Shay

*A pegasus knight of House Windlance. Shom's sister. Kind and caring, but naive.*

### Relatives

  **May contain spoilers**

 Archibald (Ancestor)
Wester (Father)
Isolde (Mother)
Shom (Brother)
William (Brother)
Moryana (Aunt)
Ada (Cousin)
Alicia (Cousin)
Anila (Cousin)

## Appearances

### First joins

Ch. 8 Grim Reunion

**Shay** is a playable character in *Andaron Saga*. She is the daughter of Lord Wester and sister to Shom and William, and serves House Windlance as captain of the Fifth Pegasi Corps, Third Regiment.

## In Game

### *Andaron Saga*

#### Recruitment

Spawns as an enemy on turn 1. Talk to her with Shom to recruit.

#### Overall

Shay is an interesting unit. Upon recruitment she has decent stats, particularly in skill, speed, and luck, so she’s already headed toward the direction of being a mild dodge tank. She also has really good starting weaponry, being a Killer Lance and an Ice Lance, the latter of which the current army will get a first showcase at magic weaponry, where the equipped weapon will calculate damage using the unit’s magic stat and target the foe’s resistance like a tome. The Ice Lance is unfortunately locked to Shay as a pseudo-personal weapon and has as much accuracy as a Javelin, but coupled with her decent skill, hit frequency shouldn’t be too big of a problem. Where things start getting complicated is Shay’s growth distribution as her strength growth is exactly half of her magic growth, which heavily incentivizes Shay to use magic weaponry, being somewhat difficult since the next magic lance that you receive isn’t until chapter 13, provided you unlock the chests in the southwest.

A huge saving grace in Shay’s gameplay is whether you unlocked her B-support with her brother, Shom, who teaches her anima magic. Upon getting the support, Shay will start with a D-rank in anima and is given a wind tome, turning her into a flying mage knight, and coupled with her good growths in magic, skill, and speed, she will growth fairly strong offensively, but will still remain squishy due to her rough defense growth and has to rely on dodge tanking with her decent luck. Once she reaches C-rank in anima, she will be able to use Elfire which will greatly improve her damage output, and her speed will be able to alleviate the tome’s decent weight in proportion to her weak constitution, and hilariously enough, you can give her Shom’s personal Hoarfrost tome, giving her added utility in shaving off an enemy’s speed for another unit to more easily follow up.

On the topic of utility, Shay will be able to use staves upon promotion, turning her into a flying troubadour, which is especially fantastic as she’ll be able to fly across terrain to help out an ally in trouble. In that same ball park, promotion puts her in line to be a candidate for the Archgale regalia, provided that you trained Shay sufficiently enough in anima. This tome perfectly suits Shay’s needs: it passively grants +10 speed and +5 skill and resistance, making her one of the fastest units in your party and increases the chance and damage output of her personal Glacies skill, which grants a skill% chance to add her resistance stat to her next attack. On top of that, Archgale also grants the Rightful Lord skill, granting a +10% proc chance for glacies, and coupled with her good skill growth, fantastic resistance growth, and decent stat caps in both, she will proc Glacies decently often and will add a significant amount of burst damage to it.

#### Supports

Unlocking the B-rank support with Shom will grant her the ability to use Anima Magic (D rank) as well as a Wind tome, unlocking the A-rank support with Shom will grant her + 5 magic.

* Shom
* Jaheira
* Runa