Yune (pronounced /⁠ˈjuneɪ⁠/^[key][1] or /⁠ˈjun⁠/^[key][2]; Japanese:ユンヌYune) is the Goddess of Chaos, and a significant figure in the history ofTellius. She was originally part of the Goddess of Dawn,Ashunera, and was formed when Ashunera split her emotions from herself and became the Goddess of Order,Ashera. Yune is widely known and reviled among the people of Tellius as a "dark god", alleged to be responsible for causing the devastatingGreat Flood of ancient times.

Biography

Origins

TheGreat Flood, a disaster widely blamed on Yune.

Yune was originally a part ofAshunera, the Goddess of Dawn, and is the form taken by Ashunera's emotions in the aftermath of the Tellius'sGreat Flood. Ashunera's outrage and grief at the people of the world warring against each other led to her losing control and unleashing the Great Flood on the world, killing countless people and leaving Tellius as the only known land in the world.^[3] On the advice ofLehran and others (though they would later consider it a bad idea), Ashunera cast away her emotions entirely, turning into the Order GoddessAshera while her emotions became Yune. Although Yune deeply regretted the consequences of "her" actions, Ashera wished to destroy Yune to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again. WithAltina and Lehran's advice, she relented and instead allowed Yune to be spared and sealed withinLehran's Medallion through the power ofseid magic. Yune consented to this on the promise that someday, she would be restored to Ashera.

Lehran again tried to appeal to Ashera to restore Yune to herself, again without success. Instead, Ashera arranged a covenant with Lehran, Altina,Soan andDheginsea: she and Yune would enter a deep sleep for one thousand years, and if upon awakening the beorc and laguz had built a lasting peace and put an end to war, the two would reunite into Ashunera; however, if they failed to do so, she would rain divine retribution for the people's sins upon them. She also granted them the right to awaken the goddesses prematurely if they succeeded or failed sooner than the thousand-year mark. With this covenant agreed to by the four representatives of the laguz and beorc, Yune remained sealed asleep in the medallion while Ashera herself also entered a thousand-year slumber.

In the years since the goddesses' descent into sleep, while Ashera became revered as the guardian goddess of Tellius,Dheginsea set about depicting Yune as a wicked, dark god who brought Tellius to ruin, in an attempt to discourage people from ever seeking to release her as part of his plans to ensure the world survived its judgement by Ashera.^[4] Her medallion—which later became known as "Lehran's Medallion" or the "Fire Emblem", remained in the possession of Lehran's kin, the heron royalty of theSerenes Forest, for the following centuries. Soon after, theBegnion Empire was established, and its line of ruling apostles claimed to hold the ability to hear Ashera's voice; however, the fact thatMicaiah—the most recent member of the apostle dynasty—heard Yune's voice instead throughout her life suggests that all apostles actually heard Yune's voice.

The medallion and the bird

Yune, in bird form, withMicaiah.

Yune remained asleep in the medallion for the following 780 years, unable to do anything except let the energies of her chaos radiate from the medallion. Throughout this time, she was regularly serenaded by heron galdrar which soothed her and kept her at peace, and she would later remark that even trapped inside the medallion she never felt lonely, a contrast to Ashera's isolation of herself.^[5]

Some time after the Mad King's War, Yune began to manifest herself outside the medallion in the form of a small bird. In this form, she appeared beforeMicaiah inDaein and landed on her finger, soon after the foundation of theDawn Brigade. After this, the two became almost inseparable; Micaiah learned Yune's name when the word popped into her head upon first touching the bird, and she believed that she simply named the bird after that word.^[6] In bird form, Yune traveled with Micaiah and the Dawn Brigade throughout the war for Daein's liberation and remained with her when she led the Daein army to fight theLaguz Alliance. Micaiah would always send her away before battle, and call her back afterward; when she was apprehended byJarod after assistingLaura, she sent Yune to find and warn Sothe, aiding in her quick escape.

Ashera's judgement

Ike wields Yune's power to finish offAshera.

Yune asksIke for forgiveness.

Ultimately, the people of Tellius would never even reach the thousand-year threshold of their covenant, as the continent became embroiled in the war between the Laguz Alliance and Begnion. The chaotic energies of the warring threatened to break Yune free, reaching a critical point in Daein's last stand to stop the advance of theGreil Mercenaries. At the suggestion ofMist, who received the instruction as a voice in her head presumably from Yune,Sanaki and Micaiah performed theGaldr of Release, freeing Yune. As she lacked a body of her own, Yune took possession of Micaiah's, and felt Ashera delivering her judgement before she could put a word of her own in.

