir Lots allows her to have -3 special cooldown at the start of turn 4, which can also help her charge her Seiðr Shell again if she triggers it first before turn 4.

* BeginWithAFinisher: His Brutal Shell allows him to instantly charge it on turn 1, allowing him to instant activate it on one foe. Consequently, he needs to enter combat again to charge it up again.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Got his position by his own strength, and easily subdues the Order of Heroes in his first encounter with them, threatening to [[EyeScream tear Sharena's eyes out]] and [[AndShowItToYou rip the Summoner's heart out]] with his bare hands to show to Alfonse.

** In a more meta sense, he's a MightMakesRight AsskickingEqualsAuthority antagonist similar to [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Ashnard]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Walhart]]. On a similar note, [[spoiler:the fact that he was brainwashed by Eitri harkens back to "good guy becomes brainwashed and forced into evil" people similar to [[Characters/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem Hardin]]. He's also similar to Garon, as his mechanical dragon form not only resembles Garon's dragon form, Garon was also stated to be a good man but became a tyrant, literally losing his humanity as he assumes a more draconic or demonic form depending on the route.]]

* LightningBruiser: Her regular variant has fantastic Spd of 40, great Atk of 36, and average Def of 30, but below average HP of 38 and low Res of 24. Her greatest strength lies in her ability to have a lot of firepower when initiating combat, thanks to her weapon's effects and Swift Sparrow 3, at the cost of becoming much more vulnerable when an enemy initiates instead, [[WeakAgainstMagic especially with magic attacks]].

* GlassCannon: She has fantastic Atk, at the cost of below average HP, Spd, Def and Res.

* EliteMook: From the Book V midpoint on (and cameo appearing in some Hero battles released around the time period), Steam Units are mechanical cavaliers that can either be Sword, Lance, or Axe. They also have a Sacred Seal that gives them the Canto (Rem) status too.

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* AnAxeToGrind: His story version wields the Lofnheiðr, which gives him +3 Atk, and if he either initiates combat or is within 2 spaces of an ally, he gains +6 Atk, inflicts -6 Atk on the foe, and denies any enemy follow-up attacks, as well as the [Canto (3)] effect betweel turn 1 and turn 4. His playable version wields the Auto-Lofnheiðr, which is identical except for the follow-up effect; instead of denying the foe's follow-up, he simply gains a follow-up instead under the same conditions.

* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler:Despite the first king being long dead, she has spent every of her thousands of years of life serving Niðavellir and trying to secure its ultimate safety.]]

* WeaponOfChoice:
** His regular variant's Hreiðmarr gives him +3 Def, grants +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat and inflicts -1 special buildup on the foe per attack and after combat if he attacked he inflicts the Guard status effect to the target and all foes within 2 spaces of the target after combat if he's not adjacent to an ally, and between turn 1 and turn 4, he has access to [Canto (3)], which after attacking, using an assist skill, or destroying an enemy structure, he can move 3 spaces before ending his turn, but he cannot warp more than 3 spaces during this movement.
** His New Year variant's Niðavellir Sprig gives him +3 Spd, the standard [Dagger (7)] effect, allows him to gain +5 Atk/Spd/Def/Res during combat, ignore skills that deny any of his follow-up attacks, and inflicts -1 special buildup per attack on the foe during combat if he either initiates combat or is not adjacent to an ally, and between turn 1 and turn 4, he has access to [Canto (2)].

* WeaponOfChoice:
** Her regular variant's Lyngheiðr gives her +3 Spd, gives her +6 Atk/Spd during combat and reduce damage from the foe's first attack by 30% if she initiates combat, and between turn 1 and turn 4, she has access to [Canto (3)], which after attacking, using an assist skill, or destroying an enemy structure, she can move 3 spaces before ending her turn, but she cannot warp more than 3 spaces during this movement.
** Her New Year variant's Niðavellir Lots gives her +3 Atk, grants her +6 Atk/Spd during combat if she has at least 25% HP at the start of combat, -3 special cooldown at the start of turn 4, and between turn 1 and turn 4, she has access to [Canto (2)].

