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Hero's Relics are legendary Crest-stone weapons carried by the heroes of the past, and they return in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. One is confirmed by name ahead of launch: the Answerer, the sword Dietrich carries. This page covers what the system has been shown to do in this game and stops where the published material stops.

What a Relic Is

The reveal trailer introduced the category directly, as legendary Crest-stone weapons used by the old heroes, and named the Answerer as one of them. The Japanese help text on that sword adds the part that matters mechanically: it describes a relic that can be handled by a bearer of the Bloodmark, then restricts its combat art to Dietrich alone.

So a relic is bound to a person twice over. The weapon itself sits in an inventory like any other sword, but the art it grants checks the mark its wielder carries, which is why no other unit can pick the blade up and use it. Ordinary attacks with a relic cost nothing; the art spends durability, the same rule that governs every other weapon in the game, covered on Combat Arts.

The One Confirmed Relic

Dietrich describes the sword himself as the legacy of his forebears, passed to him in Fódlan, and calls it a blade to smite the gods. In-game dialogue calls it a fell blade and ties it to House Lamine, the house he belongs to. The full stat line, the Bloodletting figures and the flavour text sit on that weapon's own page, and Weapons places it among the other swords.

The E weapon rank on that line is the odd detail. It is the lowest rung on the scale for a weapon the game presents as legendary, and it sits in pre-launch data next to an acknowledged placeholder icon, so it may not survive to release.

Crests, Bloodmarks and Diadems

Crests return in this game by name. The people of Dagda have their own history with them and their own vocabulary: they call them Bloodmarks, and an individual mark a Diadem, with each Diadem associated with a member of the Dagdan Pantheon. Temple service can bestow a Diadem's effect temporarily, which Temple Blessings covers.

Nothing has been published about what any Crest, Bloodmark or Diadem actually does in play. No effect table exists for this game, and none is reproduced here. Tables carrying these names elsewhere belong to other titles and describe other games' mechanics, not this one. What is established is the link between mark and relic: the Answerer's art checks for the mark, so the relic and its bearer cannot be separated.

Weapons That Are Not Relics

Several personal weapons in this game belong to legendary figures without being labelled Hero's Relics. The distinction is worth keeping, because a named weapon with a unique combat art looks like a relic and mostly is not.

A Relic Outside Battle

The Answerer does something on the field that no other weapon has been shown doing. It reacts to Crests around it, glowing red and flipping out the spines along its blade near objects or entities that carry Crest properties. On the world map that becomes a Dietrich-only command, which flushes out foes hidden on the field and turns up extra skirmishes.

One pre-launch scene puts that to use in conversation rather than combat: the sword reacts while Dietrich is speaking with the merchant Talimun, and he turns it on him. Whether the detection is a relic property in general or specific to this sword has not been stated, since it is the only relic anyone has seen.

What Has Not Been Published

No relic beyond the Answerer has been named. Nothing has been published about how relics are obtained, how many exist in this game, whether any of the other Heroes carries one, or what a relic does beyond the art it grants. Any relic roster or effect figure circulating ahead of launch comes from another title.

Related Pages

The one relic confirmed by name is the Answerer, carried by Dietrich. For the other weapon restricted to a single wielder, see The Nameless, and for the stat schema relics share with ordinary arms, see Weapons.