Land of Sorrow (Gaiden)/Fear Mountain Battle

Fear Mountain Battle

Location Fear Mountain Boss(es) Marla Previous chapter(s) Rigel Forest Battle Next chapter(s) Siege of Nuibaba's Abode Fear Mountain Shrine

Fear Mountain Battle (Japanese: 恐山の戦い Fear Mountain Battle) is the third map of the fourth act of Alm's route in Fire Emblem Gaiden and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Map data

Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Rout the enemy	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Alm dies	13	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	15+reinforcements	{{{third}}}

Chapter Data
Conditions	Unit Data
Victory: Rout the enemy	Player	Partner	Other	Enemy	Third
Defeat: Alm dies	1–14	{{{partner}}}	{{{other}}}	15+reinforcements	{{{third}}}
Map dimensions: 30 columns by 28 rows

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Character data

Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Characters
New units
None
Required characters
Available characters

Characters
New units
None
Required characters
Available characters

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Item data

Items

Name Obtainment Method Soma Dropped by Marla

• Note: There are no items to be found in the original Gaiden. The item list above is for Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Enemy data

Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Normal Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Hard

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Str/Mag Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Marla Witch 8 1 31 13 15 11 0 7 14 4 -- Aura • Starts on supplies. • Moves to attack units in range; moves to the nearest avoid-boosting terrain otherwise. Baron Baron 1 2 40 22 6 4 0 18 7 4 -- Moves to attack units in range; moves to the nearest avoid-boosting terrain otherwise. Knight Knight 5 6 40 18 4 4 0 14 1 4 -- -- Sniper Sniper 1 4 30 12 6 6 0 6 2 5 -- The northern one moves to attack units in range; moves to the nearest avoid-boosting terrain otherwise. Paladin Paladin 1 2 28 12 5 8 0 8 5 8 -- --

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Str/Mag Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Witch Witch 1 Varies 22 10 12 8 0 4 14 4 -- Fire Summoned by Marla.

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Atk Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Marla Witch 8 1 28 14 14 10 0 6 14 4 Soma Aura • Conjure* • Starts on supplies. • Only moves to attack units in range, or to heal. Duma Faithful Baron 1 2 40 22 6 4 0 18 7 4 -- Lance • Heavy Armor Only moves to attack units in range. Duma Faithful Knight 5 6 39 18 4 4 0 14 1 4 -- Lance -- Duma Faithful Sniper 1 4 30 12 6 6 0 6 2 5 -- Bow • Bowrange +2 -- Duma Faithful Paladin 1 2 28 12 5 8 0 8 5 8 -- Lance --

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Atk Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Duma Faithful Witch 1 Varies 22 10 12 8 0 4 14 4 Fire • Teleportation Conjured by Marla.

Enemy Units

Name Class Lv # HP Atk Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Marla Witch 15 1 33 17 16 12 0 8 14 4 Soma Aura • Conjure* • Starts on supplies. • Only moves to attack units in range, or to heal. Duma Faithful Baron 5 2 45 24+4 8 5−1 0 20 7 4 Steel Lance Heavy Armor Both begin moving if either is provoked. Duma Faithful Baron 1 2 40 22 6 4 0 18 7 4 -- Lance • Heavy Armor Both begin moving if either of them or the nearby Sniper is provoked. Duma Faithful Sniper 7 1 37 15+3 9 8−3 0 8 2 5 Steel Bow Bowrange +2 • Anti-Fliers* Begins moving if he or a western Baron is provoked. Duma Faithful Knight 10 4 45 21+4 7 6−1 0 17 1 4 Steel Lance -- Duma Faithful Sniper 7 3 37 15+2 9 8−2 0 8 2 5 Iron Bow Bowrange +2 • Anti-Fliers* -- Duma Faithful Paladin 7 2 35 15+2 8 11 0 11 6 8 Iron Lance --

Reinforcements

Name Class Lv # HP Atk Mag Skill Spd Lck Prf Def Res Cha Lck Con Mov Inventory and Skills Duma Faithful Witch 5 Varies 25 12 13 9 0 5 14 4 -- Fire • Teleportation Conjured by Marla.

