Marianne Von Edmund

**Marianne** is a playable character from the game *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. Marianne is a student at the Officers Academy who is from the Leicester Alliance and is married to Claude Von Reigan, and a member of the Golden Deer. She possesses a secretive Crest and is 23. She uses magic and swords as her main weapons, can heal, wields the Heroes relic **Blutgang**, the legendary **Phantasm Tome**, and can summon her trusty horse name "**Dorte**".

## Marianne Von Edmud

### Relatives

Maurice (Ancestor)Margrave Edmund (Distant Relative/Adoptive father)Unnamed parents (deceased)

## Biographical information

### Date of birth

23rd of the Red Wolf MoonImperial Year 1162

## Appearances

### Appears in

Fire Emblem: Three HousesFire Emblem Heroes

## Profile

### Early life

Marianne is the daughter of an unmentioned noble within the Leicester Alliance. At 14 years old, her parents mysteriously died and she was adopted by a distant relative, the lord of the remote Margraviate of Edmund.

### Academy Phase

Marianne enrolls in Garreg Mach Monastery Officers Academy in Imperial Year 1180 and joins the Golden Deer. In her Support with Hanneman, she reveals her adoptive father sent a letter to the church with a large donation to not be tested for a Crest.

## Relationships

### Claude Von Riegan

*Entrusting the future of Fódlan to his friends, Claude left for Almyra to reclaim his place as heir to the throne. Several years later, when he became king, he took initial steps to open trade routes with Fódlan, and entered into negotiations with Margrave Edmund. During this time, he was reunited with Marianne, who had grown under her adoptive father's guidance into a wise and talented woman. She offered him her aid, and as they worked together to secure friendly relations between their respective nations, they fell deeply in love.*

## Personality

Marianne has low self-esteem and is bleakly pessimistic. She actively avoids most people as she fears that her presence will bring them misfortune. She often finds it hard to talk to others as a result and has spoken so infrequently that there are many students who have never heard the sound of her voice before. Even if she does speak, she is hesitant to express herself or her opinions, tending to speak in short statements and will try to detach from the conversation as quickly as she can. Marianne's speech is frequently punctuated by sheepish "um"s and "I'm sorry"s. She is soft-spoken, but also polite and tries to avoid inconveniencing people even in a minor manner. However, her self-deprecation sometimes makes people angry at her, especially short-tempered ones like Leonie.

Her gloomy, withdrawn nature is due to her Crest of Maurice, also known as the Crest of the Beast. Said Crest has a dubious reputation for cursing members of her family and is rumored to control a beast said to kill unsuspecting visitors of a particular forest. She believes that it is due to her crest that both of her parents went missing. Her adoptive father is among the few who are privy to her secret and genuinely cares for her. In order to protect her, he paid a large sum of money to the monastery to keep her crest a secret, so much so that most staff are unaware of her crest. He also forbade her from telling anyone of her crest for her safety, of which she has honored. This resulted in her reclusive nature in which she fears having her secret let out if she becomes too involved, especially in battle where the crest can occasionally emerge.

She is fond of animals, often found talking to birds or taking care of the horses in the monastery, most notably taking care of Dorte whom she seems to understand. She loves birds and other animals, opening her heart to them and talking to them. She appears to be deeply religious, and prays to the Goddess every day. This is not to say her devotion is out of sheer belief, as she considered herself a curse and hoped that praying to the Goddess would allow her to escape it, although this does not appear to be the case in her A-Support with Byleth.

After the timeskip, she has gained significantly more confidence and has lost some of her gloominess, notably looking much more lively and healthier as a result. In certain supports, she can learn to come to terms with her Crest and become more accepting of its nature.

She maintains some form of pessimism, but this can be absolved by completing her paralogue, helping her realize that there was no truth to the rumors and that her power can and is a blessing to help her and her allies, becoming more willing to display her crest from then on.

## Trivia

* Marianne is the only student that doesn't appear at all in the war phase if not recruited prior to the time-skip.
* Marianne's Crest appears as a Crest Stone on Aymr, the axe Edelgard often wields after the time-skip.
	+ However, Marianne is unable to use the combat art Raging Storm, as the weapon is associated with the Crest of Seiros.
* Marianne is the third character in the *Fire Emblem* series to have a named horse: Dorte. This is followed by Beck from *New Mystery of the Emblem* and Sophie from *Fates*.
	+ Unlike the others, Dorte is not explicitly Marianne's but a horse from Garreg Mach Monastery that Marianne has grown fond of. She does later adopt the horse, as seen in the Crimson Flower route or if she falls in battle before the time-skip.
* Despite her love for horses and having Horseback and Flying as Strong Points, she doesn't have a unique battle model as a mounted unit.
* Marianne has a unique battle model as a Monk, Priest, and Bishop.
	+ Otherwise, she uses blue colors for her classes.
* Marianne shares her English Voice Actress, Xanthe Huynh, with Eir from *Fire Emblem Heroes*.
* Marianne stands at 163cm (or about 5’4”).
* Discounting DLC characters, Marianne is the only potentially playable character (bar Byleth) to never be encountered during Part 2 of all paths if she's not already in the player's house.
	+ If DLC characters are counted, then this applies to Anna, Yuri, Balthus, Constance and Hapi.
* Marianne and Lysithea are the only characters whose Original version was added in *Heroes* after their Brave version was announced, but not yet released.
	+ Incidentally, both were added in the same numbered chapter for each book they appear (Chapter 5 of Books IV and V).
* In the version 1.1 update, Marianne's S-Support CG was updated to include her white ribbon.
* In a survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Marianne placed 9th with 10.5% of the vote overall in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. The male-female vote ratio was 1:2.
* In a survey conducted by Famitsu Magazine, Marianne placed 9th for females and 16th overall with 555 votes in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*.
* In the fourth survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Marianne placed 18th in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. The male-female vote ratio was 1:4. She ranked 18th among those who completed the game with 37 points.
* In the fifth survey conducted by Nintendo DREAM Magazine, Marianne placed 14th in the character popularity poll for *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*. The male-female vote ratio was 1:4. She ranked 14th among those who completed the game with 6.8% of the vote.
* In the fourth *Fire Emblem Heroes: Choose Your Legends* popularity poll, Marianne ranked 8th place for females with 14,105 votes.
* In the fifth *Fire Emblem Heroes: Choose Your Legends* popularity poll, Marianne won 1st place for females and ranked 4th place overall with 33,555 votes.