Aisha

*A former slave from Styxia. Tough as nails, loves to brawl.*

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**Aisha** is a playable character in *Andaron Saga*. She is a rough-and-tumble young woman who escaped slavery in Styxia and now works with Brandon and his crew aboard a ship in Andaron.

## Personality

Aisha is a fierce, upbeat, and free-spirited woman who enjoys competitive games from cards to arm wrestling to all the way to straight throwing hands with people. For her first 20 years, she was a slave in Styxia and forced to do human labor and other unmentionable acts against her will until she was freed by Brandon, a pirate from Holtmeier. Since then, she became adamant about enjoying life and always stayed away from wallowing in self-pity. Now reformed as a pirate underneath Brandon whom helps buy Slaves across Andaron their freedom, she has naturally developed a love for the sea and traveling.

## In Game

### *Andaron Saga*

#### Recruitment

Recruited automatically at the start of turn 3.

#### Overall

Aisha is almost a combination of the early game fighters you get in chapter 2, having the high strength and speed of Berit and the hp pool and defense of Bjarki. Aisha‘s personal skill, Brawler, even has similar functionality to Bjarki’s skill, taking less damage when in combat with melee. It’s strictly defensive and doesn’t grant extra damage unlike Bjarki, but it trades that with being able to work on both phases. Also having a workable speed stat and growth arguably makes Aisha a better defensive unit that Bjarki, although his value does skyrocket if he was chosen as Jarl in Chapter 18. On the offensive side, Aisha’s personal Dicer axe is a brave weapon with a massive 120 hit, alleviating her low base skill, and also grants her the Gamble skill, which doubles her crit rate in exchange for halving her hit rate, a consequence that isn’t a huge deal thanks to Dicer’s base hit rate. This simulates Berit’s ability to frequently crit with the added benefit that Aisha has a chance to do it 4 times if she quads.

Unfortunately, if Dicer breaks, that’s where the fun ends. Aisha has a low skill base and a non-functional skill growth, and coupled with the fact that she uses axes, she will face shaky hit rates often unless you feed her a lot of skill books. To keep the Dicer, you have to either use a Hammerne staff on it, which you receive several in a typical playthrough, or have the off-chance to obtain the Axefaith skill from the Wierd Sage, which removes the durability cost of axes and grants additional hit based on the unit’s luck. But even despite that, she still might struggle to find a spot in a deployment slot. She joins underleveled in comparison to most of your army at that point, master seals are low on availability, and she doesn’t have access to a regalia, which does lower her value for endgame.

Two supports boost Aisha’s combative prowess, those being Jakka and Caroline. A-ranking Jakka grants both of them the Betrothed skill, granting +5 damage to both of them if they stand next to each other, which becomes +20 damage if Aisha quads with Dicer. A-ranking Caroline grants Aisha the Chivalry skill, which increases damage dealt and decrease damage taken by -4 against 100% hp foes. This is potentially more valuable since Aisha can stack the damage reduction with her own Brawler skill, taking -10 less damage against melee foes. Coupled with her decent defense growth and the quite substantial defense boost she gets upon promotion, Aisha can become a psuedo armor unit with 6 mov and blistering speed.

#### Supports

* Jakka
* Garam
* Victoria
* Darius
* Caroline