Kriemhild

Kriemhild Concept artwork of the top and bottom of Kriemhild from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. A lance that came at a price.

Type Lance First game Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

The Kriemhild (Japanese: クリムヒルド Kriemhild) is a lance which was introduced in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. It is wielded by Berkut in his appearance as a boss in Act 5. It has the longest range of any lance in the game, which combined with its respectable might and good hit makes approaching Berkut to attack a dangerous prospect. It also gives him strong defensive abilities by providing both boosts to his defensive stats and the Phantasm skill, which reduces the damage he takes from bows and black magic: the only weapon types which can attack him from a far enough distance that he cannot counter-attack.

Stats

In the main Fire Emblem series

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia			10	2	85	0	1-3	--	--	--	+5 defense, +5 resistance when equipped. Grants Phantasm when equipped.

In other Fire Emblem series titles

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Heroes		5★	16	--	--	--	1	--	400 SP	--	If a user of a range-2 weapon skill initiates combat against user and user is within two spaces of an ally, user counterattacks regardless of target's range and target cannot make a follow-up strike but also deals 20 damage to nearest ally if user attacked.

Locations

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Unobtainable

Exclusively used by Berkut.

Heroes

Units

Berkut: Purgatorial Prince

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Kriemhild is present as a skill on one of Berkut's cards in Fire Emblem Cipher: B09-046R Delusions of Conquest, Berkut. It is a manual-activation skill which, for a cost of discarding one untapped ally unit in play, grants Berkut +10 attack and 1-3 range until the opponent's next turn ends.

Trivia

• Kriemhild's design may be intended to be a corrupted version of Duma's Lance; both weapons feature a claw-like tri-pronged head, spikes resembling Duma's horns at the base of the head, and a red centerpiece: a gem on Duma's Lance and a red eye on Kriemhild.
• A sword known as Kriemhild appears in TearRing Saga Series: Berwick Saga, although the katakana spelling is different.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Kriemhild	"Kriemhild" was the name given to the Germanic mythological character Gudrun, traditionally the wife of the hero Sigurd, in the Middle High German epic poem, the Nibelungenlied. The poem tells the story of Kriemhild's revenge for Siegfried's murder.
Spanish	Kriemhild	--
French	Kriemhild	--
German	Kriemhild	--
Italian	Kriemhild	--
Dutch	Kriemhild	--
Portuguese (Brazil)	Kriemhild	--
Simplified Chinese	克里姆希尔特	Kriemhild
Traditional Chinese	克里姆希爾特	Kriemhild

Gallery

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  Concept artwork of the top and bottom of Kriemhild from Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Kriemhild as it appears in Heroes.

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  Berkut wielding Kriemhild in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

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  Berkut wielding Kriemhild in Heroes.