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11 Answerer is the sword Dietrich carries in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Its in-game help text calls it a Hero's Relic and ties it to a single wielder: it allows Dietrich, and only Dietrich, to use the Bloodletting combat art. Of all the relics the game has said return, Answerer is the one confirmed by name as of September 2026.
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55 Only part of the weapon line has been published. The fields below are the ones that carry a value; as of September 2026, no published weapon line shows Might, Weight, Hit or critical rate. The rank, range and use count have held steady across every pre-launch listing of the weapon, and the note attached to the line is the same one the help text carries: the sword grants Dietrich access to Bloodletting.
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88 FieldValueTypeSwordWeapon rankERange1Uses20WorthNot announcedCombat artBloodletting, restricted to Dietrich
99 The E rank is worth flagging. It is the lowest rung on the weapon scale, which reads oddly for a legendary relic, and it sits in the pre-launch data next to an acknowledged placeholder icon. It may not hold in the shipped version. Separately, one preview showed the weapon's maximum durability at 40 rather than 20, so the 20 figure may be a mid-run reading rather than a cap.
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1111 Bloodletting
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1313 Bloodletting is the combat art Answerer unlocks, and it cannot be used with any other weapon. It costs 2 durability, adds 3 to Might and 20 to critical rate, leaves hit and avoid untouched, and works at range 1. Its description flags it as effective against dragon foes. The art's restriction is written into the description twice over: it names Dietrich and it requires the crest he carries alongside the relic itself, so no other unit can pick up the sword and use the art.
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1616 Because it is a combat art rather than an ordinary swing, using Bloodletting is what drains the sword. Regular attacks with Answerer cost nothing, which is the general rule for durability in this game and is covered on Combat Arts.
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1818 Flavour Text and Provenance
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2020 The English help text reads: "A Hero's Relic. Allows Dietrich use of the Bloodletting combat art." The blade's history comes out through dialogue rather than through a description. A ship passenger describes it as a fell blade and a thing of legend, said to have been wielded by the hand of one of the 10 Elites, by Lamine herself. That framing is a character speaking in-fiction, not a codex entry, and nothing else in the pre-launch material establishes who the 10 Elites were or whether the claim is accurate inside the story, so treat it as hearsay a character believes rather than settled history.
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2222 What is firmer is the House Lamine connection. Dietrich belongs to that house and the sword is described as passing down its family line to him. The crest that gates Bloodletting is the one associated with the same house, which is why the relic and the bearer cannot be separated. That link is now recorded on the Crest side too: roster material files Answerer against the Lamine bloodline as a Hero's Relic of this game, on the same row as the Diadem of the Endless and as Dietrich himself. The Japanese help text is more specific than the English one about what gates it. Where the English reads as a Hero's Relic restricted to Dietrich, the Japanese line describes a relic that can be handled by a bearer of a Bloodmark, which is the Dagdan word for a crest and the term this game's own setting uses; see Crests.
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2424 Behaviour Outside Battle
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26-Answerer is reported to react to crests in its surroundings, glowing red and flipping out the spines along its blade near objects or entities that carry crest properties. On the world map this appears to feed a Dietrich-only ability that flushes out enemies hidden on the field, which lines up with what the presentation showed of his exploration commands. Both of these are single-source details as of September 2026, so treat the naming and the exact behaviour as provisional.
26+Answerer is reported to react to crests in its surroundings, glowing red and flipping out the spines along its blade near objects or entities that carry crest properties; that detail is still single-source. Its world-map role is firmer in the released game. Answerer's Cry, a command only Dietrich has, calls up skirmish battles on the world map whose enemies can drop Magic Echo Stones for upgrading Combat Arts, and in Chapter 8 of his path, Cetus the Sea Tyrant, it is how he hunts the sea beast Cetus, which surfaces at the Sea of Screams only after failed searches at Pasha Currents, Wandering Whirlpool and Eif Channel. Completing his path makes Answerer's Cry available in Part III.
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3131 The relic system as a whole is covered on Hero's Relics. For where Answerer sits among the other swords and how the stat schema works, see Weapons.