From the top right clockwise to center: Durban, Elimine, Barigan, Athos, Hanon, Roland, Bramimond, and Hartmut.
980 years ago, there was a huge war between humans and dragons known as the Scouring. Mankind won this battle, but mainly thanks to the efforts of eight warriors wielding powerful weapons forged to effectively combat dragons. These eight warriors became known as the "Eight Legends" (or "Eight Divine Generals" in the Japanese version) and their weapons became known as the "Divine General Weapons" (sometimes referred to as just "Divine Weapons").
To see the other Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade character pages, go here. For characters that appear in its chronological sequel Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, see here.
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In General
- Ascended Extra: In The Binding Blade, Athos and Brammimond were only ever mentioned during their respective weapons' gaiden chapters, given they were long dead at that point. As The Blazing Blade is a prequel, the game has the two as major characters and allies to Eliwood/Hector's group, with Athos himself being playable around the time the last battle against Nergal kicks off.
- Posthumous Character: Naturally. Not so with Athos and Bramimond (at first), until they succumb during and after the game's events and become this in The Binding Blade.
- Spell My Name With An S: The titles of their weapons have a wide range of names. For example, Forblaze has: "The Scorching Reason", "The Infernal Element", and "The Reason of Hellfire". No officially localized game has given them a proper title with the exception of "The Thunder Axe" Armads, "The Blazing Blade" Durandal, and "The Binding Blade".
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Their legendary status and the divine weapons they come with harkens back to the Twelve Crusaders of Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.
- Wizards Live Longer: Athos and Bramimond are still alive nearly a thousand years after the Scouring.
Roland the Little Hero
The founder of Lycia and owner of the Blazing Blade, Durandal. His spirit appears before Eliwood and Athos when they come to claim the Durandal to use against Nergal; with Eliwood claiming the sword, his spirit finally disappears.
Probable class: Hero
- BFS: Durandal, the Blazing Blade, is sometimes depicted to be as long as Eliwood's horse, although in Roland's hand it is much more reasonably proportioned. (See the image above.)
- Expecting Someone Taller: Eliwood's reaction to learning exactly who he is (upon viewing his ghost speaking with Athos) demonstrates his surprise at how ordinary (and small) one of the Eight Legends and an ancestor he looks up to is.
- Red Baron: "The Little Hero"note .
- Playing with Fire: Durandal, the Blazing Blade.
Hartmut the Champion
Hartmut, as he appears in Fire Emblem: Champion's Sword.
The leader of the Eight Legends, and the founder and first King of Bern. He was the bearer of two divine swords: Eckesachs and the Binding Blade.
Probable class: Hero
- Chekhov's Gunman: He defeated the leader of the dragons, but sealed her away instead of killing her since she was an Anti-Villain. Said leader? None other than Idunn. To say nothing of his role in Champion's Sword...
- The Good King: Founded Bern and is held in high regard in all of the nations.
- The Hero: Said to be the leader of the group. It's also speculated that he may have belonged to either the Hero class or a souped-up custom variant a la the surviving members of the Legends.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Had both his own blade, Eckesachs, and the Binding Blade.
- Interspecies Romance: In Fire Emblem: Champion's Sword, he unknowingly fell in love with a manakete woman named Melitha and fathered Al. When he found out the truth about his family's heritage, he used the Binding Blade to seal the two away, believing that as the man that brought an end to the dragons in Elibe, he couldn't be together with them.
- Red Baron: "The Champion".
- Playing with Fire: The Binding Blade can manifest fire. Plus, it needed to be unseal by the Fire Emblem to be used.
- Sympathy for the Devil: When he finally came face to face with the Demon Dragon, all he saw was a girl with no will of her own, and merely subdued and sealed her away so that she may possibly live to see a better fate. Roy ensures this comes to pass in the best ending of The Binding Blade.
- Transforming Weapon: His sword Eckesachs could transform into a elegant-looking scepter to dictate as royalty.
Barigan the Knight of Knights
The founder of Ilia and owner of the Spear of Ice, Maltet.
Probable class: Paladin or General
- But Now I Must Go: Ilia was his homeland before be became a Legend, and remained his home afterwards; which is notable because Ilia is terrible to live in.
