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Cath
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“ | Ha, maybe not. What I'm doing is theft, I won't deny that. But... I will say this. I'll never, ever do things like burning villages down and hurting innocent people. | ” | — Cath to Garret in a support conversation. |
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Cath (Japanese: キャス, Cath) is a character in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. She first appears in Chapter 6. She can be recruited from Chapter 12 to Chapter 22 if talked to by Roy three times, once per chapter.
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
Role
Cath is a crafty and cheery young girl who took up thievery after a group of soldiers and nobles, presumably from Bern, had her village burnt down to the ground. As a result of nobility being behind this felony, Cath began to steal gold and other valuables from the greedy rich and give all of it to the poor and unfortunate. She also possesses a deep-seated hatred towards her own father, who she regards to as a coward, as he was the one who particularly burned down the village under the order of the nobles. At first, she is reluctant to join Roy, merely because he is himself a noble from Pherae. However, if the player gets him to talk to her three times, each time in different levels, she will join Roy's army, and help him in his good cause to stop Bern's tyranny and help in the reconstruction of her village.
After the war ended and Bern was defeated, Cath continued to travel around the world, continuing to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Her name was imprinted in history as a master thief and a legend.
Starting stats and growth rates
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*Note: Cath will appear in chapters 6 and 8, but will not join immediately due to her recruitment requirement.
Cath will not appear in future chapters if she was either recruited or killed.
Analysis
Cath is not a very good unit.
Despite all the effort it takes, even if you recruit her on the earliest possible chapter, she will still join with incredibly low base stats and fall short to your two other thieves. If you do decide to raise her, Cath will still suffer from the same weakness that all thieves suffer from in The Binding Blade: they cannot promote. Raising Cath is difficult - she has low base HP and close to nonexistent defensive stats meaning that she will fall to almost anything. If the player decides to raise Cath regardless, despite her poor combat ability, she will become a competent fighter with her good growths, though she will still struggle to catch up to Astore due to her low bases.
Given that Chad and Astore are higher quality replacements to Cath, there is very little reason to recruit or field her. Opting to outright ignore Cath would be considered an sensible decision.
Interestingly, stealing Cath's items and killing her when she first appears may be more beneficial than recruiting her. You can acquire a Vulnerary and Lockpick by stealing from Cath, and by killing her she will not appear in future chapters to steal your loot. Considering that Chad and Astore are more than sufficient for your thieving needs combined with the fact that Cath initially faces extreme difficulties at combat, this option may be more preferable.
Personality and character
Cath is a very cunning thief, and she takes great pride in her skill. She regards to herself as a master thief, as she steals from the rich and gives to the poor, and has her ways around thievery, whether it be switching bags of money with duplicates, or by simply using deception, as seen in her support conversation with the pirate Geese, where she pretends to be drunk and vulnerable (This fails, however).[1] She claims that she gives all of the money she steals to the peasantry, and that she does not keep any of the pilfered treasures for herself, which reveals her selfless motives for thievery.[2] She is also cheery and optimistic, as seen in her support conversations with Chad, whom she humorously regards to as "Servant #1."[3] Before she eventually joins up with Roy and his army, she can be seen appearing on random maps as a red unit, going around and picklocking treasure chests. This continues until the player has Roy talk to her three times, causing her to eventually be convinced to join Roy's army.
There are three particular types of people whom Cath holds a grudge against: Nobility, bandits, and most importantly, her father. During the war, a large group of soldiers and nobles, possibly from Bern, came to her village, and orders all of its civilians to burn it down. They, of course, refused to do so. In response, the nobles prepared to raid the village, until Cath's father, seeing the incident, took the torch and burned the entire village, crops and all, to the ground.[4] Ever since then, she has retained a hatred towards both nobility and her own father. As a result, she left what used to be her village in order to steal from the rich and give to the poor, promising herself that she will never be cowardly like her father. However, Bartre, a veteran warrior, explains to Cath how maybe her father should not deserve her hate, because he burned down the village in order to protect her daughter from the soldiers. Afterwards, Cath still ends up keeping her regards to her father as cowardly, but she does say she would take Bartre's thoughts into account.[5] As well as her hatred towards the rich and her father, she also holds great hostility towards bandits, as shown in her support with Garret, who is, himself, a bandit.[6]
Support conversations
- Main article:
Cath/Supports
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Endings
Cath, Master Thief
Cath set out to travel the world after the war. She then continued to give to the poor while exposing the secrets of greedy nobles and merchants. Her name remains in history today in "The Legend of the Master Thief."
Death Quote
“ | Heh heh... I goofed up... | ” | — Cath |
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Battle Quote
Other appearances
Etymology and other languages
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Trivia
- Cath`s theme song is nearly the same as Serra's in Fire Emblem, just with different instrumentation and pitch.
- In Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE the clerk at the Anzu costume shop resembles Cath, following with the theme of several other shopkeepers resembling Fire Emblem series characters.
Gallery
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References
- ↑ "Cath: Hey, Geeeese.
Geese: Yeah?
Cath: Ohhh... I think I'm drunk...
Geese: ......
Cath: Can you stay and revive me? Come on...
Geese: ... Hey.
Cath: Yeah?
Geese: Were you hit with a Berserk staff or something?
Cath: Huh?
Geese: Whatever you're doing, it's not very convincing at all.
Cath: What!? You withstood my seduction moves!? You're no ordinary man!" — Cath and Geese's B support, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "Hugh: I mean, don't you already have a ton of money if you're a thief?
Cath: No. Why would I?
Hugh: Yeah, right! I see you running around looting chests all the time!
Cath: I give it all to the poor. I'm a master thief, I have my dignity. I would never even keep 1G of the money I steal.
Hugh: Then... Are you going to give the money you take from me to the poor as well?
Cath: Of course." — Hugh and Cath's A support, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "Chad: ...I wasn't good in my studies, but when I drew pictures, Father praised me. He said I had clever fingers, and that I could be an artist someday.
Cath: ...... I see... ...... ...... Ah! I don't like situations like this. I want to live more optimistically. You should do the same, #1.
Chad: What do you mean, #1!?
Cath: You. You're my Servant #1, remember?
Chad: I never agreed to that!" — Chad and Cath's B support, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "Cath: ... Our village was burned to the ground in the war. A bunch of soldiers came and ordered us to set our houses on fire. No one did... I mean, who would? It was our home. Soon the soldiers got impatient and drew their swords... That's when one of the villagers took a torch and went around setting the place on fire. That coward... was my father." — Cath and Bartre's A support, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
- ↑ "Cath: I swore to myself that I would never become a coward who goes around bowing down to power like that. That's why I...
Bartre: Cath... you're wrong.
Cath: What?
Bartre: No one would enjoy burning down their own village. But your father... he had something he needed to protect.
Cath: ......
Bartre: Your father didn't have the strength to defeat the soldiers. But he was fighting all the same. He was gritting his teeth and fighting to protect something that was more important than his house and crops. ... He was fighting to protect you.
Cath: ...... ...... Ha... I don't think so. My father's just a coward. He's nothing like you. But... I suppose I could think of it that way..." — Cath and Bartre's A support, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade - ↑ "Cath: I freaking hate bandits! I feel like tearing my hair out when I hear about them." — Cath and Garret's C support, Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade
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