Dorothea Arnault

1. #1Edelgard von hresvelg

   Keys: Edelgard, black eagles, leader, black eagles leader

   Edelgard is a playable character and one of the main protagonists in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. She is the princess and the future emperor of the Adrestian Empire. She possesses a Minor Crest of Seiros. In the Officers Academy, she is the leader of the Black Eagles. Edelgard is seventeen at the start of the game and wields axes as her main weapon. she finds comfort in you.

   Edelgard holds herself with a dignified air, but is full of melancholy and solemn wistfulness. As heir of the Adrestian Empire, she is an exemplary student and a natural leader. She keeps a modest front, rarely cutting loose and maintains formality. Her colleagues express great surprise whenever she does relax. While generally a private person, she does recognize the importance of her duties and expresses confidence and faith in the abilities of her allies.

   She is a capable dancer, having taught Dimitri at a young age and has a talent for drawing portraits, though she is embarrassed to show them to others.

   Though she tries to keep it a secret, Edelgard is deathly afraid of rats, as they remind her of a past she is uncomfortable with. She also fears the ocean since she cannot swim. She suffers from insomnia and nightmares, often wandering around outside after dark. She may have claustrophobia, and expresses a need to see the sky after one of her nightmares.

   Edelgard is far more complex than she initially appears, as she had been scheming to take over the continent and unite all its territories under a new Adrestian Empire since before the event of Three Houses. Driven by a desire to change society, she is willing to sacrifice anything, as she believes that the only means of achieving her goals is through war and sometimes underhanded tactics. Edelgard will use whatever it takes to achieve her goals, using some of her allies begrudgingly as a means to amass power and influence.

   Edelgard strongly believes that the ends will justify the means if she were to win the war, believing any sacrifices in the present will save more people in the future. In Azure Moon, she states she went to war after weighing all options and determined that it would be much faster with far fewer casualties than to continue on in the continent's current state. Although Edelgard uses deception and is secretly behind much of the events leading to the war, she does become a rallying figure for those who are legitimately discontent with the Church of Seiros and the current state of society, especially in her homeland of the Adrestian Empire. Edelgard manages to inspire loyalty among her subjects, with even some people from the other nations, like Marianne and Lysithea, admiring her and her convictions, willing to betray their homeland to support the emperor.

   Dimitri has had a significant impact on her life as the two are step-siblings when her mother Anselma married King Lambert under the name "Patricia." In their childhood, neither were aware of their relationship to each other, but they were close nonetheless. Dimitri gifted her a dagger which she held well into the present, which was symbolically meant to tell her to carve out her own ideals and face the numerous hardships she had to endure. If met at the Goddess Tower event, she admits that her first love was a Faerghus noble who she cannot recall, implied to be Dimitri. Despite her past feelings towards him, it is heavily implied that Edelgard no longer remembers Dimitri nor that he gifted her the dagger, and while Dimitri realizes they are step-siblings from investigating Patricia's past, Edelgard never learns the truth.

   Edelgard's personality and ambitions are a result of tragedies that painted her view of the world. The traumatic imprisonment of her siblings and herself due to the experiments of Those Who Slither in the Dark created her hatred of Crests. She also despises most nobility, especially the Adrestian Nobles, as they are partially responsible for the circumstances leading to said experiments, but also due to the fact that Crests are used as societal leverage by most nobles as a sign of their prestige. She even shows sympathy and pity to Miklan, whom she praises for becoming a leader despite being disowned, calling his death "a waste". One of her main goals is to dismantle the current nobility system and having the people earn their position by merit rather than birthright.

   Edelgard bears a large distrust of Rhea and the Church of Seiros. She is suspicious of them withholding knowledge about the past, as well as disapproving of the sacred role crests play in church teachings. During Crimson Flower, she tries to learn more about the church from Manuela but does not plan on ever becoming a devout follower by any means. Edelgard's distrust of the Church has been exploited by Those Who Slither in the Dark, who plan to make use of her as a weapon for their own ends.

   In Crimson Flower, Byleth sides with Edelgard, and supports her goals during the war. Edelgard admits in their support that she feared that she would have become "a harsh ruler with a heart of ice" if she had to walk her path alone. She also has several fleeting moments of peace and happiness as an ally during Crimson Flower, such as when she takes to drawing portraits of Byleth, which she is self-conscious about. In the same route, Dorothea notes that among the Black Eagles, Edelgard was the most emotionally affected by Byleth's disappearance. Edelgard's fondness for Byleth goes so far as to encourage Byleth to call her El, a nickname that only those closes to her - like her family - are allowed to use, and even let Byleth give her orders on the battlefield despite her dislike of not being in control. Besides that, Edelgard expresses fear and anxiety over the consequences of her actions, as she understands that she would be responsible for the deaths of countless lives. Dimitri's death in this route struck her to the point that she appears to cry, although she denies it.

2. #2Edelgard von hresvelg 2

   Keys: Edelgard, black eagles, leader, black eagles leader

   Her interest towards Byleth is strong even if the player does not side with her. As an enemy, Edelgard will express regret that she and Byleth did not walk the same path and even find some semblance of closure falling to Byleth's sword.

