Matrona

Matrona Icon of Matrona from Radiant Dawn. A staff that restores all HP to a distant target. It also raises the target's biorhythm to its peak.

Type Staff First game Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

Matrona (Japanese: マトローナ Matrona) is a healing staff which appears only in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Acting as a more potent version of Physic, it fully heals a single unit at any range, with the additional effect of boosting the target's biorhythm to its peak position.

Stats

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Radiant Dawn		SS	1	3	100	100	1–(Mag/2)	3	Cannot be sold	10	If user's magic < 10, maximum range is 5. Maximum range is 15. Fully restores a single unit's HP and moves their biorhythm to its Best point. +5 defense when equipped, and restores 20 HP to its equipper and heals their status effects at the beginning of their phase.

Calculations

Game	Effect	Accuracy	Experience acquired by the user
Radiant Dawn	Fully restores a single unit's HP and moves their biorhythm to its Best point.	--	10

For more information on experience calculations, see Experience § Using a staff or white magic.

Locations

Radiant Dawn

Treasure

Part 4: Endgame (1), chest

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn	A staff that restores all HP to a distant target. It also raises the target's biorhythm to its peak.	離れた味方のＨＰを完全に回復させる杖 同時にバイオリズムも最高の状態にする

Trivia

• Tied with the Radiant Dawn incarnation of the Ashera Staff, Matrona has by far the highest base crit of any item in the entire Fire Emblem series.
• Micaiah/Yune is seen wielding Matrona in the "Final Strike" cutscene at the end of the Part IV, Endgame.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Matrona	From the Latin matrona, a variant of mater, "mother". Also used as a title for the Roman goddess Juno. This word is the origin of the modern English "matron", a head nurse in a hospital or medical ward.
Japanese	マトローナ	Matrona
Spanish	Curación	Healing
French	Guérisseur	Healer
German	Matrona	As above.
Italian	Vigorex	Portmanteau of "vigor" and "rex".

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Micaiah wielding Matrona in a Radiant Dawn cutscene.
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  Laura wielding Matrona in Radiant Dawn.
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  Laura casting Matrona in Radiant Dawn.

Cipher artwork

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  Artwork of Micaiah with Matrona.
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  Matrona in artwork of Micaiah.

See also

• Goddess Staff
• Latona
• Staff of the Saint