Nasir (Japanese:ナーシルNasir) is a white dragon ofGoldoa and the grandfather ofEna.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Role

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Nasir first appears in a village inChapter 3. Once visited, he will gives the player anElixir.

Nasir's first story appearance is inChapter 11, where he gives player passage to Begnion. He stays withIke's army inBegnion.

Late in in the story,Ena appears as a boss inChapter 21 in the form of a red dragon. Once defeated, Nasir betrays Ike and helps her escape; Ike then captures Nasir and hold him inside a tent. At some point duringChapter 23, Nasir escapes from Ike's army.

Later, Ike encounters the Black Knight. Two outcomes can happen: either Ike is unable to defeat the Black Knight, after which Ena joins Ike's party, or Ike does defeat the Black Knight, after which Nasir joins Ike.

Starting stats and growth rates

Dragon Tribe (White) Level 18 Attribute Build 12»36

Recruitment:Chapter 28, automatically from preparations if theBlack Knight was defeated inthe previous chapter StatsGrowth Rates Max HP 56 Speed 22»25 Strength 20»30 Luck 17 Magic 11»11 Defense 24»29 Skill 23»28 Resistance 17»22 Movement 5»6 Weight 17»80 Max HP 150% Speed 45% Strength 50% Luck 35% Magic 10% Defense 60% Skill 55% Resistance 25% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills Breath Nihil Boon Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Analysis

Nasir is one of two mutually exclusive playable dragon laguz, and joins if Ike defeated the Black Knight near the end. He is one of few units capable of damaging Ashnard. He has extremely low movement, having lower untransformed movement than generals, and promoted infantry movement when transformed. He has a low starting laguz gauge, taking around 4 turns to transform while having low movement. In combination of this, he can only attack at 1-range, severely limiting his attack capabilities.

At base, he is one of the bulkiest units in the game, having high health, defense, resistance, and Renewal. He has a respectable strength base, with a significant +10 buff when transformed, though his weak weapon type limits him and he cannot use forges. He has a respectable skill and speed base when transformed, doubling some enemies and rarely getting doubled unless on higher difficulties. Transformed, he deals 10 damage to Ashnard and avoids being doubled, which is sufficient for him to beat Ashnard on his own over the course of several turns and withPhysic support, but relying on Nasir is generally frivolous as any Ike that can beat the Black Knight can also fight Ashnard. Still, he can contribute damage against Ashnard if only to make the fight go faster. Nasir has a high enough weight stat to shove unmounted beorc units when untransformed. The Demi Band is extremely important for Nasir to keep up with other infantry units in endgame.

Nasir has respectable growths for all of his stats except luck and resistance. However, he joins extremely high leveled and late so his stats will not vary much from his base stats. An average trained Ena can compete with Nasir's stats, but Nasir's transformation bonuses give him significantly more power than Ena's.

Nasir has Nihil which can be valuable at endgame, as generic enemy units can have dangerous offensive skills. His mastery skill, Boon prevents him from getting put to sleep by bishops in the last two chapters. There is no practical reason to remove these skills, so he performs best keeping them.

Nasir cannot support anyone, so his light affinity will go unused.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Role

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Starting stats and growth rates

White Dragon Level 34 Affinity Constitution 11»35

Recruitment:Part IV, Endgame (4), automatically from the start if he survived theprevious part StatsGrowth Rates Max HP 74 Speed 8»16 Strength 7»14 Luck 19 Magic 24»48 Defense 12»24 Skill 13»26 Resistance 21»42 Movement 5»6 Weight 18»75 Max HP 70% Speed 20% Strength 15% Luck 45% Magic 45% Defense 15% Skill 35% Resistance 40% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills Breath Laguz Gem Boon White Pool Nihil Shove Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- S -- -- -- -- -- --

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Note: The above stats are Nasir's default stats. If aRadiant Dawn game was started via adata transfer fromPath of Radiance and Nasir managed to reach level 20 in his highest possible class in thePath of Radiance save file, any stat Nasir capped inPath of Radiance will result in a boost to his 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.

Nasir can cap HP and skill via level-up and stat-boosting items; however, he cannot gain enough points to cap any other stats, and thus cannot legitimately obtain a boost in those other stats.

Availability

Analysis

Nasir is the only playable white dragon in the game and joins extremely late in endgame. He has a very high magic base and an S rank strike, so he can contribute magic chip damage. His resistance is high which lets him tank, as all enemy units from his join time are magic users. His speed base is very low, so he will get doubled frequently, though this does not bother him much since his high resistance and HP result in him shrugging off almost all of the enemy attacks in his playable chapters. As a dragon laguz, he has 1-2 range combat, so he can counter most enemy units. He has low mobility which limits his options. Ultimately as a combat unit, Nasir is mediocre at best and performs best as a support unit. InPath of Radiance, Nasir is unable to cap any stats—with or without stat boosters—and cannot support anyone, so Nasir does not benefit from transfers.