- The Faceless: One of the few Eight Legends that have yet to have a physical appearance.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Likely regardless of which of his speculated classes he was. Some theorize he was a Paladin based from the pre-title screen narration of The Blazing Blade seen above showing him on a horse and because all of the Ilian mercenaries in both games are mounted units (Pegasus Knights if female and Cavaliers if male), while others take note of the fact that in Binding Blade, all of the other Divine Weapons were found in a Gaiden chapter whose boss was of the same class as the corresponding legend (a Hero for Durandal, a Berserker for Armads, a Sage for Forblaze, a Bishop for Aureola, a Nomadic Trooper for Mulagir, and a Druid for Apocalypse) and extrapolate from the boss guarding Maltet. On a less-meta note, Roy states that every knight has read about Barigan at least once.
- Red Baron: "Knight of Knights" or "Holy Knight".
Bramimond the Enigma
One of the three magic users in the group, who wields Dark Magic. Its tome is the Silencing Darkness, Apocalypse. It's still sort of alive in the modern era, maintaining the seal upon the Divine Weapons and unlocking them at the behest of Athos, Eliwood, Hector, and Lyn.
Probable class: Druid (its dummy cutscene class has a unique sprite and is labeled "Bramimond")
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai, Kosuke Toriumi, Makiko Ohmoto, and Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Yuri Lowenthal, Patrick Seitz, Wendee Lee, and Ray Chase (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)
Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai, Kosuke Toriumi, Makiko Ohmoto, and Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Yuri Lowenthal, Patrick Seitz, Wendee Lee, and Ray Chase (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)
- Ambiguous Gender: One side effect of Bramimond's loss of self was that it is no longer clearly masculine or feminine, which is why Athos and this page refer to Bramimond as "it."
- Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Bramimond's self has been so thoroughly obliterated that it no longer has an appearance of its own. While it mirrors the personality of whoever it is speaking to, anyone talking with it will only see their own face and hear their own voice.
- Black Magic: Its signature tome, Apocalypse, though in Heroes, it instead wields the Void Tome. Apocalypse has yet to make another game appearance beyond The Binding Blade.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Still a heroic force even after being consumed by the darkness.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: To the point that Athos no longer sees fit to call Bramimond a "he", saying that it has no personality of its own and is merely a mirror that reflects the person addressing it. This may be a simple acknowledgement of the fact that Bramimond no longer seems to have a real gender.
- Death of Personality: Its search for knowledge through the dark arts means that it no longer even has a personality of its own.
- Dishing Out Dirt: In Heroes, it introduces the Stone line of tomes to the game.
- Empty Shell: The dark powers have destroyed everything human about him, leaving only a vessel.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: It's robed appearance evokes what little we see of the player character Mark. In all likelihood since its Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder, it only looks like your avatar to you because you're looking at it from your perspective.
- Hidden Eyes: As a side effect of being seen through the eyes of the Featureless Protagonist. In Heroes, its eyes are visible, albeit barely.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: "It" is used to describe it as it can no longer be classified as human any more.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: In Heroes.“Meet your defeat!”
“I take my stand here!”
“I will crush you!”
“I won't lose!” - Promoted to Playable: It makes its playable debut in Heroes.
- Really 700 Years Old: Like Athos, it is alive at the time of The Blazing Blade.
- Red Baron: "The Enigma".
- The Smart Guy: Fills a similar role Athos, having spent its life spanning a millenia pursuing further understanding of magic, in its case being the dark arts.
- Sole Survivor: Along with Athos at the start of the game; then Athos dies, meaning it really is the Sole Survivor. It outright states it won't last much longer, though, and it too is nowhere to be found by the time The Binding Blade comes round.
- Voices Are Mental: In a sense. In Heroes, Bramimond speaks with the voices of Eliwood, Hector and Lyn - much like it did before - and in addition, it also speaks with the voice of Alfonse as he is the primary Lord of the game.
- Was Once a Man: Downplayed, as Bramimond is still clearly human, even though it is not clearly male.
Saint Elimine
The second magic user, and the founder of Etruria as well as the St. Elimine Order. She wielded Light magic and her tome was the Supreme Light, Aureola; she also bore the Staff of the Saint.