Through Micaiah, Yune explained her true nature and the reality of Ashera's judgement to the assembled group, and recruited them to help fight back against Ashera to save Tellius from her wrath. On her advice, the armies sorted themselves into three new armies, led byIke, Micaiah, andElincia andTibarn, and set out on three paths to theTower of Guidance in the Begnion capital. Yune set off on her own to try and find more help for their cause, occasionally returning to Micaiah's army to pass on news to them. Her last stop was inGoldoa, where she discovered that not only had the dragons survived the judgement, but that they had all sided with Ashera and already departed for the Tower of Guidance themselves.

On reaching the Tower of Guidance, she—still through Micaiah—guided Ike, Sanaki,Kurthnaga and a small group of elite warriors up through the tower, relating to them pieces of history as they went. She also experienced visions of scenes from the life ofSephiran as they went.^[7] Before the group fought Dheginsea, she blessedRagnell and the other weapons used by the group to allow them to properly harm Dheginsea and any other bearers of Ashera's blessings, but was worn out by this act and rested throughout the actual battle. Having woken up by the time the battle was over, she had a final word with Dheginsea before he died, where he apologized for being the one to brand her a dark god.

The penultimate obstacle to Yune's path to Ashera was Lehran—a.k.a.Sephiran—himself, who revealed his role in orchestrating the judgement of Tellius. Following his defeat, Yune lamented her failure to help him when he needed it the most, but in the last moment before he died, she had Micaiah use her power to save him, successfully tricking the door to Ashera into believing he had died and thus into opening. Wanting nothing more than for Lehran to live, she told him she'd be awaiting him to come to their aid against Ashera, despite everything he had done.

Yune accompanied Ike and Micaiah into the final confrontation with Ashera at the top of the Tower of Guidance. She tried to convince Ashera to surrender, but failed, and so was committed to defeating her instead. In the final moments of the battle, she joined with Ike to bestow all of his power upon him, setting Ragnell ablaze with blue flames, and with her power Ike dealt the final blow to defeat Ashera. After Ashera fell, the flames coalesced off of Ike and reformed into a spectral apparition of her humanoid form. She asked Ike for forgiveness and lamented that the people of the world had no need for gods, but Ike offered her encouragement that gods inspire people to do better and give them a reason to live, and forgave her just as she forgave the people of Tellius for all they had done to her. Resolved to try to help the world, she flew away in her bird form and journeyed across Tellius, using her powers to undo Ashera's curse and restore life to the laguz and beorc.

Thousands of years later, Ashera and Yune would ultimately reunite to form Ashunera once more.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Role

Yune appears in cutscenes throughoutRadiant Dawn, both in bird form and possessingMicaiah, and appears only in her own humanoid form in the final cutscene after defeatingAshera.

Partway through the Part IV, Endgame, before itsthird stage begins, Yune will bless the currently equipped weapons of all units taken into the Endgame. Her blessing grants the weapons infinitedurability to prevent them from breaking, and allows them to bypass theMantle skill and damage any units bearing it; this is necessary in order to use these weapons against the subsequent bosses. All blessed weapons have their names written in bold blue text.

Before she gives the blessing, Yune gives the player the opportunity to pick whichbeorc units' weapons they want blessed by equipping their units; however,Ragnell is the only weapon she will allowIke to have blessed, and she will force it to be equipped before proceeding. All laguz units can only have theirstrike weapon blessed, as they can wield nothing else. WhenGareth andNasir are recruited at the end of the chapter, theirBreaths will be blessed as well. Equippedstaves will not be blessed at all, so if a unit has a staff equipped, that is effectively wasting the blessing as it will not be applied to any weapons in their possession instead.

In Easy Mode, Yune's blessing also awards a +5 bonus to thestrength,magic,skill,speed,luck,defense, andresistance stats of every unit in the party, even if they do not currently have a blessed weapon equipped. No similar bonus exists in Normal or Hard Mode.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Role

Yune is the game's third Mythic Hero, and as such was added to the game in a dedicated Mythic Hero update, and was made available for summoning as part of a summoning event released on March 29, 2019. Only one variation of Yune is currently available inHeroes, based on herRadiant Dawn incarnation.

Additionally, Yune's bird form makes minor appearances in the artworks and sprites of some ofMicaiah's variations inHeroes.

Yune: Chaos Goddess

"Yune: Chaos Goddess" redirects here. For the Mythic Hero Battle map, seeMythic Hero Battle/Battle data (page 1) § Yune: Chaos Goddess.

Starting stats

Yune: Chaos Goddess is only available at 5★ rarity.

