Lethe (pronounced /⁠liθ⁠/^[key][3]; Japanese:レテRethe) is a catlaguz from the kingdom ofGallia. She is the superior ofMordecai and harbors extreme disdain forbeorc and anything having to do with them. She has a twin sister,Lyre, who she watches with her life.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Role

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Starting stats and growth rates

Beast Tribe (Cat) Level 3 Attribute Build 6»21

Recruitment:Chapter 9, automatically at the end if she survived StatsGrowth Rates Max HP 34 Speed 12»15 Strength 12»18 Luck 15 Magic 4»4 Defense 9»14 Skill 10»14 Resistance 7»10 Movement 7»9 Weight 21»31 Max HP 130% Speed 70% Strength 50% Luck 50% Magic 5% Defense 40% Skill 65% Resistance 25% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills Claw Beorcguard -- Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Analysis

Lethe is the first playable laguz that joins you. She has respectable bases for her join time, especially speed. She transforms on turn 1, so for about 5 turns, she turns into a unit with excellent movement and 1-range offense for midgame. She is bulky enough to take several hits thanks to her good health and defense (especially with the beorcguard), and fast enough to dodge many attacks.

When she joins, Lethe is limited by her laguz gauge and lack of 2-range. When she untransforms, she is limited to being a shove bot or meatshield. To her credit, she is flexible with shoving because she can shove every unmounted beorc in the game, and also has 7 move which is high for a non-mount. Compared to mounts like Titania and Oscar, she also cannot canto.

Lethe has good growths all around, with decent strength and excellent skill and speed, so she can turn into a competent laguz endgame. However, it can be hard to take advantage of her growths. She has a very low experience gain for midgame (both combat EXP and BEXP), so she will not level often. By the time her experience curve catches up to other beorc units, they will have caught up to her combat. She does not have options for forged weapons either. Ultimately, she is extremely useful at her join time, but stands out significantly less as a combat unit later on.

Lethe starts with no skills. Smite can be useful for her because of her good shoving utility; however, Lethe does not have the weight to shove mounted units while units like Mordecai and Muarim do, so the Smite scroll is better used on them. Adept works well on her with her good skill base and growth, though keep in mind it's only useful while she is transformed, so it is put to better use by beorc units.

Lethe has a heaven affinity which boosts only accuracy. Ike can work well with his earth affinity boosting only avoid, but the accuracy boost is not important for him, and their movement is not similar. Jill and Muarim are both units with similar movement and thunder affinities, giving defense and avoid boosts, which is valuable. Jill may also appreciate the accuracy boost if she starts using axes. Ranulf is the same class as Lethe, and thus they can have similar movement, but they have different transformation times, Ranulf's wind affinity avoid bonus is not particularly useful, and the accuracy boost is overkill and not necessary.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Role

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Starting stats and growth rates

Cat Level 21 Affinity Constitution 6»11

Recruitment:Part II, Chapter 2, automatically from the start StatsGrowth Rates Max HP 51 Speed 12»24 Strength 9»18 Luck 18 Magic 6»12 Defense 9»18 Skill 13»26 Resistance 10»20 Movement 7»9 Weight 11»31 Max HP 85% Speed 50% Strength 35% Luck 45% Magic 5% Defense 35% Skill 30% Resistance 20% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills Claw Laguz Stone Shove Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- A -- -- -- -- -- --

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Note: The above stats are Lethe's default stats. If aRadiant Dawn game was started via adata transfer fromPath of Radiance and Lethe managed to reach level 20 in her highest possible class in thePath of Radiance save file, any stat Lethe capped inPath of Radiance will result in a boost to her base in the stat in question inRadiant Dawn. The boost is a +5 formax HP, and +2 forstrength,magic,skill,speed,luck,defense orresistance. SeeData transfer §Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn for more information.

Availability

Analysis

Lethe is a cat laguz that is available in Part II, and permanently joins Ike's group early in Part III. She is valuable in Part II, having enough attack and speed to one-round most weaker enemy units, the durability to take a few hits transformed, and having massive mobility transformed. However, when she joins Ike's group, she is one of the weakest units, having only 4 more attack than Mist with the Florete. Her speed is still good enough to double most units for some time. Her mobility can also be valuable through Part III thanks to having very few terrain penalties (especially forests and ledges). If raised and used through Part IV, she works well on both Ike's group (laguz vision in IV-1 and ledges in IV-4) and the Silver team (forests in IV-P and desert in IV-3).

