Fimbulvetr

Fimbulvetr Icon of Fimbulvetr in the GBA games.

Type Anima (GBA) Tome (Fates) First game Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Fimbulvetr (Japanese: フィンブル Fimbul) is a potent ice-based anima magic tome appearing in the three Game Boy Advance installments of the Fire Emblem series. In all three of these appearances, it is found in the possession of late-game enemy Sages, mostly female bosses. Fimbulvetr later resurfaced as an uncategorized tome in Fates in a far weaker fashion, serving as the game's standard C-rank tome.

Fimbulvetr is the sole tome in the anima magic category that does not fall within the three traditional elements of fire, thunder, and wind. An ice elemental, to which Fimbulvetr belongs to, is allowed under the GBA interpretation of anima magic, with the North American manual of The Sacred Stones even listing ice as one of the elementals of anima magic.

Stats

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
The Binding Blade		A	13	8	80	0	1-2	15	3,900	1	--
The Blazing Blade		A	13	12	80	0	1-2	20	6,000	1	--
The Sacred Stones		A	13	12	80	0	1-2	20	6,000	1	-- -

Locations

The Binding Blade

Inventory

Brunnya (Trial Map mode only; unavailable in the main game.)

The Blazing Blade

Dropped by

Chapter 30E/32H, Limstella

The Sacred Stones

Dropped by	Chapter 17, enemy Sage
Treasure	Lagdou Ruins Floor 5, northwest chest*

Fates

This list may be incomplete.

Inventory	Conquest: Nyx
Dropped by	Revelation: Chapter 17, enemy Iago
Armory	Dusk Armory: Level 1 (limit 1) • Levels 2 and 3 (no limit)

Trivia

• The French versions of Path of Radiance, Radiant Dawn and Awakening renamed the separate Rexcalibur spell "Fimbulvetr", effectively merging the two spells into a single consistently appearing spell in the French releases. The spell's internal file name in Path of Radiance also calls it "Fimbulvetr".
  • This may also explain why some sources mistake Fimbulvetr as being a wind elemental, despite its tome icon having a distinct visual appearance from icons of wind elementals (i.e. Aircalibur) in the GBA games.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Fimbulvetr	From the Fimbulvetr (Old Norse: "great winter"), the three unyielding winters preceding Ragnarök in Norse mythology.
Spanish	Fimbulvetr	As above.
French	Fimbulvetr	As above.
German	Fimbulwinter	An alternative rendering of "Fimbulvetr", replacing the Old Norse vetr with the German Winter (meaning "winter"; "Fimbulwinter" is also used in English).
Italian	Fimbulvetr	As above.

Gallery

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  Nino casting Fimbulvetr in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.