Garret

Not to be confused Gareth, a character in Radiant Dawn.

Garret Artwork of Garret from The Binding Blade. A bandit from the Etrurian border.

Gender Male Race Human Age 30s Family Unnamed Mother Nationality Etrurian (from the Western Isles) Starting class Berserker Appearance(s) The Binding Blade

“	I'm a bandit, like you say. I've plundered villages and killed innocent people. But...let me say this. [...] I... I hate bandits as well...and I hate the way I've been living like one. That's all.	”	— Garret, to Cath

Garret (Japanese: ガレット Garret) is a playable berserker in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.

Biography

Garret grew up in the Western Isles but moved away after his parents were murdered in a bandit attack on his village. He eventually slaughtered the ones who killed his parents, but was forced to turn to banditry in order to make a living.

Eventually, Garret fell in with a group of bandits near the Etrurian border and became their leader, but he prevented them from unnecessarily killing people, much to the ire of his crew. During the Disturbance of Bern, while taking advantage of the battle over Fae to ransack nearby villages, Garret was spotted by Lilina, and joined the Lycian army to ensure that the Ostian noble stayed true to her word and fought to aid the people.

After the war, Garret gave up banditry and led a peaceful life as a farmer, never picking up his axe again.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Garret is a playable character recruitable in Chapter 15. He is initially an enemy unit, and can be recruited by talking to him with Lilina; because he comes in the map as a reinforcement, he gains boosts to his stats on Hard Mode.

Starting stats and growth rates

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Normal Hard

Berserker Level 1 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 15, talk to with Lilina Stats Growth Rates Max HP 49 Luck 12 Strength 17 Defense 9 Skill 13 Resistance 4 Speed 10 Constitution 13 Movement 6 Aid 12 Max HP 70% Luck 15% Strength 45% Defense 15% Skill 25% Resistance 5% Speed 25% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Steel Axe Hand Axe Weapon Levels -- -- C -- -- -- -- --

Berserker Level 1 Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 15, talk to with Lilina Stats Growth Rates Max HP 54~57 Luck 13~14 Strength 20~22 Defense 9~11 Skill 15~17 Resistance 4~6 Speed 11~12 Constitution 13 Movement 6 Aid 12 Max HP 70% Luck 15% Strength 45% Defense 15% Skill 25% Resistance 5% Speed 25% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Steel Axe Hand Axe Weapon Levels -- -- C -- -- -- -- --

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Analysis

This character analysis section may not be accurate to every player's experience.

Garret is a unit who joins past the halfway point of The Binding Blade. He has very high strength and HP, especially in Hard Mode, but his speed is subpar. Garret is not fast enough to double any enemies except for the slowest ones. This makes it more difficult to make use of his strength. While he does have high HP, his defense and resistance are both mediocre, making him less durable. His speed is also low enough that he may get doubled by faster enemies.

Garret does have positive traits, though. His C-rank in axes is enough to use Killer Axes with no investment. Thanks to his high strength, he can oneshot enemies if he crits. The Berserker class gives him a crit bonus, too. Thanks to that, while wielding a Killer Axe, Garret can kill enemies in one round by critting them. As a Berserker, Garret can also walk on mountains, which increases his avoid. The player can exploit this to improve Garret's defenses and make him better at combat on enemy phase.

Garret suffers from the low accuracy of axes in The Binding Blade. Despite having a solid skill stat, he will still miss quite often. Considering he cannot double most enemies, this impedes his combat performance. Besides, having a C-rank in axes is decent, but not outstanding. For instance, Garret cannot use the Brave Axe at base. It is a shame, because the Brave Axe would circumvent his low speed by allowing him to attack twice. Increasing Garret's weapon rank is also a chore. Weapon EXP gain in The Binding Blade is very slow, and Garret will miss quite often, further slowing it down.

In summary, Garret is good enough at base level to contribute in combat, but he is not excellent. His growths are low, preventing him from gaining many stats as he levels up. He is better in Hard Mode than in Normal Mode, because he enjoys Hard Mode bonuses to all stats. That said, even with these bonuses, he suffers from the same issues that plague him in Normal Mode.