   Edelgard von Hresvelg is a young woman of petite yet commanding stature, notable for her striking bone-white hair that flows past her waist in long, straight layers, accented by two thin white ribbons tying small sections at the sides of her face. She has a refined, fair complexion, a sharp jawline, and large, intense light purple eyes that convey a serious, analytical demeanor. Her attire consists of the modified Black Eagles officer academy uniform, featuring a black cropped jacket adorned with intricate gold embroidery and braided epaulets over a ruffled white jabot. She wears a high-waisted black skort detailed with gold crest-like clasps, layered over vivid, opaque scarlet-red tights that draw a sharp contrast against her monochromatic top. Completing her outfit are short, polished black high-heeled ankle boots, crisp white gloves, and a vibrant crimson cape draped elegantly over her left shoulder and secured across her chest.

   In her youth and before experiment, The most prominent difference is her natural dirty-blonde or light-brown hair, which she wears in twin low pigtails tied with dark ribbons, alongside a side-swept fringe and long framing strands down the sides of her face. While her sharp, determined facial structure and large, expressive lilac-purple eyes remain exactly the same as her older self, her appearance here reflects a healthy, untarnished youth before the trauma of her past turned her hair entirely bone-white. In her Flame Emperor persona, she wears black armor, a black robed surplice, red-feathered shoulder pauldrons, a helmet with a large red plume, and a white and red mask that conceals her identity and distorts her voice.

   In the five-year time skip, she puts her hair up in Odango buns and wears a red ballgown. In Three Hopes, Edelgard wears a red-grey armor, a red cape, and a yellow crown.

   Hegemon Edelgard is a massive, towering, insectoid-humanoid monster encased in dark, segmented armor that resembles a beetle’s carapace or heavy plating. Her upper torso is flanked by large, wing-like black mechanical appendages lined with sharp, blade-like protrusions extending outward from her back. She possesses an exaggeratedly narrowed waist that flares into a massive, ribbed, and segmented skirt-like armor structure covering her lower body. Red, glowing orb-like eyes or power cores are embedded symmetrically across her body, notably on her upper shoulders, waist, and lower chassis. Her pale head rests atop this biomechanical frame, topped by a large, ornate, crown with two horns and a red jewel in the middle that frames her silver-white hair in her Odango buns, while long, dark fabric or hair-like strands drape down behind her shoulders and black scales are on her cheeks with black souless eyes only filled with two tiny red glowing pupils. Her human head is intact with her hegemon form. Her arms terminate in elongated, sharp, metallic claw-like fingers.

   Edelgard's crests: crest of flames and crest of serios.

   Edelgard's likes include talented individuals, nature, beautiful scenery, and debating history, while her dislikes are Crests, rats, chains, outdated values, swimming, and losing control. She also has a sweet tooth and enjoys various sweet dishes. She also loves stuffed animals most notably teddy bears.

   Once the transformation of the hegemon husk is complete, edelgard won't need amyr anymore and can harness the power of her two crests.

3. #3Hubert Von vestra

   Keys: Hubert, Edelgard's vassal

   Hubert is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. He is a student at the Officers Academy who is from the Adrestian Empire and a member of the Black Eagles. At the start of the game, he is 20 years old.

   Early life The tactician of the Black Eagles as well as the eldest son and heir of the Marquisate of Vestra, Hubert has been Edelgard's vassal since the age of six when the latter was four. Honoring House Vestra's generations of devotion to House Hresvelg, Hubert took to his role with sincere devotion. However, the Insurrection of the Seven and the subsequent evacuation of Edelgard to Fhirdiad was a major tragedy in his life. His grief in possibly losing Edelgard lead him to make a one-man attempt to rescue her. Despite his father sending guards to capture him, Hubert was able to fend them off for three days before he was returned home.

   Academy Phase Hubert becomes a student at Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180 and serves as Edelgard's retainer in the Black Eagles.

   Personality Immediately, most who meet Hubert notes of his menacing gaze and his rather sinister way of talking. He makes no illusions of where his allegiances lie and frequently makes unsettling comments clearly painted by intimidating verbiage. He is consummately villainous at times, even Edelgard finds that word to be most fitting for him, and seems to relish whenever ones notes this to him. He keeps his social circle to an extremely tight degree, so much so that he notably has no supports with any student outside of the Black Eagles in Three Houses. However, his grave demeanor and ominous eloquence belie his intentions.

   Edelgard is singularly the most important person in his life stemming from his role from House Vestra's vassalage to House Hresvelg. He holds his title with immense pride, however in his later years, his devotion to Edelgard becomes more personal rather than his title's responsibilities, possibly because he has fallen in love with her if pursued to their maximum Support rank. However, even Edelgard is not privy to all of his secrets and actions as he is willing to do whatever it takes to see her dreams come to fruition, no matter how underhanded, bloody, or conniving he must be. This puts him at odds with Ferdinand: where Hubert will quietly subvert orders he disagrees with, Ferdinand believes a good advisor is one who openly confronts and challenges others to be better. Oddly, they still work well enough together and respect one another for their respective roles to serve Edelgard. While he ultimately respects Edelgard decisions, he still works behind the scenes for her tirelessly, proving to be a shrewd consultant. As a result, he does consider many notable individuals as a potential threat to her, keeping them in check for her through his discerning eye such as Shamir. He is immediately distrusting of Byleth and in their first support, states he would not hesitate to kill if they were deemed a threat to her. At times, he even commits actions against her wishes if he believes it will ultimately benefit her, yet he takes responsibility for situations by his hand that impacts her in these instances.

