Nichol

Nichol is a capturable boss character from Fire Emblem Fates. He is a Nohrian knight who leads a group of bandits to terrorize a village.

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Nichol appears in Paralogue 5, where he and his band of bandits are introduced in the midst of terrorizing a village, taunting a child for failing to pay a toll. When the boy calls for help, Nichol sadistically threatens to allow one of his comrades to rip out his tongue. Fortunately for the village, Corrin's army, aware of the dire proceedings, arrives in the nick of time to save its inhabitants from certain death. Nichol is eventually defeated in the ensuing battle, either slain or captured by Corrin's forces.

Nichol also appears as a potential visitor in the DLC episode Museum Melee.

Personality[]

Although not much is known about Nichol due to his minor involvement with the plot, several aspects of his character can be gleaned from his dialog and additional info. His help description, for one, describes him as being apathetic despite having an unusually strong will to survive. His pre-battle quote also portrays him as prideful, as he, despite being aware of the odds stacked against him, arrogantly announces his combat superiority before taunting his foe to approach him.

In-Game[]

As an Enemy[]

Paralogue 5 - Bold Approach[]

All difficulties

Starting Class
Malig Knight
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	-
Skills			Weapon			Starting Items
**Strength +2 Lunge			Axe - Varies (A on Lunatic) Tome - Varies (B on Lunatic)			Varies

• Note: Stats and equipment are dependent on the player's progress in the game.

**These skills are innate on Lunatic mode

Xenologue 5 - Museum Melee[]

Starting Class
Malig Knight
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov
Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	Varies	8
Skills			Weapon			Starting Items
**Strength +2 Lunge			Axe - Varies (A on Lunatic) Tome - Varies (B on Lunatic)			Varies

• Note: Stats and equipment are dependent on the player's progress in the game.

**These skills are innate on Lunatic difficulty

Growth Rates[]

As a Malig Knight

As a Wyvern Lord

Max Stat Modifiers[]

Class Sets[]

Standard Sets[]

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Wyvern Rider	Malig Knight
	Wyvern Lord

Special Classes[]

Base Classes	Promoted Classes
Dread Fighter (Dread Scroll required)	-
	-
Dark Falcon (Ebon Wing required)	-
	-
Ballistician (Sighting Lens required)	-
	-
Lodestar (Hero's Brand required)	-
	-
Grandmaster (Fell Brand required)	-
	-
Vanguard (Vanguard Brand required)	-
	-

Overall[]

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

As a prepromoted Malig Knight, Nichol is one of the strongest capturable units in the game. This is particularly true on Lunatic, where his minimum base stats tie or beat nearly all of Camilla's across the board while boasting superior weapon ranks and nearly identical growths. While he doesn't come with skills on Normal or Hard, he will come equipped with skills learned from Wyvern Rider on Lunatic.

Nichol is at his best in Birthright. The large number of Rout and Defeat Boss missions make mobility and access to 1-2 range weapons particularly valuable commodities, both of which he possesses. While Nichol excels as a physical attacker, his magical capabilities should not be overlooked, despite his subpar Magic. He makes excellent use of the Bolt Axe, and can perform well with Tomes with a bit of investment. His high move and moderately high Defense allows him to engage groups of enemies sooner than most other units and survive reliably. For these reasons, Nichol makes a good replacement for Scarlet, although they're at their best when both of them are deployed. Nichol can also be obtained many chapters before recruiting Scarlet since Silas will already be in the party and can marry as soon as the Prison can be built.

Nichol is also a good unit in Conquest. Although Wyvern Rider is more easily available, there are still a large number of maps that are made much easier with more than one of them deployed. He can still make a good 1-2 range magical attacker, although he is much more reliant on the Bolt Axe than in Birthright. For this reason, the player may prefer to reclass him to Wyvern Lord to enhance his physical capabilities. While he is a good replacement for Camilla or Beruka if the player is unwilling to use them or they are incapacitated, Nichol is still more than capable of pulling his weight with them deployed, due to the strength of the Wyvern Rider set.

As a Malig Knight, Nichol's base class set is the Wyvern Rider. His other normal reclassing option is Wyvern Lord. Like all other capturable units, he can be reclassed into special classes if so desired.

It's worth noting that if Nichol is recruited early enough, he'll earn experience at a very slow rate due to his very high starting level, although this will gradually correct itself as the game progresses. This means that Nichol will likely be stuck with his base stats for a long period of time. This is more of an issue in Conquest, though Nichol's bases are high enough to function for a long time.

Overall, while not quite as dominant as his fellow Malig Knight Camilla, Nichol is still a great unit, regardless of route.

Quotes[]

Battle Quote[]

Defeat Quote[]

Unused Voice Clip[]

Defeated Voice Clip[]

Cut Content[]

Nichol seems to have originally been a recruitable unit with a larger role, but was scrapped and became a capturable unit instead. There is evidence that may prove that his role was indeed scrapped. For one, he, along with Candace (another capturable unit) are the only two capturable bosses with critical/skill activation cut-in portraits, though they lack quotes for such. Another evidence being his voice clip played when he falls in battle, which is said in a manner similar to how allied units are defeated, as well as being the only voice clip of his that plays. Most capturable bosses either have no defeat quotes or use multiple clips when fallen in battle (minus Haitaka and the bandit twins). Not only that, but he has many voice clips that were not used in the final release, with one of them mentioning his fear of death among most things. Additionally, his name is located among the names of male characters that can exclusively marry female Corrin. He also has a blushing graphic that was never used in the final game, which could have been used during his confession with Corrin and other events such as the Hot Spring.

Choose Your Legends Placement History[]

Round	Placement	Character Version	Votes

CYL1	460	Fates	271
CYL2	628 ↓168	Fates	109 ↓162
CYL3	493 ↑135	Fates	122 ↑13
CYL4	536 ↓43	Fates	53 ↓69
CYL5	439 ↑97	Fates	67 ↑14
CYL6	399 ↑40	Fates	124 ↑57

CYL7

364 ↑35

Fates

69 ↓55

Etymology[]

Nacht is the Dutch and German word for night.

Trivia[]

• Nichol shares his Japanese voice actor, Kenji Hamada, with Azama in Fates including Gregor and Yen'fay from Awakening.
  • He also shares his English voice actor, Walden James, with other characters in Fates such as: Subaki, Iago, Kotaro and Haitaka.
• Nichol is one of the few capturable male bosses whose voice clips are not shared with other capturable bosses. Others include Senno, Haitaka, Lloyd, and Llewelyn. Haitaka, however, does share voice clips with two non-capturable Hoshidan bosses, Omozu and Kotaro, and Senno shares his voice clips with Kilma.
• Nichol and Candace are the only paralogue bosses to use the theme "Squirm in the Dark" when they are fought like most Nohrian bosses in the main storyline (not counting the playable allies in Conquest). This is considered unusual, as paralogue bosses normally have the theme "Wild Outlaw" played when they are engaged in battle. This could be due to the fact that they are the only two paralogue bosses to have their countries listed, with that being Nohr, while most of the paralogue bosses are listed as scoundrels from remote regions.
• Nichol along with Candace are the only capturable units that were eligible for votes in the Fire Emblem Heroes: Choose Your Legend poll.
  • As of the Fire Emblem Heroes: Choose Your Legend poll in February 2021, all capturable bosses that appeared in Fates have been eligible to receive votes along with Nichol and Candace.

Gallery[]

Nichol's official Twitter icon.

Nichol in game

Nichol unused blushing Portrait