TheMine (Japanese:フレイボムFreyr Bomb) is an item introduced in and, in legitimate gameplay, exclusive toFire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Its role is to act as a trap for enemies, being set on spaces on the map; once set, if any unit passes over the trapped space, the Mine will explode and deal damage to them.

Data

Game	Icon	Uses	Worth	Effects and notes
The Blazing Blade		1	500	Sets a mine on a single space next to the user. If a unit of any affiliation steps onto the set space, they take 10 damage. Cannotmove again after use.
The Sacred Stones		1	500	Sets a mine on a single space next to the user. If a unit of any affiliation steps onto the set space, they take 10 damage. Unused and named "Dummy".
Radiant Dawn		1	500	Unused and named "Frey Bomb". Has no functionality programmed; it was likely intended to work the same way as inThe Blazing Blade.

Trapping mechanics

A set Mine item behaves similarly to themine trap hazard fromThe Binding Blade. If a non-Thief infantry or cavalry unit of any affiliation passes over a set Mine while attempting to reach some other tile, the Mine will trigger, halt their movement and end their turn.
Flying units will trigger Mines only if they perform an action on the trapped tile, and will not set it off if they just pass over it. The mine triggers after the unit finishes performing their action on the trapped tile, and if the unit is defeated after performing said action, the mine does not trigger. Triggering the mine does not end their turn like non-Thief infantry or cavalry units; they are able tomove again if possible.

Thieves of any affiliation do not activate mines, but also do not disable them. If anAssassin* waits on top of a trapped tile, not only do they disable the Mine, but they also retrieve it and add it to theirinventory for later reuse, as long as they have free space in their inventory.

Mine glitch

Main article:Glitch#Enemy control glitch

InFire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, the Mine is the subject of a famously exploitable glitch which allows the player to use Mines to temporarily take control of the enemy army. During the enemy phase, if a unit on the enemy side triggers a set Mine, the player can soft-reset or turn off the system while the exploding animation is playing. Upon returning to the game, the enemy's movement plays again and they are still affected by the Mine, but once this ends the player is left in control of the enemy phase for the rest of the turn (or soft-resetting/powering-down).

When the glitch is in effect, the player has total control of the enemy army and can perform any action that they could with their own army. This allows them to make enemies perform actions that enemies otherwise would never perform, such asrescuing andtrading with each other, or accessingMerlinus'sconvoy. If there is an enemy present who drops an item upon defeat, the player can use the glitch to make this enemy trade with others to replace the item they drop with a different enemy's item. One of the most common applications of this is inChapter 24E/26H, where players often use the glitch to make thebossVaida either put herunique Spear into the convoy, or trade it to an enemyShaman who drops aLuna tome to make them drop that Spear instead.

The Sacred Stones also includes a variation of this glitch involving certainterrain hazard behaviors.

Locations

The Blazing Blade

The Sacred Stones

Radiant Dawn

Flavor text

Trivia

• A villager inChapter 13 ofFire Emblem, who credits herself with inventing the Mine, reveals that it works through using "very explosivemagic".^[1]
• In addition to its presence as an unused item in bothThe Sacred Stones andRadiant Dawn, there are alsoleftover textual references to the Mine in the script of the Japanese version ofPath of Radiance. As a result, the Mine has been present as unused data in some form more times than any other item in theFire Emblem series, and has been unused data three times more frequently than it has been actually used by completed games.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

• 
  An enemyMercenary stepping on a Mine inThe Blazing Blade.
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  Jerme recovers a Mine inThe Blazing Blade.

References

See also

• Hazards § Mine traps
• Shine Barrier
• Obstacle