Runa

*A young girl from a quiet village. A skilled hunter and swift runner.*

 Vaught (Great-grandfather)
Edea (Great-grandmother)
Varner (Great-granduncle)
Varg (Father)
Marianne (Mother)
Nemesis (Uncle)
Emilia (Distant relative)
Angelus (Distant relative)
28 unnamed half-siblings

**Runa** is a playable character in *Andaron Saga*. She is a young girl from a fishing village in northern Andaron and a skilled huntress.

## In Game

### *Andaron Saga*

#### Recruitment

Spawns on turn 3 as a green unit and will run towards Baudimon. Talk with her with Baudimon to recruit.

#### Overall

Compared to classic starting Fire Emblem archers, Runa is somewhat of a unique unit, being based heavily off Ronan from FE5. Her stats are nothing special at a glance - though she has a lot of levels to grow, her terrible strength growth appears to hold her back, and indeed if nothing else is done her damage will rapidly fall off with physical bows. She is also one of the most frail units in the game - with poor HP and especially defense, she will suffer physically hits very poorly and must be positioned properly if she is to be near the frontline.

Her high magic stat growth however suggests a different path - at base, she can be given a Shining Bow to make use of it, the first of which is obtained in Ch. 13 and more can be purchased from vendors later in the game. In that same chapter, she is also one of the best candidates to speak to the Weird Sage who will swap her magic and strength stats, setting up for a strong mid-game powerspike. If this is done, she will likely transition to being a mixed-damage archer if she sticks around.

Even more notably, though, is that Runa can be taught magic via two different supports - her B-support with Shom will let her wield Anima tomes, and her C-support with Varg will let her wield Dark tomes. Giving her both proficiencies will let her fully stretch her magical legs and wield almost all of the most useful spells in the game, while still being able to use bows to deal physical damage when necessary. She maintains the Crit Boost skill that is inherent to Snipers when promoted, giving her interesting synergy with the high crit-rate tomes Ruin and Dirge, although both are relatively uncommon to find. Compared to other magic users, she stands out among them with her balanced blend of magic, speed and mobility; she is solidly outclassed by Helga in this role, but otherwise can easily fit onto a team if trained.

She is also one of the eligible wielders of the Regalia of House Darkholm, the **Voidflare**, although training her up to S-rank in dark magic to be able to use it will require some amount of grinding as the earliest she can access dark magic is the same chapter the Voidflare is obtained. Among the eligible Voidflare wielders, Runa is by far the most mobile, having essentially mounted movement, giving her unique utility as a mobile dark magic nuke, though she makes the least use of its defensive stat bonuses due to her lacking HP pool.

#### Supports

*See main article: Runa/Supports.*
* Shom
* Berit
* Angelus
* Hailey
* Kurt
* Shay
* Varg

## Quotes

### *Andaron Saga*

#### Death Quote

> Mother, forgive me... Looks like I won't be coming home after all...
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## Possible Endings

### Andaron Saga

**Runa - Swift Archer**

*Runa was devastated after losing her village, but she was able to resolve her grief. She devoted her life to help rebuild that which was lost during the war, helping others. She has now rebuilt a total of six villages.*

**Runa and Shom**

*Shom struggled to rule House Windlance and nearly fled his post several times. However, he kept facing his demons with the help of his pupil Runa, he now rules as Lord of Castle Malikor.*

**Runa and Varg**

*Varg and Runa continued to travel together as father and daughter, exploring Aurora as well as traveling to whole other worlds.*
## Trivia

* Runa's C-support with Varg is the only C-support in the game to provide a reward (in this case, enabling her to use Dark magic and a Spook tome).