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Vandahl Trading
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Vandahl Trading is one of the top merchant guilds on the continent of Dagda in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Two of its officers are playable, and it is the reason a party-wide inventory command exists.
Officer | Position | Detail |
|---|---|---|
Chief manager | Holds the final say on what the company buys, and spends past its limits when something catches his interest | |
Manager, second in authority | Runs the finances, tracks what the guild can afford against taxes, wages and repairs, and scolds Talimun for overspending |
The two are also the leading members of a clan called The Moon's Lie, the banner they compete under in the Heroic Games. How the guild and the tournament clan relate has not been spelled out; released material treats them as two names for a group with the same two people at its head. Factions covers the other clans in the tournament.
Ursula's business sense is a mechanic rather than a character note: her published profile states that it is what allows all units to use the Storage command. Items and Equipment covers what can be held there. Her personal skill, Merchants' Manager, carries the same idea into a battle, letting her and nearby allies retrieve items from Storage mid-fight so a unit beside her can re-arm without falling back for supplies. See Skills.
The clearest scene the guild has been given is a negotiation. Talimun asks Ursula how much liquid cash he has to hand; she runs the numbers aloud, subtracting taxes, wages and repairs to the Zlatan, and names a figure. Talimun then turns to Dietrich and offers 3.9 million gold for his sword. Ursula's objection is that the figure is three times their limit; his answer is that the difference comes out of his own pocket, because "this kind of fellow won't budge if we don't take on some risk."
The sword is a Hero's Relic, so the exchange establishes that relics are treated in-story as objects with a price rather than as untouchable heirlooms. The published framing of the pair is that Ursula is often at the mercy of her employer's whims and that the two share a strong mutual trust underneath it.
The Zlatan is named once, in Ursula's accounting, as something the company is paying to repair. The common reading is that it is the guild's ship, which would fit a trading house that has been on the road long enough to owe wages and taxes along the way. That rests on a single line, and no source states what the Zlatan is.
No roster beyond Talimun and Ursula, no headquarters, and nothing on what the guild trades in. It does not appear as a shop or a facility in any footage shown so far, and the Storage command is the only mechanic tied to it.
The activities and spending that fill the gaps between matches are covered on Between-Match Preparation. For the city the guild does business in, see Dagsion, and for the rest of the cast, List of Characters.
