Heather

Heather (Japanese: ヘザー Heather) is a rogue and a playable character in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Role

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Starting stats and growth rates

Rogue Level 7 Affinity Constitution 7

Recruitment: Part II, Chapter 1, talk to with either Brom or Nephenee Re-recruited in Part III, Chapter 2, automatically from the start Stats Growth Rates Max HP 32 Speed 25 Strength 15 Luck 16 Magic 9 Defense 10 Skill 21 Resistance 14 Movement 7 Weight 7 Max HP 40% Speed 70% Strength 25% Luck 75% Magic 20% Defense 30% Skill 50% Resistance 40% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills Iron Dagger Bronze Knife Pass Steal Shove Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- C -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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Promotion stat gains

Class	HP	Str	Mag	Skill	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Con	Mov	Skills	Weapon level
Whisper	+4	+3	+4	+2	+2	+0	+3	+4	+0	+0	Bane	(x to A)

Availability

Analysis

Heather is a Rogue that can be recruited by Nephenee and Brom in 2-1 after she appears in turn 3, and then joins the Greil Mercenaries before the start of 3-2. She has very high base speed and high base skill, but the rest of her base stats are low, especially for her relatively high base level, and she is so physically frail that most physical enemies will be able to 2HKO her immediately. With her base speed she can immediately double everything, and her amazing speed growth ensures she'll be able to double everything throughout the rest of the game if trained. She additionally has an even greater luck growth, which when combined with her speed will make her one of the dodgiest units in the game, though with her low HP and defense growth on top of her very low durability bases means she'll be unlikely to ever survive taking more than two physical hits, making it dangerous to put her in range of enemies without additional aid to ensure she doesn't get hit. Her biggest problem is with a low base strength, a very low strength growth, and being restricted to knives she'll significantly struggle to deal meaningful damage throughout the game, and it can't be raised easily with BEXP either, as she usually won't start capping stats until around level 15 and she needs to have 4 stats capped to reliably get strength through BEXP level ups, which will require significant luck to do at all in her tier 2 and tier 3 class without stat boosters. Heather's resistance growth is good for a physical unit on top of a decent res base, which does allow her to fare decently against mages, but even with their low defense she'll still be unlikely to ever ORKO them and mages aren't dangerous enough to other units to make this a particularly useful niche.

Heather's main use is for thieving utility, but after Part I there isn't much valuable thieving utility to be done, with few valuable items/weapons to steal, hidden items usually being coins while from that point forward there will be an abundance of units with high skill that will make obtaining them with non-thieves not particularly difficult, and there being no chests nor doors for her to open throughout all of Part II and III. There are still a few maps however that she can be freely deployed without costing a more valuable unit a spot and perform valuable thieving duties on, such as stealing a Secret Book in 2-2, stealing a Dracoshield in 2-E, stealing a Statue Frag in 3-2, stealing an Energy Drop in 3-5, and stealing the Senators' items in 3-4 so the player can gain extra BEXP for sparing them. Besides these few thieving duties there is little she can contribute, and even if the player invests heavily into her, particular with Energy Drops to try fixing her strength, she is unsalvageable as a combat unit, as she has a very low strength cap of 21 in her tier 2 class and will not have access to any strong knives until later Part IV. If promoted into a Whisper she has a still very low strength cap of 28 that prevents her from ever dealing much damage in later Part III and onwards while not getting any sort of crit bonus to alleviate it, and she gets the mastery skill Bane, which leaves enemies at 1 HP while all other masteries tend to outright kill among other effects. If trained up at best she can serve as a very dodgy diversion unit to divert attacks from other less dodgy yet frail units, though this is of little usefulness compared to a unit that can withstand Enemy Phase while counterattacking with useful damage.

In Part IV Heather is ideally put on Ike's team, as 4-4 has doors and chests that she can help open, while Micaiah's team has Sothe forced and he can find the valuable hidden items in 4-3, and neither of Tibarn's maps have any thieving duties to be done. With the large amount of door and chest keys available she isn't necessary for 4-4, so if the player wants to finish 4-3 before Sothe has time to reach every item and doesn't want to risk failing to pick up an item with a non-thief, Heather can be of use on Micaiah's team without being redundant.