Probable class: Bishop
Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Amanda Lee (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)
Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (Japanese, Fire Emblem Heroes), Amanda Lee (English, Fire Emblem Heroes)
- Action Girl: Comes with the territory of being one of the Eight Legends, of which only she and Hanon were female.
- Ascended Extra: She goes from a Precursor Heroine long dead in Eliwood's time to a playable character in Heroes.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: It's believed that she never died, just ascended to Heaven from a tower located in Aquleia, the capital of Etruria.
- Canon Foreigner: In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!... sorta. You have to link up the bonus disk to your Blazing Blade copy to get her to give you items.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She is depicted as blonde in Mario Kart and was also said to be the one with the softest heart among the Legends.
- Light 'em Up: Her signature tome, Aureola, although she didn't wield it in Heroes since she's a Staff Unit (which had her wield the Staff of Saint). Said tome was inherited to Princess Guinevere.
- Mythology Gag: In Heroes, the False Start effect inflicted by her Staff of the Saint weapon is a reference to her appearance in Mario Kart: Double Dash, a racing game; a "false start" is an invalid start to a race caused by a competitor ignoring the official signal. (For the record, it's not possible to do a false start in Double Dash.)
- Pink Is Feminine: Her Mario Kart picture has her wearing a white dress, a single white long glove... and a long pink/purple stole.
- Power Floats: In Heroes, she is seen floating, and is classified as a Flying unit.
- Promoted to Playable: She makes her playable debut in Heroes.
- Red Baron: "Blessed Saint Elimine".
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like Crusader Bragi of the Jugdral series, she is a priestly hero of the past who has a religion formed around her.
- The Unfettered: In Heroes, she expresses the belief that Hartmut should never have spared the Demon Dragon, feeling emotion clouds judgement, and the importance of all members of a group being on the same page in plans, even if it involves terrible actions, in the name of peace."The hearts of men are weak and feelings are fleeting. The eight of us were no different. All pray for peace. But who will build that peace? And who will protect it? After we sealed the dragon, we faced a terrible trial... Endless icy darkness. It must never happen again. One man's kindness was enough to sow discord, to weaken our chain... Our bonds must be as hard as iron. We must face the danger the dragons pose with eyes unclouded, united in our opposition to their threat."
Athos the Archsage
“The world is full of mysteries. Solve one, and along comes another… Before I knew it, I'd grown distant from my fellow man. Hunger… It knows no bounds.”
The third magic user of the band, and the Anima Magic user (originally). After the war, he left to live in solitude in the Nabata Desert. Actually, not that alone, since he also found the village of Arcadia where dragons and humans lived in seclusion and peace. 1000 years after The Scouring, he and Bramimond are the only ones left. His tome is the Scorching Reason, Forblaze.
Class: Archsage
- 11th-Hour Ranger: As per the series tradition. He fits the Gotoh archetype, a powerful magic user capable of taking on the last chapter on his own. Justified, as he's nearing the end of his life by the time the story takes place, and can only partake in the fight once he's absolutely needed. The final battle with the dragon exhausts the last of his strength, and he dies soon after.
- The Archmage: Athos is considered one of the most powerful mages to have ever existed, and the most powerful to still be alive. His unique class, Archsage, has mastery of all kinds of magic, a unique trait only shared with Nergal, the main villain.
- Cain and Abel: With his companion during the Nabata travels... Nergal.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Hector's, though also assisted by Lyn, Eliwood, and Nils.
- Elemental Powers: The only character in the game who can use anima, light, and dark tomes all at once.
- Go Out with a Smile: It's said that as he passed away, it looked as though he had at last found peace.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With his student, Lord Pent, and his wife Louise. Also with Hawkeye, and possibly with Sophia from Arcadia, though in their case even she may be the older one.
- It May Help You on Your Quest: If you didn't skip creating the tactician at the outset, he gives you Afa's Drops, an item that increases a unit's growths by 5%. Later, before the final chapter, he gives Divine Weapons to the Lords (two of which, to be fair, their respective Lords had previously retrieved on their own and then lent to Athos for safe-keeping), and comes with two of his own!