   Due to his pride in House Vestra's duty to serve House Hresvelg, Hubert greatly loathes his father, as shown in his supports with Hanneman. He greatly dislikes talking about him, calling him a traitor to House Vestra, staining their 1,100 years of loyalty to House Hresvelg. Marquis Vestra was also the reason why Edelgard was sent to Faerghus in her youth. Upon Edelgard's purging of corrupt nobles, which included Hubert's father, he showed no remorse in his death, stating that it was well deserved. Even when Hanneman points out that he was trying to protect him by obtaining more power, Hubert refuses to budge on his hatred of him. In contrast, Hubert admits to Lysithea in Three Hopes that he has a mother and siblings whose existence he keeps a close secret for their safety, to the extent that not even Edelgard knows about them.

   While seen by most as heartless and cold-blooded, Edelgard has vouched for his honor, which is exemplified in his contempt for Those Who Slither in the Dark. He believes that the atrocities they commit lack any justifiable motives, and he makes it clear in Crimson Flower that they only work together out of necessity. When questioned by Byleth if he hates the goddess, Hubert states that while he would choose "hate" over "love" when describing his perception of the goddesss, he ultimately believes that she abandoned the people of Fódlan and thus it is left to humanity to correct this. He believes that Edelgard exemplifies humanity taking the power given to them to reshape the world for the better.

   Hubert also attempts to get along with fellow members of his house, but expresses his support of them in strange ways, such as subjecting Bernadetta to his hardest, most terrifying laugh in an effort to help her overcome her fear of him. He views his classmates as valuable assets to the Empire and is sharply critical of them to foster improvement.

   Hubert von Vestra is a tall, slender young man with an imposing, ominous presence, characterized by his jet-black hair styled in a dramatic, asymmetrical cut where long, wavy bangs completely obscure the left side of his face. He has a pale, sickly complexion, sharp facial features, and narrow, dark-ringed pale green eyes that give him a perpetually calculating or sinister expression. His customized Officers Academy uniform features a black double-breasted jacket with a high collar and a tan-colored center panel, heavily decorated with gold trim, braided shoulder epaulets, and gold buttons. He wears two white gloves. His lower attire consists of loose-fitting black trousers tucked cleanly into polished, knee-high black leather boots, reinforcing his rigid, fiercely loyal, and shadowy aesthetic as Edelgard's right-hand man.

4. #4Ferdinand von aegir

   Keys: Ferdinand Von Aegir

   Ferdinand is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. He is a student at the Officers Academy who hails from the Adrestian Empire and is a member of the Black Eagles. He possesses a Minor Crest of Cichol, and is 17 years old at the start of the game.

   Profile Early life Ferdinand is the eldest son and heir of House Aegir, which has held the office of the prime minister of the Adrestian Empire for centuries. His mother, Duchess Aegir, is described by him as being of poor health. When he was 9 years old, his father, Ludwig, seized power in the Insurrection of the Seven, rendering Emperor Ionius IX politically impotent. He is very proud of his family's status as high-class nobility, but clashes with his father about what nobility actually is and means.

   Sometime in his past, a young Ferdinand walked into a girl his age taking a bath in a nearby fountain. He was fascinated by the sight, almost believing her to be a water spirit, but felt so awkward that he couldn't speak to her and left to calm down. But when he returned to properly address her, the girl was already gone. Only years later he'd find out her identity to be his Black Eagles classmate, Dorothea.

   His family also considered engaging him and another young noblewoman to marry, but he refused to go through it because the girl never left her room to greet him and there were rumors about her making dolls to curse her enemies. Said noblewoman was his also Black Eagles classmate, Bernadetta.

   Academy Phase Ferdinand attends the Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in 1180 and joins the Black Eagles.

   Personality Ferdinand is a confident and proud noble that hates losing. He is fiercely competitive, in particular with Edelgard. He strives to be her better, as he believes that will prove his worth as a capable prime minister to assist her in her rule as Emperor. Over time, however, Ferdinand comes to accept that Edelgard is and always will be better no matter how much effort he applies. While saddened at this, he does not let it discourage him and wishes to continue improving for his own sake.

   He does not have a high opinion on his father; although he values the hard work he does as Prime Minister (even stating that it was a shame he was stripped of his title), he does not agree with his father's views, finding it to be disgraceful, revealing to Edelgard in Three Hopes that he idolized his father as a child until he discovered his corrupt nature. In one of his conversations with Lorenz, he believes that they should cross the threshold and see life from a commoner's perspective, as many nobles and commoners have distorted views of one another. However, as while he will readily admit his father is greedy and arrogant and deserved to die, he's also conflicted with Edelgard imprisoning him after she becomes empress and mourns his death.