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type Mythic Hero

Initial StatsLevel 40 Stats Maximum HP 15/16/17 Attack 8/9/10 Speed 4/5/6 Defense 4/5/6 Resistance 8/9/10 Maximum HP 34/38/41 Attack 30/33/36 Speed 23/27/30 Defense 12/15/19 Resistance 34/37/40 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Chaos Manifest -- Chilling Wind

Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Unlock	Auto-unlock	SP cost
	Wind	★★★★★	★★★★★	50
	Elwind	★★★★★	★★★★★	100
	Rexcalibur	★★★★★	★★★★★	200
	Chaos Manifest	★★★★★	★★★★★	400
	Chilling Wind	★★★★★	★★★★★	100
	Glacies	★★★★★	—	200
A	Atk/Res Bond 1	★★★★★	—	60
A	Atk/Res Bond 2	★★★★★	—	120
A	Atk/Res Bond 3	★★★★★	—	240
A	Atk/Res Unity	★★★★★	—	300
B	Sabotage Res 1	★★★★★	—	60
B	Sabotage Res 2	★★★★★	—	120
B	Sabotage Res 3	★★★★★	—	240
C	Chaos Named	★★★★★	—	300
C	Chaos Named+	★★★★★	—	300

Personality

Being the result of Ashunera expunging her emotions, Yune is emotion incarnate. She is very quick to emotionally respond with shunning anger when she feels she has been insulted, and is equally quick to change tack and continue speaking kindly to somebody who hasn't annoyed her, in a manner almost like a young child.^[8] As the embodiment of chaos, she firmly believes that the unpredictability of living creatures is in fact a good thing for both them and the world, that the chance of their future evolution into something more is absolutely worth taking,^[9] and that their imperfections are, like the gods, what make them so interesting and deserving to continue to live.^[10] She often reflects on how, even during her imprisonment in the medallion, she was never alone and was often comforted by the presence of the herons, something which she felt greatly helped her and which Ashera's lack thereof led to her becoming as cold as she was.^[11]

Like Ashera, Yune is terrified of her own power as a result of the Great Flood, having instantly regretted causing it, and sought to do whatever she could to atone for the disaster.^[12] Despite everything that happened, she still cares deeply for Ashera, but did not hesitate to criticize or challenge her.^[13]

Quotes

Heroes quotes

Main article:Yune/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Engage

While Yune does not make a direct appearance in-game, Yune's bird form can be seen briefly on the mural ofElyos featured in the movie "The Tale of Elyos", as well as on one of the fortune telling cards representingMicaiah.

Fire Emblem Cipher

Yune is featured on two cards inFire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Yune
	Sealed Goddess, Yune
		"Hmmm... "dark god." "Dark god"... No, I'm pretty sure I'm not one of those. I am... freedom. Chaos. Transformation. Future. Mystery. I am Yune."
		Attack: 30	Support: 20	Range: -	Deploy Cost: 1
		Class: Chaos Incarnate		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Neither Holy Nor Base:[Always] If this unit is in the Back Line, enemies cannot attack this unit, and this unit cannot be destroyed as the cost or effect of a skill. Man-Loving Goddess:[Always] During your turn, if you have no orbs, your lord gains +10 attack.
	Card #P12-003PR • Artist:Tobi
	Goddess of Freedom and Chaos, Yune
		"Even if we disagree, I will try... One more time."
		Attack: 0	Support: 20	Range: -	Deploy Cost: 6
		Class: Chaos Incarnate		Tier:Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Guardian of the Evolution of People:[Activate] [] Until the end of your opponent's next turn, your Main Character gains +30 attack. Chaos Named:[Trigger] At the end of your turn, you and your opponent each return all of your non-Main Character units to your own Decks. Afterwards, you each shuffle your Decks.
	Card #B20-097SR • Artist:Geso Umiu
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, seetheir TCG wiki article on Yune .

Flavor text

Meet some of the Heroes entries

Yune: Chaos Goddess
Long, long ago, Ashunera, the Goddess of Dawn, created a distant world. Sometime after, she separated half of her essence, creating Yune, the Goddess of Chaos.	This separation also resulted in the creation of Ashera, the Goddess of Order, and the two struggled against each other. Yune lost the conflict and was sealed within a medallion to slumber forevermore.	"Forevermore" turned out to be temporary, though. Yune was freed by Micaiah after she sang the Galdr of Release. The world had been ravaged by war, and the chaotic energies that ensued would have woken Yune before Micaiah could plead mankind's case.	Yune loved both humanity and its freedom, and lent her aid to Ike and his friends in order to save everyone from the judgment of Ashera!
Closely Associated Characters
Micaiah {{{Related_name2}}} {{{Related_name3}}} {{{Related_name4}}} {{{Related_name5}}} A young girl with silvery hair who belongs to the Dawn Brigade, a Daein rebel group. Yune's spirit possessed a small bird kept by Micaiah, and after her revival, she even spoke through Micaiah at times. {{{Related_blurb2}}} {{{Related_blurb3}}} {{{Related_blurb4}}} {{{Related_blurb5}}}

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1 (2017)

381

Yune Radiant Dawn

428

CYL 2 (2018)

375 (−6)

Yune Radiant Dawn

488 (+60)

