Not to be confused with theJudgment card from the DS games.

Judge (Japanese:裁きJudgement) is a uniqueweapon which appears only inFire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is the signature weapon ofAshera, the final boss ofRadiant Dawn, which represents her power as a goddess. Judge is unique in that there are actually multiple different variants of it, each with different abilities from the other, but all of these variants possessexceptionally high power.

If Ashera is attacked during the player phase, she wields the regularlight-type Judge that can be seen in herinventory, which behaves like ordinary magic. During the enemy phase, however, she instead performs any one of six different Judge attacks which all have unique effects, such asattacking all of the player's units within her range at once, attacking one unit at long range, and attempting to inflictstatus effects on all of the player's units.

Three bosses in the preceding stages of thePart IV, Endgame—Lekain,Dheginsea, andSephiran—also have access to one or two Judge attacks each, and like Ashera, these bosses will often use their Judge during the enemy phase. Note that albeit Ashera, Dheginsea and Sephiran will not directly target or counterattack certain units (such as anyHeron, among other characters depending on the boss) these units can still be affected, damaged and killed by the Judge variants that have an area of effect component.

There are an additional twodark magic Judges whichare not used at any point in the game.

Stats

Ashera's Judges

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Radiant Dawn (Regular magic)		--	50	16	100	--	1–2	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works asmagical damage. Counts aslight magic under theTrinity of Magic. Cannot inflictcritical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Physical area-of-effect)		--	52	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, −3 damage dealt to that enemy. Works asphysical damage. Cannot inflictcritical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Magic area-of-effect)		--	50	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, −3 damage dealt to that enemy. Works asmagical damage. Counts aslight magic under theTrinity of Magic. Cannot inflictcritical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Long-range physical)		--	50	20	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works asphysical damage. Cannot inflictcritical hits. The target cannot counterattack.
Radiant Dawn (Long-range magic)		--	50	20	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works asmagical damage. Counts aslight magic under theTrinity of Magic. Cannot inflictcritical hits. The target cannot counterattack.
Radiant Dawn (Silence area-of-effect)		--	1	1	100	0	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Inflictssilence status on hit with all enemies within range.
Radiant Dawn (Paralysis area-of-effect)		--	1	1	100	0	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Inflictsparalysis status on hit with all enemies within range.

Other Judges

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Radiant Dawn (Lekain's silence area-of-effect)		SS	1	1	100	0	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Inflictssilence status on hit with all enemies within range.
Radiant Dawn (Dheginsea's physical area-of-effect)		SS	10	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, −5 damage dealt to that enemy. Works asphysical damage. Cannot inflictcritical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Sephiran's magic area-of-effect)		SS	25	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. For every space between the user and an enemy, −5 damage dealt to that enemy. Works asmagical damage. Cannot inflictcritical hits.
Radiant Dawn (Sephiran's long-range magic)		SS	5	25	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works asmagical damage. Cannot inflictcritical hits. The target cannot counterattack.
Radiant Dawn (Area-of-effect dark)		--	1	1	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Damages all enemies within range. Works asmagical damage. Counts asdark magic under theTrinity of Magic. Cannot inflictcritical hits. Unused.
Radiant Dawn (Long-range dark)		--	1	10	100	--	1-(Magic/2)	Infinite	Cannot be sold	1	Works asmagical damage. Counts asdark magic under theTrinity of Magic. Cannot inflictcritical hits. Unused.

Locations

Radiant Dawn

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Trivia

• Despite Ashera's variants of Judge not making use of a weapon type, all of her variants give 1 weapon experience. The secret variants not used by Ashera also give 1 weapon experience, but they make use of traditional weapon types andweapon levels (albeit at the maximum SS rank).
• Judge is tied with theEchoes: Shadows of Valentia version ofConjure for having the most variants of a single weapon programmed into any singleFire Emblem game; ignoring the unused variants of both, there are more variants of Judge than anything else (eleven used Judges compared to ten used Conjures). The playable weapon that makes the closest approach is theFang fromRadiant Dawn, with nine, and the closest approach a human weapon makes is theYato ofFates, with seven.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

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  Ashera casting Judge (regular variant) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Ashera casting Judge (physical area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Ashera casting Judge (magic area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Ashera casting Judge (long-range physical) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Ashera casting Judge (long-range magic) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Ashera casting Judge (silencing area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Ashera casting Judge (paralyzing area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Lekain casting Judge (silencing area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Dheginsea casting Judge (physical area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Sephiran casting Judge (magic area-of-effect) inRadiant Dawn.
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  Sephiran casting Judge (long-range magic) inRadiant Dawn.

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