Maria

Mahna, also better known as Maria and Chancellor Martila, is a major antagonist in the 2026 tactical RPG Fire Emblem: Emblem Fortune's Weave, the third installment within the Fódlan Series of Nintendo's Fire Emblem franchise, being the prequel to the 2019 tactical roleplaying video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Specifically, she serves as one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Iliana) of Part I, particularly being the main antagonist of Leda's Path: the Eagle Obelisk route and a major antagonist in the other Part I routes, and a minor antagonist in Part III.

She is a high ranking member of the Order of Mithras who schemes to resurrect the King of the Underworld, Balor, in order revive her lover, Cohen. As a Nabatean, she is the youngest of Balor's four daughter, and the sister of Lyrah, Yu Phas and Eishet. She is also the mother and arch-enemy of Tailmun Vandhal, the stepmother of Gilchris Garland Amalfrida, and the arch-enemy of Leda Guillermo Cohendia. Maria wields the magical vihuela Moonstone, the twin to Leda's Obsidian.

In a way, she is also very much responsible for the poor reputation of Yu Phas and the Kingdom of Saramis. It was she who had a man break into Balor's tomb and raid it, which lead to Dagda the Great ushering the forces of the Dagdan Empire to wipe out everyone in Damascar and eventually executing Yu Phas. It was also she who orchestrated the Cydonia Massacre that claimed the life of Guillermo Cohendia and countless others, which resulted in Leda's descent into vengeful extremism.

She is voiced by Mayuko Kazama in Japanese and Nadia Marshall in English.

Full Name Mahna Alias Maria Chancellor Martila Fissure Dragon Virtuosa of Heaven and Earth

Origin Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Occupation Bard Chancellor of Arago Member of the Order of Mithras Sentinel of Balor's Tomb (formerly) General of the Underworld Army

Powers / Skills Genius-level intelligence Archery skills Master manipulator Master musician Leadership Dragon powers Blaze Arts via Moonstone

Goals Convince Vandahl to break into Balor's tomb. Ensure the Order's operations go smoothly. Get access to the Orichalchum in Cydonia by orchestrating the Cydonia Massacre Eliminate her former accomplices in the Massacre to cover her tracks (all succeeded) Revive Balor and her lover Cohen (partially posthumously succeeded) Torture and kill Leda and her allies Kill Talimun (both failed) Protect the Underworld Gate (As a Risen Dead, failed)

Crimes Genocide by proxy Mass murder Ethnical cleansing by proxy Graverobbing by proxy Sororicide by proxy Incrimination Conspiracy Psychological abuse Attempted omnicide Malefic Theft Treason Torture Attempted filicide Attempted enforced filicideWar crimes Crimes against humanity

Type of Villain Charismatic Manipulator

Personality Of Balor's three daughters, Maria is perhaps the most complex and most social adept one, making her the most capable at manipulating others to advance the interests of the Order of Mithras. Due to her social skills, she is the most experienced of the trio regarding romance, and gives Raksha advice regarding her developing feelings towards Dietrich, though her romances and marriages over the years have solely been to gather more influence and power to further her schemes while also being a master manipulator.

When around Gilchris, she puts a fake stepmother maternal facade around him calling him "dear" and reassuring him while also acting as the devil on his shoulder.

Maria's main motivation for reviving Balor, outside of being able to see her father again and allow him to exact revenge for his execution, is so she can reunite with her dead lover, Cohen. Her love for Cohen is so strong that she becomes visibly angry at Iliana mocking her for it, but said love only extends to Cohen himself, and she cares for nothing about his descendants, going so far as to revive Guillermo so that Leda will die at the hands of her own father. In addition, she despises her son, Talimun, calling him a "wretched child" and wishing for his death, all because he is not Cohen's son.

As a Risen Dead, Maria maintains her personality, but is much more subdued, speaking in a monotonous tone and only expressing anger when engaged in combat.

Biography Background Mahna was the youngest of Balor's four daughters, alongside Lyrah, Yu Phas and Eishet, who witnessed his execution at the hands of their grandmother, Sothis, after his descent into insanity and attempt to defy her following the Great Undoing. After their father's death, with his body being split into eight pieces, the sisters were tasked with guarding his tomb, with Sothis ordering them to wear masks to prevent them from using their beauty to potentially manipulate men. Raksha, Eishet and Mahna blamed Sothis for their father's downfall, but they were bound by Sothis' decree and unable to exact vengeance; unlike her sisters, Yu Phas accepted her father's fault and punishment.

