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Fire Emblem story information
Lyon - The Sacred Stones
By: FreelancerSealBoy
Profile
Details
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English
name
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Lyon |
Japanese name
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リオン (Rion) |
Class
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Necromancer
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Title
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-
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Age
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-
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Country
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Grado
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Relations
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Vigarde (father)
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Official artwork
Summary
Lyon is the crown prince of the Grado Empire and for the majority of
the game the primary antagonist in The
Sacred Stones.
Bio
Lyon is the firstborn, and apparently only, son of Emperor Vigarde of
Grado. Three years before the War of the Stones, Lyon first met
Princess Eirika and Prince Ephraim of Renais. In spite of his shyness,
Lyon waited for the siblings to arrive in Grado because he had no
friends his own age. The prince found the twins' company enjoyable, and
the three grew to be very close. In his life, Lyon was skilled in the
art of magic, and he sought only to use his talents for the good of his
country. Though his intentions were admirable, Lyon's unshakable love
for Grado and for his father proved to be his undoing.
Two years
prior to the war, Vigarde fell ill. Lyon, desperate to find a cure,
began doing research on one of the holiest relics on Magvel, the Sacred
Stone, over the course of the next year and a half. Lyon found the
Stone of Grado more susceptible to his magic because it contained the
soul of the evil king Fomortiis. Inspired by this, Lyon continued his
research believing it could save his father. When Vigarde died one year
after his research began, Lyon refused to relent and instead decided to
find some way to resurrect his father. To this end, Lyon split the
Sacred Stone of Grado, also called the Fire Emblem, in two. The sacred
segment, the Fire Emblem itself, was crushed as Lyon found the other
half, the Dark Stone, to be far more powerful. Whether he'd forgotten
or chose to disregard the danger of the Demon King's spirit, none can
say. As a result of his experiments, Lyon became possessed by
Fomortiis, becoming little more than his puppet. With the power of the
Demon King now controlling him, Lyon was able to, in part, resurrect
his dead father, though Vigarde was nothing more than an animated shell
of a man with no emotions or even the ability to speak.
Under
the influence of Fomortiis, Lyon led Grado into war, first turning on
the Empire's ally and neighbor Renais. The now-dark prince had only one
intention in this war: to destroy the remaining Sacred Stones. Over the
course of the war, Lyon encountered his old friends. Conversing with
each of them, he gave Eirika false hopes that somewhere the true spirit
of Lyon still remained, while he led Ephraim to believe there was
nothing left of him; that he was entirely under the control of the
Demon King. Though Lyon failed several times in his attempts to seize
the Stone of Renais, he did succeed in the days leading to the war's
end. He either tricked Eirika into believing that with the power of the
Stone, he could expel the Demon King from his body and thus regain his
life, or he wrestled it away from Ephraim by force. Either way, with
the Stone of Renais destroyed, Lyon journeyed to Darkling Woods after
sending the fallen priest Riev to destroy the final Sacred Stone: the
Stone of Rausten. Once in Darkling Woods, Lyon entered the place of his
master's downfall: the Black Temple. There, he faced Eirika and Ephraim
for the last time. Though his magic, which was enhanced by the might of
Fomortiis was powerful, he was defeated and killed by his old friends.
With his last breath, he confessed his envy of Ephraim's physical
strength and his love for Eirika. Lyon, the once-honorable Prince of
Grado, was dead.
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