Garret

Garret
; Artwork of Garret from The Binding Blade. A bandit from the Etrurian border.
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Age	30s
Family	Unnamed Mother
Nationality	Etrurian (from the Western Isles)
Starting class	Berserker
Appearance(s)	The Binding Blade

Not to be confused Gareth, a character in Radiant Dawn.

“	I'm a bandit, like you say. I've plundered villages and killed innocent people. But...let me say this. [...] I... I hate bandits as well...and I hate the way I've been living like one. That's all.	”	— Garret, to Cath

Garret (Japanese: ガレット Garret) is a playable berserker in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.

Biography

Garret grew up in the Western Isles but moved away after his parents were murdered in a bandit attack on his village. He eventually slaughtered the ones who killed his parents, but was forced to turn to banditry in order to make a living.

Eventually, Garret fell in with a group of bandits near the Etrurian border and became their leader, but he prevented them from unnecessarily killing people, much to the ire of his crew. During the Disturbance of Bern, while taking advantage of the battle over Fae to ransack nearby villages, Garret was spotted by Lilina, and joined the Lycian army to ensure that the Ostian noble stayed true to her word and fought to aid the people.

After the war, Garret gave up banditry and led a peaceful life as a farmer, never picking up his axe again.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Garret is a playable character recruitable in Chapter 15. He is initially an enemy unit, and can be recruited by talking to him with Lilina; because he comes in the map as a reinforcement, he gains boosts to his stats on Hard Mode.

Starting stats and growth rates

Stats with two figures separated by a ~ are presented as a range, representing stats that vary due to random growths. The figures to the left and right of the ~ are the stat's minimum and maximum possible values respectively.^[2]

Normal Hard

Berserker

Level	1
Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 15, talk to with Lilina

Stats Growth Rates

Max HP	49	Luck	12
Strength	17	Defense	9
Skill	13	Resistance	4
Speed	10	Constitution	13
Movement	6	Aid	12

Max HP	70%	Luck	15%
Strength	45%	Defense	15%
Skill	25%	Resistance	5%
Speed	25%

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Inventory

Steel Axe

Hand Axe

Weapon Levels
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Berserker

Level	1
Affinity

Recruitment: Chapter 15, talk to with Lilina

Stats Growth Rates

Max HP	54~57	Luck	13~14
Strength	20~22	Defense	9~11
Skill	15~17	Resistance	4~6
Speed	11~12	Constitution	13
Movement	6	Aid	12

Max HP	70%	Luck	15%
Strength	45%	Defense	15%
Skill	25%	Resistance	5%
Speed	25%

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Inventory

Steel Axe

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Analysis

This character analysis section may not be accurate to every player's experience.

Garret is a unit who joins past the halfway point of The Binding Blade. He has very high strength and HP, especially in Hard Mode, but his speed is subpar. Garret is not fast enough to double any enemies except for the slowest ones. This makes it more difficult to make use of his strength. While he does have high HP, his defense and resistance are both mediocre, making him less durable. His speed is also low enough that he may get doubled by faster enemies.

Garret does have positive traits, though. His C-rank in axes is enough to use Killer Axes with no investment. Thanks to his high strength, he can oneshot enemies if he crits. The Berserker class gives him a crit bonus, too. Thanks to that, while wielding a Killer Axe, Garret can kill enemies in one round by critting them. As a Berserker, Garret can also walk on mountains, which increases his avoid. The player can exploit this to improve Garret's defenses and make him better at combat on enemy phase.

Garret suffers from the low accuracy of axes in The Binding Blade. Despite having a solid skill stat, he will still miss quite often. Considering he cannot double most enemies, this impedes his combat performance. Besides, having a C-rank in axes is decent, but not outstanding. For instance, Garret cannot use the Brave Axe at base. It is a shame, because the Brave Axe would circumvent his low speed by allowing him to attack twice. Increasing Garret's weapon rank is also a chore. Weapon EXP gain in The Binding Blade is very slow, and Garret will miss quite often, further slowing it down.

In summary, Garret is good enough at base level to contribute in combat, but he is not excellent. His growths are low, preventing him from gaining many stats as he levels up. He is better in Hard Mode than in Normal Mode, because he enjoys Hard Mode bonuses to all stats. That said, even with these bonuses, he suffers from the same issues that plague him in Normal Mode.

