Spade

**Spade** (*Romaji*: **Supēdo**; *Kana*: **スペード**) is a major character of Fire Emblem: Death of Kings.

She is an exotic farmer from the Duchy of Creale in the Kingdom of Hund. She is also one of the Kingslayers, a group of individual who each bear the Signet of Nold and thus are suspected to be at least partially responsible for the eponymous Death of Kings.

## ***Profile***

### *Background*

An orphan born of bandits who died attempting to raid the house of a powerful Arcanist, Spade was raised under the false pretense that the Arcanist Tiles was her biological father. Although Tiles was distant, secretive and anti-social as a result of his own past as a ruthless war mage he was still kind and protective of Spades, teaching her just enough magic to keep her out of trouble but not enough that she'd become cocky and bloodthirsty like he had once been.

Life in the forest was harsher than in civilization so Spade learned to leverage the little magic her adoptive father taught her to hunt and make shopping trips to the nearest city from a young age to sell the exotic plants Tiles and her cultivated. Sadly however Tiles died before he Spades could learn about her father, and having acquired the Signet of Nold shortly after she was forced to become a wanderer, seeking a way to remove her brand and also the story of her adoptive father.

## ***Abilities and Equipment***

### *Class*

Main Article: Soldier
Spade is a Soldier as such she possesses above average Hit Points and average Movement, she is also trained in the use of lances which includes both javelins and spears.

Unlike most soldiers Spade's lance of choice is not material instead she materializes a javelin or a spear with wind magic, instead of dealing physical damage it deals magical damage which allows her to catch some inexperienced opponents off guard. Notably her lances look more like shovels rather than traditional spears.

Because of her particular build Spade can be considered an all around powerful unit which specializes in neither defense or attack or movement but which isn't limited in any of the three.

### *Skills*

***Skill Points -*** 3
* **Arcane Arms** - Allows one to create and wield a weapon made of any Magic that one has. *(Arcane Arms can only deal **Magical** damage, have no special effects and can't add **Magic (Mag)** or **Strength (Str)** to damage. Their Might is high but requires investment to keep relevant.)*

* + **Wind Spade (Unofficial)** - A combination of both *Arcane Arms* and *Wind Initiate* which creates a **Spear** (*Lance*) type *Arcane Arm* out of *Wind* Magic, notably it looks more like a shovel than a traditional spear.
	+ **Wind Trowel (Unofficial)** - A combination of both *Arcane Arms* and *Wind Initiate* which creates a **Javelin** (*Lance*) type *Arcane Arm* out of *Wind* Magic, notably it looks more like a hand-shovel with an elongated shaft than a traditional javelin.
* **Wind Initiate** - Allows use of Wind Magic. (*Wind Magic is a type of **Anima Magic**, compared to other Anima magic it is average in damage and accurate. Anima magic is average in damage and accurate compared to both Light and Dark Magic.)*
* **Galeburst (Unofficial)** - A combination of the Haste Ring's functionality with *Arcane Arm*, where Spade converts the passive magical increase to her movement speed into a sudden instantaneous burst of movement. The magic of the ring becomes inactive until she crosses the required distance, rendering the total travel distance the same.

### *Weapons*

Because of Spade's "unofficial" Skills **Wind Spade** and **Wind Trowel** she is not in the possession of any equipable weapon.

### *Equipment*

***Wallet -*** 4.600**G**
She can **Carry 6** items and she can **Equip 1**:

* **Haste Ring (Equip)** - Increases Movement Rank by 1. *(In Spade's case it increases her movement from Average to Above Average (High).)*
* **Wind Tome (In Reserve)** - Allows Spade to cast E rank Wind and Ice spells.
* **Misc ("Weightless")** - Miscellaneous seeds, 1 Vajra Ore, 1 Cerulium Ore, 1 Mythril ore.

## ***Trivia***

* Spade was named after the Spades Suit in card games, it can be linked to both leaves, the word for sword, a synonym for shovel, and is also associated with the end of a Pike which is a type of polearm which Spade as a Soldier "specializes" in.