Long-term Lethe struggles to contribute in combat, because her class's laguz gauge depletes extremely quickly. She cannot be safely exposed to much enemy phase combat as she is prone to detransforming so quickly, so she should be prioritized as a player-phase unit. Unfortunately, she struggles to make good use of her player phases, because due to her terrible gauge depletion rate, she must use Olivi Grass almost every other turn to stay transformed.

In addition to that, while she has an excellent speed growth and passable strength and defense growth for a laguz, her experience gain is extremely low when transformed. Her experience gain is improved untransformed, but she is prone to dying untransformed instantly. BEXP is also not a great option for her, due to the majority of her BEXP levels going into health and luck instead of strength and defense.Path of Radiance transfers are very difficult to take advantage of, because the only stat she can possibly cap without stat boosters is strength, which requires several rigged levels (though, she'll effectively gain 4 strength transformed if this is transferred, greatly benefiting her). Overall it is extremely difficult to raise her, and there is no consistent way of working around her class gauge.

Lethe has an excellent speed growth for a laguz, so if used for long-term combat, she should use skills to take advantage of that. Adept helps compensate for her weak attack and strikes. Quickclaw can have some use for her, given she has no 2-range options. Vantage and Cancel are not great options for her despite activating off of speed, as she does not work well as an enemy phase unit and should always be exposed as little as possible due to her class gauge.

Lethe has a heaven affinity, which gives purely accuracy. Unfortunately not many viable partners value the overkill hitrate. Mordecai has the exact same availability and movement as Lethe, and his water affinity boosts attack and defense which both units value. Any other unit with a Fire and Water affinity helps Lethe's offense, though keep in mind Lethe's class makes it very awkward to try to keep them together.

Fire Emblem Engage

Role

Lethe appears as an equippableBond Ring. She can be summoned usingIke'sEmblem Ring.

Bond Ring data

Stat modifiers Ring level HP Dex Spd C +2 +0 +0 B +2 +0 +1 A +2 +1 +1 S +5 +1 +1

Fire Emblem Heroes

Main article:Lethe/Heroes

There are three different variations of Lethe available inHeroes.

Personality

Lethe is rather harsh and cold, usually only thinking of herself and her twin sister. She is also not much for small talk or compliments, but there are some exceptions.^[4] She has a strong hatred forbeorc, calling them "human" frequently to show her contempt.^[5] She is also a fearless warrior, and an overall intimidating figure.

Supports

Path of Radiance

Main article:Lethe/Supports (Path of Radiance)

Lethe Beast Tribe (Cat) Ike Ranger C: 4 B: 9 A: 14 Jill Wyvern Rider C: 2 B: 4 A: 10 Muarim Beast Tribe (Tiger) C: 3 B: 6 A: 9 Ranulf Beast Tribe (Cat) C: 1 B: 2 A: 3 [[{{{support5}}}]] [[]][[File:Is gcn {{{affin5}}}affin.png|link={{{affin5}}} (affinity)]] C: {{{c5}}} B: {{{b5}}} A: {{{a5}}} [[{{{support6}}}]] [[]][[File:Is gcn {{{affin6}}}affin.png|link={{{affin6}}} (affinity)]] C: {{{c6}}} B: {{{b6}}} A: {{{a6}}} [[{{{support7}}}]] [[]][[File:Is gcn {{{affin7}}}affin.png|link={{{affin7}}} (affinity)]] C: {{{c7}}} B: {{{b7}}} A: {{{a7}}}

Radiant Dawn

Bond supports

Lethe Cat Default bonds: Mordecai Tiger Bonus: 5 Lyre Cat Bonus: 10 [[{{{supportd3}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonusd3}}} [[{{{supportd4}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonusd4}}} Extra bonds:* Ike Hero Bonus: 5 Jill Dracoknight Bonus: 5 Muarim Tiger Bonus: 5 Ranulf Cat Bonus: 5 [[{{{supporte5}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonuse5}}}

Endings

Radiant Dawn

Lethe, Gallia's Valkyrie
Lethe later became a captain in Gallia's home guard, and pounded battle skills and fighting pride into young warriors.