   In situations where others take issue with Ferdinand's regard for his own lofty status, he is quick to assess himself and works to understand what he had done wrong, always striving to improve. This is particularly demonstrated in his support conversations with Dorothea, who, due to her own past hostile experiences with the noble class, is quick to judge Ferdinand as being no better. Rather than take umbrage with her scorn, he instead works hard to decipher why she is hostile toward him and to improve their understanding of each other while remaining respectful to her.

   Ferdinand, as the future Prime Minister, believes that the best thing he can do as one of Edelgard's advisers is to speak frank advice when he believes she could choose a better course of action, and challenge her to improve herself. This brings him into conflict with Hubert, who believes that Edelgard's will is absolute and the ends justify the means no matter how unethical. They frequently argue over this, but they do have a begrudging mutual respect.

   Ferdinand is also somewhat vain and oblivious, a trait that makes Linhardt's veiled insults go right over his head in their support chain, taking them as earnest praise. He also has difficulty understanding nobles who reject their status, such as Marianne, which causes him to overstep her boundaries. He does however display strong introspection upon this happenstance and puts in the effort to understand her perspective on the matter, apologizing to her afterwards, similar to his supports with Dorothea.

   Perhaps as part of his interpretation of nobility, Ferdinand tends to avoid contractions when he speaks. He likes horseback riding, tea, justice, being noble, animals, children, and heights. He dislikes slothfulness, and nobles who are not noble.

   Ferdinand von Aegir is a young man of medium height and a slender, athletic build. He has fair skin and short, vibrant orange hair that is neatly parted on his left side, with several stylized tufts framing his face and the back of his neck. His eyes are a matching warm light brown color. He wears the formal garreg mach uniform from the Officers Academy, which consists of a black, double-breasted tunic with gold piping and large gold buttons down the front. The tunic features a high collar with intricate gold embroidery and a white ruffled cravat tucked into the neckline. His shoulders are adorned with structured black pauldrons accented by gold trim. A tan leather sash runs diagonally across his torso from his right shoulder to his left hip, where a gold-hilted rapier rests inside a dark scabbard. He wears tight-fitting black trousers with vertical gold stripes running down the sides, tucked into knee-high black leather boots that feature distinct gold bands around the top rims and gold soles. Completing his attire are form-fitting white gloves covering both hands.

5. #5Caspar Von Bergliez

   Keys: Caspar

   Caspar is a playable character that appears in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. He is a student at the Officers Academy who's from the Adrestian Empire and a member of the Black Eagles. He is 16 years old at the start of the game.

   Early life Caspar is the second-born son of House Bergliez. He is also the step-nephew of Randolph and Fleche. His step-uncle and step-aunt are the children of his grandfather's favored second wife, and Randolph was initially favored for succession. His grandfather's deteriorating health, however, forced him to retire early in Imperial Year 1168, and Caspar's father inherited the County of Bergliez. At the age of 6, he befriended Linhardt.

   Academy Phase Due to being lower in the line of succession, Caspar sets off for the Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180 to make a name for himself through martial ability.

   Personality Brash and bold, Caspar leads his life bound to his strong sense of justice. He is takes a "punch first, apologize later" approach to dealing with conflict and enjoys fighting in general with an enthusiastic zeal. His rather black-and-white view on right-and-wrong makes him an honest young man, but also one to deliver righteous punishment as he sees fit. Caspar hates lies and unfair treatment and is likely to directly intervene in a situation once he has made up his mind, consequences be damned. He has a natural instinct in discerning unsavory individuals, even on a mere hunch.

   His hotheadedness makes him somewhat reckless and unintentionally forceful when "helping" others, such as "kidnapping" Bernadetta to bring her to a secret location to cheer her up, failing to account how she was even going to feel about the whole ordeal, let alone the good intentions of his idea. His simple-minded outlook on life also causes him to miss subtle romantic cues in many of his A-Supports with women, instead taking them at face value. He also does not take criticism of his behavior well, often snapping at those who judge him on his habits. Often, he only learns the breadth of the consequences of it that he could have avoided had he heeded them. By the war phase, he has become more accepting of others words to him and also is more cautious. By this point he is also more critical of himself, but admits to Byleth in their support that he would live with more regrets not acting in the moment he could act in the defense of innocents, even if it may affect others later.

   Caspar is markedly very different from other nobles in a Crest-bearing household. While his older brother was the one to bear a crest, Caspar has never felt envious of it. In fact, he enjoys the freedom of choice he can make of his life, unbound by the trappings of the role his brother plays for the family. However, he has something of a contentious relationship with his father Leopold. He has felt overshadowed by his older brother's accomplishments and sometimes even outright ignored by them because of it. He holds something of a chip on his shoulder as he seeks acknowledgement. Three Hopes gives Caspar a true man-to-man conversation with his father about his grievances, but learns that Leopold does hold immense pride in Caspar all along and acknowledges his growth, skill, and tenacity. As a sign of this, he even bequeaths the family's treasure weapon, Járngreipr, as a sign of his pride. In fact, his support with Edelgard highlights that Caspar may be the more fitting heir to House Bergliez in her new empire since she described Caspar's brother as lazy and selfish, a sentiment he reluctantly agrees with.

