Lene

Lene is a playable child character from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. She is the daughter of Silvia and the older sister of Coirpre. Her substitute character is Laylea.

Profile

Sometime after the Battle of Belhalla, Lene and Coirpre were abandoned by Silvia at an orphanage in Dahna. Fifteen years later, Lene is working as a dancer in Dahna, where she meets and gets close to Ares.

When Ares departs to fight for Javarro, Lene and Ares have a discussion, as she disapproves of Ares wanting to go to war and finds his grudge against Sigurd's son, Seliph, foolish. When Ares is far away, she refuses to become Bramsel's personal dancer, and she is thrown into the dungeon of Dahna's Castle. It is believed that she may have been further abused by him, but it's not fully clear.

The castle in which she is held as a prisoner is eventually seized by the rebels, and she is freed from her cage by Seliph, or a member of his army. She later meets Ares again when he is subjected under the army of Seliph, and he asks if she is ok, she answers negatively but is relieved to see him alive and well.

Later, Lene introduces herself to Seliph and is surprised when he flushes and acts flustered on her presence. She discovers that he never saw a dancer before, and she finds his awkwardness lovely.

In Chapter 9, Lene meets Coirpre for the first time in her life, although neither of them recognize each other. Coirpre reveals that he didn't think highly of dancers until he met Lene.

Epilogue

Should Lene be paired with Seliph, she will marry him and will become the empress of Grannvale. Should Lene be paired with Ares, she will be the queen consort of Agustria instead.

If she marries Lewyn's son, she can become the queen of Silesse. She will be the queen of Isaach if she is paired with Shannan. If she marries Leif, she will be the Queen of Thracia. And finally, should she marry Oifey, she will become the next high duchess of Chalphy.

If Lene is not paired at all, she will return to Agustria and keep with her job at dancing. Seliph tells her that she will eventually find someone amazing that could make her happy, but she answers that she would be happy even alone as she would be making what she loves the most: dancing.

Personality

Lene has a cheerful exterior but hides a more vulnerable and emotional side of herself deep within herself. This is attributed to the difficulties that she suffered after being abandoned by her mother. She wishes to find Silvia and became a self-taught dancer for that reason. If her father is Lewyn, she expresses her feelings of loneliness caused by growing up without ever knowing her parents. She also reveals to Lewyn that she has always felt as if her father has been looking out for her.

Lene also has a very realistic world-view, as she is aware that certain things must be done in order to survive, even if a person doesn't like it. This causes her to be quite bitter about the world itself, though she hasn't lost her heart completely.

Her profession is also shown the be the target of prejudice, as the characters seem to objectify or overall look down to dancers.

In-Game

Genealogy of the Holy War

Base Stats

Note: Parent characters are assumed to be at Level 30 by the end of the First Generation.

• - Minor Holy Blood
• - Major Holy Blood

Father:

Arden

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	30	5	1	2	9	9	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Vantage				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Azelle

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi Fjalar
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	29	3	4	2	10	9	2	6	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Pursuit				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Alec

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	29	4	1	3	9	10	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Pursuit				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Claud

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	28	3	4	2	9	11	1	8	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Jamke

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	30	5	1	2	9	11	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Charge				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Dew

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	28	4	2	3	10	12	2	6	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Sol Bargain				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Naoise

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	29	5	1	3	9	9	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Critical Charge				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Finn

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	29	4	1	3	9	12	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Pursuit				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Beowolf

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	29	5	1	3	9	9	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Pursuit Charge				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Chulainn

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi Od
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	31	4	1	4	9	9	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Luna				Sword - B				Inherited Items

Midir

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	29	4	1	3	10	9	2	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Pursuit Charge				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Lewyn

Starting Class							Holy Blood
Dancer							Bragi Forseti
Level	HP	Str	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	30	3	3	11	10	2	6	6	0	Varies
Skills			Weapon			Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Critical			Sword - C			Inherited Items

Lex

Starting Class								Holy Blood
Dancer								Bragi Nál
Level	HP	Str	Mag	Skl	Spd	Lck	Def	Res	Mov	Lead	Gold
3	31	4	1	3	9	10	4	5	6	0	Varies
Skills				Weapon				Starting Items
Adept Dance Miracle Vantage Paragon				Sword - C				Inherited Items

Growth Rates

Note: Holy Blood bonuses have already been taken into consideration.