For endgame Heather is possibly the worst character to bring in, as her 28 strength cap, if she can even reach it, and her lack of other abilities make her especially impotent. Additionally the Baselard is the only especially strong knife in the game, which Heather will need to do any real damage, and there is only one of it, while Volke at base is a completely superior combat unit to a completely capped Heather and thus it will never be optimal to have her in the Tower using the Baselard instead of Volke. Then Sothe is forced into the Tower, so there is no need to have Heather around to open the single chest of 4-E-1 nor steal anything.

For skills she comes with innate Pass, but since with her very poor durability and lack of combat prowess you'll never want her going behind enemy lines, so it's better to take it off her and put it on a unit you won't mind extending into enemy territory. Her speed will give one of the best activation rates with Adept, but since she does so little damage and has no crit bonus she doesn't improve much from dealing an extra attack. The best help to her combat is Wrath and her dodginess will help her survive at low health, but again since her damage output is so poor not even crits will reliably kill, and if she is too dodgy she may have a hard time being put into Wrath range. With such poor durability she can benefit off of skills that prevent counterattacks like Cancel to help ensure she doesn't get hit when attacking. Cancel will have significantly higher activation rates for her than other such skills, but with Disarm she has particularly noteworthy use, as if she successfully disarms an enemy during Enemy Phase, she can then steal their weapon, allowing her to make more use of the one utility she has.

Heather has a fire affinity which gives an attack and accuracy boost, she benefits little off of the accuracy boost but the attack boost is helpful as she needs all the help she can get for her damage output. Since Heather is not a unit you'll want near the frontlines it can be hard if not impractical to have her stay in support range of your other units and supports will do nothing to help her perform thieving duties. If the player wants to actively use Heather and have her see combat, then an earth affinity is by far most desirable, as she'll need the massive avoid boost to maximize her survival and with it she can become near-unhittable, while no other affinity will provide close to that benefit for her. Ike and Oscar are the only units on the GMs with earth until Tanith joins in 3-11, so they are the ideal support partners for her, and both will benefit off the attack + accuracy boost. Since Oscar is a mounted unit that Heather will have a hard time keeping up with, while Ike is an infantry unit with similar movement, Ike will be the better support partner.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Role

One version of Heather is currently in Fire Emblem Heroes. A ninja-themed variation of Heather was first made available to summon from November 7 to December 7, 2023.

Heather: Wandering Ninja

Starting stats

Heather: Wandering Ninja is only available at 5★ rarity.

Rarity ★★★★★ Weapon type Movement type

Initial Stats Level 40 Stats Maximum HP 16/17/18 Attack 11/12/13 Speed 7/8/9 Defense 7/8/9 Resistance 7/8/9 Maximum HP 38/41/44 Attack 39/42/46 Speed 44/47/51 Defense 24/27/31 Resistance 26/30/33 {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}}

Skills Spy's Shuriken Rally Speed --

Skill set

Skill set
Skill		Unlock	Auto-unlock	SP cost
	Iron Dagger	★★★★★	★★★★★	50
	Steel Dagger	★★★★★	★★★★★	100
	Silver Dagger	★★★★★	★★★★★	200
	Spy's Shuriken	★★★★★	★★★★★	400
	Rally Speed	★★★★★	★★★★★	150
	Rally Atk/Spd	★★★★★	—	300
	Rally Atk/Spd+	★★★★★	—	400
A	Darting Blow 1	★★★★★	—	50
A	Swift Sparrow 1	★★★★★	—	120
A	Swift Sparrow 2	★★★★★	—	240
A	Remote Sparrow	★★★★★	—	300
B	Spd/Def Ruse 1	★★★★★	—	60
B	Spd/Def Ruse 2	★★★★★	—	120
B	Spd/Def Ruse 3	★★★★★	—	240
B	Spd/Def Ruse 4	★★★★★	—	300

Personality

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Heather cares for her parents and "works" to support them through blackmail and thievery. Even though she claims to have stopped thievery at the end of the war, it is implied she still steals afterwards.

Heather is a womanizer and flirt, though her attraction to women has been toned down in international releases. She is very willing to do favors for other girls, like buying Ilyana food and helping Brom when she notices Nephenee is with him.

