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Icon of Fimbulvetr in the GBA games.
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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. It would return even later as a black magic spell in Three Houses, where its power would be returned to that of its previous appearances, along with a high critical rate.
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.[1]
Stats
In the main Fire Emblem series
In other Fire Emblem series titles
Locations
The Binding Blade
The Blazing Blade
The Sacred Stones
Fates
- This list may be incomplete.
Three Houses
Heroes
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Makes follow-up attacks more difficult to
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Advanced ice magic.
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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
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Definition, etymology, and notes
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| English
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Fimbulvetr
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From the Fimbulvetr (Old Norse: "great winter"), the three unyielding winters preceding Ragnarök in Norse mythology.
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Fimbulvetr
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As above.
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| French
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Fimbulvetr
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As above.
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Fimbulwinter
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An alternative rendering of "Fimbulvetr", replacing the Old Norse vetr with the German Winter (meaning "winter"; "Fimbulwinter" is also used in English).
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Fimbulvetr
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As above.
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References
- ↑ "Anima is made up of fire, thunder, wind, and ice." The Sacred Stones American manual, page 39. (A similar note appears on page 35 of the Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade manual, but mentions a non-existent rain element instead of an ice one. This is a mistranslation; the Japanese says 氷, which means ice.)
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