Ruud

Ruud Portrait of Ruud in The Binding Blade. A knight put in charge of a castle on the border between Bern and Lycia.

Gender Male Race Human Nationality Bernese Starting class Knight Appearance(s) The Binding Blade

“	Loyalty to one's king. Bah. What a worthless notion. The world is ruled by neither king nor queen. It's ruled by gold!	”	— Ruud

Ruud (Japanese: ルード) is a knight of Bern during the Disturbance of Bern who, blinded by his greed, imprisoned Guinivere when she stopped on the castle he was guarding.

Ruud planned to sell Guinivere to Bern's enemies during the war; however, his plans were foiled when Elen, Guinivere's vassal, escaped and informed about Ruud's schemes to Roy of Pherae, who was traveling in the nearby area. Roy promptly attacked the castle and defeated Ruud, rescuing Guinivere.

Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade

Role

Ruud is the boss of Chapter 2. He holds Guinivere captive to try to ransom her to Bern's enemies for money. The plan fails when Roy shows up and defeats him.

Stats

See also: Princess of Bern

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.

Normal Hard

Knight
Level	5

Stats
Max HP	24	Luck	0
Strength	10	Defense	10
Skill	2	Resistance	0
Speed	2	Constitution	13
Movement	4	Aid	12

Inventory
Javelin
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Knight
Level	5

Stats
Max HP	28~32	Luck	0~4
Strength	12~14	Defense	10~14
Skill	4~6	Resistance	0~2
Speed	2~4	Constitution	13
Movement	4	Aid	12

Inventory
Javelin
Weapon Levels ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

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Personality

Ruud shows no remorse on lying to Melady, Guinivere's bodyguard, when she comes to the frontier looking for her liege, and even berates one of his subordinates after being questioned on his actions.

Quotes

Battle quote

“	Curse it all! Just when I thought things had finally turned my way...	”	— Ruud.

Death quote

“	Oof...Greed can only.. bring you...an ill fate...	”	— Ruud.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
The Binding Blade	A knight in control of a castle on the Bern-Lycia border.*	ベルン国境の城をあずかる 重騎士

Trivia

• Ruud has an unused color scheme for his battle sprites that is never seen in normal gameplay, as it is incorrectly assigned as the color value for General.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English (unofficial)	Ruud, Rude	Unofficial romanizations; see the Japanese name. The former is the one used in the most up-to-date fan translation patch.
Japanese	ルード	Ruud is both a Dutch diminutive for Rudolf, which means "famous wolf", and a Norwegian surname, meaning "clearing".

Gallery

Sprite Gallery
Knight Lance

References

This article is part of Project Characters, a project focused on writing articles for every character present in the Fire Emblem series.