Father:

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.

Lene plays the exact same role as her mother does, which is that of being a Dancer who refreshes units who have used up their turns. However, her replacement, Laylea, may be a slightly more popular choice, as she possesses the Charisma skill, which is very useful for supporting adjacent units. However, Lene can inherit the Knight Ring and the Leg Ring, which makes a Dancer much more useful by granting her additional movement around the battlefield, boosting her ability to refresh units. Furthermore, Lene is more durable than Laylea, as she has slightly better stat growths and possesses the ever-useful Prayer skill; this is particularly disadvantageous for Laylea because Charisma users must be close to allies who are in enemies' range, potentially putting her in mortal danger that the player would not need to put Lene in.

If you want Lene to help out in combat it is best to give her a Shield Ring, a Power Ring and the Defender Sword to let her survive hits better. Depending on the father her Defense stat paired with the Defender Sword and Shield ring can get really high. You may also want to consider giving her a magic sword as it's likely that her Magic stat will be better than her Strength stat, although, should Chulainn be her father, giving her the Brave Sword (by selling then buying it as Silvia cannot pass it down to Lene) could make her a decent combat unit, in combination with her high skill growth rates (due to the Minor Od Holy Blood) which will allow her to power up her attacks with Luna, which will activate 2 Luna hits per swing of the Brave Sword, due to the way the "Brave" series of weapons work in the game she appears in.

Conversations

In Chapter 7, Lene may speak to Seliph, but nothing will result of it.

In Chapter 9, after Hannibal is recruited, Lene may speak to Coirpre, and he will gain one point of luck.

In Chapter 10, after Rados Castle is captured, if Lewyn is Lene's father, Seliph may speak to Lene, and she will gain five points of defense.

Love Growths

Original and replacement characters have the same love growths, unless stated otherwise.

Supports

Character	Bonus
Seliph	0+2
Leif	0+2
Ares	300+1
Shannan	0+2
Iuchar/Iucharba	0+2
Oifey	0+2
Lester/Deimne	0+2
Scáthach/Dalvin	0+2
Diarmuid/Tristan	0+2
Ced/Hawk	0+2
Coirpre	Not possible, since they are siblings
Febail/Asaello	0+2
Arthur/Amid	0+2

Fire Emblem Heroes

• Original

Yearning Dancer

A dancer and descendant of the high priest Bragi. She understands how the world works, but she doesn't let it get her down. Appears in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.

Base Stats

Rarity: ✯✯✯✯✯

		Title
		Yearning Dancer
		Group
		Infantry
Level	HP	Atk	Spd	Def	Res
1 40	15/16/17 32/35/39	5/6/7 24/28/31	6/7/8 32/35/38	3/4/5 20/23/27	5/6/7 24/28/31
Skills			Weapon
Safeguard+ Dance			Sword

Skills

Type	Name	Prerequisite	Default	Unlocked
	Iron Sword	-	-	-
	Steel Sword	-	-	-
	Safeguard	-	-	-
	Safeguard+	Safeguard		-
	Dance	-		-
B	Gale Dance 1	-		-
	Firestorm Dance 1	Gale Dance 1		-
	Firestorm Dance 2	Firestorm Dance 1
C	Sword Valor 1	-		-
	Sword Valor 2	Sword Valor 1		-
	Sword Valor 3	Sword Valor 2

