Isabelle

*The commander of the city guard. Baudimon's younger cousin.*

 Bolivar (Ancestor)
Robert (Father)
Ellen (Mother)
2 unnamed brothers (deceased)
Galahad (Uncle)
Thorgrim (Uncle)
Randall (Cousin)
Baudimon (Cousin)

**Isabelle** is a playable character in *Andaron Saga*. She is the captain of Malthrak's city guard, daughter of Robert, niece of King Thorgrim and Commander Galahad, and cousin to Baudimon, Randall and Mortimer.

## Personality

Isabelle is a loyal and reliable knight and a caring commander who always looks after her soldiers and monitors their well-being. However, she is a knight with a moral consciousness and isn’t complacent in the face of an unjust ruler, which often has her morals and duties clashing with one another, leaving her with moments of indecisiveness. Like her father, Robert, she values order and stability, and holds the needs of the people of Malthrak in high priority, and given her position as the City Guard Leader, she holds herself to a large standard and responsibility to be able to lead her platoon and to keep the commonfolk safe.

## In Game

### *Andaron Saga*

#### Recruitment

Complete the map without killing her. She will be recruited automatically at the end of the chapter.

#### Promotion Gains

**May contain spoilers**

#### Overall

Going against the typical unfortunate tropes of a main-line GBA armor unit, Isabelle is a fantastic unit and a strong competitor for one of the best units in the game, or at the very least one of the stronger ones. The main saving grace is that she has 5 movement in comparison to the typical 4 for armors, so she’s able to keep up with the rest of your foot-locked infantry units. Second, she comes with an excellent starting level with excellent bases to match, having decent starting points all around, dealing respectable damage, receiving not too significant damage, and even starting out in doubling threshold, being able to double almost all the non-promoted units in the chapter following her recruitment. Third, she has excellent growth rates across the board. having good strength, defense, and surprising magic, decent skill and speed, and okay luck and resistance following the typical armored unit trope.

What really makes her cracked is that she is one of very few units that have the option to wield two regalia weapons, but unlike them, Isabelle doesn’t have to fill any weapon rank requirements to wield either of them. Her first is the Bolwerk shield, a held item that negates critical hits and passively grants +5 speed, luck, defense, and resistance. This is obtained very late, closer to endgame, but still provides Isabelle with very important stat increases and improves her tanking potential. Her other option is the Dawncaller, and since it’s coded as a personal weapon rather than an S-rank weapon like a typical regalia, she can wield it at any time, and with it it she becomes unfair. She gets unbreakable 1-2 range that deals magic damage at 2-range, and with her good magic growth she will deal respectable damage. It also grants her +10 luck, resistance, and the Renewal skill, healing 30% of her max hp at the start of player phase; this improves her magic tanking which she really needs, her dodging capability with her decent speed growth, and gives her self-sustain when on the front lines. On top of all the good things about her, she even has a solid personal skill in Resolve, which increases her Strength, Magic, Skill, and Speed by 1.5x when under 50% max hp. Ideally, Isabelle doesn’t want to dip too low as an armor unit, and Dawncaller does slightly intercept the skill from working, but this serves as a decent failsafe if Isabelle is overwhelmed at any point.

Isabelle even has further value outside of combat as her promotion and training is required to get Galahad, another extremely strong and overpowered armored knight, and one of the hardest bosses to go up against since Isabelle has to win a 1v1 duel against him in order to recruit him. If Isabelle does manage to defeat Galahad, she has the option to kill or spare him, the former of which promoting her into a Steel Knight and getting ludicrous stat and weapon rank increases—most notably an instant A-rank in anima—and the latter of which recruits Galahad, giving you 2 (potentially 3 if Cyrus is in your party) nigh impenetrable walls for endgame. Regardless of her choice, Isabelle will still get the Bolwerk shield. Her other value is her promotion is one of the requirements to unlock chapter 32, which holds less of a priority, but still worth something.

#### Supports

* Jakka
* Albert
* Buggi

## Quotes

### *Andaron Saga*

#### Death Quote

> Forgive me, Randall. I was not strong enough to stop them.
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> During Ch. 11 Storming the Castle

> Glory to House Steel...
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