When Yu Phas violated Sothis' decree by falling in love with and marrying Solel, the son of Dagda, Lyrah, Eishet and Mahna seized the opportunity to resurrect Balor so that he could ravage the world with the forces of the Underworld; Mahna also wished to reunite with her dead lover, Cohen. The sisters formed the Order of Mithras to further their goals, with Mahna using her beauty and charm to seduce and manipulate men into furthering the Order's agenda. Among the men she seduced was Vandahl, whom she persuaded to break into Balor's tomb and recover the eight pieces of his body, from which the Order then crafted the Cursed Objects known as Drake's Treasures, through which the God of the Underworld could corrupt and possess the users. Mahna's relationship with Vandahl produced a son, Talimun, but she despised him because his father was not Cohen and abandoned him; Talimun would grow up to establish and operate the Vandahl Trading Company, the largest merchant guild in Dagda. As a result of Vandahl's breaking into Balor's tomb, Dagda blamed the people of Damascar and responded by committing genocide against them, executing them en masse in his Cauldron to convert their souls into flamma that he could consume to increase his own power; he also executed Yu Phas via the Cauldron, blaming her for inspiring the people of Damascar into committing their supposed crime.

Eventually, Mahna (now operating under the name Maria) married into the noble family of Amalfrida in the kingdom of Arago, becoming the stepmother of the Aragonian general Gilchris in the process. She created the identity of Martilla and became the kingdom's chancellor. Playing to her stepson's ambition, Maria convinced Gilchris to annex the region of Cydonia via military force in order to gain access to the region's orichalchum deposits, which the Order of Mithras could exploit to repair Dagda's Cauldron; while Gilchris' friend Bertrand was sent to resolve the situation in Cydonia, he and Maria murdered king Hasdrubal while a false flag operation sabotaged Bertand's attempts at a peaceful resolution, leading to the Cydonia Massacre. Gilchris framed Bertrand for Hasdrubal's murder, leading to the latter's imprisonment in Dagsion's arena and allowing the former to marry Bertrand's betrothed, princess Aswan, and claim the throne for himself. While Gilchris was now the king or Arago, Maria held the real power behind the throne via her position as chancellor.

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Wave Act 1 Leda's Path Maria makes her first appearance in Chapter 2, where she gives one of Drake's Treasures (a powerful cursed artifact) to Balboa when the latter is about to face Leda in battle. However, Balboa is slain by Leda and lets slip before dying that she works with someone else (unbestknown to Leda's team, that someone is Maria).

Maria's next appearance is in the next chapter, where she's attacked by bandits. Maria is forced to work with Leda's party and, after the bandits' defeat, travels with them for a short time, while keeping her true identity as their foe a secret. Maria leaves the party right before the heroes reach the temple off the goddess Kalla and decides to go to Dagsion, the capital of the Dagdan Empire.

Maria is reintroduced as Chancellor Martila in Chapter 4, where she watches the opening fight of the Heroic Games alongside Arago's royal couple, Aswan and Gilchris, but orders her soldiers to send the couple away when they realize that one of the contestants is Bertrand. Martila later shows up right before the chapter's main battle, where she oversees an operation involving the Order of Mithras. Martila tries to smuggle a rare metal, orichalchum, but Leda's team, now called the Rose Tempest, tries to interfer. Martila escapes before she can be recognized and lets her subordinate Lechner fight the Rose Tempest. Lechner's troops overwhelm the Rose Tempest, who are forced to flee.

Maria returns in Chapter 7 and finally reveals herself as the true mastermind behind Lechner and the Cydonian Massacre that has cause the death of Leda's father. Maria and Lechner fight the Rose Tempest, but are defeated and Maria, tired of Lechner's greed and failures, kills him on spot before retreating.

In Chapter 11, Martila lays an ambush to Leda when the latter is invited to reception by Queen Aswan and reveals not only that she used Leda to get rid of her former pawns (using a list of her associates made by Leda's former mentor/Martila's co-conspirator Mahdel) and eats flamma (a substance made of the soul of the deads) to gain enough power to summon the Underworld and to revive Leda's father Guillermo as a soulless zombie/risen dead. Guillermo attempts to kill Leda, but Mahdel sacrifices himself to protect her. Leda defeats Guillermo and Martila, but the latter escapes yet again.