- Light 'em Up: In Blazing Blade, he brings Aureola, which was Elimine's tome, with him in the final battle against Nergal, which is effective against him. Interestingly, it is a S-rank tome, so either Athos or another Bishop (commonly, Lucius) can wield it.
- Living Legend: He's famous for his role in the Scouring, and Uther specifically refers to him as a Living Legend. He's also one of the only two heroes of the Scouring to survive after nearly 1,000 years, at least until he finally lays to rest following the battle with Nergal, and the only one who remains relatively well known.
- Mentor Archetype: He carefully guides the three lordlings during the last third of the plot, particularly the closing chapters.
- One-Hit Kill: With the Luna tome and a boost from the Filla's Might ring, he can do exactly the amount of damage needed, with a crit, to OHKO the final boss.
- Playing with Fire: His signature tome, Forblaze.
- Plotline Death: That last battle with the Dragon exhausted the last of his strength, even if he didn't fall in battle.
- Promoted to Playable: After only having been mentioned several times in The Binding Blade, Athos becomes playable at the very end of The Blazing Blade in the final battle against Nergal, and, alongside Bramimond and Elimine in their Heroes appearances, is one of the only few members of the group with this status.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's one of only two surviving veterans of the Scouring, an event almost 1000 years in the past.
- Recurring Element: The super powerful legend that joins very late to ensure that you have a chance of victory if you somehow screwed up in early games, like Gotoh.
- Red Baron: "The Archsage".
- Sixth Ranger: In Eliwood and Hector's tales, where he's the final major character to appear.
- The Smart Guy: Athos is known to have pursued knowledge and truth since centuries earlier into his thousand-year lifetime, becoming a master in all forms of magic in Elibe and likely the most outright knowledgeable human in the series.
- Sole Survivor: Along with Bramimond, though to be fair, both of them are Really 700 Years Old...
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's pretty much note for note Gotoh, as he's a powerful magic user who has lived for centuries and has a noticeable role in the backstory of his continent; he even has a beard! The only aspect they don't share is that Athos isn't a dragon.
- Wizard Beard: Just look at it! His grand beard blends with his long mane of hair, appropriately reflecting a millenia's worth of knowledge and magic proficiency.
Hanon the Divine Trooper
The Action Girl of the group, and founder of Sacae. Her weapon is the Gale Bow, Mulagir.
Probable class: Nomadic Trooper
- Action Girl: Out of the Eight Legends, only she and Elimine are female and she is a renowned archer.
- Blow You Away: The Mulagir is known as the Gale Bow.
- The Faceless: One of the few Eight Legends that have yet to have a physical appearance.
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: As the only physically oriented Legend, she wields a bow.
- Horse Archer: She founded a nation with a strong tradition in firing arrows from horseback, so she ought to be one as well. Her weapon is Mulagir, the Gale Bow.
- Red Baron: "Divine Trooper".
- She's a Man in Japan: The English version of Blazing Blade refers to her as a male by mistake. Heroes pointedly corrects this by having the Brave version of Lyn (who uses Mulagir) refer to Hanon as a woman.
Durban the Berserker
The fearsome axefighter of the team, who retired to the Western Isles. His sacred axe is named Armads. His spirit appears before Hector when he comes to claim Armads to use against Nergal; with Hector claiming the axe, his spirit finally disappears.
Probable class: Berserker
- The Big Guy: He was known to be a colossal man in a literal sense, and he was the powerhouse of the legends from accounts.
- I Call It "Vera": Something of an inversion, he has taken to associating himself with his axe Armads to the point of calling himself "Armads".
- I Have Many Names: Well, not him, but Armads has plenty according to him: The Dragonhunter, the Fleshbiter, the Bonecrusher, the Skullbreaker, the Doombringer.
- Shock and Awe: Armads, the Thunder Axe.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He appears like this in spirit to Hector, in-line with the appearance of most present-day Berserkers, though this interestingly doesn't apply to his appearance alongside the other Legends where he appears dressed in armor similar to Hector (as seen in the artwork above).
- You Can't Fight Fate: Warns Hector that if he takes up Armads, he is dooming himself to a painful death on the battlefield someday. Hector doesn't care as long as it keeps his friends safe. Ultimately proves to be true when Hector is killed in Binding Blade.
