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Dragon Vein
“ | The blood of dragons flows in your veins, as it does in all royals. You must learn to harness this draconic power wherever you may find it. | ” | — Xander, to Corrin. |
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Dragon Vein (Japanese: 竜脈 Dragon Line) is a special ability introduced in Fire Emblem Fates which allows its user to alter the terrain around them to their tactical advantage, for instance, forming a bridge out of stone where there was nothing before, or draining water to form a path through a river. It is possessed by the royal families of Nohr, Hoshido, and Valla. The ability itself is claimed by both royal families to be inherited from a dragon ancestor.[1] In actuality, however, it comes from their ancestors drinking the blood of the First Dragons, working similarly to Holy Blood in Jugdral.
Overview
In gameplay, Dragon Veins are shown by a glowing orb on a tile in the map. Units that can use Dragon Vein have a crown icon () next to their name. A unit with Dragon Vein should move to the tile with this orb and select the "Dragon Vein" option, and the terrain will change based on context. Units of any allegiance can use dragon veins, though use of it by enemies is uncommon.
The effects of the vein when activated are incredibly context sensitive, though the same dragon vein will always have the same effect in subsequent playthroughs. The effects are not hidden from the player, if the cursor is placed over the Vein the game will display a short amount of text describing the Vein's effects. These effects can be beneficial or detrimental, so the player should take them into account.
Dragon Vein Points
Dragon Vein is also part of the My Castle feature, in the form of Dragon Vein Points. Dragon Vein Points are required to build and upgrade facilities. One point is gained per completed battle, be they main story chapters, paralogues, skirmishes, or Streetpass battles. The maximum Dragon Vein points a player can have is 99.
List of Dragon Veins
Starting chapters
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Chapter 1 | Reveals a healing tile; inaccessible by the player. |
Chapter 2 | Clears away debris to reveal a healing area. |
Chapter 3 | Raises a stone bridge leading to the fortress. |
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Birthright campaign
style="Template:Roundtl; border:none" width="100%" colspan="5"|Dragon Veins in the Birthright campaign | |
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Chapter 8 | Turns desert terrain into plains. |
Chapter 10 | Reveals spike traps that hurt units standing on them each turn. |
Chapter 11 | Creates cyclones that impede the movement of flying units. |
Chapter 12 | Freezes the water to make it passable by grounded units. |
Chapter 13 | Summons thunder that reduces the HP of enemies to 1. |
Chapter 14 | Triggers a rock slide that inflicts 10 damage to all enemies in range. |
Chapter 15 | Reduces the stats of all enemies by 4 (recovers by 1 per turn). |
Chapter 17 | Freezes the lake to make it passable by grounded units. |
Chapter 18 | Turns the spot it was on into a marsh that summons Faceless. |
Chapter 19 | Dispels fortress' stomach acid that summons Faceless. |
Chapter 20 | Dragon Veins below orbs carried by statues form a bridge. The ones next to these cause more lava to flow in. |
Chapter 23 | Shoots a fireball that damages enemies in range. |
Chapter 24 | Creates cyclones that impede the movement of flying units. |
Endgame | Turns map tiles into blighted tiles. Any unit standing on them loses 10 HP, while Garon regains HP. |
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Conquest campaign
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Revelation campaign
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Characters who possess Dragon Vein
Units who are able to access Dragon Veins are marked with a crown icon next to their name on their stat profiles. There are sixteen playable characters who will always have the ability to access Dragon Veins:
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style="Template:Roundbl; width:50px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Corrin | Azura | Ryoma | Hinoka | Takumi | Sakura | Xander | style="Template:Roundbr; width:50px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Camilla | |||||||
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style="Template:Roundbl; width:50px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Leo | Elise | Kana | Shigure | Shiro | Kiragi | Siegbert | style="Template:Roundbr; width:50px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Forrest |
In addition to this sixteen, any children of a character with Dragon Vein will also inherit Dragon Vein, allowing the player to choose pairings to expand the number of units with Dragon Vein with specific children. For example, if Camilla, a bearer of Dragon Vein, marries Arthur the resulting child, Percy, will inherit Dragon Vein.
Also, the DLC item First Blood will give any other playable unit Dragon Vein as well when used on them, regardless of their heritage.
There are also several enemy characters that have Dragon Vein access. Their utilization of the ability is generally restricted to scripted events, or on specific turns during a chapter. Any playable character who can use Dragon Vein can also use it as an enemy.
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style="Template:Roundbl; width:50px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Arete | Garon | Mikoto | style="Template:Roundbr; width:50px; background:#222222" colspan="2" align="center" | Sumeragi |
Trivia
- The limited edition Fire Emblem Fates New Nintendo 3DS XL console features the four Dragon Vein figures on its shell.
Gallery
Etymology and other languages
Names, etymology, and in other regions | ||
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Language | Name | Definition, etymology, and notes |
English |
Dragon Vein |
Refers to terrain associated with dragons, and has important meaning in Chinese feng shui-the flow of energy-properties.[2] |
References
- ↑ "Both Hoshido and Nohr are devout followers of dragons known as the "First Dragons" and the humans of the royal families are said to inherit the blood of dragons. The royal family members--Corrin included--possess abilities surpassing that of humans because of the blood's effect." — VincentASM, Known Information (2nd April) (webpage), Serenesforest.net, Published: May 12th, 2015, Retrieved: May 16th, 2015
- ↑ "By the way, "Dragon’s vein" is a Chinese term for terrain that resembles a dragon; such terrain has various important feng shui properties." — VincentASM, April Direct Analysis (webpage), Serenesforest.net, Published: April 1st, 2015, Retrieved: May 16th, 2015
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