* WeaponOfChoice: She wields the Grim Brokkr, which gives her +3 Atk, grants her [Canto (2)] between turns 1 and 4, and inflicts -6 Atk/Res on her foe during combat and guarantees her a follow-up attack if she either initiates combat or is not adjacent to an ally.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Is very clearly this if the [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil trailer]] is anything to go by, though who the culprit is remains to be seen. [[spoiler:As the Book V - The False Monarch cutscene reveals, that culprit would be Eitri]].
* BreakingOldTrends: He's the first ArcVillain to not be a green unit, being blue instead. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It's a hint that Fáfnir isn't the true villain of Book V. The real villain, Eitri, is a green mage.]]]]

* CryCute: After she gets beaten twice, her first action is to break down in tears and ask her brother for forgiveness. Thankfully for her, Alfonse knew from the very beginning she was simply not into the idea of invading Askr. Actually, she's rather prone to crying, whether it's lamenting what went wrong with Ótr, reuniting with the Summoner, or the party comforting her that she isn't alone.

-->''"Explain to me why I should care for someone so clearly worthless. Sisters be damned. If the Askrans dispose of her, that's one less piece of trash I need to deal with myself. Perhaps I should thank them for saving me the time and effort, hm?"''
The King of Niðavellir and older brother of Reginn and Ótr, whom he adopted when the both of them were younger, he was once kind until a certain incident made him a cruel tyrant.

-->''"Rage has overpowered them, both Fáfnir and Ótr. I need to learn why. I need to fix it, so they don't suffer anymore—or bring more suffering to others. If I can do that, the wars will stop, and we can all live in peace! Right?"''

-->''"Reginn, you are my sister no longer. As of now, you are my enemy! You've forsaken your homeland, and for that, I will run you through without hesitation! Your only value to me now is as food for the dogs! And then... Then! Then I will be the only family our dear brother has left! [=HahahaHAHH=]!"''

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of his info screen quotes is "Reginn should act more like royalty. Remind her, won't you?" Initially, it seems like he wants her to act like the king's adoptive sister, but it turns out that [[spoiler:Reginn really is the princess.]]

* HiddenDisdainReveal: Ótr never presented himself as someone who liked Reginn, but Chapter 11 reveals just how much he hates his sister. [[spoiler:And by "sister", we mean cousin. Reginn is the legitimate heir to the throne who Ótr believes never lifted a finger to get what she wanted while Ótr himself was just someone who was born inside the castle walls who had to dive through trash to take care of both of them after his parents unintentionally helped with the coup against the royal family. He sees Fáfnir as being the only family he has for helping him out, and absolutely resents Reginn when she tries to kill the transformed Fáfnir]].

* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:In Book V Chapter 5, he confesses to Nótt, the princess and next heir of Jötunheimr, that he intends to marry her, with Nótt returning the favor. Subverted in that Ótr exploits Nótt's love for him in order to manipulate her into giving him the Summoner and the sword Gramr and later on use her to hold off the Order of Heroes, with him later confessing to the Summoner that he never intends to marry Nótt at all, while Nótt herself actually knew that she was being manipulated, but still helped him out on the off chance that Ótr would actually return her feelings.]]

-->''"Welcome, people of Askr. I am Eitri, a humble scholar. [...] Don't fret. His mood may be no better now, but I can't imagine it getting much worse. Without seiðjárn, Niðavellir would be nothing compared to what it is now. Fáfnir can't afford to punish me."''

* BeenThereShapedHistory: [[spoiler:Book V Chapter 13 reveals that Eitri has lived for thousands of years and has been friends with the first King of Niðavellir, going under the identities Alfrik, Dvalinn, Billingr and Grer, who were famous inventors of Niðavellir as Book V Chapter 12 reveals, while placing her essence in new bodies to extend her longevity, as well as being the one who created the Crown of the Dvergar to give the wearer and descendants of the first King of Niðavellir strength to defend the realm, while also making those not of the royal bloodline go insane, as Fáfnir can attest.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[XanatosGambit Technically.]] [[spoiler:While she dies in battle against the Order of Heroes, in the end she gets what she wanted, as Reginn assuming the throne ensures that the legacy of Niðavellir's first king will live on. She gleefully lampshades this in the Book V finale movie.]] [[spoiler:However, she probably didn't plan for Reginn to give some control of the kingdom to Dagr, which ends up with Niðavellir in the same situation it was when the first king took over, and which basically turns all of Eitri's plans as AllForNothing in a way. Even then, she says it was in her plans, but it's unclear how much of it is.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one, but in the Book V cover art, she is seen sitting behind Fáfnir. [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan She's later revealed as the true villain of Book V while using Fáfnir as a pawn.]]]]