Personality

Garret is a broken man due to his past experiences. He resents bandits and by extension himself for being one, but he was forced to continue banditry as it was the only way he could make ends meet; in spite of this, he is upfront about his banditry and does not hesitate to admit it to others like Cath.^[3] He is cynical and pessimistic; when Lilina told him about the time she gave an old man her valuable bracelet after he told her that he was starving; Garret immediately believed that the old man was lying.^[4]

For all his flaws, Garret does have some redeeming factors. He genuinely repents his actions as a bandit and has a heartfelt desire to become a better person; he is eager to find jobs that don't involve criminal activity, which is shown when he once requested a position in Geese's crew, but then immediately backed out when Geese told him that the crew recently had to resort to piracy.^[5] However, he does not show any true passion for these other jobs and only does them for the cash, something that is acknowledged by Geese^[6] and Larum.^[7] Fortunately for him, he does eventually find a job as a farmer after the war, never needing to resort to banditry again. He also has some sense of humanitarianism; despite admitting to killing innocents, he hates unnecessary bloodshed and actively tells his underlings not to do any unnecessary killing,^[8] which earns him his fellow bandits's annoyance.^[9]

Supports

Main article: Garret/Supports

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Garret Berserker	Geese Pirate	Initial: 1 Per turn:+1	Cath Thief	Initial: 1 Per turn:+1	[[{{{support6}}}]] [[]] [[File:Is gba {{{affin6}}}affin.png\|link={{{affin6}}} (affinity)]]	Initial: {{{initialpoints6}}} Per turn:+	[[{{{support8}}}]] [[]] [[File:Is gba {{{affin8}}}affin.png\|link={{{affin8}}} (affinity)]]	Initial: {{{initialpoints8}}} Per turn:+	[[{{{support10}}}]] [[]] [[File:Is gba {{{affin10}}}affin.png\|link={{{affin10}}} (affinity)]]	Initial: {{{initialpoints10}}} Per turn:+

See Support § GBA games for more details on supports.

Endings

Garret, Veteran Berserker
Short: Led a humble life.

Long: Garret quit banditry and led the life of a farmer. He worked and tended his crops like an ordinary citizen and lived in peace. After the war, he never picked up his axe again.

Quotes

Final Chapter quote

“	A truly powerful enemy! Haven't met one in years!	”	— Garret in the final chapter

Death quote

“	It's...all over...	”	— Garret

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Characters: The Binding Blade & The Blazing Blade

Garret's artwork from The Binding Blade is featured in a file in the Fire Emblem Characters book, alongside details regarding himself and his role in the game's story. He is the 44th character listed in this book. Garret scored 61st place in the online The Binding Blade popularity poll whose results were included in the book.

Fire Emblem Character File 044: Garret
	Gender: Male	Estimated Age: 30s	Title: Veteran Berserker	Origin: Western Isles
	Status: Bandit			Weapon: Axe
	The bandit leader who hates killing. A bandit who lays waste to areas near the southern border of Etruria. He has strength that surpasses the other bandits, and so is the leader. However, as he is opposed to stealing from the weak, his subordinates are discontent. He ended up joining the Lycian Army after being persuaded by Lilina. Garret decided to quit his bandit ways after joining the Lycian Army, but knows no other way of life. He asked Geese about being a sailor and Larum about life as an artist, but neither seemed to really fit his disposition. When he joined Roy's army, he gradually set his eyes on correcting his ways as a bandit. Before, he had the mindset that one must plunder to make a living, but seeing Lilina's devotion, his way of thinking slowly began to change.
Profile translation by Kantopia

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

Garret's official artwork from The Binding Blade can be viewed in Path of Radiance's extras menu if a copy of The Binding Blade is connected to a Japanese copy of Path of Radiance. This illustration, along with all other The Binding Blade-related artwork, is inaccessible in the international versions of the game, owing to the fact that The Binding Blade was not released in those regions.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade	A bandit from the Etrurian border.*	エトルリア国境ぞいでくすぶっている『あらくれ』

Choose Your Legends placement history

Round	Placement	Character	Votes

CYL 1
(2017)

729