   In his supports with Petra and Shamir, Caspar shows some form of guilt for the actions of his father against Brigid and Dagda during their war with the Empire. This shows when he feels Shamir would not want to train him due to his father's prominence in the war, while with Petra he feared she would hate him due to his father having killed hers.

   He states that his astraphobia, or extreme fear of thunder, is due to the sound reminding him of his father's yelling.

   Caspar von Bergliez is a young man with a short, compact, and athletic build. He features fair skin and spiky, messy light blue hair that is styled upward, with dark blue thick eyebrows underneath. His large, wide eyes match his hair color with a bright light blue hue. He wears a customized variation of the Garreg Mach uniform from the Officers Academy, opting for a white long-sleeved dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his forearms. Over the shirt, he wears a sleeveless, double-breasted black vest adorned with two rows of gold buttons and intricate gold embroidery along the collar and upper chest, completed with a white cravat at his neck. A thick black leather belt with gold metal eyelets is buckled tightly around his waist. He wears slim-fitting black trousers accented by vertical gold piping down the front of each leg. His outfit is finished with knee-high black leather boots featuring thick gold bands at the top cuffs and thin gold detailing along the soles.

6. #6Linhart Von Hevring

   Keys: Linhart

   Linhardt is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. He is a student at the Officers Academy who is from the Adrestian Empire, and a member of the Black Eagles. He possesses a minor Crest of Saint Cethleann. He is 16 years old at the start of the game.

   Early life Linhardt is the eldest son and heir of House Hevring, a line of counts. He has been good friends with Caspar since he was 6 years old.

   Academy Phase Linhardt enrolls in the Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180 and joins the Black Eagles.

   Personality Hating constraints and loving freedom, Linhardt does his best to avoid worries and problems, often idling about lazily in non-essential activities such as fishing, sleeping or idle conversations. Although extremely intelligent, his laziness means that he refuses to use his knowledge for practical purposes unless it benefits him. Despite this, he does genuinely care for others and considers himself to be the worker when everyone else is asleep.

   Despite being the heir to House Hevring, Linhardt has little care for his own House. His laziness makes him considerably different from other nobles who believe they must exert themselves, as he states in a support conversation with Dorothea that pride means nothing to him, as it doesn't feed, clothe or shelter him. He generally cares little for gossip relating to him, although he does admit that he can't keep running away from them forever. In fact, in a majority of his endings, he abandons his claim to House Hevring to live a life of his own.

   He has a genuine interest in Crests, and when immersed in his research, can forget to even eat or sleep. That, accompanied by his unparalleled intellect, makes him one of the smartest students in his class. However, he often flutters from interest to interest and is only able to focus on whatever fancies him in the moment. Additionally, his extreme disinterest in anything off-topic will cause him to become drowsy and/or fall asleep.

   Due to his Crest research, Linhardt is particularly intelligent and can realize that things are not as they seem compared to others. If he is brought into battle against Indech, he deduces that he is hiding his actual form, but is told to feign ignorance. In his supports with Flayn, he also figures out that she is not who she makes out to be, due to her major Crest and the fact that Cethleann famously never had any children, though she barely manages to quell his suspicions.

   He is also one of the few outside people to know of Marianne's Crest of Maurice.

   Despite their personalities and hobbies being different, he gets along well with Caspar. He suffers from hemophobia, or fear of blood - upon scoring his first kill, he will be shocked at taking a life away. Additionally, the bloodiness of the events surrounding The Remire Calamity causes him to start considering the moral and ethical boundaries of acceptable research.

   Angelica Tea is his favorite.

   Linhardt von Hevring is a young man with a slender build, pale skin, and sleepy, drooping dark blue eyes. He has chin-length, dark green hair parted down the middle, with the back neatly tied into a low ponytail secured by a white ribbon. He wears a specialized version of the Black Eagles house uniform, featuring a black, double-breasted cropped jacket with gold embroidery across the high collar, golden trim, and two rows of black buttons on a tan center panel. The jacket is modified with short, detached cape-like split sleeves over long tan cuffs, and fringed gold epaulets on his shoulders. Instead of the typical trousers, he wears an ankle-length black maxi skirt or wide-legged hakama-style trousers with vertical gold piping running down the front. Tucked under his left arm is a thick, leather-bound book with gold accents. His footwear consists of fitted, mid-calf black boots trimmed with gold embroidery at the top edge.

7. #7Bernadetta Von varley

   Keys: Bernadetta

   Bernadetta is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. She is a student of the Officers Academy who hails from the Adrestian Empire, and is therefore a member of the Black Eagles. She is also of noble birth and a member of House Varley. Bernadetta possesses a minor Crest of Saint Indech. At the start of the game, she is 17 years old.

   Profile Early life Bernadetta is the eldest daughter and heir of the son of the Count of Varley. She is extremely shy towards strangers; the only place she feels at ease while far away from home is her room in the dormitory.