Nasir has a high magic and resistance growth and will cap them quickly. He has low growths in strength, defense, and speed, though these stats are useless or unsalvageable for his available chapters so it does not hurt him. His skill and luck growth are high for a laguz unit, which can help hit more reliably, especially Ashera's auras. While Nasir's combat would benefit from maxing his strike rank, it is unrealistic for him to raise it in two chapters.

Nasir has the White Pool skill, which gives a +5 magic and speed boost to adjacent units. This is an extremely valuable support skill for endgame as Ashera's auras are extremely fast, so this boost allows more player units to double attack them. This is also helpful for buffing magic users. White Pool can be combined with Ena and Gareth's Blood Tide skills so a unit able to double can deal even more accurate damage. Nasir has Boon which heals silenced or sleeping units, though this is mostly useless apart from mitigating the effect of Ashera's Silence attack. Nihil is a valuable skill for the endgame bosses and auras, though Nihil is better moved to a more combat-oriented unit. Unusually for a unit with high magic stats, Nasir can learn Imbue, despite every other magical unit being unable to do so. This is very beneficial as Nasir is able to recover a significant amount of HP at the start of every player phase should he be caught in any of Ashera's physical attacks, improving his survival and may as well render him near invincible. Given how he can tank the enemy's magical attacks extremely well, Nasir can make good use of the Provoke skill to draw enemies towards him instead of his allies, especially those with low resistance.

Nasir has a light affinity which gives a light defense and accuracy boost. Due to his join time, it is only possible for him to build one C support, which is still impractical as building a support with him will often take more than one chapter. As a non-combat unit, he does not benefit much from a support partner, especially since his high base resistance is more than enough to ensure his survival for the remainder of the game.

Personality

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Supports

Radiant Dawn

Bond supports

Nasir White Dragon Default bonds: Ena Red Dragon Bonus: 10 [[{{{supportd2}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonusd2}}} [[{{{supportd3}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonusd3}}} [[{{{supportd4}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonusd4}}} Extra bonds:* None. [[{{{supporte1}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonuse1}}} [[{{{supporte2}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonuse2}}} [[{{{supporte3}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonuse3}}} [[{{{supporte4}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonuse4}}} [[{{{supporte5}}}]] Bishop Bonus: {{{bonuse5}}}

Endings

Radiant Dawn

Nasir, Eternal Wanderer
Nasir served the new dragon king by observing other nations in his travels, and often doted on his great-grandchild.

Quotes

Battle quotes

Death quotes

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Nasir is featured on one card inFire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Nasir
	Eternal Wanderer, Nasir
		"When your journey is over, how will you be changed? I pray that your conviction is not lost to despair."
		Attack: 50	Support: 20	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 2
		Class: Dragon Tribe		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Desirer of Coexistance:[Trigger] When this unit is deployed, select another ally. Select a card with the same name in your Retreat Zone as the ally unit, and place it underneath that unit. (The unit is treated as if it was Leveled Up. effects can be used if that unit has any effects.)
	Card #B09-084HN • Artist:Miyuki Asajima
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, seetheir TCG wiki article on Nasir .

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Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1 (2017)	604	Nasir Path of Radiance	124
	654	Nasir Radiant Dawn	93

CYL 2 (2018)	479 (−125)	Nasir Path of Radiance	265
	581 (−73)	Nasir Radiant Dawn	149

CYL 3 (2019)

352 (−43)

Nasir Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn

543 (+126)

CYL 4 (2020)

403 (+21)

Nasir Radiant Dawn Path of Radiance

298 (−245)

CYL 5 (2021)

449 (+46)

Nasir Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn

164 (−134)

CYL 6 (2022)

389 (−62)

Nasir Radiant Dawn Path of Radiance

212 (+48)

CYL 7 (2023)

408 (+19)

Nasir Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn

130 (−82)

CYL 8 (2024)

346 (−62)

Nasir Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn

169 (+39)

CYL 9 (2025)

371 (+25)

Nasir Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn

126 (−43)

CYL 10 (2026)

273 (−98)

Nasir Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn

132 (+6)

Total results		This character has 12 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls.	2,405

Trivia

• Nasir is able to learnImbue despite having high magic; this is due to the fact that the White Dragon class does not count as a magical class.
• According toTellius Recollection, Nasir was designed with an apparent age of 32 inPath of Radiance andRadiant Dawn.^[2][3]

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Nasir fromPath of Radiance.
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  Artwork of Nasir fromRadiant Dawn.

Portraits

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  Portrait of Nasir inPath of Radiance.
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  Portrait of Nasir inRadiant Dawn.

Screenshots

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  Nasir as aWhite Dragon inPath of Radiance.
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  Nasir activatingBoon inPath of Radiance.
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  Nasir usingBreath inPath of Radiance.
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  Nasir as an unshifted White Dragon inRadiant Dawn.
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  Nasir activatingWhite Pool inRadiant Dawn.
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  Nasir usingBreath inRadiant Dawn.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Nasir.

References

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