Laylea

Not to be confused with Layla, an NPC in Fates, or with Leila, an NPC in The Blazing Blade.

Laylea (Japanese: レイリア Laylea) is a travelling Jugdrali dancer and the elder sister of Charlot, Hannibal's adopted son. While working in the city of Dahna, she became close with Ares, the prince of Agustria, and later accompanied him in fighting for Seliph's liberation army against the Grannvale Empire.

Laylea is Lene's substitute character, filling her role in the story and gameplay if Silvia died or failed to be married in the course of the first generation.

Biography

Little is known of Laylea's origins or upbringing, save that she likely grew up in an orphanage like Charlot did before Hannibal adopted him. She took to dancing as a way to earn money to survive.

Her work as a dancer eventually took her to Dahna around Grann 777, where she met Ares, who was there with Javarro's mercenaries serving a job with the city's Count Bramsel. The two quickly established a friendship, and when Bramsel made a lecherous advance at her, Ares stepped in to force him to back down from his solicitations. However, the two soon fought over Ares needing to go fight Seliph's army at Melgen. After he left, Bramsel attempted to approach her again, and Leaylea's resistance to his actions led to her imprisonment in the Dahna dungeons. Following Seliph's capture of Dahna, she was freed from imprisonment by one of his soldiers, and upon meeting Ares - now with Seliph's army - she joined him in the army, wishing to stay close to him in future.

Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

Role

Laylea is a playable character during the second generation. As Lene's substitute character, Laylea only appears if Silvia wasn't married or was dead at the end of Chapter 5. In Chapter 7, Laylea joins when Ares visits Dahna castle after it has been seized.

Starting stats and growth rates

Dancer Level 3 Holy Blood -- Movement 6

Recruitment: Chapter 7, have Ares enter Dahna Castle after it has been seized Stats Growth Rates Max HP 24 Speed 13 Strength 4 Luck 4 Magic 0 Defense 1 Skill 1 Resistance 4 Max HP 50% Speed 40% Strength 50% Luck 30% Magic 10% Defense 20% Skill 20% Resistance 20% {{{content3}}} {{{content4}}} {{{content5}}} {{{content6}}} {{{content7}}} {{{content8}}} {{{content9}}} {{{content10}}} {{{content11}}} {{{content12}}} {{{content13}}} {{{content14}}} {{{content15}}} Inventory Skills 3,000 Gold Dance Charm Weapon Levels C -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Love growths and events

Laylea Dancer Seliph Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Scáthach/Dalvin Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Oifey Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Diarmuid/Tristan Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Lester/Deimne Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Lester/Deimne Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Arthur/Amid Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Iuchar Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Iucharba Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Shannan Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Leif Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Iucharba Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Shannan Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Leif Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Ares Initial: 300 Per turn: 1 Febail/Asaello Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Ced/Hawk Initial: 0 Per turn: 2 Charlot Initial: -- Per turn: --

• In Chapter 7, Laylea can talk to Seliph after she has been recruited, yielding no reward.
• In Chapter 9, Laylea can talk to Charlot after he has been recruited, granting him +1 luck.

Analysis

Laylea is a level 3 Dancer who joins in Chapter 7 of Genealogy of the Holy War, the second chapter of its second generation; she is recruited instead of Lene if Silvia is dead or unmarried at the end of Chapter 5. As Laylea has low strength, defense and HP, is limited to C-level swords, and has no access to Follow-Up without the Follow-Up Ring, she cannot excel in combat. However, like Silvia and Lene, Laylea has unique utility in her ability to dance; she can refresh up to four adjacent units, allowing each to take another turn, which can be used to attack, move, heal, etc.

Laylea greatly benefits from the Knight Ring and Leg Ring; the Knight Ring grants its user Canto—allowing them to move after most actions, thus granting increased flexibility—while the Leg Ring increases its user's movement by 3. With both items, Laylea can keep up with the high-move mounted units and grant them additional actions over multiple turns. The Knight Ring is a somewhat competitive item, but Laylea makes the best use of it. The Leg Ring, however, is highly competitive, as every unit benefits from additional movement; Seliph in particular is often the strongest user of the Leg Ring, as he is already among the strongest units available, and the Leg Ring allows him to clear Chapter 6 faster. Seliph does not need the Leg Ring as much after he has promoted, but Laylea has to purchase it from the pawn shop in order to use it—if no one inherits it, Julius will drop the Leg Ring in Chapter 10, but Laylea is incapable of dealing more than 1 damage to him without a critical hit, and requires a very dedicated setup to defeat him.

