Niime

Niime Artwork of Niime from The Binding Blade. The Mountain Hermit. Has devoted her life to research and study.

Gender Female Race Human Age 70s Family Canas (son) Three other sons Hugh (grandson) Nino (possible grandniece) Lugh (possible great-grandnephew) Raigh (possible great-grandnephew) Nationality Ilian Title(s) Mountain Hermit Starting class Druid Voiced by Robin Bell (English, Heroes) Kikuko Inoue (Japanese, Heroes) Appearance(s) The Binding Blade Heroes

“	She is an odd character. She is known to some as the Mountain Hermit...	”	— Canas

Niime (Japanese: ニイメ Nimue), widely known as the "Mountain Hermit", is an Elibean scholar and sorceress famous for her research on dark magic and the Scouring. She is the mother of four sons, among them Canas, and raised Canas's son Hugh following his death.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Ilia route

Niime was arrested by the Bern occupation army in Ilia, and under Bishop Martel's orders she was forced to use an ancient tome to summon a rain storm in order to obstruct the approach of Roy and the Etrurian army. Instead, however, she used it to freeze the rivers and make a clearer path to Martel for Roy. Once the battle was over, she approached Roy, told him everything she knew of Bern's use of dragons, and joined his army.

Sacae route

Following Roy's successful capture of the Sacaen capital Bulgar, Niime sought an audience with him, piquing his attention with her mention of manaketes. She told him everything she knew of Bern and the manaketes in its service, and joined his army.

Starting stats and growth rates

Druid
Level	18
Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 19A/20B, automatically from turn 1

Stats Growth Rates

Max HP	25	Luck	15
Magic	21	Defense	5
Skill	20	Resistance	18
Speed	16	Constitution	4
Movement	6	Aid	3

Max HP	25%	Luck	5%
Magic	15%	Defense	15%
Skill	15%	Resistance	20%
Speed	15%

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Inventory
Flux  Eclipse  Physic  Heal
Weapon Levels -- -- -- -- -- -- A A

Analysis

This character analysis section may not be accurate to every player's experience.

Niime is a pre-promoted Druid that joins fairly late regardless of which route the player chooses, though she joins one chapter earlier in the Ilia route. Niime has rather terrible growths in all areas and a high base level limiting her ability to gain experience, but makes up for it with high bases and weapon level, most notably her A rank in staves. Because of her ability to use Warp at base and her high magic, Niime is considered the best warper in the game, as Saul and Elen will only have Niime's base magic after promoting at level 20 and reaching the promoted level cap (which is very difficult due to the slow experience gain from staves), while Clarine and Cecilia will never reach 21 magic on average, and every other magic user only gains E staves after promotion. Because every map in The Binding Blade is a seize map, most maps can be warp-skipped by warping a strong boss killer such as Rutger or Perceval to the boss, dancing for Niime, and warping Roy to the throne so he can seize it.

Niime is an excellent user of other staves as well, due to her aforementioned high magic base, and her high skill also makes her great at wielding status staves. She can also use the Apocalypse tome with some weapon level grinding, which not only has high might but also gives Niime +5 magic, which she can use to give her +3 range with staves and +30 hit when using status staves. While Niime's low defense and HP limit her combat prowess, her high magic and the enemies' generally low resistance enables her to deal high damage without taking a counterattack, and if given a Body Ring or Speedwing and an Angelic Robe she can be an excellent unit for dealing with the wyverns in Chapter 21 with Nosferatu.

Overall, Niime is an excellent pre-promote, likely eclipsing even other trained magic users, and is an invaluable asset on hard mode as a staff bot.

Fire Emblem Heroes

Main article: Niime/Heroes

There is one variation of Niime available in Heroes.

Personality

Described by Canas as an "odd character", Niime is renowned as a scholar. As a researcher on the Scouring, Niime is fascinated by dragons, but as a result of the vast majority of sources on the subject portraying dragons in a negative light, she too at first accepts the claims describing them as inhuman terrors. Her experiences with Fae changed her views: at first she assumed her to be dangerous and presumably intended to harm or kill her, but rapidly learned otherwise and changed her mind, realizing the folly of killing Fae to preserve "peace".

Niime is a strong believer in the superiority of dark magic over other forms. She once attempted to convince Canas's wife, an anima mage, to adopt the practice of dark magic instead, relenting only because of her exceptional skill with anima magic. She is particularly abrasive toward Hugh for this reason, among others, but ultimately she still holds some fondness for her sole grandson.

Fifty years prior to the Great Movement of Bern, Niime was involved in a relationship with Yoder of the St. Elimine Church, which came to a messy end under unspecified circumstances.

