Altina

Dawn's Trueblade

Under the divine protection of Ashera, the goddess of order, she battled Yune as one of the Three Heroes. Appears in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

Base Stats

Rarity: ✯✯✯✯✯

		Title
		Dawn's Trueblade
		Group
		Flying
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1 40	17/18/19 39/42/45	7/8/9 35/38/42	2/3/4 17/20/23	10/11/12 27/30/34	9/10/11 33/36/39
Skills			Weapon
Ragnell·Alondite Chilling Wind			Sword

Skills

Type	Name	Prerequisite	Default	Unlocked
	Iron Sword	-	-	-
	Steel Sword	-	-	-
	Silver Sword	-	-	-
	Ragnell·Alondite	-	-
	Chilling Wind	-		-
	Iceberg	Chilling Wind	-
	Twin Blades	Iceberg	-
A	Ashera's Chosen	-
	Ashera's Chosen+	Ashera's Chosen
B	Vantage 1	-
	Vantage 2	Vantage 1
	Vantage 3	Vantage 2
C	Atk/Def Oath 1	-		-
	Atk/Def Oath 2	Atk/Def Oath 1		-
	Atk/Def Oath 3	Atk/Def Oath 2
	Atk/Def Hold	-

Overall

Subjective: The following part of this article is based upon the editor's personal experiences and opinions, and therefore may not be applicable for all readers.

Base Set

Altina immediately entered the battlefield with impressive Atk and decent overall bulk especially as a Sword Flier unit. A few months later, she won the A Hero Rises 3 event, thus became a free unit for all players of Heroes, making her an easily accessible and powerful asset to all players to use. As an Astra Mythic Hero who boasts Atk Mythic Effect, she is a strong Aether Raids unit during Astra seasons and incredibly useful for most PVE modes. While her Spd is low, and often a point of contention for some of the most successful units in Heroes, it works to her favor mainly due to her powerful build that works around that.
She wields Ragnell·Alondite, a special equip that allows her to equip both Ragnell and Alondite at the same time, though this is merely an aesthetic effect and does not bestow her the ability to dual wield two different weapons simultaneously. It does decrease her Spd by 5, bringing her base Spd to 15 and her flaw to 12, but she instantly trades this off with the ability to not only counterattack at range, but also gains a brave attack regardless of turn phase, making her incredibly hard hitting, and thus she should be dealt with completely as much as possible rather than chipping away at her. Her weapon refine grants her Atk/Res+5 and accelerates her special cooldown if either her foe initiates combat or if her foe is over 75% HP at the start of combat. Altina can keep her Special up in every round as a result, further allowing her to demolish her foes.
Her kit defines a very particular role as a baiting unit who can take hits from enemies and retaliate, but can also start off a map as an aggressive offensive unit. She has two unique skills, the first of which is her special Twin Blades, which is a slightly weaker form of Iceberg but disables the enemy's ability to use damage shaving skills like Spurn or units who have weapons who do so, like Fomortiis. As such, she can pierce through a bevy of units who rely on these skills to contribute to their longevity.
Ashera's Chosen not only negates her flier weakness, but also grants her Ask/Def +6 during combat if she is either next to a dragon/beast unit or not adjacent to any allies, allowing her to meld perfectly onto dragon/beast teams or as a powerful solo frontline unit. While the former lets her mesh well into most teams in general, the latter can cause some disruption on beast teams who can lose their transformation if they do not carry a beast transformation condition override skill. Its advanced form adds the condition of granting its effects if the foe is 75% HP or more at the start of combat. The boost becomes +9 to her four core stats and if her Res is greater than her foe's, she can deal up to 70% of the stat difference (maximizing at 7) and reduces damage taken from attacks and area-of-effect specials depending on the difference between the two x4, maximizing at a 40% reduction of damage, making Altina extremely hardy.
Her remaining skills are Vantage, which prioritizes her attacks during enemies who initiate on her when she is under 75% health, and Attack Defense Oath, which boosts her Atk/Def by 5 if she starts her turn next to an ally, bringing her to a base 53 Atk and 35 Def if positioned correctly. With the conditions Ashera's Chosen and Atk/Def Oath met, Altina can reach a hefty base 59 Atk who can double enemies during the enemy turns while having a base physical bulk of 83 and magical bulk of 77, more than enough to survive a singular hit from most enemies before unleashing two powerful attacks. Her base kit alone makes her a potent ally and a dangerous enemy if she is not properly engaged, thus caution must be taken when building teams against her. This is especially since outright attempting to nuke her will likely not come to pass and lead to that units death. Altina later gained Attack Defense Hold, inflicting Atk/Def-4 on foes within three spaces of her during combat.

Counters

Altina was incredibly strong in her introductory days and she has gotten significantly stronger since her Legendary Refine. She is very reliant on getting herself into Vantage range so she can seal off any opportunities for her foe to get the jump on her. Some units who can cleanly kill her on their own while not in Vantage range includes Legendary Deirdre Ullr, and Legendary Female Shez, the latter two are capable of running Deadeye and Lethality to remove her damage reduction Ashera's Chosen. Stifling out her Special Activation also helps to reduce her ability to overpower high physical bulk units through Twin Blades makes Guard and Special Fighter great skills to empower strong units like Brave Hector, which helps when she is in Vantage range. Hardy Bearing removes her priority change of Vantage. Finally, Dazzling Staff, Windsweep, Firesweep weapons allow units to completely remove her ability to counterattack, opening some units like Legendary Female Byleth to deal with her. Weapons that can inflict the debuff that removes counterattacking in general, such as a Flash staff or Nifl's Frostbite Breath can set her up for an ally to dispatch.

Skill Inheritance

Altina's new refined kit requires no real changes other than filling her empty Support Skill, which Reposition performs nicely.

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Dawn's Trueblade Altina
	The stories of the creation of Tellius say that the world was once drowned by a flood. Only the continent of Tellius survived, and during the age of legends that followed, there was a heroic swordswoman: Altina!
	The world of Tellius was created by Ashunera, the Goddess of Dawn. She desperately tried to stop a conflict that had engulfed her creation, only for her powers to overwhelm her and bring about a great flood. At the end of the calamity, Ashunera split into two entities: Ashera, the Goddess of Order, and Yune, the Goddess of Chaos.
	Ashera and Yune were locked into battle against each other, but Ashera recruited some powerful allies. The swordswoman Altina, the leader of the dragon tribe, Dheginsea, and the the laguz warrior Soan, took Ashera's side, and together they defeated Yune!
	After the battle, Altina founded the kingdom of Begnion. Many years have passed since then, but her bloodline and her ambition have endured, culminating in her descendants today: Sanaki and Micaiah!
Closely Associated Characters
Ashera	An aspect of Ashunera, the Goddess of Dawn. She is the half of Ashunera that represents order. Altina and her allies make a vow to her that there will be peace in Tellius for a thousand years.
Yune	A being that is half of the goddess Ashunera. The goddess of chaos, who is said to have thrown the world into disorder long ago. Though she opposed Ashera and was subsequently defeated by Altina and her allies, Yune's life was saved and her soul sealed within a medallion.