   Bernadetta's reclusive nature is due to extensive trauma she experienced in her childhood at the hands of her own father. Count Varley personally groomed her to become "a perfect wife", subjecting her to grueling training such as tying her to a chair and forcing her to remain quiet and submissive for hours. Bernadetta would dread these sessions, often kicking and screaming to avoid them. She found respite only in her solitude.

   Her father forbade her from socializing with commoners as he saw them as filth. Bernadetta met a commoner boy, whom she quickly befriended. Her father caught wind of the situation and quickly brought her home. The next day, she received news that the boy had been found by her father's men and was beaten nearly to death, exacerbating her fear of social interaction and of her father.

   The boy was later revealed to be Yuri, who had been hired by a third party to assassinate Bernadetta due to her Crest of Indech. Yuri acquired a job as an assistant gardener for House Varley, and he befriended her in order to gain her trust. The two played around the gardens, with Bernadetta believing him to be her first true friend. One day, Yuri snuck into her room to assassinate her, but due to their friendship, he could not bring himself to do so. Count Varley soon burst in and caught him in the treacherous act, having his men beat him to half death. Though she knew that her father despised commoners, he did not reveal to her that her "friend" had tried to assassinate her. She never heard or saw Yuri again, causing her to believe that he had died and that it was her fault.

   Academy Phase Bernadetta was sent to Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180. In her case, she was essentially kidnapped under her mother's orders and sent to the academy for her safety. She joined the Black Eagles as a result.

   When not attending lectures, she spends her time hiding in her room, absorbed in her hobbies.

   Personality Bernadetta is a skittish, timid, and reclusive girl, a result mostly because of the suffering she endured at the hands of her father for years. Her father, obsessed with money, only saw Bernadetta as Crest-bearing bait for a rich husband instead of his daughter. To that end, he subjected her to years of "training", which included tying her to a chair and leaving her there all day, challenging her to stay quiet. This sustained mental torture badly affected Bernadetta, developing an intense fear of her father, almost everyone in general, and essentially everything in existence.

   Bernadetta suffers from a persecution complex: false beliefs or perceptions in which a person believes that they are treated with malicious intent, hostility, or harassment, hence the name of her personal skill, and she suffers from a compulsive need to run and hide whenever possible. She deeply fears other people and it is extremely difficult for her to trust them, even if they show her patience and kindness. It is common for her to fall into extreme panic and anxiety just by having someone approach her to talk, as she often thinks that people want to kill her. She can be so absorbed by her fears that she can freeze on the spot, lose all sense of her surroundings, and in extreme cases, faint, as shown with Hubert. She often jumps to delusional conclusions about what people think of her, and can even be suspicious of honest compliments, such as when Linhardt complimented her lifestyle. As her outbursts usually only serve to annoy the other person, combined with her low self-esteem, it often results in her apologizing for things she did not do and insulting herself in the process.

   As a result of her deep fear of people, Bernadetta spends nearly all of her time in her room, pursuing her hobbies and interests while protecting herself from the outside world. If something requires her attention, she will usually speak through her door rather than opening it as a measure of self-protection. She can even feign illness when she doesn't want to talk with other people. She is also noticeably defensive about her lifestyle and how no one else understands her motives, though she acknowledges that she does need to go outside every once in a while, as shown with Ferdinand.

   Bernadetta suffers from severely low self-esteem, a result of constant scorn from her father. She often insults and berates herself in third-person when she messes up something, and commonly calls herself useless, stupid, and unmarriageable. In addition, she has trouble accepting help from those who offer it to her, because of both her persecution complex and her being convinced that she is a lost cause and not worth it, as shown with Ingrid. Ironically, she's actually quite talented in various things such as drawing, playing an instrument and sewing, as shown with Linhardt, Raphael and Leonie. She also greatly admires her classmates, whom she views as fearless warriors compared to herself, as shown with Edelgard.

8. #8Bernadetta Von Varley 2

   Keys: Bernadetta

   Despite her innate fears and paranoia, Bernadetta does truly want to make friends, though she often does so in very socially clumsy ways, a result of her constant self-imposed isolation, as shown with Petra. Surprisingly however, Bernadetta has a playful side to her, especially around flowers, carnivorous plants and typically intimidating certain people such as Felix. And when she isn't panicking, shutting herself away or wallowing in self-depreciation, she can actually be quite gentle, sweet, even confident, and extremely easy to get along with. She is also fond of flowers, and particularly of carnivorous plants, as they are able to live in one place and wait for their meals to come to them, which she describes as her dream life.

   While on the battlefield, Bernadetta often acts on compulsion, running and hiding whenever she possibly can rather than fighting. If she does have to fight, she prefers to do so from the backline, and can be very surprised and shocked when she actually defeats an enemy.

   Bernadetta is notably at ease around people that remind her of her uncle, the only adult in her life that treated her with genuine warmth. Alois is one such individual, and he was so surprised that she spoke to him without a hint of panic that he mistook her for someone else. In addition, she is also able to settle down around Byleth, although she does not know the reason why. In Three Hopes, Bernadetta is able to get along with Marianne very well, with their supports mentioning how comfortable they are talking to each other as opposed to recusing themselves when dealing with everyone else, in part due to both having many shared interests and personality traits, and even keep trying to overcome their shared reclusiveness while trying to converse with one another. Her Brave variation in Heroes also has her talking positively about her mother.