Personality

Garret is a broken man due to his past experiences. He resents bandits and by extension himself for being one, but he was forced to continue banditry as it was the only way he could make ends meet; in spite of this, he is upfront about his banditry and does not hesitate to admit it to others like Cath. He is cynical and pessimistic; when Lilina told him about the time she gave an old man her valuable bracelet after he told her that he was starving; Garret immediately believed that the old man was lying.

For all his flaws, Garret does have some redeeming factors. He genuinely repents his actions as a bandit and has a heartfelt desire to become a better person; he is eager to find jobs that don't involve criminal activity, which is shown when he once requested a position in Geese's crew, but then immediately backed out when Geese told him that the crew recently had to resort to piracy. However, he does not show any true passion for these other jobs and only does them for the cash, something that is acknowledged by Geese and Larum. Fortunately for him, he does eventually find a job as a farmer after the war, never needing to resort to banditry again. He also has some sense of humanitarianism; despite admitting to killing innocents, he hates unnecessary bloodshed and actively tells his underlings not to do any unnecessary killing, which earns him his fellow bandits's annoyance.

Supports

Main article: Garret/Supports

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See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Garret, Veteran Berserker
Short: Quit banditry and led a normal life.

Long: Garret quit banditry and led a normal life. He worked and tended to his crops just as any ordinary villager would. He never picked up a weapon ever again after the war ended.

Quotes

Final Chapter quote

“	A truly powerful enemy! Haven’t met one in years!	”	— Garret in the final chapter

Death quote

“	It's...all over...	”	— Garret

Other appearances

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Garret's official artwork from The Binding Blade can be viewed in Path of Radiance's extras menu if a copy of The Binding Blade is connected to a Japanese copy of Path of Radiance. This illustration, along with all other The Binding Blade-related artwork, is inaccessible in the international versions of the game, owing to the fact that The Binding Blade was not released in those regions.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade	A bandit from the Etrurian border.*	エトルリア国境ぞいで くすぶっている『あらくれ』

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1 (2017)

729

Garret The Binding Blade

52

CYL 2 (2018)

744 (+15)

Garret The Binding Blade

40 (−12)

CYL 3 (2019)

661 (+15)

Garret The Binding Blade

36 (−4)

CYL 4 (2020)

754 (+15)

Garret The Binding Blade

21 (−15)

CYL 5 (2021)

792 (+38)

Garret The Binding Blade

16 (−5)

CYL 6 (2022)

770 (−24)

Garret The Binding Blade

23 (+7)

CYL 7 (2023)

661 (−109)

Garret The Binding Blade

44 (+21)

CYL 8 (2024)

666 (+5)

Garret The Binding Blade

48 (+4)

Total results		This character has 8 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls.	280

Trivia

• The The Making of Fire Emblem – 25th Anniversary Development Secrets, Awakening and Fates artbook features a work-in-progress map of Elibe, with characters being placed on their then-place of origin on the map. Notably, Garret stated to come from what would later become Valor in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, instead of coming from the Western Isles in the final version.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	• Garret • Garrett	• Used in official websites. • Mentioned in Heroes.
English (unofficial)	Garret	--
Japanese	ガレット	Officially romanized as Garret.
Spanish	• Garret • Garrett	• Used in Choose Your Legends. • Mentioned in Heroes.
French	Garret	--
German	Garret	--
Italian	• Garret • Garrett	• Used in Choose Your Legends. • Mentioned in Heroes.
Portuguese	• Garret • Garrett	• Used in Choose Your Legends. • Mentioned in Heroes.
Traditional Chinese	加雷特	Garret; used in Choose Your Legends.

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Berserker Basic axe Ranged axe

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Garret from The Binding Blade.

Battle animations

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  Garret attacking with an Axe as a Berserker in The Binding Blade.

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  Garret performing a critical hit with an Axe as a Berserker in The Binding Blade.

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  Garret attacking with a ranged axe as a Berserker in The Binding Blade.

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  Garret performing a critical hit with a ranged axe as a Berserker in The Binding Blade.

CG images

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  CG image of Garret in Path of Radiance.

References

This article is part of Project Characters, a project focused on writing articles for every character present in the Fire Emblem series.