Other Paths Maria witnesses Dietrich's duel with Majide, a local ruffian who was bestowed Ink-Black Wen by Baozi. Impressed by Dietrich's display of strength when he emerges victorious and claims Ink-Black Wen as his own, she agrees to pull strings so that he and his allies will be recognized as participants in the Heroic Games in Majide's place.

In Cai's Path, after he defeats Leda in the quarterfinals, Maria uses Moonstone to summon a Demonic Beast to kill Leda, which is defeated by Cai and his allies with the aid of Buccar.

Act 2 Talimun confronts Maria and she is killed by her son's hand, thus forcing the Order of Mythras to continue their plans without her. In spite of Maria's death, the Demon God Balor is revived, giving Maria a posthumous victory. If his paralogue was not completed in Part I, Talimun will join Dagda's army out of guilt for killing his mother.

Act 3 Maria is revived by Balor as a Risen Dead and tasked with protecting one of the Underworld's Gates, serving under her lover, Cohen, who has become a Brimstone Lord. She and Cohen attempt to kill their enemies with their magic music, but are stopped by Leda and Eshmel. Maria faces Leda one last time, this time with Cohen as backup, but Leda's prevails yet again and kills both Maria and Cohen, ridding herself of the former for good. The Underworld's Gate is destroyed shortly thereafter.

It is heavily implied that Maria did manage to conceive a child with Cohen, only for said child to be stillborn.

Maria possesses a slender, lithe, and hourglass-proportioned build with fair, smooth skin and a delicate yet elongated bone structure. Her limbs are long and lean, featuring slender wrists, thin ankles, narrow feet, and long, tapered fingers, with a narrow ribcage, defined waist, and a fuller bust and hips. She has a sharp, heart-shaped face with a tapered jawline, a pointed chin, high cheekbones, and a straight, petite nose. Her large, slightly heavy-lidded eyes are a soft periwinkle-violet with dark lashes and thin, arched pink eyebrows, paired with full, rose-pink lips that curl into a composed, knowing smirk. Her vibrant rose-pink hair is styled in a sleek, chin-length bob with layered, side-swept bangs. As a traveling bard, she wears a dark plum wrapped turban adorned on the right side with a large cream-colored floral ornament and two crimson feathers, along with gold drop earrings. Her outfit consists of an ornate, midriff-baring black and coral-pink halter top trimmed with gold filigree, ruffled coral accents, and a heart-shaped ruby-and-gold choker with dangling teardrops. Draped asymmetrically over her right shoulder is a deep burgundy shawl patterned with large gold floral motifs and lined with gold bells, paired with billowing violet sleeves, a small gold-plated pauldron on her left shoulder, a flowing purple skirt with a pink-and-gold patterned hem, and tall, iridescent dark-purple gladiator-style heeled boots laced up her calves. As Chancellor Martila of Arago, Maria adopts a much more regal, formal, and stately appearance while maintaining the exact same facial features, skin tone, and slender upper-body frame. Her rose-pink hair is grown out into a long, layered style that cascades past her shoulders, with two long front locks bound by cylindrical gold hair cuffs that frame her face. Instead of a turban, she wears a dark plum veil secured by an elaborate, sweeping gold circlet with floral and scroll motifs that drapes across her forehead and temples. Her jewelry includes a matching gold collar and necklace set with a central heart-shaped pink gemstone and teardrop pendant. She wears a rich, dark-plum and violet court gown featuring a sweetheart neckline edged in scalloped coral-pink trim, ornate gold-and-feather brooch-like embellishments centered on her chest, and structured black-and-gold layered shoulder armor. Her wide, flowing violet bell sleeves are accented with gold bands around the upper arms and intricate gold embroidery along the ruffled cuffs, presenting a commanding, aristocratic silhouette. Moonstone is Maria's signature white vihuela, an ornate, waisted string instrument crafted with a pale, pearlescent ivory and light-blue finish. The body features an hourglass-shaped soundbox decorated with delicate, swirling silver and teal floral filigree around its edges and a central circular soundhole fitted with an intricate, lattice-like geometric rosette. Eight thin, dark strings stretch from a carved, pale-wood bridge near the bottom of the body up a slender, pale-blue fretted neck. The instrument terminates in an asymmetrical, decorative headstock shaped like curling waves or flames, accented with silver trim and tuning pegs along the sides.