Nihil

Nihil Icon of the Nihil skill in Path of Radiance. Cancel enemy combat-related skills.

Type(s) Personal Combat (Genealogy of the Holy War) Capacity 15 (in Path of Radiance) 20 (in Radiant Dawn) Game(s) Genealogy of the Holy War Thracia 776 Path of Radiance Radiant Dawn Engage

Nihil (Japanese: 見切り Seeing All), known as Perceptive in Engage, is a combat skill which debuted in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. Its primary purpose across all of its appearances is to temporarily disable any and all combat skills used by enemy units, preventing them being used upon the bearer of Nihil. In Radiant Dawn, it is particularly important in the Part IV, Endgame, owing to its ability to protect its user from both the mastery skills used by its bosses and from the counter-attacking effect of the Aurora skill in the final stage; additionally, the skill Mantle also incorporates the effects of Nihil.

Data

Game	Icon	Effect	Activation	Capacity	Notes
Genealogy of the Holy War		Negates the foe's Astra, Luna, Sol, and critical hits.	--	--	Also negates effective damage, due to it being treated as a guaranteed critical hit.
Thracia 776		Negates the foe's combat skills.	--	--	If both combatants have Nihil, both units' combat skills are sealed.
Path of Radiance		Negates the foe's combat skills.	--	15	--
Radiant Dawn		Negates the foe's combat skills.	--	20	--

Availability

Genealogy of the Holy War

Units (As a personal skill)

First Generation: Alec • Ayra • Deirdre Second Generation: (Any set of two children*), if Alec was their father • Julia • Larcei • Seliph • Scáthach

Thracia 776

Units (As a personal skill)	Saias • Troude
Items	Shadow Sword • Mareeta's Sword • Nihil M

Path of Radiance

Units	Calill • Nasir
Items	Nihil

Radiant Dawn

Units	Black Knight* • Calill • Nasir • Nolan
Items	Nihil
Event	Part IV, Prologue, Ike upon promoting to Vanguard

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	• Nihil • Perceptive	• Latin: "nothing", "nothingness". The root of the modern English word "annihilation". Used in Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. • Used in Engage.
English (unofficial)	Awareness	Popularized by Serenes Forest and the old fan translations of Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, prior to the English release of Path of Radiance.
Japanese	見切り	Romanized as Grasp in its internal file name in Path of Radiance, and as Nihil in the same in Radiant Dawn. The noun form of the Japanese verb 見切る, which can be taken to mean both "to see all" (hence the name "Awareness" in fan translations and the eye icon) and "to abandon" (hence the English name's reference to nothingness).
Spanish	Arrojo	Daring
French	Nihil	--
German	Negation	Negation
Italian	Vuoto	Void

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Nihil manual from the Fire Emblem Trading Card Game.

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  Calill activating Nihil in Path of Radiance.

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  Nolan activating Nihil in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Dragonskin
• Mantle
• Parity