As a substitute rather than a child unit, Laylea has a major disadvantage compared to Lene: she cannot receive any inheritance; though any skills or Holy Blood are of minor impact, Lene can inherit the Knight Ring and the Leg Ring—Laylea cannot. While Laylea can buy both items, it costs a total of 60,000 gold to purchase both; as Laylea struggles in the arena, she cannot easily obtain gold, nor can she inherit any gold or the Bargain skill or Bargain Band to reduce the price of the items—the Bargain Band will half the cost of the Leg and Knight Rings, but purchasing it costs 40,000 gold, increasing the total cost to 70,000. Laylea can gather gold herself by visiting villages, but this can often take her away from units that would benefit from her dance; alternately, she can receive gold given by a Thief, but that requires multiple transfers of large amounts of gold, something especially constraining when concerned for the experience rank which requires many units to obtain gold for the Paragon Ring.

Laylea does have one advantage over Lene: Charm. Lene will always inherit Miracle and Adept from Silvia, skills which she has limited use for; Laylea always has Charm as a personal skill, increasing the hit rate and avoid of allies within three spaces by 10%. However, Charm requires Laylea to be close to combat, and she is not safe when in range of enemies; she can safely boost allies against immobile bosses, but is in danger around mobile enemies or ones with long-range attacks. Additionally, Laylea's lower movement without the Leg Ring makes it difficult to reach allies that would be aided by Charm, and she cannot provide a boost with Charm while also moving out of enemy range with the Knight Ring.

Personality

Laylea tends to be flirtatious, particularly liking to tease those who are embarrassed and flustered.^[1] Because of the demands of her own job as a dancer, Laylea believes that holding grudges based on somebody's job, no matter what it led to, is foolish.^[2] She was very attached to Ares, and was outright angry when he needed to leave to fight for Javarro, even blaming him for the fact that she felt Javarro was using him.^[3]

Endings

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Genealogy of the Holy War

Quotes

Death quotes

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Trading Card Game

Laylea was featured on three TCG cards.

Fire Emblem Trading Card Game data for Laylea
	Class: Dancer	Level 1 Infantry	Direct Attack
	Energy: 2	Atk.: 1 / Counter: 1	WLv.: C
	Equip: Slim Sword	Skills: Dance
	Card #078 • Rarity: ★★ • Artist: Mayumi Hirota
	Class: Dancer	Level 10 Infantry	Direct Attack
	Energy: 3	Atk.: 2 / Counter: 1	WLv.: C
	Equip: Iron Sword	Skills: Dance
	Card #2-053 • Rarity: ★★ • Artist: Katsuyoshi Koya
	Class: Dancer	Level 15 Infantry	Direct Attack
	Energy: 3	Atk.: 1 / Counter: 1	WLv.: C
	Equip: Barrier Blade	Skills: Dance
	Card #P034 • Rarity: ☆★★ • Artist: Osamu Kine
Card scans and information translation provided by Aquantis.

Fire Emblem Cipher

Laylea is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Laylea
	Barrier Blade Dancer, Laylea
		"Y'know, I think we've got a bit of time to spare. How would you like to see some dancing?"
		Attack: 20	Support: 10	Range: 1	Deploy Cost: 2
		Class: Dancer		Tier: Base	Class Change Cost: --
		Holy Dance: [Activate] [] [] Choose 1 ally who has attacked in this turn, and untap them. Barrier Blade: [Always] If this unit is being attacked by a enemy, this unit gains +50 attack.
	Card #B15-086HN • Artist: cuboon
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Leylia .

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1 (2017)

683

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

70

CYL 2 (2018)

607 (−76)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

125 (+55)

CYL 3 (2019)

528 (−21)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

173 (+48)

CYL 4 (2020)

601 (+23)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

108 (−65)

CYL 5 (2021)

648 (+47)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

63 (−45)

CYL 6 (2022)

374 (−276)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

221 (+158)

CYL 7 (2023)

482 (+108)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

101 (−120)

CYL 8 (2024)

550 (+68)

Laylea Genealogy of the Holy War

79 (−22)

Total results		This character has 8 entries across all Choose Your Legends polls.	940

Etymology and other languages

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Dancer Dancing Sword (Iron Sword)

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Laylea and Charlot from Treasure.

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  Artwork of Laylea from the Trading Card Game.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Laylea.

References

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