   By the time the war has rolled around, Bernadetta has improved significantly, even if she hasn't completely gotten over her fear of strangers or her compulsive need to run and hide. On the battlefield, she no longer runs and cowers but instead accepts her duty to fight, even if she doesn't necessarily enjoy it. Socially, her panic attacks have subsided in quantity and severity, and in Crimson Flower, she makes attempts to finally be outside of her room. In addition, her self-esteem has also gradually improved, leaving her more confident in herself than before. She even goes to actively encourage herself to do better.

   Bernadetta likes reading, drawing, music, embroidery, unusual creatures, stuffed animals, and solitude. She dislikes speaking to people, imposing figures, and overbearing fathers.

   Bernadetta von Varley is a young woman of short stature with a petite, slender build and pale skin. She has large, drooping purple eyes and messy, chin-length lavender-purple hair that is styled into choppy, voluminous layers with a single loose strand sticking up at the crown. She wears a personalized variation of the Black Eagles house uniform, featuring a bright blue hooded cowl that sits snugly over her shoulders and wraps around her neck. Her outfit consists of a black, double-breasted cropped jacket with golden buttons on a tan center panel, puffy shoulders, and gold-fringed epaulets. Long, fitted dark sleeves extend down from the jacket, ending in wide tan cuffs. Around her waist, she wears a decorative tan corset or girdle accented with gold crisscross lacing and hanging gold tassels. Below this, she wears a short, pleated black skirt that flares outward, paired with dark thigh-high shorts or stockings that leave a small section of her thighs exposed. Her legs are covered by knee-high black leather boots that feature distinct, thick gold bands around the top rims.

9. #9Dorothea Arnault

   Keys: Dorothea

   Dorothea is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. At the start of the game, she is 18 years old, and the only character not of noble or royal birth among the Black Eagles.

   Profile Early life Born to a lady-in-waiting to Imperial nobles from the Adrestian Empire, Dorothea and her mother were kicked out of the household. Her mother died of illness when she was young, and she lived as a street urchin for some time. She was discovered as a songstress by the Mittelfrank Opera Company in Enbarr in 1171, eventually becoming known as the "Mystical Songstress" three years later. In the Japanese supports, it is revealed that Manuela is the one who discovered Dorothea and recruited her to the opera. In her conversation with Hanneman, Dorothea reveals that she met a noble she suspected was her father, based on his testimony that he "threw away" a Crest-less child and the child's maid mother, once she had become a singer. He not only failed to recognize her as his daughter, but tried to flirt with her, much to her disgust.

   Academy Phase Dorothea took leave of the opera house to enroll at the Officers Academy in 1180, using the connections she gained in order to do so, and joining the Black Eagles.

   Personality A natural performer, Dorothea enjoys all forms of performing arts from acting to music, but has a particular affinity for singing as she was once a songstress. She is flirtatious, and has a habit of flirting with people out of belief that she needs to find someone to provide her a comfortable life, before her beauty and voice fade away and cause others to lose interest in her. She thinks this way because she is terrified at the prospect of returning to live in the streets.

   Despite being the only person of common heritage among the Black Eagles, she tries to meet everyone as equals. However, she holds resentment towards those of nobility because of the classist treatment she received from nobles during her childhood and throughout, on occasion remarking how they only seemed to care about her after she became famous. Objectification on stage by the rich, added with her poor childhood, resulted in her developing self-esteem issues on par with her outgoing personality. Nonetheless, she is readily confident in her ability to strike back against men who make attempts on her life and her friends, as stated in a support with Bernadetta. All but similarly to Mercedes, she openly and immediately expresses her dislike of Lorenz in their very first support conversation due to his elitist views. While she never ascribes such attitudes to all nobility, she finds it difficult not to, leading to cases of suspicion and judgment even if said noble does not deserve such treatment, as seen in her supports with Ferdinand.

   As a result of her commoner background, and her experiences as an orphan, Dorothea shows great concern for the common folk caught in the crossfire of wars and noble-led conflict, particularly orphaned children. During the Academy phase she expresses this following particular missions, and it is shown to grow more pronounced during the War phase.

   Manuela is her idol, as she was Dorothea's senior in the Mittelfrank Opera Company, and seeing her again is part of the reason she enrolls in the Officer's Academy to begin with. She often refers to her fellow classmates with diminutive versions of their names (i.e. Edie, Ferdie, Hubie, Yurikins, etc.) and will occasionally embarrass her friends to tease them. She likes dressing glamorously, outfitting herself with accessories and decorative ornaments. She also adores small animals. She dislikes arrogant nobles. According to Petra, Dorothea's classmates find her cooking to be "horrendous," although she has neither a weakness nor strength in cooking. If Byleth has Dorothea help in food preparation, she says that she thinks "it's all the same once it's in your stomach."

