Naga

Ruler of the Divine Dragons. Takes on a variety of appearances in the presence of humans, and is said to have saved the world from despair. Appears in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem and Fire Emblem Awakening. Name: Naga Gender: Female Race: Manakete (Divine Dragon) Age: Millenniums Relatives: Tiki (Daughter), Nagi (Possible Reincarnation) Occupation: Leader of the Divine Dragon Tribe Weapon: Breath </Personal Information> As a Manakete, Naga has two forms: Her human form and dragon form.

Her human form appears as a tall woman with pale skin, long green hair, green eyes and pointed ears. Her attire consists of a sleeveless lavender dress that exposes her cleavage and navel, a golden belt, gold bracelet and a transparent shawl on her arm. She is barefeet.

Her dragon form appears as a large bipedal dragon with glowing blue skin and white eyes. While Naga only directly appears in Awakening, it can be said that she is nothing short of a benevolent dragon with a great love for humanity. From the very beginning, she has allied herself with humans as a protector figure throughout the centuries. Despite being worshiped as a deity in all eras, Naga has shown no desire to be seen as true divinity and has made it clear that she is by no means a god, merely an exceptionally powerful Manakete.

For all of her power, Naga has relied on the will of humans to combat all threats to the world and has used her vast power to grant them her blessings in the form of no less than two swords and the Fire Emblem made from her own fangs given willingly. However, she is somewhat a distant entity, almost to the point of being cold, as she rarely directly interacts with humanity even in times of great turmoil. This is best understood when Naga tells Forseti that it would be silly to remain in Jugdral when the latter desired to do so to protect the humans.

Said love for mankind tends to partially cloud her judgment at times, as some of her decisions can be considered extreme and questionable, such as a willingness to kill her own daughter if it meant protecting humanity, should Tiki succumb to degeneration like the other dragons. Despite being advised not to follow this line of reasoning, Naga had still put her daughter into a long sleep that was never meant to be broken. Similarly, she heavily disagreed with Duma's dogma of how humanity should be nurtured, leading to a great war and countless casualties. Rather than end him, Naga banished him, resulting in him and his sister Mila leaving Archanea to Valentia, inadvertently causing an inevitable crisis, solidified by the fact that she gave him a Falchion for Valentia's humans to use should he ever degenerate.

In Awakening and her harvest version in Heroes, Naga shows a more laid-back side, such as encouraging Nah and Morgan to get together when prayed to by the former, or being curious towards the cultures of Askr's harvest festival. She is also noted by Nah to have a dry sense of humor. Several thousand years before the calendars were made, Naga was the ruler and strongest of the Divine Dragon tribe, the mightiest dragons in the continent of Archanea. Together with the other dragon tribes, they created a vast kingdom and were the rulers of the continent.

Naga had two close comrades who gained her favor: Duma, the Kingshield that protected Naga with his military might, and Mila, the Kingsgrail, who blessed the land with her magic to bring about prosperity.

Eventually, Naga and the dragons bestowed knowledge to new species known as humans, allowing them to advance and soon create their own civilization called Thabes. However, Duma would soon grow paranoid of the humans for amassing too much power and sent his soldiers to Thabes, resulting in its destruction in three days, with survivors fleeing.

Learning of this, Naga grew furious at Duma, resulting in the two clashing violently. Mila sided with her brother, causing Naga and her forces to battle the siblings for nine long days, resulting in catastrophic damage across the land, and ended in Naga's victory. However, during the battle, Naga was injured, and her fangs had splintered, scattering across the realm.

For their crimes, Naga banished Duma and Mila, but out of mercy, gave her fang, carved into a blade called the Kingsfang, later renamed Falchion, to Duma before he departed. Only those with the blood of the Divine Dragon within them can draw out the full power of Falchion.

Naga, taking the form of a young maiden, was one of the dragons who blood-bonded with the Twelve Crusaders during the Miracle of Dahna, specifically Saint Heim, who would wield the tome named after her. Heim and the Book of Naga would prove to be crucial in the defeat of Loptous and his then-present host, Galle XVII, with her power being the only hope of truly piercing that of Loptous. As a result of this blood bond, Naga's holy blood was passed on through the descendants of Heim, the ruling dynasty of Grannvale.

Official developer notes later reveal that Naga transferred her will into Heim with the Book of Naga, similar to what Loptous did with Gair, and later Julius, and what Forseti would later do with Lewyn. This possession proved that, with Naga as the leader of the dragons, her human vessel would be the leader of the Crusaders.

When Dragons began to decline, Naga proposed it was because Dragons were destined to fade in place of humanity, and it was now the duty of Dragons to guide them. Obeying the advice of the Dragon tribe Elders, Naga and all of the Divine Dragon tribe sealed their power in stones and became Manaketes. However, many dragons did not heed this warning and started degenerating. Led by many in the Earth Dragon tribe, many dragons began attacking humanity out of spite for the dragonkin's decline.

With the help of the rest of the Divine Dragons, Naga took the part of protecting mankind from the Earth Dragons, waging a fierce war against them. Though the battle was fierce, Naga had emerged victorious and sealed the Earth Dragons below Dolhr in a deep sleep. Naga then forged the Binding Shield from one of her own fangs to ensure the Earth Dragons would never awaken from their slumber, and ordered the surviving Earth Dragon prince, Medeus, to guard the seal. Naga also, at some point, created the sword Falchion from yet another one of her fangs to ensure that humans would have a means of defending themselves against dragons in the future.

Shortly before her death in Thabes (according to the timeline at the end of the original FE3), she placed her newborn daughter, Tiki, into a deep sleep, as Naga feared Tiki's great power would cause her to go mad. She then entrusted fellow Divine Dragon Gotoh with the task of watching over humanity in her place and ensuring that Tiki did not degenerate and annihilate humanity. Thus, Gotoh was tasked with keeping Tiki asleep at all costs, particularly if the Shield of Seal's decision was lost.

In the remake, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, the new addition of Nagi is hinted to be a reincarnation of Naga, if not Naga herself. Nagi bestows a weaker version of Falchion upon Marth, attempting to make up for the original one that he did not possess. Medeus later further implies that Nagi is the reincarnation of Naga, stating that he is not the only Manakete resurrected. Nagi's ending title in the Japanese version of the series is that of the "Divine Dragon King's Incarnation", further supporting this point. As a Manakete, Naga can switch between her human form and dragon form. Her dragon form can unleash a Divine Breath attack.