Supports

Main article: Niime/Supports

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See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Niime - Mountain Hermit
Short: Disappeared in the mountains.

Long: Niime returned to her secluded home in the mountains and continued her research. It was rumored she solved many of the world's mysteries, but she left no records so none can know for sure.

Quotes

Battle quotes

“	This is it! The power I've been searching for!!	”	— Niime, in the Final Chapter of The Binding Blade.

Death quote

“	Heh heh. Well, I had a decent life...	”	— Niime, in The Binding Blade.

Heroes quotes

Main article: Niime/Quotes (Heroes)

Other appearances

Fire Emblem: Hasha no Tsurugi

Stats

Stats given in: Chapter 33 Sage Level 17 Affinity Stats Max HP 25 Luck 15 Strength 21 Defense 5 Skill 20 Resistance 18 Speed 16 Constitution 15 Movement 6 Aid --

Fire Emblem Characters: The Binding Blade & The Blazing Blade

Niime's artwork from The Binding Blade is featured in a file in the Fire Emblem Characters book, alongside details regarding herself and her role in the game's story. She is the 49th character listed in this book. Niime scored 59th place in the online The Binding Blade popularity poll whose results were included in the book.

Fire Emblem Character File 049: Niime
	Gender: Female	Estimated Age: 70s	Title: Mountain Hermit	Origin: Ilia
	Status: Hermit			Weapon: Dark Magic, Staff
	A wise sage who uses ancient magic. A master of dark magic who is referred to as a mountain hermit. As a user of the ancient arts, as well as a person with a full understanding of ancient texts, she knows the details of "the Scouring". She wished to travel with Roy to satiate her curiosity regarding Bern's dragons. She attempted to get her grandson and successor Hugh to learn the ancient arts, but he instead pursues anima magic. Even when uninterested, she finds her grandson to be adorable. After she joined Roy's party, Niime appeared to be instrumental in defeating dragons—but a mystery remained. Before the Demon Dragon, she claimed "this is what I have been searching for," and showed Fae a gemstone, with the real motives behind it unclear. Perhaps Niime was thinking of making the power of the dragon her own. If that were the case, then Fae's sleeping face, which caused Niime to give up on her plan, saved the world from a new queen of darkness.
Profile translation by Kantopia

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Niime's official artwork from The Binding Blade can be viewed in Path of Radiance's extras menu if a copy of The Binding Blade is connected to a Japanese copy of Path of Radiance. This illustration, along with all other The Binding Blade-related artwork, is inaccessible in the international versions of the game, owing to the fact that The Binding Blade was not released in those regions.

Fire Emblem Cipher

Niime is featured on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher.

Fire Emblem Cipher data for Niime
	Mountain Hermit, Niime
		"I am Niime. I live in the mountains, where I study arcane magic. Some call me the Mountain Hermit."
		Attack: 60	Support: 20	Range: 1-2	Deploy Cost: 5
		Class: Druid		Tier: Advanced	Class Change Cost: 4
		Unfathomable Dark Power: [Activate] [] [] Your opponent chooses 2 cards from their hand, and send them to the Retreat Area. Ancient Tome: [Activate] [Once per turn] Choose 1 non-lord enemy, and destroy them. This skill cannot be used unless your opponent has no cards in their hand.
	Card #B13-048HN • Artist: Doji Shiki
Some card information translation provided by Serenes Forest. For more detailed strategic information on these cards, see their TCG wiki article on Niime .

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade	The Mountain Hermit. Has devoted her life to research and study.*	イリア地方の山奥で 研究にうちこむドルイド

Trivia

• Niime was initially listed as Nimue on the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends poll. This was corrected a few days in.
• Niime is mentioned in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade in Canas and Pent's B support conversation. Canas mentions how Niime is his mother, which causes Pent to exclaim that "Every mage knows of Niime the Hermit", indicating her fame among magic users, and quickly rushes to tell his wife Louise that he has met the son of Niime.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Niime	Corruption of Nimue, one of the names given to the Lady of the Lake of Arthurian mythology.
Japanese	ニイメ	Officially romanized as Nimue.
Spanish	Niime	--
French	Niime	--
German	Niime	--
Italian	Niime	--
Portuguese (Brazil)	Niime	--
Traditional Chinese	尼伊玫	Nimue

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Druid Dark Staff

Official artwork

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  Artwork of Niime from The Binding Blade.

Heroes artwork

Character artwork

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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.

Meet some of the Heroes artwork

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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Artwork of Niime: Mountain Hermit.
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  Niime in artwork of Hugh: Worldly Mage.

Other artwork

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  Artwork of Lysithea, Gotoh, and Niime from the Paired with the Past website.

References

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