   Dorothea Arnault is a young woman of medium height with a slender, voluptuous figure featuring a well-defined waist and a prominent, ample chest. She has fair skin, large green eyes, and long, wavy brunette hair that flows past her shoulders with full bangs framing her face. She wears a highly customized, fashionable version of the Black Eagles house uniform, topped with a tilted, black newsboy-style cap. Her uniform consists of a low-cut, black cropped jacket with a wide collar that opens low across her upper torso to deeply expose her chest and a dark undershirt beneath. The jacket has long sleeves rolled up to the elbows to reveal wide tan cuffs, structured shoulders, and a prominent tan center panel accented with two rows of black buttons. Around her midsection, she wears a decorative tan corset or girdle detailed with gold crisscross lacing, hanging gold tassels, and thin gold chains draping down the sides of her skirt. Below, she wears a short, black A-line skirt that flares slightly above the knee. Her legs are covered by sleek, tight-fitting thigh-high black leather boots featuring a distinct pointed toe, a thin gold border along the sole, and a high block heel.

10. #10Petra Macneary

    Keys: Petra, Brigid

    Petra is a playable character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. She is a student at the Officers Academy and a member of the Black Eagles. She hails from Brigid, a vassal state of the Adrestian Empire. At the start of the game, she is fifteen years old.

    Early life Petra is the presumptive heir and granddaughter of the king of Brigid, an archipelago to the west of Fódlan. She lost her father at the age of eleven during the Dagda and Brigid War of 1175 to Count Bergliez, Caspar's father, in which Brigid allied with Dagda in a failed invasion of the Adrestian Empire.

    Academy Phase After Brigid was made a vassal state of the Empire, as a token of their new allegiance, Petra was sent from her homeland by Duke Gerth as an exchange student to the Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180.

    Personality A political hostage of the Adrestian Empire and native of Brigid, Petra is a highly intelligent, capable girl among her fellow students. Because of her foreign origins, she is not a native speaker of the Fódlan language and makes slight grammatical errors, but still wants to learn more. She is unaware of Fódlan colloquial speech and will often take idioms and figures of speech by their literal meanings.

    Petra does not like the fact that Brigid is a vassal state and that she is being used as a hostage to blackmail the kingdom into submission, and so she tirelessly works to improve herself in every way possible in hopes of one day forcing the Empire to recognize Brigid as an equal. This work ethic was praised by many of her peers. Her dislike of her and her country's position does not extend to the people she knows personally and she is good friends with most of her classmates. She remains even-tempered at most times, and rarely, if ever, loses her patience. Dorothea, in her C-support with Petra, says that Petra is the princess that every little girl wants to be.

    Despite her usually calm demeanor, Petra has a deep hatred for Caspar's father, the Count Leopold Bergliez. In her support conversations with Caspar in Warriors: Three Hopes, she expresses an explicit desire to kill Leopold out of revenge for her father's death and the resulting subjugation of Brigid by Adrestia, but Caspar convinces her to not go through with such a rash action.

    Petra can also be quite cunning. She knows Brigid's chances vanish if she dies, which means she will do whatever it takes to survive. This is the reason why she is recruitable in every route in both games: she knows that, as long as she lives, she can negotiate Brigid's independence - whether that be as a supporter of the Empire or as one who assists in toppling it. This is true for Three Houses, but her cunningness is explored in camp conversations in Three Hopes, and is further shown in gameplay, where the "Persuade Petra" strategy is usable in every battle she appears in.

    Five years after leaving the Academy, Petra appears to have a better understanding of Fódlan's language and expressions. Her original dream was to gain the power and knowledge required to break the unfair treaty Brigid is under and destroy the Empire. If Petra is recruited into the Blue Lions or Golden Deer houses, or if Byleth chooses to side with the Church in the Black Eagles route, this goal largely remains the same. During Crimson Flower, her goal is still for the Empire to recognize Brigid's independence, but she wants to reach that goal by proving herself to Edelgard, her close friend, as opposed to through forcibly toppling the Empire first.

    Petra loves being outdoors in nature and enjoys hunting, tree climbing, and swimming. She is quite fond of her homeland's many beaches. Despite her studious nature, she's not fond of math. She also has an open dislike of discrimination.

    Petra Macneary is a young woman of medium height with a slender, toned build and tan skin. She has sharp purple eyes and long, vibrant magenta-purple hair that is styled with a braided crown leading into a thick, wavy side ponytail resting over her left shoulder. She wears a heavily modified variation of the Black Eagles house uniform, opting for a crisp white, long-sleeved dress shirt with puffy cuffs. Over the shirt, she wears a tight, black underbust corset or waistcoat that features four large silver buttons and intricate gold crisscross lacing at the hips, accented by hanging decorative tassels. A tan leather sash runs diagonally across her chest from her right shoulder to her left hip, securing a silver-hilted curved sword in a dark scabbard. Below the corset, she wears an exceptionally short, tight-fitting black mini-skirt finished with a thin gold trim along the bottom hem. Her footwear consists of knee-high black leather boots featuring thick tan cuffs at the top and subtle gold accents near the ankles.

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