Supports

Bond supports

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Endings

Heather, Alluring Rogue
Heather returned home to care for her mother, swearing off her roguish ways. Yet somehow, she always had money.

Quotes

Battle quotes

Death quote

Heroes quotes

Main article: Heather/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

Heather is featured on three cards in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Heather
	Alluring Rogue, Heather
		"I’m the type that likes to help nice country girls like you."
		Attack: 50	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 2
		Class: Thief		Tier: Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Locktouch: [Activate] [Once per turn] [] Reveal the top card of the opponent's deck. If the revealed card has the affinity, draw a card.
	Card #B05-079HN • Artist: Fumi
	Woman-Loving Rogue, Heather
		"Nothing personal... I just don't like men like you!"
		Attack: 70	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 4
		Class: Rogue		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 3
		"For the smiles of girls!": [Activate] [Once per turn] [] Draw 1 card. This skill is only usable if you have 2 or more other allies. "Buffoonish men are in for a thrashing!": [Always] If this unit is in the Front Line, this unit can attack enemies regardless of range.
	Card #B20-078HN • Artist: Subaru Yasuda
	Back Alley Earner, Heather
		"Yep, this oughta be enough to get Mom's medicine. What a good day!"
		Attack: 40	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 1
		Class: Thief		Tier: Base	Class Change Cost: --
		A Thief's Work Away From Home: [Activate] [Once per turn] Reveal the topmost card of your opponent's Deck. You may send the card to the Retreat Area. Thief Emblem: [Support] Reveal the topmost card of your opponent's Deck. You may send that card to the Retreat Area.
	Card #B20-079N • Artist: Subaru Yasuda
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Heather .

Flavor text

Meet some of the Heroes entries

Heather: Wandering Ninja
Heather is a thief who once prowled the continent of Tellius, and now she's brought her roguish charm to the ninja festival!	This ninja outfit features a beautiful flower-petal design and elegant accessories. I think she's bound to catch the eye of that nice country girl she's always talking about!	For her appearance at the festival, Heather's wielding a giant shuriken that's engraved with a smoke design—a little nod to her ability to vanish into thin air and reappear when you least expect it!	Now that she's dressed the part, Heather eagerly takes on her first ninja mission: to infiltrate the festival and steal some hearts!
Closely Associated Characters
Nephenee {{{Related_name2}}} {{{Related_name3}}} {{{Related_name4}}} {{{Related_name5}}} A militia member from the Crimean countryside whom Heather has her eye on. Since she's quiet, people think she's shy, but… {{{Related_blurb2}}} {{{Related_blurb3}}} {{{Related_blurb4}}} {{{Related_blurb5}}}

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1 (2017)

323

Heather Radiant Dawn

599

CYL 2 (2018)

354 (+31)

Heather Radiant Dawn

534 (−65)

CYL 3 (2019)

304 (−40)

Heather Radiant Dawn

703 (+169)

CYL 4 (2020)

334 (+2)

Heather Radiant Dawn

426 (−277)

CYL 5 (2021)

299 (−35)

Heather Radiant Dawn

306 (−120)

CYL 6 (2022)

197 (−103)

Heather Radiant Dawn

511 (+205)

CYL 7 (2023)

172 (−25)

Heather Radiant Dawn

376 (−135)

CYL 8 (2024)

475 (+303)

Heather Radiant Dawn

100 (−276)

CYL 9 (2025)

556 (+81)

Heather Radiant Dawn

65 (−35)

Total results		This character has 9 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls.	3,620

Trivia

• There is a glitch in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn where if Heather reaches level 21 via stealing exp instead of combat or bonus experience, she resets to level 20 and will not promote.
• According to Tellius Recollection, Heather was designed with an apparent age of 27.^[1]
• In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, there is unused data for a character named "Heather", who uses the Begnion crest as a portrait and is assigned to the Sword Knight class.

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Heather from Radiant Dawn.

Portraits

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  Portrait of Heather in Radiant Dawn.

Heroes artwork

Character artwork

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

Meet some of the Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

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  Artwork of Heather: Wandering Ninja.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Heather.

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  Artwork of Heather.

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  Artwork of Heather with Nephenee and Ilyana.

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  Bonus artwork featuring Heather.

References

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