Character Focus: Ray/ Raleigh/ Rei

The second character that I will focus on is Ray or Rei in some translations and Raleigh in Awakening but for my purposes I’ll use Ray, is a character in Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsurugi.

Ray is the orphaned son of Nino from Fire Emblem 7 and the Twin brother of Lugh. He originally lived at the orphanage, but left saying that he needed to study more of the outside world to further his interest in Dark magic. In stark contrast to his brother’s cheery optimistic attitude, Ray has a more cynical view, and is more sarcastic and dark, but he can still show kindness.

Ray starts out as a level 12 Shaman with very balanced stats, and high Skill growth with everything else being slightly above average. Compared to Sophia, a Shaman who comes later, they somewhat balance each other out, but compared to Niime, the prepromote Druid, they have similar basic stats, just with Niime having less potential.

Ray will usually max his Skill and have higher Speed than any other Dark user, which helps because of the Dark tomes weight and low accuracy in exchange for bower. He will have an easier time doubling enemies and getting off some more hits than Sophia can, and with Dark magic being the highest damaging magic in the game, with the S rank Spell Apocalypse having 22 base might, it’s no surprise that more people choose Ray for their Dark user.

In Awakening, Ray is a Level 16 dark mage with the same bonus skill as his brother, Movement+1, perhaps representing their upbringing and needing to move a lot due to the war.