Anatolia

Anatolia is a character in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, listed both as a recruitable unit and as a boss, and she leads the clan called the Brides of the Pale Raven. She matters out of proportion to her screen time because she is the one unit shown so far carrying a gun, which makes her the clearest on-screen evidence that this setting is not the medieval fantasy its armour and lances suggest.

Her profile now names what she is. Anatolia is a Mediator, called the Mystical Bride for her appearance, and she is described as a girl in white fighting to save her people. She runs a fortune-telling shop in Dagsion that the player can visit, and in battle she works at both ranges: the portable firearm Salamander at distance, Qi-powered martial arts up close, and magic the profile calls uncommonly seen.

Profile

Her Japanese name is アナトリア, read Anatoria. The English profile gives her epithet as the Mystical Bride; the underlying Japanese is 神秘の花嫁, which has also been rendered Mysterious Bride in translated material. The clan name has been rendered two ways as well, as the Brides of the Pale Raven and as the Pale Raven's Brides; the Japanese is 白鴉の花嫁団.

Identity

Anatolia is said to come from the west, and the Mystical Bride epithet is attached to her appearance rather than to any stated occupation. What she actually is has since been named: her profile calls her a Mediator. Preview coverage glosses that as a genetically engineered servant of the gods, the same category Eshmel belongs to, with Troy a possible third. That gloss comes from hands-on coverage rather than from published profile copy, so Mediator is better read as a term the game uses than as one it has explained.

Her personality is described in one line: she is a rationalist who does not let emotion get in the way of what she does. The same profile calls her cool-headed or emotionally distant depending on which way you read it, and notes that she sometimes angers people without meaning to. Her listed likes are hexagram divination, round objects and martial-arts training.

One preview account describes her as one of the People of the White Egg, the folk named in the game's backstory as the ancestors of the Saramis people, and reports her calling the Saraminians her kin. That comes from a single hands-on write-up rather than from official copy.

Her own account of where she comes from is short. She says she is from the West, which puts her origin outside Dagda, and preview coverage points to the Kingdom of Damascar, founded by the ancestors of the Saramis people. She contrasts the capital, where water is plentiful enough to be used for anything, with her home village, where the wells do not supply enough and water has to be rationed. Ending that is what she says she is fighting for.

The Fortune-Telling Shop

Anatolia runs a fortune-telling shop in Dagsion, and it is a place the player can visit rather than a line in a profile. She has a reputation for readings that come true, and there is always a queue outside. Dadao and Sha Lan are with her there, and Sha Lan also goes into battle with her.

One reading is on record. Theodora asks who will win the Heroic Games. Anatolia gives her Hexagram 47, Oppression, a sign of great difficulty, and tells her plainly that she will not be the victor and will not reach the end of the battles. Theodora takes it as a provocation; Anatolia answers that she would win a fight between them; Theodora replies that she carries the hopes of one million citizens. The exchange sets up their meeting rather than settling anything.

The Brides of the Pale Raven

Anatolia leads the Brides of the Pale Raven, a clan that appears in the story both as guests and as opponents. The other names listed with the group are Sha Lan, Halvin, Nezha, Long and Dao. The clan is one of the several outfits contesting the Heroic Games alongside the four Heroes, and Anatolia is one of the four rivals reported to have reached the final eight of the 1449 tournament, commemorated by statues in Dagsion.

She turns up as a boss on the Dietrich route, fighting House Lamine in the first part of that story and again later. A cutscene shows the two of them in direct combat.

The Firearm

Nintendo's own presentation of the weapon roster mentions "gauntlets that look like firearms" among the unique weapons to find, which settles the categorisation: guns in this game use the gauntlet weapon type and inherit its evasion bonus rather than forming a class of their own. Anatolia is the unit shown wielding one, and the weapon roster names her gun as the Salamander, listed alongside the ordinary gauntlet ladder and the Zerberus carried by Troy. The name has only appeared in listings rather than in official English profile copy, so it is best read as reported rather than confirmed.

That reservation no longer holds. Her profile names the Salamander directly as her portable firearm, and the weapon now carries a full stat line.

Its in-game description reads: "A handheld firearm of great power. Treated as a magical attack. Allows the Compressed Laser combat art." A +3 forged entry exists and carries the same listed values, so forging does not move any number on record.

The gun is not the whole of her kit. Up close she fights with Qi-powered martial arts, and she also handles magic her profile calls uncommonly seen. One of her spells, Glass Wheel, checks the target against physical defence rather than magical defence and is effective against flying units. See Magic for the wider spell list and Combat Arts for how Compressed Laser is paid for.

Firearms sit inside a wider science-fiction layer that runs through the setting, which also includes automated turrets, laser batteries and quantum computers. See Weapons and Combat System for how gauntlets behave in a fight.

Blaze Gauge

Anatolia's Blaze gauge is a named type rather than the standard meter. She and Eshmel both use Celestial Wells, which inverts the usual rule: ordinary attacks raise the gauge, while using cursed weapons or items lowers it, where the standard gauge is filled by cursed gear. Previewers had already described hers as the four-pointed star inside a ring that the protagonist carries, against the plain circular meter the four Heroes use, and the type name confirms the pairing.

Her Blaze Art is Dragon Strike, an area attack that damages every foe and obstacle inside its range, with the area growing at each tier. She is one of the nine characters confirmed to have Blaze Arts. What filling the gauge does is unchanged: a helpful boost up to the halfway mark, and a Burst at the top that ends the bonuses and halves the unit's maximum HP.

In Battle

Showcase footage puts her on three maps at three different levels, which fits a character who crosses more than one route. At Level 9 she is a Diviner in the fight against the Thundercloud Knights, where Cai and Dietrich team up with her: Cai brings Tialla, Peter, Guzran and Noctula, Dietrich brings Fabio, and Sha Lan stands with Anatolia. At Level 7 she is in the battle against the Forgotten Alcor soldiers alongside Theodora and Talimun. At Level 4 the Thundercloud Knights map comes round again with Mikaela present, which reads as a run through Dietrich's own path. A separate clip has her fighting the Palma Fighters with Leda and Orchel. Which path each clip belongs to is read off who else is on the field rather than stated on screen.

Her forecast slots move with her loadout. She shows four skill and effect entries in the Thundercloud Knights clip, among them a Magic Basics entry granting Magic and Resistance +1 and a Brawling Prowess entry; two when she is not carrying gauntlets; and one at the lowest level shown. Weapon type and level both appear to change what the screen lists.

Voice Cast

Both of her credits are now published. The full cast list is on Voice Cast.

Related Pages

For the other firearm on the roster and the unit it was built for, see Zerberus. The Brides of the Pale Raven sit among the tournament's clans on Factions, and the route where she turns up as a boss is led by Dietrich.