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

Lene is the second Sword Infantry dancing unit and is for the most part similar to Olivia in nearly every stat category, usually with the difference between the two being a mere 1-2 point distance. Spd is particularly her best stat advantage to avoid some critical units from doubling her, but usually with a skill like Fury to reach enough Spd to avoid more matchups. Stat wise, Lene has very few advantages over Olivia and Silvia, both whom are sword infantry dangers and as overall sword dancers, Olivia and Silvia are better options simply due to the fact that they are far easily acquired and are excellent merge projects if looking to make a solid dancer unit.
Lene has Safeguard, increasing her Def by 7 when her opponent initiates combat. While it provides very little in combat other than pushing her otherwise low Def into middling at best when attacked.
Lene's ability to Dance is beneficial to a team, especially as another dancer to use on battles like Arena Assault for teams. Firestorm Dance is perhaps the best stat dance boost possible due to the +3 Atk/Spd buff she gives to her ally. While the timing of using it can be slightly off, it nonetheless is a great option. Finally, Lene is one of three units to have Sword Valor and she is perhaps the best user since she can apply herself to a team, allowing any Sword unit in training to not only reap the double SP gain, but also free up a slot for a secondary/tertiary dancer or a healer.

Counters

Lene is easily countered by any sort of Blue unit, especially Blue physical units who can target her lower physical bulk. As a supportive unit, removing her can dismantle a team strategy entirely. Other than that, attacking her from a distance with strong mages like Ophelia, Ishtar, Linde are excellent counter. Bridal Fjorm can also disable her Dance since Lene's HP is nowhere near enough to avoid being affected by [Isolation].

Skill Inheritance Options

Lene fits nicely into the dancer mold, thus the standard Dancer skill set is suggested. Weapons are flexible for inheritance if Safeguard is not to the player's desires. Wo Dao and Slaying Edge are great weapon inheritance simply to boost her combat abilities better than her default weapon. Moonbow charges quickly for a Special and can be unleashed sometimes in a single round of combat. Fury is a flat stat boosting skill that does provide recoil, but this only applies in certain situations where she is forced to fight, which should not be a priority. Wings of Mercy allow her to teleport to injured allies and help them move out into safety. Skill C is flexible for various skills such as Hone/Fortify/Wave/Drive/Smoke skill. This is more for a competitive player who wishes to solely use her in that sort of setting such as Arenas.

Meet Some of the Heroes

Yearning Dancer Lene
	Lene is a dancer who once entertained people in the city of Dahna, on the continent of Jugdral. She's energetic, entirely self-taught, and dreams of reuniting with her long-lost mother, who was said to also be a dancer.
	Having become popular in Dahna, Lene later encountered the mercenary Ares while he was stationed in the city. The two hit it off and quickly became close.
	One day, the lord of Dahna took Lene captive, seeking to make her his own. She was completely at his mercy, but fortunately, Ares cut ties with the mercenaries to come to her rescue!
	After Lene was freed, she and Ares joined Seliph's army in their struggle against the Grannvale Empire. I hear her lively dancing did much to reinvigorate her comrades on the battlefield!
Closely Associated Characters
Ares	Eldigan's son and heir to Mystletainn. After his parents passed away, he joined up with a mercenary captain called Javarro. He rescued Lene from peril.
Silvia	A dancer who travels the world. She looks sweet, but she doesn't necessarily act that way. Descendant of the high priest Bragi. Lene's mother.

Quotes

Heroes

Lene/Heroes Quotes

Non-Canon Appearances

Fire Emblem 0 (Cipher)

Lene is illustrated in the trading card game with the following cards:

B08-084R

Choose Your Legends Placement History

Round	Placement	Character Version	Votes

CYL1	571	Genealogy of the Holy War	143
CYL2	604 ↓33	Genealogy of the Holy War	127 ↓16
CYL3	435 ↑169	Genealogy of the Holy War	245 ↑118
CYL4	501 ↓66	Genealogy of the Holy War	95 ↓150
CYL5	422 ↑79	Genealogy of the Holy War	85 ↓10
CYL6	435 ↓13	Genealogy of the Holy War	85
CYL7	381 ↑54	Genealogy of the Holy War	51 ↓34

CYL8

388 ↓7

Genealogy of the Holy War

54 ↑3

Etymology

Lene means "light" and "torch", is a shortened version of Heléne, variant of the Greek name Helen, the legendary beautiful queen of Sparta who was the pivot of the war of Troy.

Trivia

• In Heroes, Lene shares her English voice actress, Faye Mata, with Three Houses' Petra.

Gallery

See main article: Lene/Gallery.