Parallel Falchion

**Parallel Falchion** (裏剣ファルシオン, *Uraken Farushion*) is a special weapon of the Sword variety, with an inherit Dracoslayer attribute. It is the signature weapon of the daughter of Chrom, Lucina.

Parallel Falchion is unlocked along with its wielder Lucina after clearing Chapter 5.

# History

In the alternate future, the blade Falchion is used by Chrom thousands of years after Marth's time until he is betrayed by a close ally. The blade eventually makes its way into the hands of Lucina. It is hinted in the Future Past DLC and in some of Lucina's supports that she performed the Awakening ritual, but did not have all five Gemstones in the Fire Emblem, thus the blade was unable to unlock its full power. With the destruction of her future imminent, Naga sent Lucina and the children of the Shepherds into the past to prevent this ruinous future. Lucina brought with her her Parallel Falchion (Chrom's sword that she inherited) to save her father and prevent her doomed future. While her version of the Falchion has more power than Chrom's Falchion in its base form and can harm Grima more than most conventional weapons, it didn't have the same power and appearance as the Exalted Falchion, thus not able to seal Grima.

In the Future Past DLC trilogy, Grima has nearly destroyed the world, but the children of Awakening desperately gather the five Gemstones in order to give Lucina the power to seal Grima. Thanks to the efforts of the Shepherds summoned from another timeline by their world's Naga, all twelve children eventually reach Ylisstol with all five Gemstones in hand. Though Grima gloats that he killed Tiki and defiled Mount Prism, preventing Lucina from performing the Awakening, Tiki appears as a spirit. She announces that she has taken over the role of Naga for that world and that Lucina can perform the ritual in Ylisstol as Grima's defilement of Mount Prism and leaving Tiki's corpse in Ylisstol has caused the capital to become the holiest location of Naga's influence. After acknowledging Lucina's resolve during her Awakening, the Falchion unlocks its full strength and finally seals Grima for another 1000 years.

# Gameplay

As a weapon with six available slots, Parallel 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, Parallel 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 Lucina's Mastery Crest and Sanctuary Crest, drastically increasing the weapon's Might, first to 240, then to 720.

* To obtain Parallel Falchion's Scroll, which is needed for Lucina's Mastery Crest, the player must clear the History Mode map Invisible Ties, as it is offered as a S-Rank Clear prize for one of the Distortion Battles on said map. After creating Lucina'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 Parallel Falchion's Opus, which is needed for Lucina's Sanctuary Crest, the player must purchase either the Season Pass or the Fire Emblem Awakening DLC Pack, then clear the History Mode map Emmeryn, as it is offered as a S-Rank Clear prize for one of the Distortion Battles on said map. After creating Lucina's Sanctuary Crest, the Divine Favor weapon attribute will overwrite the True Power attribute, even if True Power is not yet unlocked for Parallel Falchion.

# See Also

* Exalted Falchion: The original version of Falchion, wielded by Marth.
* Falchion: The current version of Falchion, wielded by Chrom.