CYL 3 (2019)

256 (−106)

Yune Radiant Dawn

878 (+390)

CYL 4 (2020)

367 (+77)

Yune Radiant Dawn

367 (−511)

CYL 5 (2021)

550 (+183)

Yune Radiant Dawn

105 (−262)

CYL 6 (2022)

577 (+25)

Yune Radiant Dawn

102 (−3)

CYL 7 (2023)

518 (−59)

Yune Radiant Dawn

89 (−13)

CYL 8 (2024)

556 (+38)

Yune Radiant Dawn

78 (−11)

CYL 9 (2025)

651 (+95)

Yune Radiant Dawn

44 (−34)

Total results		This character has 9 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls.	2,579

Trivia

• In her bird form, Yune is featured on the animated icon used by theWii system forRadiant Dawn save files. This icon was later reused to represent theRadiant DawnSpotPass characters inAwakening.
• Yune is the second entity in theFire Emblem series to be referred to as a "dark god"; the other isLoptous inGenealogy of the Holy War.
  • Additionally, in Japanese, her title,邪神 "evil god", is shared withDuma, whose title was localized instead asFell God. Loptous's title is actually "dark god" (暗黒神) in Japanese.
• InRadiant Dawn, there is a programming error in the English version of the game that causes a line in Yune's closing monologue aboutZelgius in the second part of Part 4 Endgame to go unused.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Yune fromRadiant Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form fromRadiant Dawn.

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  Artwork ofMicaiah and Yune in bird form fromTellius Recollection Volume 2.

CG images

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  CG image of Yune,Rafiel,Volug, andNailah fromRadiant Dawn.

Portraits

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  Yune in bird form onMicaiah's shoulder in herLight Mage class inRadiant Dawn.

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  Yune in bird form on Micaiah's shoulder in herLight Sage class inRadiant Dawn.

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  Yune's portrait when possessing Micaiah in her Light Sage class inRadiant Dawn.

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  Yune in bird form on Micaiah's shoulder in herLight Priestess class inRadiant Dawn.

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  Yune's portrait when possessing Micaiah in her Light Priestess class inRadiant Dawn.

Concept artwork

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  Concept artwork of Yune fromRadiant Dawn.

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  Concept artwork of Yune in bird form fromRadiant Dawn.

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  Concept artwork of Yune in bird form withMicaiah: Summer's Dawn fromHeroes.

Screenshots

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  Screenshot of Yune in bird form with other characters inEngage.

Heroes artwork

Character artwork

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form withMicaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Resplendent Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Resplendent Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Resplendent Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Resplendent Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Summer's Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Summer's Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Summer's Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Summer's Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune with Micaiah: Queen of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune with Micaiah: Queen of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune with Resplendent Micaiah: Queen of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune with Resplendent Micaiah: Queen of Dawn.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

Meet some of the Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Artwork of Yune: Chaos Goddess.

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  Yune in artwork ofAltina: Dawn's Trueblade.

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  Yune in artwork ofAshera: Order Goddess.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork ofMicaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Priestess of Dawn.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Queen of Dawn.

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  Yune in artwork of Micaiah: Queen of Dawn.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Dawn Wind's Duo.

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  Yune in artwork of Micaiah: Radiant Queen.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Wavecrest Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah: Dawning Maiden.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork ofPelleas: Ashnard's Orphan.

Other artwork

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  Image of aHeroes calendar's November 2017 page, featuring Yune in bird form.

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  Wallpaper featuring Yune in bird form withMicaiah: Priestess of Dawn from theA Hero Rises 2018 event.

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  Artwork featuring Yune forHeroes's third anniversary.

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  Artwork featuring Yune forHeroes's sixth anniversary.

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  Artwork featuring Yune forHeroes's seventh anniversary.

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  Artwork featuring Yune forHeroes's eighth anniversary.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Yune.

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  Yune in artwork ofMicaiah.

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  Yune in artwork ofLehran's Medallion.

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  Yune in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in artwork of Micaiah andIke.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah andRoy.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork of Micaiah.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork ofLeonardo.

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  Yune in bird form in artwork ofMarth andChrom.

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  Bonus artwork featuring Yune in bird form.

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  Celebratory artwork featuring Yune in bird form forCipher's 1st anniversary.

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  Celebratory artwork featuring Yune in bird form forCipher's 2nd anniversary.

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  Celebratory artwork featuring Yune in bird form forCipher's 2nd anniversary.

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  Celebratory artwork featuring Yune andAshera forCipher's 3rd anniversary.

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  Celebratory artwork featuring Yune in bird form forCipher's 5th anniversary.

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  Commemorative artwork featuring Yune in bird form.

Other appearances

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form forExpo.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form with other characters forExpo.

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  Artwork of Yune in bird form andMicaiah forExpo II.

References

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