Quotes

Battle quotes

Path of Radiance

Radiant Dawn

Death quotes

Heroes quotes

Main article:Lethe/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Lethe is featured on four cards inFire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Lethe
	Prideful Warrior Cat, Lethe
		"Beorc are such a weak species."
		Attack: 60	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 2
		Class: Beast Tribe		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Transform:[Always] While this unit is in the front lines, this unit gains +10 attack, and can attack enemy units in the back lines regardless of this unit's range ( This skill becomes active while this unit's stack is at least 2). Beorc Enmity:[Always] This unit's support fails unless it is a.
	Card #B03-027HN • Artist:46
	Daughter of the Beast Tribe, Lethe
		"I've no intention of becoming friends! Do not forget that..."
		Attack: 40	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 1
		Class: Beast Tribe		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Rage Against the Empire:[Always] While this unit is in the front lines, this unit can attack and enemies regardless of this unit's range. Attack Emblem:[Support] Until the end of this battle, your attacking unit gains +20 attack.
	Card #B03-028N, B03-028ST • Artist:46
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		"Daein scum! Try and stop us!" "Bring it on, if you are ready to be impaled!"
		Attack: 70	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 3
		Class: Beast Tribe		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Fang's Pride:[Activate][Once per turn] [Stack 2 "Lethe" cards from your Retreat Area under this unit to growth them] Until the end of your opponent's next turn, this unit gains +10 attack (A unit who has growthed is treated as if they have been Leveled Up). Swift Assault:[Trigger] When this unit growths, this turn, this unit is able to attack enemies in the back lines regardless of this unit's range.
	Card #B09-078R(+) • Artist:cuboon
	Gallia's Valkyrie, Lethe
		"I am a warrior. And I am going to prove it to you now!"
		Attack: 40	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 1
		Class: Beast Tribe		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Fang's Pride:[Activate][Once per turn] [] Choose a ally. Select a card with the same name in your Retreat Zone as the chosen ally, and place it underneath that unit to growth them. (The unit is treated as if it was Leveled Up. effects can be used if that unit has any effects. Surprise Attack:[Trigger][Once per turn] When this unit is growthed, you may move a ally. Attack Emblem:[Support] Until the end of this battle, your attacking unit gains +20 attack.
	Card #B09-079N • Artist:cuboon
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, seetheir TCG wiki article on Lethe .

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Trivia

• Lethe has different eye colors between her two forms; while she has purple eyes when in her human form, her feline form possesses yellow eyes.
• According toTellius Recollection, Lethe was designed with an apparent age of 18 inPath of Radiance andRadiant Dawn.^[1][2]
• A pre-release screenshot from E3 2004 has Lethe's name asレトReto instead of the final game'sレテRete.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Lethe fromPath of Radiance.
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  Artwork of Lethe incat form fromPath of Radiance.
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  Artwork of Lethe fromRadiant Dawn.

Portraits

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  Portrait of Lethe inPath of Radiance.
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  Portrait of Lethe with a cloak inPath of Radiance.
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  Portrait of Lethe inRadiant Dawn.
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  Portrait of Lethe with a cloak inRadiant Dawn.

Screenshots

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  Lethe as an unshifted "Beast Tribe" inPath of Radiance.
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  Lethe activatingWrath inPath of Radiance.
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  Lethe attacking withClaw inRadiant Dawn.

Heroes artwork

Character artwork

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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.

Meet some of the Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Gallia's Valkyrie.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: New Year's Claw.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.
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  Artwork of Lethe: Cat Attack.
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  Lethe in artwork ofSoren: Shrewd Strategist.
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  Lethe in artwork ofLyre: Lap Cat of Luxury.

Other artwork

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  Artwork of Lethe forHeroes's third anniversary.
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  Artwork featuring Lethe released on the fifth day ofChoose Your Legends:Round 8.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Lethe and her cat form.
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  Artwork of Lethe.
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  Artwork of Lethe.
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  Artwork of Lethe.
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  Lethe in artwork ofJill.
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  Lethe in artwork ofZihark.

References

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