Exalted Falchion

**Exalted Falchion** (神剣ファルシオン, *Shinken Farushon*), colloquially known as the **Archanean Falchion**, is a special weapon of the Sword variety, with an inherit Dracoslayer attribute. It is the signature weapon of the Hero-King Marth.

Exalted Falchion is unlocked along with its wielder Marth after clearing Chapter 14.

# History

During the war against the Degenerated Dragons, Manaketes who have lost their sanity, the leader of the Divine Dragons, Naga, created weapons from their own fangs. One became the base for the Fire Emblem which was used to seal the degenerated dragons in the Dragon's Table; the other was forged into the weapon that was later named Falchion due to its origin from a Divine Dragon's fang. It has the power to slay Dragons of any form.

When Medeus, the former guardian of the Dragon's altar led Manaketes to war with humanity, Falchion was given by Gotoh to the hero Anri, Marth's great-grandfather, to defeat Medeus and halt the Manakete's reign of tyranny. After Anri defeated Medeus, he founded the Kingdom of Altea where the blade was held and passed down the royal lineage until it was stolen by King Jiol of Gra after the death of Cornelius, Marth's father. Sometime after, Gharnef stole the blade from Gra in hopes of using it as leverage over the revived Medeus. The prince of Altea, Marth, eventually defeats King Jiol in hopes of recovering the blade, but learns that Gharnef currently had it in his possession. Gharnef is eventually killed by a member of Marth's army using the Starlight spell, allowing Marth to reclaim the blade and use it to eventually defeat Medeus once more.

Two thousands of years after Marth's time, the Falchion's base and handle would be reforged many times (as told by Owain to Lucina in his supports with her in their home game), with Chrom wielding Falchion in its current state, with Lucina inheriting the blade as well in her parallel timeline.

# Gameplay

As a Rank E weapon, Exalted Falchion can be wielded by Marth as soon as the player unlocks him in Story Mode, and has a decent attack power of 80.

As a weapon with six available slots, Exalted Falchion allows an amount of flexibility with what weapon attributes to forge into the sword. However, with a natural Dracoslayer slot for its seventh slot, the Exalted Falchion forces players to forge only one foreign slayer-type weapon attribute to the sword.

As it is a personal weapon, it can be upgraded by creating Marth's Mastery Crest and Sanctuary Crest, drastically increasing the weapon's Might, first to 240, then to 720.

* To obtain Exalted Falchion's Scroll, which is needed for Marth's Mastery Crest, the player must clear the History Mode map The Dark Pontifex. After creating Marth's Mastery Crest, the True Power weapon attribute will be unlocked after 10,000 kills, negating any Might penalty reduction from the player putting a foreign slayer-type weapon attribute via reforging.
* To obtain Exalted Falchion's Opus, which is needed for Marth's Sanctuary Crest, the player must first purchase either the Season Pass or the Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon DLC pack, then clear the History Mode map Princess Minerva, as it is offered as a S-Rank clear prize for one of the Distortion Battles on said map. After creating Marth's Sanctuary Crest, the Divine Favor weapon attribute will overwrite the True Power attribute, even if True Power is not yet unlocked for Exalted Falchion.

# Trivia

* There are images of Celica wielding this weapon despite never having the option in any game to use them in pre rendered cutscenes. This is either due to Celica being a hidden recruitable unit, or the fact that Celica is a moveset clone of Marth, and thus the developers had let her use the Archanean Falchion while the Lady Sword was being worked on.
	+ Her having the Archanean Falchion can also be served as a reference to fellow protagonist Alm, who wielded a Falchion of his own, which is colloquially known as the **Valentian Falchion**, and like the original Falchion, Alm's Falchion was forged from one of Naga's fangs, and was designed to counter dragon units.

# See also

* Falchion: The future form of this sword, wielded by Marth's descendent Chrom.
* Parallel Falchion: The future form of this sword from an alternative timeline, wielded by Chrom's daughter Lucina.