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Boss data

Main article: Marla

Gaiden Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Normal Echoes: Shadows of Valentia Hard

Witch Level 8

Stats Max HP 31 Luck 0 Magic 13 Defense 7 Skill 15 Resistance 14 Speed 11 Movement 4

Equipment Spells -- Aura Conjure Weapons Sword ✗ Axe ✗ B. Magic ✓ Lance ✗ Bow ✗ W. Magic ✓

• Marla is capable of summoning witches.

Witch Level 8

Stats Max HP 28 Luck 0 Attack 14 Defense 6 Skill 14 Resistance 14 Speed 10 Movement 4

Item Skills Soma Aura Conjure* Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

Witch Level 15

Stats Max HP 33 Luck 0 Attack 17 Defense 8 Skill 16 Resistance 14 Speed 12 Movement 4

Item Skills Soma Aura Conjure* Weapons ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗

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Strategy

This section details unofficial strategies that may help with completion of the chapter. This may not work for everybody.

On first glance this map looks like fairly standard fare—a few physical units of all kinds and a magic boss sitting (floating?) around on a supply tile conjuring reinforcements. However, Marla isn't your average enemy conjurer, and she doesn't conjure your average Revenant or Bonewalker. Instead, she conjures witches. The longer you leave her be, the more witches will spawn, and the more chances you give them to gang up on one of your units and kill them. Therefore, you need to defeat her as soon as possible.

Since Marla starts on the other end of the map, and Warp was nerfed from its global range in FE2, you'll actually have to fight your way over, instead of warping a bosskiller over. This makes the Knights and Snipers in the western valley just a distraction, albeit one that must eventually be addressed. Pushing toward Marla means fighting a squad of physically bulky Barons. While their unpromoted counterpart, Knights, get shredded by mages due to low RES, these Barons happen to have 7 RES, more than any other enemy except the boss and making them magically bulky as well. Luthier can't one-round them without an Excalibur crit, and while Delthea can do it with Aura if she levels both ATK and SPD a few times each, the HP cost will leave her so vulnerable that she can die to witches despite having high RES. Bow chip also doesn't really work, due to Heavy Armor cutting their already low damage by half. Instead, try to focus fire and delete them one at a time, exploiting their low movement to stay out of the range of others.

Meanwhile, you'll still have to keep the enemies in the eastern valley occupied. The most effective way is to simply warp a physically bulky unit who can self heal into the mountains there to boost evasion and effectively lower damage taken even more. Alm can usually do it, as he can access the convoy to get healing items for himself. If you beat Act 1 Desaix and have the Dracoshield, you can also give that to a promoted Lukas or Forsyth and warp them over instead, keeping your convoy access with the rest of the party. Cleric!Faye can also help with Physic if needed.

Once you approach Marla's fort, be careful. Aside from the witch reinforcements being close enough that they can walk (float?) to your party instead of having to teleport, Marla, well, isn't your average "throne boss". She will actually get off of her supply tile and attack you if she can. However, as a result of this, if you successfully bait her into attacking, she won't be able to conjure witches that turn. Baiting her isn't excessively dangerous - 26/29 Magical attack will severely damage, but not kill, any healed unit hit by her Aura, but her AS is no better than a Baron, so just about any healed unit that isn't Lukas or Forsyth will always survive. Once she's baited out and off her evasion-boosting terrain, she goes down easily. Units that can take a hit from her can deliberately engage her from 1-2 range, as Aura's high HP cost will prevent her from attacking after just a few rounds of combat. Once that happens, just block her way back to the supplies and you can feed the boss kill to anyone who wants it.

Once again, you get jumped by Witches on the way out of the Fear Mountain Shrine. It's better to fight them here than to deal with them while fighting Nuibaba.

Map Turn Count: 12
Game Turn Count: 212 (First passthrough)

Map Turn Count: 3
Game Turn Count: 222 (Second passthrough)

Map Turn Count: 3
Game Turn Count: 225 (Third passthrough)

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	As the continent's tallest mountain, its peak offers a view of all Valentia—a vista few ever enjoy and live to tell the tale.	大陸で最も高い山で、 バレンシア全土を 見渡すことができる。 生者が踏み込むことを 阻むようなただならぬ 雰囲気がただよう。

Trivia

• This map was used as the design basis for Witches' Trial from Fire Emblem Fates.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Fear Mountain Battle	--
Japanese	恐山の戦い	Fear Mountain Battle
French	Bataille: Mont. de la peur	Fear Mountain Battle
Korean	공포의 산의 전투	Fear mountain battle

Gallery

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