Limstella

Limstella Artwork of Limstella from The Blazing Blade. The strongest of the morphs Nergal created.

Gender Genderless (referred to as female internally and by other characters) Race Morph Family Nergal (creator) Starting class Sage Voiced by Casey Mongillo (English, Heroes) Rei Shimoda (Japanese, Heroes) Appearance(s) The Blazing Blade Heroes

“	As you wish.	”	— Limstella to Nergal

Limstella (Japanese: リムステラ Limstella) was a powerful morph and sage appearing in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade who was created by Nergal. Nergal regarded them as his masterpiece, and his most powerful morph.

Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade

Role

Limstella is a major antagonist appearing sparingly throughout The Blazing Blade's entirety. Serving under Nergal, they collect the quintessence of various Black Fang leaders killed by Eliwood's party.

They also kill Lloyd or Linus, due to them catching on to Nergal's and Sonia's treachery within the Black Fang's leadership.

Their final appearance is in Chapter 30E/32H, where they are killed, despite being granted with immense power by Nergal shortly beforehand, by Eliwood's, Hector's, and Lyn's combined forces.

Stats

See also: Victory or Death

Stats with two figures separated by a ~ are presented as a range, representing stats that vary due to random growths. The figures to the left and right of the ~ are the stat's minimum and maximum possible values respectively.

Normal Eliwood Hard Hector Hard

Sage
Level	20
Affinity	--

Stats
Max HP	68	Luck	0
Magic	24	Defense	24
Skill	20	Resistance	27
Speed	17	Constitution	7
Movement	6	Aid	6

Inventory
Bolting*  Fimbulvetr
Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- S -- -- S

Sage
Level	20
Affinity	--

Stats
Max HP	68	Luck	0
Magic	24	Defense	21
Skill	20	Resistance	25
Speed	17	Constitution	4
Movement	6	Aid	3

Inventory
Bolting  Fimbulvetr
Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- S -- -- S

Sage
Level	20
Affinity	--

Stats
Max HP	69~71	Luck	0
Magic	25~27	Defense	21
Skill	21~22	Resistance	25
Speed	18~19	Constitution	4
Movement	6	Aid	3

Inventory
Bolting  Fimbulvetr
Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- S -- -- S

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In Normal Mode, Limstella uses a custom variant of the Sage class with increased Defense and Resistance stat caps and base Constitution; in Hard Mode, they use the standard female one.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Main article: Limstella/Heroes

There is one variation of Limstella available in Heroes.

Personality

Limstella, like most other known morphs, is distant, calculating, and eternally loyal to their master and creator Nergal. They do not outwardly express any emotions, and follow Nergal's every command without question.

Limsella conducts interactions with subordinates in a formal and impersonal manner. They keep their tone neutral and states things plainly even when informing others of their failures. Sonia seems to have been the only person to come anywhere close to provoking a reaction from Limstella. If Limstella is present to witness Sonia's death in the conclusion of Night of Farewells, Limstella makes a comment that "Puppets have no essence to harvest."; "puppet" is a rather informal word for Limstella to use, though it is a word Sonia herself would use often when berating morphs.

Limstella may possess some unintended emotional capacity, which can be gleaned from speculation stated by Canas and Renault, as well as their dying words. In particular, they express sorrow during their death. While it is technically ambiguous as to what they are sorrowful about, it is likely to be due to the fact that their time in service to Nergal has ended.

Quotes

Battle quotes

“	I will take your life and your essence. All for the sake of my master.	”	— Limstella, as an enemy in Chapter 30E/32H.

Death quote

“	I am not human. This body and this heart are constructs. Yes, as is this sorrow.	”	— Limstella, as an enemy in Chapter 30E/32H.

Heroes quotes

Main article: Limstella/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Characters: The Binding Blade & The Blazing Blade

Limstella's artwork from The Blazing Blade is featured in a file in the Fire Emblem Characters book, alongside details regarding themself and their role in the game's story. They are the 114th character listed in this book. Limstella scored 42nd place in the online The Blazing Blade popularity poll whose results were included in the book.

Fire Emblem Character File 114: Limstella
	Gender: Unknown	Estimated Age: Unknown	Title: None	Origin: Unknown
	Status: Nergal's Subordinate			Weapon: Anima Magic, Staff
	A dark lifeform made by Nergal. Nergal praised them as the most perfect morph he created, with unfathomable abilities that far surpass that of any human. In accordance with Nergal's order, they kill warriors in order to collect "quintessence"—the essence of life. They have an alluring androgynous appearance and common points of a morph. A beautiful, deadly sage filled with darkness. Like Ephidel and Sonia, they have the same beautiful appearance—like stars frozen over in the winter sky. Though extremely silent and unable to understand emotion, they seem to almost lament their ephemeral existence as a morph. However, their absolute obedience to their creator, Nergal, can never be broken. On their second landing at the Dread Isle, Eliwood's forces were intercepted and cornered by an army of elite morphs lead by Limstella and their incredible magic: Fimbulvetr.
Profile translation by Kantopia

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Limstella's official artwork from The Blazing Blade can be viewed in Path of Radiance's extras menu if a copy of The Blazing Blade is connected to a copy of Path of Radiance.

Fire Emblem Cipher

Limstella is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Limstella
	Genesis, Limstella
		"I will take your life and your essence. All for the sake of my master."
		Attack: 60	Support: 50	Range: 1-2	Deploy Cost: 4
		Class: Sage		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 3
		Life Drain: [Support] Destroy one allied non-Main Character unit, except for the unit currently battling.
	Card #B07-048HN • Artist: cuboon
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Limstella .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Blazing Blade	The strongest of the morphs Nergal created.	ネルガルに創られた 最も強力な【モルフ】

Trivia

• Limstella is one of only three bosses in The Blazing Blade whose stats differ between the Normal and Hard difficulties in Eliwood's tale, the others being Fargus and Sonia. In Limstella's and Sonia's cases, this is presumably due to an internal oversight in assigning their class.
• In the two leaked Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade prototypes, 0206 and 0219, Limstella has a Fortify staff in their inventory alongside their Bolting and Fimbulvetr tomes in their boss appearance.
• Limstella is the first character in Fire Emblem Cipher to be genderless.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Limstella	Aside from the fact that the -stella suffix is generally feminine, uncertain etymology.
Japanese	リムステラ	Officially romanized as Limstella.
Spanish	Limstella	--
French	Limstella	--
German	Limstella	--
Italian	Limstella	--
Portuguese	Limstella	--
Traditional Chinese	莉姆思黛拉	Limstella

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Sage Anima Staff*

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Limstella from The Blazing Blade.

CG images

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  CG image of Limstella with Nergal in The Blazing Blade.

Portraits

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  Limstella's portrait from The Blazing Blade.
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  An approximation of Limstella's portrait from The Blazing Blade as it appears on GBA hardware.

Heroes artwork

Character artwork

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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.

Meet some of the Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Artwork of Limstella: Living Construct.
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  Limstella in artwork of Nergal: Traitor to Nabata.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Limstella.

References

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